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The government that putin runs which is a top down authoritarian state, he has an alliance of populous voters and christian member. its working class whites and evangelical christians. there is an affinity towards his style of government and hes trying to transplant that here to the united states. >> lets talk about what the opposition is doing. tiffany, its difficult for democrats to get the microphone let alone the megaphone. theyre not in power anywhere. >> right. >> as youve been able to rep...

Completely out of context. the twitter direct messages, by the way, most russian spies dont speak by twitter messages which are unencrypted. there are thousands of them between them. twitter direct message about picking up toothpaste in america, direct messages of pictures of kids and dogs and everything else. they both had an affinity for better american/russian relations. that tcertainly he wasnwasnt purpose of the trip to the u.s. >> heres the other thing the government says they have, they f...

There are thousands of them between alexander and maria over years period. they were gun right advocates and they are friends. >> there are direct messages of pictures of kids and dogs and everything else. they have affinity for better relations. that was not the purpose of her trip to the u.s. it was something they discussed once in a while. >> your client talks about going quote under grown and incognito. to that you say -- >> again, marc maria says shes russian and worked with alexander and s...

This company being allowed to work i guess not with the public sector in the u.s. but with the private sector. your reaction to that? >> let me start out globally saying i am not necessarily opposed to tariffs, but i am opposed to tariffs without a plan. looks like the trump administration is engaged in this massive global trade war with china, with european union and mexico and canada, then they do random things like exempt a company like zte even though they violated sanctions, done trading wi...

>> the one is dana roarbacker. he tried to organize hearings in congress to run an anti magnitsky film. tried to take magnitskys name off of legislation. this guy was very, very active. very, very enthusiastic and working hand in glove with the russians. >> oligarchs and the people targeted by the magnitsky act make putin rich. and maybe trumps affinitys connection to putin is exactly that. trump helps magnitsky get repealed. >> the logic of connecting all the dots is speculation. and what we do...

Russians who is willing to defeat you and your movements. >> the one is dana roarbacker. he tried to organize hearings in congress to run an anti magnitsky film. tried to take magnitskys name off of legislation. this guy was very, very active. very, very enthusiastic and working hand in glove with the russians. >> oligarchs and the people targeted by the magnitsky act make putin rich. and maybe trumps affinitys connection to putin is exactly that. trump helps magnitsky get

Duterte. these strong men dictators he buddies up to them. so erdogan and kim have stuff on him. >> hes a scmuck or a stooge. leads to the same conclusion. its possible to think he has an ideological affinity for russia, a psychological affinity for strong men. at the end of the day you have a president who is determined to buck his advisers and seek a relationship with russia which is antithetical. he surrounded himself with russian hawks but to think the hawks are influencing him. hes transfor...

She is not reading. for me that is a very dangerous spot to hold as a former committee on homeland security staffer. i need you to read. >> i want to take one second to note that the president tweeted the summit with russia was a great success except with the real enemy of the people, the fake news media. president trump did not say that vladimir putin was the enemy of the american people. he did not say that the 12 russian military intelligence officers who were indicted by his justice departme...

You jail the media people. or thats what putin does in russia. im sure that if the president thought he could get away with it, he would probably want to jail what he calls the fake media. but for the first amendment freedom of the press. this just once again reinforces this inexplicable affinity that the president has toward basically totalitarian dictators, but in particular to putin. this is why there are so many questions as to really what kind of relationship does the president have with pu...

Plugged in than i. is there anyone else in that town who thinks his summit went well? >> no, but the president likes to rely on his own instincts. weve seen him become more and more of an island of one, even within his own white house. he serves as his own communications director. he serves as his own chief strategist. he has been drawn, weve seen him repeatedly drawn to world leaders who tend to be from places with aristocracies, with governments that suppress rights, including the right of the...