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The one thing the democrats are worried about, how many e-mails that were hacked that were not released were. people compromised and maybe they will appear on a campaign in a couple years and does russia still have leverage over them because they didnt release all of the information they. have the other thing to point out, its not just donna brazile and the democrats. the president needs to take this issue head on. im hering from john mccain, paul ryan, republicans across the hill are saying fir...

Ceded a great deal of control and leverage to the kremlin. >> look, nobody, no american president, not obama, not trump, wanted to get deeply involved in syria. putin took the opportunity to consolidate his position with al assad and the him taker bases he has on the mediterranean to build air bases and to develop a presence on the ground, in the middle east that really russia has not had before, and he wants to keep that. does he like assad? i think probably not particularly, but the obama admi...

Russia." explain to our audience what you were going after. >> brian, the detail in this indictment is extraordinary. it lists the operatives. it talk s the tools. what of the operations have been -- whats unsafe? sitting there in reserve, in a sense, of being held. our most powerful leverage, weve shown a few cards. what other cards do we have?

President trump would be meeting with osama bin laden and so if vladimir putin is, indeed, killing our democracy, im not sure what were doing except to hold him accountable. >> well, juan, i guess thats the larger question. why would donald trump be meeting with vladimir putin today if on friday we had on information that, again, in the words of dan coates, that vladimir putin has been trying to undermine american democracy, quote, on a daily basis. >> yeah. i think ultimately you would want the...

Crimea, the invasion of ukraine, the attacks with a toxic nerve agent against a former russian spy in the uk. all the other grievances that have sanctioned russia and made putin basically an outcast from the western allies. and now the president goes from québec then to singapore, and then marches into nato and criticizes angela merkel, criticizes the eu, divides the allies, and undercuts theresa may, our closest ally in europe. undercuts her leverage within her own political party, and we have...

With one or two countries around the world. the cursive still coming in. but does it make sense to be in trade wars or battles premises whatever you want to call it with so many countries in so many different parts of the world at the same time? >> i think if you apply a new standard which is, is this good for the united states economy? as opposed is this before a global system. youre going to be a lot of conflict with a lot of countries. in the case of pauline, he ought to talk to his governor ...

World, the cruise ship is still coming in -- but does it make sense to be in trade wars or battles, whatever you want to call it, with so many countries in so many different parts of the world at the same time? >> look, i think if you apply a new standard, which is is this good for the united states economy as opposed to is this good for some kind of global system, youre going to be in a lot of conflict with a lot of countries. in the case of paul ryan, he ought to talk to his governor. it was g...

That there was a putin attack on the united states. the subtitle of our book is putins war on america, and we used that word knowing what it means. and so for the last two years, donald trump has denied this was under way or had happened. he called it a hoax. he said it was rigged. he said it was fake. he said we didnt know if the russians were doing it. a week ago he said putin, who ordered this operation, was fine. he tweeted out russian disinformation saying putin says we didnt meddle. so thi...

To date. >> david ignatius, while putin would never let on to this, i know that you released a column just moments ago saying that putin feasibly could be worried about some of these indictments. what are the issues you think this could raise for him? >> fridays indictment is really important. contrary to what john bolton says, doesnt give leverage to president trump, but it does give leverage to the united states. vladimir putin has to go to helsinki worrying what else the united states knows. ...

Since he seems set to continue to have this meeting with president putin on monday, he should use this as leverage to really push putin on interference and also push him in other items like ukraine, like this deal in syria, that putins trying to propose as an olive branch but without any real enforcement or compliance assurances behind it. i would like to see president trump take a much stronger stance and use these indictments as leverage against putin. >> and if the president doesnt take a tou...