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Today, obama's cia director john brennan tweeted in part, "donald trump's press conference performance in helsinki rises and exceeds the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors. it was nothing short of treasonous." [laughs] i just have to laugh about that. and why did no one collect surrender, by the way, when in d the european missile defense shield that was to be built in poland? was that a surrender to putin? or was it a surrender or collusion when obama asked russian prime minister dimitri may get out for a little favor until the 2012 election was over? >> after my election, i have more ...

Gone, it's all big one saturday night late to -- "saturday night live" spoof video. as embarrassing. >> i think people want an escape. they don't want to see this stuff. if you look at the top rated movies of the weekend, it was "hotel transylvania" and "antman." a lot of heroes that are smaller than ever. >> laura: a big-time protest in chicago over a police shooting but you won't believe what the police body cam showed footage actually shows. we'll have the full story next.

Didn't confront vladimir putin on this russian meddling when he could have confronted it as president. listen to what he said. >> it's not like putin is going around the world publicly saying, look what we did. wasn't that clever. he denies it. so the idea that somehow public shaming is going to be effective, i think doesn't read. the thought process in russia very well. >> laura: monica, a few of us on the panel lived in the soviet union for short. max of time, longer. s of time, obama was right there. you don't get any thing from the russians by shaming them. i think that gives boudin a huge...

You look at those texts that you understand the context in which they were made and the things that were going on across america. in terms of the texts that we will stop it, you need to understand that that was written late at night off-the-cuff and it was in response to a series of events that included then candidate trump insulting the immigrant family of a fallen war hero. >> laura: all, god. i can't stand him. there was peter strzok last week telling members of congress as our text messages about donald trump really didn't mean anything. but his former lover, lisa page, after two days of p...

Look, the obama administration was made aware, including all the way up to the president himself, certainly during the spring months and later of 2016, that the russians were engaged in these active measures to disrupt the american electoral process. what we also forget is that the russians targeted the republican national committee's servers, and they are sort of computerized systems. they weren't able to penetrate those but they were able to penetrate the dnc's. the idea that somehow all of this is new, we know that the russians have been actively engaged in trying to disrupt american electi...