if they do that, can you spell gas prices rising and disruption in the oil markets? that s what s causing this visceral reaction from president trump. and it is a very dangerous game of chicken to be playing. so admiral, so we see from the president this kind of contrast or this conflict internally. he wants more conflict. he s bellicose and he rattles his saber. at the same time, he takes fewer efforts and fewer pains to keep our allies close. so what s the end game here if we re going into more conflict and more conflict with fewer and fewer friends? yeah. unfortunately america first is starting to turn into america alone. it s not just the nato piece in the nato summit as we pointed out it s the g7 summit in canada.
which the president has by talking about this process in a false fashion forced the release of information. and the way devin nunes has by talking about this information falsely forced the department to contemplate the release of truthful information that can itself be very damaging. and carol lee, what did we find out from the documents that were released from the justice department? well, a number of things, including some of which you read, which is that there was a very clear directive there was a very clear belief that carter page was conspireing with russia to in ways that were nefarious and also that the renewals of this fisa warrant suggest that part is redacted and we don t know exactly what was learned, that led to those
noticed now because it seems like a minor thing compared to the other houses that he s burning down, but in previous administrations, other president had done something like this, there would be much hue and cry. look, it s not a minor thing in the financial world. the independence of the fed is sacrosanct. what we saw last week from the president was the president sort of simultaneously saying, look, i don t like the idea that the fed is raising interest rates. i think it will hurt the economy going into the midterm elections. it s frustrating to me. i ll let them do what they think is right. the white house insists that the president respects the independence of the fed even though what he is saying publicly is he doesn t want them to raise interest rates because he thinks it will undermine the economy. he s sort of having it both ways here. and the reason is because the fed is coming out of this long post recession period, post 2008 they lowered interest rates dramatically to near
what occurred between putin and donald trump in that meeting and they didn t really know. they didn t really know the extent of the details of the conversation, so it now appears that the united states of america is being led by a president who is all alone, very little staff work around. and unhinged. yeah. totally unhinged. in other words, he doesn t know the truth from when he s making things up. and the real problem there is that in helsinki, there were real things to figure out like will the russians help iran and syrian forces to move out the forces. the u.s. commander says, no, that s not happening. that s the type of thing you usually coordinate your military in the field, your national security staff, your defense secretary, all that before you figure out what do we want russia to do in syria. this is something that s not only unprepared, it s a fantasy. and almost like it s a tv
point is that there were multiple renewals. each renewal grows in the package grows. implying they re getting new information along the way. at no point does either the justice department hierarchy or the court say, hey, wait a minute, this material isn t good enough to support the surveillance that you re requesting. so i think it s it really does give the lie to both the president and the house republicans claims that there was something fe fair mouse or inappropriate here. yeah. john heilemann, i wanted to follow up with you about the lies from devin nunes, paul ryan, the house republicans. yes, please. i remember when i first ran in 1994, not only myself but probably every other republican across america was still