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Generally in the west, could have gone forward without the approval of president putin. not possible. >> tom donilon, you have the experience. appreciate your perspective. thank you for joining us. we'll see you soon. >> thank you very much. all right. so after days of condemnations from his own party, including some of his staunchest supporters, even members of his own administration contradicting him, president trump's response is to double down and say, round two. me and vlad. what does it mean? facts first, next. quee presents: it's got potential. -i think it'll look really good without ...

President putin off in this way. again, having conversations -- i don't disagree with jason in terms of, yes, should we have a conversation with our adversaries? absolutely. but should we let our adversaries take advantage of us? absolutely not. and that is what the president displayed, and that is what got the 98 senators to vote to say that, mr. president, how dare you agree at the time that he was there that it would be a good idea to allow the russian government to interrogate american citizens? what u.s. president does that? this president does it because he only looks out for himself and...

Helsinki, chris, kind of a bottom line analysis here, is that putin sought and received a concept that you and i would understand -- solution without any penance, without any cost, which is what he sought and it's kind of extraordinary that we would do that. we did that by the way and so many things happened during the course of this week that we missed some things or forget some things. he went to helsinki after going through europe and relentlessly leaning into and attacking our allies and then the contrast of embracing putin is really stunning. for us to succeed with russia and in fact it i...

Former national security adviser to president obama, tom donilon. welcome to "prime time," sir. >> thanks for having me on. nice to see you. >> let's back up a little bit. helsinki. >> yeah. >> trump comes out of a meeting. it was one-on-one. nobody else was in there but the translator. he stands next to vladimir putin and says coats said russia did it. i don't know why they would. putin was really strong in his denial. that's good enough for me, and i think both sides did lots of things wrong. your reaction? >> well, a couple things. first of all, it was the first time that i know of in the h...

The united states, and he needs to deal with this from a position of strength. and what happened, i think, in helsinki, chris, kind of a bottom line analysis here, is that putin sought and received a concept that you and i would understand -- solution without any penance, without any cost, which is what he sought and it's kind of extraordinary that we would do that. we did that by the way and so many things happened during the course of this week that we missed some things or forget some things. he went to helsinki after going through europe and relentlessly leaning into and attacking our alli...