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Administration. though the health and perhaps survival of american democracy was on the minds as many as trump prepares for this big showdown meeting tomorrow with vladimir putin. so at this joint press conference in war saw halle jackson again asked if president trump accepted that russia was behind the hacks. the president did not cite the authority of the u.s. intelligence assessment. that would be the easiest way for any president to handle the question. no, instead, he went out of his way to cast more doubt and then loop back to the man who held office before him. >> i think it was russia...

Extential question but then he kind of quickly backed into a political mode. >> yeah, that's right. and it's interesting if you look at his actual scripted speech he gave out in warsaw, he was really trying assure our western allies. try to signal to the european countries who have been very wary of his moves, the west can stand together. but in his statements there at the press conference and his statements to hally jackson about the russian interference were just kind of mind-boggling, because he's, again, not affirming what his u.s. intelligence agencies have found definitively. >> on the o...

Sanction. so what are the vulnerabilities you see? >> you're right. the republicans at large have decided that the russia's interference in the 2016 election was a real problem. and the sanctions bill, what it does, is it limits the white house ability to unilaterally lift sanctions on russia. but speaking of politics, that pole you spoke about at the top, it find that this russia question is really a partisan question. if you dig down into the numbers. you find that 73% of republicans find that donald trump did nothing wrong as it relates to russia's interference in the 2016 election. whereas...

Interference means that they somehow tipped the election that makes him defensive. he can't put them in separate categories to say, yeah, they interfered but they didn't influence. >> it doesn't mean that your home was invaded, and that's a separate question. and if the underlying event here is the as you know from covering so many of these, the macrofactors that go into any presidential race, i don't know if you could point to any one thing ever to tip a presidential race. >> yeah, and the fact is no one can say if they influenced the vote. up next i'm going to speak live with a democrat on...

There's certainly a whole range of topics of which we disagree. she was furious when we pulled oaof the paris agreement. and that's an area where she aligns with former president obama. so those lines undercut him. >> and kristen, that's sort of the foreign side. at home what are you hearing about the white house aides about thafr confidence in the president to stick the landing with putin tomorrow? >> look, that's a great question. i think there's? division. remember, h.r. mcmaster says there's not an agenda yet. i've been pressing officials inside and outside the white house what do they mak...