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>> collectively between my entire family, thats possible. >> my question is, and i dont mean to be rude, but do you think if you are not a multibillionaire, if your family has not made hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to the republican party, that you would be sitting here today? >> senator, as a matter of fact, i do think that there would be that possibility. ive worked very hard on behalf of parents and children for the last almost 30 years. russian president vladimir putin i...

How vladimir putin stopped being just a kgb guy and got political power in the first place was by producing at just the right time and in just the right way just the right sex tape to use for political purposes. ahem. today in russia, president putin spoke to reporters about the american intelligence community concluding the american government and himself as president interfered in our election to help donald trump win the election. he addressed the dossier of alleged dirt of donald trump in ru...

President interfered in our election to help donald trump win the election. he addressed the dossier of alleged dirt of donald trump in russia that was published by buzzfeed even though u.s. intelligence and buzzfeed has not verified the claims in it. obviously this is a dossier the incoming president strenuously denies, mr. putin said today he also denies any of that material is real, he says its all made up, he says its absurd to think that russian intelligence, the russian government would ev...

>> having fun. >> felt like the mission accomplished -- it was a victory lap. >> hes been taking a victory lap for a month now. at his annual press conference in december he had a journalist ask him what does it feel like to be the most powerful man in the world and then he took credit for the american election. i think he feels hes been elect president of the united states. >> one of the things -- you wrote about when this -- the dossier was published by buzzfeed and leaked about how it itself ...

Any part of your analysis in the response to that. i get why he wouldnt like it and i get why you would say maybe it was not the right venue, but the president-elects response was to undermine the legitimate see of the intelligence community and shelter russia from responsibility to the attacks and conflight the reporting of cnn and buzzfeed and call us fake news. where does that factor into your analysis about the president-elect? >> well, first of all, i mean, they -- they did say that russia ...

Matthew chance, our cnn international correspondent there, jim sciutto, our correspondent in washington. putin coming out in defense of trump he used some pretty extraordinary language. >> he did. and he may not be getting very good approval ratings in the united states but in russia the president of russia is making these unprecedented statements in support of donald trump. its quite exceptional that a russian president saying that in such a way, the scandals the dossier dumped by "buzzfeed" is...

Other spokespeople for the museum said there was no visit." and then "senior sources initially said trump would visit the museum but abc has learned the visit was removed from his calendar d to scheduling issues and not fully planned out." as buzzfeed found here, just relying on basic scheduling details is the most basic and mundane facts. now team trump is thinking about kicking reporters out of the white house. well talk more about that, next.

Other spokespeople for the museum said there was no visit." and then "senior sources initially said trump would visit the museum but abc has learned the visit was removed from his calendar due to scheduling issues and not fully planned out." as buzzfeed found here, just relying on basic scheduling details is the most base he can a basic and mundane facts. now team trump is thinking about kicking reporters out of the white house. well talk more about that, next.

Okay. a small story from this weekend that highlighted one of the problems of covering the trump administration. as a reporter, you should be skeptical always of anyone in power. but there are basic logistical facts, like scheduling, for instance, when and where will the president be tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. that you generally come to trust. that is not the case with the trump administration. in wake of trumps twitter attacks on john lewis on saturday, abc news reported citing multiple sources tha...

Okay. a small story from this weekend that highlighted one of the problems of covering the trump administration. as a reporter, you should be skeptical always of anyone in power. but there are basic logistical facts, like scheduling, for instance, when and where will the president be tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. that you generally come to trust. that is not the case with the trump administration. in wake of trumps twitter attacks on john lewis on saturday, abc news reported citing multiple sources tha...