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Sally, first, what stood out to you? sally, can you hear me? >> can you turn up a little bit? >> she can't hear me. tim, i'll ask you, what stood out to you? >> oh, what stood out to me? well, my sense was he was trying to show off. he was in the middle of a restaurant, at a cafe at the club. what stood out to me, first of all is that the basic themes that the president's provided us. he doesn't believe there is a reality behind the hacking issue. for him it's all about collusion which he didn't commit and the whole issue was created as a hoax by the democrats who are sore losers. he is pushin...

>> all politics is local. that's what your friend tip o'neill said. >> all politics is local and if you can point to somebody else and say this terrible person in this other country is causing us all these problems, that's pretty good domestic politics. >> how concerned are you about the hacking issue, not just here or -- >> i think that's something to be very concerned about, absolutely. >> accept that the conclusion of the intelligence community that russia was hacking. >> yes. >> do you think the president should just embrace that and move on? >> i'm not going to -- >> that's not hypothetic...

Rely on bonding over his common enemies. >> putin is not known to be a warm and cuddly guy so i don't think that bonding is necessarily his usual state of play, but he knows that donald trump is somebody who has a big ego, and he wants to have that ego stroked and so i think that's what vladimir putin would be going into this meeting knowing about the person that he's sitting down with is the type of personality and character that he's dealing with. as for donald trump and the election news, you know, i'm honestly surprised that he even brought up the hacking issue at all. because i don't real...

Party does seem to want to run away from as quickly as it can. doesn't matter to you that you know the extent of any contacts between our government and whatever russian activities led to the hacking? >> first of all, on the hacking issue, i'm quite content to have any investigation anybody wants to have. other countries try to impact what happens in the united states. quite frankly, we try to impact what happens in other countries. that's not unusual. the first interference in the american elections was in the 1790s by the french government. that's sort of normal. the real question here, did ...

Republican refusal to investigate. we've written letters to the republican chairman of various committees who have ignored them. the resolution of inquiry is a way of forcing the republicans either to have a public hearing on asking the department of justice to give -- to give to the congress all relevant documents on the business interests of the president, the emoluments clause, his dealings with the russians, or to force a vote on it. that's the only way we can force a vote on the republicans' refusal to have an open inquiry for the american people. >> we should say that devon nunez, as i s...