MSNBC’s Figliuzzi Proposes Creating a ‘Bipartisan Commission’ to Vet Presidential Candidates

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FIGLIUZZI: “He is the most vulnerable president in our history in terms of compromise and potential exposure to those who want to help him dig out of his financial pit in return for a price. And that’s, I think, where the national security problem comes in. That price that they would ask for is that he makes decisions in their best interest not in our best interest. There’s also another layer to this, which is when you’re this entangled with Russia and the former Soviet bloc you’re going to run smack into organized crime figures. In fact in my work in counterintelligence and the FBI we often couldn’t tell the difference between X Russian intelligence officers and current Russian organized crime figures. So there’s too many gaps in the tax returns. There's too many questions. Why is this president paying more to foreign nations in taxes than he is to the United States. How does he cover his debt? Who is doing that for him? What’s the Deutsche Bank connection? Why are there so many golf courses losing so much money? And -- and why the continued purchase of those properties? So I suggest this, Stephanie. We’ve got to have a national discussion about how we vet a presidential candidate. We screwed this up. Whether it’s the media not digging deeply enough, whether it’s a time to have a discussion about a bipartisan committee that demands tax returns, make that a requirement or exposes financial pictures for candidates, but we -- we got this wrong, and this can’t happen again.”