[Flashback to January 2017] Chuck Schumer: ‘You Take on the Intelligence Community They Have Six Ways From Sunday at Getting Back at You’

EXCERPT:

SCHUMER: “You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you, so even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this.”
MADDOW: “What do you think the intelligence community would do if they were motivated to?”
SCHUMER: “I don’t know. But from what I am told, they are very upset with how he has treated them and talked about them. And we need the intelligence community. Look at the Russian hacking. Without the intelligence community we wouldn’t have discovered it."
MADDOW: "Do we think he has an agenda to try to dismantle parts of the intelligence community? I mean this form of taunting hostility — "
SCHUMER: "Let me tell you, whether you’re a super liberal Democrat or a very conservative Republican, you should be against dismantling the intelligence community."