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Trump who spent most of the 169 days of his presidency under the specter of the russian role in 2016 election sitting down with vladimir putin. the meeting was scheduled 30 minutes and lasted more than two hours. in front of the cameras president trump sounded upbeat. >> we look forward to a lot of very positive things happening for russia, for the united states. and for everybody concerned. and its an honor to be with you. thank you. thank you. >> for days the headlines were all about the fact ...

Of the united states, a president who has spent most of the 169 days of his presidency so far under the specter of the russian role in the 2016 election sitting down with russian president vladimir putin. the meeting was scheduled 30 minutes and lasted more than two hours. in front of the cameras president trump sounded upbeat. >> we look forward to a lot of very positive things happening for russia, for the united states, and for everybody concerned. and its an honor to be with you. thank you. ...

Saying, "i think many people would have held that meeting." yesterday he called his eldest son "a high quality person." the president today also talked about his own meeting at the g-20 in germany with vladimir putin. he told reuters he spent at least 20 minutes asking putin about russias election hacks. quoting the president, said did you do it? he said no, i did not, absolutely not. i then asked him a second time in a totally different way, he said absolutely not. on the suggestion his campaig...

Very positive things happening for russia, for the united states. and for everybody concerned. and its an honor to be with you. thank you. thank you. >> for days the headlines were all about the fact that the meeting was going to happen. now that its over the headlines are all about the conflicting accounts of what was said in the meeting. rex tillerson, the only u.s. cabinet official in the meeting said that president trump pushed putin on russias election hacks. while sergei lavrov putins frnl...

The president or staffers, you might have to lawyer up as well. as a staff person you might think twice about the decision to come work here. >> thank you, aman. >> you bet. >> today "the wall street journal" reporting on a call between president trump and nsa director mike rogers. the "wall street journal" reporting that an nsa memo says during the call, the president questioned the veracity of the intelligence communitys judgment that russia interfered with the election. last month senator mar...

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Lindsey graham, another hawk of the committee. you heard clapper. he said does anything happen in russia without vladimir putin knowing it? certainly not something sensitive in another country. certainly not. we dont node a dictionary. he said putin directed this. this was about putin. lindsey graham spoke to the president-elect and said dont do this. republican and republican and intelligence agencies versus the incoming president of the united states. thats where we are. director clapper took ...

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The president-elect is meeting with intel officials and insist theres more to this story. chief intelligence correspondent joins us. >> there is a debate within the intelligence community over how much information should be declassified. in intelligence source says theres more information about russian involvement in the election hacks and what was released by the fbi and homeland security. the concern is exposing sources, methods, as well as collections of foreign allies. >> once the report is ...

We dont know. but at least we can expect he will face harsh questions because of the sensitivity of that topic, this is in the news because of the election hacks, you have republicans, even mitch mcconnell saying they want a deeper investigation into this. to have a secretary of state with those ties is at least going to be something he is going to be asked about. >> the secretary of state has to interact with the entire world, not just russia, what qualifications does tillerson have for that? >...