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Plus, senator mark warner talks russia, virginia, and points in between. and later on, congressman joe crowley with a look at how the party can rebuild on tuesdays win to start redrawing the map in favor of democrats. and i talk with republican congressman steve scalise whos on the mend and praising the men and women who saved his life on the baseball diamond. at this hour the president is in the philippines. he has praised that countrys president rodrigo duterte despite his bloody crackdown on ...

Of the presidential campaign and russia tried to meddle and the one selected by barack obama. when trump put his own people in, they testified that those conclusio conclusions. >> sarah, the president also at the same point is getting criticism for lavishing lots of praise of the philippine president and there has been a bloody war on drugs with thousands of killings outside the bounds of normal philippine proceedings. do we know whether president trump raise said the issue specifically. there i...

He does. in taking putin at his word, he does bash out at former officials during the obama administration accusing them to be political, even though his own choices in those same vorol have backed the intelligence communitys assessments. >> and he said theres nothing about taking the world of a k.g.b. colonel over that of the american intelligence community. your response? >> its clear that president trump doesnt understand the true character vladimir putin and the regime that he runs. and that...

A santos joining us from manila thank you. donald trumps trip to asia has been overshadowed by the russia affair on saturday trump said he believed the russian president when he told in moscow had not meddled in the twenty sixteen presidential elections that prompted criticism at home and a day later trump attempted to clarify the comments saying he backs the conclusions of u.s. intelligence agencies but he also avoided accusing putting i believe he believes that and its very important for someb...

Wants to take vladimir putins words over the words of former cia directors just because they happened to work for a democrat? >> chuck, i dont spend a lot of time trying to evaluate and analyze why the president comes to the conclusions he comes to. in my view i think it is clear that president putin orchestrated an effort to meddle. and disrupt our elections. i think he has a variety of reasons for doing it. i dont think there is anything at all that we can trust that comes out of putins mouth....

Measured, i am nothing is a bad thing but a lot different on how he is with other issues where a lot of leaders, intelligence officials feel its a big threat. >> and watching the president on the stage of first appearing to dismiss the conclusions of the us intelligence agencies that russia had a sophisticated operation to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, how does that reverberate with of her world leaders? >> i mean from if you ask intelligence, they feel it is a sign of weakness....

He did credit his own intelligence community with being accurate when it comes to talking about russian interference. keep in mind the cia did push back on the notion that the conclusions about russian meddling have somehow dhangeed. he did stand by the intelligence community under his own leadership but not surprising that two former obama administration officials who have spoken out against trump did receive pushback from trump this week. >> eugene, the president said he believes that putin is...

And frank figliuzzi. frank, im going to start with you. trump daucalling john brennan, james clapper and jim comey political hacks yesterday when asked about evidence existing to support russia meddling in u.s. elections. whats your reaction to that? >> well, its an unfortunate statement because it seems to ignore all the career professionals who do this for a living and develop intelligence and advise the white house for a living. thats what he needs to focus on. and hes trying to have it both ...

Popping stuff. its another reason the work the mueller probe does and whatever conclusions it comes to are going to be incredibly fascinating and impactful. >> michael flynn was the one person that president trump warned -- president obama warned president elect trump about, dont hire him. >> thats right, he did. another piece of this as well is the fact that we know when weve reported earlier that the fbi was asked to reup its investigation into gulen and a possible extradition after trump came...

The cia of moscows interference in our election despite those intelligence conclusions saying that they did, natasha joins us. cia director mike pompeo issued a statement saying that russia in intelligences view did meddle in the election. putin believes it and by the way our u.s. intel officials, some are them are political hacks to use his term. >> its a complete mystery. trump has been defending vladimir putin and the kremlin more broadly since last year. he first cast out on the bill communi...