MSNBC’s Nance: I Used To Say Trump ‘Was Treason Adjacent, Now I Say He’s Just Neck Deep in Treachery’

>> Exactly. I want to play a little bit of the interview I did with congressman Jim Heinz that sits on the house intelligence committee last night and I have a quick question for you on the other side of that. 
>> Do you trust Donald Trump with the national security of the United States? 
>> I absolutely do not. This president, of course, over the last two years, has demonstrated that he has one concern and one concern only. And that is how much of a big man he is. And how respected and how much he wins as a person. It has nothing to do with the safety of the country. It has nothing to do with the national security of the united States. 
>> You know, Malcolm, Republicans have typically sort of gone back to the innocence of Donald Trump in politics. And he just doesn’t know, he doesn’t adapt, as Sam said, and I don’t think Sam is spinning. But the reality is, Donald Trump has wanted to have president since 1987. He’s had this weird fealty to Russia since the 1980s. He kept saying he was going to run for president. He claims to be an expert in I’m still looking for an explanation as to why he so openly announces his fealty and support to Russia when he does not have to. 
>> No one’s going to get through that shy of a psychologist’s share. 
REID: "But it’s something that someone who is an asset would do? I hate to be conspiratorial, but could that message be to Russia, when he’s saying these things so openly, just so they get on television, in your intelligence background, is there a less-innocent explanation than just, he’s daft?"
NANCE: "Well, I think it’s innocent, only in the sense that they chose him as an asset, due to his phenomenal characteristics of just being a blowhard, of being an arrogant were narcissistic personality. Which, you know, the famous spy said those were the characteristics they wanted in an asset. They wanted a person they could manipulate. Donald Trump is like a case officer’s dream. He comes in and when he comes out and does those arrogant pronunciations, a good intelligence staff like, I don’t know, an ex-former kgb officer and his top four staffers who are kgb, fsb retirees, they would be able to manipulate Donald Trump no matter what he said or when he said it. Donald Trump sees Russia, the Russian oligarchy and Vladimir Putin as his base, equal to the red hats that he has in the United States. So he brags to them in, you know, in the face of America. He does not understand what the Constitution is. I used to say that he was treason adjacent. Now I say that he’s just neck deep in treachery."