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Together in the not too distant future. we had a good call and i suspect that well be meeting in the not too distant future. i think probably well be seeing vladimir putin in the not too distant future >> president trump called moscow to congratulate vladimir putin on his big election win this weekend which was easier to win because he would not let his opponents run. he repeated three times for you. hes such a good guy, did i mention that we are getting together in the not too distant future, i...

Government enties have hacked into u.s. power plants, not just to mess with them or steal data but so they would have the ability to turn the american electric grid on and off at will. sort of an intense couple of weeks, right? poisoning two people with a previously unknown nerve-agent in broad daylight on the streets of britain and hacking into the grid so to have the power to turn it on and off at will. also serious. not to mention all the election stuff. russians behavior are a little off the...

The presidents national security advisers wrote him a note in all capital letters, do not congratulate putin for his sham, do not legitimatize for that election, do not say congratulations, all capital letters. the president gets on the phone with him, hey, congratulations. >> there is more. quote, president trump also chose not the heed talking points from aids in strustructim to condemn putin of the recent poisoning spy with a powerful nerve-agent. make sure you dont congratulate him and conde...

Came up? >> i dont think it was discussed in todays call. >> it is funny, i dont think that came up. thanks to this new reporting from the washington post, we know that subject didnt come up everyone after national security aids at the white house specifically advised the president, that if he was going to call putin, he really needed to condemn putin for that. the u.s. government has joined the u.k. in concluding that the nerve agent attack was committed by the russian government and condemning...

Security aids and these were on the putin call in particular that this warning not to congratulate putin and the warning that he should make sure to condemn the nerve agent attack in the u.k. do we know? >> thats all that we know other than the president and sarah sanders and some sources did they were topics that came up in the meeting, for example, syria and north korea. these were the two places where we know things went off of the script. the reason that it is concerning is not because the p...

Are we going to say that the president congratulated putin in well, the russians took that choice out of the hands of the white house by announcing that trump congratulated their leader. there was quite a burst of activity trying to figure out what to do. this became widely known quickly. >> thats remarkable. >> caroline, national reporter for the washington post. congratulations on this scoop, this is obviously fascinating. >> thank you, rachel. >> just to underscore what carol just said. omg m...

Of advice. >> there is a lot of effects putting into brief him and what hes asked by the foreign leaders and what issues are like tg hot list that he should address with that person. there is a panel of people thats involved to prepare the president for an important call. each one of these calls are apart of our foreign diplomacy. and q-cards, index cards are provided to guide this president and others in the past through the call and apparently these staffers felt that it was important to make ...

We have not learned this because somebody in the case of that shooting took a snapshot of the picture. we managed to get a glimpse of it. clearly people who were familiar with the warnings from the presidents national security aids wanted to make it known to national security reporters and your colleagues at the post that the president ignored this advice. i dont want you -- i am not trying to get you to talk to your sources but is it your sense of your reporting this was an effort by the presid...

>> putin. >> on the putin call, where trump said -- and, by the way, this is something for us to all kind of think about. donald trump crazy. but in some cases, crazy like a fox. hes on the phone with putin and putin is talking about an arms treaty. he goes, wait, what is that? i dont know what that is. what is, that guys? his staff tells him. he goes, i dont like that. no, no. another thing i dont like. he pushed back on the arms treaty and so people go he is so dumb, he didnt know there was an...

Skin and trump proceeded to call the presidents france, and the uk. in addition, according to officials, during trumps congratulatory call to putin last week, trump added, quote, if you want to have an arms race, we can do that, but ill win and bragged about americas new defense budget. this may have played a in americas recent rollout of sanctions against russia. one official says trump pushed back on the sanctions by repeating his claim that russia did not affect the outcome of the election bu...