serious people. >> well, i did do that and we had tremendous -- we had the best economy the world has ever seen. >> bret: this time your vice president mike pence is running against you. your ambassador united nations nikki haley is running against you. your former secretary of state mike pompeo said he is not supporting you. you mentioned national security adviser john bolton is he not supporting you either. you mentioned attorney general bill barr says you shouldn't be president again. calls you the consummate narcissist and troubled man. you recently called barr a gutless pig. your second defense secretary is not supporting you. called you irresponsible. this week you and your white house called white house chief of staff john kelly weak and ineffective and born with a very small brain. called mick mulvaney a born loser. you called your first secretary of state rex tillerson dumb as a rock and first defense secretary james mattis overrated general. you called kayleigh mcenany milk toast and multiple times have you referred to transportation secretary elaine
it was very disturbing. >> based on his actions, if proven true, no. it's irresponsible actions that places our nation at risk. >> the fact of the matter is he is a consummate narcissist and he constantly engages in reckless conduct >> those are just some of the brutal rebukes and experienced factual takes from people who actually work with donald trump. we talk about the law a lot and that goes to how this place is brought. but the reason we have these national security laws is because of the national security concern to the united states, the risk that spies and others go through the reason it's called the espionage act is because it goes to that. you heard from mr. bolden with
thought were of interest to him for some reason or another clippings, mementos, classified documents. and it was very disturbing >> he is a consummate narcissist and he constantly engages in reckless conduct that puts his political followers at risk. it's like a 9-year-old -- a defiant 9-year-old kid who's also pushing the glass toward the edge of the table, defying his parents to stop him from doing it >> introducing bill barr, the armchair psychologist. hi again, everybody. it's 5:00 in the east. there it was a veritable choir of ex-trump senior administration officials calling out their ex-boss over the weekend. trump's former defense secretary mark esper went first. trump's former national security adviser john bolton was next and former attorney general who can't say enough on tv about donald trump's criminality and storing of classified documents at mar-a-lago.
to a traditional more female description? >> i love this because nothing screams living your authentic self like ditching a fake pronoun that you get tired explaining your narcissism to strangers over. this is really about narcissism. when you come up with they them or see association ur it's because you want the attention. demi la vatted 0 has been desperate for the attention for a long time. i tell you this i'm willing to bet you're in the same camp. if we were confused with being women, we would correct that immediately. ba us we know that is not true. i would never get tired of actually asking people to be correct. because we actually care about facts. and so this is someone who's kind of given up because i think she's just tired of being a narcissist which i do think is progress. >> brian: right. it doesn't pay well. but a couple of things, she also went on to say the other problem is bathrooms. for example, she writes, in public toilets having to access the women's bathroom even though
the lack of law and order, rule of law and the persecution of the political conservative opposition is happening in colombia, brazil with bolsonaro. hispanics can't help but notice it's happening here in the u.s. are we gressing as a democracy? how do you think hispanics feel about this? >> well, there is a regression. but there has been an incredible lovefest between the hispanic community and myself. >> how effective is this stuff? >> let's be honest. this is effective in the cult, right. the cult has their own information silos. the cult gets their information from very unique sources. so amongst the cult members, this stuff works. but the problem for the republican party, who wants to win a general national election in november 2024, when you tie your fate to a malignant narcissist with autocratic impulses like trump is, then you
and joy, here is the thing. regardless what ends up happening in the presidential election, and my guess is joe biden ends up beating donald trump again. trump has never got the majority of the popular vote. most people don't like him. the republicans have three chances to take the senate next year. only three. manchin, tester, sherrod brown. if you've got donald trump on the ballot, two of the three guys are going to keep their jobs. if they don't knock out these senators, they're not going to be able to get them for the next six years because you don't have any other vulnerable democrats in the senate. that's how bad this is. they are connected to a man who is not only a malignant narcissist and try toe take over the country, but he is an idiot. anybody who is a voter can see that. >> and yet, even the governor of georgia who the media tries to paint as some sort of normie, even though he is a vote suppressing fool says yeah, i'll vote for him if he is the nominee. they're all lashed to him, and all the nominees are essentially promising to pardon him. and that is their strategy.
least three of them were executed, others were imprisoned. and these are not just critical national security resources, our vision into what russian espionage and intelligence is doing but, you know, also human beings. it was quite callous to sell thousands of documents for more than a million dollars but send people to their certain death. >> eric, based on your time with him, you said he was a narcissist, was that part of the reason he was spying for the soviet union? was it solely about money? did he like the feeling of importance? >> it was a combination of thing, first of all, he had asked for a transfer to the new york field office which is the most expensive fbi office in terms of quality of life and living on an fbi salary. so he needed money. he was having children. he couldn't support his life. at the same time, he was a disgruntled employee. he wanted to be a field operative. he wanted to do the sort of things i was doing as an fbi ghost undercover chasing targets, using disguises, but
john, good to see you. we go way back. it was a difficult investigation as you said, i was 25. i was an fbi ghost so catching spies following them, surveilling them, that's what i was used to but working fac face-to-face in fbi headquarters in the most unique case they had ever run in its history up till then was certainly daunting. hanssen was a very difficult person. he was a narcissist, had a huge ego, a very quick temper and he was quick to call me a moron when he didn't like me. i had to do the overt job of building cybersecurity at the same time i did the covert job of investigating hanssen and trying to find the information that was going to give us a slam dunk case to put him away forever. >> was he ever suspicious of you. >> he had to be suspicious. so hanssen had been sent to the state department to a liaison job and was supposed to end out his career and was supposed to retire in april of 2001. we only learned about him in
espionage and intelligence is doing. but also, human beings. it was quite callous to self-sal thousands of documents for more than 1 million dollars, but send people to their certain deaths. >> eric, i mean based on your time with him -- he said he was a narcissist. was that part of the reason he was spying for the soviet union? was it solely about money? did he like feeling important? >> it was a combination of things. first of all, he had asked for a transferred to the new york field office, which is the most expensive fbi office in terms of quality of life and living. on an fbi salary, so he needed money. he was having children, he couldn't support his life. at the same time, he was a disgruntled employee. he wanted to be a field operative, he wanted to do this sort of things i was doing as an fbi ghost, undercover, chasing targets, using disguises, telephoto lenses, that sort of thing. but his skill set was as an analyst. he was very adept at analyzing large amounts of data, and distilling it down to that one actionable intelligence point, that would allow someone like
them, surveilling them that's what i was used. used to -- in the most unique case, the fbi had ever run in its history up till then was, certainly daunting. hansen was a very difficult person. he was a narcissist, had huge ego, a very quick temper. and he was quick to call me for, example, a moron, when he didn't like me. i had to do the over job of building cybersecurity for the fbi at the same time i did a covert job of investigating robert hansen and trying to find the information that was going to give us a slam dunk case -- >> with the oversuspicious of you? >> he had to be suspicious. >> so hansen had -- he was supposed to just and out his career. and he was going to retire in april of 2001. we only learned about him in december of 2000 and so he brought back to fbi headquarters and promoted to executive service. given his dream job and given