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and it came snapy fast. with the white house insisting theres been no change in the u.s. policy towards taiwan. weve seen this kind of thing before after the president made those comments about vladimir putin, for instance. >> ukraine will never be a victory for russia for gods sake, this man cannot remain in power. >> harris: lets go straight to kayleigh. >> kayleigh: yeah, harris, its always an unnamed anonymous white house official that cleans up the blunder. look, these gaps are al...

Legal team, attorneys, were baffled by mulvaneys performance, stunned he explicitly linked the decision to suspend aid to ukraine to the presidents desire to see ukraine conduct politically advantageous investigations. ours sources tell cnn that white house aides and lawyers prepared mulvaney to go out and take the podium in the briefing room but prepared him more to focus on the white house announcement yesterday that next years g-7 summits is held at the presidents property in doral, florida. ...

He more or less said he wasnt going to try to keep the president in line, he was going to embolden him to do what he wanted. weve seen very little attempts for him to push back. the president yesterday, reverend, was said that he was in dallas and when he was asked about mulvaneys briefing he initially said he didnt see much of it but he was told that he did well. that was before, of course, the cleanup statement was issued later. you know the president, you know how he deals with things, you kn...

>> the associated press reports that the double flip-flop you watched play out there was reminiscent of the presidents response to the violation in charlottesville back in 2017. quote, he initially blamed violence on both sides of the altercation after a wave of bipartisan condemnation and scathy cable news coverage, he issued a cleanup statement at the white house days later. yet after watching the response to his reversal p. he doubled back to the original position during a wild >> translatotr...

Especially given what we have learned just in the last few weeks? >> yes. the intelligence community assessment is the russian meddling that took place did not affect the outcome of the election. >> thats not true. today the director of the central intelligence agency said something that was untrue. very important. and not true. he said the intelligence communitys assessment is that the russian meddling that took place did not affect the outcome of our election. not true. quoting from the intell...