and we re a constitutional republic. he did interfere in the 2016 election. it s very career by research of two agencies and dni who represents the 17 agencies and they will suffer no consequences for it. this is a signal to putin that the american president, president trump is weak, and he will not inflict consequences to add acto bad actors. meanwhile i know president trump has referred to him as a great leader. a lot call him dictator. oligarchs and nepotism reign. we see at g-20 ivanka trump sitting in for her dad. most countries staffers would step in fwu not a family member. it s inappropriate.
do you think the president is guilty of that? do you think that s too far? dereliction of duty is probably, i m not going to parse words, the messaging be much stronger, much more aggressive coming out of the white house now, yes. could it have been the same with the previous administration, yes? we played putin badly for not just this administration, fwu obama add min striministration, administration. we have never taken him as his word. a country with a gdp pushing above its weight to proclaim glory from the soviet union days. i disagree, in a sense, with all due respect to ambassador burns in terms of we are not taking action. the government is taking action. they understand the seriousness of it. we are not getting that messaging from the white house.
do you think he helped himself fl a legal perspective with the tweet today. i think from the tweet today he is trying to say there is nothing there. fwu actually makes the earlier tweet all the more suspect, the fact he tried to intimidate comey by suggesting that there were tapes then this goes to the question of what was his intent? was he trying to get comey to shut up? is that part of the pattern of trying to obstruct the investigation itself. mick aire is kind of enough to talk about this in terms of i understand. is he trying to get comey to shut up that tampering with a witness. if you look at the statute on obstruction of justice it says who ever makes a threatening communication to in effect disrupt a federal investigation is guilty of an offense. in this case the threatening communication there were several one obviously bringing comey to oval office and saying you got to audition for your job again even though statutorily you can fbi director for a daerkd. there were
do you think he helped himself fl a legal perspective with the tweet today. i think from the tweet today he is trying to say there is nothing there. fwu actually makes the earlier tweet all the more suspect, the fact he tried to intimidate comey by suggesting that there were tapes then this goes to the question of what was his intent? was he trying to get comey to shut up? is that part of the pattern of trying to obstruct the investigation itself. mick aire is kind of enough to talk about this in terms of i understand. is he trying to get comey to shut up that tampering with a witness. if you look at the statute on obstruction of justice it says who ever makes a threatening communication to in effect disrupt a federal investigation is guilty of an offense. in this case the threatening communication there were several one obviously bringing comey to oval office and saying you got to audition for your job again even though statutorily
reuters wrote about a conversation between putin and trump details about nuclear accords trump didn t know embarrassing information. this is a investigation into colluding with a foreign country to change the outcome of a presidential election. so much more grave than embarrassing details about a president s phone call. john, i want to bring you in now. the president firing the fbi director. who was leading the federal investigation into possible collusion wean his campaign and russia. i mean how does this look? i don t think it looks particularly good. and i want to win the understatement cooky for the week. look, no president has ever done this in exactly in way. president clinton let judge sessions go 24 years ago on a an ethics question. you know this is the one and algae that has already been well chewed over fwu has the virtue of being true, is that of president nixon.