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Decisions. six separate federal courts. yet the attorney general who is the top law enforcement official in the federal government said this less than two weeks ago. >> the president calls this a witch hunt, he calls it a hoax. would you agree with that? >> well, as ive said, if he were the president, i think he would view it as a witch hunt and a hoax, because at the time he was saying he was innocent, and that he was being falsely accused, and if youre falsely accused, you would think that som...

Accused, and if youre falsely accused, you would think that something was a witch hunt. >> so the attorney general is perfectly willing to throw around accusations like witch hunt. even though he has got to know that that is not true. i want you to listen, though, to what mueller said today about russias election attack and whether there was coordination between moscow and anybody associated with the trump campaign. here it is. >> the first volume of the report details numerous efforts emanating...

Chemical agent. only produced in russia. they survived. two men traveling on russian passports were later identified by britain as the would-be assassins. putin denied russia had anything to do with skripals attack. >> in going after skripal and assassinating him, he showed he wouldnt abide by any rules or norms. hed do whatever it takes to hunt down anybody who he believes was an asset of the west. >> two weeks after skripals poisoning, vladimir putin was re-elected to a fourth term. >> breakin...

Collusion between trump campaign and russian government. issued another indictment. rinking the kremlin. to the election attack. three days later putin met with president trump in helsinki. >> why should americans and why should president trump believe your statement that russia didnt intervene in the 2016 election? >> putin denied the allegation. instead he offered to allow mueller to observe russian law enforcement interviewing the alleged hackers. he wanted something unprecedented in return. ...

Issued another indictment linking the kremlin to the election attack. three days later putin met with president trump in helsinki. >> for president putin, why should americans and why should president trump believe your statement russians did not intervene in the 2016 election? >> putin denied the allegations. instead he offered to allow mueller to observe russian law enforcement interviewing the alleged hackers. but he wanted something unprecedented in return. access to u.s. government official...

Come. john? >> alex marquardt for us in washington. so in this new interview with reuters, that the president just did, he once again neglected to squarely blame russia for the 2016 election attack. the president told reuters, quote, muellers probe played right into the russians, if it was russia. if he says it was russia, they played right into the russians hands. joining me now is jeff mason, one of the reuters correspondents who interviewed president trump. jeff, thanks so much for being with...

>> im not in position to understand fully or talk about what happened in helsinki. ill turn it over to the national security director. >> the issue was discussed and in fact president putin said the first issue that president trump raised was election meddling. >> reporter: still so many questions about that helsinki summit and that private meeting between president trump and president putin. but one thing has changed as we end this week here, there was a unified message from the u.s. government...

Returning to it, and im quote hearing the two-year hysteria surrounding russian interference in 2016 elections that did not happen. it sounds almost exactly like what president trump said last night. speaking at a rally in eastern pennsylvania, the president had warm words about his summit with vladimir putin, harsh words about the russia probe. >> we got along really well. by the way, thats a good thing, not a bad thing. thats a really good thing. now were being hindered by the russian hoax. it...

Game. and if you look at russia in history, they had 400 years czars. seven years of totalitarian communism. then the collapse of the soviet union, and for the last 20 years vladimir putin and the intelligence agencies have been in power. they have one goal in mind, which is to recover from the collapse of the soviet union. they believe that president trump can help them do that. they believe that election hacking and manipulation is a tool that can help them achieve that. they are feeling very ...

Rush interference, what does he do? as of today still refusing to forcefully call out putin for ordering the election attack. why? next question. if members of congress are so upset by the reality of trump and putin, what are they going to do? republican jeff flake has harsh words for the president. but what will they do? and just in case you like trump are almost completely immune to the truth about russian interference, how about this? the man the president hand-picked to run the fbi tonight s...