viewed as an attack on our nation. now, this would be the second attack on the nation since donald trump has been on the scene. the first was the russian attack on our democracy. and we all know how he reacted to that. he appeared to row against american intelligence agencies. he appeared to row against american law enforcement, to the degree that then acting director of the fbi, andy mccabe, opened a full field investigation to find out if donald trump was a witting or unwitting agent of russia. you now have the second high-profile threat, attack, if you will, on our country. this time it s white supremacy-inspired domestic terror. you have donald trump s hand-picked fbi director chris wray testifying to that, really i think the day before robert mueller. and it s another test for this president. will he row with christopher wray, or will his language, which mirrors almost exactly the language of this moment of white supremacy make the job of the fbi more difficult?
already mentioned, metadata, specifically. but the point is well taken. the point is actually more powerful by invoking george w. bush and the approach. because the attack of 9/11 was viewed as an attack on our nation. now, this would be the second attack on the nation since donald trump has been on the scene. the first was the russian attack on our democracy. and we all know how he reacted to that. he appeared to row against american intelligence agencies. he appeared to row against american law enforcement, to the degree that then acting director of the fbi, andy mccabe, opened a full field investigation to find out if donald trump was a witting or unwitting agent of russia. you now have the second high-profile threat, attack, if you will, on our country. this time it s white supremacy-inspired domestic terror. you have donald trump s hand-picked fbi director chris wray testifying to that, really i think the day before robert mueller. and it s another test for this president. will he
of all of us, you were the only one who was communications director on 9/11. listen. to see that page, that new york times editorial page invoke and that page was really tough on the george w. bush administration, particularly some of the programs that i ve already mentioned, metadata, specifically. but the point is well taken. the point is actually more powerful by invoking george w. bush and the approach. because the attack of 9/11 was viewed as an attack on our nation. now, this would be the second attack on the nation since donald trump has been on the scene. the first was the russian attack on our democracy. and we all know how he reacted to that. he appeared to row against american intelligence agencies. he appeared to row against american law enforcement, to the degree that then acting director of the fbi, andy mccabe, opened a full field investigation to find out if donald trump was a witting or unwitting agent of russia. you now have the second high-profile threat, attac
we re the most connected nation on earth. what s your take that the president hasn t been informed of these types of moves? i think we have to separate two things. one is whether the particular operation required as a matter of law or authority the president to sign off. and the other is a matter of policy. and whenever you have such a significant, if it is unprecedented move like this, and if there is a danger as there may be here of escalation, then what you want to do is make sure that there is a coordinated strategy that all the elements of the government that need to be in the room discussing this and witting and planning for potential responses, that they re all marching in the same direction. and that s part of having a unified approach and a careful strategy that s dictated from the top. and what it says to me is that that strategy may not be in
of left field as donald trump would have you believe. it started as a counter intelligence operation because there were clear signals and clear signs and clear evidence that the russians were attempting to interfere and use the trump campaign i understand. the candidate and his staff as witting tucker: the charge on the speaker of the house i m not fixated on maxine waters. nancy pelosi is not student. she s the head of the democratic party. why wouldn t she apologize for that? there s so many things that we ve seen that have to raise this question. meeting with russians in the tucker: i got it. let me just pin you down on this one thing. let s look at the report. i definitely want to see what s in the report.