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Presidential election, sort of. >> well, i would, because he's in charge of the country just like i consider myself to be responsible for things that happen in this country. certainly as the leader of a country, you would have to hold him responsible, yes. >> and two weeks before his inauguration, president trump while he was president-elect was briefed in detail on u.s. intelligence that putin ordered the election attack. the former director of national intelligence james clapper was involved in that briefing. >> before we left the room, they started writing a press release about our encounte...

Now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. comcast, building america's largest gig-speed network. the president siding with russia over his own intelligence agencies about russia's election attack prompted cia chief brennen to call the president's statement nothing short of treasonous. i want to bring in douglas brinkley and james, the author of "our towns, a 100,000 mile journey into the heart of america." lots to talk about. douglas, you first. article iii in section three of the constitution says this, treason of the united states shall consistent only in levying war ag...

National security, military and diplomatic personnel, they agree this was a huge blunder on the part of the president of the united states to exit from this meeting with putin the way he did. it's going to cause enormous, enormous grief for the president and his administration but i'm grateful to you as usual for joining us and expressing your views. thank you very much. senator rand paul remaining silent in the aftermath of that. appreciate it very much. the breaking news continues. we'll have much more on president trump's siding with vladimir putin today on russia's election attack. tonig...

The presumed perpetrator of that terror strike? >> ed, terrorism, i can't even likeen this to 9/11 but let's remember vladimir putin accused of a assassinating his own formr spy in the u.k., attacking and killing. servers and bitcoin and hiding money to attack our election process -- >> he's a bad guy. >> it's a bad thing. but to go to that level seems over-the-top. >> i think you're right, to call it terrorist attack is extreme. what's more important is for president trump to acknowledge there is an attack. vladimir putin, let's not disguise, was behind an election attack. i think the preside...

He doesn't care about the election attack, underneath the presidential layer is their activity in the trump administration to protect the country or is the coats sound the noise and the trump sound the substance. which from your reporting is it? >> the latter. i'm hearing the intelligence community, the national security community is not doing anything to protect against the meddling russia is doing and will interfere in the 2018 midterms. i'm hearing whereas the national security and intelligence community would have been going full steam ahead trying to protect against these hacks and russia...