irrational presumably, but they they weren t elected, he was. he was elected but they re job also, and they ve sworn an oath to this, is to defend the country and the constitution and they have two examples. they have the example of him in he helsinki where he stood in public next to putin and sided with putin against his intelligence community and the meeting with lavrov in the oval office where he carelessly not maliciously but carelessly revealed an important intelligence secret about an operation in syria. you remember when scaramucci during the ten days he was communications director that there are people in the administration who think it is their job to protect the united states from donald trump? that was such a blissful time. for ten days. and how much fun that was. i think there are people that are there are people across government who i think feel that this is their duty right now under president trump and not necessarily because they re not even of the same
someone s clearance so as mr. ackerman said, this seems to be unprecedented, i m not aware of a president revoking clearances personally in the past. but during my time in the intelligence community, i found the analysis was very fiercely apolitical, fiercely non-ideological. the intelligence analysts call t i like they see it, they re providing information to policymakers to enable them to make the best policy decisions possible on behalf of the united states. so once people leave the intelligence community they can intersize their first amendment rights and we can discuss and debate any statements that former officials make. and elliot, isn t that what brennan is doing as a private citizen no longer leading the agency? saying look, the way you handle yourself on the world stage in he helsinki was tantamount to treasonous. that s not him saying in the his official capacity. he s a former agent. certainly but i think there s
he helsinki, is there going to be a note taker, is there just going to be an interpreter, is there any plans for how that meeting is supposed to go, phil? it s not clear exactly how it s going to go. there are conflicting reporting out of the white house, including that trump would like there to be a one-on-one meeting between the two leaders, no note takers. when trump met with vladimir putin, both were joined by their secretaries of state, they were in the room, but there was no formal note taker, which means there s no official record of what was said, no official transcript, which is quite troubling for some people in the u.s. government, that there should be a record that vladimir p putin and a record of everything that president trump has promised on behalf of the united
legit legitimacy of the investigation and this plays out on capitol hill. it is about discrediting mule. discrediting president trump s justice department. so much of it is so political and the core is russia meddling in the american election andez the pred tweeted that the russians say they didn t do any meddling and the president being a spokesperson for the kremlin here. russia continues to say they had nothing to do with meddling in our election. where is the dnc server. et cetera, et cetera. and hillary and russia. this is what the washington post said, either mr. trump has lost touch with essential u.s. interests or there is some other explanation for his kowtowing that is yet unknown. there is a risk that the president could meet with nato leaders and have this july 16th meeting with president putin in he helsinki and he will be warmer