perhaps. but then you get more sanctions to moscow. nixon i used to listen to the tapes. nixon tried to get his crowd of henchmen to break into the republican headquarters and make it look like a democratic job. thank you, evan mccollum, mr. spymaster, and ruth markus. general information from her. up next, president trump is reportedly being driven to madness by cable news coverage. he is so erratic that some are comparing his negotiating tactics to that of a pinball machine. and against this backdrop, trump is joking about being president for life. this is hardball, where the action is. you not only want a clean feeling every day, you want your denture to be stain free. did you know there s a specialty cleanser that s gentle enough for everyday use and cleans better than regular toothpaste? try polident cleanser. it has a four in one cleaning system that kills ten times more odor causing bacteria than regular toothpaste, deep cleans where brushing may miss, helps remove tough
spymaster. have you brennan, clapper, comey. you look at that and you have president putin very strongly, vehementally says he had nothing to do with it. that quote is about as damning as any quote where you have the president of the united states, and he has continued to do it. and now some people, who are making fools of themselves, and history will prove them to be useful fools, going on fox news and basically saying the fbi has become the kgb. but in this case, you have the president of the united states saying he trusts putin more than he trusts the fbi, the cia and the entire intel community. the men and women who fight every day, put their lives on the line every day to keep this country safe from terror attacks. i continue to be baffled by donald trump s allegiance to
colorado. jim nicholson basically said it was just a way to help out the family, but i don t think so. i think he just fooled himself. i mean jim fancied himself as being quite the spymaster. but how good a spy could jim have been, he s the only guy i know that got caught twice. were you surprised jim used his son to contact the russians? surprised, not really. further disappointed, yeah. somewhat shocked from the perspective of the father, that one father could do this to his son. but that s what desperate people do. he loved his kids, but he loved himselfself more. he s an extreme narsest. i think you have to put it that way. for a father to do this to his family, i can t believe it. what makes somebody do that and then use his son to continue the operation, that s deplorable. his whole belief system has
communications through u.s. diplomatic relations in the united states, and he said it s not proper to discuss the two parties in that diplomatic situation. he also, of course, met donald trump himself back in may. i asked him about that as well. reporter: when you met donald trump, the president, were you surprised when he disclosed secret information to you about syria? i m not sure that i heard anything that would be secret. but it was a good meeting and we were discussing things that were very important to your country and to mine. reporter: what about this allegation that you re a spymaster? did you recruit any members of the trump administration? you should be ashamed, because cnn is the company that keeps pointing to this allegation. it s nonsense. reporter: i also asked him about his ideas about the future of the u.s.-russia relationship, and he said it s going to be
going to be speaking to vladimir putin about. but also notable this is a president and we have seen this in his past foreign trip and briefings back at the white house who doesn t like the big, thick briefing books. he likes to receive a lot of the data he takes in in simple terms and tweet-like sentences as one describes it. he is a man who relies on instinct and impulse. he has in the past say that is what really made him successful as a dealmaker. what is notable, you have this dealmaker who is a veteran in making deals in the real estate world, not so much in the political and diplomatic landscape versus the spymaster as it were. a man vladimir putin is going face-to-face with his fourth american president. this is someone who has been at this for years. peter, thank you very much. so, you know, the whole question, cory, of the preparation for this. and going in with or without an agenda. how deep the preparation is.