jens p intelligence. the white house moved into cleanup mode and gave its account what the president really meant there. got a chance to speak with the president after those comments and the president said thank you very much and said no to answering questions. so despite the video that shows the president looking at cecila and saying no and multiple people in the room that the president was responding to the question and despite the president never having said no, no, no to ushers report eers ou of the room he said thank you very much and no, i m not answering any questions. here is the exchange with cecilia. the president continuing to answer questions even though sarah sanders claimed he stopped. is russia still targeting the
we get more now from jeff zeleny at the white house. christine and dave, the white house still in cleanup mode and damage control mode after the helsinki summit earlier this week. president trump, we are told, realized that this was a massive problem after, of course, seeing many of his friendliest advisers, from fox & friends to the conservative editorial pages of the wall street journal to many supporters on capitol hill saying that he had to do something to address it. so, we saw the president yesterday here at the white house trying to clean up what he said in helsinki. i have president putin. he just said it s not russia. i will say this, i don t see any reason why it would be. i thought it would be obvious, but i would like to clarify, just in case it wasn t. in a key sentence in my remarks, i said the word would instead of wouldn t. the sentence should have been, i don t see any reason why i wouldn t or why it wouldn t be russia. i am told by some people
disagree with him or are simply too afraid to. president trump decided to say he had mgs spoken even though he backed up his original statement by saying putin was, quote, extremely strong and powerful in his denial. jeff zeleny has more from the white house. christina, dave, the white house still in cleanup mode and damage control mode after the helsinki summit this week. president trump we re told realized this was a massive problem after of course seeing many of his friendliest advisors from fox and friends to the conservative pages of wall street journal to many supporters on capitol hill saying he had to do something to address it. we saw the president yesterday here at the white house trying to clean up what he said in helsinki. i have president putin, he just said it s not russia. i will say this, i don t see any reason why it would be. i thought it would be
more now from cnn s jeff zeleny at the white house. reporter: christine and dave, the white house still in cleanup mode and damage control mode after the helsinki summit earlier this week. president trump, we are told, realized that this was a massive problem after, of course, seeing many of his friendliest advisers, from fox & friends to the conservative editorial pages of the wt wall street journal to many supporters on capitol hill saying he had to do something to address it. so, we saw the president yesterday here at the white house trying to clean up what he said in helsinki. i have president putin. he just said it s not russia. i will say this, i don t see any reason why it would be. i thought it would be obvious, but i would like to clarify, just in case it wasn t. in a key sentence in my remarks, i said the word would instead of wouldn t. the sentence should have been, i don t see any reason why i wouldn t, or it wouldn t be
there erase everything about the word. the president in cleanup mode. i think you are seeing pushback from republicans. donald trump has gotten used to republicans acquiescing in most of the things that he has been doing recently in recent months. speaker ryan and leader mccome coming out and saying we believe the intelligence community. you have this remarkable statement by trump s own director of national intelligence who certainly he didn t read it the way that the president of the united states read it because he felt comp compelled to issue a statement. i don t think it is big as trump said it at the press conference. this is all revisionism. days ago he was criticizing the criticism he gets over russia. then why do you have to say all of this stuff. he starts this tweet by talking about how he did express