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Over and over, senior officials expressed concern about the state of America's democracy and called for the outcome of the election to be respected.

Outreach to moscow. and you know, youve just got -- its like a drum beat right now. and its just hard to believe that the press conference yesterday and those comments in particular are really going to change that dynamic. >> the president was also pressed about his campaign and any possible ties to russia, also how he is planning to handle a resurgent russia. given that there have been several incidents, peter, as of late that have raised concerns among security officials, heres what the presid...

The most generous interpretation. >> peter trubowitz, fair to say there are several contradictory messages that we are all sifting through here. the full transcript of the presidents news conference is online at cnn.com. i urge viewers, yourself, anyone, to go check that out to try to understand the presidents remarks and some couldnt draktry statements that were made. peter, thank you so much. >> delighted to be with you. >> now lets bring in cnns senior media correspondent brian stelter joinin...

In this one instance that the president pointed out. but at the sam time president trump saying that he would not tell people what he plans to do, if anything. rather in this news conference reiterating that he is hoping for closer ties with russia, peter. >> yeah. well, i think right now theres two messages that are coming out of the administration. its -- you know, if you were flying at 30,000 feet, the pattern kind of looks like good cop bad cop. you know, youve got the president on the one h...

>> reporter: is now preoccupied with cracking down on them. >> ive actually called the justice department to look into the leaks. those are criminal leaks. >> reporter: trump also spent much of his time criticizing his favorite foil, the press. >> the information coming from those leaks is real. then how can the stories be fake? >> the reporting is fake. >> and if i may ask -- >> jim, you know what it is? heres the thing. the public is -- you know they read newspapers, they see television, they ...