On stage. 141 victims of larry nassar unite to send the times up message to the world. What an emotional evening on stage. We will show the highlights. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. Im alison kosik. Thursday, july 19th. 5 00 a. M. In the east. We start with reporting from the New York Times. We learn that two weeks before the inauguration, President Trump was shown highly classified intelligence that Vladimir Putin ordered Cyber Attacks in efforts to sway the 2016 election. The report says evidence included texts and emails from Russian Military officers and information gleaned from the top secret source close to Vladimir Putin. James clapper, the former director of national intelligence, was at the meeting and confirmed that to cnn last night. This is his refusal to accept information that he doesnt want to hear. Clapper says his biggest fear in the wake of President Trumps summit performance is it essentially allows putin to do just about anything he wants. After days of criticism and repeated clarification, President Trump now says he holds Vladimir Putin personally responsible for russias attempts to interfere in the 2016 elections. You havent condemned putin specifically. Do you hold him personal responsible . Well, i would because he is in charge of the country just like im responsible for what happens in this country. Certainly you have to hold him responsible. Yes. What did you say to him . Very strong on the fact we cannot have meddling. We cannot have meddling. I let him know we cannot have this. We will not have it. Thats the way it will be. The president now accepts u. S. Assessments of russia interfered and continues to do so. That is something he did not say when he was standing next to putin in helsinki and he appeared to question as recently as yesterday. The white house is considering a proposal for putin to interrogate americans. Among them Michael Mcfaul and bill browder. In exchange, the kremlin would provide assistance in the russian interference in the election. Vladimir putin raised that offer. Brouder and mcfaul responded last night. The whole thing is as corrupt as you could be. The fact that the people who passed the act and people investigating Money Laundering are targeting to be interviewed. And the president of the United States says that is an interesting idea . Vladimir putin has been after me for a long time. Harassing me in ways no other has experienced. Im an american citizen. I worked for the government for five years. It would be easy to bat it back. White house is considering the proposal and the state Department Spokeswoman offered a forceful rejection calling the russian assertion absolutely absurd. Joining us to talk about this is political analyst is julian zelizer. We can get caught up in days of interpreting no as Sarah Sanders or would versus wouldnt. An incredible offer made by Vladimir Putin to question prominent americans. Sarah sanders says he wants to work with the team and determine if there is validity to be helpful to the process. What do you make of it . It is incredible. Now the white house or the president is threatening diplomatic immunity and allowing this questioning to take place for a diplomat conducting business. This would go far in terms of a breach of institutions. Okay. It is now official. The president holds Vladimir Putin responsible for interference in the 2016 election. It took long enough. It is interesting to see the evolution. If only he would have admitted this even if it was credible. If it was done on monday, we would have avoided the back and forth. Listen to this. I have president putin. He just said it is not russia. I will say this, i dont see any reason why it would be. I accept our Intelligence Communitys conclusion that russias meddling in the 2016 election took place. Could be other people also. A lot of people out there. Do you hold him personal responsible . I consider myself responsible for things that happen in this country. Certainly as a leader of the country, you have to hold him responsible, yes. How credible is he . He spent the better part of two years that putin wasnt responsible and there was no meddling or interference. He comes on once . That is a verbal gymnastics. He attacked the intelligence agencies and intelligence and stood next to putin and the world and not only basically defended putin, but went after u. S. Institutions. To say this now at the last minute doesnt give into account over a year of discrediting an attack on our elections. Ill tee it up. You dont get a mulligan in a major championship. It only mattered to Vladimir Putin when you are standing beside him. This last couple of days, what is the damage done here . Big picture . We dont know politically. A lot of damage to the elections. This is a serious problem. Every time the president pulls back from doing something about it and from being forthcoming, it threatens our elections next time around. Politically we dont know. Republicans still are basically verbally attacking him. We dont know if they will do anything more. They may still stand by him. The president laid out or Sarah Sanders laid out things they have done to protect our elections yesterday in the pressor. The president has some pretty decent resume in the administration and what it has done with sanctions and Holding Russia accountable. How much does that matter versus the rhetoric of the leader of the free world . The rhetoric matters if he continues to say it may have happened or didnt happen. That matters a lot. The weight of the president ial rhetoric matters when it comes to dealing with problems. There are a lot of people in the Intelligence Community who are saying we are not doing enough about 2016 or just as important for 2018 and 2020. We need to know our elections are safe. He has known two weeks before inaugurated. He received big classified information with officials in the room. Everybody witnessing this and the president accepting it and walking out of the room and saying something else. Where do they go from here . They have to keep putting pressure. The question is do the republicans in congress who have as much power as the president , walk away from the president and show the country and world he is doing Everything Possible to make sure our democracy works. One thing is clear. This fire has not yet been put out. Julian zelizer, thank you. In case there is any doubt, fbi director Christopher Wray says russia is still trying to interfere in u. S. Politics. The u. S. Assessment has not changed. My view has not changed. Russia attempted to interfere with the last election and it continues to engage and malign operations to this day. Wray was speaking at the Security Forum on wednesday. 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