compounds, other steps. and this was something that was done very quietly. it wasn t publicly announced. there were taskings to the state department to come up with proposals to relieve tensions with moscow. people in the state department began to hear about this. what s it tell you? you got the report, but what s it tell you? what does it tell a person watching? well, it tells you that they were trying to do something for was it a payoff for getting him elected? you can look at it two ways. i mean obviously trump didn t make any secret about the fact that he wanted to improve relations with russia. so purely as a policy move, one could presume first moment in office? yeah. you have to look at the context. right after the uproar about the election, the fact that the intelligence community concluded that the russians launched this influence campaign to meddle in our election, to tilt the results, to hack the democratic national committee, weaponize
compounds, other steps. and this was something that was done very quietly. it wasn t publicly announced. there were taskings to the state department to come up with proposals to relieve tensions with moscow. people in the state department began to hear about this. what s it tell you? you got the report, but what s it tell you? well, it tells you that they were trying to do something for was it a payoff for getting him elected? you can look at it two ways. i mean obviously trump didn t make any secret about the fact that he wanted to improve relations with russia. so purely as a policy move, one could presume first moment in office? yeah. you have to look at the context. right after the uproar about the election, the fact tt the intelligence community concluded that theusans launched this influence campaign to meddle in our election, to tilt the results, to hack the democratic national committee, weaponize
surveillance activity, perhaps legal, but i don t know that it s right and i don t know that the american people will be comfortable with what i ve read. let us get all the reports was the president directing it? it s possible. the president said that president obama tapped his phone. no, no, no. that didn t happen. i ve said this for many, many weeks, including the day after a couple days after in front of the press. that never happened. so that never happened. did president obama order any kind of surveillance of the president? well the president-elect. we don t know who sent the taskings, if the taskings were changed in what went in the intelligence reports. we re going to try to find that
be some level of surveillance activity, perhaps legal, but i don t know that it s right and i don t know that the american people would be comfortable with what i ve read but let us get the all the reports. chairman was the president personally involved? [crosstalking] the president said that president obama tapped his phones that did not happen. i ve said this a couple weeks including a day after in front of the press, that never happened. did president obama order any kind of surveillance of the president-elect? well, we don t know who send the taskings, if they were changed into what went into these intelligence reports but we re going to try to find that out. chairman was the president
that was very awkward from the start because that day he were askings to save is a saturday. why is that lady writing it down on monday? considerably more awkward, even though there were 5,000 plus of these billboards all across the country and 20 other big rvs and buses and other vehicles that were vinyl wrapped with this same message, save the date, may 21st, the return of christ. despite all of that nationwide advertising alerting us all that the end of the world was coming, despite that multimillion dollar very visible ad campaign in 2011, sure enough, saturday, may 21st, 2011 rolled around and the world did not end. it was not apparently that date on which we would experience the return of christ. chances are you heard this was predicted to be our last day on earth. a doomsday scenario from a