intelligence that russia tried to interfere in the election. it is rooted in his own feelings about his own election, his insecurity that by admitting that russia did this interference campaign it would somehow delegitimize trump s electoral victory. so that s been sort of a blinder for the president. and joyce vance, something that speaks to your line of work, just before we came on the air our friend ken vogel at the new york times tweeted out this. new court filing. rick gates is still cooperating with prosecutors and is a potential witness in the trials of greg craig for lying on ukrainian work, roger stone for lying about wikileaks and paul manafort for loan-related fraud in new york. what is the takeaway here? rick gates seems to be one of the most successful cooperators that the mueller investigation produced. i don t think that there is
that russia did this interference campaign it would somehow delegitimize trump s electoral victory. and joyce vance, something that speaks to your line of work, our friend ken vogual tweeted out this. new court filing, rick gates is still cooperating with prosecutors and is a potential witness in the trials of greg craig for lying about ukrainian work, roger stone for lying about wiki leaks and paul manafort. what is the take away here? rick gates seems to be one of the most successful cooperators that the mueller investigation produced. i don t think that there is anything very surprising here. we knew that he would cooperate. the beginning work on a report is relatively routine. it has to happen before a
this is fact according to our intelligence agencies, according to all of our intelligence agencies. it s not just former special counsel robert mueller who testified to it, but the president s own hand picked intelligence chiefs including dan coats, the soon to be former director of national intelligence who had been warning for several years now that russia is continuing to try to interfere in our election, will try to do so again in 2020 and other countries may follow suit. this is a profound serious threat to american democracy and also one that the president does not take seriously. we have seen where he has denied the intelligence that russia has tried to interfere in the election. it is rooted in his own feelings about his own election, his insecurity that by admitting that russia did this interference campaign it would somehow delegitimize trump s electoral victory. and joyce vance, something