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Failed and then failed again. in fact, what you may it be tired of is all that failing. so lets review trumps 100 days of disaster, shall we? take his goal of suspending immigration from what he called terror prone regions. after creating chaos at airports, trumps travel ban is tied up in the courts because multiple federal judges believe it violates the constitution. building that big beautiful wall, he doesnt have the money. whos going to pay for it? not mexico no matter what he says and so fa...

Fbi to request a fisa warrant in the first place, as it relates to carter page? >> right. we know that donald trump, when he was a candidate, named page as one of his foreign policy advisers in march 2016. page has spent time in moscow. theres been new documents that came to light. buzzfeed broke the story a couple weeks ago that page had engaged -- had been in contact with a russian intelligence officer who he apparently thought was a diplomat back in 2013 timeframe. so what was happening is, y...

Recruitment effort. they may have described him as an idiot, but he handed them documents, information to help them out. carter page met with a russian intelligence operative named victor podobnyy who was in fact, later charged by the u.s. government along withtwo others for acting as an agent of a foreign government. funny story from that story from last week, the way buzzfeed confirmed that carter page was the intelligence asset in this story, the way they confirmed he was male number 1 is tha...

Spies from all countries who spy here try to do when they try to recruit americans. well, earlier this month, buzzfeed news reported that male number 1 in that spy ring indictment was actually a trump campaign foreign policy adviser named carter page. it seems like a weird coming together of different news stories, but carter page was apparently recruited as an american asset by russian spies in new york in 2013. and it was a successful recruitment effort. they may have described him as an idiot...

Quote, carter page confirmed to buzzfeed news that he is male number 1 in the court filing. he flat out told them and hed been in contact with this indicted russian spy. vuctor podobnyy. so that background of carter page from that russian spy story, thats part of what adds to the strangeness around the trump campaign and their involvement with carter page. in march 2016, candidate donald trump was getting pressure in the media, pressure from his republican rivals for not having apparely any fore...

Also, his own online criminal activity was complicated in a pro-putin russian government operation. ill quote this part from todays "new york times." peter severa ran a family of computer viruses. a sophisticated evolving family of computers called waledec and kelihos. the kelihos virus has been designed to spread spam, but during the election in 2012 it was used to send political messages to e-mail accounts on computers with russian e-mail accounts that led to fake news stories that vladimir pu...

Designed to spread spam, but during the election in 2012 it was used to send political messages to e-mail accounts on computers with russian e-mail accounts that led to fake news stories that vladimir putin came out as gay. these advisoviruss made him faby wealthy. when buzzfeed wrote up this story today, they quoted a fellow russian hacker is describing peter love shove living a lifestyle it would have been embarrassed an oligarch. hes a top ten internationally listed criminal spam kingpin. hes...

Fit in connection to trump and what his contacts were on the russian side. and as has been revealed by buzzfeed and others in recent weeks, mr. page had communications with a russian official who was later determined to be a member of the russian intelligence service. >> does this relate to what happened in the seychelles? >> at this point, you know, frankly we dont -- i have no reason to believe that theres any connection between those things. i cant rule it out at this point. the meeting in th...

Vote and it not just being our action and theres no response, several pentagon officials told a reporter now at buzzfeed, a very experienced reporter on national security matters, several pentagon officials told her this week that the chemical weapons -- what appears to have been this chemical weapons attack on tuesday by assad may itself have been an action that assad took to test the united states after rex tillerson, the secretary of state, said on thursday that its up to the syrian people wh...

Today said that if he had to bet, he would bet that people will go to jail over the end result of the investigation that the fbi is conducting. do you agree with that? >> well, im not a betting man. the most im willing to say is were at the very early stage of the investigation. i dont think any of us can tell where it will lead. and i dont think we should pre-judge the outcome. we should instead dedicate ourselves to following the facts wherever they lead. so im not prepared to bet on any parti...