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Issues important to the american people like adoption is not something unusual. when you go through a campaign youre not just talking to a particular group of people, in this case adoptions in russia. you have policy teams talking to about asia, policy teams that run the gambit. apparently so. >> chris: i want to clear up what really happened in the putin trump summit in hamburg on friday. russian foreign minister says that after putin denied meddling in the election, he, trump, this is his quot...

Agreed to president putins denial. listen here to the russian foreign minister and well talk about it on on the other side. >> translator: president trump said that he heard from assertions from president putin that is not true and that russian authorities have not meddled in these elections and that he said that he accepts these assertions. thats it. >> he says thats it. so on the other side of the coin, u.s. officials not really being so clear, really giving nonanswer answers or whatever you m...

I have a great deal of respect for the congresswoman but i think shes wrong. there is no fire. i mean you can say theres smoke, but these are a series of perjury traps that are being set up by democrats to try and go after trump administration officials because theres no underlying crime. theres no evidence that theres collusion between the russians and the trump campaign. not one piece of evidence has been produced. it is a fishing -- i do agree with president trump, there is a fishing expediti...

Let our special counsel do its job. the intelligence committees have been woefully irresponsible in the work that they should have been doing. thank god for "the new york times" and what they continue to unfold about this president, his allies, and what appears to be collusion. and im comfortable that its going to come out. >> congresswoman, thank you very much, congresswoman maxine waters. >> youre welcome. back to my panel to talk about this. brian, your reaction to the congresswoman there. ...

Well, i think, first of all, russian officials looked pretty delighted with the meeting with a number of media personalities here saying that the trump/putin meeting overshadowed and eclipsed the entire g20. but, yeah, there is a question that after his kind of unprecedented meeting that went on so much longer than was originally planned that the two top diplomats hooper in the room came out and gave differing accounts, contrasting accounts about how that very controversial question was discusse...

Have not meddled in these elections and that he said that he accepts these assertions. thats it. >> and lavrov went on to say that president trump mentioned that certain groups are trying to inflame the situation around this alleged meddling. now, secretary tillerson said that president trump pressed president putin on this. and that they basically agreed to disagree. whats interesting is after foreign minister lavrov spoke, a white house official then had to come out speaking on anonymity denyi...

Learned that since the election russian spies are stepping up intelligence gathering efforts in the u.s. officials say russia has been emboldened by the lack of a strong response from the current and previous administrations. >> and theres backlash over president trumps comments slamming the u.s. intelligence community while he was on foreign soil. sean suggesting he doesnt -- again suggesting he doesnt fully believe his own intelligence on russias meddling in the 2016 election. former director ...

Question, that is something to be afraid of when you question a presidents capacities, and indeed, the presidents claim that there were 3 million voters who fraudulently voted, nobody accepts that. thats an example of the kind of bizarre assertions that i think deserve a hard look. thats not saying the bills going to pass tomorrow, but i think its worth discussing under the 25th amendment. >> okay. we heard you, paris, lastly, just from you on what the democrats are at least asking to do, lookin...

Anything, so there have been many many weeks of no comment from him. what i found fascinating about this latest story is the reporter matt tates posting and talking about peter smiths claim that he had sources in whats called the dark web in this very shadowy, sometimes quasi legal part of the internet who might be able to help offer information about hillary clinton, about these missing e-mails, et cetera, and it suggests, again, we dont know a lot about what smith was doing or whether his asse...

York was one of the touch points. you corroborate, get, two, three, four verifications and then you try anogu late to make sure the assertions that are made are most probably true. and in this case, that could be our 60 days in terms of why that time line is there. >> yeah. i agree with that and certainly the other individuals who have come forward and have been identified as a result of the article would be of interest to investigators. but from a criminal investigative standpoint that could go...