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Convention platform in 2016 that watered down support for u.s. assistance to ukraine. vladimir putin sure must have been really happy about that. and there's more from that interview with the post. the president blatantly trying to intimidate democrats in the house, trying to scare them out of investigating him with the bare-knuckle threat that he's going to declassify documents he claims would be devastating to them. it's not clear what documents he's referring to or if they even exist. does that sound to you like a president with nothing to hide? and please can we talk about the president's ...

President. he said it was because russia has not returned the ships and sailors that ukraine says were seized during an incident on sunday. but that came less than an hour after he said this. >> i probably will be meeting with president putin, we haven't terminated that meeting. i was thinking about it but we haven't. they'd like to have it. i think it's a very good time to have the meeting. i'm getting a full report on the plane as to what happened with respect to that and that will determine what i'm going to be doing. >> this focus on the u.s./russia relationship comes amid an abc news repo...

As in asking the members to stand up i think. >> to be fair, these are charges at least as far as we know, because we don't know what michael cohen's plea is for things before donald trump was president. josh, i'm sure that's something a republican would say. >> i feel like a one-trick pony on this. it's so easy to conflate two issues. russia investigation ongoing with mueller and what happened with paul manafort. i mean, what happened with paul manafort looks like five convictions of tax evasion that happened over the previous decade and a half before he even met donald trump. right? >> but, ...

States facing a special counsel investigation, his lawyer goes to two people who could be critical for the special counsel, michael flynn there on the plane with donald trump all of the time and talking to the russian ambassador and lying about it. paul manafort who was in charge of the convention and rallying up delegates and changing that convention platform under his watch with deep ties to kroo-- krairn a ukraine and any way on this green earth that donald trump didn't know about that? >> since he's the only one that could give the pardon, he would have to know about it. that is the way th...

To deny that the campaign was responsible for the change made to the 2016 convention platform that weakened the language on u.s. assistance to u craik then being threatened by russia. let's watch. >> everybody on the platform committee had said it came from the trump campaign. if not you, who? >> it absolutely did not come from the campaign. i don't know hop everybody is. i guarantee you nobody that was on the platform. >> nobody in the trump campaign wanted that change in the platform? >> no one, zero. >> a republican delegate to the convention later told npr the trump campaign was involved i...