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yes, they have to figure out a way to work together on all kinds of things like cybercriminals and swapping prisoners, et cetera, et cetera. afghanistan, syria, you know, but i do think that biden is very clear about what he's going in there with and what he needs to say and he's not going to come out like donald trump did in helsinki, you mentioned, saying oh, yeah, well he said russia didn't meddle in the election and i have no reason, you know, not to believe him. so i think it's going to be a very different feel and i hope for history's sake there is some kind of a record made of it. >> well, we will listen for any additional remarks and any additional clues that the president can give us as far as his thinking going into that meeting with putin as he is set to address the press within the next half an hour or so, thank you all for being with us, phil mattingly, clarissa ward, max boot and gloria borger, it's a busy day of news.
colleagues not a single republican member of this committee has said russia didn't meddle in the 2016 election. we published a report focused on russian active measures in 2016. we have policy recommendations how we strengthen cyber resiliency, election security to counter russia. i myself have worked with members of this very committee on this issue, but also on the house armed services committee. so to have our democratic colleagues say untruthful statements just reeks of political desperation in their continued obsession to manipulate mainstream media coverage. good news is the american people understand this has been a partisan process from the start. the democratic coordination with the whistle-blower, the incessant leaks, unprecedented closed door process, closed to majority of members, closed to the press, closed to the people. starting this inquiry without taking a vote. and when finally forced to take a vote, the vote was with bipartisan opposition.
back with experts. sean turner, what do you think of the way the president smirked and smiled and had a friendly warning to vladimir putin at the g-20 s g-20 sum knit japan today when he said didn't meddle in the u.s. presidential election. what do you think of the way he handled that. >> i think it is -- it represents kind of the president's new thinking on this. the president has gone from being angry about the suggestion that russia interfered in the election to just kind of smirking and being dismissive and he is that way because he understands it is almost impossible to quantify the impact, the effect of russia interference and so the president is at a point where he'll just be dismissive of it and won't care if russia interferes again. but to be clear, it is a serious and significant national security threat that the president should take seriously. >> and the former president jimmy carter, jeff, he's questioning the legitimacy of
possession. >> the way he communicated saying he didn't know who she was, that didn't seem true. >> police are not giving specifics of how lewek died but they searched his house which is a few miles from the park where they met earlier this week. police then called him a person of interest. investigators say he gave away a mattress and a box spring shortly after she disappeared. police and neighbors also told cnn neighbors observed him burning something in his backyard with gasoline on the day she went missing and again the day after. >> the mel of gas was outrageous. i was in my bedroom and i smelled it through my window. i thought maybe it was my motor home. i came outside to make sure and there was this smell in the air that was just almost rancid. it was just really disgusting smelling. >> reporter: police say when they dug up his backyard they found burned items they believe
he made it clear that he put a significant amount of weight in putin's claim to him that the russians didn't meddle in the 2016 elections. something we all know is a lie. what makes the characterization that mccabe represents here really extraordinary is that it's so simple and it's trump just simply saying, i believe that putin is right and the intelligence community is lying to me. and these are the kind of characterizations, these are the kind of conversations that just cause extraordinary concern within the upper levels of the american intelligence community. neem the ic take extraordinary risks to gather intelligence. it's expensive and time consuming. in many cases it's dangerous. and for the president of the united states to say he believes that the head of state of one of our moist significant adversaris over the intelligence community couldn't be more chilling. >> barry makes the point we're
russians kigales they had dirt of hillary clinton. what did you have in mind there? where is the beef here. >> met he will go to our putin whisperer, i want to put up number four here, this excerpt, this was a back and fourth here an air force woun, november 11th, 2017 after his meeting with vietnam, did the attempts to meddle in the elections come up? >> he said he didn't meddle, i asked him again, you can only ask so many times. he says he did not do what you say he did. do you believe him? i can't stand there and argue with him. i would rather he get out of syria. how is putin communicating what
on the podium there. he gives him a thumbs up. and trump doesn't react negatively to this. this is a guy who didn't meddle in our election. he attacked a u.s. election in 2016. he waged information warfare against us. it sounds dramatic. it's what everyone says, the u.s. intelligence. and trump still treats him like a frat buddy, like he tweeted at him in 2013 i hope you become my new best friend when i come tomos cow with ms. universe. so i think it's rather disgusting that putin feels he can give trump a thumbs up and his fellow bro says yeah, i'm with you, man, whether they meet or not at this particular meeting. >> the symbolism does speak for itself. bobby, i want to get your thoughts on the killing of jamal khashoggi and president erdogan. they met over deny ninner in pa.
this kings denial. as you just mentioned when it came to birtherism he knew that was b.s. we grew up in the same place. i know when his nose is tweaked. he forwarded it because it was god for him. when it's putin. putin said he didn't meddle. we have to listen to him. he really believed it. what is it about the president when it's a strong man, then he's okay with a baseless denial of a situation. when it's millions of voters voting illegally. he says it without any hesitation without any basis. why such a difference? >> what concerns me most about his conduct in the world is the way it weakens us. when he seems eager to stand up to the close allies. like canada. or merkel in germany. and to embrace or excuse or believe a dictator like kim jong un or philippines.
same time, saying it didn't meddle in the outcome. the information was valid and legitimate. and they fully support the intelligence community, it doesn't cut the mustard. >> does the intelligence community ever give any indication that there was any entity or another person or country that was trying to meddle in the elections, besides russia? >> none whatsoever i'm afraid. and the senate intelligence committee on a bipartisan basis has said as much. so i don't know why we can't get over this one fact. it feels like we have been talking about it for a while and we could move on for what the president apparently wants to do which is he wants to lay out, and he did yesterday, a bunch of issues that we should be discussing in our bilateral relationship. and that's fine.
rosenstein side. yea . >> he said there's going to be no perry mason moment for that. i'm too young to remember that, even though i'm not young. as a lawyer, this is evidence. >> it's huge evidence. trump, every time he is confronted with evidence, he denies it. we know what his reaction will be. he said putin said he didn't meddle. every time he sees me he says that. he really means it. end quote. trump is going into the gogs with this adversary. this is a sophisticated former kgb agent and trump is not any of that. this is like lebron james playing basketball with my kid. this is frightening. >> it should be scary. why are we assuming that donald trump is going to do anything different than he's already done? he told us time and time again where he stands on this.