and forget putin. the more suspicion and i think it's going to dog his presidency until he breaks this cycle. >> you run the tall ways and talk to these guys every single day, and you witness the fact that it's dogging as president. >> absolutely. almost everyone in his party take as much harder line on russia than the president of the united states does. particularly not just someone like lindsey graham which is probably the reason why the president felt like he had to back off the cyber security idea. the more he kept this out there the more it was undoubtedly got to get panned. interesting. going back to the clips you showed earlier of nikki haley, you mentioned steve mnuchin, touting, defending this idea and the president later saying, no. forget about it. how much he continues to undercut ace surrogates. completely contradicts what they're saying. rex tillerson came out of that meeting last week and said they did discuss the issue of