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Committee. senator, your reaction to the breaking news this evening. "the washington post" reporting that according to current and former u.s. officials, there are intercepts in which the russian ambassador sergey kislyak in 2016 described conversations he had with then senator and trump campaign adviser, now attorney general jeff sessions in which they did in fact discuss campaign-related matters, discuss president trump, then candidate trump's position on his issues having to do with russia, despite what he has said publicly to the contrary. your reaction. >> if these reports are corroborate...

But thank you for that reminder of the nixon example. i want to listen to something al franken said about jeff sessions' confirmation hearing testimony and his forgetting his meeting with russians in his confirmation testimony. let's listen to what al franken said on this program about that. >> there's no other conclusion that you can come to other than that he was lying and was committing perjury. >> and now let's listen to what donald trump said to "the new york times" about that very same thing. donald trump said, jeff sessions gave some bad answers. he gave some answers that were simple q...

Sessions' confirmation hearing testimony and his forgetting his meeting with russians in his confirmation testimony. let's listen to what al franken said on this program about that. >> there's no other conclusion that you can come to other than that he was lying and was committing perjury. >> and now let's listen to what donald trump said to "the new york times" about that very same thing. donald trump said, jeff sessions gave some bad answers. he gave some answers that were simple questions and should have been simple answers, but they weren't. john heilmann, there's the president of the unit...

This particular issue and everyone has their right to be outraged about whatever they want. i'm curious as a veteran how you see it. we don't get the same outrage about nuclear north korea. we don't get the exact same outrage about a terror attack in man chester that killed a little girl. i'm curious your thoughts on that. >> look, jenna, i'm looking at this through the lens of national security. and the defense department, a number of admirals and generals, even secretary mattis in his confirmation testimony pointed to drought, famine, natural disasters and other effects of a warming earth of...

Our borders which is why we consolidated them all in one cabinet level department. now, because isil has effectively outsourced terrorism to home-ground bound extremists, we need to focus there as well. i hope that this administration will do that. i know my successor believes in that. he said that at his confirmation testimony. but i think that needs to be a major, major focus. >> before i let you go, mr. secretary, you still hopeful that donald trump can be a great president two months in? >> we have to remember this two months may seem like two years, but two months is not a very, very long...