Busted: Trump met with Russian ambassador during campaign
Until more evidence is produced, an investigation into Russian ties isn’t warranted either. The other is being conducted by the Senate Intelligence Committee. This reporting is created to get you saying to yourself: “Why would there be such a zealous investigation by FBI agents – in addition to several other intelligence and law-enforcement agents – unless there really were grave reasons to believe the shocking election-hacking conspiracy narrative?”
MARK WARNER: Thank you, Robert. “So I wasn’t there, but we had invitations to both”.
In his “ballistic” rant, Trump gave his aides a verbal lashing and told chief of staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Stephen Bannon they wouldn’t be accompanying him on Air Force One to Florida, before storming out on Friday.
We need an independent investigation to understand what happened and how to protect our republic. But it seems that common sense and logic is not a strong suit within the Orwellian world of both Moscow and Washington nowadays. Then he should welcome. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Meet the Press that by the time he left office the DNI had “no evidence of such collusion”.
Trump has been in an open war with United States intelligence.
After Sessions recused himself from any Justice Department investigation of Russian interference late last week, Trump hastily and baselessly claimed President Obama tapped his phones. Oftentimes what happens is if one of our traditional agencies, say, like the CIA, will determine some kind of contact, they have to turn that over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. If there is nothing to hide, then why are they so concerned about an investigation?
“Some of this is going to go beyond where the report was”, Warner said. “But what we’re saying is follow the facts”. Journalists have learned that when a leader goes berserk and unleashes tirades and threats at investigators, that’s when you’re getting close.
“Cooperate more against radical Islamic extremists, we should not have situations where people are coming from Chechnya to blow up the Boston marathon”. And I think we’ll be able to reach our own conclusion. “To the best of my knowledge no person that I deal with does”. His reason for declining to do that was that the report’s sources and allegations couldn’t be corroborated or even properly investigated.
WARNER: I would say this, Robert.
The president, who is now vacationing at his private Mar-a-Lago estate, did not provide any additional evidence to back up his claims. So I’m sure everybody in this room perhaps has it. That’s true, and the rash, evidence-free accusations about Russian Federation could be viewed in that light. “Follow the facts to the personal, political, and financial connection to Russian Federation”.
WARNER: It is absolutely a new danger. And they are experts at misinformation, disinformation.
There are a lot of dots here, and the challenge is how to connect them.
‘He’s exhausted of everyone thinking his presidency is screwed up, ‘ said one person who spoke to him. General Mike Flynn. It may also be true with respect to Steve Bannon in so far as his interests align with Putin’s ( from stoking the alt-right in America to destabilizing the EU). I just have nobody to speak to.
SIEGEL: Senator Warner, thanks for talking with us.
“Whw, at least in the Senate, is 15 members”.