Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180719:16:23:00
Intelligence agencies? >> well, putin obviously ordered a full court press to try to discredit my diplomacy and discredit president obama's diplomacy. it didn't succeed, as you know. but i was one of the first to experience how far putin is willing to go to undercut u.s. democracy, undercut u.s. influence. as you know, i was having a private phone call with our ambassador in kiev at a time when we were trying to negotiate a coalition government. we needed the eu or the u.n. or somebody to come in and help midwife that deal. i said something, a barnyard epithet with regard to the eu. i knew the...