that turned out, by the way, to be false. i did know that jerry s associate ted mallock, nice fellow who i met in new york, mentioned that he knew assange. i think it may have been name dropping. i asked jerry to get it. jerry did not respond and did not send me anything. we are trafficking in political gossip. trying to find out, like every politico and political reporter in america, what it p was that assange had. because he had teased it on cnn. he had teased it on fox.e every political reporter in the country knew it was coming. we wanted to know what it was about. sean: let me ask you this. the tweet of august 21, 2016. trust me, it will soon be the podestas time podestas, plural. in the barrel. weeks later, email stolen from
to the clinton foundation. that turned out, by the way, to be false. i did know that jerry s associate ted mallock, nice fellow and i knew in new york, mentioned that he knew assange. i think it may have been name dropping. i sad jerry to get it. jerry did not respond and did not sind me anything. we are trafficking in political gossip. trying to find out like every politico and political reporter in america what it was that assange had. because he had teased it on cnn. he had teased it on fox. every political reporter in the country knew it was coming. we wanted to know what it was about. sean: let me ask you this. the tweet of august 21, 2016. trust me, it will soon be the podestas time podestas, plural. let me talk to andy mccarthy
wrong. and mallock said the questions got more detailed about my involvement with the trump campaign which was informal and unpaid. whom i communicated with, whom i knew and how well. they had a long list of names. he said they asked him about former trump campaign advisor roger stone, author jerome coursy and wikileaks. he said he met stone a total of three times and always with groups of people. he was asked if he visited the ecuadorian embassy in london where julian assange has been and he said no. how does this land, not the substance, everyone on the campaign is being pressed about ties to russia and potential conspiracy to commit crimes around the collusion investigation. but just the tactics. i remember hearing from white house sources that after the no-knock warrant was issued for paul manafort s home, after all the computers were seized, that people were more on edge. do these stories land with a thud in the west wing? at this point it s less of a
what will the response be? is it possible that putin could break nato over the next couple of years? we don t know the answer to any of it, but we have seen an american president who is, for whatever reason it is, absolutely timid for the first time since harry truman confronted the rise of the cold war, for the first time an american president will not confront an adversary, and specifically the leader of russia. it is bizarre. jill, let me let you jump in and pickup this thread based on the breaking news just before we came on the air. we reported that bob mueller and his investigators detained a trump ally at the airport, at the logan airport. his name is ted mallock. he said he was told it was a felony to lie to the fbi. he would gladly cooperate with them. the agents produced a document allowing him to search his cell phone. i guess it was some sort of search washt. chuck will correct me if i m