security secrets in the oval office. russia is threat nipping our armed forces and the people who serve our country. the other thought, wolf, it looks like we are at war in syria. but this would be a war that would be without the authorization of congress. and it s time that congress votes on what is the time line, what is the troop commitment, and what is the terrain that is covered. today the white house press secretary sean spicer wouldn t answer whether president trump actually believes that russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election. why do you think the president still has doubts about this even though the entire u.s. intelligence and law enforcement community says they did? it can t be because he has not seen the evidence. we know that he s been briefed on the evidence. the evidence is overwhelming and so i ll let people draw their own conclusions about why he doesn t accept it. but what worries me the most, wolf, is the cost of the chaos of russia s interference is th
basically say they re not going to respond to questions because they don t feel like it. i mean he did taken a oath to answer questions and executive privilege was not being called in. so is there any recourse you can take to get him to answer questions he wouldn t answer? or are your hands pretty much tied? you certainly can take action against officials. but look what we re going to do now is show that there s no legal basis for the stonewalling. he didn t have a claim of executive privilege and on some of the matters, he just threw in really bazar kinds of comments. for example when i asked him about what director comey said. director comey said when i asked him about jeff sessions recusal, he said it was really problematic and he couldn t get into it in public.
from the senate intelligence in the senate with the intelligence chiefs where they just wouldn t answer questions that they re supposed to answer, you wrote simply, the intel chiefs won t deny what s in the papers. sounds like we should read the papers more. watch senate hearings less. what did you mean? you had a hearing on wednesday where the head of the nsa and central and national intelligence basically would not answer questions. they wouldn t cite executive privilege. they wouldn t say why but they kept being asked did trump tell you to get the investigation slowed down or stopped? they wouldn t answer. they wouldn t say no, yes, or anything. i was left thinking that maybe there had been at the washington spoe post story in which dan coats told people that trump told him to call comey and slow the investigation down. i was left thinking that maybe the newspapers are getting more access to information than
questions without looking suspicious? the president could have at least said, hey, i want to make sure our elections are not being messed with by russia. it s odd he s never said that. i believe a romanian journalist yesterday asked the president what about what s going on in eastern europe? this is continuing right now. the german election is a big target for the russians. why wouldn t the u.s. want to get into a more proactive posture on this? this is even going to happen in the 2018. the midterms coming up. if you re a senator or congressman speaking out against russia, whether republican or democrat, you re going to have a russian to essentially counter you. when we think about things that comey did say, clint, there were a number of times where comey declined to comment. here are a few examples of questions he wouldn t answer. when you read the dossier, what was your reaction given that it was 100% directed at the
you aside and even marco rubio ainsley: what s wrong with them pulling them aside? they wouldn t answer, i don t know. ainsley: he s very hands on. brian: they wouldn t admit that the president pulled them aside behind closed doors and do me a favor and put pressure or not put pressure, talk to comey about exonerating. ainsley: even if they did pull them aside, i guess the president did pull them aside but they didn t feel pressured no matter what they talked about they didn t feel pressure. brian: did he or not pull you aside? they chose not to answer the question. ainsley: even if it said yes or no, would that change anything? brian: the president pulls out the nsa director, do me a favor, pressure somebody else in justice, that s what democrats and some republicans were getting at.