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I dont think theres any coming back from this. josh marshall of the liberal talking points memo put it this way, he said the press conference in helsinki made cautious prominent people start to come to grips with the reality that trump is under control of a foreign adversary. the concern is palpable. will hurd says putin is manipulating trump, and he asks what should we do? of course, the week of walk backs did not inspire any confidence. too many members of the media fell for trumps cleanup act...

The sentence should have been and i thought it might be unclear on the transcripts or the actual video, the sentence should have been i dont see any reason why it wouldnt be russi russia. sort of a double negative. you can put that in and i think that probably clarifies things pretty good. >> tucker: thats the hostage tape. the president buckled to criticism. that happens, this is politics after all. what is amazing, unusual, and ominous is who made him buckle. the people yelling the loudest abo...

Lot. that is a documented fact. the question for america is how to respond. and his attempts to damage control this week increasingly inviting ridicule, like the normally trump friendly tmz saying yesterdays dodge amounted to trump, i didnt commit treason, i just botched a double negative. and todays claim was that no really isnt a no drew mockery from republicans. >> do you believe it? >> no more questions. no -- i guess thats what -- no, it was a joke. i saw it. it sure looked like he was sayi...

Intelligence chiefs does not add up. we are learning tonight driven by fear of resignations in the intelligence community, the president decided that he would say he misspoke during one of the multiple times that he took putins side against americas in that press conference. and so after meeting with top aides today, president trump read from a prepared statement offering up frankly what seems to be a dog ate my homework excuse on how things went terribly wrong in helsinki. >> and a key sentence...

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In they are clean ups, you know instantly when youre a press officer how something is playing. you see it on twitter instantly. for them to come out and say, he meant to insert a double negative. for her to come out and si say, she would have to walk 15 steps to tell the entire press core and the world that is not at all what donald trump meant. their efforts at clean-up have no credibility. >> i think back to being in europe last week. the sarah huckabee sanders statement that came out was inex...

Said its not russia. i will say this, i dont see any reason why it would be. >> i accept our intelligence communitys conclusion there russ russias meddling took place. i dont see any reason why it wouldnt be russia, sort of a double negative so you could put that in and i think that probably clarifies these good by itself. >> fast forward to a cabinet meeting today. >> is the president still pressuring russia? >> make your way out. >> that was the president seeming to assert that the russians ar...

Wouldnt -- or why it wouldnt be russians. sort of a double negative. so you can put that in. and i think that probably clarifies things pretty good by itself. 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 have great confidence in my intelligence people, but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denia...

Politically influenced or biased, influenced, which is double negative. also that he lied to investigators. >> that strzok lied to investigators? they certainly said that with mccabe. the comparison they have here is when they fired mccabe, leah articulated four counts of what they call lack of candor which is the bureaus lying to investigation standards. and they laid out elaborate evidence for each one of those counts. on this one i dont see that and im not saying its not there, but they need ...

Grammatical mistake was all the presidents idea. can you add any more color to that detail of who thought of which part of the cleanup to the messup, to the walk back, to the cleanup? >> absolutely. so on the question of coming up with that kind of creative double negative defense, our understanding is the same as yours, that it absolutely was the president, that he basically -- he reviewed the transcript. he then asked to see the video. he watched the video, and he was the one who said oh, i me...