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>> i want to bring in ned price. he worked at the nse. i was looking at that breakfast this morning, who was seated next to the president, mike pompeo was there. a few days ago we heard from john bolton saying we shouldnt look at this meeting, as the administration is calling it, in concert with that summit in singapore. these are two different things, he said. i wonder you make the same distinction. >> well, david, its really hard to disaggregate these two things. as andrea was alluding to, the...

Alla allies to meet with some of our staunchest adversaries. in the wake of what should have been friendly meetings, hes left the ashes of some of our alliances. those alliances hes not totally a blit -- obliterated hes chipped away at. now we see him going to the warm embrace of vladimir putin. its hard to not find the similarities between these two as much as john bolton might like to say. >> ned, we heard that story lavrov told yesterday or so that it was america that asked for the one-on-one...

Advice to president trump that he puts that soccer ball in the microwave before he gives it to his son to play with. i dont think vladimir putin puts himself there. i think president trump placed himself there. often time we spoke of the campaign electing trump and degraded clinton, putins desire to be on the same plain field of the united states and today after years of trying and years, president trump is right there on the same level with vladimir putin. >> well, there is going to be a lot to...

Wray and his own deputy attorney general, rosenstein and robert mueller. these are not democrats that the president is disagreeing with. hes disagreeing with his own republican appointees. it is people working for him in an awkward position. john bolton was there. when i was based in moscow, john bolton came through all the time for george w. bush, deeply skeptical of putin and russia. i cant imagine what hes thinking right now. all these people who are working for the president right now does n...

To do. secretary kirstjen nielsen has her own issues. she shouldnt be in that job if she doesnt think right now this nation should be prepared to defend its most fundamental principles, which is our election. >> ned, last question to you. how worried should we be about what we still dont know? i see this piece in the pas"the washington post" about a vendor purchased by russian officials in implementing, running election systems in the state, in the commonwealth of maryland. how worried are you a...

Systems still as we approach the midterms? >> they are 100% vulnerable, because the russians have been in over 20, 25 states at this point and they know that the united states is not doing anything from a public/private partnership using the department of homeland security and other agencies to really ratchet down the security of these systems. they do not have to be on the scale of the 2016 election. they have already determined the pathways of vulnerability and they already studied our mind. t...

Our systems in terms of technical and recruiting people and using intelligence against us and right now we have a president who is pretending this doesnt matter. there are people calling this an act of war. i certainly agree on that front. but it is been almost two years and we have taken no action yet and we are way behind. >> and you have these two men going to be sitting face-to-face with each other for -- for a few hours and no one else in the room. so well see if -- how much of that is goin...

Community to issue an assessment in january of 2017 just before president trump took office. in which the gru hacking was described and he was reporting out to the american people. bob muellers indictment the other day is a follow-on to that, to accuse president obama of not having disclosed this or having concealed it seems to be very strained given the facts and the way president trump has tried to down play it since he took office. >> we know the dozen of the russian agents, we have their ind...

President mikael savage, molly mccue. thank you for your time. and wellup in with ned. there are so many thorough details in this 29-page indictment. we have names, we have dates and a time line. youre thoughts when you found out the russians made the first effort to hack into hillary clinton personal servers after then candidate trump made those remarks. >> frances, there is no such thing as a coincidence when it comes to intelligence operations. so the fact that on the very same day that presi...

Among journalists, well, should we cover every tweet? world leaders are watching donald trumps tweets where he announces foreign policy thats completely in contrast to, say, his sacramento at any giecretar. hes the commander-in-chief and we have to take him at his word. that puts other policies in question. >> as jeff benefit reported at the top of the broadcast, the president in a conversation with the world leader said 2%, scrap it, we want 4% now of your gdp. sarah huckabee sanders essentiall...