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Intelligence people but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. >> reporter: touting the years as a kgb agent. >> translator: i like to add something to this. after all, i was an intelligence officer myself. and i do know how dossiers are made up. >> reporter: putin weighed in on perhaps the biggest, lingering question. >> does the russian government have any compromising material on president trump or his family? >> reporter: at first, putin smirked at the question and then laughter broke out and dodged again. >> translator: i did heard this...

Anton, obviously, the national security spokesman for the president. he was and has been on this show and many others defending. he was scheduled to be on the show and he's not on because he said he's not going to defend what he did today. i want to play the exchange between the a.p. reporter and putin about kompromat and whether that is what is responsible for what trump said today. here it is. >> do you -- does the russian government have any compromising material on president trump or his family? >> translator: i treat president trump with utmost respect, but back then when he was a private...

Sir, do you, does the russian government, have any compromising material on president trump or his family? >> translator: let me tell you this, when president trump visited moscow back then, i didn't even know that he was in moscow. let's take st. petersburg economic forum for instance. there were over 500 american businessmen. the high-ranking ones, i don't remember the last names of each and every one of them. do you think we try to collect compromising material on each and every one of them? well it's difficult to imagine non-sense of a bigger scale than this. >> it is not that difficult to

Difficult to imagine wanting to get compromising material on high-ranking businessmen. joining us, fred pleitgen and mikhail of the moscow times. you are in moscow. how is this news conference being perceived now in russia. >> well, it's probably too early to assess because it's late night in moscow. and night shows just started analyzing the press conference and the summit. but it's quite easy to reconstruct the reaction. and the rain point would be that we got it, that putin comes out as a respected global player and as a leader, global leader from this summit and that trump, i think that wo...

>> translator: president trump -- well, the posture of president trump on crimea is well known and he stands firmly by it. he continues to maintain that it was illegal to annex it. our view point is different. we held a referendum in strict compliance with the u.n. charter and international legislation. for us this issue -- and now to the compromising material. yeah, i did heard these rumors that these allegedly collected compromising material on mr. trump when he was visiting moscow. distinguished colleague, let me tell you this, when president trump was in moscow back then, i didn't even kno...