eboni: thank you very much for joining us. alex little, former prosecutor and defense attorney. mike? mike: the justice department releasing a detailed report describing how the u.s. is working to combat foreign manipulation of elections and other cybersecurity threats. deputy attorney general rosenstein warning of a growing cyber threat from russia. influence operations are a form of information warfare. russian effort to influence the 2016 presidential campaign is just one tree in a growing forest. focusing merely on a single election misses the point. mike: let s bring in retired lieutenant colonel. he previously served in the u.s. army special forces and is a former battlefield journalist. great to have you, sir. deputy attorney general rosenstein is signalling he s committed to fighting russian election meddling. what have we learned? well, mike, news flash, the cold war is still on, and it
funny. so i don t know i would say she s taking comedy too far. she s certainly going too far. i wonder at what point does netflix or people who are inviting her to give speeches or come to comedy clubs say enough is enough. this is a woman who is continuing to push the envelope, continuing to embarrass the people who support her. i know i was sitting at a table at the white house correspondents dinner with some people on the board and they were cringing every time she spoke. it s going too far. it is at some point in this country we re going to return to civility. tiffany and i were having a great conversation earlier. it is a shame we can t have those sorts of ongoing civil conversations between the party all the time. people like michelle wolf make it difficult to do so. mike: your thoughts on i.c.e. and isis? i think it is a little bit ridiculous. i wouldn t put chris in this category. i think there are a lot of people in america who cheer on roseanne barr and her ridiculous comm
she s gaining national traction in the advance of midterms while the leader of their party is interested in putting a foreign adversary in front of the american people. mike: ocasio cortez moving incumbent democrats too far to the left? i would like to encourage the democratic party to make her the face of the party and adopt all her positions. if that does occur, then lieberman is right. the democrats may never win another election. in fact i have got to imagine the democrats running in the trump red states, democrats running in montana, missouri, where she is, mccaskill has to be cringing every time she gets coverage up there. heitkamp in north dakota. these positions don t play well. one thing when you have ocasio who is making comments with this far left wing ideas but when the democratic party starts to adopt a form of economic standard that is completely contrary to our american values it shows the party has gotten off the rails and the inmates are now running the asylum. mike:
then it snowballed into an issue where lots of players began taking the knee. that s when the nfl came up with the idea to have a policy. actually i think the policy was a fairly elegant solution because they didn t want that sort of televised spectacle of people kneeling during the anthem. but they also weren t going to punish people for not wanting to stand during it, so sort of allowing them to remain in the locker room. it think it kind of respected the wishes of both sides, the league and the owners and the players as well. i think it kind of threaded the needle fairly elegantly. eboni: apparently somebody didn t necessarily think it was the right fix, hence, they put a halt on that particular solution that just came down in may. and they are talking, you know, that there was a joint statement released from the nfl and the nfl players association, just this past week that said you know what? we know we just came up with that policy. we re going to put it on ice for now and go back
shelf life so some people out there believe that this is the president kind of sabotaging the nfl, right, pitting nfl players and against owners all in an effort to sabotage the league that kept him out and this is some of his sour grapes. again a theory. your reaction? i don t think if it s as deliberate an action to sort of sabotage a league. look, we all know that the president, he s known to hold a grudge. and i think it s fairly clear that he s got a beef against the nfl. i m sure it dates back to what he probably views as his mistreatment at the hands of the league, those many years ago. eboni: certainly. last question for you, ethan, as the nfl and the nfl pa sit down over the next coming weeks, hopefully prior to the start of the new football season to come up with a solution, i appreciate your take that the previous stance might have been a nice elegant one to use your word, where do you think they can go from here? i think they will probably go back to that. you make a go