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He just said its not russia. i will say this. i dont see any reason why it would be. >> i thought that i made myself very clear by having just reviewed the transcript. it should have been obvious. i thought it would be obvious, but i would like to clarify just in case it wasnt. in a key sentence in my remarks i said the word "would" instead of "wouldnt." the sentence should have been i dont see any reason why i wouldnt, or why it wouldnt be russia. so -- just to treatment. i said the word "would...

>> so it is true. >> a double negative. >> a double negative. >> that sounds like a confession to me. it has led to proof positive. im afraid you gave yourself away. >> are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests? >> you dont need any help from me, sir. >> someone on our staff knows the movie "clue" that well. i want a badge number, i want it all who that employee is. member of our staff in that control room. welcome back to "morning joe." it is wednesday, july 18th. joe a...

And we couldnt accept that a double negative that a should instead of a shouldnt or a shouldnt instead of a should is going to make this go away because thats not the case. >> can we go back to what happened to this meeting even though there are calls for interpreter whose job it is to parse national security issues sand things that may or may not be classified. the russian military said they were ready to implement international security agreements. we dont even know what that is. i mean, do we...

I said the word "would" instead of wouldnt. and the sentence should have been, and i thought i would be maybe a little bit unclear on the transcript or unclear on the actual video. the sentence should have been i dont see any reason why it wouldnt be russia. sort of a double negative. so, you could put that in. i think that probably clarifies things pretty good by itself. >> well, the double negative, of course, doesnt explain why he didnt correct himself in any of the tweets he sent. or, by the...

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Yesterday. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others, they said, they think its russia. i have president putin, he just said its not russia. i will say this, i dont see any reason why it would be. i thought i made myself clear by having just reviewed the transcript, it should have been obvious, i thought it would be obvious, but i would like to clarify just in case it wasnt, in a key sentence in my remarks, i said the word would instead of wouldnt. the sentence should have be...

Word would instead of wouldnt and the sentence should have been, and i thought it would be maybe a little bit unclear on the transcript or unclear on the actual video. the sentence should have been, i dont see any reason why it wouldnt be russia. sort of a double negative. >> lets get reaction to that. with me now, senator bill nelson, democratic senator from the state of florida. senator nelson, welcome, sir. and you heard the president say he misspoke. would versus wouldnt. do you buy that? >>...

Its clear they wrote this out for him, and the best they could come up, that he would admit to was the use of a double negative. i mean, i think its -- its embarrassing. its more -- as dana says -- >> makes it worse -- makes yesterday worse. >> hes contradicted himself in the same sentence as gloria notes there. i accept the intelligence communitys assessment, which is russia and only russia interfered in the election and he went on as gloria notes, but it could be other people also. there are a...

Wouldnt be russia. sort of a double negative. so you can put that in, and i think that probably clarifies things pretty good by itself. >> clarifies things pretty good by itself. dana bash? >> reporter: if only that entire spectacle, unbelievably historically embarrassing spectacle could have been fixed with an n, an apostrophe and a t. that is about as far of a stretch as any one of us could imagine. i guess he gets points for being creative there. maybe that was the one sentence that could hav...