>> what's interesting also is it's clear that at least some folks in the intel community still don't know what trump said behind the scenes with putin, let alone what he did or didn't do in front of the cameras. >> right. this is the perfect example of the way trump perceives how state craft is done. it's don betwee between two lea. all the stuff the state department or foreign ministry have done beforehand, all of the history that backs up all this, that's less important to the president than what happens in a room one on one. but of course, that's why we have this daylight here. that's why we have this divide within the administration. it was a little odd at the briefing yesterday. they kept insisting, sarah sanders insisted this was the president's idea to have all of these people out there. that's what makes it so confusing. i sort of wonder if all of this focus on this only makes the president sort of dig in harder because he has conflated the two ideas that russia meddled in the