early memo that the president may even be indebted to dodgy russians. pompeo s counterpart defending it. it is the job of ambassadors to give frank, personal opinions about what is going on in the countries they operate and our ambassador was just doing his job. but those are person am views. they are not the views of the british government, they are not my views. president trump firing back sunday on his way back to washington. the ambassador has not served the uk well. i can tell you that. we re not big fans of that man. joining me now is peter baker, chief white house correspondent for t new york ti and glenn johnson who worked under john kerry and his new book window seat on the world. congratulations on the book.
i think what we learned today and the examples the members the gave is that this targeting and harassment of americans was broad, deep, it s systemic and it was not just for new groups. thatst wasem the original spin,f you remember it was because those citizens united, there are all these new groups and applications. no. they went back, reached back into groupswe like the leadershp institute, which is a decade ol institution and pro-life group as well was targeted for moreor harassment under the same officd and with the same types of questions. what books do you read? do you have anybody in yourstio family who might want to run for office one day?nybo all sorts of things that when you look at it from this perspective, it s terrible. if i could add one other thing that i think is the biggest news of the te day, the new york ti reports that the obama administration political appointee, officials at thep treasury department knew aboutrs this five months before thefore presidential elect