so he was presented last week with president trump was presented with three different options and he ended up going with the middle one, the one that was in the middle of a lighter option against vladimir putin and the one that was the harshest, and that included expelling the diplomats from the united states. what we found here was president trump has to be really pushed along when it comes to doing things when it comes to any kind of response to vladimir putin and russia s continued provocations. one of the specific cases that we looked into was arms sales to ukraine. the proposal to send javelin anti-tank missiles to ukraine in their fight against russia sat on the president s desk from august until december. now outgoing secretary of state rex tillerson along with other administration officials had to really continue to press president trump to approve this deal and to send the weapons to ukraine. courtney, do you get any sense from being in the building
we looked into was arms sales to ukraine. the proposal to send javelin antitank missiles to ukraine in their fight against russia sat on the president s desk from august until december. now outgoing secretary of state rex tillerson along with other administration officials had to really continue to press president trump to approve this deal and to send the weapons to ukraine. courtney, do you get any sense from being in the building that you cover that, you know, these military relationships, some of the intelligence relationships have been described to me as almost existing in a parallel reality with donald trump s public pronouncements and twitter feed. do you get any sense that this clash, that the fact that this sat on his desk for a good and important ally that has relied on the united states of america in previous administrations, that this is starting to strain the relationship between some of our important allies, at least from the pentagon s perspective? no, i mean you w
dear born, someone from russia sat next to don jr. there has been shown interactions between russian individuals and the campaign which have consistently, you know, the most significant of which being the trump tower meeting, consistently being brushed away as this doesn t necessarily prove collusion. it does with a foreign entity. when don jr. responds to an e-mail and says if it s what you say, i like it, the first e-mail he got, part of russia s effort to swik the election to you. i m not a prosecutor, not prosecuting him for that. but there s a lot of smoke coming out of that gun. to follow that up, the clus thing, right, it has been proven that there has been collusion. the issue is, is this type of collusion illegal? we don t know yet. we don t know. we haven t gotten to the bottom of it yet. i think what is so dangerous about the flynn thing for donald trump is that and again this hasn t been proven yet. when did donald trump know that
worth pointing out we ve heard this refrain consistently that this hasn t been tied back to the campaign, even after things obviously involve the campaign. the trump tower with don jr. and the russian lawyer. just last week we saw another example of someone from russia reaching out through rick dearborn trying to reach out to the trump campaign. we saw someone from russia sat next to don jr. there has been shown interactions between russian individuals and the campaign which have consistently, you know, the most significant of which being the trump tower meeting, consistently being brushed away as this doesn t necessarily prove collusion. which it doesn t. which it doesn t. it does with a foreign entity. when don jr. responds to an e-mail and says if it s what you say, i like it, the first e-mail he got, part of russia s effort to swing the election to you. i m not a prosecutor, not going to prosecute him for that. but there s a lot of smoke coming out of that gun. to follow th