this has been the media narrative going on six, seventh months at this point? what is your response? i think it s very likely that the deep states, the professional bureaucrats, the people who run the government on the day-to-day basis did it do things that were very opposed to donald trump. he was overwhelmingly opposed by the civil service. i think it s also likely that there was covering up is probably the wrong word but that they were willing to be sloppy and more aggressive and the whole thing was done to general flynn was totally outrageous. w violates every civil liberty in the country, it involved will leaking which is a felony of secret information which was done in such a way as to hurt an american citizen even though when you look at it in detail, it had no meaning, it didn t matter. you ll notice the washington post and the new york times in their continuing war on the trump administration, went way out of their way to try to smear and destroy internally general sessi
people who run the government on the day-to-day basis did it do things that were very opposed to donald trump. he was overwhelmingly opposed by the civil service. i think it s also likely that there was covering up is probably the wrong word but that they were willing to be sloppy and more aggressive and the whole thing was done to general flynn was totally outrageous. violates every civil liberty in the country, it involved will leaking which is a felony of secret information which was done in such a way as to hurt an american citizen even though when you look at it in detail, it had no meaning, it didn t matter. you ll notice the washington post of the new york times in their continuing war on the trump administration went way out of their way to try to smear and destroy internally general sessions. again, very similar kind of pattern we are seeing whether
president is the ultimate declassification authority. he can take any piece of secret information in the government and decide to declassify it and read it on television. so, if he would like to show us evidence of a warrant for surveillance or transcripts or anything like that, he could clear that up today. now, t white house looks like it s going the other direction with this statement this morning and saying they re not going to comment on it, which some people will read as evidence that, no, in fact, trump was just talking about media reports. i wouldn t completely rule out, though, that there s something here, some kind of surveillance or attempt at surveillance. we just don t know at this point, thomas. and as you point out about the declassification, yes, he could take a picture of it and tweet it from his phone if he wanted to back up information about this claim. and ken, that s important, too, to point out the fact that not only could this prove damning to the trump adadmin
republicans and donald trump and there s a midterm election coming up and at some point after he is president and this is what i was getting at, chris, he s going to have to pick something because nothing becomes law without his signature and at that point we ll know how successful this effort is. ownership with authorship. i got you. this secret information that he says he has about the russian hacks. we now know he does not have a direct briefing from any of these agencies. he hasn t met with him yet which this has been a long time to not meet with him and he is highly suspicious without proof. how big a deal is it if there is no there, there on the president elect s secret information. look, this has been really troubling because obviously the threat of russian hacking trying to influence the election hangs over the results and he has shown himself not to be particularly concerned showing a great deal of skepticism while
the fbi was apparently tipped off that he might be a spy inside the cia. stealing secret information. might secretly be working for the russians. the fbi was sort of on to him. they were set to potentially arrest him. but he got away. he defected to rush yeah. russia. he lived in russia the rest of his life until he died almost 20 years later. that was cement. then in november, that same year, november 21st, they arrested jonathan pollard, then a civilian research analyst working for u.s. navy intelligence. arrested him for selling u.s. classified information for israel. then the day after they arrested jonathan pollard, november 22nd, the fbi arrest add noth cia guy arrested another cia guy, long time cia employee charged with selling classified information this time to china. then two days after that the fbi arrested a long-time employee of