explaining it, you re alleging that there are linkages? there is definitely linkages between trump campaign officials or former trump campaign officials and russia. we learned during the haeearing and during my questioning that special counsel mueller did not come to any counterintelligence assessments with regard to those linkages. for instance, we don t know their financial ties. president trump s financial ties or even his current business dealings with russia. and that s something that we re trying to explore through, for instance, our investigation of deutsche bank and its relationship to president trump and we re continuing with that investigation because we have to know what the risks are to mitigate them and to protect our country. one of the things we do know thanks to the mueller investigation that s been backed up by the intelligence community is that russia did meddle in the 2016 presidential election. absolutely. and they re planning to do so in
mcdaniel no longer uses the name romney, the chair woman of the party no longer uses her maiden name because donald trump asked her to do so. let me give you thoughts on what changes tomorrow, new congressional leadership on the house side. what does that mean for the president starting tomorrow? well, it s going to it could be a rocky year for the president. at some point the speaker nancy pelosi, and she will be elected tomorrow on the house floor, she s going to have to make the decision on the mueller report. trump and pelosi have a pretty good relationship right now. let s see how long that lasts. it will be interesting to see if that does carry on. gentlemen, thank you both very much. coming up, we have breaking news from the state department. u.s. ambassador to russia jon huntsman confirmed to have
relationship between the united states and russia is going to be so bad, he ll not know what to do. i want to switchgears for a moment and get your thoughts on the secretary of state, mike pompeo. he was in brazil for the inauguration of the country s new president. he s been referred to as the tropical trump. some have called him a fascist. what do you make of this warming relationship, at least with this political figure now in brazil. i think again you pointed to this broader trend where the president feels at ease with more authoritarian leadership. i m thinking of erdogan. and what s so striking about this, not only his warmness toward authoritarians, it s such
jim mattis, syria, your popularity, incoming senate, senator mitt romney from utah, the visa lottery system, russia, saudi arabia, the stock market, of course, there was a reference to kanye west as well. what was going on here, is this a president who for the last couple days has been home alone, no one with him, poor him, and now he s just venting about everything he s been bottling up over the last couple days or is there a strategy behind this? i wouldn t assume there s much of a strategy. what you have is what we ve seen from trump since the days he became a presidential candidate. he loves to air his grievances, it s like festivus every day with this president. i do think more seriously, look at that list. all of those very important issues you discussed, the government shutdown, the funding of border security.
base, anyone who challenges the president in 2020, unless robert mueller finds something very damning is going to be a huge underdog to the president. let s talk a little bit about this, jeremy. republican lawmakers reacting to this. the senator s niece came to the defense of the president. for an incoming freshman senator to attack donald trump, feeds into what the democrats and media want and is disappointing and destructive. is there a likeliness that romney will buckle under pressure from the gop many is the gop going to fry to bring him in line or are they going to have to have a seasoned politician in his own right be that front guy that is willing to speak out against the president? i think what you see here are two different types of lessons