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The opposition. is there a role for the u.s. government to play to stop american private companies from doing putins bidding like that? or doing things like that for other authoritarian regimes around the world? >> i think there is. but lets start, first at home, rachel. i share your concern about what happened in the russian elections, but i think first we have to take necessary legislative and regulatory action to begin to regulate the way that our social media and tech companies operate. we h...

Against any sort of russian encroachment on american power. and from a local perspective, where we end up looking at this is that the republicans are getting away with all sorts of shenanigans that the democrats should be forcing them to tow the line on. democrats should, at every opportunity, be talking about cheating in elections, should be talking about doing putins bidding. and we do talk about that in sum. but the difficulty in this whole process has been sustaining a narrative that the ame...

Start to think about leaving the ship and disclosing more information. including the full content of that 30-minute phone call. theres one other point that has not been made enough. this isnt just about biden and ukraine. its about doing putins bidding, to weak en the ukrainin president enough that russia could get away with the invasion of crimea. this is a deeper, dark, horrible situation that trump has gotten us into. its going to start to unravel even more rapidly now. >> gene, to that point...

Point than end point about his sources of income, whether he has made more extensive use of illegal tax shelters and illegal tax practices than the "new york times" and i and others have already reported on, and his extreme aversion to anybody knowing about his business practices. i mean, keep in mind, donald trump is not a businessman in the traditional sense that you create a business to build wealth. i did that on a very small scale. he is someone who gets his hands on an enterprise, extracts...

>> well, from what i can understand, the current administrations approach to iran is less about getting a better deal and about building enough pressure, unilateral american pleasuressure, to prod capitulation or implosion of that regime. i think we can do a lot of damage to their economy but i dont think were going to do enough to cause that hard th theocratic regime to capitulate. meantime were widening the fissure with our own european allies, doing putins work for him, and undermining the sa...

Vladimir putin, something he tested when he annexed crimea in 2014, he wants the breakup of nato, the split between europe and the united states. it goes back to july of last year when the president went to nato, he burst out of the meetings and declared he had gotten everybody to up their commitment to nato. and the next person, president macron, saying no, thats not what happened. its either the president doing putin a favor or treating geo politics like a business transaction in new york city...

That kind of hatred, theyre smearing 63 million americans for voting for donald trump. thats even worse in my view than going after the president. >> laura: thats what they dont understand. they turned out to vote for trump because they know those folks look down on them. trump didnt. >> how condescending elite institutions, which includes the elite media are, when it comes to -- >> the forgotten men and women. fantastic panel. thank you for joining us tonight. >> why a former cia moscow station...

>> i mean, why wouldnt he? trump has been so incredibly nice to him. he at every turn, every time trump has been asked to say something even remotely critical, he has refused. instead he bashes american institutions on foreign soil standing shoulder-to-shoulder with a foreign add soar. you know, what struck me watching those clips is putins on top of the world right now. this comes a day after the triumphant end to the world cup that he pulled off without a hitch. it comes after a week of putin ...

>> they like to talk off the side, between themselves. >> and nato, it goes badly. he always attacks our nato allies. doesnt he, richard? how weird is this? that paul manafort was doing putins bidding, and now it looks like donald trump is -- im sure he doesnt mean to, but hes just bumbling into this. doing vladimir putins bidding by constantly attacking nato allies, and constantly defending vladimir putin saying he should be in the g8. saying that maybe -- maybe russia should just -- we should ...

Tweet 20 minutes before the announcement goes out is essentially trying to shape the news and the coverage by getting out ahead of it and saying, russia didnt meddle and convincing every fox news viewer in the portion of america that listens to trump words and believes what he says that this is a nonissue and that all of the legitimate media coverage pointing out what is really going on and what the intelligence community really thinks is going to get drowned out by trump noise. >> the president...