court appearance today, she was in an orange jump suit and asserted her innocence. she s stuck in jail based on new allegations and evidence. we are learning from these new federal indictments. while trump s putin summit has gotten a lot of attention, what s in here is fascinating, reading like a spy novel. she offered to exchange sex in exchange for a political group to infiltrate gop circles. in spy novels which is called a honey pot, sexual seduction. in these new charges it s russian sexual activity alleged to be part of an effort to cultivate conservatives and pro-gun political groups right here in the u.s. and these orders allegedly come from a putin-linked oligarch who batina told them i am ready for further orders. that s a lot. we don t know if those orders
don t discount it? i think he s a very valuable asset to russia and to russia s interests. because of the things that he s doing. the things that he s saying. what he is doing here domestically in the united states as well as how he is distancing the united states from many of these partnerships and alliances. so i do think that vladimir putin and senior officials in moscow are very pleased with how things ha s havs have transpiret 18 months in terms of the u.s. position and actions on the global stage. so not an asset in the sense of how those of us who read spy novels normally use the term? but in terms of being helpful to the goals and aims of vladimir putin. absolutely, very valuable asset in that regard in terms of doing things that russia would like to see done. for people who are just joining us because we ve just passed the half hour, i just want to reset. peter stroke, he s the guy used heard about, he sent these text
front-page news in every newspaper across the globe is stunning. tucker, that s not it, though. keep in mind just a couple weeks ago, devin nunes on this network in interview withng maria bartiromo had another bombshell, that there was no official foreign intelligence, and through official channels present to the united states. that was a huge bombshell. notice what he didn t say. he didn t say it to pass through unofficial channels.fi we know two things. but eventually that information was laundered through the state department and potentially the u.s. senate, and we know there was potentially a human asset in the trump campaign.n unbelievable. tucker: is there any precedents for this? has this ever happened before? has it ever been alleged off or in the? not in the united states. i m sure it s happened in some spy novels and some third world countries where this may be common. tucker, this is a story so unbelievable on its face that i ve said to people, it s like the sickest spy
went through this. through extraordinarily where you would see almost if spy novels. they opened pay pal accounts, they stole social security numbers. fake dates of birth, all of that to open bank bts to fund some of the ads they were buying on facebook. also to finance some of the rallies, some of the travel, that at least two people traveled in the u.s., made contact with people in the u.s. all of this was funded by this person that evan mentioned, and they were really sophisticated here. they were able to come here and make contact with americans who believed that they were here in support of candidates, whether it is donald trump or whoever. but they fooled many. it is clear the fbi has been on to this all along.
and the admission that they re paying a porn star says something. why would they pay her? it s because she could have possibly blackmailed the president. he s the only person in the white house that doesn t need a security clearance, unlike the people who haven t gotten their security clearance and are still getting documents because he s a constitutionally elected official. so he doesn t need it, but do we we want him having security information when he could be blackmailed by them or by the russians? he s already leaked security information to the russians. so it s a very serious problem. let s go there on blackmail. your name has come up at meetings in our newsroom because we talked about this general subject of blackmail, and we know that you re one of the people we wanted to answer this. when we say you could be subject to, susceptible to blackmail, give us a scenario. how would someone use that as leverage if you work in the west wing staff? well, i don t read a lot of spy no