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Main point you were trying to make as you proceeded in that direction? well, first of all, i thought it was very important that we make it clear that russia is an adversary and that is underscores our concern with them interfering with our elections. then you look at the web of relationships that exist in the trump administration. both during the campaign and now in the cabinet. and it makes one a little uncomfortable that our adversary has such close ties with so many people associated with president trump. apparently the white house believed that they found the gold in the hearing and the president tweeted in the middle of the hearing, the nsa and fbi tell congress russia did not influence the electoral process. that tweet, of course, was immediately read in the hearing and director comey said, we did ....
Democrats have their hearing and we re not going to do a thing to defend donald trump on that tweet, we re not going to step into that at all. we are not ready to come out here and attack donald trump. i mean, maybe if they get a few more of these polls showing his disapproval rates in their own districts, they might be able to do that, but they basically let this hearing go on. they had their separate hearing where they could make noises that sounded like outrage and objection and john heilmann, like they re objecting to something but they weren t objecting to anything that the democrats were actually saying. right. just remember, lawrence, i think it s as important in this context we ve just been discussing that it was as much of a shock to the republicans that comey confirmed the existence of the ongoing investigation as it was to the democrats. so, yes, it s clear that they had decided en masse before hand that all they were going to do is talk about leaks and weren t going to ad ....
The republicans spent the entire time condemning the leaks and throwing out names of obama administration officials just as wild guesses for whom might be responsible for those leaks about michael flynn s lie. and the republicans did not spend one minute on michael flynn s lie and why the president covered up that lie for two weeks until the press exposed the lie. now as unbalanced as the hearing appeared to be, here are the most important things to keep an eye on when you really take a look at that hearing. in terms of donald trump s relationship with the congress and how far republicans in congress are willing to go in defending the president or not defending the president. first of all, the republicans allowed this hearing to take place. paul ryan could have stopped it and he didn t. the republican chairman of the committee, devin nunes, agreed to have the hearing. ....
President trump has kept the white house staff in damage control mode for every one of the 60 days of his presidency. here s another look at the 6:35 a.m. tweet that was the subject of the hearing today. we re going to look at it again because every time i see this tweet, it feels like the madness is leaping out at you with every word, with each quotation mark. terrible. just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found. this is mccarthyism! the fbi director and the director of the national security agecy testified today that there is nothing in that tweet that is true. nothing. they made it clear that it would be impossible for the president to have ordered a wiretap or any similar form of surveillance on donald trump or trump tower. director comey, was the ....
Boss, the president, doesn t tell the truth and my boss, the president, was elected president with people who i ve been investigating since july to see if they re coordinating with a foreign power that waged a political attack against the united states. the stunning thing was, as you noted, the republicans only focused on the leaks. it was as if comey said nothing about this investigation and said nothing about trump s, you know, false leak. they were on another alternative reality and i think it s going to take some time for this to fully resonate that the president got elected in a campaign that is now being investigated by the fbi. yeah, and in terms of what the republicans were up to in the hearing, as i watched them and saw what they were doing, it seemed to me that this was basically an agreed upon tactic of oh, yeah. how we re going to let the ....