Take time to reflect on the nationals could issues of the day. Theres no secret here, im not an unbiased journalist here im a fan of this directory. I worked on his transition. Frankly, i love the man. I believe in the concept of putting your biases upfront before beginning the questions. But welcome. Its great to see her again and thank you for taking time. Its great to be. I would not a condition parents to that you be the moderator, but it all worked out. Thank you. Appreciate it. The director is a soldier, a lawyer, an entrepreneur, congressman and is doing great work at cia it would think we want to do today with the audience and with those joining us via live stream is talk about not just the issues of today that in the newspaper but some of the trends and issues yet to do with as the director of the cia and in the Intelligence Community. We often get captured by the media as you have to not only deal with that deal with how we think about our National Security five, ten, 15, 20
Before running mate mike pence denied the campaign was in cahoots with wikileaks, donald trump jr. Was absolutely in touch with wick he leaks. The u. S. Intelligence community believes it was chosen to spread damaging information. Whats fascinating is how the communications meshed with certain points on the Campaign Timeline that we already know quite well. For instance, october 2nd trump friend and former adviser roger stone tweets that damaging material is coming from wikileaks. The next day, october 3rd, trump jr. Messages them and asks them whats coming. On the 5th stone says theres a pay load coming from wicks i leaks. On the 12th of october wicks i leaks messages trump junior asking him to link to one of their items. Two days later he tweets it out. And on that same day mike pence denies any collusion with wikileaks. It is to say the least fascinating and not just to us. Congressional investigators are also interested. In a moment youll hear from Richard Blumenthal but first pame
News, the head of the data firm hired by the Trump Campaign contacted wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, in 2016, asking about the 33,000 Hillary Clinton emails that she kept on her private server. The ceo emailed several people writing that he had emailed Julian Assange seeking access to the emails. The plan was to turn them into a searchable database for the Trump Campaign. Key was Jared Kushner and key to the firm itself, steve bannon. Bannon was Vice President and secretary of cambridge an lit kai until he stepped down to run the campaign in august of 2016. The change happening not long before trump professed his love for wikileaks. Wikileaks is amazing. The stuff thats coming out. It shows shes a real liar. This wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. It tells you the inner heart. You got to read it. Wikileaks, i love wikileaks. And Julian Assange himself has confirmed this email exchange that it happened earlier today, he tweeted i can confirm an approach by cambridge prior to november