look, this is number one, this was one of the things that this is one thing, the one thing flynn ended up lying about, i would argue, that donald trump alyssa. has been consistent on. i mean, my big issue, when he is consistently been you think about, this is the time period when they should be protectionist. he calls it being nationalist setting up the government. it s one of the most important and putting america first. things they should be, but he s been for tariffs and instead of trying to find there s been reporting all along russians in an alley, they that he sits in the oval office should be vetting people, and periodically says, i want tariffs, bring me some tariffs. filling out their sf-86s gary cohn would talk him out of it or rob porter would talk him properly. you and i know they didn t do that. out of it. they didn t do that. porter is gone. cohn is going. he s going to get his tariffs. when president-elect barack obama started to transition, the first thing wit
and carter page and anyone else. right. a lot of white collar crime is filing wrong or false paperwork. the idea if submitting a paper is, by definition not a problem, is simply wrong. i don t think director mueller is going to pay the slightest bit of attention to that little riff about filing paperwork. but i do think it is indicative of his attitude, which is that any criticism of his son-in-law jared kushner, of others is meaningless, politically motivated, and not based on anything important. professor turley, when the president said well, a lot of people have problems with their government forms in washington, that accurate? well, omissions are common on things like sf-86s, failure to register foreign agents, those tend not to be criminally charged, but it doesn t mean they cannot be. if you have a special counsel who may be trying to get
that any criticism of meaningless, political motivated and not based on anything important. when the president says a lot of people have problems with their government forms in washington, is that accurate? well, omissions are common on things like sf-86s, failure to register foreign agents, those tend not to be criminally charged, but it doesn t mean they cannot be. if you have a special counsel that may be trying to get leverage over a witness, they will often put pressure on those spots and make it clear that you re all alone, and as game of thrones would say winter is coming. so i think that was certainly conveyed in that raid, but obviously the statements are not helpful. i don t think it was helpful for his attorney to criticize the raid on manafort. what they are losing is that crush space between the president and key targets. usually white houses try to
naveed, as you listened to what we just listened to, as you witness what we just witnessed, your thoughts? as a u.s. person who was, in fact, recruited by russians to spy, it appears this russian front really had two silos. the first was to retrieve data and use sort of information warfare attack against us. the second one seems to have been this simple thing that i dealt with, which is to make contact with people within trump s inner circle. and if that is, in fact, the case, you know, that seems like that s an attack that may be ongoing. we heard them taum about sf-86s, documents one submits to get a background clearance, in fact. what concerns me, brian, is that if there was contact, if there was foreign ties did the people now in the administration with top secret clearances disclose
that? we saw with general flynn last week he s now registered as a foreign agent. conceivably he should have done that on his sf-86. my sense listening to it is the focus of the investigation will be on the binary question that relates to sf-86s and foreign contact and foreign disclosure. it is such an important one. i can t stress enough that just because you had contact with a foreign even foreign intelligence officer, that may not be illegal, not sdloegs to the u.s. government with top secret clearance, may be. are you struck by the wording we ve heard, even in our own discussion people saying the russian attempt to affect the election. seems to me we can move that to past tense. that s ball game. absolutely. i think at this point clearly the russians, you know, this wasn t this was a very planned and, you know, malcolm nance has written a definitive book about this. this was a clear, deliberate attack. this was an attempt to undermine our very core of democracy. i think it