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Its the former director of national intelligence and president trumps current director of national intelligence who supports the assessment that that there was russian influence on the campaign. the former fbi director, the bipartisan chair and vice sir chair of the senate intelligence committee, basically everybody in a position of authority to understand in intelligence supports the intelligence communitys assessment. its only the president that doesnt. >> mike mcfall, what is ray brody what d...

I think the president at this point -- he pressed him and then you know felt like at this point lets- lets talk about how do we go forward? i think that was the right place to spend our time, rather than spending a lot of time having a disagreement. >> that was secretary of state rex tillerson parting thoughts to the press corps about what it was like inside the room where the highly anticipated meeting between presidents trump and putin happened. tillerson areas comments revealed the strategy b...

Bubble. but that bubble comes from his intelligence attentions and academics in his political supporters. that being said, he has an information domens over donald trump. donald trump does not live in an area where he even believes his intelligence agencies. he disparages that. its the ultimate trolling for vladimir putin to say okay give us the evidence all the everyday. let us know where we failed in our collection activities and where we succeeded in our successful propaganda warfare against ...

Spending a lot of time having a disagreement. >> that was secretary of state rex tillerson parting thoughts to the press corps about what it was like inside the room where the highly anticipated meeting between presidents trump and putin happened. tillerson areas comments revealed the strategy behind how far the administration was prepared to push russia for meddling in our election. ambassador mike mcfall still with us. also here in new york chl malcom nancy. former intelligence offers for the ...

>> mike mcfall something happened today interesting. melania trump was playing an underthe radar role she sat next to vladimir putin at the dinner. here is an interesting detail. the one point the first lady came in in to see if she could put an end to the meeting. it didnt work tillerson said. the group went on another hour after that. what happened there? what was that all about? >> i have no idea. like i said, when i worked at the white house and then as ambassador i participated in many bila...

Have sometimes oversimplified this saying the conclusion of the 17 intelligence agency is thus and such. its correct only three of the agencies actually examined it and then it became the conclusion of the director of the office of national intelligence representing the 17 agencies. its not that the other 14 agencies had a different conclusion they just didnt look at it peskly. however you want to number it, the point is the intelligence community is in consensus there was medding and the purpos...

President of the united states listens, thats probably the best we can hope for because i dont really know that anything constructive will come out of making any concessions. there is room on syria, for example. but i dont know that i trust the president and rex tillerson to hammer out those details as mike mcfall said. you know, that is best done by the experts. so, im hopeful that it is really just a getting to know you and a listening session. but i am also fearful that our president might in...

>> that is another problem for the allies as they sit down, they learned that lesson, theyre not used to these tweets on the eve of the summit. chris hill, ambassador, thank you very much. thank you for joining us from denver today. coming up, more on the putin primer, where president trumps russia comments today a preview how hell address the election hacking with the russian president tomorrow. well talk to congressman adam schiff, top democrat investigating the russian hacking. and mike mcf...

In january. >> there you have it, ali, sean spicer saying white house officials will point to frequently the sort of probably involved, the couch statement that russia did have some kind of interaction. >> were talking about other countries being involved, not a 400 pound guy on his bed, which we all sort of reference to. mike mcfall, you know, kislyak, you know him for a long time since before you were the u.s. ambassador to russia. im trying to get some clarity because a whole lot of people in...

In the summer and fall of 2016 were provided by three people with direct knowledge of the u.s. investigation into the matter. in all, the russian hackers hit systems in a total of 39 states. with us tonight to talk about this, former u.s. ambassador to russia during the obama administration mike mcfall and ring stingal is with us in new york. former managing editor of "time" magazine. we have learned from mr. comey that the president never peppered him with questions on the status of the russian...