but i would be the first one willing to say, you know what? that was a very interesting bit of stage craft if the president were able to pull that off. but the negotiation that h.r. mcmaster is saying we don t have an agenda, it s whatever the president wants to say is a very scary thing because vladimir putin does have an agenda, he does have a well thought out game plan about how he wants to split the trans-atlantic alliance, how he wants to stroke donald trump s ego and how he wants to get things that russia wants and we need to be very, very cautious about this meeting. in the meantime, people suggest that he should be preparing for this g-20, the president among the many things he s tweeting about put him squarely in the middle of a hotly debated end of life issue, tweeting just a while ago, if we can help little charlie gard we would be happy to do so. this is an issue that s been
here which is try to get put on the fight isis? quickly, that is the big question here, who does trump think his audience here the skeptics here who say he s in cahoots with putin or is he going for a different audience here? that will be the question. right. also if he acts presidential and doesn t address some of the issues that have been raised about the interference and tries to get at the policy issues regarding isis, if he treats this as a normal meeting and doesn t become very careful about the stage craft of it, he will add fuel for the fire for democrats and independents. that s another thing to mark your calendars for, next week the g-20. meanwhile the roundtable is staying with us. these people will tell me something i don t know. you are watching hardball. it s a good thing we brought the tablets huh?
achieve or doesn t help achieve what they are trying to achieve they will go after them. this is the thing. 2016 showed that the russians have greatly amped up their sophistication. a few years ago they didn t know what dnc was. they have figured out the subtleties of our democratic political process. they couldn t even lobby the hill before. in 2012 five years ago they didn t know who to lobby on the hill. now they have gotten very sophisticated. if the republicans think that come 2018 or 2020 they are not going to go after them or this won t effect them they are sadly mistaken. i wanted to ask you about a piece of stage craft since the trump administration has gotten underway, the u.s. attorneys have been shown the door, 49 of them, i guess.
putin isn t a republican as far as i know? so whoever doesn t do what they want or whoever doesn t achieve whatever they are trying to achieve or doesn t help achieve what they are trying to achieve they will go after them. this is the thing. 2016 showed that the russians have greatly amped up their sophistication. a few years ago they didn t know what dnc was. they have figed out the subtleties of our democratic political process. they couldn t even lobby the hill before. in 2012 five years ago they didn t know who to lobby on the hill. now they have gotten very sophisticated. if the republicans think that come 2018 or 2020 they are not going to go after them or this won t effect them they are sadly mistaken. i wanted to ask you about a piece of stage craft. since the trump administration
preet of the southern district was god fatheresque to see him there he was live tweeting it. i wondered aloud how much people not in the new york washington corridor were interested in the plot line, heard from a lot of people in kansas which i regard as the american center of america about 100 miles from where i used to live. they were very much watching this plot line. was that stage craft or was this something else at work. prooet is a came down to support jim comey. he was fired he was a prosecutor in the southern district of new york. he knows the russia file because he was in charge of the investigation in 2010 when the fbi and the cia wrapped up the illegals, the russian illegal operatives living under deep cover. they show the americans. prooet was prosecutor run tlag case. they were apparently here according to the dni report they were here to morin the 10u8 2008 election. this is where you see the