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Though he did attempt to distance himself. next day he was asked about the north carolina rally goers and he said they were patriots. >> is happened a week ago sunday. he said it and then it is not like the media that night said my god, he let 13 seconds go by. it was not until the next day when trump said the clip that we watched, that they then showed the clock, the timer. and said it is a lie. so it is not that the media was looking to jump on him for time, is that they were calling him out on a blatant lie. he did not try to speed up the speech, he does not try to stop it, he sat there and...

>> yeah. she made the point today that we heard from the judge in virginia last week that collusion isn't being considered today because that is not what is before her. she is not saying, unlike what the president tweeted last week after judgel ellis, that that i not resolved in today's sentencing hearing, that is not before the court and then again, just emphasizing she was none too pleased because it's not before the court that the attorneys would bring that up that there is no collusion. of course, as we said, the subtext of that is a political point speaking to an audience of one and that ...

Elections. >> no, because we will krsht act whatever they do. we will counteract is strongly. and we have back up systems. we have been working. we haven't been given credit for this but we've been working hard on the '18 and the '20 election. >> it's it's interesting because the top intel chiefs have been saying they haven't been given direct order to stop the interference. how can the u.s. be prepared? >> it's hard to know what to make of the president's statement? the fact of the matter is as best with he no there hasn't been a single cabinet level meeting to deal with the ongoing threat of...

Playing de facto secretary of state on a number of these critical issues, and the relationship with mexico is about as critical as it gets. but it's the president's decision, he gets to pick who represents the country, who advises him on foreign policy and engages in diplomacy. but it's unfortunate that this is not now with the actual secretary of state or national security adviser. >> tony, at a joint press conference today with sweden's prime minister, president trump addressed a question about russia and the midterm elections. watch this. >> are you worried about russians meddling in the mi...

Really watching very closely. you don't want your system of votes to be compromised in any way. and we won't allow that to happen. >> the president was also asked if he was worried about russian interference in the upcoming midterms. >> no, because we'll counteract whatever they do, we'll counteract it very strongly and we having strong backup systems and we've been work actually -- we haven't been given credit for this, but we've been working hard on the '18 election and the '20 election coming up. thank you very much. >> and several top u.s. officials recently testified before congress that ...