Writer Peter Schweizer on FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures.” MARIA BARTIROMO: If you go back and think about the way President Trump was dealing with being commander in chief, he didn’t have cooperation. He didn’t have people who wanted to be in the administration. A lot of people were skeptical about even joining his administration, so he couldn’t get the right people into jobs. You had questions about a sitting commander-in-chief. That kept him in a box, unable to do certain things that he could have done to lead the American people even better. PETER SCHWEIZER: Yeah, no, I think that’s a great description, Maria. And, of course, I think they’re probably trying to do that right now in different ways. I will also point out, Maria, I think it was particularly rich-the John Podesta exchange that you had. This is a guy that, literally, a couple of years before that interview was on the board of directors of an energy company that had taken $ 40 million from Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, which was personally run by Vladimir Putin. So it’s absurd what they did. Look, I think the more transparency, the better. One name I’d like to see out there more is Gina Haspel. She was the CIA director appointed by Donald Trump. She certainly had access to this material. It’s interesting to me that she had been the London chief of the CIA in the 2000s. In 2014, John Brennan sent her back to London, which is a highly unusual move. And she was there throughout this period, and much of the Russia collusion intel-fake intel-was coming out of London, from Steele and others. So it’s a very interesting question: What role did she play not only in perhaps creating this, but what role did she play in suppressing it when she was CIA director, if she was supposed to be serving Donald Trump rather than the CIA establishment?

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