the president interacting with the president of the russian federation, they do have nuclear weapons, but we should be clear eyed about who putin is, he s not interested in better relations with the u.s., i think he walked away from that a long time ago, he s interesting in gaining the upper hand to his benefit. you have suggested in the past that you think putin might be responsible for war crimes, not just in syria. i know he has. do you have a problem with him coming to the white house? meeting with him is one thing, but coming to the white house is another. the symbolism is one thing, people could make the argument about it. there is no doubt in my mind that putin has authorized war crimes. and he does have nuclear weapons, so it s kind of one of these situations is, if he was a dictator of a third world country, we would treat him
ultimately going to say let s do this, once it was analyzed and look at. it was a choice of words, i remember wednesday or thursday morning thinking they should rule this out completely. i want to play the moment when president putin appeared to side with putin over the intelligence community and helsinki. dan coats came to me and some others came to me and said they think it s russia. i have president putin, he just said it s not russia. i will say this, i don t see any reason why it would be. now, 27 hours later, after two television interview where is he didn t say anything, but five tweets where he didn t say anything, then president trump after being told by pompeo claims that he meant to say that he didn t see any reason it wouldn t be russia. i know what he said and i don t think it was a good moment for this administration and i
other, he never asked me to do anything. it s just so preposterous. this is about spin. if you would just answer the questions that would be great. it says you established relationships with russian officials including russian intelligence officers, you re telling me they pulled that out of the air? you had no relationship with russian government officials? you have already told me that you were san advisor to the kremlin in 2013, you do have relationships with russian government officials, right? lets see what they are referring to specifically. as you correctly noted, there s a ton of information that s blacked out. if you read mr. clapper and co s d nrk dni report of january 2013, there s this sputnik propaganda network agencies allegedly were influencing the elections. now we know through these documents that the defamatory
questioning peter strzok, questioning lisa page, but nothing about our elect shumpb security. i think what the president did w was incredibly disturbing on so many levels. it feels like we re upside down, and here you have the president of the united states, the head of the republican party saying he believes putin over the russian intelligence over our own intelligence agencies. but secondly, i think there is deep trouble when republicans refuse to do anything to shore up our elections. and we just had a motion on the floor, a motion to recommit, a bill to put money into election security. what are they afraid of? and finally, as we look at all the evidence that s coming out, it is clear to me that there is real concern with republicans who fear their own political futures, now with all of the
that he s james bond, he s not 007, but this is a guy, even before the campaign, this is not trump related. even before the campaign, this is a guy who went around bragging about his contacts in russia. then you see the guy hanging around the leading campaign and so then the fbi said we got to look at this guy, by the trump campai campaign s own admission, carter wasn t a big player. the fact that they were looking into carter page doesn t prove anything about collusion or anything. carter page was one of these guys we never would have heard of him before all of this, but he was a guy who was on their screen before the campaign, and when he comes in the near orbit with the campaign, they put that together with what s happening with russian interference, that s when they looked at him. i don t think there s anywhere broader plot to interfere in our elections by the russians. so you think the fisa warrant