asked you a question about why so many people seemed to be bending over backward to give russia and putin a especially the benefit of the doubt. you profited weeks ago that donald trump has been compromised some how, my question to you as our friend in the spy business, what did you know and when did you know it or was this a surmise on your part? my book is analysis of all known information and not being a journalist, i am a spy. i see things differently and exact same way of how the cia does. it is most likely the presidential daily briefs.
republican side. there are many republicans opposed to what they see happen bug many are not, as e.j. pointed out. the point is that hyperpartisanship to the point that we are dividing ourselves to the degree that we are willing to side with a foreign adversary over our fellow americans leaves us vulnerable to authoritarian, that is to authoritarianism and being deprived of our basic rights. on the right and the left we re going to have disagreements but we ve got to be able to agree on basic democracy and defense of our constitution. but evan mcmull in, what it the american people do come together but the president of the united states refuses to agree. are you concerned that the next president of the united states will essentially be an asset of vladimir putin? well, whether he s an asset or a spy, that s a very not a spy but essentially an apparachic in the spy business, the word
very close ties with russia. it is going to be a really interesting 100 days for sure. evan, to you. i mean when i first read, you know, yesterday this was breaking that the united states was expelling by sunday, by the way, these 35 what they re essentially calling spies posing as diplomats for the united states and shuttering these two quote/unquote compounds in maryland and new york. i thought, why were they allowed to be here in the first place? this is what happens in, frankly, in the spy business. the united states knows people inside who work for the russian embassy and the consulates who they believe are spies. they follow these people around town. they make sure that they know what they re up to. they spy on them every place that they can. so, when at times like this that you have tensions that flare up, especially between the united states and russia. you already know who you are going to kick out of the country because you already believe these people are here under fa
york fed president said cybersecurity risks keep me awake at night. the newest member of the fox family. blake, welcome aboard. nice to see you. phillip mudd is here. former deputy director of the cia counter intelligence center and author of the new book the head game. great to see you. thank you. i just wonder, how many people are doing this to how many people? because if we won t say the russians are doing it that problems means what? everybody. let s start down the list. russians, chinese, north koreans iranians, if we were talking about this 50 yeerts ago, that s the 007 world and you said the kgb has a human being in the west wing stealing stuff, you would have said that s disturbing but that s what the spy business is. the second oldest profession on the planet.
spy services are using a form of of the spy business that s less intrusive. no surprise here. if you found that the russians had copies of all your stuff, you d take them out and might make threatening noises, right? i think you would. unless you were over there interest in red square. you just answered my question. i think you would. the first question i d have if i were sitting adviseing the president hold on go to the people in our business who do this, that is the cia and the national security agency, and say how are you stealing information out of the kremlin. if the answer is we re not targeting kremlin technology i d say you re fired.s that they got in the system. the problem is not that they re targeting the system. that s the spy business. can we not do better in a security sense? boy i m not sure we can.