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Talk. the more immediate victory may belong to the presidents fellow republicans especially those in the midwest who are worried about the impact of his policy but they dont want to risk alienating his base. then the issue of election security. the president took a ton of criticism again from republicans and democrats for insisting that russia wasnt targeting the u.s. that triggered a week long series of walk backs and clarifications culminating in this. president trump chairing a full meeting o...

Days attacked fbi, four federal judges appointed by republicans, obama, clinton, doj, mueller, the doc, fake news media, whatever that is, the nfl. the guy missing from this list is putin. late tonight comey comes out with this. thought experiment: make a list of all the public figures in this country and around the world the current president criticized. why is putin missing from the list? no responsible american should ever stop asking why. >> jeremy, in this case do you agree with the former ...

Would compromise the president? this is a critically important issue that we have to ask the officials about. the president as of last week had not debriefed the team and told them what secret deal he made with vladimir putin. >> a serious question that speaks to the balance of action versus reaction. how did the trump presidency agenda advance today? >> thats a good question. i think -- i dont have a great answer. this is a twhwhite house that concedes privately giving up on legislating and the...

The last two weeks and things that have happened, some of which are of remarkable consequence, whether its helsinki or the weird walk back or insults to the nato allies or calling european foes. this doesnt rise to that level. a tweet yesterday we should not move on from or stop thinking about how significant it is that after helsinki and the walk-backs, donald trump tweeted it was a hoax that russia interfered with the election, a spit in the eye of his intelligence community. donald trumps had...

Foreign relations max boot, and white house reporter for "the new york times" julie herschfeld davis. the president tweets close to midnight saturday night that he issues this very tough warning to president rouhani of iran. how do you see this unfolding? >> well, i mean, the question is whether this threat is being taken seriously by the officials in iran and certainly around the world. because this president has shown that he is willing to use this platform to try to change the subject when he...

But if the public comments are any indication about what he said privately, im not sure that would give anyone any reassurance he was talking tough to putin and in line with his national security leaders are saying. >> you have clearly the national security guys trying to reassure allies and reassure the country the taking this seriously and interference in the election, immediately undercut not only by the president and his -- i believe you called it a week of walk-backs, but also what the gove...

Sanctions or compromising the material that they had on hillary clinton? >> on compromising material, not one thing. i was hearing about things when you were hearing about things in the main stream media. when i was there in july of 2016, a few people brought it up in passing, but, you know, again, its a major economic issue and so, you know, there may have been a loose conversation -- im very careful in terms of making sure that theres a clear record. there is nothing in terms of any nefarious ...

The sentence should have been, i dont see any reason why it wouldnt be russia. >> president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial. >> i accept our intelligence communitys conclusion that russias meddling in the 2016 election took place. >> you say you agree with u.s. intelligence that russia meddled in the election in 2016. >> and ive said that before, jeff. i have said that numerous times before. and i would say that that is true, yeah. >> could be other people also. a lot of pe...

>> apparently it means going the other direction, though. it doesnt mean going towards responsible governing. >> heres what happened this week, and this is why this week is good week. its a good week in america because at the beginning of the week because of this guy and some other folks over at helsinki everybody got to see the degree of leverage -- we dont know exactly what it is, but the degree of leverage that vladimir putin has over donald trump was laid bare on the international stage with...

As of this evening, president trump has officially completed 18 months in office. white has a lot of competition, this week has been nominated as the most remarkable. since that meeting with russian president putin on monday, we have seen the president walk back comments he made on russian election interference and then walk back those walk-backs. here a friendly reminder of what has transpire over the course of just three days. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others. they...