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Employer. in fact, when he was asked how he learned to speak such fluent english he responded russian military intelligence, according to one iri official. one political operative who worked in moscow at the time told politico.com, it was like oh, yeah, kostia, the guy from the g.r.u., the guy from russian military intelligence. thats how we talked about him. the fact of his training in military intelligence became the stuff of office teasing. when kostia struggled to make sense of some american...

Learned to speak such fluent english he responded russian military intelligence, according to one iri official. one political operative who worked in moscow at the time told politico.com, it was like oh, yeah, kostia, the guy from the g.r.u., the guy from russian military intelligence. thats how we talked about him. the fact of his training in military intelligence became the stuff of office teasing. when kostia struggled to make sense of some american political terminology, the american who hir...

Doris goodmans book, thats where i got it. she was close to him, she worked for him, she wrote the biography. she talked about two things i picked out. one was he had this recurring nightmare of being paralyzed. he also had this fear that his mother didnt love him, because she would withhold her love at times. it was conditional. when he wasnt doing the things that she wanted him to do. and thats what we wanted to get. because everybody knows lbj, the arm-twisting bull in the china shop. bus the...

Night. coming up tonight, much more on that big story that broke after "hardball" last night, that the trump administration wanted to lift the sanctions against russia and its lickety-split as soon as they got into office. and the frantic office by obama staffers and members of congress to stop them in their tracks. plus inside trumps decision on the paris climate agreement. he did it for his base clearly. but if you needed another reason, we learned today what also annoyed him was that hand...

Well have him here on "hardball," as i said, monday night. coming up tonight, much more on that big story that broke after "hardball" last night, that the trump administration wanted to lift the sanctions against russia and its lickety-split as soon as they got intoo office. and the frantic office by obama staffers and members of congress to stop them in their tracks. plus inside trumps decision on the paris climate agreement. we learned today what also annoyed him was that tight handshake he ...

Able to do it, and he says im going to do it lickety-split. >> this is a reflection of trumps world view. there is no higher accomplishment than getting a deal done and it can be done through sheer force of will and personality. look at what he said about the civil war, that it could have been avoided if the right person was there doing the right things. >> you cant sell the same property to two different people. thats what the middle east is about because youre going to have to divide the land ...

As import? >> imagine that. >> these are things kids learn in high school. >> on that point, i talked to a bunch of his good friends, the people he kibitzes with around the world. i asked chris ruddy from florida, whats the biggest thing trump learned that he didnt know. and he said, that there is a congress. he was sort of joking, but he wasnt really joking. >> its called article i of the constitution. >> that theres a congress, and just because youre president, you dont get to run that. >> oka...

Job is to give him a nay. theyre not doing anything, not check this stuff out. they say, oh, were going to buy xerox machines and hire some lawyers and get officers assigned and in six months well get down to business, ten years later we might have -- congress does not move lickety-split. >> i mean, i thought their response to the whole wiretapping thing was really awkward. all of them were put in an incredibly awkward position of saying i dont believe what the presidents saying, hes still the p...

-- president obamas biggest accomplishment was? a >> drone strikes. >> take some of his drones and have him take out some of these republicans in congress. >> im not sure about that, if that would be great. >> why not? solve problems like lickety-split. >> anyone? anyone? >> what are some of your fondest memories of this president? >> the affordable care act, having family and a man of the white house that is respectful of women. >> he was even more respectful w of women than bill clinton. w >> ...

>> take some of his drawings and have them takes out some of these republicans in congress. >> im not sure about that, at that would be great. >> by not? solve problems like lickety-split. >> anyone? anyone? >> what are some of your fondest memories of this president? >> the affordable care act, having family and a man of the white house that is respectful of women. >> he was even more respectful of women than bill clinton. >> thats a good one. think of what he has done stands for itself. that w...