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Him, very colorful language, by the way, you know, you are not a diplomat. when it was teed up for him just to say the very basic things, he chose deliberately not to do it. and that's what is striking to me. i've been in those briefings with president obama right before he walks out to do one of these interviews. everybody knew what the question was going to be. he's sitting there with his top advisors. i know some of those people. i know their views on this, and yet he chose to do something else. it's very bizarre and i think tragic. >> let's go there, because vladimir putin did on the dossi...

Salacious information in the dossier. we collected compromising material. he threw that out there today. your thoughts? >> well, i thought his answer was very curious, he never denied that they had that material on him. all he said was, i wasn't briefed on when mr. trump was there in 2013. by the way, when i was ambassador, and when we would brief congressional delegations, other high-ranking officials, we'd tell them about russia's tremendous capabilities to gather that kind of intelligence, including at the ritz carlton. you need to understand that every phone call you make, every message yo...

Myself. and i do know how dossiers are made up. >> that's a provocative way to stir the pot on questions about the dossier, infamous for salacious details about trump's 2013 trip to moscow. david corn famously broke this story. he's back with me. i want to play for you, david, that odd statement from putin with the wider context. >> translator: i was intelligence officer myself. and i do know how dossiers are made up. i did heard these rumors that we allegedly collected compromising material on mr. trump when he was visiting moscow. i didn't even know that he was in moscow. i treat president t...

Agency -- [ inaudible ]. >> every u.s. intelligence agency concluded russia did. who do you believe? >> i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. >> president putin, did you want president trump to win the election? >> there was no collusion. i didn't know the president. there was nobody to collude with. it's ridiculous what's going on with the probe. i think that the united states has been -- >> i was in intelligence myself and i do know how -- >> does th...

There were over 500 american businessmen. high-ranking, high level ones. i don't even remember the last names of each and every one of them. well, do you remember -- do you think that we tried to collect compromising material on each and every single one of them? well, it's difficult to imagine a nonsense of a bigger scale than this. well, please, just disregard the issues and don't think about this anymore again. >> it would have been out long ago. and if anybody watched peter strzok testify over the last couple of days, and i was in brussels watching it, it was a disgrace to the fbi. it was ...