>> Brian: MORE ON TODAY’S TOP
STORY, PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL STAY
AHEAD OF HIS ARHINEMENT
TOMORROW.
>> Ainsley: MARCO RUBIO WARNS
THIS SETS A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT
AND JOINS US NOW.
WHY DO YOU SAY THAT?
>> I WATCH IT HAPPENING IN THE
THIRD WORLD AND DEVELOPING
COUNTRIES, THEY USE PROSECUTORS.
THIS PROSECUTOR PROMISED TO
INDICT DONALD TRUMP.
HE IS USING THE TESTIMONY OF A
CONVICTED LIAR AGAINST THE
PRESIDENT OF HIS OWN PARTY ON
BASIS OF A STATE MISDEMEANOR
THAT HAS PASSED A TWO-YEAR
STATUTE OF LIMITATION AND HE
DOES IT BY LINKING TO ALLEGED
FEDERAL ELECTION VIOLATION THAT
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DECIDED
NOT TO PROSECUTE.
THIS IS AFTER FIRST IMPEACHMENT
OF A SITTING PRESIDENT OVER A
PHONE CALL AND SECOND, A PRIVATE
CITIZEN AFTER OUT OF OFFICE, FBI
RAID OF MAR-A-LAGO, FBI DIRECTOR
LEAKED PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS
WITH THE PRESIDENT TO GET A
SPECIAL PROSECUTOR APPOINTED.
I THINK YOU LOOK AT THAT AND SAY
THIS IS BEING WEAPONIZED AND
USED AND PRECEDENT IS SET.
NOW EVERY PROSECUTOR IN AMERICA
WILL GO OUT AND SAY WHO CAN I
TARGET?
CAN I GO AFTER GEORGE W. BUSH,
BARACK OBAMA, WHO CAN I GO AFTER
TO GET FAMOUS AND I’LL MAKE
SOMETHING UP BECAUSE PARTISANS
ON MY SIDE WILL RALLY BEHIND ME
AND MAKE ME FAMOUS.
THAT IS WHAT THIS SETS UP?
>> SENATOR, HAVE YOU SPOKEN TO
THE FORMER PRESIDENT SINCE THE
INDICTMENT WAS ANNOUNCED?
>> I HAVE NOT.
>> Steve: NUMBER OF REPUBLICANS
HAVE RELUCTANTLY REVEALED A
LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT.
DO YOU THINK IF THIS DOES WIND
UP GOING TO TRIAL, DO YOU THINK
THE FORMER PRESIDENT SHOULD
TESTIFY ON HIS OWN BEHALF?
BILL BARR YESTERDAY SAID NO.
>> I’M NOT GOING TO GIVE LEGAL
ADVICE TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES.
I’M NOT IN A POSITION TO DO
THAT.
I WOULD JUST SAY TO YOU, MY
CONCERNS GO BACK TO WHAT I SAID
BEFORE, THE PRESCEDENCE IT SETS
FOR THE COUNTRY.
I WOULD BE UNCOMFORTABLE IF THE
SITUATION WAS REVERSE INTERESTED
THIS WAS A REPUBLICAN GOING
AFTER A POLITICAL FIGURE ON THE
OTHER SIDE.
IT DOESN’T JUST SMELL POLITICAL,
IT LOOKS IT.
EVEN SOME DEMOCRATS ARE
UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THIS.
SOME ARE UNCOMFORTABLE, THEY
THINK IT HELPS TRUMP, OTHERS
UNDERSTAND ONCE YOU CROSS LINES,
THE OTHERS WILL RESPOND.
HOUSE MINORITY LEADER NORMS IN
AMERICAN POLITICS HAVE BEEN
BROKEN OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS
AND EVERY TIME THEY ARE BROKEN,
YOU CAN’T GO BACK.
THIS IS DESTRUCTIVE AND
POISONOUS. >> Brian: YOU CAN SMASH AND
>> Brian: YOU CAN SMASH AND
CLEAN OUT YOUR SERVER AND YOUR
BLACKBERRY HILLARY CLINTON NEVER
GOT RETRIBUTION OR HELL TO PAY
FOR HER.
ANOTHER BREAKING NEWS STORY, AS
YOU PROJECTED, THAT SPY BALLOON
THAT FLEW ACROSS THE COUNTRY WAS
ACTIVE SPY BALLOON THE CHINESE
WERE GETTING REALTIME
INTELLIGENCE FROM.
THREE OFFICIALS SAY OVER
MILITARY SITES, WE DIDN’T SHOOT
IT DOWN AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN
WORSE HAD WE NOT OBSTRUCTED ITS
VIEW.
WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THE
SPY BALLOON WE ALLOWED TO CROSS
THE COUNTRY BEFORE SHOOTING IT
DOWN?
>> I CAN TELL YOU WITHOUT
GETTING IN TROUBLE FOR REVEALING
CLASSIFIED INFORMATION, YOU
DON’T SPEND MONEY AND DO
SOMETHING DARING LIKE THAT,
THESE SPY BALLOONS ARE NOT FOR
AERIAL EPISODE OF THE
SMITHSONIAN, THERE IS A REASON
THESE THINGS FLY, TO COLLECT
SIGNAL INTELLIGENCE.
PART IS A TEST AND PART IS
COLLECTING INTELLIGENCE IN
REALTIME, VIDEO SIGNALS,
INTELLIGENCE, STILL PICTURES FED
BACK IN REALTIME.
THAT IS WHAT THIS WAS.
>> Brian: THIS IS JOHN KIRBY,
LISTEN TO SENATOR -- EXCUSE ME,
ADMIRAL KIRBY.
LISTEN.
>> WE HAVE NO SPECIFIC REASON TO
CONDUCT THEY WERE CONDUCTING
SURVEILLNESSA OF ANY TIME.
>> THEY WERE PROBABLY FOR BENIGN
PURPOSES, WEATHER, COMMERCIAL,
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.
>> Brian: DOES HE MEAN WHAT HE’S
SAYING?
DOES HE NOT THINK WE WILL FIND
OUT?
>> WHEN IS THAT SECOND COMMENT
FROM?
THAT IS A BLATANT OUT RIGHT LIE.
>> Ainsley: FEBRUARY.
>> THAT’S A LIE, IT WAS A LIE IN
FEBRUARY AND A LIE IN APRIL
THACHL IS NOT TRUE.
EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS WAS DONE
FOR ESPIONAGE. I HAVE NEVER HEARD FROM ANYONE
I HAVE NEVER HEARD FROM ANYONE
IN THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
THIS WAS FOR BENIGN PURPOSES.
IF FOR BENIGN PURPOSES, NO
REASON THEY WOULDN’T HAVE
NOTIFIED US, THAT IS A LIE.
>> Brian: THEY THINK WE’RE ALL
IDIOTS.
>> WELL, I THINK THIS IS A
PROBLEM WHEN POLITICS INFUSES
NATIONAL SECURITY, DOMESTIC
POLITICS.
PERHAPS HE’S GONE BACK AND
CHANGED HIS POINT OF VIEW, IT
WAS A SPY BALLOON, PERIOD, END
OF STORY.
YOU CAN ARGUE, WE SPY ON THEM,
YOU CANNOT ARGUE THIS WAS
ANYTHING OTHER THAN A SPY
BALLOON.
>> Ainsley: YOU WOULD KNOW, YOU
ARE VICE CHAIR OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE.
COMMITTEE.
YOU HAVE A NEW BOOK COMING OUT,
"DECADES OF DECADENCE," TELL US
ABOUT IT.
>> IF YOU LOOK AT WHERE THE
WORLD WAS END OF COLD WAR, THE
WORLD SUPER POWER, WE HAD ALL
KIND OF THINGS GOING IN OUR
DIRECTION AND THEN WE -- --
THESE THINGS OVER TIME OUR
POSITION IN THE WORLD HAS
CONTINUED TO RETREAT.
BOTTOM LINE, WHEN YOU HAD IT SO
GOOD FOR SO LONG, YOU THINK IT
IS AUTOMATIC, YOU THINK IT IS
GOING TO SELF-SUSTAIN AND YOU
DON’T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING AND
FORGET HOW YOU GOT THERE IN THE
FIRST PLACE.
WE HAVE FOR FIRST TIME IN 30
YEARS ADVERSARY IN CHINA THAT
INTENDS TO OVERTAKE US BY
DIMINISHING US, AS THEY RISE AND
WE CONTINUE TO SEE IT TO THIS
DAY IN OUR TRADE POLICY AND
NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY AND WAY
WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THE SPY
BALLOON.
TIME TO WAKE UP, WE’RE IN AN ERA
OF CONFLICT.
>> Steve: COVER OF YOUR NEW BOOK
GOES ON SALE JUNE 13TH, I’LL BET