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Redaction there s there, which s theres a lot that we dont know and more shoes may be dropping. you have the former chair of the presidents campaign lying repeatedly and at length about his relationship with a former russian intelligence officer who mueller has hjed still has a relationship with russian intelligence. very alarming and were going to hear a lot more about that in the weeks and months to come. >> jim? >> i agree that its very alarming that russians had leverage over manafort or all...

Other than shuttingdown t down u.s. government? trump appears to have adopted every top tear russian objective, but on top of that, the kremlin has to be further delighted this week, right now, this same u.s. president that does tricks on command keeps giving russia even more leverage over him all the time. i mean, think about it. think about that report from "the washington post", what the practical implications are from putins perspective. trump may have taken, you know, confiscated and destro...

Russian lawyer and trump campaign manager paul manafort. if that all wasnt enough this week the trump administration is exposed for trying to give help to billionaire who worked with paul manafort. and this week mueller laid out more details of how paul manafort is allegedly coordinating his obstruction with a russian intelligence linked operative, and that shows mueller will charge americans who coordinate their defense or obstruct justice with russian operatives. okay. thats me taking it all t...

Week, right now, that this same u.s. president who does tricks on command also keeps giving russia even more leverage over him all the time. i mean, think about it, think about that report from "the washington post," what the practical implications of that are from russias perspective, from putins perspective. trump may have taken, you know, confiscated and destroyed his own american interpreters notes from his putin meetings, but theres no reason to think that putin did the same thing. right? i...

Still keep on coming. and so i always felt that -- and i support an adjustment to these sentences and the safety valve and so forth. to me the corollary is we have to really start thinking and using all our national forms of power in the sense of our diplomacy and our economic leverage and so forth to get better results overseas. so for example now fentanyl is sort of the new crack and theyre coming in from china. >> across the mexican border. >> correct. >> at ports of entry, 90%. >> so thats a...

Member has real leverage in the political process. with that taken away, effectively his legs have been cut from beneath him. >> republican senator mitt romney, it sounds like he thinks congress should go even further . let me play what he said. >> i dont think there is room for steve kings comments in polite company in the republican party or in congress for that matter. i think he ought to step aside and congress ought to make it clear he has no place there. >> whats interesting, congressman, ...

Think are any of them getting paid? >> right. i think maybe things would be different if people on the hill werent getting paid. maybe there would be more of a sense of urgency. >> i think if you had congress people not getting paid and senators not getting paid. >> the president made this point before in this negotiation. he said ill reopen the government. will you pledge to sit down and work with me on a wall? the democrats said no. if you were to reopen the government it was every bit of leve...

Actually going on? >> so i think it depends. i think in most cases what the russians try to do is try to exploit their weaknesses as evan pointed out. now, one of the things that we know is between 2008 and 2011 donald trump was in the real estate industry. what happened in the real estate industry? it went bust. and donald trump faced severe acute financial crisis. real crisis for his business. theres a real point of leverage that the russians could go and potentially engage with him. and so i ...

Quickly, depending on circumstances, compromised. and i think the russians or anyone else or any intelligence service would look at trump or a person like trump and make that assessment. so he is a prime -- he would be a prime target if a foreign intel service thought he could do something for them. >> witting or unwitting. those are the words. they said unwittingly in the reporting of it. max, do most people realize that theyre being reeled in by russia or is it more common that they fail to un...

Him and it will be leverage and that he will -- will do the bidding of vladimir putin. vladimir putin is a kgb human intelligence officer. his job was to turn people into traitors and to run agents into west germany to steal technology. he knows what hes doing. his senior staff were ex-kgb and fsb and a person like donald trump is a godsend. putin wouldnt do it directly, but through inference and he would use his oligarchy for donald trump to do the things he wants and hes already indoctrinated ...