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Assessments was specifically aimed at getting trump elected. today, a year and a half later, the president appeared to return the favor for putins help, taking the russian presidents side over the u.s. government, the intelligence community, and his own hand-picked intelligence director. >> just now president putin denied having anything to do with the election interference in 2016. every u.s. intelligence agency has concluded that russia did. what -- who -- my first question for you, sir, is wh...

Face whether its military folks, press, even people within his own cabinet he attacks, attacks, attacks. but the one person that hes not attacking, quite the contrary, who hes being submissive to, what hes elevated on the world stage, who hes been willing to go against our allies, criticizing them more than he has any criticism for vladimir putin, is this dictator who has murdered his own people, whos murdered people on british soil, who has brought down an airliner over ukraine, whos annexed cr...

Special prosecutor, the bipartisan senate intelligence community, and to accept the word of president putin is treason. and i hope that the american people, democrats and republicans, will really take action in response to this. this should motivate people to vote in november. >> i want to, matthew, read you something that was just published in the "washington post" today, new reporting just now in fact, that said that ahead of the meeting staffers provided trump with some 100 pages of briefing ...

Remember exactly where they were when they heard the press conference taking place. thanks for making the time. >> this will be one of those days where all americans will remember exactly where they were when they heard the press conference taking place. thanks for making the time. >> i think youre right. americans will remember where they were when the president betrayed the country. >> thank you. good to see you. the rach he had maddow show starts now. thank you for joining us at >> tonight,...

Right now in simply kind of speculating from the outside. but what we dont have to speculate about is what happened today in which the president did not represent american interests. he abandoned the arguments and evidence put forward by our own government, our multiple intelligence agencies in excruciating detail, the indictments of the russians and said essentially all of it is a next, that after all putin told him they didnt do it, so end of story. >> but senator, america, the president kept ...

Submissive, and unpatriotic. as the drudge report puts it, putin dominates in helsinki. he made trump wait 30 minutes to start their meeting. and then he spoke first at the press conference. joining me now is democratic senator jeff merkley of oregon, a member of the foreign relations committee. senator, good to see you again. >> good to see you. >> its a strange night. this is a night -- usually people talking about unpatriotic and treasonous and traitorous. these are things that recall some of...

Gotten under putins skin. >> its kind of a -- the achilles heel of vladimir putin that we found through this magnitsky act, and thats why hes so obsessed by me and by the magnitsky act, and thats why he keeps on bringing it up with trump and people close to him. putins got a real problem here because i put his money at risk. and thats why hes so angry. >> putin may be angry, but hes also in complete control, which was on full display in the way he owned the room at todays press conference. ill h...

Republicans in congress cannot continue to turn a blind eye toward the very real possibility that vladimir putin has compromised our commander in chief and turned him perhaps without his knowledge into a russian asset. one is left with diminishing possibilities here as to why donald trump wont take one of the easy options and try to confront vladimir putin 1/10 as much as he goes after trudeau and merkel and may and others. >> well, its hard to know. i would say hes acting like -- of course we d...

You think the reason is, it is just unpatriotic. >> it is only a feeding frenzy today because donald trump dumped a dump truck of chum in the water. he brought this on himself. he sided with putin during the course of this press conference and god knows what happened in the meeting. probably a foot massage. and did he something today that brought this feeding frenzy on. and almost every republican in d.c. in elected office has come out and said, please, donald, stop talking. youre hurting the te...

And at that point you in the senate and your colleagues on both sides of the aisle have got to think about what the next steps are. >> well, absolutely. we should be in full investigation mode to try to understand exactly whats going on. but our republican colleagues who control the committees arent going to conduct those investigations. therefore, we are where we are right now in simply kind of speculating from the outside. but what we dont have to speculate about is what happened today in whic...