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The united states, things are going well right now as north korea reaffirms with allies like china and russia. >> will ripley live in hong kong. thank you. president trump is now ended up where he started a week ago. he is back to questioning whether russia interfered in the u.s. elections. he spent much of the last week trying to convince everyone he believed the intel as he stood alongside vladimir putin in helsinki and questioned the intelligence community and sided with putin. now the president is again scoffing at the conclusion of the u.s. intelligence. the conclusion he just said he a...

First of all, what is behind the presidents tweet? >> look, the key thing to point out is that apparently, from the indictment we know that the obama administration discovered this in 2016.before the election. the real question here is, why didn't they take immediate action and a counterintelligence operation to not only warn everyone involved in the political campaign and what was going on but take steps to prevent this from happening. there has really been no explanation. >> arthel: well, i will move on. there was an estimation but we will keep going. is there anything in this report that ca...

Person. the other key thing here is that the special counsel goes out of their way here in these court documents and didn't need to put this in there. this is how they communicate about their investigation and where things stand. and this makes it clear that the russian investigation is very much alive, very much ongoing and it shows us how this attorney, how this even relates to the russian investigation. the other thing is, they went out of their way to talk about 2016 and the court documents. because that was the campaign that was the election and that rick gates was having these conversati...

What is it doing? >> but kudlow says it is not going to go up. it'll go up, but kudlow says it is not going to. he made the argument with the president that the president uses. economic growth will go up, and we will grow ourselves out of the deficit. >> then this will be the challenge for larry kudlow. in the position that he's in now, he has to stand there and represent real data. >> right. but the fear is he may stand there and represent the president in the face of real data. >> well, as larry kudlow says, it's god's will. coming up next, nbc news exclusive report about one of america's ...

In from 2016. before we go to break, a quick programming note. ari melber along with the ceos of google and youtube describe how we deal with the rapid change of pace, it's a special townhall event tonight. take a look. >> the tech companies have gotten bigger. i think with more power comes more responsibility. and i think the scrutiny's important. it's a big part of democratic systems. you need to hold companies accountable. and i think that's a healthy part of evolution that needs to happen, but there's a part where we all need to be careful. and you don't want it to make, you don't want p...