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He has such an invitation. ive told him that, and im ready to go to washington. i repeat once again, if the right conditions for work are created. >> that same afternoon, friday, at the 18-month mark of his presidency, mr. trump convened his first national security council meeting on election security, but there were no new directives out of the white house and the meeting lasted well under an hour. are we getting tougher on russia, softer on russia? are we going to meet, not meet? a tad confusi...

It clear that his administration will not tolerate foreign interference in our elections from any nation state or other malicious actors." all this as nbc news reports, as the headline says pretty clearly, "trump administration has no central strategy for election security, and no ones in charge." thats pretty direct. our own ken delainan writes "even members of trumps national security cabinet have acknowledged the need for a central, unifying effort, one that experts say is missing. senior off...

Its almost gotten to, you know, comical proportions here. >> the president and his top national security advisers met today to discuss election security. how dedicated do you actually think the president is to making sure meddling doesnt take place again this fall because there was all this reporting months ago that there hadnt been any cabinet-level meeting really to kind of orchestrate. you and i have talked about this before. the importance of a top-down approach in terms of the president, yo...

More problematic is cohens new claim that the president was aware of the trump tower meeting previously and certainly the person with the bulls eye on them is don jr., he testified under oath contrary to that. >> right. he is the one that very much could be caught up for a lie if thats in fact what it turns out to be. sham -- shan wu, thank you. no details have been shared how to improve election security, but politics reporter is with us and cnn national security analyst. thank you for being ...

Some people do criticize him. however one thing remains absolutely clear. hes committed to fulfilling his campaign promises. you would think that if president trump were as tough on russia as he claims to be, putin wouldnt have nearly as flattering words to say about him. the president is saying now russia wants to interfere to help the democrats in the next election. >> well, thats -- i dont know where he got that. i dont know what evidence there is of that, you know. i think the interference -...

Seriously. >> you know what im most worried about, there is nobody, except maybe the president, and it just depends on who is talking, that doesnt acknowledge, know, or admit. they are trying to destabilize our democracy. we need to pay attention to this, this is not idol accurater. i was really stop signed that the republicans were unwilling to put more money into our election security. we know, dan coats who is the head of homeland security said im going to provide you with factual information...

Because there have been serial mistruths told about what happened in this meeting, we know that it has to have been something significant, something that people want to cover up but we dont know exactly what it is. we do know what it isnt. >> its fascinating when you put it like that. joyce vance, thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> thanks. nbc news national security reporter ken dilanian has been reporting on todays rather short white house meeting on election security. his story rig...

Money to protect themselves from election security. so theyre not going to get any help. they have to do it themselves. it should be out there to the public. we cant trust donald trump. hes not going to tell us the truth. as american people who are going to go vote, we need to know whats going on out there. >> what do you make of sort of what seems to be at least from the outside looking in. the renaissance of the democrats to really lean in on this issue. they seem not really to want to talk ab...

We mentioned this before the break, vladmir putin has invited president trump to moscow just days after the white house postponed plans to have putin visit us here in washington this fall. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders released a statement after the invite from putin that read "president trump looks forward to having president putin to washington after the first of the year," read mid-terms, "and he is open to visiting moscow upon receiving a formal invitation." just hours a...

Bed this meeting and its -- odd about this meeting and its brevity. walk us through what officials are telling you. >> this is simply talking to folks and listening to cabinet officials talk in public about their efforts to combat foreign election interference. what they say, like, for example, the department of homeland security with peter alexander in aspen talked about things dhs is doing working with the states on election security, but then she said, you know what, thats not enough. we real...