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President trump seemed distracted as it briefed him ton administration's plan. the u.s. they explained would be ousting roughly the same number of russians. it is part of a move to punish moscow. trump instruktd we'll match their numbers. we are not taking the lead. we are matching. the next day when the expulsions were announced trump erupted to his shock and dismay. france and germany were expelling only four russian officials, far few are than the 60 the administration decided on. he was furious that his administration was being portrayed in the media as taking by far the toughest stance. t...

Himself. u.n. ambassador announced there would be new sanctions just two days ago. we got some remarkable reporting from the washington post there after about the president cursing and screaming and being both confused and enraged by the last set of u.s. actions. his administration took towards russia. we have got to president undoing the new sanctions that haley just anouned and apparently sort of lying about i. she is apparently not going along with that. you would think they haven't been around long enough to make the same mistakes twice. the first time they screwed it up it was worse for s...

Misunderstand. he department know the united states was going to be far out ahead of other countries in terms of number of diplomats were we expelling. we were able to break the story that new stanapg sanctions -- hd to reverse it? how did that go down? >> so i don't think -- to be clear i don't think we have gotten entirely to the bottom of what happened on sunday. we know it was a storm of consternation, concern, reversal and trying to find somebody to blame for nikki haley's comments. in them she revealed what were in the saturday night talking points for the administration. they should n't...

Heart within an administration about a policy isn't the craziest thing in the world. but to have something formally announce and then to have another government secretly back channel assured that a u.s. government official shouldn't be listened to on this matter? that just strikes me as something you wouldn't believe in a movie. >> it's pretty strange when you're dealing with these kinds of stakes, you know. to have one very senior person who is clearly trying to deliver the message of the united states be both undercut and, you know, also on the other shoe, if you will, to be communicating so...