That all happening all at once. Maybe its a coincidence, maybe thats what happens when the charges start to get filed. They all interrelate. They must be at least some level read into whats going on in muellers shop, we would hope. This all looks like its designed to protect donald trump. Not get at the meat and potatoes of what russia did to us. I feel like so much of what were seeing is it to protect donald trump i dont know maybe im a little paranoid thinking that is disturbing. None of us are naive. But the part of it that i have been a little bit dismayed by is that its one thing for people who are partisans of the trump
administration or who are republicans and see it as their job to defend the president , to say, you know what, this collusion thing didnt happen. What russia did was terrible. We are against that. But Dont Try To Drag Donald Trump into this, dont try youre saying that he was involved in this to try to undercut his election. He won his election fair and square. And
russia before the campaign while this was going on. they just need to make it look messy. and get 15% to 20% of the public to turn off to it. that s the goal here. indictments as i said earlier, my favorite line tonight. indictments cut through distraction. absolutely. in that case, reclarify for us again, from an intelligence point of view. it is not the case that there was an equal sprague of assistance to the democrats. and from p a republican side, they were more amenable to hillary clinton winning. it s clear who they favored and what they did, right? that s ludicrous. u.s. intelligence had information that was collected by either collections operators or a sister intelligence agency that had direct and continuous communications with u.s. citizens with known russian
that s what they want to do. they don t want to focus on the key thing that the u.s. was attacked and donald trump and his associates interactions with russia before the campaign while this was going on. they just need to make it look messy. and get 15% to 20% look messy and get 15 to 20% of the public to turn off to it. indictments, my favorite line tonight, as was said earlier, indictments cut through distraction. malcolm, then in that case, reclarify for us again from an intelligence point of view, because it is not the case that there was just sort of an equal spraying of assistance to the democrats and republicans and russians were indifferent, if not according to the republican side more amenable to hillary clinton winning. from an intelligence standpoint, it s quite clear who they favored and what they did, right? that s ludicrous. this was reported on by the new york times earlier this year. u.s. intelligence had information that was collected by either our collections op
that? well, it could compromise the source of information, so that source could dry up or go away, or if it s a human source, it could be worse. if the source is a sister intelligence agency of a friendly country, that country could decide it can t trust the united states with information, or worse, that it can t trust the president of the united states with information. that obviously has very serious repercussio repercussions, and particularly if we re talking about information about a threat to americans posed by isis. so, again, i can t say whether these allegations are accurate, but if they are and certainly, the president s tweets suggest that he talked about something of concern here we immediately have to go into damage mitigation mode, find out what steps can we take to minimize any risk to our sources, and if the damage is to our allies, what steps we can take to reassure our allies that we treasure the relationship, we
security adviser tom bossert enough to contact the cia and nsa about the tactic of disguising bombs in computer laptops to take down airlines. it s worried that russia could figure out the source used to gather the intelligence you don t get intelligence out of thin air, because we deploy spies and people who are willing to put their lives on the line and because we work with other intelligence agencies around the world that help provide that kind of information, but it s done on the basis of confidence and trust. reporter: now both democratic and republican lawmakers worry that israel might withhold crucial information in the future. if the source is a sister intelligence agency of a friendly country, that country could decide it can t trust the united states with information