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To our intelligence committee and say that he doesn't believe he had anything to do with it. and to diminish it and to instead blame our fbi, blame our intelligence services. it raises the question again, probably most loudly today, more loudly than any other day in this administration, or even during the campaign, why is donald trump doing this? is it all about a hurt ego, or was there something else going on? no doubt robert mueller will be getting to the bottom of that. >> katy tur who followed donald trump all the way and we can see that he has not yet given up on his animus and resentment...

Brian? >> kelly o'donnell, thank you. good points, all. i want to go back to veteran ambassador chris hill and talk about one of the points kelly just made. ambassador, it's this, this affords this lifelong spy, who really operates at the highest levels of his trade, vladimir putin, an open net, a free shot, in the most intimate confines. there will be nothing about donald trump, his personality, his method of operating, his health, his well-being, that vladimir putin won't be up on by the end of this meeting. >> i think there's no question putin controls this agenda and controls the meeting. ...

Ambassador of the united states as well as jon huntsman. you can hear the chimes marking the hour. it's a dramatic setting, and it favors putin. putin is unpopular according to all the polling in the united states, but less unpopular here in finland. finland is not a member of nato. they're part of a nato advisory group. the finish president whom our president had breakfast with this morning was, indeed, in brussels. he's not officially a member of nato because finland relishes its noncombatant role, if you will. it's not siding one way or another. they have an 800 plus mile bord border russia...

Them. >> cavalier diplomacy. mike mcfall, thank you very much for the time. up next, why the growing hostilities on capitol hill could threaten our whole democracy. -♪ he's got legs of lumber and arms of steel ♪ ♪ he eats a bowl of hammers at every meal ♪

It was just hey, we're going to stand up for ourselves if we are in a dispute. they weren't that mad. >> it didn't seem like they were blowing up the bilateral relationship. i read that statement. and, again, trade issues are complicated. by the way, there's a lot of hypocri hypocrisy. if we dig into what we do for our farmers, let's be clear. this is a complicated mess. but the way to resolve it is not through this kind of antagonism. ink t way to resolve it, especially with democratic allies, is behind closed doors where we sh unity to countries like russia and china. >> ambassador mike mcfa...