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Says. the national security advisor john bolton said in a statement at the time, and he said the president believes that the next bilateral meeting with president putin should take place after the russia witch hunt is over so weve agreed that it will be after the first of the year. joining me now is former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul. also an msnbc and international affairs news analyst. ambassador, thanks for being here. i know that youve been in the news over this but i want to s...

Remind everyone how much foreign money just exists in trump world. >> lots of it. we dont know exactly. we know the russians have been courting donald, spending money on him and putting money in his pocket for more than 30 years. donalds son, one of his sons has said they were getting lots of money from russians, and hed been deeply involved with deals in new york, florida, arizona, toronto and other places with russian gangsters. >> all right. so that said, theres been all this chatter since ho...

Before there can be opposition within his own cabinet. >> if anyone is scratching their head. i realize were nine days out and the president has invited putin to come to the white house this fall which coincides with the mid teelections and you hav chuck schumer saying essentially slow your role, like, we need to know what transpired in that meeting before we extend this invite. at the end of the day, isnt it just up to the president to have putin to the united states, period? >> totally. absolu...

>> david, yesterday it was announced the white house extended the invite to putin. in terms of the politics of it especially in the fall, i dont know if its going to be before the midterm elections or after the midterm elections, if putin accepts the invitation before the midterm elections, and comes, does that create a huge problem for congressional republicans? i mean, wont they have to answer questions of whether they support the presidents decision to host the man who -- >> yeah, im sure. >>...

As dni. neil: but also dan coats apparently didnt know about this follow-up invite to vladimir putin to come to the united states. >> the interview with andrea mitchell but again note well. dan coats is still indiana his position as dn: neil: as long as theyre not fired? >> but it tells us, neil that the president has a solid working relationship with these very wise intelligent people in whom he puts his trust and we can put our trust in him and in them. the president is building our leverage e...

Adversaries, and the flash points, countries like russia, it is extraordinarily unential that director of national intelligence would be aware of that before hand. >> the director the national intelligence, along with the cia director in the administration, is a member of that security council. they would sit around a table in the white house situation room. discuss the pros and cons, whether or not the enang gaugement and come to a decisioned it. that is not to say that the director of national...

Regarding election interference, arms control or the middle east. negotiate today with russia at your own peril. david sanger, guess who wrote that. that was john bolton. >> let me guess it was john bolton, yeah. >> yes! john bolton invited put on the the white house d. the views change or grin the teeth, bear it and make the invite the president wanted? >> we have seen a lot of grit his teeth and bear it out of the john bolton. one point few weeks ago he said he wasnt commenting on all of his p...

To washington and addressed a joint meeting of congress and that was boris yeltsin. he was perceived to be a partner rather than an enemy. i dont understand it. i think its a bad decision. >> i get a sense that putin will not get an invite to congress if this trip does come through. maybe thats a possibility. josh, what are you hearing? how did this invite to putin kind of come about from the white house? do you have a sense from the white house they think another putin meeting would be a good t...

Circles. the invite made possible because she came alongside her boyfriend paul erikson who has known sanford for 30 years. the highlights a key question in her case, was putin complicit in her scheme? twice maria butina says she was denied and then the nra came to moskow. putin hosted a gun conference and charmed nra board member david keen and his associate paul erikson. by april 14, visa in hand butina was an her way to indianapolis and snapped a pic with wain lupier. her relationship with er...

They got from assad that they got from russia. so russia is going to be a major player in this. >> so how does forgiving them for their malevolence make it more likely they will help you. >> but, chris, prior to the press conference, and i do think the president could have been stronger in the press conference -- >> stronger? >> he has criticized russia. he said russia was behind the meddling a number of times before. hes absolutely said that. when putin came out, he even said that trump was cha...