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The checks and balances and minding, if you will, that fork, or watching what is happening as a result of this meeting with putin and trump. so, on that then, what chris is saying here, amy, theres a new report from "the new york times" on a russian lawyer linked to the kremlin meeting in june 2016 with the trump campaign, if you will, inner circle, allegedly. this has got to be part of whats going to happen on monday when senators return from all the various committees, four of them, that are l...

To cite this one earlier as i did earlier in the broadcast. partnering with putin on a cybersecurity unit is akin to partnering with assad on a chemical weapons unit. that is the take there from that gop senator. robert, real quick, your latest take on the wrinkle in this russia story that jared kushner and donald trump jr. all met with the russian lawyer linked to the kremlin. trump jr. said the meeting was about a russian adoption program. do you buy that? >> no. its drip, drip, drip. heres wh...

Still working on this investigation, still pushing forward. its also notable that president trump in the past months has talked about working with russia to prevent russian interference in the election, even though the intelligence community has made it clear that vladimir putin likely directed the attack on the u.s. elections. >> that cybersecurity unit will put together with the russians, that minutes later he said, well, i didnt really suggest that we should do it, that becomes questionable n...

Here is what reince priebus, chief of staff told us on sunday. >> it doesnt mean theyre off the hook but it means that we are not going to forgo progress simply because we have a disagreement in regard to this meddling in the united states election. what it means is that we need to move forward with things like a cease-fire in syria which is going to save a lot of lives. which we are doing - >> meanwhile florida republican senator marco rubio among many who were raising eyebrows and tweeting par...

Be guarded." then "the fact that president putin and i discussed a cybersecurity unit doesnt mean i think it can happen -- it cant. but a cease-fire can and did." president trump is referring to a cease-fire in southwest syria that he negotiated with putin that appears to be holding. >> that good news did not help him escape the criticism for floating the idea of a joint cybersecurity arrangement with the russians. republican senator marco rubio tweeting, "partnering with putin on a cybersecurit...

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President putin at his word when putin denied russian meddling in last years election. take a listen to what reince priebus said on "fox news sunday." >> the president absolutely did not believe the denial of president putin. what the president did is he immediately came into the meeting, talked about russian meddling in the u.s. election, went after that issue at least two separate times. this was not just a five-minute piece of the conversation. this was an extensive portion of the meeting. >>...

But first, let me take you to twitter where the president was very active this morning talking about, you guessed it, his conversation with russian president vladimir putin. he said, and im quoting now, i strongly pressed president putin twice about meddling in our election, he vehemently denied it. ive already given my opinion. later he tweeted: putin and i discussed forming an impenetrable cybersecurity unit. okay. so that election hacking and many other negative things will be guarded. now, t...

Thats absolutely insane. >> who is that just saying, there it is. >> that was me. >> david, can you jump in and talk about this. i mean, this, im speechless. again, two days in a row im speechless. heres the tweet putin and i discussed forming a cybersecurity unit so election hacking and many negative things will be guarded. say what? >> jonathan, i have known you a long time. youre never truly speechless. but the level, the level of absurdity that weve seen over the last couple days with the pr...

Him has a message to say this about cybersecurity. i know this will raise a lot of eyebrows let me show this. vladimir putin and i discussed forming a cybersecurity unit so election hacking and many other negative things will be guarded. so what is the thinking behind this? here is rex tillerson with a bit of an explanation. >> the election interference really shows how complicated the use of these types of tools are becoming.we have to find a way to begin to adjust that and it is not going to b...