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Us all proud. it also felt very different because of the vitriol behind so many of the presidents many tweets this weekend about the russia probe. they came after special counsel mueller charged 13 russians with engineering an elaborate social media campaign interfering in the 2016 election. and supporting donald trumps candidacy. he tweeted, if it was the goal of russia to create discord, disruption, and chaos within the u.s., then with all of the committee hearings, investigations, and party h...

Latest round of indictments in the russia investigation. as "the new york times" writes, quote, president trump began the weekend believing something good had just happened to him, an indictment leveled against 13 russians for interfering with the 2016 election, had not accused him or anyone around him of wrongdoing. but the presidents mood began to darken as it became clear to him that some commentators were portraying the indictment as nothing for him to celebrate. those commentators called it...

Morning, quote, if it was the goal of russia to create discord, disruption and chaos within the u.s., then with all of the committee hearings, investigations and party hatred, they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. they are laughing their butts off in moscow. get smart, america. and so the mueller investigation marches on. now the los angeles times reports rick gates will take a plea deal, though nbc has yet to confirm that. joining us tonight, to get smart, republican strategist and...

Trump is going on a barrage of tweets. democrats and the fbi say the agency was too busy with the russia investigation and missed many signals about the parkland florida shooter. there has been no rebuke of the kremlin. instead, the president tweeting out comments thlike this one, quote, if it was the goal of russia to create discord, disruption, and chaos within the u.s., then with all of their committee hearings, investigations and party hatred, they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams....

>> they made up the whole russia hoax. >> that was a democrat hoax. >> its a democrat hoax. >> and as predicted weve got more tweets from president trump this morning, this was his latest, if it was the goal of russia to create discord, disruption and chaos within the u.s., then with all the committee hearings, investigations and party hatred they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. they are laughing their butts off in moscow. thats not what he tweeted but its sunday im not going to say ...

They are laughing their -- and ill say butts -- off in moscow. get smart, america. so the president is in effect crediting russias efforts, saying they have been successful based on the fact he believes that all of the attention drawn to the russia investigation and the sort of partisan divide of which hes a contributor is part of what russia wanted to sow the discord, to cause the enflamed views among americans. thats an arguable point that perhaps russia did, in fact, succeed or those personin...

Even before we officially launched the campaign, there was no collusion. there was no cooperation. there was no coordination between us and any russians that we ever knew of. we didnt speak to any russians or anybody else for that matter, and what this is, is a clear ndication for the president and our team that said we didnt have anything to do with this but the mainstream media doesnt want to give him the credit that he won fair and square. >> cory lewandowski echoing his former boss. presiden...

Hatred, they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. they are laughing their -- and again the expletive is there -- off in moscow. get smart, america. the president actually spelled that word out. we put the asterisks in there because we didnt find it to be too tasteful. how do you interpret that? >> you know, with this president, every time we think weve hit rock bottom, the bottom just falls out. we go to unimagined depths. this is not just on president trump. i think its also on john kell...

>> alan rosenstein, i want to stick with this theme as i read from another tweet. if it was the goal of russia to create discord, disruption and chaos within the u.s. then with all the committee hearings and the party hatred they have succeeded between their wildest dreams. theyre laughing at us, get smart. what is the president trying to do there and what the legal implications, directing t folks here to get smart? >> well, i think as the other commentator pointed out what the president is tryi...

President this morning. if it was the goal of russia to create discord, disruption, and chaos within the u.s., then with all the of the committee hearings, investigations, and party hatred, they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. they are laughing their expletives off there in moscow. get smart, america. your reaction to the content, the tone of that tweet. let me just add that we here at msnbc are the ones that took out those four letters aftnd insert the asterisk. because you know, ...