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Russians. they believe the president is morale lined with them than he is with us. if they believe that, theyll keep doing that. intelligence officials dont have directives from this president to stop the interference campaign. its on congress. if the executive isnt going to defend the country, our congressional leaders need to unite and say were going to do all we can to protect the ballot box. >> where are the republicans on this? >> i think the one chance they had to rebuke the president on s...

Keep doing that. intelligence officials dont have directives from this president to stop the interference campaign. its on congress. if the executive isnt going to defend the country, our congressional leaders need to unite and say were going to do all we can to protect the ballot box. >> where are the republicans on this? >> i think the one chance they had to rebuke the president on something firm that came out was what we learned happened in helsinki, when we learned president trump discussed ...

Same time, you can say there was no collusion and it didnt impact the outcome, but we do need to know what they are doing and what any other government out there is doing, because they are not alone, the russians, in terms of getting in the way of our elections and we simply wont stand for it. >> thats right. you can separate collusion from this interference campaign and say we are never going to tolerate an adversary doing this. martha, just weeks after the november election, i wrote legislatio...

To drop. zbl zbl zblen. >> and the white house saying the meeting with vladimir putin is still on. you could make the argument that todays indictment would give the president the evidence he needs to go into that meeting and hold vladimir putin to account for russian interference in the campaign. well, in advance of that meeting trump suggested he does not plan to confront putin very strongly. this is what he had to say earlier today. >> i know youll ask will we be talking about meddling? and i ...

Morning asking why didnt the obama administration do something. he did something. he told president putin to cut it out as you say, the hacking, also there were sanctions implemented at the very end of 2016. are you satisfied with the obama administration efforts to thwart the interference campaign by putin? >> i think what we saw was candidate trump was saying this entire election process is rigged. i think what you saw is president obama bending over backwards to try to not interfere with an u...

And great that trey gowdy has come out and said that there was no spying. but why cant paul ryan say it? why cant mitch mcconnell say it, why cant devin nunes say it? as long as theyre not willing, they are accomplices in the presidents efforts to torch the rule of law in our country. its time for them it say it. >> you have i think youre a normal person. you strike me as a person who gets along with people regardless of politics. mitch landrieu of new orleans said dont let your politics decide ...

As we said, a lot of development and breaking news today, all over the political world. including a scoop of our own. our first real indication that special counsel robert mueller is targeting the president personally. and hes investigating whether mr. trump personally was involved in russias interference campaign. not staff, but this is him individually. multiple people familiar with the probe telling nbc news that muellers team is asking witnesses if trump had advanced knowledge about e-mails ...

In his tweet about the impact. that is not something that mueller is looking at or can really effectively assess. that is difficult to evaluate. nonetheless, it was an opportunity for the president to say that it matters to all americans, not simply to republicans or democrats. this matters to the internet companies, it matters to the tech companies who have been subject to the interference campaign, to a number of specific individuals. but more broadly, to the country, to the countrys democracy...

That we dont yet know about. time will tell. >> kristen, i want to go back to this. im just sort of stunned here. they put out this statement, and in all caps, it says, no collusion. >> right. >> i mean, do they not -- do they not grasp how this appears? i mean, do they not read shakespeare? its sort of -- to lead with that and not with the shock and awe of russian interference with one of vladimirs closest friends leading an interference campaign, do they not grasp how this looks to people beyo...

On that point, reported in this article senator john thune does have oversight and ftc does regulate these companies. some have been calling for more regulation. do you have any view of that account from this reporter and this article that this effort basically provided a kind of pressure on facebook where they were more worried about republican or conservative agenda items than alleged bias? >> i think facebook and google and twitter should all be worried that their platforms could be weaponwea...