AS WE HEAR REFERENCES (WHICH ARE PROBABLY TRUE) to Trump advisers having connections to Russian interests, note this: John Podesta’s Ties To Russian And Saudi Money.

Plus, this flashback: Ted Kennedy’s Soviet Gambit. “Kennedy’s message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election.”

Then there’s that whole “more flexibility” thing.