The president , joining us now. It is good to have you this morning. Thank you, chris. So, what do you make of this switch, apparently, from the president of the United States . First, he said a day ago that hes considering discussing he was discussing with russia working together on Cyber Security, guarding elections. Everybody attacks it. Then he tweet this is morning, no, no, no. It was just an idea. I know it cant happen. Well, what else did he say in the tweet . He talked about how what did happ happen, a cease fire and part of syria. A very Big Development out of that twoplus hour meeting with president putin. Thats a tangible. Thats relevant. That will affect peoples lives. Look, they had a broad conversation. Cnn spent a full week plus doing nothing but having these headlines saying President Trump is not expected to bring up russian interference with president putin. He made it top of the agenda. It was first on the list. He pressed him early and often. Did he press him or ask him whether he did it . But thats not good enough. Did cnn say he wasnt going to mention it at all or didnt they . Oh, they did. We have these great montage. People say stuff that isnt true. I stand by my reporting on it. The day before the meeting, the president was very squishy on russian interference. He said okay, it was russia, but it was other people. Nobody knows for sure. That was his last Public Statement about it before he went into a meeting. And then a meeting in which he didnt allow a notetaker to be in it. We dont have any readout from it. We hear he confronted them about it. He said we know you did it. Then we know you asked him about it. Which is it . Did he say i know you did it, stop . Or did he say did you do it, mr. Putin . Which is it . Chris, lets back up. So, youre saying you used the word squishy which, itself, is unusual to describe the president s state of mind. So, somehow that makes people on cnn insist that the president is never going to raise this with putin. Why is he still in there its not about cnn. Its about what the president said, kellyanne. No. Its about people stating things that they want america to think are facts. Arent you the least bit reluctant, if not embarrassed that you now talk about russia more than you talk about america . No. Doesnt this bother anybody there . Donald jr. Went from saying i never met with anybody from russia. I think america matters. Never met with anybody having to do with russia. Now he met with someone to get opo research on Hillary Clinton with somebody connected to the kremlin . He never said he was doing research. Nobody needs to look very far. These are don jr. s words. Not mine. Don jr. Has said. Its about what was said and what matters. Its about all of the above. So, lets break it down bit by bit. Don jr. Has very explicitly stated he didnt even know the name of the person with whom he was meeting. He agreed to the meeting based on a contact from the Miss Universe pageant. They get into the meeting and it quickly turns into a pretext for russian adoption, according to his statements, that the comments this woman is making about any type of information on Hillary Clinton were vague. They were meaningless. Others exited the meeting very quickly. The meeting itself was very brief. There was no information given. There was no action taken. There was no followup. Let me respectfully say as well as i can, i dont think anybody had to look very far to find damaging information on Hillary Clinton. Thats beside the point. She provided it no, no, its not beside the point. He brought in Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort with him. Its not just lets have lunch. It was a credibility issue as to who he knew he was meeting with. I dont know what should be more troubling with you, that he didnt know who he was meeting with, that he thought he should bring in Paul Manafort and swrard kushner or that he knew that he was meeting with someone to get information about Hillary Clinton. There are huge legal and ethical implications as you know. No, im not going to agree with you. Youre saying Opposition Research as often as you vomit words like collusion. We cannot if you and i were in court right now dnc and russians and funding hillary. What do you call it . Chris, you were just okay. Listen. You were just able to speak two minutes uninterrupted and i frankly think it was more pundintry than reporting. So i would like to respond. Please. If we were in court your side would not even survive a motion to dismiss because youve got nothing. On this one, don jr. Has very clearly said he was told that there would be some kind of information helpful to the campaign. It quickly became very apparent there was not. Let me Say Something about who goes into these meetings in the trump campaign. We were a very small operation. I was not involved in june. I was involved in july. And became the Campaign Manager in august. Its very typical to have principals in the meeting. We had a fraction of the staff than clinton had over there. Youre trying to have your viewers think because these three principals were in there, it was viewed with some type of seriousness that simply is not true. This was Standard Operating Procedure for the campaign. Lets focus on what did not happen in that meeting. No information provided that was meaningful. No action taken. Nothing. Lets focus on what did happen. The woman stated she had information that individuals connected to russia were funding the Democratic National committee and supporting ms. Clinton. Thats from donald jr. s statement. Thats why he went to the meeting. Right. And apparently she didnt. That is a problem, though. Taking that meeting. Because it goes to one of the questions of this investigation, which is was russia trying to get to your campaign for purposes of affecting the election . This is don jr. s own statement about it. A statement which has changed now twice about what this meeting was. That doesnt raise legitimate concerns . Chris, you keep on saying russia. What did this woman say . Why was she there . This is the word that trump jr. Used. Russia. Excuse me . He used the word russia. In what context . She had information that individuals connected to russia were funding the Democratic National committee and supporting ms. Clinton. And then he went on to say this is why he took the meeting. You have to give the whole statement, to be fair to him and your viewers. Lets stop chopping it up and try to go viral with the nonsense. Put the statement up. Youre the one who is parsing. Put the whole statement up. Our faces are nice. Put the statement up. After pleasantries were exchanged, the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to russia, his word wrrks funding the Democratic National committee and supporting ms. Clinton. Her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. No details or supporting information was provided. There you go. Or even offered. It quickly became clear she had no meaningful information. Two points. Even if you accept everything he says as true, and theres aid credibility issue because he has changed his story twice. No, its not. I do. Yhe changed his story twice. You talked about being in a court of law, not good when you change your story. There are big implications when you change your story like this. Second of all, even if it is true, whether or not it was good information, kellyanne, doesnt mean it was a smart move to take a meeting with a russianconnected person who was going to give you negative information about your opponent. That could create huge legal issues. You know that. I admire your moxie, sitting there with the cnn chyron next to you. I could not be more proud to have that cnn chyron next to me. I cannot be more proud representing the white house. And im glad you are. Its not supposed to be an argument. Chris . Chris . Why did the president change his position about working with russia . You spun it over to this. That was my original question. Wait. The president . The president . What do you mean the president changed his story . The president had nothing to do with this meeting. I understand that. I asked you originally you wanted to produce something because youre invested in months now as a network in something that simply doesnt exist. Thats an assumption by you. In case we have to go unfair premise. No, chris. Thats not true. Here is the unfair premise. That we are talking about this again. Yet again. That you talk about russia more than you talk about america. That the big bombshell of the day is jim comey having classified information, conversations with the president of the United States. How do you know that . In his memorandum. I read he has a credibility issue i read the article on the hill. The article that has officials familiar with the documents. So unnamed sours are okay for you on comey but not anywhere else, huh . I didnt say that. You said it many times, my friend. Youre putting words in my mouth. Unnamed sources is the code word fo for you guys on fake news but its okay for comey. I never uttered those two words either. That is a bombshell people should know about that. That report is a bombshell based on unnamed sources. You just want to interrupt me today. No, no. As my grandmother would tell me no, my mother would tell me. Shes a fan of yours. I love her back. But listen, thats a bombshelby jim comey. The whole country watched him testimony, supposed to be some big super bowl like event. We learned him say i felt as a private citizen i should release this information. Oh, but i also gave it to my friend so he would leak it to the media with the expectation it would trigger special counsel. What was in that information . Apparently it contained classified information. Right. I just think its humorous that having nine conversations with the president. Look, if its true this doesnt concern you at all . Absolutely. That the fbi director is doing what Hillary Clinton did the year before . It all concerns me. Being so willy nilly with classified, confidential information . It all concerns me. I just have to smile at the suggestion from the same white house that calls unnamed sources not a legitimate basis for journalism, now youre leaning on it so heavily because it suits you. It all matters to me. But the president saying that he wanted to work with russia on Cyber Security and then saying, no, he doesnt want to, was just a discussion. That is a concern. Thats why he got so much criticism for it. Thats what i asked you about originally. You dont want to talk about the syria cease fire, you dont want to talk about these two countries, russia and United States, may be able to come together on other issues vexing our world like putting in retreat to isis, for example. Both matter. Talking about energy. If theres a real cease fire in syria, it matters. This working with russia on Cyber Security matters. Don jr. Changing his story about meeting with russians when he said he never did he said it openly and publicly. Called the suggestion fake news. Then he says he did meet. Then he says it was to get Bad Information about Hillary Clinton. This all matters. And sheds light on an investigation that you say doesnt matter. But it proves that it does matter. What light does it shed . Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. You and i are lawyers who never practiced law, which is why were happy people. I practiced law for several years but continue. What light has been shed on this investigation because of all of this . Ton jr. Sent out an entire statement. I want everybody to read the entire statement. Make sure they pick the right ones because hes changed it twice. Tell me what you learned. Tell me what you learned. I learned that its not true that he never met with anybody with russian connections. I learned that its not true that he didnt take a meeting that mattered to investigators. And you learned that it was vague, ambiguous, completely meaningless and the pretext for why the woman was actually there the fruit of the meeting is irrelevant to taking the meeting. About russian adoption. None of that is relevant. He added to the account of what happened in a meaningless meeting and three of your colleagues were fired because they changed their story. Dont you want to know . They went with a story that was thinly sourced. Now its thinly sourced. Were backed to thinly source. No, no, no five sources of advisers close to the president and the words of don jr. Himself. The New York Times has five sources close to the white house. These are your people who are talking about this. This is don jr. Who is talking about this. Do you think that there was do you think that anything that youre talking about changed a single vote anywhere . I dont know why your head has to go there. I want to know if russia my head has to go there because youve been talking about it for months. Because you dont care if russia was trying to get inside your campaign to affect the election . You dont know what i care about. I just did. That was a question. There was a question mark at the end of it. I care. You dont care if russia was trying to get inside your campaign to affect the election . I do care. But you seem to forget the russian connections we do know about. Bill clinton, not don jr. , gave a speech in russia for half a million dollars. We know that Hillary Clinton had one of the nine votes that allowed 20 of the u. S. Uranium rates to go there. Those are all pursued and looked at. We know in the summer of 2016 that people who knew about possible russian interference in the election werent at the trump campaign. They were in the obama white house. None other than president obama, john brennan. They were informed about this. What did they do . Nothing. The same thing that the president of the United States now did. They wound up doing the same thing that the current president did. They went to putin and said stop it. Obama went to putin and said stop t one of the versions at the putin trump meeting is i know you did it. Stop t thats what nikki haley says. Theyve done the same thing to this point. Dont you think thats a huge improvement over Hillary Clinton having that gi joe looking toy, ruths reset button and handing it over as secretary of state . Didnt you feel the least bit embarrassed . I dont even know what that means. Her idea of a russian reset and President Trump sitting down with president putin i dont get it. Trying to find how these two countries can Work Together is a very positive development. On Cyber Security . You think working with russia on Cyber Security of our election is a good idea . No. Here is what i no. Here is what i think. You just said that. These men meeting for two hours and 15 minutes on any broad range of issues read what secretary of state rex tillerson, doing an amazing job, said about that meeting. He sat in that meeting and gave a full briefing afterwards. You can read the entire transcript of that meeting. I v ive internalized it. Read it. It would have been nice to have an objective observer in there. Taking notes like traditional you do have. Who would that have been, your colleague who, instead of covering a beautiful speech in poland called it fake news and then had to retract that . What are you talking about . The president gave a beautiful speech in poland. We gave it full voice, all different types of perspective. What do you think the speech . Why bashing of cnn is going to help. Im not bashing cnn. Please. Thats all you do is bash cnn. Thank you for the ratings but otherwise why do it . You want to talk about you look. Im on cnn right now. And i appreciate that. Its not easy to get you here. The media want to talk about you and i want to talk about americans. Do you know why im in the white house . Im there to help the millions of americans who couldnt keep their doctor, who couldnt keep their health care plan, who are struggling with opioid addiction, military spouses who are under employed and unemployed, ivanka trump, my colleague in the white house, lead the way for this country to invest 50 million for the world bank to start a womens entrepreneurship investment fund. You didnt mention that in the last segment. You just tried to shiv her a little bit because she sat briefly at a table where her father, the president of the United States a very unusual thing to do, by the way. Something that president abe no, its not. To have your daughter sit in for you, representing the United States as a g20 . Shes there as a senior adviser. You should be proud shes representing the United States everywhere she goes. As i just said, that you wont cover, helped to get the world bank to commit this womens entrepreneurship initiative. Thats going to help women. I was a female entrepreneur for decades. Its not easy but worthwhile. Its just not true. You dont want to cover that. Its a false premise. Its not true that 50 million . She just had a whole segment about her. You want the fact that were covering the Russian Investigation to mean we dont cover other things. Its not true. We spent two segments talking to brooks, republican, talking about health care. And only then did we talk about the russian stuff. Its not fair, not true and i dont believe it could be helpful to the president. I believe you are. Having you on the show is helpful to our audience and i appreciate it very much. Oh, we appreciate the platform, chris. But, look, i think cnn im not here to bash cnn. Then dont. As a matter of course be fair to me. Hold on. Hold on. But take responsibility and recognize that as a 24 7 cable station, i have great faith that you can cover all of the above instead of covering the sa