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Compliments following his speech and those are what those references were about. >> he said he received a phone call from the president of mexico -- >> they were direct conversations, not phone calls. >> he lied because -- >> i wouldnt say its a lie. thats pretty bold accusation. the conversations took place. they didnt take place over a phone call that he had them in person. john? >> sarah, a couple questions about russia. the prime minister has weighed in on the presidents signing of the sanct...

Vote for as their constituents, paul ryan just took it out. it just disappeared. that is underhanded. it undermined our democratic process. its wrong. this shows an exam of how they dont want to work in a bipartisan way. i dont know what the speaker is afraid of. congress is missing in action. we need to do our job. its our constitutional responsibility. were going to keep working and fighting. were building a broader base of support and sooner or later well get that done. >> we look forward to ...

Absolutely adequate in his perception of the dialogue, he analyzes things quickly, replies to the raised questions or new elements in the conversation. so i think if our future relations will unfold the same way as our meeting yesterday, there is every reason to believe that we can restoor at least partially the level of cooperation that we need. >> reporter: one of the other things that both sides agreed to was to establish some kind of a work group that would deal with the question of cyberhac...

In that meeting is going to become much more credible. i think its that simple. >> it strikes me that the administration wanted the story out of this meeting to be that president trump confronted russian leader vladamir putin over election hacking. it happened at the beginning of the meeting. the fact that there are these div divergent views, is this the russians trying to gaslight the administration? >> so in some ways, president trump did what he was pushed politically to do, asked and answere...

Process. russia is doing this in france, in germany. theyre increasing their influence, and this sort of back and forth does not get us to the place where we need to be, which is protection of the american democratic process, for upcoming elections and to make sure that we can prevent nato allies from being interfered with by the russian government. >> matthew, on that point, secretary tillerson says no, no, they want to turn to the future and face the future here, but can you say just bygones o...

Anybody. it w which leads to the larger question, this election, whatever it is, how safe is our democratic process, democratic small deed, our democracy from hacking in general, from the russians who, you know, hacked our election, hacked the french election, i think are doing their darnedest to do, to mess up angela merkel in germany. if the united states does not take this seriously and this commission certainly doesnt take it seriously, how safe is our democracy from something like russia or...

Safe is our democratic process, democratic small d, our democracy, from hacking in general, from the russians who hacked our elections, hacked the french elections, are i think doing their dashest to mess up angela merkel in germany. if the united states does not take this seriously and this commission certainly doesnt take it seriously, how safe is our democracy from something like from russia or from this commission? >> democracy is under attack. democracy was attacked about one year ago by th...

Ukraine. and this is going to be an ongoing source of controversy between the two. so what president trump needs to do is project strength because russians respect strength. he needs to bring up the cyber intrusions in the u.s. democratic process. putin will not respect him if he doesnt do that but should open the door for cooperation. in summary, president trump needs to confront where he must on these cyber but talk about where can we find zones of cooperation. if he does that the meeting will...

Direction of putin, the russians tried to undermine the faith in the u.s. democratic process and at the same time trying to den grate secretary clinton and assist donald trump. but the frankly incomprehensible aspect of this is that donald trump has not been willing to acknowledge what his intelligence community concluded. concluded with high confidence. thats that vladimir putin himself was trying to undermine the publics faith, american peoples faith, in the u.s. democratic process. he should ...

At the white house with more. joe, what can you tell us? >> good morning, clarissa, a trump campaign fund-raiser in washington last night paints a real picture, the leader of the free world, five months into his first term, already preparing to participate in the american democratic process at the highest level with a threat to american democracy still out there. senior administration officials say they are struggling to convince the president to take the problem of russian election interference...