he was the national security adviser at the latter part of this. he was certainly, you know, well within bounds to have these sort of calls, so why did he need to lie? what was it covering up? and as frank says, why did h egoeghe go to the dominican republic to have one of these calls? i thing thatk that s really intriguing. we ve all talked about the fact that trump should have known that virtue to his prior job, calls kislyak, the russian ambassador made, that the calls were being taped and mad calls he later lied about. something is wrong. we don t know exactly what it is. i isn t the folks in congress have a good idea. mueller certainly knows. one thing we can be certain of is that they haven t given flynn this really magnificent deal just so he could talk about tiddlywinks. whatever it is that trump is talking about, it s someone above him on the food chain and that s a very limited number of players. joyce makes a great point, i
revitalize itself. pittsburgh is a city that was very closely tied to the coal economy and over the last 20 or 30 years, that city has focused on innovation, investing in education, investing in training its workers for a higher for a different kind of job that makes pittsburgh a remarkable, remarkably vital city in terms of attracting young people and changing their economy to capitalize on the opportunities that are there in the future. so i look forward to newspaper editors and television news editors sending reporters to pittsburgh to actually find out how that city would benefit from continued u.s. leadership on climate. the other thing that struck me about this, and it s important for people to understand, the paris climate agreement was nonbinding and voluntary. the united states is not bound by the expectations that are placed on us by the international community.
disparage and undermine the credibility of your own people and institutions in the face of foreign counterparties, especially those that are rivals and may be guilty of trying to attack our very systems, our electoral systems. so just up and down the line, nicolle, it is not a good idea, i think, for the president, especially now, to be throwing fuel on the fire and to be adding to the weight of suspicion around the russia connections. i thing thatk that s why you ha counsel coming in no doubt counseling the president to say less and to be less provocative and certainly that s why you see i think more of the questions and more of the dialogue moving into those channels. matt schlapp, do you think there s any prospect that these efforts that juan zarate describes as being needed could be successful with a president trump? you mean the proper legal precautions and the change in
very doable. we re a model for the rest of the world. we got china, the world s largest polluter, to be in it, an this pittsburgh thing which is a canard, by the way, my family is from pittsburgh. i went to the city of mayor s website. tweeting. biodiesel, solar energy, wind energy, encouraging the people let me just add the mayor of pittsburgh had tweeted, he s now trolling the speech, he says as the mayor of pittsburgh, i can assure you we ll follow the guidelines of the paris agreement for our people, our economy, and our future. the mayor of pittsburgh andrea s point which the secretary of state used to make, there are many more job in the renewable energy industry than the fossil fuel industries and by the way, the big commercial energy companies like exxon are for us sticking in the paris accords. donny? i have such rage and sadness. we just watched a dangerous little man give a very, very scary speech. you know, it s fascinating, you
been saying and i think part of the advantage of bringing counsel in is to quiet the waters, perhaps calm the president and not have him talk as much or tweet as much about this. but given what he said, i mean, first of all, there s a problem of poking director comey. director comey can be incredibly formidable and you don t want to create another enemy, more so than you need to. and so the fact that he s saying things to put jim comey potentially in a corner is not a good thing. he s also potentially aggravating the fbi. you don t want to do that when the fbi is helping the special counsel is investigating these issues. why in the world would you want to poke the fbi? you don t want to do that. you also undermine the institutions that americans have to have faith in. the fbi, the intelligence community, the very institutions that the president, himself, relies upon for information, analysis and assurance. that s incredibly important. finally, you don t want to