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Brittain and the list goes on and on and on? i mean, that was one sentence that theyre trying -- that he is trying to clarify. okay. thats fine. thats all well and good, but i cant believe im going to say this, but what he just did almost makes what happened yesterday worse. >> worse. >> almost makes it worse because this is so not who he is. he is mr., as we were talking about double down, triple down. hes reading from a paper that who knows who wrote for him as gloria and i were texting during...

It was clear. the old double negative defense. thatll work. its very clear that people in the administration knew that he blew it. and that he had made a huge mistake and that the country was upset about it and they were upset about it and had to force him. as i said earlier in the day, it looked like a hostage video. had to force him to go out there and read from this statement. and try and explain what he had done. which he tried to do with this double negative reference. but every once in a w...

Sort of a double negative. so you can put that in, and i think that probably clarifies things pretty good by itself. i have on numerous occasions noted our intelligence findings that russians attempted to interfere in our elections. unlike previous administrations. my administration as it will move aggressively to repeal any efforts and repel. we will stop it. we will repel it. any efforts to interfere in our elections. were doing everything in our power to prevent russian interference in 2018 a...

Agencies despite appearing to side with putin in helsinki. >> i have great confidence in my intelligence people. but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. he just said its not russia. i will say this. i dont see any reason why it would be. >> reporter: the president today attempting to clarify that remark. >> 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...

Sort of a double negative. so you can put that in and i think that probably clarifies things pretty good by itself. >> earlier today republicans on capitol hill roundly criticized the president for not sticking up for the united states. >> the russians need to know that there are a lot of us who fully understand what happened in 2016 and it really better not happen again in 2018. >> i think it was a bad day for the president. i think he can fix it. i think he needs to fix it. >> president trump ...

Mistake of trumps presidency and now president trump is blaming it in part on a grammatical mistake, a double negative. he says that after all the blowback he went back and looked at a transcript of his press conference with putin and he says that thats when he realized that he simply misspoke. >> a stunning admission and a rare reversal from president donald trump just one day after he stood next to russian president vladimir putin and refused to answer who he believes more, his own intelligenc...

The big deal? so i have a transcript that reviewed it, and i actually went out and reviewed a clip of an answer that i gave, and i realized there was a need for some clarification. i thought it was obvious, but i would like to clarify just in case it wasnt. in a key sentence in my remarks i said the word wood 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 repeat it, i said the word would instead of wouldnt and this ...

Address this. times he will take questions from reporters. they dont always say what topic theyre speaking on but it would be on the summit. >> neil: do you know the genesis for this turn around or clarification, whatever theyre calling it? im told when the president was leaving on air force one, he was very surprised at the wrath of a number of conservative commentators, republicans that were just appaplectic over it. >> the president said he was surprised when he was in washington, it was afte...

Double negative. so you can put that in and i think that probably clarifies things pretty good by itself. i have on numerous occasions noted our intelligence findings that russians attempted to interfere in our elections. unlike previous administrations, my administration has and will continue to move aggressively to repeal and repel, we will stop it and repel it, any efforts to interfere in our elections. were doing everything in our power to prevent russian interference in 2018. we have a lot ...

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 can put that in, and i think that probably clarifies things pretty good by itself. >> yeah, thats a lie. you know how long it takes when youre a president to get a clip of your press conference? about 60 seconds. we just learned that that stunning attempt at cleanup, most of it read from prepared remarks, fol...