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Promising only appropriate stance. once manafort and trump's team got involved. >> that was a big victory for the russians and it underscored their sense that they were going to really win big if trump won the white house. that they would have a major ally in the white house. >> reporter: trump denied any direct involvement with the change of platform language. >> i was not involved. in. i was not involved. i was not involved. >> reporter: once in office, trump pushed the notion the u.s. had moral equivalence with russia, even as perceived opponents of the kremlin kept ending up dead or poison...

I would say the g-8 is a more meaningful group than the g-7. absolutely. >> you have trump lining up very clearly with russia. you have him at a meeting with g-7 leaders, telling them just forget about ukraine. ukraine is russian. let it go. >> reporter: and of course, the day after trump fired fbi director james comey amid the investigation into possible coordination between russia and the trump indication that, the then president met with russian prime minister serge delay lavrov and trump revealed highly classified information to the pair. >> we had a very, very good meeting with mr. lavrov...

Alliance should be the economic alliance and not something with russia when he sees the carnage that is going on and knows that it's not right. >> martha: what about president biden said about the g-20 and wanting russia out of it? we understand the plans are for putin to attend later this year. he was removed from the g-8 and now g-7 with the invasion of crimea. why would he still be part of the g-20? >> he should not be part of the g-20. he should be reviled by all of the great economies of the world. i think this is a chance for india also to step up as well as china and say clearly russia ...

Saying he does not believe russia should be able to participate in the g-20. they have a summit every year. this year it's in indonesia. president biden said if russia is invited to the summit, he thinks the counterbalance to that should be inviting ukraine and having them come. whether or not that happens, remains to be seen. this wouldn't be completely foreign to russia if they were kicked out of the g-20. they were kicked out of the g-8 after what happened in 2014 with their illegal annexation of crimea, it became the g-7 which is a group that met today to talk about this invasion. but the ...

Because some of these headlines somewhat significant here from president biden. and i think the g20 one is interesting. how do you see that playing out? >> well, i think it's exactly what happened to russia after the -- they took over crimea. in 2014. they were kicked out of what was then the g-8. it became the g7 again. so that would be a suitable punishment according to u.s. officials. the problem might be that india would have a say as a member of the g20 as would china and could veto kicking russia out. and notably one of the things that was also said to me today by senator warner earlier ...