Clint Watts joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss warnings from FBI Director Chris Wray about Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election, as well as breaks between Wray and President Trump on those questions of interference and right wing violence. Aired on 9/18/2020.
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Clint Watts: Russia Is Running The Same Playbook That They Did In 2016 | Andrea Mitchell | MSNBC
Bob Woodward’s third book on Trump after “Fear” and “Rage” will be “Jail.”
@liam awry He can write about jail while Trump serves his 2nd term as president! KAG
@Indi Pillai Making you cry is not a real crime! KAG
@Indi Pillai Education? I got hairy legs,that,that,that,that,that turn blonde in the sun and kids would rub my legs and jump on my lap and that taught me about roaches! Something like that?
OH HAPPY DAYS THAT WILL BE.
Why do we pay taxes to a fund a worthless cia? Do they like being losers? Trump and his personnel iPhone to Putin is the trouble buddy. WTF aren’t we stopping Russian ips and vpn’s? They allow us to be hacked and socially manipulated. Why are they crying to us. I dont want to hear abiut it. I want the crappt CIA to fux it! We need a real president us the problem here! And peoe in congress who k kw what ips and vpn’s are. The stupid old fools.
“I don’t think science knows” person who claimed there were airports in 1776
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Why do we pay taxes to a fund a worthless cia? Do they like being losers? Trump and his personnel iPhone to Putin is the trouble buddy. WTF aren’t we stopping Russian ips and vpn’s? They allow us to be hacked and socially manipulated. Why are they crying to us. I dont want to hear abiut it. I want the crappt CIA to fux it! We need a real president us the problem here! And peoe in congress who k kw what ips and vpn’s are. The stupid old fools.
Maybe he believes in unicorns.
Ask any Trump Supporter online to insult Putin.
They won’t do it. None of them are Americans.
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@Aldo Malaj let us hear you insult Putin to see if he allows you to do that.
@Ralph Boyd Don’t guess Aldo will be getting his Comrade Hero star this week.
Would you insult some people for the point of view? What if your parents suport Trump do you demand insulting Putin from them?
Trump and the Republicans know this. Vote Biden/Harris 2020! Vote blue up and down the ballot!
CHINA JOE! Where is the reports of the pathetic Biden Town hall with CNN, that was really telling. Pretty obvious the Dems are voting for a far left HARRIS administration now! TRUMP 2020!!
@Pam Deshane pammy, if you`re going to take the time to post and repost this, at least use the right grammar.
@simon kenton Grammar, Spell checker alert. Thanks Simple Simon, Where ARE the reports regarding the ……. I don’t know how to make my point without proper grammar! You are so helpful, take the rest of the day off!
@Pam Deshane you are right, it`s spelled correctly. why would you need a spell checker? you`re also correct that you don`t know how to make a point. what exactly IS your point, anyway?
What I don’t understand is how McConnell is winning from what the polls say. Smh
Hopefully Obama will tell Russia to knock it off like he did in 2016.🙄
Obviously AND TRUMP is having his cronies FLOOD all the comment sections of every video covering it!!! …on ABC NBC CBS + others
They are stupid and we don’t need to listen to stupid!🤑comments by the CULT are great to read they are idiots Trump hamburgers??
their names are american and latino so right off u wouldnt know
…latinos for trump etc they try to fool everyone and FLOOD the comments
We need to get everyone we know registered to vote.
Vote like your life depends on it.
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mancunian candidate = trump + 200,000 dead = holocaust = we walk like sheep off the cliff WAKE UP
I’m immune. Are you? Why not? Is it because democrats prohibited YOU from taking the HCQ cure?
Why do we pay taxes to a fund a worthless cia? Do they like being losers? Trump and his personnel iPhone to Putin is the trouble buddy. WTF aren’t we stopping Russian ips and vpn’s? They allow us to be hacked and socially manipulated. Why are they crying to us. I dont want to hear abiut it. I want the crappt CIA to fux it! We need a real president us the problem here! And peoe in congress who k kw what ips and vpn’s are. The stupid old fools.
Trump’s administration is full of Russian controlled people Including A G Barr
That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. You morons just can’t let go of your kooky conspiracy theories. Maybe you should read the Mueller report. Evidently you didn’t hear him when he told Congress that he found no Russian collusion with the Trump Campaign. STUPID!
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Trump, Russia, possible collusion??
Maxine Waters with some cogent points..
https://youtu.be/lw2BVI9OhC4
Jeffrey Meade – Maybe you should read it. Mueller did not say there was no collusion, and the Senate probe concluded there was. Trump is colluding with Ukraine right now.
– The Republican led Senate Intel Committee concluded that Trump colluded with Russia in 2016.
– Trump has actively worked to get intelligence to change assessments that Russia is targeting the 2020 election to favor him, and has fired two people over it.
– The Trump Tower meeting was a quid pro quo with members of the Russian government to trade illegally obtained dirt for sanction relief.
– 16 Trump associates lied about 140 contacts with Russians after Trump said there were no contacts whatsoever. Mike Pence was asked if there was any contact at all with any Russians. He replied, “Of course not. Why would there be?” He ostensibly admitted there was no good reason for any of the contacts.
– Trump publicly asked Russia to meddle in the 2016 election. “Russia, if you’re listening…”
– The Mueller Report details 10 instances of Obstruction of Justice by Trump.
– Trump campaign strategist, Roger Stone, self described “dirty trickster” was convicted of 7 felonies in connection with the Russia probe. The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee found that Stone had drafted pro-Putin tweets for Trump to send out as his own.
– Trump’s campaign chairman, convicted felon, Paul Manafort, attended the infamous Trump Tower meeting. He offered polling data to a known Russian intelligence officer. 21 states’ voter rolls were hacked. Manafort had been a lobbyist for Putin. He helped install a crooked, pro-Russian dictator in Ukraine.
– The Trump campaign requested one change to the RNC platform, to eliminate language that affirmed US commitment to military aid to Ukraine. At the RNC convention, attended by a Russian ambassador, a Trump staffer made this request. He says he was asked to do it by senior campaign members. Paul Manafort and Trump denied any involvement.
– Roger Stone bragged of being in touch with both the hackers and the disseminators of stolen DNC emails. (Trump commuted Stone’s sentence, but did not pardon him, acknowledging his guilt while simultaneously insisting he is innocent).
– Stone and partner, Jerome Corsi, “predicted” the DNC email hacks. Before Clinton campaign mgr., John Podesta’s email account was hacked, Stone emailed an associate, “It will soon be Podesta’s time in the barrel.”
– Trump lawyer, convicted felon, Michael Cohen, named Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator in an FEC case involving bank fraud. Cohen was involved in a real estate venture to build a Trump Tower in Moscow while Trump was campaigning. Trump lied about the deal, leaving himself vulnerable to blackmail by the Russians, who knew he was lying to the public.
– Trump foreign relations advisor and convicted felon, George Papadopoulos, suggested that Trump meet with Russians to get dirt on Clinton.
– On June 7, 2016, Don Jr. set up the infamous Trump Tower meeting. He denies he told his father about it, but later that day, Trump announced, “I am going to give a major speech on probably Monday of next week and we’re going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the Clintons.” Both Steve Bannon and Michael Cohen say Trump knew about the meeting.
– Trump’s son-in law, Jared Kushner, met with the head of a SANCTIONED Russian bank to discuss setting-up a back-channel to the Kremlin to get around monitoring by US intelligence They discussed a deal in which the US would provide sanction relief in exchange for help with Kushner’s then-failing 666 5th Avenue real estate venture.
– In a private meeting with Putin, Trump took possession of the notes of his own interpreter, and instructed the linguist not to discuss what transpired in the meeting with administration officials.
– The FBI asked the Trump campaign to call if they saw anything suspicious, as they do with all political campaigns, but nobody did. Later, Trump would say, (about the Trump Tower meeting), “I think anyone would have taken that meeting.” After being impeached for blackmailing Ukraine for election help, Trump said that accepting foreign election help was okay.
– At the Helsinki Summit, Trump said he didn’t see why “it WOULD have been Russia” who meddled in our election. He later lied, and said he meant to say “WOULD’T” meddle. Later, on several occasions, he expressed doubt that Russia meddled after all. Trump does, however, trust the intelligence services of Ukraine, a country he calls corrupt, over the CIA.
– During the campaign, former National Security Advisor, convicted felon, Michael Flynn went to Moscow for an RT event. (RT – Russia Today, aka, Russian propaganda), and made a speech disparaging US/Russia policy. He lied about his compensation. He failed to register as a foreign agent.
– Trump security advisor, Carter Page, went to Moscow and made a speech disparaging US/Russia policy. (Page got caught-up in a Russian spy ring in 2013).
– Trump said, “NATO is obsolete”. NATO exists to protect Europe from Russian aggression.
– At a NATO summit, Trump refused to reaffirm Article 5, (The ‘all for one’ article only evoked once, by the US, after 9/11).
– Trump chose Rex Tillerson, former CEO of Exxon, as his first Sec. of State. Tillerson had received Russia’s highest award for a foreigner. Exxon lost a $500 billion oil deal with a Russian, state-run, oil company when the US sanctioned Russia for its illegal invasion of Ukraine. Trump fired Tillerson the day after he publicly criticized Putin.
– Putin did NOT want Clinton to become President. As Secretary of State, she was tough on him. Since taking office, Trump has defunded and refused to fully staff the State Department.
– Trump has NEVER criticized Putin.
– Trump has never expressed anger or disappointment with any of his people for dealing with Russians, supposedly behind his back.
– Trump repeated Russian propaganda many times. He said the USSR occupied Afghanistan in ’79 because of terrorists, and was “right to do it”. (The US was instrumental in driving out the Soviets).
– Trump ordered a troop withdrawal from Syria. (a day before Putin’s annual press conference). Russia is in Syria to protect the Assad regime. This prompted the resignation of the Secretary of Defense.
– Under Obama, the official US position on Syria was that Assad should go. Trump changed that to allow Assad to stay for now.
– The Special Council’s office charged and jailed a suspected Russian spy, Maria Butina, in connection with funneling money to the Trump campaign through the NRA.
– Russian born gangster, felon, and Trump business partner, Felix Sater, is reputed to have been working to get Trump elected. He worked with Trump on the Trump Tower Moscow project. Trump said he didn’t know Sater well, and “probably wouldn’t recognize him if I saw him”. Sater was at Trump’s election victory party. Sater once said he could help make “our guy” president.
– While Putin was running a disinformation campaign against Montenegro, Trump said he thought Montenegro might start WWIII.
– Trump blocked the release of a State Department statement condemning Russia for seizing Ukrainian ships.
– Trump pushed Ukraine to make a deal with Russia in order to lift sanctions imposed on them over their invasion of Ukraine.
– The debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine hacked the DNC in 2016 was originated by Russian military intelligence.
– Trump has repeatedly insisted that Russia should be re-admitted to the G7, without any change in their behavior.
– Trump took funds from the Pentagon budget to fund his wall that came from programs to safeguard Ukraine from Russian aggression.
– Trump refuses to release tax returns that could inform authorities of any business dealings in Russia, and lied about the reason he will not release them.
– Trump has fired or forced-out every senior official involved in the Trump/Russia scandal: Sally Yates, Preet Bharara, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Bruce Ohr…He has disrupted the prosecutorial process of virtually anyone dealing with laundering Russian money through New York – the “capitol” of money laundering through real estate.
Maybe but the play book will fail
This time like trump has failed the USA 🇺🇸
We fire 45 on nov 3 and elect a real man and leader
Biden 46
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Why do we pay taxes to a fund a worthless cia? Do they like being losers? Trump and his personnel iPhone to Putin is the trouble buddy. WTF aren’t we stopping Russian ips and vpn’s? They allow us to be hacked and socially manipulated. Why are they crying to us. I dont want to hear abiut it. I want the crappt CIA to fux it! We need a real president us the problem here! And peoe in congress who k kw what ips and vpn’s are. The stupid old fools.
Everybody get out and vote we must wake up from this Trumbo nightmare
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Why do we pay taxes to a fund a worthless cia? Do they like being losers? Trump and his personnel iPhone to Putin is the trouble buddy. WTF aren’t we stopping Russian ips and vpn’s? They allow us to be hacked and socially manipulated. Why are they crying to us. I dont want to hear abiut it. I want the crappt CIA to fux it! We need a real president us the problem here! And peoe in congress who k kw what ips and vpn’s are. The stupid old fools.
Trump fulfills the wishes of fairy Volodya from the Kremlin.
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CHINA JOE! Where is the reports of the pathetic Biden Town hall with CNN, that was really telling. Pretty obvious the Dems are voting for a far left HARRIS administration now!
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@Pam Deshane And we know what you want to be grabbed by…
Trump fulfills the wishes of fairy Volodya from the Kremlin.
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Trump fulfills the wishes of fairy Volodya from the Kremlin.
Your repetition reminds me of cops who have to empty their guns when they shoot somebody. I usually think, “Premature ejaculator.”
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Trump fulfills the wishes of fairy Volodya from the Kremlin.
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The Russians are trying to subvert our elections. Just like Trump! So obvious a a child can see it. You have to be more blind than a bat to not see it.
Trump is happy for the help again. Putin’s homie.
Trump’s followers have acquired a very special herd mentality that gives them an immunity from facts and logic.
**ignorance is dangerous,,,, and America is paying the price,,, for electing,,, THE MOST IGNORANT PRESIDENT IN MY LIFETIME!!**
Immune to Morona-virus?
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The Grand Old Putin Party.
Why do we pay taxes to a fund a worthless cia? Do they like being losers? Trump and his personnel iPhone to Putin is the trouble buddy. WTF aren’t we stopping Russian ips and vpn’s? They allow us to be hacked and socially manipulated. Why are they crying to us. I dont want to hear abiut it. I want the crappt CIA to fux it! We need a real president us the problem here! And peoe in congress who k kw what ips and vpn’s are. The stupid old fools.
Putin is the 45 president of United States of America.
Trump keeps saying China will own the USA if Biden wins but the really is Trump sold America to Russia