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Perhaps goaded on by the cheering crowd now, where he does go off on a riff whether it be about russia or stormy daniels or the economy or his cabinet. >> jonathan lemire, ken vogel, thank you very much. let's go to delaware senator chris coons. senator, thank you very much for being here. we'll try and get this interview in quickly before the president gets too far into his infrastructure speech. first, your reaction to the retaliation from russia. >> i think it was predictable that russia would retaliate by closing one of our concentrate lats and by expelling a roughly comparable amount of a...

This porter -- rob porter scandal and the fact that it has dragged on for so long that he's involved in it. and that's not a place you want to be as chief of staff. you do not want to be the story. in particular, in this white house, with a president of the united states who does not like other people getting attention in his white house, especially if it is casting a negative light on him. >> phil rucker, in the meantime, the folks who work for the american taxpayers and communicate for this white house and administration have been nowhere to be seen. we've had no briefing in two days, tomorr...

Wondering if he was still hyperfocused on the fact that he's not under investigation. if you look at which didn't have to occur, he takes it as a personal affront, he tends to take things personally, that he would be under investigation for colluding with the russians which would delegitimatize his entire presidency. when i read that tweet, he didn't specifically say that comey lied about all of these things that he said. and i wonder if he just meant for everybody who said i was under investigation and colluded with the russians. those were all lies. >> can we just be real? right. he's going ...

Military. they do not know who launched that surface-to-air missile. i want to go to white house correspondent kristen welker. give me a sense of what is going on at the white house. it's interesting that the president continued on with his infrastructure speech given all of the international news breaking today from the morning onwards. >> reporter: i think that's a fair point. i can tell you that behind the scenes here, alex, they have been in meetings trying to reach out to their counterparts in ukraine as president obama directed. he made that point when he did address this in delaware at ...

Statement. what do you make? >> it is a dangerous part of the world. i stood in the gulan heights. you hear the pounding in syria. we have something like 6 million refugees outside of that country. destabilizing europe and the region. to have the president say we will pull out pretty soon. what does that mean? >> it makes it sound like a decision is coming. >> it sounds like a decision has been made. is that based on what he heard from the national security adviser or the pentagon? it raises so many questions over answers. our allies are critical. what does turkey think? israel? where is it co...