Special counsel jack smith against donald trump. In an interview with cnn, maralago employee brian butler painting a painting a very specific picture of trumps inner circle, and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else. With loyalty prized above everything. A world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. Now, nbc news has not independently confirmed butlers identity as trump employee number 5 and he declined nbcs request for comment. In his interview last night, butler says he helped trumps codefendants, walt nowta and carlos move those boxes containing some of our nations most Sensitive National security secrets. Watch. He followed me. He pulled out, got behind me, got to the airport, i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes. You noticed that he had boxes. Oh, yeah, they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. Thats what i remember. Did you have any idea at the time that there was potentially u. S.
Dumped a bucket of cold water over the entire, you know, trump hot air of its foreign policy. and it s not just president trump but also the national security adviser, john bolton, at times the secretary of state mike pompeo have essentially had to contradict reality in order to pursue a false theory of the case when it comes to the north korea talks. and remember the president is now scheduled to have another summit meeting with kim jong-un pursuing a theory of the case that his own intelligence agencies say is deeply flawed. he s just announced the pullout of u.s. troops from syria, again after having falsely asserted the total defeat of isis. on russia, he s repeatedly contradicted the intelligence agencies. and, again, you know, this is just not the way any president in the past has treated policy differences are one thing. to go to war against the facts and the facts as produced by your own government, at great
I will say this, i don t see any reason why it would be. not only have the russians continued to do it in 2018 but we ve seen an indication they are continuing to adapt their model. we have won against isis. we ve beaten them and we ve beaten them badly. isis is intent on resurergre sg sglg. chairman kim we have a great chemistry and we re well on our way. we signed an agreement to begin the immediate denuclearization. north korea will seek to redeem capabilities and unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities. so he said he misspoke in helsink helsinki. we discussed that. give me your reaction to this disconnect between the president of the united states and intelligence community. it s like they dumped a bucket of cold water over the entire, you know, trump hot air of its foreign policy.