Here at the table for the hour, Steve Schmidt and matt miller. But first, to react for the first time, single threads different threads of a single story. Questions about russians and contact with people in the president s inner circle. Former cia director john brennan, lucky for us, now a Senior National security and Intelligence Analyst for msnbc and nbc news. I understand now, sitting here today, why donald trump a week or so ago said dont believe what you see, dont believe what you hear on the news channels, because when you take all these events just this week together, they paint a very compromising position for this president on the question of russian influence. I think thats right, nicolle. I think weve seen over the course of the last two years basically an effort on the part of President Trump and others to pry to inoculate Public Perceptions of what actually
happened during the campaign. First, there were no meetings. Then there were meetings, but they were focused on adopt
ballot is whether we were going to continue to be one country, whether we would prevail in the civil war. this is a big moment. if the democratic strategists are sitting around, all this other stuff doesn t matter. i think they re missing the larger point. the attacks on america s institutions, the assaults on the rule of law, the personal degen degenrecy of donald trump, we look at the meanness, the corruption, the cruelty, the ability to call this out for what it is. i think it s fundamental for the democratic party achieving what i think would be a very significant wave. and by the way, to say explicitly and directly to republican college educated women, for example, we know that you don t agree with us on every issue. but on these big things, the couple of things that matter most to us as americans