Wont donald trump speak for america . Even trumpfriendly outlet like drudge and the New York Post are being critical this morning. We will hear next hour from the spouse who reminded the president yesterday that russia is not our ally but for now the white house isnt saying anything. No press briefing is scheduled. Still bebe again at the white house where we find our abby phillip. Good morning. No tweets from the president at all this morning. What are you hearing . The silence at the white house is deafen inning and it highlights some of the criticism is coming from unusual places. Long time defenders of the white house are criticizing President Trump saying he made a big mistake and saying he should probably try to rectify this in some way but so far youre not hear hearing any officials leaping to his defense. Meanwhile, President Trump sat down with sean hannity and heres how he characterized their oneonone meeting yesterday. I thought president putin was very strong. Were doing really well with russia as of today. We were doing horribly before today. Really, horribly. Dangerously. That dramatic today . I think it was great today but i think it was really bad five hours ago. I think we really had a potential problem. Clearly the president s view of that meeting is likely to change today. He might be the only one who thinks relations are that much better today. The president doesnt have a lot on his schedule. He has a meeting with republican lawmakers later this afternoon. No White House Press briefing but we will be looking to see if they taken a opportunity to open up that meeting and have the president address this criticism because its reaching a fever pitch. The front pages in the United States and europe not being too kind to President Trump, poppy. Not at all. Abby phillip let us know when you hear from folks inside. The republican chairman of the Senate ForeignRelations Committee says Vladimir Putin knows he gained a lot in that halfday summit in helsinki and probably celebrated with caviar on the flight home. Thats what bob corker said yesterday. Lauren fox is on the hill with more. Look, fretty much you have Republicans United on this. Absolutely. More than three dozen republican lawmakers have come out against the president s to performance in helsinki deeply concerned about the comment President Trump made, that he believes president putin over u. S. Intelligence communities fabct that russia meddled in the u. S. Election. Senator john cornyn told and seen the then hes considering a measure that lawmakers are talking about a way to reaffirm their support of the Intelligence Communitys findings on the issue of russian meddli meddling. And a lot of republican lawmakers deeply frustrated. You can hear in the their voices. Heres senator bob corker of tennessee and lawmaker will hurd of texas talking about their frustration with the president yesterday on capitol hill, poppy. The president s comments made us look as a nation more like a pushover. Vladimir putin spouted many of his usual lines that were just completely wrong and he did it standing next to the leader of the free world and there was no rebuttal. Having the u. S. President side with putin over u. S. Intelligence is just unacceptable. I think one of the issues here for lawmakers is that they viewed this meeting as already problematic. Yesterday trumpS Performance, of course, seems like a worstcase scenario for Many Republican lawmakers on capitol hill. Moments ago the president tweeted. Let me read it to you. Thank you rand paul, you really get it. Then he quotes rand paul saying yesterday on cnn with wolf, the president has gone through a year and a half of totally partisan investigations, what is he supposed to think . Lauren, rand paul is pretty much on an island here. Remind us what hes been saying. Well, there were just a few republican lawmakers who came out in support of president donald trump. Rand paul was one of them. Mark meadows was another. Heres what those two lawmakers had to say in support of President Trump yesterday. To draw far reaching conclusions isnt indicative of where we are as a nation. Where this president is and what actions are required on our part. Weve made this all about the sour grapes of Hillary Clinton losing the election and its all about partisan politics now. This is truly the trump derangement syndrome that motivates all of this. Strong support for the president but they are in the minority. We have to remember a lot of republicans like we said earlier coming out with a strong rebuke of the president S Performance yesterday in helsinki. But what will they say to his face . Hes headed to the hill shortly. That we will see. Lauren fox, thank you. Joining me now is republican congressman mike turner of ohio, a member of the Intel Committee. Thank you for being with us, sir. Let me begin with the words of your fellow republican senator john mccain in response to the press conference. He says its disgraceful. Do you agree . Its deeply damaging. I serve on the Arms Services committee and the Intelligence Committee and im the liaison of the Nato Parliamentary Assembly so lets talk about how damaging it is because i dont think the president understands that. We could lose it in the dialogue here. How can we ask poland, romania, hungary, to stand up to russia meddling in their own countries if the president of the United States, leader of the free world, cant do it. How do we say to the baltics, estonia, latvia, lithuania, who have meddling and hacking going on from the russians that we dont believe the russians are doing it . How do we say to the netherlands who are concluding their investigation on the downing of the malaysian airliner where russia murdered innocent civilians in a commercial airliner and came out and firmly pointed the finger at the russians with the president of United States not doing that. This deeply damaging statement that the president has made of not believing the Intelligence Community which clearly congress is on record of believing needs to be reversed the. President needs to understand he has damaged Foreign Policy. Do you believe the president has, negotiation what you say, damaging our country, a country he says that its always America First, do you think he gave a green light to russia yesterday in that press conference to meddle in 2018 and in 2020 . Hes giving them a pass which gives them the ability to continue all the things theyve seen. Thats a green light, right . We dont have to do a traffic signal. I think i clearly said i think hes giving them a pass and certainly not holding them accountable for what theyre doing and thats what we need from the president of the united stat states. Congress clearly stated russia meddled that russia is an ally but when the president of the United States cannot stand up to russia our ally cans not and they dont have the strength we do to ask for the president s of smaller countries who are allies of ours to stand up to russia when the president of the United States does not is damaging to us and then, it allows russia to continue. When you look to also what theyve done in ukraine, invading, people are continuing to die in ukraine, the murderous actions that have been taking place in syria, this is a country that does not deserve a pass. Russia needs to be held accountable and the president of the United States is the one to do that. Is there anything, one iota of something, that america gained yesterday . This was a dangerous summit to begin with. The president didnt set out what his goals, if you asked anyone what it would be, no one would be able to say so what we know now is the only thing thats come out of this summit is dangerous policies, dangerous statements, divisiveness between the president and congress, the president needs to make firm statements that he understands that russia is not an ally, that russia has meddled in the elections, that russia is a destabilizing force. He just left europe and chastised germany for being too close to russia because they buy their energy there and then went and gave a complete pass to russia and Vladimir Putin on everything hes doing on the world stage. So this morning in the New York Times, columnist tom friedman writes this. Quote, every single republican lawmaker will be and should be asked on the election trail, are you with trump and putin or are you with the cia, fbi and nsa. So i will ask you, congressman . Are you with trump and putin war the cia, fbi, and nsa . I think thats a dangerous statement to make. Members of congress are part of democracy. The Intelligence Community is a creature of congress. I dont think we want elected officials to say im with the Intelligence Community. Im with the Intelligence Community and i have voted so on the Intelligence Committee and have sent to the president of the United States a statement that russia meddled for the purposes of damaging Hillary Clinton, all things which he disagrees with but its a dangerous road to go down in a democracy to say were going to elevate the Intelligence Community among our democratic institutions. In april you and your fellow members of the house Intelligence Committee released your final report on part of your more than year long russia probe and the Committee Found no evidence of collusion and disputed the Intelligence Communitys assertion in part asserting that the interference in the election was done to help elect donald trump but listen to what president putin said yesterday when a reporter posed this question to him asking him if he wanted President Trump to win. President putin, did you want President Trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that . Yes, i did. Yes, i did because he talked about bringing the u. S. russia relationship back to normal. Yes, yes, i did. Does that change at all your belief and should that change your committees findings . It doesnt change my belief. In march i said i disagreed that i did believe russia did so for the purposes of damaging Hillary Clinton and her expected presidency and this was absolutely meddling for the purposes of damaging her campai campaign. I think the report youre referring to is different than the commentary after it. The report itself which i did support said the means and methods at which the Intelligence Community was looking at that intelligence was not up to the level of the other review that the Intelligence Community has done but my assessment, my belief is i agree with the Intelligence Community that this was done to damage Hillary Clinton and that is for the purposing of aiding donald trump. But it did find congressman, just to put a button on it, that the belief of the republicans on the Intel Committee was that the meddling was not done with the purpose of helping elect donald trump. It does not say that. This is very important. Pull the report out. It does not say that. Mike connoway said that but the report itself does not and in march prior to the report being concluded and adopted by the Intelligence Committee firmly stated it is my belief that he was doing it for the purpose of hurting Hillary Clinton, for the purposes of helping donald trump and that is consistent with what we are seeing in the Intelligence Community. Appreciate your time this morning, congressman. Thank you for being here. Thank you. Tough on putin. Not the president. This guy. Reporters reporter jeff mason joins me next. And when the president throws you under the bus on the world stage, how does u. S. Intelligence recover and what does this mean for the director of National Intelligence dan coats . Plus, no White House Briefing as backlash grows. What were learning is going on behind the scenes at 1600 pennsylvania a. Is it to carry cargo. Or to carry on a legacy . Its show of strength. Or its sign of intelligence . In crossing harsh terrain. Or breaking new ground . 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Visit tripadvisor. Com or download the app . Do you want russia accountable for anything in particular and what would you consider them that they are responsible for . Yes, i do. I hold both countries responsible. I think that the United States has been foolish. I think weve all been foolish. We should have had this dialogue a long time ago. A long time, frankly, before i got to office and i think were all to blame. I do feel that we have both made some mistakes. I think that the probe is a disaster for our country. I think its kept us apart. Its kept us separated. The person that asked that very important question was Reuters White House correspondent jeff mason seizing on the moment asking not one but two tough questions on Russian Election medding to the president. Heres the second. Why should americans and why should President Trump believe your statement that russia did not intervene in the 2016 election given the evidence that u. S. Intelligence agencies have provided . Will you consider extraditing the 12 russian officials that were indicted last week by a u. S. Grand jury. Well, i would have let the president answer the second part of that question but as you know the whole concept of that came up perhaps a little bit but before it came out as a reason why the democrats lost an election which frankly they should have been able to win because the Electoral College college is much more advantageous for democrats as you know than it is to republicans. We won the Electoral College by a lot. If you missed it, that was the president running interference as the New York Times puts it this morning to a question that jeff mason who joins me now posed to president putin. You were asking putin and the president jumps to his defense. Thank you for doing your job so well and asking important questions. You got called on in brussels and to ask a question at cheque chequers. Were you surprised when Sarah Sanders gave you a question here as well . You have to be prepared for questions with President Trump and a journalist should be prepared anyway so i was prepared but surprised. I figured i had gotten a couple questions so i wasnt expecting to be the first one but i its always a privilege to have an opportunity to ask questions. Certainly in this case yesterday the fact that it was both the president of the United States and the president of russia having such a historic summit, there were important questions to ask and i was happy to play a role in that. Jeff, did it surprise you when the first sentence out of the president s mouth when you asked him if he holds russia responsible for anything was a both sides answer once again, akin to charlottesville . And by the way the u. S. Was in his words foolish. In the first sentence. It did but maybe it shouldnt ha have. Hi kicked off his day in helsinki with that tweet which he blamed as i said in that question u. S. Foolishness, u. S. Blamed the United States and the Robert Mueller probe and u. S. Stupidity was his words. There were a whole list of words he could have used when describing what he held russia accountable for and his advisers would have prepped him for that be