i just don t think these are really breaking through. in the morning i thought, wow, this guy has the goods. he has it on quid pro quo. he started answering questions. no quid pro quo at all with the military aid. in fact, trump never mentioned security assistance. i don t want anything from ukraine. the only quid pro quo he assumed it was they wanted a white house meeting in exchange for an announcement of an investigation. not even an investigation. an announcement. p.r. for p.r. what that is about as this, it s a corrupt country, trump doesn t trust it because they colluded with the democrats. a new president, they are supposed to throw all this money in there without checking to see if this guy is legit? send us a signal, zelensky, if you take corruption seriously. we are looking for a signal. we have a signal? the money got out anyway, doesn t even matter at this point. katie: after saying the president didn t instruct me to do some kind of quid pro quo on the aide for investi
that maybe says more about the rest of the adviser. also had bipartisan support. but he built it. might benefit from it someday. i do think it s my extrapolating and tim can support this, trump doesn t trust many people. he certainly did not come to washington with many inroads into republican establishment. when you come to the city where you need to staff federal beaurocracy of huge epic proportions and have to tackle all these monumental tasks, immigration reform, immigration, middle east peace, reorganizing government, they are handed to jared, a guy he trusts. even in his business they never had outsiders in. talked about it on the show. trump organization was 30, 40 people in a dusty office. don jr., eric, michael jackson cohen. he couldn t trust or delegate in a small real estate licensing firm. so do you think when he gets to foreign territory which is why he has a weak
administration. every politician that s in a bad news cycle tries to change the subject. this is unique, though. i don t have a case where the president used national security and used kind of the underlying problematic issue for whether he s putting russia s interest ahead of our national security as a way to change the subject. it s a common practice and not that effective in my mind. hold on. let s talk about the practical reality of this. president trump doesn t trust the intel community. he made that abundantly clear. we ve known that. he showed in helsinki he trusts the word of vladimir putin who strongly denied any interference over his own intel community. so, revoking the clearance of the previous intel chiefs who he feels that he s at war with, he wasn t going to them for advice
macron has shown the ability to channel populist anger in a constructive direction. easier sell because the iran deal you have partners. so if they don t get out the deal stays in place. syria i think will be tougher for macron. macron believes in presence on the ground. citizen trump and campaigner trump had no interest on that. he wanted us out. he criticized presidents for having any access in that area. what do you think the chances the french president says keep your guys there? i think it is unlikely the president will change his position on syria. you have to weigh the alternatives. we certainly the idea of giving iran more influence in the region can t appeal. he opposed u.s. involvement in the middle east and troops on the ground. the tricky thing is if we pull
out of the deal we brokered what message does that send about the durability of american agreements on the world stage? that is a question of american leadership and has real implications. you just opposed all of that, all of the international implications happening at the same time that the president is feeling under the cloud of the russia investigation because he is tweeting about james comey. james comey has been on the book tour and then memos came out. here is what the president tweeted. james comey illegally leaked classified documents to the press to generate a special counsel therefore special counsel based on an illegal act. does anybody know what that means? and i know that you have reporting that he wants his allies on capitol hill to talk more about this. this is one of the talking