Wrongdoing by president obama contradicting President Trumps allegations that susan rice broke the law. Plus, more info about the investigation into trump Team Connections to russia. Details about surveillance warrants against one of the president s Campaign Managers and why the fbi thought that adviser could be acting as a foreign agent. Plus, its the first rule of politics. Dont compare anybody to hitler. I guess nobody told sean spicer. We didnt use chemical weapons in world war ii. You know . You had a you know, someone whens despicable as hitler who didnt sink to the to using chemical weapons. Weve got the latest on the attempts to clean that up and whether that will be enough for President Trump. We want do get started with the breaking news on the Trump Administration charges of improper surveillance by the Obama Administration. Cnn is learning now about the claims of chairman devin nunes that members of the Obama Administration improperly requested the identities of americans appearing in intelligence reports. Now, just to refresh your memory, heres what Congressman Nunes has said previously. Theres some information in those documents that concern me and the reports that i read that i dont think belong there. It would make me uncomfortable. Some of it i think it bothered me enough i went over to the white house because i think the president needs to see these reports for himself. I was concerned about americans identities being either not masked properly for in fact unmasked in intelligence reports. So, Congressman Nunes also said that he would share what he saw with other committee members. Well, he has. And cnns senior Congressional Correspondent is learning more about that. Manu, what are you hearing . Don, tonight both democratic and republican lawmakers and
aides casting doubt on the claims made that Obama Administration officials improperly requested the names of u. S. Individuals who had been redacted in intelligence documents. Cnn sources say these lawmakers have seen the same intelligence documents that nunes reviewed and tell us that they see no evidence that the Obama Administration officials did anything out of the ordinary and certainly nothing illegal as the president alleged. A congressional source described the request as, quote, normal and appropriate, don. So, you and jim schuto talked to sources who have seen the documents. What are they telling you about their contents . Well congressional source tells me, quote, theres absolutely no smoking gun in these reports. As nunes suggested and in fact the person saying the white house to declassify the reports to make it clear theres nothing alarming in it and currently classified documents but a lot of questions have been raised,
don, around the role of susan rice that former Obama National security adviser and whether she acted legally in requesting the names of Trump Officials who are incidentally collected in these intelligence reports. Now, President Trump himself said last week she may have broken the law. But, don, multiple sources have reviewed the documents that nunes timely say they do not back the president s claims she may have broken the law. Theyre saying that theyre routine requests she may have made. Now, the president himself, don, has not yet revealed what intelligence he has been relying on to make that assertion, that rice broke the law and the white house not yet provided that either. Manu, even if the obama rope explain to us, what are the rules for actually making and granting these unmasking requests. Well, they were set by the intelligence community, Certain SeniorNational Security officials can make these requests. The intelligence agencies principally the national
security agency, decides whether to grant these unmasking requests but we are told that typically the requests of senior officials are rarely denied and now despite in the judgment of the people looking at the reports that these obama officials requests were within the law and appear to be common practice, some members of congress do have concerns about the justifications that were given to unmask these individuals and the standards for the intelligence agencies to grant these requests so expect the both and Senate Intelligence committees to look into this matter as part of their broader investigation into russia, don. Manu, as you know and reporting, nunes forced to temporarily recuse himself from the investigation and investigated by the House Ethics Committee because of his handling of the documents. Whats the status now of that investigation . It appears to be moving forward, don. Right now the house on a twoweek recess and Behind The Scenes an agreement on the list of witnesses but even though theres a they do know who to interview going forward, theres a clear divide. Sources are telling us that the republicans mostly want to interview people who have leaked classified information believing that that is where the real crime is and democrats are looking to hear testimony about any of those ties between russia and those Trump Associates and they do want to talk to those key Trump Associates, expect that committee to try to interview all of those folks that democrats want to talk to and republicans including susan rice who will have to defend what she did and requesting the identity of those American Citizens and shell have to do that not just before the house panel, don, but also the Senate Intelligence committee which wants to hear from her as part of their own russia probe. Manu, thank you very much. Want to bring in jeff zeleny. Hello to you, jeff. This is not good news for the white house, of course. Everyone up to the president made a big deal of susan rices role in unmasking the names of
americans whose names came up in incidental complexion. The president told the New York Times what she did is one of the big, big stories of our time. Reporter he did, don. Good evening. And the president also told the New York Times in that interview about susan rice she was guilty of some type of a crime and not for him to necessarily decide. This is something that the white house has been trying to not talk about this week, actually. They have the syria strikes, other things. The russia investigation is still hanging over this administration. Still hanging over the white house here. And manus reporting about the house intelligence committee, the republicans and democrats, looking at this. I mean, that is very significant here. Because the white house is repeatedly said, look, this is in the hands of the house and senate the committees here and
activities . There was an earlier case in which page came to the attention of the fbi. I believe it was 2013. And in which he was basically engaging with what he thought apparently was a russian diplomat who, in fact, was a russian intelligence officer. This is in new york. And there was an exchange of information where he provided, page provided to this russian operative documents related to the energy field that he was working on. And so, this is one of the items thats listed in the application that the fbi filed with the fisa court to get the warrant up on the communications. So in other words, theres a history of contact there that the fbi was able to cite and then, of course, you know, when you look at carter pages history, hes he spent several years in russia, working for Merrill Lynch and has
frequently returned, you know, and that is obviously something that doesnt necessarily mean anything because a lot of American Business men, Investment Bankers and so on, have dealings in russia but this also added to the suspicions on the part of the fbi which then they had to present to convince an fisa judge to allow them to monitor his communications. Adam is a National Security correspondent for the Washington Post. Thank you. Can you stay with us on the phone . Because i want to bring our own people in here and then you can check and may need to get you to put a final button on this. I want to bring jeff zeleny back and joining us is laura coates and nia malika henderson. The 90day warrant is renewed more than once. What does it tell you that the fbi would have to prove if they
were getting somewhere to get it renewed . Why would they do that . Well, it could mean one of two things. Either, one, they did not acquire enough information to go forward with actual criminal charges and they needed to have more time to do so. The other explanation is they have not gotten enough but received some. Enough to warrant additional causes for probable cause. Probable cause, of course, the courts are saying, is there some basis . Is there a reason to believe theres a National Security risk at our at the core of your request to investigate an American Citizen . And if theres continuing information that is coming in that encourages the fisa court, this is an appropriate invasion, and theyll continue to grant continuance and extensions. Its very important what we just talked about in that you have somebody on the radar at the fbi
their failed Foreign Policy. It will be interesting to see when its more fully disclosed including the dodgey dossier, a document that clearly is false evidence which could represent yet another potential crime. Now, im sure, you know, there are going to be many, many more questions of page and other Trump Associates. What do you take from his response there . Yeah. Its fairly nonsensical. I mean, its this sort of allegation about the deep state and clinton and obama as the bad guys who are somehow pursuing him illegally. I mean, the point of the matter here is that the fbi is looking in to Trump Associates, obviously we heard comey say that in his testimony before the Senate Intel Committee a couple of weeks ago but, you know, carter page is out there on any number of occasions talking about this and you had trump with the Washington Post some point name carter page as a Foreign Policy adviser. It is unclear as adam was saying how close he was to the campaign, how much he was in the inner circle in terms of Foreign Policy. But i think, again, this puts this investigation about russia front and center at a time i think when we had the Trump Administration for the first time from this administration really talk tough on russia and really basically try to get russia to do Something Different and called them out in terms of syria. But again, this constant sort of trickling out of information about this investigation not helpful to this administration. Jeff, i want you to take a listen to this. We heard you might be announcing your Foreign PolicyAdvisory Team soon. We are going to be doing that, in fact, very soon. Id say during the week well be announcing some names. It will always grow. Anything you can start off this morning with us . I hadnt thought in terms of doing it. If you want, i can give you some of the names. Id be delighted. I wouldnt mind. Walid phares who you probably know. Ph. D. Adviser to the House Of Representatives caucus and counterterrorism expert. Carter page, ph. D. So that was march 21 of 2016, jeff, of the Washington Post. Both adam with the Washington Post and niamalika, both mentioned that exchange. Has the white house explained how carter page ended up on the list . They havent extensively. Thats back when mr. Trump was emerging as the likely or potential republican nominee. Just a little over a year or so ago and quite frankly he didnt have much of a big apparatus of advisers around him. He was a very Lean Campaign but he was sitting down with the Editorial Board there of Washington Post, that was the publisher of the Washington Post asking him questions there and he did say that carter page was an adviser. Now he was never a central player in the rest of the
campaign. Certainly like a Paul Manofort and sean spicer from the podium at the white house said, oh, basically not involved in the campaign. Thats not true. But carter page does fit into more along the lines of those descriptions here. He was never a central player in terms of the campaign apparatus. But did have meetings and he was, you know, in the inner circle and the president there, you know, was saying that he was one of his advisers here so look. As this plays out, it is getting closer and closer to the inner circle here and this fisa warrant, you know, that the Washington Post is reporting tonight is something that trump team and campaign will have a hard time blaming that on susan rice or others. I mean, this is a court of law, a judge that decides this here. So still a lot of questions about the exact involvement of
carter page, how close he was to the inside of the Trump Campaign but it doesnt necessarily matter because he was an adviser to this president. We heard him say it right there. So if he was sort of number one or number ten, sort of irrelevant at this point, i think. Jeff, nia, laura, adam and manu, i appreciate it. We have more on the russia investigation heating up again tonight. Sean spicer made a few blunders at White House Press secretary but this one is big. How hes facing the fallout from the shocking hitler comparison. You dont let anything
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that this is something that the administration they have to have a better way of explaining what the contacts were all about. As we move forward and shift away from maybe the syria story and back toward this investigation in the coming weeks. David, quickly, again, the president and the white house throw up a smoke screen with the issue of unmasking and susan rice . Our reporting is she did nothing wrong and at least now from the reporting theres there was nothing illegal about it. No illegal activity here. Did that smoke screen work do you think . Two things, don. With regard to ambassador rice, she gave that interview to Andrea Mitchell last week. She didnt stutter or hesitate. She said i leaked nothing to no one acting as National Security adviser for a sitting president to look at that material and at least internally have some of that as i understand it
but that those names unmasked i will say, obviously, there are going to be people who dont believe ambassador rice. I dont think theres any way to interpret her response a second guessing on her part. And, don, this idea that, look, whatever else happened, the four tweets that President Trump sent five or six saturdays ago, doesnt seem to me that he was aiming at susan rice at that time. It was sort of like they found something to pin this broad allegation on as they dug into the material that was available. This is not a justification for the president , none of it, if it wasnt just a smoke screen. Alan, we have reporting from the Washington Post that the administration got this fisa warrant against carter page believing he was acting as an agent of a foreign government, russia. What is your reaction . It is easy to get an fisa
warrant. They accept almost every request and the Presumption Of Innocence not just in the courtroom but the court of public opinion. Each party prepared to forget the Presumption Of Innocence when they accuse the other party and then somebody on their side accused they suddenly, oh my god, Presumption Of Innocence. Lets keep it for both parties. We have a little bit of smoke but certainly nothing coming close to a fire. We also know that Michael Flynn had to retroactively declare himself an agent of a foreign government, turkey, during the campaign. What was going on with the campaign that they had people working for President Trump but also for Foreign Countries . I think part of what was going on is frankly, that the best brains and most experienced veterans, seasoned Foreign Policy heads of the Republican Party refusing to work for President Trump. And i think part of the problem the administration has is drip, drip, drip. Right . Michael flynn. You have carter page. You have got paul manafort. Maybe, maybe, maybe. You know . At the beginning they hadnt stood there on the podium saying to us paul manafort, who . We know that hes the campaign manager. Ran the republican convention. Maybe then we could, you know, this idea that carter page, who would be believable. The story is too overused, too old, too stale. April, how do you expect the white house to handle the developments . Secretary tillerson is in moscow as we speak. Well, theyre going to have to go step by step as everything seems to be going step by step. I want to go back to something and this is kind of poignant and pulls in also from the issue of susan rice into today. I talked to former Homeland Security head jay johnson and said its typical trying to find
intelligence. And he stands by susan rice for one. But when you go into the new age, this trump era, just within 82 days, they are playing defense, theyre trying to, again, look like the finetuned machine that the president said that this administration was during the first press conference. But at the same time, theyre on the defense. But they have to answer these questions, again, focusing back on russia. Its not smoke and mirrors anymore. Everything is in the open and we are seeing whens going on. I dont think so anymore. I think that the break between russia and the United States caused by syria is going to make this story go away. What people were afraid of is President Trump may be beholden to russia. Hes demonstrated that is not the case and an old story. Not a current or future story. You dont think that no, no, in. Hold on. Hold on. April first. Go ahead, april. Because of the elections. I believe this story will not go away because of the ramifications of what could have happened in or what is thought to have happened in this past president ial election and what it could lead to in the next elections to come. 2018 and 2020. So there are very serious issues on table. It is not going away. Nia, button this up for us, please. Wont go away because there are investigations going on right now. Theres a Senate Intelligence committee investigation. The house and the fbi. So as a story, and as a sort of news topic, perhaps it will come and go. But as an investigation, it will go on until they reach any sort of conclusion. I have to go. I have to go. I have to take a break. Sorry about that. Well continue to discuss russia and well talk about sean spicers blunder today and apology. April was in the Briefing Room when it happened. Well be right back. I was thinking around 70. To and before that . Re . You mean after that . No, im talking before that. Do you have things you want to do before you retire . Id really like to run with the bulls. Wow. Hope youre fast. I am. Get a portfolio that works for you now and as your needs change with Investment Management services. I didnt do it. Match did it check out new missed connections on match. Start for free today
reaction is going to be unbelievable. April, you were there in the room. Big backlash for the comments of sean spicer comparing hitler and assad. Lets listen to the full clip. First he makes a statement and then he tries to clarify it. We didnt use chemical weapons in world war ii. You know . You had a you know, someone as despicable as hitler who didnt even sink to the level of using chemical weapons. So you have to if youre russia, is this a country and regime to align yourself with. Quote, hitler didnt sink to the level of using chemical weapons. What did you mean by that . I think when you come to sarin gas, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that assad is doing. I mean, theres clearly i understand your point. Thank you. I thank you. I appreciate that. There was not in the he brought them into the holocaust center. I understand that. Im saying in the way assad used them going into towns, dropped them down to innocent into the middle of towns. You were in the room. What was your reaction . I was actually writing and i was listening, and when he started making the statements, i was it was it was an impacting statement. Something that youre not he touched a third rail. And i quickly lifted my head and i heard audible gasps in the room. I heard people saying things and turning and looking. People were very upset, particularly many of the Jewish American reporters that were in the room. It was it was not a shining moment for him to make that statement. You never compare hitler with anyone. You dont even bring hitler up. It was a very bad moment. Nia, holocaust centers. It was you know . Yeah. No. I never, ever heard that phrase i guess in that particular moment he meant gas chambers. What i was looking at sean spicer up there and we know sean spicer, obviously. He is in the job now 82 days now. And you could tell that he was getting into territory and comparisons that might not exactly be helpful and you can sort of see in the room there, april was obviously there, seems like the reporters trying to help him out to get to a place where he can clarify and make good and make some sense with this statement. But he he was never really able to do that and released the third statement. Let me read that statement. Didnt help either. He said i in no way trying to lessen the horrendous nature of the holocaust. I was trying to draw a distinct of a tactic of using airplanes to drop chemical weapons on population centers. Any attack on innocent people is reprehensible and inexcusable. Anna, as mistakes go, i mean, this was a pretty big one. So much so that sean spicer i think the word youre looking for is huge. Yeah. He apologized to wolf blitzer. Here it is. I was obviously trying to make a point about the heinous acts of assad against his own people last week using chemical weapons and gas. And, frankly, i mistakenly used an inappropriate and insensitive reference to the holocaust and there is no comparison. And for that, i apologize. It was a mistake to do that. So hes add an adversarial relationship since hes been in that role. And usually he goes on fox news and friendly territory. And this time cnn with a reporter who with an anchor who has connections to the holocaust. Is this a big enough blunder for that . Why did he have to go with wolf blitzer . Im glad he did and says something not going to fox news. Let me say this. I knew sean spicer before he overdosed on orange koolaid and he is not an antisemite. He is not a bad guy. He is a decent guy who is trying to do his job. I dont think its said with malicious intent. He is not a holocaust denier. That being said, you never, ever make comparisons with hitler or rape. Not in politics or anywhere or on tv. I think sean realizes he made a very big mistake. The problem sean has is hes been on the job 82 days and its about time he starts getting his footing. I think hes, you know, developed an adversarial relationship with the press. Hes become a running joke on latenight comedy shows. That is a problem for the White House Press secretary who speaks on behalf of an administration and whos supposed to have a level of credibility. And let me tell you, i think april ryan, man, girl, you should have been shaking your head at this point. Okay. Listen. Anna alan is biding his time and i want your perspective on this. Steven goldstein, executive director of the Anne Frank Center issued this statement. Sean spicer engaged in Holocaust Denial. The most offensive form of fake news imaginable. Spicers statement is the most evil slur upon a group of people we have ever heard from a White House Press secretary. Do you think he was engaging in Holocaust Denial . No. Of course, what this guy who claims to be the head of the frank center whos a total phony, no such thing, its a minor institution, no credibility. Within the jewish community. Hes constantly trying to get headlines overblowing everything. What happened here is the guy screwed up. He apologized. Apologized from his heart. Im prepared to give a pass on this. Ill tell you who im not prepared to give a pass on this,
the Democratic National committee, that is immediately decided to politicize this and send out media tweet saying we cant tolerate antisemitism. This is the Democratic National chairman and Keith Ellenson who didnt let me finish. Who didnt recognize the fact he was working for an antisemite, farrakhan. This is hypocrisy. Very emotional to you because when theres an issue and poll politics you bring that up and threatened to you said you were going to leave the democratic party. I would have. If they elected keith. Thats right. I understand. Maybe they have issues and this is Something Different. Ought not to be politicized. It was a mistake. You dont make analogies to hitler. Profusely apologized and lets not let the anne frank people take advantage of this. Lets understand that it was its a mistake. Apologized and lets move on. Okay. Hang on. Shouldnt the person whens speaking for the highest person in the land have a grasp of history . Of course. Everyone makes mistakes and i have heard people make excuses. Yes, we all do. Not everybody is speaking for the president of the United States. I agree but lets remember, too, this is one of the rare occasions anybody in the Trump Administration made a full throated, complete apology. Lets praise that when it happens to encourage it more and more. Go ahead, jack. Is this a liability for thats not true. Thats not true. It is not. Ben carson made an apology for something, too. Those of us who have known sean for many, many years know theres not an antisemitic bone in his body. Hes a decent, honorable guy in an extremely difficult job. How would you like twohour pop quiz every single day with a bunch of people who say, i gotcha you on the slightest
mistake and not saying thats this case and anything he slips on, hes got to walk on a tightrope every single day. But those of us know him know that it was an aberration. This is not theres no intent here. He wasnt trying to be clever, trying to be sarcastic. I think that, jack, people are not i dont think that people are saying that. That sean spicer is an antisemite but the deflection and the lack of grasp on basic history. After all, i think most people in the even a Grade Schooler can tell you about the holocaust and say it was gas chambers. Sure. Which is a chemical weapon. And if youre the person, again, whens speaking from the podium in the white house Briefing Room, and you say that Hitler Didnt Gas People or use chemical weapons, that is just thats a complete blunder and listen. Well okay. He apologized but still you cannot say that this was not a
blunder. Of course it was a blunder. It was a blunder an im giving all that. I would say as i listen to it, my interpretation, and i would i agree with all of the above, by the way. Well, he said didnt use chemical weapons in that manner meaning use it in barrel bombs or, you know, whatever from the sky. And, you know, it was a stupid thing to say and everybody acknowledged that and if he had tried to defend the statement or you know now youre sitting trying to defend the indefensible. But now youre trying to defend it, jack. No. Im saying that i agree with the no. Im saying that i agree with the above. If i was going to defend it, thats what i would have said. To me, i understand for perhaps what he was trying to get to. And, you know listen. But, jack, he doesnt understand what hes trying to get to. Hes saying theres no excuse for what he said. Go ahead, david. Congressman, i too want to say that i think sean spicer deserves credit for coming out before the cameras and apologizing. Right away today. And it seemed sincere and full throated. That being said, though, congressman kingston, you were talking about this idea that hes got a tough job and hes getting his footing and how would people like to go out there. He knew what he signed up for when he became the press secretary for President Trump. Exactly. President trump is a shoot from the hip guy and sean spicer knew full well what they were getting into. And you know what . They have a war of words between us and the russians. And he let his rhetoric get ahead of Whats Going On in the world which is not and the democrats criticize him response to the question. Let the democrats criticize him for making a mistake. But this is a democrats criticizing. Im criticizing him for the way can i why does it have to be political . Everybody, one at a time. April, go ahead. Okay. Why does this have to be political . As someone who sits in that room exactly right. Asks sean questions and i have known him for a while, he was given a question and he stepped in to his own hole. Right. No one gave him that hole. He stepped in more than a hell of a lot more than a hole. Not what the democrats accused him of. They said we dont tolerate a but this is not can we no. People arent taking a partisan tone on the panel, alan. Youre doing that. Im doing that because aprils talking about the press people in the room and how the country has right. Im talking about im just talking im just trying to get to the issue of what happened in that room. Im not bringing politics in it. Im talking about this statement happened during passover. A holy time for a community that was the butt of an atrocity. A community, 6 million people. This is its not about politics but people who were
hurt. Okay. Lets say its not about politics, anna. Lets say thats april. Above politics but youre not this is april. Im sorry. Im sorry. I cant see whos talking. Not all colored girls are the same, jack. Im sorry. Theyre both wearing yellow. Quickly. Heres the point. You might not be criticizing him because youre a democrat. Youre criticizing him because you dont like trump. I never said i was a democrat or a republican. You dont know my politics. She is a journalist. I got to run. I got to run. Let me say this. I got to run. Im a democrat. I have to run. He just went to a whole another im a democrat because im black . No. No, no. Youre a democrat because he thinks youre me. Thats the problem. I tried, producer. Jack, quit while youre behind. Lets just not politicize the holocaust on either side. Don, will you wrap this . Alan, i understand what
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the safest Energy Company in the nation. Were back now and sources are telling cnn that theres no evidence that susan rice broke the law by requesting the unmasking of u. S. Individuals identities. Lets discuss now. A host of gps here on cnn. Before we start discussing that can we talk about sean spicer and the hitler comparison today . You had you have a you think you know the reason why . Its not that the reason i think sean spicer made a mistake. It was absolutely clear as he said it. It was a foolish thing to have said. He tried to deflect it and defend it and realized it was
too stupid to defend. But what does this come out of . This comes out of the fact that sean spicer has to spend two hours every day defending the series of outlandish accusations, crazy talk, lies that the president has been putting forward for, you know, for the 75 days that hes been president. Everything that, you know, the president says, sean spicer has to find some justification, some rationale and the orders hes been given are its that old intelligence line, deny, everything, admit nothing and counter punch. Thats the atmosphere in which hes been told, attack attack, attack, get them on the defensive. In that contest you could tell he was clearly just making things up as he was going along to make his point in a white house in which quite frankly facts dont matter. And if he didnt have to
worry about all that and deflecting, he could be clear minded about what the actual truth is and what the policy is coming from the white house and they would all be in one word. But if he worked for a president who made it very clear, if you get something factually wrong, if you tell something thats untrue, i will be mad as hell, I Dont Think Spa sean spicer would have done this. I dont think he works for that president. I want to get your reaction talking about the infighting between steve bannon and Jared Kushner. He says i like steve but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late. I had already beaten all the senators and the governors an i didnt know steve. Im my own stat gist and it wasnt like i was going to change strategies. Steve is a good guy but i told them to straighten it out or i will. Is he throwing bannon under the
bus there . It certainly sounds like this. I have never seen anything like this. An add min where the president of the United States reveals his white house personal strategy to the new york post. You couldnt make this up. You think hes on the outs . I think bannon is clearly on the outs. Especially if youre dealing with a clannish real estate mogul whose family is everything, dont mess with the family. He should have watched the so pranos or something. There are obvious places not to go. Ivanka trump is the blue eyed daughter and Jared Kushner is her husband. There are two definite clan with a c not clan with a k. There are different meanings. So this is about Bloomberg Reporting that tillerson asked Foreign Minister why should u. S. Taxpayers being interested in eucaine. Ukraine . I dont think u. S. Taxpayers have it but i think u. S. Taxpayers have to be led by leaders. You could have made that argument throughout the cold war. Why is the United States defending europe . Why is the United States defending all these countries around the world . You need leadership. Leaders that explain to americans that part of what the United States has done ever since the 1940s is try to construct a Peaceful World order in which the United States can survive, where trade thrives, u. S. Economy grows. It is something that president s from Roes Veosevelt have explaio the American People and theyve supported and gone on with it for decades. But if leaders start questioning the value of this and start
saying maybe America Needs to be isolationists, maybe America Needs to narrow itself, yeah, americans on Foreign Policy i find follow the lead of the president , the secretary of state. They dont lead. They understand its a complicated world. If you tell them this is important, i mean, people say americans dont have stamina because were kind of a fickle democracy. We have been on the banks of the rufr defending germany for eight decades. Weave been in korea, in japan. Americans are willing to do this but you have to be led. Is it some sort of justification about whether theyre hey, lets just give ukraine to russia i hope not because that would be a terrible bargain. Ukraine is the center piece of keeping europe united. Ukraine is not that important as ukraine. Whats important here is that
western countries have made a commitment that on their borders you cannot have a land grab like this. That really does remind one of the 30s and of hitler. That is you know, somebody going in, snatching a piece of another country without any justification, europe has stood up to that, the u. S. Has stood up to that. Theyve President Sanctions in place to really start weakening that. Really questions the unity of the west. It would be a foolish thing for tillerson to have said. Thank you, fareed. Well be right back. Youre in the match app. Now tap on the new missed connections feature. It says ive crossed paths with kate six times this week. That is a lot of times. Shes cute too yea how did i miss her . You didnt. Match picked it up for you. Check out new missed connections on match. Start for free today e trades powerful trading tools, give you access to indepth analysis, and a team of experienced traders ready to help if you need it. Its like having the power of a trading floor, wherever you are. Its your trade. E trade