very hard question for me to answer. i don t know why people his national security council is not getting lieu to hi getting through to him. perhaps they need to be on fox news in order for him to listen. it seems clear he charted his own course on russia. unless there are others in the administration that think this is the way american foreign policy ought to sort of head. that would be very fright anticipating, nicolle. i will tell you this, it is really astonishing for us to have this type of conversation. whatever our differences have been with past presidents nobody ever seriously believed they were an agent, whether witting or unwitting, of a foreign power. by the way, this national intelligence strategy that was just published really only echoes what our intelligence community has been saying for years now about russia. and they ve been saying it with
about the buzzfeed story and the response from the special counsel. a week ago tonight it was that story from the new york times about the fbi opening that investigation into donald trump and whether he might have been a witting or unwitting agent of russia. we played in the introduction the sound of the president talking about folks at the fbi as scoundrels. maybe to broaden out a little bit here but just people working in the fbi, fbi agents, just the climate within the fbi now and over the last two years as the president has engaged publicly like this about law enforcement, about the fbi, what is it like for those agents in that climate? it s terrible. i mean, imagine you re working without pay, you haven t gotten a paycheck. you have no support staff, you have none of the investigative sort of resources that you had before and at the same point your commander in chief is telling you you re a scoundrel. you shouldn t be list archbishoped to. now you re getting essentially erosio
heardes was, let s see, trump denies he worked for russia, therefore he must have. meanwhile, former director of national intelligence, james clapper did everything he could to deplete the public confidence in the holders of that office. he s very confident though that trump is a spy, because he s not really sure why but he s very confident. watch this. it is amazing, it s explosive. but it s not really surprising. it just seems to me that the fbi taking its counterintelligence responsibility seriously would want to look into what s going on here. and it is their influence, whether witting or unwitting, by the russians, over president trump and, you know, in the intervening year and a half or so, his behavior hasn t done much, at least in my mind, to allay that concern. i think the fbi was justified. tucker: that s the man who lied to the congress
and they re more able to make those arguments now than they were a year ortwo ago. and you know, for those of us that think that we fundamentally do have the right kind of government and structure, it s really sad to see our sad enabling russia to make those arguments more compleingly in ways that will disadvantage our government and economy and societies perhaps for years to come. the one sign it tcientific et that we reference more than other is the famous frogging boiling experiment. the slow death of our friend the frog. it s my contention we ve yet to grasp the headline in your newspaper friday night that an american president because of his actions and words did enough to trigger an inquiry on whether or not he was a witting or
that president trump could be a witting or unwitting agent of russia. how would russia go about gaining control of someone like trump? well, it s not too terribly difficult in a case like trump. if you re a foreign intelligence officer or an american intelligence officer and you come across a guy like trump, he sort of checks all the boxes that you need checked to assess that he is extremely vulnerable to manipulation and ultimately control, compromise and control. he s got a giant ego. he lusts for money. he s very greedy. he may not exercise good judgment in his personal life. and he is easily he s easily flatter flattered. as i mentioned, he has a huge ego. so all of these things allow him to be manipulated and slowly or