Good position to make sure that nobody else would click on something like this? absolutely not, katy. you can t defend against phishing. somebody is always going to click on a bad link. dan coats gave a remarkable speech where he said the system is blinking red. we are not seeing the kind of cyberintrusions massively against election systems that we saw in 2016, but we are a keystroke away from that. it s easy for the russians to do that. it s very hard to defend against it. that s why you need a geopolitical strategy. let me make sure our viewers understand what david just said. the trump administration has eliminated the role of cybersecurity coordinator. his name was rob joyce, from the national security council. they fired tom bassert, his super. there is nobody minding the store. we can t get the trump administration to tell us who is in charge of preventing foreign election interference. perhaps after this meeting. we will see.
Thanks for pointing that out. we appreciate it. in a move that surprised even his own director of national intelligence, the trump white house announced last week that donald trump had invited vladimir putin to washington. despite the questions that remained about what happened in helsinki when the two leaders met one on one, despite the criticism the president fielded about that summit from members of his own party. but by the middle of that week, the white house abruptly rescinded the invitation. national security advisor john bolton issued a statement saying the follow-up would not take place until, as he said, the russia witch hunt is over. it appears that putin has an alternate plan in mind. he announced today that calls between washington and moscow just are not enough. he invited donald trump to come to him. and it appears the white house may rsvp yes. sarah huckabee sanders issued a statement saying trump is open to visiting moscow.
Time. so i think democrats may be donald trump may be doing what doing his greatest disservice, which is he may be making democrats lose their marbles. if democrats are going to win, they need message focus, they need an optimistic strategy for the american people, and they need to show that they re not just interested in humiliating trump, they re interested in making things better for america. why would a democrat listen to bret stephens, conservative columnist? i know how conservatives think and i ve seen many of these elections before. one of the reasons i m at the new york times, i m a never trumper. you came from the wall street journal. i do not want to see donald trump re-elected. i want to make america sane advice. please, democrats, don t talk yourself off a cliff. don t bank on bad news. don t laugh at sunshine. get some message focus and get a
These are the russians whom donald trump knows best. socializes with them. very close to the father. when he goes to moscow, this is the family that he sees. so the idea as steve bannon said, and bannon wasn t there, the idea that they would be bringing material to the trumps and that somehow donald trump wouldn t know that their friends are bringing them this material. it just isn t believable. as far as michael cohen s credibility goes, to the extent that he was a liar, he was a paid liar on behalf of donald trump. so the lies that he told were all told often at trump s direction or in order to spin in trump s interests. and as far as liars not credible in court, and for rudy giuliani to say this is ridiculous. most of the convictions he got
He talked to donald trump and donald trump was there. they have to find that circumstantial evidence that joyce was talking about that can try to corroborate some of these statements because right now these are all statements that are just kind of out there in the ether. it s great to talk about and it makes a lot of hay for us, but at this point it s nothing that s going to come into court until they can get a better handle. joyce, do you want to button it up for us? i think tom s exactly right. we are looking at two different categories of proof here. one is courtroom evidence. what could mueller s team, what could southern district of new york use to obtain convictions. we know, or at least many of us believe, myself included, that mueller won t indict a sitting president and ultimately he will write a report that will go up to the hill a. so we re also talking about the evidence that mueller might be assembling to put in that report to give the hill evidence that they could use