wonderful figure. she proceeded to tell me that she suspected the woman had been selected by putin specifically to distract our president. joining our conversation is charlie sykes, editor at large for the bulwark. first, your reaction to what we re hearing from fiona hill and stephanie grisham. getting a little ry in the 5:00 hour, nole. it s cocktail hour somewhere. hey, exactly. it s happy hour. i think with respect to the national security implications, i think this just is more evidence, as if any were needed, that the trump administration, but donald trump in particular, was extraordinarily weak in the face of putin s aggression. trump undermined our allies in nato. he slobbered all over vladimir putin. he publicly said in helsinki that he believed putin s descriptions of election
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ask about the eastman memo. it is apparently a memo, instruction, guide to the coup, it was revealed, part of the body of reporting in the woodward and costa book, the chairman of the joint chiefs acknowledged that, it is a smoking gun alongside many other smoking guns in terms of state of mind and intention of donald trump s actions leading up to january 6th. i wonder what you think these sort of appropriate investigation is into the memo, what they did with it, who looked at it, how it was created, and whether it is as jackie is suggesting still on the books as the plan for adam schiff s comment is right, when a coup is successful, usually because the one before it came up just short. yes. the memo is not the smoking gun, it is the bullet. i think we need to investigate how it came about, who adhered
failure, i think we need to continue to be grateful and honored by the service of our men and women in uniform. absolutely. senator richard blumenthal, thank u so much for spending time with us. helene cooper and mark jacob zone, thank youo much. we reeally graful. jeremys stickground little longer. when we come back, tew insider accounts of how the sgraced twiceimpeache ex-president worshipped vladimir putin. ssia advisor fiona hill even writing that janua 6th was the clearest example, donald trump trying to make america more like russia. that s next plus, former president back obama breaking ground on his presidential center in chicago, hoping to reverse the trends of tribalism and divisn that have infected our politics. and there s brand-new reporting on the mad scramble by republican leaders in texas who will stop at nothing to placate thex-president a his big lie. deadline white house continues after a quick break. don t go anywhere. nues after a quick break. don t go an
a report from a friendly foreign government that heard that the trumpd campaign had received se kind of suggestion that russia could help themgg by releasing information that was damaging to hillary clinton. is thatam right? that s correct. as a former prosecutor, i know that it is critical that the fbi isha able to take an action like here to investigat threats to our national security. do you think that interference in our elections by a foreign government constitutes a national c security threat? yes, i do. does anything in your report call into question the finding in the special counsel s report thatpe the russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in a sweepingal and systemic financi? no, it doesn t and we cite the report here in a footnote laying out all the different reports that had been released on that issue. does anything in your report