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Take place. that's a quote. and president trump said he and vladimir putin talked about it. he backtracked after lawmakers on both sides blasted as ridiculous this idea is. the president tweeted yesterday morning, putin and i discussed forming a cyber security unit so that election hacking and many other negative things will be guarded. then came the sunday shows. his treasury secretary, steve mnuchin went out to defend that concept of the leaker -- i should say of the leader of the hackers working with the leader of the hacked and then others weighed in. >> if that's our best election defense...

Through the minds of defense officials after listening to trump who so we might form a cyber security unit with russia. >> well, if you look at the director of national intelligence's 2017 annual statement where they put out to congress all the threats facing the united states, the number one issue, it's on page 2 of the assessment, i was just reviewing it, is cyber security and the number one culprit is russia. it says that russia is at full scope cyber active. the idea that we would work with the culprit, the people who are our adversary in an effort is the fok guarding the hen house. >> thi...

About collusion. they were about contacts? . >> they were originally about that. that's the whole premise of what you're asking is question is whether or not the campaign colluded with russia. that's the premise of the entire scope of your questioning. and the point we've tried to make and will continue to make is that there wasn't. and beyond that, i really can't offer you anything. >> sara, back to yesterday morning's tweet. can you tell us what was or what is or what was going to be a cyber security unit and how this was going to work? >> i'm not sure that there were specific details discus...

Here is u.n. ambassador nikki haley. here is her take on this idea of the cyber security unit. listen to this. >> it doesn't mean we ever trust russia. we can't trust russia and we won't ever trust russia, but you keep those you don't trust closer so you can keep an eye on them and keep them in check. >> mitchell, what do you think of that? >> well, i think president trump did something that was almost unimaginable. he created bipartisan consensus in washington, d.c. this is a terrible idea. i think everybody can agree on that. but it speaks to a larger problem, the president's inexperience an...

Secretary, get your marching orders, go out and say this is a great idea and then he just chops you off right at the knees an hour or two later? >> it's a stupid idea. could never happen. >> poor secretary mnuchin, no one was more behind everything president trump did and get the legs -- >> somewhere sunday afternoon it became a horrible idea. >> so many reasons, wow, this is unbelievably unprecedented. i can't even begin. >> with us now, republican senator pat toomey, here to defend the idea of letting vladimir putin run our cyber security unit. >> it's a good idea for the fox to guard the he...