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Meeting between trump and vladimir putin. here is what the president said today about that meeting. >> mr. president, do you remember george papadopoulos during that march meeting? >> i don't remember much about that meeting. it was a very unimportant meeting. toopts a long time -- don't remember much about it. >> as this white house faces the daily deluge about robert mueller's investigation, the president decided today to criticize his own justice department and call on it to investigate his former political rival, hillary clinton. he wrote on twitter, everyone is asking why the justice depa...

Furiously about the other alleged scandal that he thinks we ought to be focused on but still denying he heard anything about any meetings with russians. >> right and remember the president posted about his memory last week saying he has one of the great memories. in terms of the deflection that you talk about, let's look at those tweets, he sent out about eight between 7:00 and noon today. some of them reading everybody is asking why the justice department and fbi isn't looking into all of the dishonestly going on with the crooked hillary and dems. no donna b book said she play paid forand st...

Gentlemen, nice to have both of you here. ron, let me ask you, the significance of this fight within the democratic party right now, what do you make of this moment for democrats, and how problematic is this for your party? >> well, it's certainly not helpful. you know, i think that we need to understand that these joint fundraising agreements are standard. they're done by every candidate. both hillary clinton and senator sanders signed one. donald trump signed one with the republican party. there is nothing untoward about it, but certainly this kind of dispute is not helpful for our party. >>...

President trump making light of the temporary shutdown of his twitter account after a twitter employee briefly deactivated the president's page last night. the president, you may have seen, responded this morning. he said, my twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. i guess the word must finally be getting out and having an impact. i thought about that one for a little bit. joining us now, nbc contributor sam sty. sam, first of all, the president right now en route to asia. in the past we would have policy stories for days on end. instead we're talking about the presi...

The president obviously, the common theme, strategy, is deflect, distract, focus on other things. the papadopoulos reporting you have right now that sessions eekt fively rejected this outright in the meeting, that the president we understand was listening intently to this at the time. the president this morning saying he doesn't remember much of that meeting. talk about where this leads us and why this matters so much? >> no one seems to remember very much. this is a common theme, if there is one. i don't recall, i don't remember, it's not that big of a deal? the president is on the record at ...