steve, that donald trump was a russian asset, and what does that mean? yeah, so, erin, it s somewhat important to understand what the different terminology is. so without getting too far down into the weeds an asset usually implies a spy someone has recruited and is paid money to steal secrets from another country. so i don t think donald trump has been formally recruited as an asset yet. what is possible, though, the russians are actually subtle and sophisticated about this precise thing. they understand that sometimes people don t want to be witting, don t want to fully understand what s going on. or they indeed might not be witting. and i think my old boss at cia put it best when he said this is john brennen, when he said i ve seen a lot of people end up committing treason but they don t really realize it until their halfway down the road.
off of that. it s one thing to immerse onesself unhow they can be unwhiting or witting. what is if he were compromised and you re saying that s an open question but you have concerns. what does that word mean in this contects? we talk people being compromised. but the relationships individuals develop with intelligence services are far more nuance than that. there s a broad spectrums of relationships they develop. sometimes it s completely unwitting. if you re someone who just you have an occupation with access to classified material and you have the unfortunate habit of drinking and talking too mch, you may find you have a friend really interesting in all those stories from work. you could be an unintentional
onesself unhow they can be unwhiting or witting. what is if he were compromised and you re saying that s an open question but you have concerns. what does that word mean in this contects? we talk people being compromised. but the relationships individuals develop with intelligence services are far more nuance than that. there s a broad spectrums of relationships they develop. sometimes it s completely unwitting. if you re someone who just you have an occupation with access to classified material and you have the unfortunate habit of drinking and talking too mch, you may find you have a friend really interesting in all those stories from work. you could be an unintentional asset to a foreign intelligence
influence or gain leverage over. and in this case, you know, appeal to ego. and so in that in that sense, in that context, is what i think of when i mean potential unwitting asset. okay. so then a witting asset, what would that look like? well, that, to me, would be which frankly i rather doubt, is a recruited asset who is responding to direction of a case officer. again, i ll put that that phrase in quotes. and i really don t think that s the situation here. so i think it s if that is the case, it would be more unwitting than witting. yeah. and so is the robert mueller investigation enough to if that s if that s the possible scenario that you re looking at and you think that what andrew mccabe said is a possible scenario, is the robert mueller
there were almost noke outwardly conservative, except for me, at espn. they made that end pretty quickly, so mark: could it also be in part, you see a lot of the athletes taking the knee, not all of them, a lot of them taking the knee. you see like at the nfl at the highest levels they cave to the left. and also conservatives don t use torts to make statements. you know, you just said, you re competitive. you re an a athlete. you do your thing, you go home, do your commercials or whatever you do. could the problem be for progressiveism, witting or unwitting, whatever the forum is, w sports, we re going to devour it with our ideology. that s my sense of it. whatever is out there, we ve got to super impose or inject our ideology. isn t that what they do? they chew something up, spit it out, move to the next thing. a great example, christine blasey ford, when s the last