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Come. john? >> alex marquardt for us in washington. so in this new interview with reuters, that the president just did, he once again neglected to squarely blame russia for the 2016 election attack. the president told reuters, quote, mueller's probe played right into the russians, if it was russia. if he says it was russia, they played right into the russians' hands. joining me now is jeff mason, one of the reuters correspondents who interviewed president trump. jeff, thanks so much for being with us. we didn't know microsoft was coming forward with this news of this new russian attack on the ...

>> i'm not in position to understand fully or talk about what happened in helsinki. i'll turn it over to the national security director. >> the issue was discussed and in fact president putin said the first issue that president trump raised was election meddling. >> reporter: still so many questions about that helsinki summit and that private meeting between president trump and president putin. but one thing has changed as we end this week here, there was a unified message from the u.s. government about russian election meddling. but that unified voice missing the president's own. he has yet t...

Returning to it, and i'm quote hearing the two-year hysteria surrounding russian interference in 2016 elections that did not happen. it sounds almost exactly like what president trump said last night. speaking at a rally in eastern pennsylvania, the president had warm words about his summit with vladimir putin, harsh words about the russia probe. >> we got along really well. by the way, that's a good thing, not a bad thing. that's a really good thing. now we're being hindered by the russian hoax. it's a hoax. i'll tell you what, russia is very unhappy that trump won, that i can tell you. but i...

Game. and if you look at russia in history, they had 400 years czars. seven years of totalitarian communism. then the collapse of the soviet union, and for the last 20 years vladimir putin and the intelligence agencies have been in power. they have one goal in mind, which is to recover from the collapse of the soviet union. they believe that president trump can help them do that. they believe that election hacking and manipulation is a tool that can help them achieve that. they are feeling very strong. >> one other question. i'm thinking about the indictment that mueller released a couple week...

Rush interference, what does he do? as of today still refusing to forcefully call out putin for ordering the election attack. why? next question. if members of congress are so upset by the reality of trump and putin, what are they going to do? republican jeff flake has harsh words for the president. but what will they do? and just in case you like trump are almost completely immune to the truth about russian interference, how about this? the man the president hand-picked to run the fbi tonight says clearly the mueller investigation is "not a witch hunt." impact. and yesterday it was would and ...