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There. >> yes, he did. and he continues to ad-lib on his -- at his rallies, discounting what his intelligence chiefs are telling him. you know, a normal president would have taken that occasion to be present, probably would have done it in the east room, probably would have introduced them all and tried to emphasize the importance of what they were about to say. he's done just the opposite. he put them out in the briefing room, which steps it down a couple notches right away, and then he's undercut it today in statements he's made about it just being a hoax again. >> professor dershowitz, when...

He sometimes just focuses on the notion of collusion as being the hoax and the witch hunt but oftentimes he just paints a very broad picture of it like that. it does seem to ignore the fact that mueller has already brought dozens of criminal charges against more than 20 defendants, including four trump associates. >> well, i think more important, his own intelligence agencies have warned us about continuing russian attempts to intervene in the election. i give much more weight to that than i do to indictments. indictments are, after all, just charges. they haven't been proved. but the intellig...

Conditions. two hours later, mike pompeo says conditions. what gives? >> when the president ad-libbed there's usually a pushback from the white house saying, no, what he actually meant was -- and then completely reversing what he said. we're seeing something of that from pompeo. or what pompeo says makes a little more sense in the larger narrative. if you're going to tear up the nuclear deal, it makes no sense then to go back and say there are no preconditions. there have to be preconditions. if there are no preconditions, why tear up the deal? with the north koreans, i think it's inconceivabl...

Out. that it's a new way for him to make the deep state argument, which the president believes fires up his base, probably he thinks distracts from the deafening silence on what actually happened in that closed door meeting with vladimir putin seven days ago, which we still don't know about. the irony of all of this is that the white house is accusing you of politicizing intelligence when, in fact, as we talked about, you know, this president seems to have in problem politicizing it when it is to his ends. >> exactly. and that's one of the many implications here that, as you alluded, all kinds...

From the deafening silence on what actually happened in that closed door meeting with vladimir putin seven days ago, which we still don't know about. the irony of all of this is that the white house is accusing you of politicizing intelligence when, in fact, as we talked about, this president seems to have no problem politicizing it when it's to his ends. >> exactly. and that's one of the many implications here that as you alluded, all kinds of ironies here. this is a classic do as i say, not as i do. >> you know, last week, after many contortions, the president finally said that russia did me...