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Trey Gowdy is a no-nonsense Republican US Representative from South Carolina. He chairs the house oversight committee and carried out lengthy investigations on Bengazi and Hillary's email servers. He now has critical words for President Trump.
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BAIER: You know, after the president's meeting with Vladimir Putin and that much analyzed press conference in Helsinki, your colleague, Republican colleague from Texas, Congressman Will Hurd, a former CIA officer wrote an op-ed for The New York Times and it was entitled, "Trump is Being Manipulated by Putin. What should we do?" And in it, the Texas Republican writes, quote: Over the course of my career as an undercover officer in the CIA, I saw Russian intelligence manipulate many people. I never thought I would see the day when an American president would be one of them. So, do you agree with Congressman Hurd? Is the president being manipulated by Vladimir Putin?
GOWDY: Well, Will has a background as a CIA officer. I defer to him on manipulation. I can tell you this, Bret, the president has access to every bit of evidence, even more than those of us on House Intel. And Will and I serve on Intel. He has access to Pompeo and Chris Wray and Dan Coats and Nikki Haley. The evidence is overwhelming. It can be proven beyond any evidentiary burden that Russia is not our friend and they tried to attack us in 2016. So, the president either needs to rely on the people that he has chosen to advise him, or those advisors need to reevaluate whether or not they can serve in this administration. But the disconnect cannot continue. The evidence is overwhelming and the president needs to say that and act like it.
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http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2018/07/22/rep-trey-gowdy-on-helsinki-summit-fallout.html
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/22/gowdy-trump-putin-russia-735558
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BAIER: You know, after the president's meeting with Vladimir Putin and that much analyzed press conference in Helsinki, your colleague, Republican colleague from Texas, Congressman Will Hurd, a former CIA officer wrote an op-ed for The New York Times and it was entitled, "Trump is Being Manipulated by Putin. What should we do?" And in it, the Texas Republican writes, quote: Over the course of my career as an undercover officer in the CIA, I saw Russian intelligence manipulate many people. I never thought I would see the day when an American president would be one of them. So, do you agree with Congressman Hurd? Is the president being manipulated by Vladimir Putin?
GOWDY: Well, Will has a background as a CIA officer. I defer to him on manipulation. I can tell you this, Bret, the president has access to every bit of evidence, even more than those of us on House Intel. And Will and I serve on Intel. He has access to Pompeo and Chris Wray and Dan Coats and Nikki Haley. The evidence is overwhelming. It can be proven beyond any evidentiary burden that Russia is not our friend and they tried to attack us in 2016. So, the president either needs to rely on the people that he has chosen to advise him, or those advisors need to reevaluate whether or not they can serve in this administration. But the disconnect cannot continue. The evidence is overwhelming and the president needs to say that and act like it.
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http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2018/07/22/rep-trey-gowdy-on-helsinki-summit-fallout.html
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/22/gowdy-trump-putin-russia-735558