Louis bergdorf. Russias ambassador to the United States says that moscow that theyre ready to discuss a new meeting a this fall at the white house. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders tweeted out, in helsinki, President Trump agreed to ongoing working level dialogue between the two Security Council staffs. And that President Trump asked National Security advisor john bolton to invite president Vladimir Putin to washington this fall, concluding those discussions are already underway. Well, Senior Administration official said that the invite from bolton went out to putin yesterday and that the news blindsided the president s intelligence director dan coates, who coincidentally was in the middle of an interview with our very own Andrea Mitchell. Watch this. We have some breaking news. The white house has announced on twitter that Vladimir Putin is coming to the white house in the fall. Say that again. Vladimir putin coming to did i hear you . Yeah, yeah. Okay on. Yeah. Thats going to be special. The white house announcement that andrea referenced earlier said putin was invited to washington this fall. Were you aware of that . I just want to clarify i think based on my reaction i wasnt aware of that. Okay. Given that, what do you think the agenda should be for that meeting . Oh, goodness. You know, first of all theyre not going to ask me what the agenda is. We will be looking at what the potential intelligence risk could possibly be and we will make that information known to the president , and well provide him with whatever information we can gather relative to what might be on putins mind or what they might want to achieve. Would you recommend that there not be a oneonone without note takers. . If i were asked that question i would look for a different way of doing it. All right. According to the Washington Post theres worry in the west wing that coates reaction will get under the president s skin. The post reports inside the white house trumps advisers were in an uproar over coates interview, noting at moments he appeared to be laughing at the president and playing to the audience in an intellectual elite m elite manner sure to annoy the president. The post goes on to say that white house aides are worried trump will interpret the comments of coates as a personal betrayal since they came so soon after the president praised his intelligence director and the walkback of his comments in helsinki. In a week of cleanups and reversals the white house is rejecting russian president Vladimir Putins offer to allow u. S. Investigators to question 12 russians indicted for russian meddling in exchange for the u. S. Allowing moscow to question american officials, including u. S. Ambassador to russia Michael Mcfaul. Sarah Huckabee Sanders put out a statement yesterday saying, it is a proposal that was made in sincerity by president putin, but President Trump disagrees with it. Hopefully president putin will have the 12 identified russians come to the United States to prove their innocence or guilt. Initially President Trump called the offer, quote, incredible. Sanders said the white house was considering the proposal. We would expect that the americans would reciprocate and they would question officials, including the officers of Law Enforcement and Intelligence Service of the United States whom we believe are who have something to do with illegal actions on the territory of russia. What he did is an incredible offer. He offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators with respect to the 12 people. I think thats an incredible offer. The president s going to meet with his team and well let you know when we have an announcement on that. Reporter for a second, is that a topic that came up in their conversation . Did president putin raise this with President Trump . There was some conversation about it, but there wasnt a commitment made on behalf of the United States, and the president will work with his team and well let you know if theres an announcement on that front. Now, the white house announced its opposition to putins offer moments before lawmakers took action yesterday. The Senate Unanimously approved a nonbinding resolution offered by Chuck Schumer that said the u. S. Should refuse to make any diplomat available to russian investigators who say the official may have interfered in their countrys domestic affairs. In response to that senate vote, Michael Mcfaul tweeted 980. Bipartisanship is not dead yet in the u. S. Senate. Thank you all for your support. In an interview with cnbc President Trump is vowing if his dealings with russian president dont work out, he will be the worst enemy putin has ever had. Take a listen. I have been far tougher on russia than any president in many, many years. Maybe ever. Look at the sanctions ive put on. Look at the diplomats i threw out. Look at all of the things that ive done. Nobody else did what i did. Obama didnt do it. Obama was a patsy for russia. He was a total patsy. Getting along with president putin, getting along with russia is a positive, not a negative. Now, with that being said, if that doesnt work out i will be the worst enemy he has ever had. The worst he has ever had. So President Trump also had this to say on twitter yesterday, writing out, quote, the summit with russia was a Great Success except with the real enemy of the people, the fake news media. I look forward to our second meeting so that we can start implementing some of the many things discussed, including stopping terrorism, security for israel, nuclear proliferation, cyberattacks, trailed, ukraine, middle east peace, north korea and more. There are many answers. Some easy, some hard, to these problems, but all can be solved. Over the last year there have been various reports about Senior Trump Administration officials coming to the brink of resigning their positions. Three top president ial appointees, fbi director, Homeland Security security and National Intelligence director all avoided directly answering that question. There also have been stories that you threatened the resign . Have you ever hit a point on that issue of sources and methods or anywhere elsewhere you said this is a line . You know, im a as i said, im a low key, understated guy, but that should not be mistaken for what my spine is made out of. So you have ill just leave it at that. Okay. All right. Did you ever consider resigning in the time you have worked as the i will continue to work as hard as i can as long as i can support the men and women of dhs. Did you ever consider it . You know, i think that the suggestions when ive heard those suggestions, theyre in situations i would never consider resigning. Have there been moments such as those suggested by Christopher Wray in his interview with lester hot whelte you even considered resigning . Thats a place i dont really go to publicly. I mean every you know, i tried to retire twice. Not very successfully. Not successfully, i failed both times. But, look, you ask yourself, why did you agree to do this in the first place . What is your intent . And what is your responsibility . And i look at those measures in term of making decisions as to how long i would like to be in this business. Are there days when you think, well, what am i doing . Yeah, but theres a lot more days saying, you know, the mission here is critical, and to be able to be a part of it, to be able to feel like youre giving Something Back to your country, it is a reward. Senior official at microsoft says candidates in the 2018 midterms have come under attack from abroad. Earlier this year we did discover that a fake microsoft domain had been established as the landing page for phishing attacks and we saw meta data that suggested they were directed at three candidates all standing for election in the midterm elections. In this years election, 2018, phishing attacks against yeah, against the staff of three candidates for election. Can you tell us who they are . We cant disclose that information because we maintain our customers privacy so i wont go there. I can tell you they are all people because of their positions might have been interesting targets from an espionage standpoint as well as an election disruption standpoint. Microsoft vp tom burt went on to say the attack was unsuccessful and buzzfeed reports an analyst traced them to a group widely accepted to be run by russias military intelligence agency. This as the house voted down an effort to increase security funding, leading to a raucous hearing on the floor lead by steny hoyer. We have sworn an oath. The gentlemans time has expired. Against all enemies foreign and domestic. The gentlemans time has expired. You have the opportunity to do that today do so vote yes on this amendment for your country [ chanting usa, usa, usa ]. Joining us from washington, d. C. , capitol Hill Reporter for the hill molly hooper. Great to have you with us. A lot of drama on the floor of the u. S. Congress. Before we get to that lets talk about the white house invitation to Vladimir Putin blindsiding a lot of people. It is one thing for dan coates to not necessarily know the specifics of when the invitation will go out, even the timing of it, but he didnt even seem to know that Vladimir Putin was going to be invited to the white house at all. What does that tell you about the way this white house is operating . Reporter well, i will tell you what congress is saying about with it. Essentially, senator Mitch Mcconnells spokesperson told the hill that Vladimir Putin wont be welcome in congress. Theyre not going to have a joint address to Congress Like they did when Emmanuel Macron was here earlier this year. Normally when foreign officials come over and are visiting, meeting with the president and what not, they will go to the house, they will go to the senate. They will make the rounds, talking with the speaker of the house, the leader. It sounds like thats not thats nyet so to speak. I know it is early, but that wont happen for Vladimir Putin. When i was asking lawmakers about the possibility yesterday, the question was met with similar dismay and sort of the same kind of response that dan coates had. Just sort of kind of laughter of dismay. I dont think that thats and knowing and having covered dan coates and seeing his reaction, dan coates is very much hes very respected up on capitol hill, especially among his former colleagues in the senate. Hes one of those one of those individuals who never really tried to grandstand. It wasnt out there being flashy and flowing i mean throwing verbal bombs across the aisle. He really wasnt. He wasnt seen as a huge partisan. And he so for him to be making these comments and coming out and countering what the white house is saying is very telling. I think that if there is is some sort of effort to try to move him out, he would have a lot of support on capitol hill, and support from steny. Lets talk about that and break it down. Obviously this has been a very interesting week in terms of the relationship between dan coates and the white house. There have been statements coming out after the helsinki meeting, yesterdays comments some are interpreting to be a swipe at the white house according to the Washington Post, President Trump possibly taking it personally. What does it tell you about the divisions between trump and his advisers on the handling of russia and Vladimir Putin . Well, see, thats the big question. I think thats something that members up on capitol hill at least are very concerned about. They dont know. When we are talking to bob corker who is the current head of the Foreign Relations committee in the senate, he just is kind of throwing up his arms. Hes saying, we dont know what the strategy is. He said that it is reminiscent of the strategy that the administration is carrying out on trade and tariffs. He says, corker says there is no strategy. They dont know what the end game is. When dealing with somebody like Vladimir Putin and the russians, who did try they actively tried to interfere with the u. S. Elections and are continuing to try to interfere in the Digital Infrastructure of this country, per dan coates, thats a problem. So here is where you are going to find a lot of pushback from members of his own party, more so on this issue than anything we have seen before. Indeed it is. Molly hooper, thank you very much. 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