THE LATEST EDITION OF "TIME" MAGAZINE FEATURES TRUMP’S FACE
MORPHING INTO PRESIDENT PUTIN.
MIKE QUIGLEY OF ILLINOIS SITS ON
THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE.
LET ME GO TO CONGRESSMAN
QUIGLEY, IT IS NOT JUST THAT HE
IS A RUSSIAN.
IT IS NOT JUST THAT HE IS A
FORMER SOVIET.
FORMER SOVIET. BUT VLADIMIR PUTIN IS A CAGEY
AGENT OF HIS TIME.
SWORN IN, DUTY BOUND SPY.
THAT IS WHAT HE IS.
HE COULD DO ANYTHING.
PROBABLY ENGAGE IN TORTURE.
PERSONALLY HAS DONE IT ALL AND
INVITING HIM INTO THE HOME OF
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES.
STATES. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT
PROTOCOL VIOLENCE?
PROTOCOL VIOLENCE? >> IT’S SCAREY.
I NOW SERVED ON INTEL COMMITTEE
FOR ABOUT THREE AND A HALF
YEARS, I HAVE THE GREATEST
RESPECT FOR THE MEMBERS OF THAT
COMMUNITY.
COMMUNITY. MANY OF THEM GIVEN THEIR LIVES
TO KEEP US SAFE.
AND HERE WE ARE ATTACKING THEM.
SINCE BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES AS CANDIDATE
TRUMP ATTACKING THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY AND DEFENDING AND
NEVER ATTACKING MR. PUTIN.
IT IS BEYOND DESCRIPTION.
>> STEVE, WHAT WOULD YOU MAKE OF
A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT, OR A LOT
OF PEOPLE ON THE TRUMP SIDE,
THOSE LINING UP BEHIND HIM
AGAIN.
AGAIN. WHAT WOU THEY HAVE DONE IF
BARACK OBAMA HAD COWKOWTOWED TO
RUSSIAN LEADER LIKE THIS GUY
HAS.
HAS. TO BE DRAGGED OVER TO MOSCOW FOR
INTERROGATION AND ON TOP OF
THAT, INVITE THE LEADER OF THE
FORMER HEAD OF THE KGB COME TO
THE WHITE HOUSE FOR DIN DIN.
WHAT DO YOU THINK THE REACTION
WOULD HAVE BEEN?
>> PRESIDENT OBAMA IF HAD HE HAD
DONE THAT, WOULD HAVE BEEN
IMPEACHED ALREADY FOR SURE.
THE MOST MYSTIFYING THING ABOUT
ALL OF THIS IS THE FAILING TO
STAND UP TO A PRESIDENT WHO HAS
DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF WITH A
SINGULAR DISHONOR.
SINGULAR DISHONOR. FIRST AMERICAN PRESIDENT WHO
REFUSES TO DEFEND THE COUNTRY
FROM THE ATTACK LAUNCHED ON IT
BY A HOSTILE FOREIGN POWER AT
THE ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT OF
RUSSIA, THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
LAUNCHED A CYBER WAR AGAINST THE
UNITED STATES INTERFERING ON OUR
ELECTION PROCESS.
ELECTION PROCESS. ATTACK ON OUR SOVEREIGNTY.
THIS IS WHAT GEORGE WASHINGTON
WARNED THE COUNTRY ABOUT.
REMARKABLE TO PLAY OUT THIS WEEK
AND TO SEE OVER ON FOX, STAY TV,
ALL THE EXCUSE MAKING,
GYMNASTICS GOING ON TRYING TO
EXCUSE TRUMP ON THIS.
>> THE PRESIDENT, AS A CANDIDATE
PROMISED TO PUT AMERICA FIRST.
NO MORE TAKING CRAP FROM
EVERYTHING.
EVERYTHING. WHY IS HE TAKING EVERYTHING IN
THE FACE FROM PUTIN, EVERYTHING.
THE ATTACKS, THE SUGGESTION THAT
THEY WANT McFAUL TO BE
INVESTIGATED.
INVESTIGATED. AND NOW TRUMP IS GIVEN THEM
EXACTLY WHAT PUTIN WANTS.
TO BE TREATED LIKE A HUMAN BEING
WHICH HE IS NOT.
YOUR THOUGHTS?
YOUR THOUGHTS? >> I WAS AT THAT HELSINKI SUMMIT
AND IN THE ROOM WHEN THE PRESS
CONFERENCE HAPPENED.
CONFERENCE HAPPENED. IT WASN’T JUST THAT PRESIDENT
TRUMP IS TREATING PRESIDENT
PUTIN AS A HUMAN BEING.
IN THAT REGARD HE WAS ALLOWING
PRESIDENT PUTIN TO BE THE HOST
ALMOST.
ALMOST. IT COULD HAVE BEEN HAPPENING IN
RUSSIA BECAUSE HE SPOKE FIRST,
CLEARLY HAD THE BODY LANGUAGE
THAT HE WAS HAVING A GOOD TIME
AND THIS WAS ABOUT PRESIDENT
TRUMP SAYING I AM THE RIGHTFUL
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
AND I DON’T OWE RUSSIA ANYTHING
FOR MY VICTORY.
THIS HAS BECOME SO PERSONAL FOR
HIM.
HIM. REALLY, IT IS ABOUT TRUMP BEING
FIRST AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT I
TALK TO, TODAY I WAS TALKING TO
SOURCES FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF
HOMELAND SECURITY AND FORMER
SENIOR OFFICIALS FROM THE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WHO DEAL
WITH NATIONAL SECURITY AND ALL
OF THEM SAID THE NATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY IS
WORRIED ABOUT WHAT PRESIDENT
TRUMP SAID TO PRESIDENT PUTIN IN
THE TWO-HOUR MEETING.
WORRIED THAT HE MADE ASSURANCES
WITH PRESIDENT PUTIN AND GAVE
AWAY WHAT THE U.S. DOESN’T EVEN
KNOW WHAT HAPPENED YET.
THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY IS
REALLY, REALLY SCARED.
>> STEVE, YOU ARE SUCH A SMART
POLITICAL GUY, DIDN’T YOU GET
THE SENSE WATCHING PUTIN, HE HAD
THE SECONDARY CHARACTERISTICS OF
A GUY WHO HAD A TORTURED AND
LICENSED JOB.
LICENSED JOB. THAT SMIRK ON HIS FACE.
I GOT THIS GUY IN MY CAPTIVITY,
I AM ENJOYING THIS.
THIS IS THE KIND OF TORTURE I
LIKE AS A KGB EXPERT.
>> HE IS A KGB COLONEL.
WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE THAT.
HE SAW SOMEBODY STANDING NEXT TO
HIM WHO IS CLEARLY DOING HIS
BIDDING BY DESIGN WHETHER IT IS
A BY OMISSION OR COMISSION.
THERE IS A TERM THE RUSSIANS
USE, IT IS USEFUL IDIOT.
AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES IS A RUSSIAN USEFUL
IDIOT.
IDIOT. DOING THE BIDDING OF A RUSSIAN
AUTOCRAT.
AUTOCRAT. WEAKENING NATO, ASSAULTING THE
EUROPEAN UNION.
EUROPEAN UNION. THESE ARE ALL THE PRIMARY AND
FUNDAMENTAL STRATEGIC GOALS OF
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION TO WEAKEN
NATO, TO WEAKEN THE EUROPEAN
UNION.
UNION. AND THE PERSON MORE THAN ANY
OTHER HUMAN BEING ON ALL THE
PLANET THAT IS DOING THE BIDDING
OF VLADIMIR PUTIN TO ACHIEVE
THOSE ENDS IS THE AMERICAN
PRESIDENT.
PRESIDENT. EXTRAORDINARILY DANGEROUS MOMENT
TO PONDER.
TO PONDER. >> ARE YOU PEOPLE GOING TO LET
THIS GUY, INTO THE HOUSE CHAMBER
TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE IN A JOINT
MEETING.
MEETING. IF TRUMP ALLOWS YOU TO DO THAT.
WOULD YOU GO ALONG WITH IT?
>> I DON’T THINK WE WILL.
BUT IT IS UP TO SPEAKER RYAN.
MY AMENDMENT TODAY WOULD HAVE
PROVIDED ADDITIONAL RESOURCES.
IT FAILED ON A PARTY LINE VOTE.
THE SAME PEOPLE, THE SAME
REPUBLICANS WHO TWEETED OUT
DISAGREEING WITH THE PRESIDENT’S
ACCURACIES IN HELSINKI TODAY
VOTED AGAINST PROVIDING
RESOURCES TO PREVENT CYBER
HACKING, PROVIDE TRAINING AND
EQUIPMENT BECAUSE OUR EQUIPMENT
IS SO OLD, IT CAN’T EVEN HANDLE
ANTI HACKING SOFTWARE.
AGAINST THAT BACKDROP, MR. COATS
TALKED ABOUT HOW THEY ARE COMING
AFTER US AGAIN ON ELECTION
HACKING.
HACKING. MY REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES DID
NOTHING.
NOTHING. >> GREAT IF YOU INTRODUCE A
RESOLUTION, EVEN IF IT WON’T GET
PASSED BY THE REPUBLICAN
MAJORITY.
MAJORITY. IT WOULD CHALLENGE THEM TO SAY
IT IS THE WILL OF THE HOUSE THAT
THIS MAN WHO OVERSAW AN ATTEMPT
TO DISRUPT AND DISCREDIT OUR
ELECTORAL PROCESS, WILL NOT
SPEAK IN THIS HOUSE.
THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
ANY CHANCE OF THAT HAPPENING?
THE DEMOCRATS PUSHING, PELOSI
AND THE REST OF YOU FOLKS
PUSHING.
PUSHING. AND FORCING TO EITHER EAT IT OR
FIGHT IT.
FIGHT IT. >> I AGREE.
TODAY WAS FULL THROTTLE
ENGAGELET
ENGAGELET ENGAGEMENT WITH THEM.
>> I HOPE YOU CHALLENGE MR. RYAN
TO SHOW GUTS AND SAY KNOW TO THE
PRESIDENT.
PRESIDENT. IT IS AN EMBARRASSMENT.
WORSE EMBARRASSMENT IF HE PUT
HIM IN THE WELL OF THE HOUSE.
MEANWHILE, PRESIDENT TRUMP IS
CLAIMING HE HAS BEEN TOUGH ON
RUSSIA.
RUSSIA. WHILE TRYING TO CAST HIS
PREDECESSOR BARACK OBAMA TO
BEING BEHOLDEN.
BEING BEHOLDEN. >> LOOK AT ALL OF THE THINGS
THAT I HAVE DONE.
NOBODY ELSE DID WHAT I HAVE
DONE.
DONE. OBAMA DIDN’T DO IT.
HE WAS A PATSY FOR RUSSIA.
LOOK AT THE STATEMENTS WHEN HE
THOUGHT THE MICS WERE TURNED
OFF.
OFF. GETTING ALONG WITH PRESIDENT
PUTIN, GETTING ALONG WITH RUSSIA
IS A POSITIVE, NOT A MEGTIVE.
NOW WITH THAT BEING SAID, IF
THAT DOESN’T WORK OUT, I WILL BE
THE WORST ENEMY HE HAS EVER HAD.
>> THE SANCTIONS CAME ABOUT
UNDER OBAMA.
UNDER OBAMA. >> WELL THE PRESIDENT, THE WHITE
HOUSE REALLY DOES HAVE THAT SAME
KIND OF TALKING POINT WHEN YOU
ASK THEM ABOUT THE U.S. POLICY
TOWARDS RUSSIA.
TOWARDS RUSSIA. THEY WILL SAY WE EXPELLED
PEOPLE, CLOSED RUSSIAN CONSULATE
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
I WAS TALKING TO THE FORMER U.S.
REPRESENTATIVE TO NATO.
HE WAS SAYING, NATO ALLIES, THEY
ARE GOING TO CRAFT WORK-AROUNDS
FOR THE UNITED STATES.
SO THE IDEA THAT WHILE HE IS
SAYING OKAY, I HAVEN’T TAKEN
AWAY SANCTIONS, HE DIDN’T SAY
THE WORD SANCTIONS.
NOWHERE DID HE SAY WE ARE GOING
TO KEEP OUR SANCTIONS STRONG.
SO EVEN IF THE POLICY IS STRONG
FOR NOW.
FOR NOW. ALREADY LOOKING AT TRUMP SAYING
WE DON’T TRUST THAT GUY.
>> STEVE, TELL ME ABOUT CHRIS
WRAY.
WRAY. HIS CONVERSATION TODAY IT SEEMED
TO BE HE TALKED ABOUT RESIGNING.
HE WAS SO CONCERNED ABOUT
TRUMP’S BEHAVIOR.
TRUMP’S BEHAVIOR. >> I THINK YOU SEE THE
REMARKABLE VIDEO FROM THE ASPEN
SECURITY COUNSEL.
SECURITY COUNSEL. AT THE END OF THE DAY, WHEN YOU
LOOK AT DONALD TRUMP’S PUTIN
FETISH, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE
THINGS THAT HE HAS DONE OVER THE
LAST TEN-DAYS.
LAST TEN-DAYS. ATTACKS ON THE NATO ALLIES.
DESTABILIZING THAT ALLIANCE.
LASTLY, THE WEAKEST PERFORMANCE
BY AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT, THE
HEAD OF STATE OF THE UNITED
STATES STANDING NEXT TO A
FOREIGN LEADER IN THE HISTORY OF
ELECTRONIC RECORDINGS OF THIS
TYPE OF EVENTS.
WE HAVE NEVER SEEN A WEAKER
PERFORMANCE BY A PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES STANDING NEXT
TO ANY LEADER LET ALONE ONE THAT
HAS ATTACKED THE COUNTRY,
ATTACKED THE ELECTIONS PROCESS.
THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR WAR
CRIMES ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST.
THE ANNEXATION OF HIS
NEIGHBORING STATES AND HIS
ATTEMPTS TO WEAKEN LIBERAL
DEMOCRACY ALL ACROSS THE WORLD.
NOT A SINGLE LINE OF OPPOSITION
TO THEM.
TO THEM. IT WAS GUTLESS, IT WAS WEAK, IT
WAS SERVILE AND UNPRECEDENTED
FOR AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT TO
SHOW THAT TYPE OF WEAKNESS.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHY IS HE DOING
THIS, THERE ARE NO GOOD ANSWERS.
AND I THINK THAT INCREASINGLY,
AS WE LOOK FORWARD, THIS
PRESIDENT IS BECOMING MORE
UNHINGED.
UNHINGED. HE IS BECOMING MORE ERRATIC.
HIS BEHAVIOR IS BECOMING MORE
ALARMING WITH EACH PASSING DAY.
AND THOUGH THERE ARE ALL SORTS
OF PEOPLE THAT ARE TRYING TO
EXCUSE IT AWAY, THE WHOLE
COUNTRY JUST SAW WHAT THEY SAW
WITH THEIR OWN EYES.