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Own intelligence communitys clear a segme assessment that m interfeared in the 2016 election and blaming the u.s. for deteriorating relations with russia. in a week of walkbacks, clarifications, clean-ups and reversal, the white house now says president trump is rejecting putins offer to allow u.s. investigators to question 12 russians indicted for election meddling in exchange for the u.s. agreeing to let moscow question some american officials including former u.s. ambassador to russia michael...

East over the last 17 years. we get nothing, nothing out of it, nothing. and as you remember in civilian life for years i said keep the oil. we didnt keep the oil. who got the oil was isis. nato was delinquent. they were not paying their bills. they were not paying what they should be paying. nobodys been tougher on russia than i have. and with that being said, i think i could have a very good relationship with president put putin. i think. its possible i wont and you will know about it. >> lets...

A hat tip for pledging not to retaliate against the united states until he takes the temperature of the next presidents attitude toward him tweeting, put putin. i always knew he was smart. mr. trump doesnt need briefings daily because they often contain the same thing back to back but he says he gets them when he needs them based on guidance from his staff. so it sounds like someone on his staff told him he needs to be briefed about election interference. there will be a lot more details about w...

Even know what happened in the last meeting between trump and putin. >> i dont know what happened in that meeting. if he had asked me how that ought to be conducted, i would have suggested a different way. >> well, and speaking of the cleanup, now three days after vladimir putin suggested it would be a cool idea for the russians to interrogate americans including the former ambassador to russia, now president trump says he disagrees. just disagrees. remember yesterday, though, when sarah sanders...

Of national intelligence, its state department officials whose job it is to deal with russia, people inside the government. i was in contact with one u.s. ambassador in europe today. i asked -- who has to deal with russ russia. i asked what they know about the summit, completely in the dark, he said, completely, absolutely nothing. again, this is not normal. this is not how american diplomacy works. and interestingly, president putin today actually held a briefing for russian diplomats in which ...

Trumps own making. he was the one who personally insisted upon the private one-on-one meeting with vladimir putin. it was not the russians request. interestingly, all along, its been the russian government that has been far more forthcoming about the details of this summit including the preparations for it, and then whats now resulted from it, than the united states government. and, you know, it just seems like its an alice in wonderland kind of a world where the russians are giving more informa...

All of this, the fox guarding the henhouse. the white house would like you to know that vladimir putins proposal was made in sincerity because putin is known for his sincerity. former russian ambassador michael mcfaul, the same ambassador putin wants to question, tweeting this, he says "i dont consider it sincerity to falsely accuse u.s. government officials of being criminals." the senate apparently agrees with him, voting 98-0 today to reject sending americans to moscow to be interrogated by p...