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Presidential election, sort of. >> well, i would, because hes in charge of the country just like i consider myself to be responsible for things that happen in this country. certainly as the leader of a country, you would have to hold him responsible, yes. >> and two weeks before his inauguration, president trump while he was president-elect was briefed in detail on u.s. intelligence that putin ordered the election attack. the former director of national intelligence james clapper was involved in...

Now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. comcast, building americas largest gig-speed network. the president siding with russia over his own intelligence agencies about russias election attack prompted cia chief brennen to call the presidents statement nothing short of treasonous. i want to bring in douglas brinkley and james, the author of "our towns, a 100,000 mile journey into the heart of america." lots to talk about. douglas, you first. article iii in section three of...

National security, military and diplomatic personnel, they agree this was a huge blunder on the part of the president of the united states to exit from this meeting with putin the way he did. its going to cause enormous, enormous grief for the president and his administration but im grateful to you as usual for joining us and expressing your views. thank you very much. senator rand paul remaining silent in the aftermath of that. appreciate it very much. the breaking news continues. well have m...

The presumed perpetrator of that terror strike? >> ed, terrorism, i cant even likeen this to 9/11 but lets remember vladimir putin accused of a assassinating his own formr spy in the u.k., attacking and killing. servers and bitcoin and hiding money to attack our election process -- >> hes a bad guy. >> its a bad thing. but to go to that level seems over-the-top. >> i think youre right, to call it terrorist attack is extreme. whats more important is for president trump to acknowledge there is an ...

He doesnt care about the election attack, underneath the presidential layer is their activity in the trump administration to protect the country or is the coats sound the noise and the trump sound the substance. which from your reporting is it? >> the latter. im hearing the intelligence community, the national security community is not doing anything to protect against the meddling russia is doing and will interfere in the 2018 midterms. im hearing whereas the national security and intelligence ...

Involved in the trump transition decided it would be a good idea to have flynn have some secret conversations with the russian government undercutting obamas sanctions telling russia not to worry and maybe the obama administration wants to punish them and the incoming trump administration had no such intention so they should stand down and not worry too much. once the trump folks got in office they in fact started to have discussions immediately about how they could unilaterally move to get rid ...

Component of what russia did to try to influence that election. it was interesting at the time those charges were filed a couple of weeks ago. but although these were the first criminal charges related directly to what russia did, the most obvious crime committed by russia in their election attack, it hadnt been charged in the first criminal indictments brought against them. were finally getting criminal charges on this thing. the big, obvious crime wasnt what mueller charged. the big, obvious c...

Try to influence that election. it was interesting at the time those charges were filed a couple of weeks ago. but although these were the first criminal charges related directly to what russia did, the most obvious crime committed by russia in their election attack, it hadnt been charged in the first criminal indictments brought against them. were finally getting criminal charges on this thing. the big, obvious crime wasnt what mueller charged. the big, obvious crime committed by the russians i...

What were going to expect to learn a lot more about tomorrow. if director comeys statement as released today is true and accurate, and i dont want to premi presume that it is, if it is, we learned a few things from it today some big things and some small things. heres one. first, at what director comey says was their first in person meeting on january 6th, first meeting between trump and comey, the way comey describes it he says a number of intelligence officials were all in the same room togeth...

Released today is true and accurate, and i dont want to presume that it is, if it is, we learned a few things from it today some big things and some small things. heres one. first, at what director comey says was their first in person meeting on january 6th, first meeting between trump and comey, the way comey describes it he says a number of intelligence officials were all in the same room together briefing trump on the election attack on the election last year. comey says it was him personally...