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Active when they identify someone who may be abinfluential individual, someone who should their exercise leverage over, they go after that individual. >> reporter: putin said that if trump did have compromising information on him, it would be out a long time ago. but its like my we may never know what leverage putin may have on trump. the whole point of having leverage is to hold it over your rivals. because as soon as he releases it, its going to be useless to putin. coming up, breaking news,...

Be protected, should continue. if legislation needs to be pass, republicans should do that because everyone can see that for some reason we dont know why, donald trump is conflicted on this question. so that investigation must continue and the side shows should stop. >> what was weird is both in the fox news interview of vladimir putin and also in the comments in the press conference vladimir putin did not deny that he had compromising information on president trump and when asked directly did y...

President trump siding with russian president vladimir putin over the u.s. intelligence community, accepting putins word when he said he did not attack the u.s. during the 2016 presidential election. why is president trump doing that? joining us now cnn national security analyst steve hall, the former cia chief of russia operations and cnn political and national security analyst david sanger, author of "the perfect weapon, war, sabotage and fear in the cyber age" i cant imagine two better guests...

President trump stood before the world, stood next to one of americas chief adversaries, took questions and jaws dropped. one person who never equivocated on vladimir putin, republican senator john mccain, who put out this statement right after that press conference yesterday. todays press conference was one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in memory. no prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant. one of the more startling moments in the pr...

Themselves to try to make excuses for the president. we have the facts here. i think its so clear. >> this is all just really good reminder that vladimir putin is really good at psychological operations. vladimir putin 18 years as a kgb officer, almost 20 years leading russia, figuring out how to mess with peoples minds and doesnt do anything by accident. that whole show standing next to president trump and he kind of paused when asked that question of compromising information and then that inte...

It is they want to accomplish. >> i want to put a fine button on this. would donald trump have spoken any differently yesterday than someone -- someone who did not have compromised information on him? would he have spoken differently? if the russians have compromising information on you, would that person spoken any differently than donald trump did yesterday? >> it depends on what happened in the meeting and what donald trump was let known by the russian side. theyre of course more direct ways ...

He did not. we know he likes being tough. he was tough with rocket man. he was tough with our nato allies. its in his dna. yet, vladimir putin is the only guy who he is not tough with even though it would have been sense for him to be tough. he was not. my conclusion is, theres got to be some reason he wasnt. why else would he not do it? i think there probably is some financial information specifically that putin has over him that he does not want to come out because it would be humiliating. >> ...

Tried to dismiss the idea. a wastes time to consider it but never flat out said he didnt and the president not then slated to speak, president trump jumped in, because if it had been out there, if such exists it would have been releaseed by now and pivoted to attack on the justice department again. which i think is another illuminatie ining thing how he responds. whether hillary the e-mail servers or a pakistani tech gentleman who worked for the dnc he brought up yesterday. any time it feels the...

Alone. there has been some question for some time. its just -- for reasonable, rational americans its no longer a question. donald trump, for some reason, is owned by vladimir putin. vladimir putin has him in his pocket, as mike barnicle said. the question is, whats the payoff? as you said, what vladimir putin has, when a kgb agent owns somebody, through compromising information, its -- its -- its -- the payoff is not a cheery press conference where you make the american president look like a bu...

A game with our democracy. >> lets listen to what vladimir putin said about donald trump when he was asked if he had any compromising information on donald trump. >> after all, i was an intelligence officer myself. and i do know how dosiers are made up. i heard this intelligence. distinguished colleague, let me tell you this, when president trump was in moscow back then, i didnt even know that he was in moscow. please just disregard those issues and dont think about this any more again. >> i hav...