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Happened. >> im asking you a direct question. was there any contact in any way between trump or his associates and the kremlin or cut-outs they have. >> i joined this campaign in the summer. i can tell you that all the contact by the trump campaign and associates was with the american people. >> im just trying to get an answer. >> of course not. >> senator jeff sessions, his confirmation hearing, failed to disclose his meetings with sergei kislyak which led him to recuse himself in the russian i...

Thats been grossly mischaracterized about this bill. i think much of what people have heard is inaccurate. were hearing a very vocal protest from people who dont like the direction were heading in. >> whats inaccurate? >> i would say the characterizations of medicaid are widely inaccurate. >> the republican governors are wrong? >> yeah. look, republican governors like having a lot of free money thrown at them. thats a fun position to be in. >> its not like they can build ferris wheels. its to ta...

And then theres been wildly inaccurate and dishonest characterizations. some are suggesting that were somehow jeopardizing medicaid or throwing people off, completely untrue, under our bill, federal spending on medicaid will grow every single year, forever. i mean, in perpetuity. we have got to make sure the facts are known. we have to explain this. as we do, people will understand that were actually going to make medicaid sustainable and viable rather than doing any harm to that program. i thin...

Random characterizations from the campaign. hes pretty good at the street fight, and what he is getting is a street fight back. but i agree theres a large part, particularly of the democratic party, that will not accept his legitimacy, thats a real problem. he is the president. he deserves at least a chance to govern. i think these endless hearings, we are now on the tertiary branch of accusations against the administration with what we are going to hear tomorrow from the attorney general. what ...

Random characterizations from the campaign. hes pretty good at the street fight, and what he is getting is a street fight back. but i agree theres a large part, particularly of the democratic party, that will not accept his legitimacy, thats a real problem. he is the president. he deserves at least a chance to govern. i think these endless hearings, we are now on the tertiary branch of accusations against the administration with what we are going to hear tomorrow from the attorney general. what ...

Currently with the administration. >> yeah, and, in fact, one of the things we understand that the administration is nervous about is the comey memo that you mention that the senate and house demanded but the fbi is sort of dragging their feet on providing to the senate and house intel committees, that they might characterize in a way that priebus would not want his conversations with the fbi with both comey and comeys deputy director about a request that the fbi come out and sort of rebut some ...

These sanctions greatly restricted the flow of private money to the russian government and business leaders. how much pain do you think those sanctions have caused russia? >> i think it has been increasingly painful, and i believe that one of mr. putins priorities has been, especially over the last year, to try to get those sanctions reduced. and his strategy is getting european countries to separate from the u.s.-led sanction effort, and thats why i think as part of this effort, they were tryin...

Ukraine and crimea. these sanctions greatly restricted the flow of private money to the russian government and business leaders. how much pain do you think those sanctions have caused russia? >> i think it has been increasingly painful, and i believe that one of mr. putins priorities has been, actually over the last year, to try to get those sanctions reduced. his strategy is getting european countries to separate from the u.s.-led sanction effort. thats why i think as part of this effort, trehe...

Occurred. >> could you confirm -- >> i think weve made it very clear. im not going to give any further comment on that. >> do you have any evidence to back up like what is it? just that the president says that this didnt happen, this conversation didnt happen? i mean, is there any -- >> we are clear that this did not -- the presidents been very clear that this is not an accurate representation of that meeting. >> are you corroborating that based on his word? he made a tweet about tapes last week...

Thats secretary sean spicer speaking to reporters just moments ago. take a listen. >> could you confirm that? >> i think we made it very clear, im not going to get any further comment on that. >> so do you have any evidence to back up, is it just that the president said this didnt happen, this conversation didnt happen? is there any -- >> the president, the president was very clear that this is not an accurate representation of thatmeeting. >> in the tweet last week, are there records? >> we p...