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Now we have a statement from the president of the united states suggesting, quote, putin and i discussed forming an impenetrable cyber security unit so that election hacking and other negative things will be guarded and safe. now we have all started with the premise that russia was involved in trying to change our election. we all understand that russia has been a bad actor around the world in many places. now we have the president saying, were going to get together with them on the issue of cyb...

Conduct our investigation in the house and i think lawrence to the point of your last guest we need an independence commission. thats the only way we have true credibility and progress on this. >> so congressman, is that an expression of doubt in your own committees ability to do this? >> no. it is actually an explosion of history. after september 11th we had congressional inquiries into what happened. most progress was made because we had independent bipartisan appointed experts who looked at o...

Goldstones involvement, you say this is classic kgb. explain. >> sure. i mean, i think its helpful and important to look at this administration from the vantage point of a foreign intelligence service, like russian intelligence. and this administration has shown itself to be a kremlin dream come true, really, because its truly target rich. a foreign intelligence service, when theyre looking at acquiring secret information about the united states, theyre going to look foremost for people with pla...

President of the united states suggest, putin and i discussed securing a unit so things will be guarded and safe. now, weve all started with the premise that russia was involved in trying to change our election. we all understand that russia has been a bad actor around the world in many places. and now we have the president saying, were going to get together with him on the issue of cyber security. so if it is proposed to you by the administration to create this cyber security unit and share inf...

After september 11th we had congressional inquiries into what happened. most progress was made because we had independent bipartisan appointed experts who looked at our vulnerabilities and made recommendations so it would never happen again. we are safer and more protected from terrorism because they did that work. if we want to make sure were not in a mess like this again and find out which u.s. persons were responsible i think we need to take this outside of congress. >> lets listen to what se...

Hes got a great national security team around him. hes doing a good job in afghanistan, north korea and isil, but when it comes to russia, a blind spot into forgive and forget when it comes to putin regarding cyber attacks is to empower putin and thats exactly what hes doing. >> so, josh, given what graham said, how much more difficult is it going to be this point forward for the president to win the cooperation, support of republicans when they see it this way? that hes missing the boat on the ...

Response on our part that would be designed to fight russian efforts to destroy us. i think when it comes to understanding the might havotiv havent examined other alternative hypotheses which are important to consider. one is espionage. and i think the russians have been very active in clescollect information through cyber means about our politics, about what might be coming down the road in terms of policy, and in the case of these nuclear power plants, our critical infrastructure and the vulne...

The united states and he described him as a unimpressive, unimaginary bureaucrat but what he became was a master politician. if you get to the top after the soef ye soviet union and it was a free for all you know how to play politics and thats where the mismatch is. >> so what were the vulnerabilities perhaps that you saw? did the u.s. walk away with a success here in some regard? >> well, you know, what do you call a success? this was ultimately still just a shake your hands and be nice to each...

Vulnerabilities but also their desires, their ambitions, their insecurities to achieve your objectives and its not always to shame that person. its not always to have dominance but its to advance your interests. >> reporter: this wasnt putins only apparent ploy involving a dog. an how putin, quote, dissed his dog, barney. >> putin says, would you like to meet my dog? laura and i were with putin and his outside of moscow, i said, yeah, id like to meet him. out comes a giant hound. kind of loping ...

Whole interview. he is pretty testimony pest use and but keeps it under control. >> jeff youre not a tempestuous youre a measured roert but keeping an eye on the politics which is although republicans and democrats have obviously hit different tones. it is the one issue, the only issue where weve seen a measurable vote of alliance against the trump administration on the russia sanctions. what are the politics you see in the meeting and any vulnerabilities for the president. >> the sanctions bill...