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Take place. thats a quote. and president trump said he and vladimir putin talked about it. he backtracked after lawmakers on both sides blasted as ridiculous this idea is. the president tweeted yesterday morning, putin and i discussed forming a cyber security unit so that election hacking and many other negative things will be guarded. then came the sunday shows. his treasury secretary, steve mnuchin went out to defend that concept of the leaker -- i should say of the leader of the hackers worki...

Through the minds of defense officials after listening to trump who so we might form a cyber security unit with russia. >> well, if you look at the director of national intelligences 2017 annual statement where they put out to congress all the threats facing the united states, the number one issue, its on page 2 of the assessment, i was just reviewing it, is cyber security and the number one culprit is russia. it says that russia is at full scope cyber active. the idea that we would work with th...

About collusion. they were about contacts? . >> they were originally about that. thats the whole premise of what youre asking is question is whether or not the campaign colluded with russia. thats the premise of the entire scope of your questioning. and the point weve tried to make and will continue to make is that there wasnt. and beyond that, i really cant offer you anything. >> sara, back to yesterday mornings tweet. can you tell us what was or what is or what was going to be a cyber security...

Here is u.n. ambassador nikki haley. here is her take on this idea of the cyber security unit. listen to this. >> it doesnt mean we ever trust russia. we cant trust russia and we wont ever trust russia, but you keep those you dont trust closer so you can keep an eye on them and keep them in check. >> mitchell, what do you think of that? >> well, i think president trump did something that was almost unimaginable. he created bipartisan consensus in washington, d.c. this is a terrible idea. i think...

Secretary, get your marching orders, go out and say this is a great idea and then he just chops you off right at the knees an hour or two later? >> its a stupid idea. could never happen. >> poor secretary mnuchin, no one was more behind everything president trump did and get the legs -- >> somewhere sunday afternoon it became a horrible idea. >> so many reasons, wow, this is unbelievably unprecedented. i cant even begin. >> with us now, republican senator pat toomey, here to defend the idea of l...

>> i think it was russia, but i think it was probably other people and/or countries, and i see nothing wrong with that statement. nobody really knows. >> and he attacked his own intelligence community on foreign soil. >> everybody was 100% sure that iraq had weapons of mass destruction. guess what? that led to one big mess. >> joining me now is the former head of the cia, john brennan. mr. brennan, welcome back to "meet the press." >> good morning, chuck. thanks for having me on. >> the presiden...

Lewandowski out, paul manafort the new guy, appearing to gain strength. so it would have made sense that paul manafort would have said yes if invited to attend a meeting with the presidents son. >> all of that happening, and thomas roberts now reporting that the person who was the intermediate area who set this up has some interesting details on that, as well. so well have more on that. peter alexander, david, michael crowley, paul butler, fantastic panel. thank you all very much. but heres th...

Price? >> otherwise, he will be encouraged to do so again. obviously. >> adding to the confusion and bewilderment on both sides of the aisle, trumps proposal to actually work with russia on forming a cyber security unit. >> this is like the guy who robbed your house proposing a working group on burglary. >> talk more about all of this and what the president has been saying on the heels of his meeting with president putin. bringing in cnns white house correspondent athena jones. athena? >> report...

With trump and his orbit in so many different ways. and coming on the heels of the g-20 in this face to face between putin and trump, and then today you had the u.n. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley weighing in on why she thinks the president wants to embark on this joint cyber security unit with russia, this is what she had to say on that matter. >> we need to get together with russia, we need to tell them what we think should happen, shouldnt happen, and if we talk to them about it, hopefull...

Nature of his own intelligence agencies? then saying we need to move on. i dont think we can move on, and i dont think that russia could be a partner in a cyber security unit. i think that would be dangerously naive for this country. if thats our best election defense, we might as well just mail our ballot boxes to moscow. i dont think thats an answer at all. >> i want to talk to cyber security in a minute. are you saying that the president is not telling the truth about what happened in that pr...