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Today, obamas cia director john brennan tweeted in part, "donald trumps press conference performance in helsinki rises and exceeds the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors. it was nothing short of treasonous." [laughs] i just have to laugh about that. and why did no one collect surrender, by the way, when in d the european missile defense shield that was to be built in poland? was that a surrender to putin? or was it a surrender or collusion when obama asked russian prime minister dimitri m...

Gone, its all big one saturday night late to -- "saturday night live" spoof video. as embarrassing. >> i think people want an escape. they dont want to see this stuff. if you look at the top rated movies of the weekend, it was "hotel transylvania" and "antman." a lot of heroes that are smaller than ever. >> laura: a big-time protest in chicago over a police shooting but you wont believe what the police body cam showed footage actually shows. well have the full story next.

Didnt confront vladimir putin on this russian meddling when he could have confronted it as president. listen to what he said. >> its not like putin is going around the world publicly saying, look what we did. wasnt that clever. he denies it. so the idea that somehow public shaming is going to be effective, i think doesnt read. the thought process in russia very well. >> laura: monica, a few of us on the panel lived in the soviet union for short. max of time, longer. s of time, obama was right th...

You look at those texts that you understand the context in which they were made and the things that were going on across america. in terms of the texts that we will stop it, you need to understand that that was written late at night off-the-cuff and it was in response to a series of events that included then candidate trump insulting the immigrant family of a fallen war hero. >> laura: all, god. i cant stand him. there was peter strzok last week telling members of congress as our text messages a...

Look, the obama administration was made aware, including all the way up to the president himself, certainly during the spring months and later of 2016, that the russians were engaged in these active measures to disrupt the american electoral process. what we also forget is that the russians targeted the republican national committees servers, and they are sort of computerized systems. they werent able to penetrate those but they were able to penetrate the dncs. the idea that somehow all of this ...

She was about to play transgendered man and a movie. now the argument was, you cant have someone who is not transgendered playing a transgendered character. so why is it okay to have two straight men and what is essentially a gay romantic comedy? a lot of people are pushing back including lgbt activists and i think you have a tweet there for my rather prominent writer. >> laura: here is -- we have a tweet by -- this is funny. i have to put this together. we have a tweet by -- a sound bite by arn...

When in truth, what he said as the textbook definition of bias. so now weve got lisa page. and so some of these congresspeople are more effusive about her, finding her to be more credible. that is no surprise. there was very little of what strzok said that was credible. but what was so telling to me, laura, was they said that there was a suggestion that based upon her testimony, the fbi desired a specific outcome. we dont know yet because we dont have the transcript and honestly, i dont know why...

This, and his speech for barry goldwater, the soviet union -- s from his days in hollywood fighting off soviets provocateurs with the hollywood trade unions -- the soviets will never stop until somebody stands up to them. that is what reagan understood, fdr only the last couple weeks of his life when he admitted to a reporter before he passed away that i was a mistake to trust joseph stalin. carter found out he was dismayed with a mistake to trust -- because within weeks of the assault the sovie...

A teenagers bedroom where the fantasies of this forbidden romance come to life." watch this. >> do you have a relationship with lettering putin? >> i do have a relationship with him. a lot of people would say hes put himself at the forefront of the world as a leader. ♪ >> russia is like -- i mean, they are really hot stuff. >> laura: oh, my god, -- >> we can show you much more of it. >> laura: it stupid. >> the point is, this is the narrative they are trying to portray, and they are getting a ...

Can you imagine of trump held lettering putins hand today? "thank you very much." >> other presidents try to start the relationship on the right foot, they are called warriors for peace. donald trump tries to do that and he is called deranged and people should -- look, i agree with you. he had some answers that were off the mark. with the policy is right. the president needs to understand, hes winning on this. stick to the goris. >> laura: hes winning on it and i think this is -- there are two t...