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The aides as we wrote were certainly pressing him and preparing him to take a tougher stance towards vladimir putin, and to sort of get the president to view him through a more negative prism or at least a more realistic and practical prism, and our understanding is that the president was not just giving -- >> ashley, sorry. hold on one second, because mitch mcconnell is making statements on this. hold on one second. >> and the evidence that they tried to impact the 2016 election. so make no mis...

Prism they can understand. its because evens trying to figure out why would he do this? why would he behave that way in i have been coming to the white house and russia for 22 years. ive never seen anything like this. we are trying to find a way to explain it. and unfortunately, as julia said, conspeartorial theories -- >> brennan kept it as close to professional life as anybody i want into in those years in washington. in addition to-on than who started us off at the top of the broadcast, our t...

Him all the time, calling him a hack. it was funny, because before that when he worked at the cia for republican and democratic candidates, he was a pretty cautious guy. he didnt get out on the fence. hes been radicalized. career government official who spent a lifetime defending the country and policy, what they are seeing is something they cant believe. theyre trying to put it in a prism they can understand. its because evens trying to figure out why would he do this? why would he behave that ...

Candidates, he was a pretty cautious guy. he didnt get out on the fence. hes been radicalized. career government official who spent a lifetime defending the country and policy, what they are seeing is something they cant believe. theyre trying to put it in a prism they can understand. its because evens trying to figure out why would he do this? why would he behave that way in i have been coming to the white house and russia for 22 years. ive never seen anything like this. we are trying to find a...

Only for domestic consumption in the u.s., >>. >>reporter: a lot of his advisers want him to be tougher. certainly the intelligence community in the united states including dan coats believe its a major threat. >>chris: dan coats set alarm bells should be ringing, comparative to 2001. >>reporter: the problem is it doesnt matter how many different ways his advisers talk to him about the issue. he sees it through the prism of himself and his election. he cant get past the fact that people try to d...

A lot of his advisors want him to be tougher and have advised him to be tougher. certainly the intelligence community in the united states, including the nations top intelligence officer dan coats believe it is a major threat. chris: to emphasize this, im not sure it got a lot of coverage, dan coats said alarm bells should be ringing and compared it to 2001. >> yeah, so the problem is trump sees it -- it doesnt matter how many different ways his advisors talk to him about the issue, he sees it t...

He said these are sorts of things before he came to the u.s. you know, it is in keeping with his line of brexit. so i think it will be interesting to see what happens as you say in the press conference. i think what we are going to see as the guests last night said a rebinding of the ties of the special relationship. that is the prism which they will try to reflect this rather than intricacy of the domestic policies. >> this is not a universal system in the uk. theresa may has to bring her entir...

He called me two weeks later and said we should be friends, seriously on the phone. >> after he called for you to be fired. >> disgraceful and third rate. >> listen to "the new york times" editorial. no, sorry, nato, trump doesnt believe in allies but in mr. trumps world there no longer is any concept of alliances. peering through mr. trumps twisted prism one finds not friends and enemies action but fans and enemies. fans are those loyal to you no matter what, they never expect reciproci recipro...

Talking about the panama papers. he has always believed -- the panama papers embarrassed him because it exposed him as an oligarch. >> yes. >> he blames the united states, doesnt he? >> we didnt do it. >> between that and the olympics and the doping, this is a motive for putin. >> he looks at things through a prism about how the united states and the cia in particular are doing things to embarrass him and i think hes very paranoid about these things, which unfortunately leads him to do a number ...

We will see what happens. when we come back, please come on the show and explain what you think happened and didnt. >> what time is it in helsinki? >> do you know? >> no. not the same time. lets check in with don lemon in a preview just minutes away. you wa . >> if you dont want to hear it like it is, dont talk to stephen cohen. >> we want the people that understand what we are living right now through the prism of history. >> hes always honest in his assessment. he and i have gone back and fo...