Im quoting from that. I cant believe i just had to say that, but its not admissible in court, but it is a potent weapon in the porn Stars Campaign against the president. Stormy daniels tweeting tonight, quote, technically, i didnt sleep with the potus 12 years ago. There was no sleeping, hehe. And he was just a goofy reality tv star. But i digress. People do care that he lied about it, had me bullied, broke laws to cover it, et cetera. And p. S. , im not going anywhere, xoxoxo. Is this really happening . The president may really have met his match in Stormy Daniels. Tonight, im going to talk to one of her friends, who said she and daniels have both been threatened in an effort to keep them quiet. But there is more. In addition to Stormy Daniels, theres the former playboy model who says that she had a tenmonth affair with trump. Karen mcdougal says she had an affair with trump at about the same time as Stormy Daniels. She sold her story to the Parent Company of the national enquirer, which killed that story. Now mcdougal wants out of the 150,000 agreement, so she can speak freely. Theres also former apprentice contestant, Summer Zervos. She says trump groped her in 2006 and she says he defamed her by calling her a liar. Now a judge is refusing to dismiss her lawsuit against him. Even for a president whos no stranger to depositions and lawsuits, this is a lot. And it comes as the president s team is laying the groundwork for what could be a monumental interview with the special counsel, robert mueller, amid serious questions about what exactly it is between the president of the United States and russia. President trump called Vladimir Putin today to congratulate him on his victory in what can only be called a rigged election. We first found out from the kremlin, by the way, what the president apparently didnt do according to Sarah Sanders is condemn the nerve agent poisoning in the uk which the british and our government have blamed on moscow. And theres more. The Washington Post reporting that the president congratulated putin even though his National Security advisers warned him in his briefing, in all capital letters, no less, quote, do not congratulate. But apparently a president who loves nothing more than to talk about his own Electoral College triumph just couldnt keep himself from congratulating the russian dictator on his victory. Well also have the latest on the hunt for a serial bomber in austin, texas, to tell you about. Thats coming up a little bit later on in the show. All right. So here we go. Lets bring in now cnn politics editor at large, chris cillizza. Legal analyst, laura coates, and ana navarro and scott jennings. Ive got to ask, chris, before i get are the floodgates opening . So, first of all, congratulations, don. I just wanted to offer that up. Second, i dont know, i mean, none of these allegations, summer, zervos, katherine mcdougal, and obviously Stormy Daniels, none of these are new. No, no, no, but heres what im asking but yes, but maybe im thinking, this is why theyre silencing, i had this conversation earlier. Maybe theyre trying to silence Stormy Daniels to keep that nda in tact because one woman, two woman, three women, four. And okay, you let her out of hers, maybe you can let me out of mine. So we knew about the allegations prior to the election. What we didnt know, and this is what makes the Stormy Daniels case different and what makes it potentially hugely problematic for trump and the floodgates opening is we know about the 130,000 payment, right . Michael cohen, Donald Trumps lawyer fixer, made a payment through an llc he set up seemingly for that purpose. Why . He says he didnt believe it. Well, unlike all the other allegations he said she said, this is a payment of 130,000. So i think that what youve seen with Stormy Daniels has emboldened these other women that were now seeing come forward to say, wait a minute, i had a very similar setup here. I want to also be able to tell my story. So, yeah, its fascinating because the Stormy Daniels thing seemed totally dismissible way back when. A reality tv star had an affair with he had an affair with someone whos a porn star. Okay, no one voted for donald trump because they thought he was the outstanding moral you know, the example of moral turpitude in america. Well, some people did. They said that he was forgiven and he had asked for forgiveness. True. 130,000. That cohen payment is so central to everything that comes after it. Because its different in kind than what we knew about before. Lets get to the law lady here. To the lawyer. These women are a triple threat, laura. How strong of a case do they have . Really, the woman of the hour is Summer Zervos. Shes got the strongest case right now, because it was her case, its not necessarily about whether or not there was a Sexual Assault, but she has the one advantage that no one else does. Shes got a court of law in new york saying that the president of the United States, the sitting president , is not immune to a civil action in a state court. He can be deposed, potentially. Its potentially a minefield. And the achilles heels to the attorneys were trying to avoid in every other litigation. But Stormy Daniels case also presents its own unique issue for the reasons youve already laid out, john. And that is that the reason that the president of the United States and his team is likely fighting so hard about this one is to avoid the floodgates from opening and to send a very clear signal, if this contract is valid. And theres a strong argument why it would be valid, if this type of contract is valid, its trying to serve as a deterrent for whoever else may come along and try to break it. Remember, hes retained charles harder, who was known for his counsel with hulk hogan in the gawker litigation that brought down gawker and got 100 million plus jury verdict in this case. And so when you think about this spectrum of the people who are very, very strong in their push against the president and why hes chosen his counsel, it really brings you to that last person, mcdougal. Her case may be similar to Stormy Daniels, but its different in one key respect. She doesnt have the advantage of having a contract between a david dennison, aka, donald trump and perhaps Michael Cohen. Its between a Media Company whos required to do what they call the catch and kill. Youre required to never talk about it with anybody else and im never required to publish your story. Thats the weakest of the cases among them, but its certainly its indicative of the fact if whats true, she says Michael Cohen may have been behind the scenes pulling the strings behind this. This all comes down to that the president can now be sued in civil cases, in state court, and there is still a Campaign Finance issue that revolves around all of them. Scott, you know they say a picture is worth a thousand words. Heres Stormy Daniels taking a polygraph test in 2011, which concluded that she was telling the truth an her sexual relationship with donald trump. With a 1 , a 1 chance of deception. Does this photo have any impact . Look, im not sure the alleged affair on probable affair, whatever you want to call it, is having any impact on the president. Look at the nbc news wall street journal from this weekend. The Stormy Daniels story had been out there for a couple of weeks and he has ticked up to 46 job approval. The potential legal impacts are worrying if youre a supporter of the president. You know, depositions that could be coming out, more information about when this was happening and what was going on. It will interactions between stormy and cohen. I mean, these things are worrying, because they could have a Material Impact on how people view the president s interactions with women. Its interesting, though, right now, if you just look at his job approval in the most recent national surveys, it hasnt yet taken a toll. But i do remember, if you look at the micro piece of this, women in suburban america, we saw a lot of them come out in the virginia governors race last year, are they looking at these things saying, im going to send a message in november. If youre a Republican Party operative, through that lens, its very politically troubling. Let me just say this to you. And its the same thing i said during the campaign when maybe the polls werent showing that donald trump was leading or even catching on. I would say, i hear people all the time sort of whispering to me, hey, i like that guy and im going to vote for him. I said, i dont know whats going on here, but i think he has a chance. So you know what people are talking about in every single facet of my life, no matter the demographic . You know what theyre talking about . Stormy daniels. Every Single Person from my 70somethingyearold mother to my 20somethingyearold niece. Theyre all talking about Stormy Daniels. Ana, the polygraph report, which was given to cnn by michael avenatti, daniels attorney had three pertinent questions, okay . I cant believe i have to say this on tv, but these are the facts. Around july of 2006, did you have vaginal intercourse with donald trump . Stormy daniels answered yes. Next question, around july of 2006, did you have unprotected sex with donald trump . Stormy daniels, yes. And finally, did trump say you would get on the apprentice . Stormy daniels answered yes. So daniels replied yes to all three questions. The first two were analyzed to be truthful. The third question was inconclusive according to the polygraph examiner. So whats this tell you . Oh, my god. What does this tell me . Look, it tells me that we are living in an epoch of political surrealism, to hear you read that off the teleprompter, i almost feel like you are auditions for a part in house of cards. What you are reading is insane. That we are talking about this is insane. That we are not talking about like today is six months after maria devastated puerto rico. That were not talking about things like the march 5th deadline of daca passed. That were not talking about things like the russian election. You know, it is maddening, because weve got to talk about this. Look i absolutely think that it is having a political effect. And not maybe not as much on trump, because we already all knew that he was no moral compass. What it does, though, is it really harms the Republican Party. The Republican Party has billed itself as the Family Values Party for decades. And now, how can you lecture anybody about family values when you look the other way and remain silent in light of this . When you are saying that he gets mulligan after mulligan. Where i do think that it has got to be, its got to be affecting donald trump is in his personal life. It is in his personal life. Look, ive got to think that Melania Trump has got to be mad as hell about everything thats going on. And perhaps its you know, your question about why is he fighting this so hard. One is, the floodgate issue that you mentioned and another one is because its got to be wreaking havoc in his personal life, frankly. Yeah. I agree with you again. Another conversation i had, why are they fighting . And i said, it probably has a lot to do with the first lady and number two, floodgates opening up. Its got to be terribly humiliating for her. Stormy daniels tweeted this today. Technically i didnt sleep with the potus 12 years ago. There was no sleeping hehe and he was a goofy Television Reality star. But i digress, people do care that he lied about it, had me bullied, broke laws to cover it up, et cetera. And ps, i am not going anywhere, xoxoxo. Is she trolling the president despite a threat of 20 million that she doesnt appear to be afraid of him. Michael cohen . Clearly, shes not going anywhere. And her lawyer seems like a ubiquitous presence now across all media platforms. So theyve obviously dug in and they think theyve got ahold of something. I think its not yet proven about the bullying and not yet proven about shes accused the president of being a criminal. Those are allegations and those are not yet proven. The affair, i think people assume happened, and it doesnt appear to be having an impact. So theyre going to have to take it a step farther and actually prove these allegations. My advice to the white house all along, you know, since this story broke was, it strikes me that given the kind of lawyer she has and given the kind of situation this is, all the facts are coming out. Theres going to be no way to suppress this forever. So at some point, somebody, probably cohen is going to be the first one, is going to have to step forward and say, okay, okay. I find it inconceivable that the entirety of the facts arent going to come out. All right, laura, i want you to respond, but just listen. Right now, its not in a courtroom. I dont know if it will ever go to court. But in the court of Public Opinion, you mentioned her attorney, theyre winning. Theyre playing the reality show, i dont know if its a game or whatever, but they are really playing it well and he does well on television and people love watching it, shes tweeting it and shes trolling him. The court of Public Opinion right now, Stormy Daniels winning. Go ahead, laura. Well, welcome to the show. Thats what in fact is happening here. But whether thats going to persuasive in a court of law is a very different story. But make no mistake, you have not heard from Stormy Daniels directly today but for today. And why is that . What she did is cast out a very long line that you can call bait. It was the equivalent of her saying, here, kitty, kitty, here, kitty. Make no mistake of what happened today, Summer Zervos case was not thrown out of court. Why . Not because a court is trying to figure out whether or not a Sexual Assault happened between her and then citizen donald trump, but because he called her a liar. Thats another way for people to pursue these types of actions. The idea of defamation cases getting you into courts. Shes probably trying to cast out this line, trying to have this bait out in front of the mouse hole and hoping hell take it. Because if he does, in fact, call her a liar, what can you do . You have to then litigate whether the underlying actions actually happened. Its another way for her to try to get in the court of Public Opinion one, but also, more pressingly, in the court of law. Theyre borrowing examples from one another. Whether its conscious or subconscious, its happening. And this playbook will get passed around to im sure several other people. Remember, avenatti just told you last week, that there were about, what, six women who had come to him with similar stories . That playbook is probably getting passed around. If he takes the bait, hell be hook, line, and sinker. All right, stand by, everyone. When we come back, President Trump facing a looming possibility of an interview with robert mueller. 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Back with me now, chris cillizza, laura coates, ana navarro, and scott jenning. So given what i just read, chris, im going to come to you first. Do you understand now why people are so suspicious about what the deal is between the president and the russians . I mean, look. At some point, don, you have to add up his unwillingness to come out and say, without any caveats, yes, russia did this. Hes clearly pained when he does do it. His touting of putin as someone he could work with. I mean, i dont know that it adds up to anything, but it certainly is more than just a single string. It is now a narrative thats spanned over a number of years. The thing that i find totally revealing about this is that, this is donald trump. If you wanted him to ensure that he would congratulate Vladimir Putin, the most surefire way to do so is to tell him not to. The one thing we have learned throughout his political career and really his private life, as well, if you say to him, mr. President , no one has ever done this before in office, if you do this, it will be a break of protocol, it will be record setting, hes sure to do it. I think you have to understand his psyche. He is someone who is naturally a provocateur, a contrarian, does not want to be told what to do. All of these things are at play here. And that it has to do with russia, that he didnt bring up the poisoning, that he didnt bring up the confirmed russian meddling in the 2016 election. And the Intelligence Community saying they will do it again, in fact, theyre probably already at work to do it again in the 2018 election. I think at some point, that should be concerning. Scott, it was written on briefing it was part of his written briefing, thats according to the the New York Times reporting that he may not have seen the cards. Thats a big problem, right, scott . Well, let me take a counter narrative to what chris was talking about. I do agree with him that the president s own rhetoric on russia has been weaker than his overall administrative posture. His administration has been pretty tough on russia. Look at the sanctions that just rolled out. But its true, the president in his own rhetoric and own actions has personally not been as tough. That did come that comes from his deputies, though. Even the sanctions on russia, everything negative or harsh on russia comes from his deputies. It doesnt come from the president s mouth. But those are really actions, undertaken by the administration. Let me say one other thing about whats come out tonight. Everybodys talking about, do not congratulate and, you know, but theres been recent polling, and chris knows this, that shows a significant personal of americans actually believe in the concept that there is a deep state working in the National Security field to undermine this president. And within mere minutes of him having a conversation with the president of russia, what do we get . Leaks to major media organizations of confidential notes. Those are legal actions. Do you want to keep feeding the narrative that theres a deep state out there trying to undermine this president . Then keep acting like it. Im pretty mad about it. Who would be leaking except for someone who is in the president s inner circle who knows about the conversations hes having with putin and the russians . That wouldnt be deep state. That wouldnt be someone who doesnt have no, those kinds of materials are viewed by both political appointees and career people. There are people in both generas that have takz to nap i dont know whos leaking it, but they ought to find him and march him out of the white house and charge him with a crime. You cannot operate a presidency with this kind of information leaking like this and so quickly after a call occurred. Its ridiculous. Thats a nice pivot. Go ahead, ana. Look, thats a really nice pivot, but we learned about the phone call to putin from russia. Then donald trump confirmed it today to the president and then Sarah Sanders came out and basically confirmed that, no, the issue of the elections, the issue of the poisoning had not been addressed. Look, you know, i remember when republicans used to be against us cozying up to dictators of this kind. I found it appalling when barack obama went to cuba and legitimatized raul castro. I found it appalling when jimmy carter and his Foundation Went to nicaragua and legitimatized the fraudulent election of orte ortega. And i dont care if he is a republican or is pretending to be, i find it equally appalling to see donald trump now legitimatizing a fraudulent election in russia by a dictator whos been poisoning people on the soil of our biggest ally. And i am equally appalled by the relative silence of the Republican Party, who was very vocal when it was obama doing and jimmy carter doing it, when it was anybody else doing it. But for the lone exception of john mccain, who continues to be the morality, who continues to be the moral compass of this party, even if his sick bed, most republicans have looked the other way and have very soft words about the actions that donald trump took today. It is appalling. But also, to scotts point, and i dont know if scott was legitimateizing this, but believing in some sort of deep state, which is a Conspiracy Theory and not necessarily fact. Laura, the president seems to be on a collision course with robert mueller. Hes shaking up his legal team. Ted olson, one of the nations top litigators, a former attorney general for george w. Bush wont join him. He also hired joe digenova. What does that tell you . Well, speaking of deep state, youve got now an attorney thats promoted that Conspiracy Theory whos now part of the trump team. And the reason for that, quite frankly, the muzzle and the gloves have come off. They came off over the weekend when trump mentioned mueller and the investigation by name. He spent a great deal of time trying to discredit the overall investigation, probably in the hopes that if the investigation leads to an unfavorable conclusion to donald trump, he can try to seduce the Public Opinion to say, lets not believe it at all. But those theories that are being appropriated was one that was being appropriated by the new attorney. And the reason that hes probably trying to have somebody else be his mouthpiece and perhaps a flame thrower in that regard is that the administration has said that the statements of the president can become official policy. And the courts, the Fourth Circuit and ninth circuit have both said, were going to look at the president s tweets and his comments on things as we gauge the action of the president of the United States. This happened in the many iterations of the travel ban. And what that tells you is that perhaps he is not aware that his statements with regard to the mueller investigation, they will implicate him in some way if the court is ever to engage his intent, his motivation, and his commentary. Now he has somebody a little bit removed to do so. But with respect to the other attorney who chose not to be a part of whats going to be perhaps a clown car. This attorney decided hes going to have a tenfootpole, and maybe no good can come out of an exercise that seems to be a lot of varying opinions, a lot of chefs in the kitchen that one particular diner does not regard with any respect or listen to. Thats a lot for someone who has had a long career, perhaps he doesnt want to dirty his hands. 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Stormy daniels attorney releasing a polygraph she took back in 2011. The report saying she was, quote, truthful about having unprotected intercourse with donald trump in july of 2006. Now a friend of daniels is speaking out. Her name is alana evans, an adult film star and friend of Stormy Daniels and she joins me now. Hey, alana, how are you . Im doing well, thank you, don, yourself . Im doing well. Let me ask you quickly, they said they invited you to lake tahoe to party. What does that mean . Well, i was already there kind of doing my own thing with friends and stormy had called me repeatedly after telling me that she had met trump previous in the day. When you call me to ask me to party and the man is calling with you, and im an adult film star, it probably means youre calling me for, you know, a sexual encounter. I was asked to go party with them. So to party, in your estimation means a sexual encounter with you guys . Yeah, absolutely. I feel like i was invited to hang out with them in all likelihood, for a threesome. Okay. So if you believe the polygraph test taken in 2011 released by her attorney today, Stormy Daniels was telling the truth about having sex with the president , whats your reaction and were you aware that stormy had taken that polygraph . We just put the picture up, by the way. I heard the story once the news started leaking out about the in touch interview from 2011. I heard that stormy had taken a polygraph. And ill be honest with you, i was relieved, because its very difficult to fight those results. Its difficult to cheat them. And so i knew at that point people were going to have a very hard time discrediting our truths. What do you mean, people have a very hard time what are you talking about . Explain that. Im thanks to Michael Cohen initially coming out and consistently denying that any type of relationship or that anything had even happened in lake tahoe, im constantly called a liar, im threatened, im harassed, even after my earlier cnn appearance today, i received more threats via social media, even someone suggesting that they would bomb the cnn studios because were talking. So were getting threats on a daily basis, just for speaking out. Did you have you alerted authorities to that . Do you take them seriously . Do you think theyre hollow . I believe some may be hollow, but for the most part, when people put those kinds of things into words, you have to take them seriously, otherwise you may end up in a very dangerous situation. So i do take them seriously. Ive been compiling everything to pass over to authorities through my attorney. All righty. You said earlier today that you dont always feel safe in situations like this one in tahoe. Stormy was in that, you know, men like him can be dangerous. What do you mean by that . You dont feel safe and men like him can be dangerous. I meant that if i end up in a situation with someone who is as powerful as trump, even at the time, just a very wealthy man who had been on television, owned numerous businesses that he has a lot of power and if something were to go wrong, something were to happen, girls like me disappear all of the time and people dont really question it too often. So, no, it puts me in absolute fear spending time with someone like that and having it go bad. Anything can happen to me. Stormys attorney, alana, has implied that they have some form of proof, whether thats photos or Text Messages, were not sure what it is. Are you aware or have you seen anything along those lines . The only thing that i know of that stormy does have is the dress that she wore from the initial meeting. As far as Text Messages or images, im the type of woman that i save conversations with my past lovers, some of them may be highprofile. I enjoy reading them, i enjoy looking at them from time to time, as many people do. So i would not be surprised at all if she still had that type of information. Its donald trump. So what do you mean, the dress . Because remembering clinton, there was the blue dress. What do you mean, the blue dress. Is there some sort of evidence on the dress . That i dont know of. I believe in the photograph that you have of stormy and i from my birthday party, that is actually the dress in question and so i know that she still has it, but i dont know if theres any dna. I dont know if its, you know, a monica lewinsky, linda tripptype situation. You mentioned the dress and i just wonder what had the relevance was. And as soon as you said that, with you know, my mind sort of harkened back to that. I didnt know why you were saying it. Well, i have met men in my past that i were fans of, one in particular, an actor i really enjoyed, and i saved the shirt from when i met him. I never washed it, because i was a bit of a fan girl. So its very possible that she hasnt washed the dress either. Okay. Alana evans, thank you. We appreciate your time. Thank you. Thank you. When we come back, caught on camera. What Cambridge Analytica ceo was caught saying about working with the Trump Campaign. How he says they won the election for trump. Friends, colleagues, gathered here are the worlds finest insurance experts. Rodney mastermind of discounts like safe driver, paperless. The list goes on. How about a discount for long lists . Gold. Mara, you save our customers hundreds for switching almost effortlessly. Its a gift. And jamie. Present. Together we are unstoppable. So, what are we gonna do . Insurance. Thats kind of what we do here. With its hightech cameras and radar. Contemporary cockpit. 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Ceo Alexander Nix was suspended today following undercover reports from channel 4 news in the uk, showing him bragging about the firms work on the Trump Campaign. Have you met mr. Trump . Many times. You have . We did all the research, all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting. We ran all the digital campaign, the television campaign, and our data informed the strategy. I want to bring in kylie morris with itn channel 4 news. Thank you so much for joining us, kylie. I really appreciate it. Cambridge analytica responded to the new undercover recordings released today and they say that they never claimed it won the election for President Trump and that they have spoken publicly about their contribution to the campaign. Theyre proud of the work that they did. What do you say to that . Well, theyre sending quite contradictory messages. Its important to note, as you say, that Alexander Nix has now been suspended, because they say that he wasnt representing the company in the way that they wanted that company to be represented. But i think, you know, if we judge him by his own commentary, he is very keen to boast about the role that they played and the kinds of tick ticks they were prepared to employ. One of his colleagues talked to us about putting material out on the internet and kind of pushing it into the bloodstream of the internet, in a way that it was completely untrackable and untraceable. Yes, this was in the context of a sales pitch. Our undercover operators, journalists went in describing themselves as kind of Political Consultants working for a wealthy sri lankan family, looking for assistance in trying to make sure the right candidates won races in the upcoming sri lankan elections. So it was in that context, but they certainly didnt hold back when it came to describing their own role. Kylie, at one point, one of the executives talked about how the Companys Research allowed donald trump to win by a minor margin in key states to ultimately win the Electoral College, despite losing the popular vote. How much of what we heard is Cambridge Analytica bragging to get a new client . I mean, this is a sales meeting. It is. Theyre exaggerating as companies sometimes do in a pitch maybe. Thats possible. Its very difficult for us to know at this stage exactly what Cambridge Analytica did. We knew that within the digital team certainly within the last months before the election, brad pascal, the head of the trump digital team then decided to try to do some sort of facebook advertising. We understand that some of the microtargeting, you know, exactly where those ads were sent out to, part of that was based on the data, analytical work that Cambridge Analytica does. So certainly, they were there. I mean, they were the Data Analytics company, you know, at the heart of the Trump Campaign. And that is undeniable. I think there is now a debate, though, obviously, between people who are trying to distance themselves from the commentary of Alexander Nix saying, well, we didnt use it very much or the stuff. Wasnt very interesting. It proved fruitless for us. But the reality is they did play that role. They were brought in as consultants. Steve bannon had been a Vice President of the company. So there were very close connections and links between the very top level of the Trump Campaign and this company. Kylie, i want to play another clip of Alexander Nix speaking to the house intelligence committee. I would like to speak to yeah. And the republicans ask three questions. Five minutes. Done. Democrats ask two hours. And you have to answer anything . No, its voluntary, but i did, because im trying to help them. Rate. We have no secrets. Right. Theyre politicians. Theyre not technical. They dont understand how it works. They dont understand because the candidate is never involved. Hes told what to do by the campaign team. So the candidate is the puppet . Yes. Right, right, right. In every election or nearly. So democrats, like sour grapes . Yes, sour grapes, thats exactly what it is. He is laughing at the house investigation and how little he says republicans wanted to investigate. Thats right. And he goes on to say, look, can you make sure, speaking to the clients, the prospective clients, saying, can you make sure that we try and organize a secret email, you know, using proton mail, which is an email that he said he could set to selfdestruct within two hours. So there was no record. He also talked about not recognizing the jurisdiction of the House Committee when it came to their dealings with foreign clients and saying he would never tell them anything about the foreign business that hed been doing, because it was none of the committees business. So certainly very disparaging. When we spoke to the senior democratic members of the House Committee today, they are, as you would expect, very keen now to bring Alexander Nix back to face more questions. Kylie morris, thank you so much. I appreciate your time. Thank you. When we come back, the president s National Security adviser is giving him a threeword warning in all caps regarding president putin and he flatout ignored it. The fastest samsung ever demands tmobile, the Fastest Network ever. Because fast should be fast. Right now get the new Samsung Galaxy s9 for half off. They have businesses to run they have passions to pursue how do they avoid trips to the post office . Stamps. Com mail letters ship packages all the Amazing Services of the post office right on your computer get a 4 week trial plus 100 in extras including postage and a digital scale go to stamps. Com tv and never go to the post office again go to stamps. 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I had a call with president putin. And congratulated him on the victory, his electoral victory. The call had to do also with the fact that we will probably get together in the nottoodistant future, so that we can discuss arms, we can discuss the arms race. Trump going against his own advisers who warned him in all capital letters do not congratulate putin. I want to bring in the director of the Wilson CenterWilson Centers kenan institutes. And julia yaffy the staff writer for the atlantic. Juliette, you first. What is the deal with the president and Vladimir Putin . Do you think the president do you think trump is afraid of him. I dont think he is afraid of him. I think you know, its hard to say if there is something more sinister or something as simple as the president being stubborn and contrarien. And everybody is telling him dont congratulate him so he congratulates him. Say something negative so he doesnt say anything negative about him. Plus if you remember vladimir put isnt one of the only people praising him in the 2016 campaign, who believed in him. Plus trump i think really likes that authoritiarian types of rule. Did you tart in the philippines, the jinping in china. And putin honestly putin is the blond white guy that he can he can relate to. Yeah. You know, matthew, we learned about the call initially from the kremlin. Why do you think why do you think that is . I mean stirring pot a little bit, right. Thats been the pattern so far, don. Each time theres been an interaction between President Trump and president putin in some cases interactions between other folks in the government, the kremlin made sure to get out ahead of the story to define the terms of what happened, usually a relatively detailed release. This is a way of ensuring that there is nothing the United States can add that would potentially change the character. And so the kremlin defines the narrative. That is problematic. Thats something i think we have to address. Its important that the u. S. Message gets through. This is why its important we have advisers and of course translators from our side in the room when the heads of state meet. This is an important context that seems to be missing. You know, most of what trump said to putin in both content and form is normal. Bhaes not normal is the context. A context where everything trump says about put isnt scrutinized understandably so. Its where russias behavior is war like. They just at the attempted an armed attack on uk soil. One of our allies. The kent of the conversation. Totally abnormal context. Go ahead, julia. I agree with matthew. And the fact that even if we have advisers and translators, President Trump doesnt seem to feel theyre necessary or that they know better than he does. Meanwhile, the russians are running laps around him. Ands in happening like matthew said, its a normal phone call, barack obama congratulated Vladimir Putin after a few days, albeit with the 2012 victory. But it wasnt a at a time when russia was poisoning people with war class military grade nerve agents on western soil. It wasnt happening when most of the world was turning their back on putin for his warlike behavior. Its stunning that the odd man out is the american president , the leader of the free world, ostensibly. Umhum. Listen matthew senator mccain slammed the president as well. He county jail timed turkishs erdogan. Trump praised chinas xi jinping. Why does the president cozy up to strongmen . Its not by black or white. You sort of congratulate warm, loving friendly relationship or you open the phone call by saying, youre the devil because that ends the phone call, right. You figure out a way to say, look, we recognize you are russias leader for another sixyear term. Therefore you are responsible for x, y, z. Arms control, the president did mention that. This budding conflict now between the uk and russia. Again americas treaty ally, one of our core allies in the nato of alliance and the other problems in the relationship. Russias behavior in ukraine, syria, on down the line. And areas where we could cooperate. Trump himself made the point in the campaign. I think he is right there is potential for Counterterrorism Operations that could save lives. You put this on the agenda but say its your responsibility as the leader of russia without seeing in positive judgment of the election or congratulating the president. Thats not necessary. Though julia, is is right that happened before. Even if the Regan Administration with osullivan leaders. Normal interaction between president s but an abnormal context. I cant let this slip. I wasnt sure of the date so i didnt check you earlier. But relieves an assassination in london in 2006. President obamas victory was after that in 2012. It wasnt right after the fact process. Im say going wasnt there wasnt the atmosphere of people of western leaders turning away from russia increasingly since 2014 with russian aggression basically in ukraine, western europe, interfering in our election. He didnt putin didnt interfere in obamas reelection or romneys loss in 2012, right. He is not congratulating him right after that. Like matthew said,is a different context. Thank you, julia and matthew appreciate your time. Thank you. Well be right back. Directv gives you more for your thing. Your toprated thing. That five stars, two thumbs up, 12outof10, would recommend thing. Because if you only want the best thing, you get the 1 thing. Directv is rated 1 in Customer Satisfaction over cable. Switch now and get a 200 reward card. More for your thing. Thats our thing. Call 1. 800. Directv oh theres one. A the sea cow manatees in novelty ts . Surprising. Whats come at me bro . Its something you say to a friend. Whats not surprising . 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