according to officials who spoke anonymously to the post, quote, the president s intense resistance to the assessment of u.s. intelligence agencies that russia indeed systematically interfered in our 2016 campaign, and the blame he cast instead on a rival country led many of his advisers to think that putin himself helped spur the idea of ukraine s culpability. one former senior white house official said trump even said so explicitly at one point, saying he knew ukraine was the real culprit because, quote, putin told me. the post also says intelligence officials told lawmakers that russian security services played a key role in spreading the false claim, the conspiracy theory that ukraine meddled in our 2016 election somehow. it s a lot to take on. and here with our lead-off
former cia director john brennan and his role in this whole thing? it brings up some fascinating and intriguing questions, yes? to put a pin in the conversation on a few of the harrell, fiona hale also testified that anybody who propagating russia s propaganda. fiona hill says that if you go out and said ukraine meddled, it s not true and i m not going to be a part of it. but when it comes to john brennan i ll answer your question too. i know john brennan, i ve worked with him. everybody i know who worked on the counterintelligence investigation into russian meddling did so because they believed there was a possible, genuine national security threat. trace: yeah, but the whole idea. a lot of allegations and not a lot of evidence to back up some of these. trace: i ve got to go but the whole idea that carter page
vote at all? kind of a nerdy argument playing out among constitutional scholars in the ivory towers about whether that step of sending it over to the senate is actually what formally impeaches the president. most scholars we ve spoke to, the house voted to impeach the president. he s been impeached. end. day, 50 years from now, look at the encyclopedia entry for donald trump i don t know if we ll have books, if we do, look back at the encyclopedia and first line, impeached bif by the house of representatives. thank you. and near pr bby, someone who co answer that question about the constitution. and why president trump believes the false conspiracy theory that ukraine meddled in the 2016 election. according to the washington
more insistent that ukraine had worked to defeat him in 2016. according to officials who spoke anonymously to the post, quote, the president s intense resistance to the assessment of u.s. intelligence agencies that russia indeed systematically interfered in our 2016 campaign, and the blame he cast instead on a rival country led many of his advisers to think that putin himself helped spur the idea of ukraine s culpability. one former senior white house official said trump even said so explicitly at one point, saying he knew ukraine was the real culprit because, quote, putin told me. the post also says intelligence officials told lawmakers that russian security services played a key role in spreading the false claim, the conspiracy theory that ukraine meddled in our 2016 election
according to officials who spoke anonymously to the post, quote, the president s intense resistance to the assessment of u.s. intelligence agencies that russia indeed systematically interfered in our 2016 campaign and the blame he cast instead on a rival country led many of his advisers to think that putin himself helped spur the idea of ukraine s culpability. one former senior white house official said trump even said so explicitly at one point, saying he knew ukraine was the real culprit because, quote, putin told me. the post also says intelligence officials told lawmakers that russian security services played a key role in spreading the false claim, the conspiracy theory that ukraine meddled in our 2016 election somehow. it s a lot to take on, and here with our leadoff discussion panel with us on a friday night,