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Joining me now, todd copeland and jan nichols, national correspondent for the nations. good to see you both. what do you think is behind the president's denial? do you think this campaign may not be showing him bad polls or do you think it's about him putting a spin on things? >> i'm really interested in the fact these polls got leaked. i saw some commentary of a little bit of an attempt to wake the president up. one a thing that was in the context of this reporting about the poll is the president didn't seem very engaged in his re-election campaign and wasn't taking it all that seriously. we'...

Or straightforward about that. let's play that. >> in his written answers president trump's written answers to robert mueller's question what is did president trump have to say? >> he knowledged they had conversations. >> through 2015/2016. >> he answered those questions fully and to the satisfaction of special counsel. >> so he didn't say anything to me when i tried to pin him down now he saying they don't remember. >> this is a goal post that continues to move. i understand why we are very focused on the legality of this. the backdrop of that is a bigger question which is the person that is ...

That's not true. >> of course it is. >> how is that collusion? if he was doing his job with a real estate company of trump reality or whatever it's called and that was his job and it had nothing to do with the campaign, that's not collusion. >> second of all, if the president didn't tell us the truth about him trying to get a deal done at the same time he was being soft on sanctions with russia, including some of the financial institutions, he may have needed to do that deal in russia. if he was being soft, which is so odd and out of contacter with him with putin because he didn't want to spoi...

That's not collusion. >> second of all, if the president didn't tell us the truth about him trying to get a deal done at the same time he was being soft on sanctions with russia, including some of the financial institutions, he may have needed to do that deal in russia. if he was being soft, which is so odd and out of contacter with -- character with him. him with putin because he didn't want to spoil his relationship, it is not collusion and interfering in the election, but it is still behavior that is wrong. that's why you need to know why they lied. >> you are talking about a real estate de...

It's time for us to find out. >> you use the word spy -- >> of course i did. that's what it was. >> i don't want to relitigate this joint. i'll just use the other language so people know what it is, it's a confidential source. now you've had leaders in both parties who have seen the evidence there and been briefed and they came out of that meeting -- we have marco rubio who's on the intelligence committee. let's listen to what he says about just that and then i want to move on to new things this morning. listen. >> as far as what i have seen to date, it appears that there was an investigatio...