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Cooperation, but we should do it on a reciprocal basis because we would await our russian counterparts to provide us access to the persons of interest for us who we believe can have something to do with the intelligence services. let's discuss the specific issues and not use the russia and the u.s. relationship as a loose change, the loose change for this internal political struggle. >> a question for president putin, thank you. two questions for you, sir. can you tell me what president trump may have indicated to you about officially recognizing crimea as part of russia, and then secondly, si...

Endorsed the conclusions of the prior intelligence officials, clapper, brennan, et al. so he came down squarely on that. the question about whether or not vladimir putin had compromising material on either donald trump or his family, putin said when then civilian businessman donald trump was in moscow, he didn't know him. there were 500 other accidentbun there. he said i know how dossiers are created. so he did go there. but where to start because the president just completely wandered into this territory. i would have thought he'd want to deflect it, but he just decimated the questions about ...

Well, president trump on crimea is well known and he stands firmly by it. he continued to maintain that it was illegal to annex it. our viewpoint is different. we held the referendum in strict compliance with the u.n. charter and international legislation. and now to the compromising material. yeah, i did hear these rumors that we allegedly collected compromising material on mr. trump when he was visiting moscow. distinguished colleague, let me tell you this. when president trump is in moscow back then, i didn't even know that he was in moscow. i treat president trump with utmost respect, but ...

Guided by facts. can you name a single fact that would definitively prove the collusion? this is nonsense. just like the president recently mentioned. >> do you, does the russian government have any compromising material on president trump or his family? >> and vladimir putin went on to say that he did not even know donald trump. there were 500 business executives in moscow back then and he did not even know him so denying at least that -- or not denying, but brushing off questions about whether there was any compromising information or dossier, not addressing whether there was any compromisin...

And was based. i think his thesis that the russians have compromising material on donald trump is still there, it's still in play, and i would say we saw that in action very much today. >> mark warner said a similar thing i think earlier today as well. one other question to you, luke. this is what the president said publicly about their meeting in front of reporters. what could he have said privately that would have made vladimir putin potentially more happy or potentially angry? >> well, i mean, the whole manner of things that trump could have said, he could have called putin out. he could ha...