Elections. Even after top u. S. Security Officials Say this our adversaries are trying to undermine our country on a persistent and regular basis. Our democracy itself is in the cross hairs. President trump says this. Now, were being hindered by the russian hoax. So hoax or threat, what does the Trump Administration want us to believe . My guests this morning, republican senator roy blunt of missouri. Democratic senator Amy Klobuchar of minnesota and Nbc News National Security analyst clint watts. Also, the trump loyalty test. Hugging President Trump has become the republican goto strategy. Then mr. Trump said youre fired. I love that part. It works great in the primaries, but will candidates pay a price in november . Ill ask long time republican adman mike murphy. Joining me for insight and analysis are robert costa, moderator of Washington Week on pbs. Helene cooper, pentagon correspondent for the new york
a seriously low iq person. The fake news media. Democrats are obstructionists.
the institutions. what do you do? you amplify qanon, there s so much fake news in the u.s. right now. they don t need to create and manipulate the truths. they can just write them. it s not just russia amplifying. you said you thought that the president actually make, look the numbers 17 believe it or not, there are numerologists too. this is i m sorry, some rabbit hole stuff. but q is the 17th letter, 17 angry democrats. you noticed another thing at the rally with the number 17. if you go research this qanon conspiracy it is absurd. they have all these different numbers they come up with. it is appearing at different rallies. we have seen this with the john birch society going back years ago. and the president himself has believed in conspiracies before. his political career was very much launched when how he came on to that birtherism with president obama. but there s not really an expectation inside of this white house that the president s going
to somehow speak out on qanon. people inside of the president s inner circle they see the q signs as much as anybody and as much as anybody in the press pen sees the q signs. this is the republican base, this is the trump base, they have a deep suspicion of the deep state. this is the republican base, al, are you concerned? of course. look, i have lived through this group of people who believe that the moon landing was filmed in a studio somewhere. right? and we all remember also how everybody our government kept a place in nevada where all the aliens were incarcerated. right. so you know, a lot of people now actually believe that the actual people in government, this is very different. now, it s people in government undermining the country. and by not denying this at the higher levels of the administration, it gives a credibility that further feels
social media interference. right. there was a new phenomenon this week that a bun bunch of us had to explain to the public, the qanon. it s in the dark recesses of social media on reddit and places like that. qanon is apparently some elaborate it takes one conspiracy and puts them all together. donald trump is either this secret deep state superhero or john f. kennedy jr. they don t believe is dead. tell us more about these people. this has been the big fear is russia opened a playbook for the rest of the world to copy. this is super cheap and whether it s political interference or manipulation or just social manipulation, this gives everyone the ability to push a falsehood. which leads to a public safety issue. qanon, this idea there s a secret source inside the intelligence community, oh, my, we have worry about this before with the nsa. and know we re worried that they re leaking the information. this plays into you can t trust