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Russian influence in the presidential campaign is front and center in our country, with new revelations about more possible connections between the president's business empire and russian investments, that doesn't seem to be stopping the white house from taking a harder line against hoosegow. moscow. elon joins us. >> thank you. >> eric: how could you characterize from a policy point of view how the administration is dealing with vladimir putin and the russians? are they holding him to account or giving him a free pass? >> so i think u.s. policy on russia is still very much a work in progress....

At this investigation, is sort of the broader strategic context. we have an administration that is likely to be more forth right about what it wants to do with regard to the russians as a result of these investigations. the white house is clearly under fire because of its previous russia ties. how they pan out remains to be seen. but, this is an administration that is incentivized to put its money where its mouth is and to actually act tougher on russia than it would otherwise. >> eric: interesting when you say good cop bad cop. ilan behrman thank you for joining us today. >> of course. >> law...

Cop/bad cop in the negotiating? >> passing legislation is complicated and messy. the house does its thing and the senate and goes to the in the of conference and the white house nurses all the processes all along and has to deal with the 230 republicans in the house and the republicans in the senate. it's going to have bumps like that along the way. they'll come together at the end with a package but the second important thing to remember is that it's probably going to take more than one piece of legislation. you can put certain things in reconciliation and you try and get that through to begi...

The chief strategist is saying something completely different from the vice president. this is the second case where the vice president was out of the loop. when it came to what was being told to the vice president, he was left out of the loop of that. so it undermines the credibility of the white house. >> it does look like the vice president is not part of this inner circle and many times it is a circle of two. donald trump and steve bannon. >> i think you have to look at two dramatically different styles. bannon and trump are one school of thought. serving a nail and you're the hammer. vice...

U.s. positions, including support of nato. but he is the president are still saying slightly different things on this issue. let's listen to what each man said just in the past 48 hours. >> today on behalf of president trump, i bring you this assurance. the united states of america strongly supports nato and will be unwavering in our commitment to this trans-atlantic alliance. >> we're fighting battles that other people aren't treating us fairly in the fight. i'm a nato fan, but many of the countries in nato, many of the countries that we protect, many of these countries are very rich countrie...