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Nbc correspondent brinkristen wr joins me now. his actions are inexplicable. ignoring his own national security advisor's advice. >> reporter: that's right, andrea. this highlights this discrepancy here at the white house. on the one hand several days ago they announced they were enacting thoeenact ing those sanctions against russia for meddling in the election. yet critics say the president is being non-confrontational, as you pointed out, going against stern warnings of his national security team not to congratulate president putin, not raising the issue of russian meddling. senator john mcc...

Arms, we can discuss the arms race. >> senator john mccain has slammed the president for what he just said. the senator in a statement saying, an american president does not lead the free world by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections. and by doing so with vladimir putin, president trump insulted every russian citizen denied the right to vote in a free and fair election to determine their country's future, including the countless russian patriates who have risked so much to protest and resist putin's regime. all the criticism coming down on the white house, kaitlyn, what does the ...

What we have. and also to discuss ukraine and syria and north korea and various other things. so i think probably we'll be seeing president putin in the not to distant future. >> to republican senator john mccain, that was unacceptable. mccain said in a statement today, "an american president does not lead the free world by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections and by doing so," mccain says "with vladimir putin, president trump insulted every russian citizen, including the countless russian patriots who risked so much to protest and resist putin's regime." there is a lot the presi...

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Something they should be discussing with the russian leader? >> i didn't say we couldn't discuss it with the russia leader. it didn't come up on today's call. >> which was a congratulations call about the rigged election. which is really big double standard for this administration because consider what the president has said about another dictator closer to home. here's statement on venezuela last summer. this is a quote from the president's statement. the united states once again calls for free and fair elections and stan with the people of venezuela and quest to restore their country to demo...