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Jamal. thank you for taking the time this morning. let me ask you, you spoke to him recently before his disappearance and you say he was concerned for his safety? >> reporter: yes. jamal kept expressing this idea that he thought that the saudi will come after him. he saw his friends, his colleagues being arrested, the crackdown in saudi arabia exponentialily went out of control. he kept calling out and using his column in "the washington post" to denounce the crowned prince, even calling him put...

Welcome back to "velshi & ruhle." breaking news right now, president trump has just tweeted this. i know you can get tired of link to his tweets. this one is interesting. "im very concerned that russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming election." thats news. "based on the fact that no president has been tougher on russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the democrats. they definitely dont want trump." >> we should remind our audience last week at the pres...

There was an agreement on syria. thats really crucial. question is what is that agreement? is iran going to with draw? we just dont know and waiting for donald trump to tell us what he agreed to. >> walk us through. the president is calling the investigation a hoax. sarah sanders is trying to clear it up saying he was referring to the campaign. but he wasnt. so, again, its a black eye contradicting our national intelligence. we saw dan coats over the weekend, he was apologizing for being stunned...

To russia and putin, former kgb agent, the future of this country. keep in mind that it was the military who put out -- the department of defense put out a document not more than seven months ago that said russia is the principle adversary of the united states and heres the president standing next to that adversary who is documented, not only by the intelligence agency but by the mueller investigation in what the president calls a witch hunt and mueller found 25 russian witches who have involved...

Period. and that now is the difference. >> have republicans raised that? >> you hear it. john mccain almost went there, but he didnt quite. i do believe that question now is being asked privately, and i believe the democrats -- chuck schumer said it publicly yesterday. theyre going to push that narrative, i think, because it is a question people now want the answer to. i just think something changed. >> yeah, it was the juxtaposition of him being there with putin and seeming to surrender to puti...

We also have ai ttika schubert berlin. fred, what are you hearing? >> reporter: hi, jim. well, the finnish press is pretty clear on who they believe came out on top. what we see is a little bit of a soccer an j soccer analogy in the finnish press. theyre saying trump, 0, putin, 1. if you look at russia, they seem to think exactly the same thing. russian officials essentially taking a victory lap, calling the summit magnificent and saying it went better than good for vladimir putin. its interesti...

Called him putins poodle. and a spanish newspaper had the headline "trump caves in." its not a good look for a president who is really trying to project strength by threatening and attacking his own nato allies in brussels, only to be humiliated in helsinki. now, as president trump was preparing for his meeting with president putin, grermanys foreign minister tried to brace the country by saying we can no longer rely on the white house after the fallout from this trip. that certainly seems to be...

European institutions. so essentially russia was looking to sow chaos. according to the fbi, she was here to help. >> its been part of a pattern. sara murray, thanks very much. now that president trump blatantly took russias side over his countrys own intelligence community, what does this mean for u.s. intelligence leaders, u.s. intelligence agencies moving forward? here to discuss now, cnn law enforcement analyst josh campbell. he was a special assistant to the former fbi director james come...

President reagans impossible vision. watch. >> though my pronunciation may give you difficulty, the maximum is [speaking russian] trust but verify. >> boris yeltsin and bill clinton met twice and developed a genuine rapport. clinton later revealed that yeltsin got so drunk he was found outside the white house in his underwear trying to hail a cab. during his first term as russian president, vladimir putin met with george w. bush in 2001. watch. >> i found them to be very straightforward and trus...

Russians. including a billionaire russian on the i gash, who putin gave all the catering contracts to the military and schools. people calm him putins chef. robert mueller straight up indicted that guy in february. those became the basis for the first significant u.s. government sanctioning against russia. mueller picked those targets, named them, and literally brought federal criminal charges against them. the trump administration glommed on and said, yeah, well sanction them, too. since then r...