why don t we start with a statement from the president, an acknowledgment from the leadership and leadership from the president? why don t we get the guy with the biggest megaphone to say you know what? if anybody interferes in the e lerks, they re in big trouble. he doesn t do it. he doesn t lead on it. it s because he has insecurity about the legitimacy of the former election. that s what s the excuse for the president? it would be nice if leadership started at the top. what excuse he doesn t have to congratulate mr. putin for what he did and play with it in person and embarrass us on the world stage in helsinki. that s the appropriate question to be having, but we re not having it because we ve spent five months now since the beginning it s because the right runs away from it. i want to talk about something else. here s the distinction with a difference. i agree with mr. mueller. you didn t find proof of a criminal conspiracy.
he doesn t lead on it. it s because he has insecurity about the legitimacy of the former election. that s what s the excuse for the president? it would be nice if leadership started at the top. what excuse he doesn t have to congratulate mr. putin for what he did and play with it in person and embarrass us on the world stage in helsinki. that s the appropriate question to be having, but we re not having it because we ve spent five months now since the beginning it s because the right runs away from it. i want to talk about something else. here s the distinction with a difference. i agree with mr. mueller. you didn t find proof of a criminal conspiracy. collusion is a behavior that s bad. you tried to access stolen goods. they didn t succeed, but they made the effort and that s collusion. that s what s in the report. i take collusion as essentially a synonym for conspiracy to commit a federal offense. the question to my mind is was it honorable behavior to will
to any conclusions. but i think we can recap what we know factually. we know in a bipartisan way russians massively interfered in our campaign to help trump and hurt clinton. we know while he was willing to criticize virtually every other world leader, he was not willing to criticize vladimir putin. we saw the kowtowing of mr. trump to vladimir putin on the world stage in helsinki. now we have these reports and i m not sure if they re true or not on whether mr. trump is trying to take america out of nato. we saw the strange announcement mr. trump made about taking america out of the syrian conflict without any forewarning that frankly benefits beshar assad and benefits putin. and we ve seen as well forced to
in the last 48 hours because of the reporting, the suspicion fundamentally of the loyalties of the commander and chief for the head of state. listen, i m not going to jump to any conclusions. but i think we can recap what we know factually. we know in a bipartisan way our senate investigation showed russians massively interfered in 2016 in our campaign to help trump and hurt clinton. we know while he was willing to criticize virtually every other world leader, he was not willing to criticize vladimir putin. we saw the kowtowing of mr. trump to vladimir putin on the world stage in helsinki. now we have these reports and i m not sure if they re true or not on whether mr. trump is trying to take america out of nato. we saw the strange announcement mr. trump made about taking america out of the syrian conflict without any forewarning
independent side that have conservative views, if the president starts to lose us i m not saying that s where it is at the moment. but i m saying if he starts to lose us, then the base alone is not going to be enough to carry him through. i m wondering if he might if you left your important post in your county because of what you witnessed on the world stage in helsinki, last question to you. i know you voted for trump in 2016. do you have regrets? would you vote for him in 2020 if he ran again? first, i don t regret i would have not an able to support hillary clinton really under any situation. so, tho,no, i don t regret that vote. i was one who voted because of kneel gorsu neil gorsuch. i think brett kavanaugh will be a good addition. how about 2020? we ll have to see how the rest of this plays out.