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People consider what russia did and continue to do to be a threat to western democracy. dwlet white hou yet the it white house and the president continue to be blah za about it. when asked about the post report about hacking, she answers instead about something else. >> whats the white houses response to this? >> the president has said previously and we got conversation from dan cotes, mike rogers that theres no evidence of collusion. number one and number two that this didnt have an impact on t...

To turn over documents to the russian russia investigation. the president has fiercely denied any coordination between his campaign and russia. even going so far as to slam the investigation as a witch hunt. it also appears that privately he took his pitch to members of his own national security team in hopes they would help him push back against the fbis investigation. >> president trumps first international trip over shadowed by ongoing kaunlt controversy b home. including stunning revelat...

Hed have to say. but none of this would go forward without having a discussion with rob mueller. so count me as very sceptical but were certainly a long way from making any judgment about that. >> former trump campaign chairman, paul manafort, former trump adviser, carter page they have complied with request from your committee, the house intelligence committee, are you receiving the same documents? >> we certainly want these witnesses to come and testify and at this point i dont want to go into...

On top of all this a long list of investigations into michael flynn and the trump campaigns ties to russia. president trump called two top u.s. intelligence officials asking them to publicly deny evidence of collusion during the 2016 election. >> current and former officials tell dan cotes and michael rogers were both uncomfortable with the presidents request. the president called them after then fbi director james comey publicly revealed in march that the bureau was investigating possible trump...

This is how hes communicating to the public. he has 47 million or more twitter followers hes chosen to use this method of social media to communicate directly, primarily in part to get past us who he is very distrustful and critical of, the media. but thats what hes doing. and also, were looking forward to next week, the beginning of confirmation hearings for a number of nominees. he nominated today or h announced he would nominate the former senator from indiana, dan cotes to be his director of...

Policy and as a result has been considered for secretary of state. if it gets it, he would be glad to serve. >> were getting new information about the director of national intelligence. what are you hearing? >> our own jim acosta reporting there are three people under consideration to head d nirks i, the director of the national intelligence agency, former senator dan cotes, and the former homeland security adviser fred townsend from the bush administration. so as were talking about now donald t...

>> i got a note saying i am at the wrong hearing. ive got the right room number, but the wrong hearing. >> that would explain why i didnt know anything about this letter. >> that was senator dan cotes showing why he needs more money. >> i am going to be charitable in my question. does moran have a point about congress being the largest board of directors and therefore deserving more money? >> sts a bankrupt -- it is a bankrupt entity. it is weird he suggested this. you take kickbacks for your bu...

>> reporter: yeah. im told and our political editor has been told hes not going to run again because hes frustrated with the way things are going in washington. he always preferred being a chief executive. hes a former governor of the state of indiana, has been in the senate a dozen or so years. and the tipping point, im told for him, is that they couldnt get together on a deficit reduction commission in tt snand jobs bill is stalled and all over the place, and republicans and democrats cant eve...

So wasnt in any real trouble here but decided he didnt want to do it again. >> when dan cotes decided not to run thats when evan bayh took the seat. what made him think he couldnt win with that much money and the good numbers? is it the anti-incumbent sentiment? >> i think he thinks he could have worn very handily. hes popular in the state. hes always been able to buck this anti-incumbent sentiment. he won the state when george bush won the state as a democrat. so hes always been somebody -- don...

>> so, you were in the room at that moment. tell us, take us there. >> yeah, that laughter was not -- people thought it was funny, it was dan cotes being embarrassed, obviously he was told it was news by a reporter while he was on stage. it shows how much hes out of the loop. and the presidents making his own decisions. thats the main thing id take away from the conversations, literally the people who work for some of the people out here at the aspen security conference. mid level careers, some ...