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Easy played chip and that hes just going to throw that out there and lets see what the critics say about it. this man absolutely supports vladimir putin and he is playing 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, w...

It, it would have been out long ago. >> as you will hear later in this program, intelligence officials disagree with that. if vladimir putin had compromising information on donald trump or his family of course he would keep it as his little secret with donald trump so that he could control donald trump, especially in one-on-one meetings with donald trump. and then president trump threw in a last line today to end the press conference with a trumpian dash of incoherence. >> and if anybody watched...

The talk that the president of the united states would go to meet with the president of the soviet union and on foreign soil and trash the intelligence community, and trash the media and a then bear hug the man to the man whose administration was found to have meddled and attacked our elections and democracy and what are the reason for that? >> three reasons. one, he is a genius in foreign policy the likes of which we have never seen, and he is going to put henry kissinger to shame, and the most...

President really holds all the cards. we dont need russia for very much. theres been a lot made of vladimir putin being this master manipulator because of his time with the kgb. he was the director of the fsb, the internal service. i think hes going to treat trump like a life form hes familiar with, an oligarch. he sees trump as a rich guy. in oligarch can is in russia, youre allowed as a rich person made rich by russia, to do whatever it is you want. i think that putin and russia helped enrich ...

Your trying to achieve diplomatic purposes and make some progress. he also said on this question of whether putin has something and that the russians have something compromising information about president trump, he said in terms that i dont think president trump is going to like very much. he said look, he came over here, he built buildings, ran a beauty pageant. i didnt know who he was, didnt care who he was. we have billionaires here and we dont surveil them. he denied any compromising inform...

Mueller interview them. with one condition. >> who would expect that the americans would reciprocate and question officials, including the officers of law enforcement and intelligence service who have something to do with illegal action on the territory of russia. >> president trump blamed u.s. bullishness and stupidity for ruining their relationship with russia. ask today whether russia bears any responsibility for that, the president said. >> i hold both countries responsible. i think that the...

Him, very colorful language, by the way, you know, you are not a diplomat. when it was teed up for him just to say the very basic things, he chose deliberately not to do it. and thats what is striking to me. ive been in those briefings with president obama right before he walks out to do one of these interviews. everybody knew what the question was going to be. hes sitting there with his top advisors. i know some of those people. i know their views on this, and yet he chose to do something else....

Guided by facts. can you name a single fact that would definitively prove the collusion? this is nonsense. just like the president recently mentioned. >> do you, does the russian government have any compromising material on president trump or his family? >> and vladimir putin went on to say that he did not even know donald trump. there were 500 business executives in moscow back then and he did not even know him so denying at least that -- or not denying, but brushing off questions about whether...

And was based. i think his thesis that the russians have compromising material on donald trump is still there, its still in play, and i would say we saw that in action very much today. >> mark warner said a similar thing i think earlier today as well. one other question to you, luke. this is what the president said publicly about their meeting in front of reporters. what could he have said privately that would have made vladimir putin potentially more happy or potentially angry? >> well, i mean,...

Of the fourth of july. >> on the fourth of july. >> they were there meeting with high level kremlin officials. why? we dont know. was it to discuss the upcoming summit between trump and putin? we dont understand why that happened. was it to better relations between the u.s. and russia? these werent members of the arms services committee or the intelligence committee, just senators who decided to go other there and take matters into their own hands. the question is whether or not they understand ...