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Never saw during the cold war. so, the question goes beyond just elections and power grids and reconnaissance. this has turpd into an active campaign of intimidation by mr. putin to his neighbors and presumably an attempt to break up the european union and nato. >> jeremy bash, i note the one piece of the presidents prodigious tweeting today said, in all capital letters, peace through strength. is this strong? youve been contending in interviews ive seen with you today that this is emboldening o...

From what we have usually -- hear from american presidents and their representatives, who use the white house, use that podium to try to set -- send a message to set an example for the rest of the world for -- to have as free a democracy as possible. but for this white house, they have just never done that. this continues a pattern we have seen time and time again where the president has not criticized vladimir putin, but other authoritarian regimes. lets recall last fall he was in asia in the p...

Week? >> listen, its a black eye. but at the end of the day the biggest risk they face now really is regulation. you know, delete facebook might be a trending hashtag, but it remenz to be seen whether anyone is actually going to delete it in a significant way. were not their customers. their customers are the advertisers. we are their product. and america or people have decided, we want to put our information out there because we love looking at pictures of babies and pussy cats and ex-boy frien...

Can he show self-discipline. >> well, i mean, thats the question. and as i speak, there could be a tweet landing that totally disproves what im saying. but even on the campaign trail, when pressed, he would confront these things. he would defend himself. he would say that all of these allegations against him are false, that everyone is a liar. >> uh-huh. >> there is one of the women who has accused him of groping and kissing her -- him -- her, and shes now running for office in ohio. he has gone...

Is that question, in your reporting, an open question among aides in the west wing, at least some of them? >> absolutely. and as you have seen in the reports, brian, there are still open questions about whether there are cooperating aides in there who are actually wearing wires and recording what the president may or may not be saying on russia. so, the question here by the special counsel has vacillated from whether its collusion with the russians, whether the question is collusion with the rus...

During the rob porter crisis. but this has been the one thing that wont go away. you saw sarah sanders has been asked about it in the briefings and it seems as though some other women sort of watching whats happening with stormy daniels have now been emboldened to come forward themselves, which was the open question. how many other women signed ndas, were paid money to stay silent, or didnt come forward because they didnt want to be attacked but now feel emboldened? it does feel like something t...

It will be an accomplishment. of course there might be alternative hypotheses about exactly why hes so reluctant to criticize this particular person. but i dont honestly know the answer to that question yet. >> im proud of having found a 20th way to ask you the same question. with the same result, i might add. clint, i know youve spent so much of your life in the cyber end of things. im looking at this "washington post" headline tonight, bannon oversaw cambridge analyticas collection of facebook...

For that. >> exactly. what do you think the ownership or whatever your favorite term is, is based on? what do you thinks at the heart of this? >> brian, i honestly dont know. i can hype thits. we can talk about what it means. i think we all agree in the diagnostics, and i want to underscore one other thing, to ricks point. candidate trump promised us that we were going to be respected in the world that putin was going to respect him. we were going to be strong. when you have this kind of disconn...

Last several months there was a disconnect here between the top diplomat for the united states of america and the president of the united states. its an open question whether pompeo will be able to maintain a sense of authority in that position despite some of the challenges that diplomats have to face dealing with issues like russia where sometimes the official united states position is quite different from what the president says. the president still doesnt want to talk about russian meddling ...

Speaking in a totally different way, much more aggressively towards russia in his comments than president trump would ever dream of speaking about russia. >> well, so was mike pompeo. thats an interesting play here. obviously he was at the cia, quickly forming strong relationships there. im sure, david, you were hearing the same thing, that they liked pompeo there, they liked the respect he had for the agency. he came out and contradicted the president about russian interference and said there i...