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Meeting between trump and vladimir putin. here is what the president said today about that meeting. >> mr. president, do you remember george papadopoulos during that march meeting? >> i dont remember much about that meeting. it was a very unimportant meeting. toopts a long time -- dont remember much about it. >> as this white house faces the daily deluge about robert muellers investigation, the president decided today to criticize his own justice department and call on it to investigate his form...

Furiously about the other alleged scandal that he thinks we ought to be focused on but still denying he heard anything about any meetings with russians. >> right and remember the president posted about his memory last week saying he has one of the great memories. in terms of the deflection that you talk about, lets look at those tweets, he sent out about eight between 7:00 and noon today. some of them reading everybody is asking why the justice department and fbi isnt looking into all of the di...

Gentlemen, nice to have both of you here. ron, let me ask you, the significance of this fight within the democratic party right now, what do you make of this moment for democrats, and how problematic is this for your party? >> well, its certainly not helpful. you know, i think that we need to understand that these joint fundraising agreements are standard. theyre done by every candidate. both hillary clinton and senator sanders signed one. donald trump signed one with the republican party. there...

President trump making light of the temporary shutdown of his twitter account after a twitter employee briefly deactivated the presidents page last night. the president, you may have seen, responded this morning. he said, my twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. i guess the word must finally be getting out and having an impact. i thought about that one for a little bit. joining us now, nbc contributor sam sty. sam, first of all, the president right now en route to as...

The president obviously, the common theme, strategy, is deflect, distract, focus on other things. the papadopoulos reporting you have right now that sessions eekt fively rejected this outright in the meeting, that the president we understand was listening intently to this at the time. the president this morning saying he doesnt remember much of that meeting. talk about where this leads us and why this matters so much? >> no one seems to remember very much. this is a common theme, if there is one...

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H.r. mcmaster told reporters yesterday that he would not change his rhetoric. he would continue to be trump while he was in the region. i want to also read to you another focus of the president and thats hillary clinton. he tweeted adnumb number of thi including asking the justice department to investigate hillary clinton. let me read to you what he said. he said everybody is asking why the justice department and fbi isnt looking into all of the dishonesty going on with crooked hillary and the d...

Investigation hes looking for on hillary clinton or whoever, and that justice isnt responding. i think there is fear on capitol hill of what an attorney general, how they see that can be filled. jeff sessions has recused himself on clinton and on russia. its putting him in this sort of paralyzed state politically, and the president almost appears to be wanting to humiliate him into resignation, but we know hes not going to do that, and i think congress is afraid of what might replace him. >> the...