he s been pretty strong in threatening to pull out of the inf treaty and taking other steps. i think we ll know more when we see the report. but the reality is, that he is the commander in chief and our military forces are pushing back on russia in cyber every hour, every day. arthel: okay, that s a good point. and again, as we wait to see what s in the report, depending on was we find or what is discovered, is there potential for president trump s effectiveness to be compromised on the world stage in the geopolitical scene. well, that s what russia and china want. china s sort of the junior varsity player. they go after trade secrets and military secrets more than political gain in their cyber activity. but it was a lot easier for putin and russia and xi in china before trump showed up. so china will be looking for anything that could hurt trump in the ongoing trade talks and of course as we know, putin looks for anything that will damage any of the nato members. arthel: do you thin
makes russia look like the junior varsity. the vice president s argument which he made earlier this month went something like this. as a senior career member of our intelligence community told me just this week, what the russians are doing pales in comparison to what china is doing across this country. on that note, let s bring in our lead-off panel on a tuesday evening. julia yaffia, russian-born journalist who has covered putin for years, this year a respondent with gq. formerly moscow bureau chief. and chris watts, who has never worked with president putin to our knowledge, but happens to be currently a senior fellow with the research institute and also happens to be the author of messing with the enemy: surviving in a social media world with hackers, terrorists,
level of involvement in 2016. the fact was that the outcome was then exactly the same by all the evidence we have, and if there were evidence to the contrary, we would have heard of it by now. what the meddling did create was distrust and animosity within the united states and particularly made it almost impossible for two years for the united states and russia to make progress diplomatically. bolton followed that with the administration s newest line on foreign efforts to influence our elections. if you want to talk about a really massive influence effort on the american political system, i would suggest you read vice president pence s speech on china s efforts. looking at everything china was doing, a very, very senior u.s. intelligence official said it makes russia look like the junior varsity. the vice president s argument which he made earlier this month went something like this. as a senior career member of
level of involvement in 2016. the fact was that the outcome was then exactly the same by all the evidence we have, and if there were evidence to the contrary, we would have heard of it by now. what the evidence did create was animosity in the united states, and particularly made it almost impossible for two years for the united states and russia to make progress diplomatically. bolton followed that with the administration s newest line on foreign efforts to influence our elections. if you want to talk about a really massive influence effort on the american political system, i would suggest you read vice president pence s speech on china s efforts. looking at everything china was doing, a very, very senior u.s. intelligence official said it makes russia look like the junior varsity. the vice president s argument which he made earlier this month went something like this. as a senior career member of our intelligence community told me just this week, what the russians are doing pa
debates. they ve limited the subject matters. because of that the substance that was very much driving the debate four years ago has really been assumed how well you do on the national polls. what are you hoping will be different this time. this is the third debate where you ll be on the junior varsity stage. i wonder what you re hoping for that will be different. i thought the earlier debates have been pretty substantive. i think the one out at semi valley was a substantive debate. i guarantee you someone from that first, these early debates will finish in the top three or four in iowa and be one of the folk who is has chance to win this race. i believe it s me. i can tell you historically it s always been someone. the fact that dwoents have more