the world stage and in congress. because trump says stuff and they don t know exactly where he stands on things. remember when all this happened? one of the sources in this piece said that, essentially, they had this meeting, the next day, there was a july 19th meeting in the situation room and the july 20th meeting at the pentagon. that was sxrenpre-scheduled, th president seemed distracted. it was not as productive as advisers hoped. that same day, the president is going up and talking with the new york times about jeff sessions, about the special counsel, bob mueller. the next day he goes to the pentagon, he has this conversation based on our reporting, the moron comment happens, sidenote, backdrop, anthony scaramucci is sewing chaos. reince priebus who had this sort of weird moment with scaramucci later resigned on the 28th. sean spicer in the middle of this stepped down. and so this was a very one
elderly man in basically putin s political heartland who was contributing money to the trump, he offered to contributor his pension to the trump campaign because all he had been shown on television on russian kremlin-controlled television was how wonderful trump is, how he respects russia, how he respects putin, how he s going to pull america back from the world stage and give russia more room to maneuver. and how they had been vilifying hillary clinton in the kremlin-owned press. i ve been writing a saying on tv for the entire summer, the entire fall that the kremlin has a preferred candidate, that it is about sewing chaos and undermining democratic institutions but also that they have a preferred candidate and that was always donald trump. selling chaos. liz, is the effort of russian propaganda actors to sew