kind of sounds like you don t care about russia eye meddling at all. no ma am, i care a loot befo lot but we have to keep it in perspective of the fact that espionage and cyberattacks are conducted constantly all around the world and we have to keep it in perspective. this is one thing, it s not the only thing. there is an investigation going on by director mueller. and now he we need to focus on the bigger picture issues that the united states and russia bilateral relation demands. congressman, we appreciate your take. thanks for coming on. thanks for having me. coming up, russia ramping up spying on the u.s. nearly 150 operatives now believed to be in the country. a brand new cnn reporting next. boost. it s about moving forward, not back. it s looking up, not down. it s being in motion. boost® high protein it s intelligent nutrition with 15 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. boost® the number one
we have heard from former administration officials and current intel tetelligence offi who said that they believe the russians will strike again, they ever not been deterred. what is your response? well, i m sure they are striking august the time. this business is relentless game played all around the word ald we re pretty good with at it ourselves. let me play for you what the president said. mistakes have been made. i agree i think it was russia, but i think it was probably other people and/or countries and i see nothing wrong with that statement. nothing really knows. nobody really knows for sure. congressman, how can the
conversation today. and we have seen the president use that ability to try to stir things up, to try to get attention on something before. this is a bit different. as you described it. it s sort of a flashback to donald trump, the entertainer, a decade ago, when he was part of the shtick at the wwe. and then now putting it in a context of his running feud with the media. namely cnn but other media outlets including our own. so the president is challenging sort of up-ending the relationship you typically see from a president and the media. always a tense somewhat adversarial, can be contentious relationship, he is taking it to a new level, and we ve had members of his administration say it s the right thing for him to do, to try to fight back in his own way. democrats of course see this with a different view. and ted lew of california, congressman who is also an air force reservist, put it in the context of the menned an women
in uniform and how they might view the president based on this video. here s ted lew. i serve in active duty in the u.s. military because i love america. when we send our troops into harm s way, they need to know the president is of sound mind, rationale and doing it for the right purposes. and these tweets make us question that. ted lew is frequently a critic of the president and he put it in that very personal context of his own experience, having served and continuing to be a part of the reserves. so lots of different ways of looking at this, thomas, as we ve seen. and so much of the conversation is deeply partisan. and both sides are really clashing over this. and then there are questions about how best to try to interpret what the president has said. we ve reached out to the white house. his use of this video. what did he mean. what was behind it. we have not heard officially back from them yet. we will see if they response as the day rolls on.
one is that the trump administration is going to go way beyond what the supreme court said. so it makes no sense to say that if you re a stepsister of a muslim family in america then the ban doesn t apply to you but if you re grandmother then the ban does apply to you. that makes no logical sense and i believe there will be a whole series of lawsuits that now happen because of how restrictive the trump administration has interpreted the ban. and secondly, nothing changes the harmful bigotry and anti-muslim sentiment that this ban sends out to the entire world. congressman, you re from california. there are a number of sanctuary cities in your state. the house is about to vote on two bills involving sanctuary cities. they said they re trying to bolster immigration enforcement. yesterday the president hosted families whose loved ones were killed by undocumented immigrants. we saw them campaign on this. my question to you is are republicans trying to win this in the court of public opin