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Guy putin running a criminal oligarchy in russia and fail to say you have to stop murdering your opposition people in the uk. by the way, they probably killed that russian citizen in new york city also. why would the president not instinctively look up for american interests. other strong men, hostile to democrat cannic leaders, this doesn't make any sense. he's not protecting u.s. national interests. >> one of the things that struck me is a lot of folks who even are concerned about the president, but want to put in a note of caution about the solid people around him, but he has people who are...

>> it's astonishing situation. those presidential talking points between heads of state come out of the inner agency community. defense, cia, justice all would have weighed in on them. so when they are looking for the leaker to the president washington and better cast their net pretty broadly would have come out of the national security adviser to the president. but look. there's nothing illegal about saying what we have been saying for the last week. don't congratulate this dictator. he didn't just rig the election. he murdered and prosecuted the likely opposition. putin is an obvious threat ...

Out where these leaks are coming from, but they continue, by the way, in all manner. not just on national security matters but our reporting and reporting at other outlets has shown time and again details about the president's mood about what the president is is telling his advisers and his friends in private. just lots of information coming out to paint a full picture. >> an important part of that is how he approaches things like this. so is it clear if the president ignored those capital letters that said do not congratulate or he just didn't read it or hear it. >> well, all we know is what ...

They said it's not the role of the united states to dictate how other kocountries operate, but the same time, this administration has called out other kocountries in calling fo free and fair elections. now to be fair president obama back in 2011 also congratulated putin on an election victory back then. but the circumstances the backdrop very different. for his part, president trump indicating that the two two leaders could meet in the near future and so a lot of focus on when that meeting might happen and what the substance of the meeting might be when they sit down. >> we heard that from joh...

Those come back to major party candidates could have made a difference. it's very difficult for trump to continue to say these are regular russians given who's indicted here. one is one of putin's favorite oligarchs. and he was the one funding and directing this information. >> to what effect? what's haze interest? >> he's basically vladimir putin's dirty tricks guy. he's the guy putin goes to when he's looking for difficult things to do. >> okay, the way we're getting here, john, is some in the summer of '16 they went to let's screw this up because we're