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Prince met at trump tower with these guys, with mike flynn, soon to be national security adviser, steve bannon, soon to be white house senior strategist and jared kushner. america s own crown prince. cnn reports today that when obama national security adviser susan rice unmasked the names of these three americans, these three trump advisers in an intelligence intercept, it was because she was looking at an intelligence intercept trying to figure out what the elm ratty crown prince was doing in the united states on this visit that he explicitly did not declare with the u.s. government. and that s exactly the kind of circumstances under which national security officials would unmask a u.s. name on an intelligence intercept, right. if you need to do that in order to figure out what some foreign surveillance target was up to in this country. well, in this case it turns out what he was up to was a secret meeting at trump four with flynn ....
Conversation with any russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign or election in the united states. now, analysts warn it s possible that kislyak embellished or even made up some of those claims, but some told the paper the russian ambassador was known for accurately describing his d.c. interactions. since the early days of the campaign, sessions and the president s relationship has frayed. in particular, over the attorney general s decision to recuse himself from the russia case. through a spokes pern sessions stood by his june testimony and refused to comment on the reliability of what anonymous sources describe in a wholly uncorroborated intelligence intercept that the washington post has not seen. now, the president tweeted in response. a new intelligence leak from the amazon washington post. this time against attorney general jeff sessions. these illegal leaks, like comey s, must stop. there s one more thing worth looking back to. ....
i appreciate your point. i think that s very much on the table of possibilities given the recent conduct and how much work they ve done to sow chaos. we know parts of the misinformation campaign were just to create some independent coo of confusion, which is different than other parts that were designed to explicitly reach strategic objectives like blunt any momentum of hillary clinton. we ve seen both patterns in the intel community, and your former colleagues have spoken to that. david corn, i want to read the denial here from sessions spokesperson, which also seems to have a problem in it. but here it is. quote, i obviously cannot comment on the reliability of what anonymous sources describe in a wholly uncorroborated intelligence intercept that the washington post has not seen ....
Welcome back. we have more on this friday night breaking news. the washington post reporting that according to a u.s. intelligence intercept, then russian ambassador kislyak reported to moscow that he and jeff sessions did indeed discuss the trump campaign and trump s position on policy matters that were important to russia in two conversations. this is a reference to the conversation at the mayflower hotel and the other at the rnc convention after the russian effort to influence the u.s. election for donald trump was indeed under way. and all of this comes, of course, with some context. donald trump lashing out at the man at the center of this article, jeff sessions, over what? well, over the recusal from the russia inquiry and that very odd new york times interview, donald trump did not apparently clear it with his legal team. then there was thursday s remarkable report in the washington post that donald ....
Kiselak telling his superiors in moscow that he and sessions discussed trump s positions on russia-related issues and prospects for u.s./russia relations back in 2016. and if this is true, it really runs contrary to the attorney general s version of events here. in a statement to cnn, justice department spokesperson sara flores says obviously i cannot comment on the reliability of what anonymous sources describe in a wholly uncorroborated intelligence intercept that the washington post has not seen and that has not been provided to me. but the attorney general stands by his testimony from just last month before the senate intelligence committee when he specifically addressed this and said that he, quote, never met with or had any conversations with any russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign or election. the other issue to keep in mind here, fred, of course, is ....