years. if you got in his orbit and got close to him you re finding yourself or you will likely find yourself thrust into a position of making really difficult legal choices. michael cohen is at the center of that and that is dangerous for trump because he s the person who knows trump more intimately than anyone else. the response to the new york times from a spokesperson from the chair of the committee said tom never talked to any foreign individual or entity for the purpose of raising money. there s a defense now that seems to be mounting from the inauguration side. sure. tom may not have had to. the way these things have operated in the past and the reason there s various investigations, very deep investigations with tentacles all over the trump organization and the trump campaign is because there are scut outs. people who have done this and not necessarily operating at the highest levels of the campaign.
campaign and even after being given this warning, not only did donald trump and his campaign team not report those contacts, not report the meeting between the russian lawyer connected to vladimir putin who says i have dirt on hillary clinton, not only did they not do that. but you had other associates, of course getting information about wikileaks and getting information about cut-outs from russia. and they didn t say a word. so of course. when information came in that one of donald trump s foreign policy advisers, according to donald trump, was getting drunk and talking to the australian ambassador about their contacts with russia, and when other intel agencies get that information, that s, those are some very, very bright red lights.
believed to be the oldest graduate ever from the university of toledo, had enough credit for an associate s degree. it don t normally happen to old men. i guess i run into one. rob: dropped out of school in 1950 to focus on a job and raising a family. that is something else. royal family fans get ready to pop the champagne, celebrating the upcoming wedding of the uk s prince harry and former american actress meghan markle, taking pictures with cut-outs and when harry met megan, the couple will say i do in just 12 days, everybody looking forward to all of that circumstances. fox & friends first continues right now.
they are not going to get into a head-to-head military conflict with us because we are still the vastly more powerful adversary. they will try to attack us with asymmetric means. that is familiar to viewers thinki thinking of the cyber attacks in 2016. it looks tough a lot through intermediaries, cut outs, online through trolls. often, as you note, when the u.s. military is engaged in a place they claim to be. very interesting analysis you share with us, thank you. thanks for having me. coming up, we take a turn to the rod rosenstein firing watch. the deputy attorney general telling confidents he expects donald trump to fire him. there are new remarks from a very senior obama official who broke with donald trump and herself was relieved for it. i m going to show you that right after the break.
difficult operating environment that requires more training than is required. i want to ask you about mueller has taken the step to stopping several oligarchs, what does that tell you about where the investigation is. as the former director of the nsa, is that the most effective way to net electronic communication? it s actually quite an effective way and takes advantage of provisions in law that allow government at a border to actually have pretty invasive rights into these kinds of electronic devices. there s another reality here to that i think we re seeing. that s the use of the russians of cut outs for what it was they did or doing with regard to the united states social media.