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and it came snapy fast. with the white house insisting there's been no change in the u.s. policy towards taiwan. we've seen this kind of thing before after the president made those comments about vladimir putin, for instance. >> ukraine will never be a victory for russia for god's sake, this man cannot remain in power. >> harris: let's go straight to kayleigh. >> kayleigh: yeah, harris, it's always an unnamed anonymous white house official that cleans up the blunder. look, these gaps are alarming. they're weird to watch. they're disconcerting when it's the president. but when it's in...

Legal team, attorneys, were baffled by mulvaney's performance, stunned he explicitly linked the decision to suspend aid to ukraine to the president's desire to see ukraine conduct politically advantageous investigations. ours sources tell cnn that white house aides and lawyers prepared mulvaney to go out and take the podium in the briefing room but prepared him more to focus on the white house announcement yesterday that next year's g-7 summits is held at the president's property in doral, florida. they were not necessarily preparing him to make some sort of big rechlgs about the ukraine scand...

He more or less said he wasn't going to try to keep the president in line, he was going to embolden him to do what he wanted. we've seen very little attempts for him to push back. the president yesterday, reverend, was said that he was in dallas and when he was asked about mulvaney's briefing he initially said he didn't see much of it but he was told that he did well. that was before, of course, the cleanup statement was issued later. you know the president, you know how he deals with things, you know his sense of loyalty. if the walls are closing in on mulvaney right now and as joyce and dave...

>> the associated press reports that the double flip-flop you watched play out there was reminiscent of the president's response to the violation in charlottesville back in 2017. quote, he initially blamed violence on both sides of the altercation after a wave of bipartisan condemnation and scathy cable news coverage, he issued a cleanup statement at the white house days later. yet after watching the response to his reversal p. he doubled back to the original position during a wild >> translatotrump tower news conference. earlier today on cue he doubled back to the so-called squad, tweeting i ...

Especially given what we have learned just in the last few weeks? >> yes. the intelligence community assessment is the russian meddling that took place did not affect the outcome of the election. >> that's not true. today the director of the central intelligence agency said something that was untrue. very important. and not true. he said the intelligence community's assessment is that the russian meddling that took place did not affect the outcome of our election. not true. quoting from the intelligence community's january report, quote, we did not make an assessment of the impact that russian...