conversation about russian interference in our elections, there's 16 intelligence agencies that say that they did. the former fbi director said without a doubt -- >> i understand. i've seen the reports. >> does the president share those views? >> i've not sat down and asked him about his specific reaction to them so i'd be glad to touch base and get back to you. >> reporter: so it's this reluctance over and over some seven months after the election that has confounded republicans, sort of given ammunition to democrats and really kept this investigation alive in a sense that the president is one of the few people, wolf, here in washington who has not often agreed to the fact that russia did interfere in the election. >> pretty amazing when you think about it. president also posted a late tweet today about china's efforts involving north korea. tell us about that. >> reporter: wolf, he did indeed. of course, this is in response to the very sad story of the university of virginia student who died yesterday and the president talked about this earlier in the oval office. he seemed to imply that the