contacts from republicans and classified information, i will then lied about them to the american people on national respectfully decline to answer in this public forum. television. i ve noted before the democrats third, there may be questions have a long habit of accusing focusing on the identity of people in the intelligence republicans of offenses they, community. these questions were redacted themselves, are committing. from my deposition transcript. if such a question arises today, let s recall for years they i will follow my counsel s accused the trump campaign of advice and decline to answer. colluding with russia, when they i would like to conclude my themselves were colluding with opening remarks with an russia by funding and spreading observation about some of my the steel dossier which relied fellow public servants who have on russian sources. come und attacks. and now they accuse president trump of malfeasance in ukraine, ambassador yovanovitch, when they themselves are cul
why did we set them up? because we wanted to make sure we wouldn t have radical nationalism or protectionism, again, that would rise up so strongly that they would create potential war. there was asia as well in the second world war. it s really about preventing global war, and i worry a little bit about the attacks we ve been making on the international institutions and the fact that we haven t been standing up against russia in particular, which has also been attacking the international order. let s switch gears and talk about russia and its relationship with north korea, the use u.s. obviously pushing u.n. sanctions revelation. at the same time russia emerging as a possible mediator between the united states and north korea. does that weaken our position here in the u.s. when we see our country that is somewhat of an adversary now assuming the negotiating position between us and north korea? absolutely. it s not a welcome development. it smells a lot like when the
he got $500,000 from a turkish lobbying firm. wouldn t the white house have turned up that in their vetting or no? yes. i mean, by google search. the white house will claim likely that they don t do vetting outside of what d.o.d. or whoever was holding his security clearance did, but these stories about flynn s relationship with russia in particular, but there is also turkey, were appearing by mid2016. so it s not like, you know, when he becomes national security advisor a couple months later that there should have been a surprise about some of his affiliations. so the person doing the review let alone the white house council s office would have known and been aware of the omissions. and just to pick up on what the colonel said, people outside the national security field should not believe that this is ownerous oversight, you know, that oh, he just forgot. this is part of our blood. in terms of who we are in the national security clearance process and disclosing every trip we make ev
that we can provide first and foremost. secondly, creating areas in which we can work with allies, including russians, and committing to ensuring that there are places that are free from violence and there are places that are free for people to gather safely is another. i think everyone would agree that the last thing people want to do there is leave. they want to stay there, they want to be in syria, they want to have a safe place to remain with their families and not be separated. so our number one priority is to defeat isis, but we re also, i think from a humanitarian standpoint and refugee standpoint, ensuring that we create an environment that provides a safe place for them to ultimately remain. and on russia in particular, look, i think that if you look at the countries that are with us, it speaks pretty loudly the number of countries that have stood shoulder to shoulder with this president. russia, on the other hand, stands with syria, north korea and iran. i think when you cont
because i don t think we ll be talking about president obama s failed russian policy 30 days from now. we re not going to be talking about the red line in syria or the withdraw of missile defense from poland and the czech republic. we re not going to be talking about the reset button or even this june when this originally came to the president, the harassment of our diplomats, he was originally presented in june with sanctions options and president obama rejected that. so i agree with senate majority leader mcconnell and speaker ryan, it s too little, it s too late, better late than never, and that russia is not our friend. i m quoting senator mcconnell on this, specifically. the hawks on this have always been republicans. mitt romney tried to make this an issue in 2012 and president obama dismissed him saying, the 80s called and want their foreign policy back. i don t think donald trump wants to get in the wreckage of that burned down house. so hugh, if you think obama s policies h