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>> shepard: is so that the president isn't pleased with his national security team, including tillerson, and he hasa strong relationship with the president. tillerson has also denied reports that the white house once i'm gone. stamped department reporter with the associated press. where are we with potential talks with north korea? >> well, the united states continues to say that it is open to those talks, that it wants to resolve this diplomatically, as opposed to through a military solution, but that the climate is not ready. that as long as north korea is launching all of these verbal attac...

Crisis. the vast majority of the communications in the cuban missile crisis were not public. they were strategic military moves that we knew that the soviet union at the time would recognize as serious efforts. so a lot of that has been happening, that's correct. i think the professor talked about a lot of great things happening. that's true. the mattis doctrine of them understanding we had the right not only personnel but capability in the region to do bad things that oh, by the way, kim jong un if you try anything your regime comes to an end. you're gone. that's the right message but that is...

And, you know -- >> no, no, no. no, please -- >> he denied it. we knew he was going to deny it. >> did anyone expect a different answer there? >> no. but putin did say, he did say whether this is going to amount to anything, he did say that they were going to form some sort of a committee to look and investigate into cyber crimes. is that going to amount to anything? no. but the fact of it is that a lot of people didn't think trump was even going to confront putin and he did. >> we don't know that. we don't know any of that. using the word "confront," that neither participant, by the way, the ...

Russians have done a better job spinning their side of it in part because putin has given a press conference and has talked about it so far, as has lavrov, whereas we've only heard tillerson talk about it. i think in general this meeting was probably a win for putin in part because it lasted so long. you know melania trump tried to get president trump out of the meeting at some point so he could keep his other engagements and instead it went on for more than two hours. so i think in the end it's a bit of a bigger win for the russians. >> okay. let's all take a listen to democratic congresswoma...

No mention of the united states. then there's a meeting between trump and putin. tillerson comes out and says that the president raised the issue. the word "confront" has a very different definition than the president asked putin about intervention. it's then reported that putin said what's the evidence. at the end of the day, we need to see whether the president does anything. right at the moment the president has pretty much caved in and decided in statements by official spokes people, including tillerson, that the president has decided, our president has decided to put the intervention into...