“You can't just blurt the information out to the Russian foreign minister and the Russian ambassador. What happens is, the information goes back to the CIA, to the originating office. The CIA will pull the relevant information out of the report, put it on a new blank sheet of paper and then type at the top, "Secret releasable to Russia." That way, nobody gets in trouble, no sources and methods are revealed, everybody's happy, and we can establish something of a liaison relationship to the Russians. That's not what the president did.”
![“The false reporting by the media, the false, horrible, fake reporting makes it much harder to make a deal with Russia, and probably [Vladimir] Putin said, he's sitting behind his desk a and he's saying, you know, I see what's going on in the United States, I follow it closely, it's going to be…” quote by Donald Trump](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0d1/donald-trump-18_behinds_the-false-reporting-by-the-media-the-fal_1215586.jpg)
![“Russian government was in contact with multiple [Donald] Trump campaign sources while they were doing [attacks]. Russian nemesis in the American government, U.S. State Department, CIA, are not faring well since Donald Trump came to power.” quote by Rachel Maddow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/22d/rachel-maddow-1240_american-government_russian-government-was-in-contact-with-m_2820189.jpg)
