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A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Trump is being urged to stop tweeting about the 2016 Trump Tower Meeting between his top advisers and group of russians, including a lawyer directly tied to the kremlin. President trump breathed new life into the story with a tweet acknowledging the meeting it was to get dirt on Hillary Clinton, not adoptions as the president and his son donald trump jr. First claimed. Well talk about that and more with the top democrat on the ...

For concern. you know, kind of the message im getting now two and a half years later is what we should have done is ignored what the russians were doing. >> weve talked about this many times before. the information is the interference with this in the way russian interfered in 2016 in other countries. the stolen clinton and podesta emails, information weaponized in effect. its the interference. so if a u.s. president or a candidate for president or another politician accepts some information, li...

>> the drop-off of applications to be special agent. thats really interesting. this weeks axios looked at the trump history, and foreign power being a central player in this scandal is something that in many of their estimations makes it worse than watergate. do you agree with that? >> i have for some time felt that way. im old enough to have lived through watergate as an adult. and the involvement of a foreign nati nation, notably our arch-adversary, russia in affecting the outcome of a politic...

To extend their influence. and i think its also interesting not knowing exactly the terms of the plea agreement, exactly who she was working for and what instructions that she had and how she was financed. >> yeah. >> so this is a very interesting and significant development, quite apart from the mueller investigation. >> listen, i just want to ask you quickly. by our count, at least 16 trump associates had contacts with russians, from paul manafort to rick gates to flynn, jeff sessions, roger s...

Russians, none of them notified the fbi or the authorities that russians were trying to deal with them on various aspects. what is your reaction to that? you were the director of national intelligence when this was all unfolding. >> well, exactly. i never did understand why all the focus, attention and outreach to russia, of all countries, our arch adversary. so now as weve certainly learned a lot more since i left the government in january of 2017 about these -- more and more knowledge about th...

Investigation. >> listen, i just want to ask you quickly. by our count, at least 16 trump associates had contacts with russians, from paul manafort to rick gates to flynn, jeff sessions, roger stone, caputo, jared kushner is on this list, ivanka trump, felix sater, michael cohen. is that unusual first? >> i think it certainly is. i dont know of any president for this at all. this is what has bugged me from the outset of this. why all this contact with the russians of all people, our arch adversa...

On your reading of the law, was a crime committed? >> well, it is not a crime to lie to the public. what it does show though i think is intent. major kpoenlt, ingredient in conspiracy or obstruction investigation, what was the real intent. to me, this is nefarious intent. and to draw back a little, wolf, why meetings with the russians. our arch adversary. this to me thickens the plot. >> today he did a radio interview with laura ingraham earlier this afternoon. let me play a little clip. >> 20 m...

[ sobs quietly ] >> sean: president trumps reluctance to trust the quote "intel community" becomes easier to understand when you do consider the bosses of the intel agencies. not his intel, the ones before him. theyve been out to destroy him since day one, since they left, since before he got elected, and after he got elected. watch what we mean. >> he is aiding and abetting our arch adversary, and has failed, in my mind, to live up to his constitutional obligations and responsibilities. >> what...

♪ >> sean: president trumps reluctance to trust the quote "intel community" becomes easier to understand when you do consider the bosses of the intel agencies. not his intel, the ones before him. theyve been out to destroy him since day one, since they left, since before he got elected, and after he got elected. watch what we mean. >> he is aiding and abetting our arch adversary, and has failed, in my mind, to live up to his constitutional obligations and responsibilities. >> what mr. trump di...

First minute or so. has he misread vladimir putin? >> i dont think its that so much as -- well, he could have. he just is very reticent about direct personal confrontation. so just as he did in the uk with theresa may, bad mouth her in an interview but yet when faced with a personal confrontation, a personal engagement, he wont do it. its even worse when its our arch adversary, russia, and his opposite person, vladimir putin. while he likes to project the image of being a tough guy, he really is...