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Ukraine, which led to sanctions. sources say president trump has been presented with a large binder of briefing materials for the g-20 summit. but only a few pages of notes and bullet points on his putin meeting. >> we urge russia to cease its destabilizing activities in ukraine and elsewhere. >> reporter: trump delivered a tough message to the kremlin ahead of todays sit-down. pledging sport to the nato alliance in the face of russian aggression. >> we stand firmly behind article 5, the mutual ...

>> reporter: trump delivered a tough message ahead of todays meeting. pledging aalliance in the face of aggression. >> we stand firmly behind article 5, the mutual defense commitment. >> reporter: but just hours earlier, the president stopped short of condemning moscow for meddling in the 2016 election. >> i think it was probably other people and/or countries and i see nothing wrong with that statement. nobody really knows. >> reporter: the statement undercutting the conclusions of his own intel...

Accept intelligence conclusions about russias meddling in the election has slowed efforts to counter this threat. also, were told from -- by russian experts that russia wants to ramp up spying when it has someone new in office, an adversary government, someone who they view as unpredictable, they want to have as much intelligence as they can. were told counterintelligence is seeking to keep an eye on the activity as much as it can. in some cases the fbi uses surveillance to track the suspected r...

To play in the united states? how is that going to play among our allies? how is that going to play back in russia? what does it mean if theres nothing further the u.s. does to take action against the stake that our intelligence community has said, did try to interfere in this election and will try to do it again? >> theres obviously deep suspicion in the united states about what happened during the campaign, about whether trump campaign associates had contact with the russians. again, id underl...

During the election were not going to tolerate this. >> and this also raises the question of how can you go and try and make the case to vladimir putin, listen, i know you interfered in the elections, when just the day earlier you were publicly undermining the intelligence communitys conclusions. so, its very difficult for him, for the russians perhaps even to take the president seriously on this matter. and furthermore, as you pointed out, the president has yet to do anything additional as far ...

Was it other countries? >> essentially no doubt about it. high confidence levels, the multiple sources of information we had and its high fidelity still lead me very convinced, leave me very convinced the voracity of that report. as far as others doing this, boy, thats news to me. we saw no evidence whatsoever there was anyone involved in this other than the russians. >> healthy. i mean -- president of the united states on foreign soil yu7 undermining his own intelligence agencies and questionin...

Trumps reluctance to accept intelligence conclusions about russian meddling in the election has slowed efforts to counter the threat. another issue here is that theres an ongoing frustration with the state department over the granting of visas to people the u.s. intelligence suspect are intelligence officers. a state department official would not comment specifically on the visas. we are told that there are fbi officials as part of their counterintelligence surveillance. they try to keep an eye ...

Country and the regime itself. you know, in many respects, people are getting tired. they are getting weary of the conflict. i think we have an opportunity, we hope, to create the conditions in this area. the south is our first, i think, our first show of success. we are hoping we can replicate that elsewhere. >> mr. secretary, when you were speaking of the cease-fire about there being detailed information that would enforce it, can you give more information on what conclusions were reached? and...

Respond to a request for comment, john. >> if u.s. intelligence knows or believes there are more russian agents here in the united states and more active than before, why arent they trying to stop it? >> well, you know, even after the meddling in the 2016 u.s. elections, both the obama and trump administrations have been slow to take measures to respond to the intelligence threat, according to current and former u.s. officials. partisan political disagreements over the russian activity and presi...

Replenishing their ranks ever since the u.s. expelled 35 russian diplomats suspected of spying last december. in some cases, russian spies have tried to gain employment at places with sensitive information as part of their intelligence-gathering efforts. the fbi which is responsible for counterintelligence efforts in the u.s. would not comment for the story. the russian embassy in washington didnt respond to a request for comment. of course, all of this begs the question, why isnt the u.s. stopp...