reaction on capitol hill. i think he s going to move forward now that the house and senate intelligence committees have their responsibility to take a look at this from a policy viewpoint, a counter intelligence viewpoint and we certainly still, i believe, need an independent commission to talk about protecting the american electoral process. this won t be the last time that putin decides to meddle in our election. we have to make sure we re ready for its next attack. and it is a time for leaders to stand up. senator durbin thank you for being it was on new day. president trump this morning lashing out on twitter. is the president hurting the party attempts to work with their own agenda? peter king joins us next.
when i was operating in this country, they asked me to get in touch with all kinds of high level individuals. that wasn t possible, so carter page was most likely a very inviting target. if you look at someone like carter page, i cannot suggesting he did anything wrong, the fbi will figure that out, that would be someone in the intel business called an access agent. not someone who can tell you about the campaign, what are the issues, where is the party and the presidential candidate going on those issues. even down to tactical questions, where can we meet people, where do they congregate, when are you going to make an announcement so we know when to release stolen e-mails. somebody like that without a senior position still has knowledge that can help an outsider, a russian agent for example, understand the american electoral process. carter page provided cnn this statement earlier this month on his interactions with the russian operative. he said, shared basic immaterial
raising concerns. here s evan why was the top russian spy at the convention to begin with? i was at convention and ran into a lot of ambassador. both democrats and republicans invite as courtesy, ambassadors from all these countries. obviously you know, you ve got friendly countries like britain and czech republic and france who show up, sort of celebration of american democracy. they do invite them. not considered to be unusual but russians there for a different reason. to gather information, spy on the american electoral process and as greg aptly pointed out, in middle of all of this, carrying out a very audacious operation to disrupt and
your appearance on bill maher s program and what s notable is from bill maher through the mainstream kind of news media, the same plotline, kind of the death of outrage, going deep, deep, deep into national security and intelligence gathering are asked to come on by hosts like us and kind of pinch us and say is this a new norm 58 that s being enforced? are we witnessing an attempt at the death of outrage? you are when you re talking about this russian connection to the 2ru6r7 administration. we re seeing something i ve never seen in 35 years working in and around intelligence. we are seeing american citizens absolutely not care about a hostile intelligence operation against the united states. we have maybe as many as 25% of the american voting public are siding with a former kgb officer and a former drosh of russian intelligence on an operation that helped engineer the american electoral process. why do you think that is? i don t know.
that helped engineer the american electoral process. why do you think that is? i don t know. i think part of it is part of the battlefield and cyberspace shaping that the russians have done for some time. they are conducting hybrid warfare which is this perception management war. they have their own media outlets and they tie in closely with bright batter news, for example. they have people who are s sympathetic to russia s position. i have never seen anything like it. ten years ago it would have been called treason. but today it s called partisanship. this level of part shan ro sedanship is dangerous. this nation was attacked last year and we need to get to the bottom of it. one peopreason why people mat be reacting to it, the white