flattery, one of warmth and wrapping himself around the president. you remember that visit in washington a couple years back now i guess in which they were literally holding hands. president trump reaches over and brushes the dust off president macron s jacket, the body language yesterday very different. these are two men who are not in the same place. president macron has decided that strategy didn t work. he s going to have to deal with president trump. he s still trying to find ways of bridging the dwad. he was trying as recently as august in france during the g-7 to bring president trump together with iran, but i think he s made clear he s not going to, you know, lie down for president trump either. he s trying to be the leader of europe in some ways. angela merkel is in the twilight stage of her chancellorship, boris johnson is consumed with getting england and britain out of europe. i m curious, is there any back talk there about the
the distinction. he said the one investigation on hillary clinton was closed and this one was open. but the fact is he talked about the clinton e-mails 11 days and two days before the election, was it closed then? no, it was reopened or in some kind of a twilight stage. the reality is i don t think it can be justified. is there a reason you didn t press him on that today. you know, frankly, i m not sure that there s much value to reliving it in that question. i thought that that was the wrong judgment call at the time the director talked about that so close to the election. i think that violated department policy and i can t reconcile the approach you took there and his unwillingness to sign the attribution, acknowledging that the russians were interfering. that didn t even go necessarily to any trump campaign involvement. when congressman doughty
no, it s re-opened, or in some kind of a twilight stage. the reality is, there was a double standard employed here, and i don t think it can be justified. is there a reason you didn t press him on that today? you know, frankly, i m not sure that there s much value to relitigating that question. i thought that that was the wrong judgment call at the time the director talked about that so close to the election. i thought that violated justice department policy, and i can t reconcile the approach he took there and his unwillingness, for example, to sign the attribution that the other intelligence community leaders signed on october 7th acknowledging that the russians were interfering. and that didn t even go to any trump campaign involvement. when congressman gowdy began naming obama officials, where do you think he was going with that, all in his line of questioning about the leak