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Making a case for putin to come into g7 is at all circumstantial evidence on the mueller report? >> well, i think you've raised a really good point, which is that i think the mueller report did raise the question about even though the linkages may not have established a criminal conspiracy on the part of the trump campaign to participate in russia's interference in the 2016 elections, those linkages have not been investigated for their counterintelligence risks. and i believe one of the counterintelligence risks created by some of those linkages may provide some of the motive for why the presi...

Instance, their practical annexation of crimea. i think that this all raises the questions that we asked about in our questioning of special counsel mueller when he came to capitol hill, whether there are linkages between president trump and russia that would raise counterintelligence risks. it's very, very concerning that the president keeps currying favor with putin, siding with put putin, trying to invite him back into these organizations, even in the evidence and in the face of all types of activity that we cannot countenance and that we criticize on a daily basis. you don't know what kind...

His comments was on the heels of what was a process the president loathed, the takeaway from the special counsel's investigation was not what we heard him say on television, right? this is -- this is the exact opposite. why would he have done that? >> we actually don't know if the counterintelligence investigation in president trump ever ended and from a security perspective his comments last night make you kind of wonder why one isn't in place? everything we learned from the mueller report is that the president and his team were open to manipulation by foreign assets. it's playbook for how ru...