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To zip vote yesterday declaring thundershower ambassadors should not be questioned by foreign government was the right thing to do. you know donald trump is now promotining by partisanship. >> a lot of your colleagues who are leaving. the fact that the president would say it was an incredible offer of vladimir putin to be able to have the russians interview people like mike mcfall and other diplomats that he would like. >> like david cramer and others served in positions or done thing that is he...

About it. some of the names on that list i know well. david cramer a former assistant secretary to the bush administration. he was a vocal supporter of the act that president obama signed in 2012. bill browder was a champion for. that act says the united states has the right to deny travel to people suspected of human rights abuses, including the tragic death of a lawyer hired by bill browder to represent him, he died in pre-trial detention. so people like david who are affiliated with that. a f...

So whats going to happen on mondays one-on-one meeting with president trump and vladimir putin with only translators in the room. people were worried if trump would be tough, since today hes mostly down played it and ignored advisers and relied on his gut instinct to forge a personal relationship. on friday, they announced a new indictment of a dozen nationals for the hack of the national committee. does this mean the tenor of the meeting now changes? joining me now is david cramer, former u.s. ...

Affairs. and i also fear that he will encourage president trump to look at institutions such as nato, the european union, recognize that the you european union was created to try to take advantage of the united states. the wto, the g7. basically say to trump we should start over, we should create a new foundation, forget these institutions. cold war era institutions. and i hope the president will recognize thoo these institutions somewhere largely kept the peace in the international world for th...

And you thofr back uthor of bac pmt davi pmt. david, thanks for coming in. what do you make of his approach to his meeting with putin? i mean specifically on the russian meddling thing, im firmly going to ask the question. is that what the president should be doing, firmly asking the question? >> he sounded like hes going to do it in a rather perfunctory manner. and the president needs to understand the intelligence community has made clear as congress has made clear that interference in our ele...

Is the meeting between theresa may -- if the meeting between theresa may and donald trump wasnt in a hot enough spotlight, wait until everyone gets to finland where president trump will be meeting with vladimir putin. trump told reporters this morning his focus will be on nuclear proliferation, syria, ukraine and he said this about russias interference in the 2016 election. >> i know youll ask will we be talking about meddling. and i will absolutely bring that up. i dont think you will have any,...

Are you going to look into who slipped michael cohen secret information from your committee? >> im a little skeptical on this report. i dont think theres anything we can report to his attorney that would be helpful or even inform 2i6 to him. we have been concerned about leaks. oh, my gosh, how many times have i said this? look what happened to hope hicks last week. she was set up and it really was a setup. she was asked a series of questions that she couldnt give a possible honest answer to with...

Described as the base that stuck with him. no. the 37 percentish is the base. then you had independents and democrats who couldnt stomach voting for hillary clinton and voted for him thinking he likely wouldnt win and their vote didnt matter. that is not what its likely to look like in 2020. again, we have no idea whats going to happen this november. we have no idea whether the house flips. if all this takes place when hes in a severely weakened political position, i think youre looking at a dif...

Another witness, namely michael cohen, it sounds like. so are you looking into these leaks? >> again, we are. theres little we can do. all we can do is look at each other, look at our staff and say dont do this. its probably illegal in some cases. its unethical. it violates what many of us think is a trust within the committee, we do our work behind closed doors. theres a reason we dont do this before the cameras. we can do this more serious work, better work if were not grandstanding for the ca...

For sure. i dont want to go in that direction until we verify it yet. there is quite a few people involved here. now with david kramer this is significant and important. he was a state department official. remember, he was the guy who went and get the dossier for mccain answered brought it back. the fbi already had the dossier. we know that the fbi had obtained that dossier earlier that summer. he goes back. he gets the dossier. and he is pleading the fifth because he doesnt want to answer one g...