sided with someone trying to attack that and take that away from americans and so easy for republicans in congress to stand up to the president on this. when they go 97-2 in favor of nato, it is bipartisan, as well. jake, my sense is that trump and his allies were having success in diminishing the mueller investigation. the tide turning against the mueller investigation. i sense that with these indictments and with the day that that s going to stop. and it could give an extra layer of protection to mueller. what republican is going to say let s stop this? you know? the intel is wrong. the chorus is so strong that i would just assume it s going to give extra protection. that would be logical and by the same token it was just today is mono. it was just on friday when president trump s own justice department deputy attorney general rod rosenstein said there s 12 military intelligence officers from russia who were trying to interfere in the election, who cyberattacked the
department was about to announce the indictment of 12 russian military intelligence officials for interfering in the u.s. election. let s roll that sound. i think that we re being heard very badly by the i would call it the witch hunt. i would call it the rigged witch hunt that really hurts our country and relationship with russia. i think we would have a chance to have a very good relationship with russia and very good chance very good relationship with president putin. the argument being, we would have a good relationship with russia if the united states government were not investigating russia s cyber attack on the united states. again, putin s talking points, exactly what he s hearing from the other side. they want this they want to move forward and like to blame the mueller investigation for why there isn t. i think, honestly, when we get done with the summit, you re going to see a statement by both leaders about some movement of cooperation going forward. there s abso
papadopoulos, like the first indictment made no mention the russian hacking scheme. the second indictment on the russian hacking scheme also leaves a lot unsaid that may be the subject of a third indictment involving u.s. persons or that report to the justice department by bob mueller. let s talk about the july 27th, because on july 27th, 2016, in the middle of the democratic national convention, after according to the indictment russians had hacked into the dnc e-mails and arranged through organization one, which we know to be wikileaks, their release. on that time, president trump then candidate trump made a direct appeal in front of the cameras to get hillary clinton s e-mails that she had deleted or had been deleted for her from her private server. take a listen. russia, if you re listening, i hope you re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing.
gee i did it, you got me. top intelligence committee democrats mark warner and adam schiff will join us live. diplomatic disruption. president trump stirs up trouble in britain. and muscles more money out of nato partners. do you think putin is happy about that? i don t think so. will the president stand up to russia, we ll ask rand paul of kentucky next. we are live from helsinki, finland, and you re waufing a special edition of state of the uni union. you can see the presidential palace behind me. that s where president trump will meet with his russian counterpart vladimir putin in just under 24 hours. the stakes for this one on one summit rose dramatically this week after president trump s own justice department announced new charges and indictments against 12 russian military intelligence officers as part of the special