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The beat tonight. our top story is the clash that reached a boiling point today tying together the mueller probe, the trump administrations blatant support of vladimir putins interests and the question whether republican senators back there meant it when they committed to overriding donald trump on russian sanctions. first the majority of senators including some republicans moved to override the trump administrations effort to ease sanctions on a putin oligarch. then today a remarkable moment wh...

Youre down with apo. youre down with all of putins oligarchs. i had to work out the acronym. im slow. it takes me a minute. listen as promised, rachel was all over the store. minority leader chuck schumer taking to rachel just last night. >> theres just so much and it all seems to be woven into a web related to putins manipulation of our own government into trumps acquiescence and boot licking of whatever putin seems to want. >> why does a republican senator get down with that? >> this goes back...

Operational and that some of the animations date back over a decade, something megyn kelly pressed putin on. some analysts are suggesting youve tested it and its failed. thats why you only showed animations of it today and have not yet produced any actual videos. >> translator: are you talking about icbm? >> yes, the one that you claim renders defense systems useless. >> translator: as a matter of fact, every single weapons system today easily surpasses and avoids an anti-missile system. >> yo...

Theyre likely to do, were at a 70% chance of war. theres the sense that kinetic conflict is palpable. theyre promulgating that notion. to handicap the diplomatic bridge to that country is really derelict. >> ambassador, i want to ask you about president trumps relationship with vladimir putin. the president personally called putin on thursday to thank him for acknowledging president trumps achievements in office, apparently. this is what the president said when asked about that call. take a list...

Accomplished hands need to surround this president-elect. who are they? >> well, there are many counseling him behind the scenes. i dont want to always reveal what is happening privately, but i will assure you that given the number of people in the national security and intelligence community available to president-elect trump and vice president-elect pence, everybody should feel reassured by that. frankly, were going to look toward this administration also, and they have been incredibly helpful...