VideoCast: A Russian Storm Around Trump — Carter Page, Michael Cohen, and Helsinki Summit

Posted by Scott Lucas | Jul 22, 2018 | 0

I spoke with George Howell of CNN International on Sunday morning about the growing storm around Donald Trump and his links with Russia.

1. The document authorizing the FBI’s surveillance of Carter Page — a Trump campaign advisor suspected of being a Russian agent since 2013 — outlines intelligence that Russia coordinated its intervention in the 2016 election with not only Page but also *other members of Trump campaign”.

2. How big is Michael Cohen’s threat as Trump’s former lawyer cooperates with the Trump-Russia investigation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller?

“How big is a mountain?”

3. An explanation of how Trump’s gamble on Helsinki Summit with Vladimir Putin, trying to show Trump’s international standing and influence — backfired

The discussion starts from 6:08:

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Scott Lucas

Scott Lucas is Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham; and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView.He is a specialist in US and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran. Formerly he worked as a journalist in the US, writing for newspapers including the Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman before he founded EA WorldView in November 2008.

VideoCast: A Russian Storm Around Trump — Carter Page, Michael Cohen, and Helsinki Summit

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