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Hes made comments about the assassination of journalists and hes joked, his Administration Says it was a joke about murdering somebody whether he he was younger. This is somebody who is not a traditional leader ally like you might see in other parts of the region. Yet, the president and white house have talked about this friendly relationship between the two. I think you saw that here in manila. The two toasting. At one point duterte singing a love song in honor of the president , getting up on stage and delivering this duet with lyrics like you are the light of my life, the half of my heart. So clearly the two of them working on this relationship. The president seeming to hope the Good Chemistry leads to good policy. Again, questions on why no mention of Human Rights Abuses here. That is similar to what we saw ....
So it s not something that wins him any favors with the intelligence community and it s certainly something that is going to continue to linger because you know, the whole issue of russia and the election isn t going away. and taking a look, juan sderotty and michael carpenter, you both worked in intelligence for different administrations, different presidents. but this is, if we cos scroll up to exactly what the president said on air force one, we have audio. we re not permitted to use the audio. there s no cameras. but what he said was, i mean, give me a break. they are political hacks. you have brannan, you have clapper, have you comey. comey s proven now to be a liar and he s proven to be a leaker so you look at that and you have president putin very strongly vehemently says he had nothing to do with that, meaning is the election. now the president after a lot of pushback, juan, did try to fix ....