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Been indicted as part of special counsel robert mueller's investigation. william cone is with us, former congress member secretary of defense. let me get your quick reaction to this -- the nature of this indictment. >> number one, i would not have arranged for a summit with president putin given all of his activities which have been undermining the united states for some time, and that of our allies. i wouldn't cancel it either, number two. but i would make sure there was no private meeting without a record of what was said between president trump and president putin. >> the first meeting woul...

Only controversy hanging over this summit. you know, it's been a summit that was proposed and set up with a whole kind of laundry list of terrible controversies hanging over it. the u.s. election meddling is just one of them. the recent poisoning with a russian nerve agent inside the united kingdom, which killed a british citizen. the downing of mh-17 in 2014 over the boarder between ukraine and russia. another controversy. the annexation of crimea. the list just goes on, but despite all of that, the white house, president trump has set up this meeting with his russian counterpart, vladimir pu...

Don't let the president of the united states go in blindly. now, if this indictment had involved u.s. persons affiliated with his campaign, then it's a different story. but i think the justice department made the right decision to give him a heads up so he didn't go into that meeting with putin blind sided. but nonetheless, knowing this, the president knowing that there's unequivocal proof that the russians hacked our institutions, to go into this summit and continue to make these comments so favorable to putin and the russians is utterly inexplicable from the perspective of u.s. national secu...

All right. more on the breaking news. the department of justice here in washington has announced the indictment of 12 senior russian military intelligence officials that are accused of engaging in what was described as a sustained effort to hack democrats' e-mails and computer networks during the presidential election in 2016. it comes just days before president trump is scheduled to meet with the russian president vladimir putin in finland on monday. joining us now, florida republican congressman frances rooney. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. i don't know if you just heard senato...

Didn't happen. it literally makes the facts go away. that's what he's practicing. >> it's really the timing of this, from my perspective. on the eve of this potentially historic summit with putin and the president in helsinki, the deputy attorney general working with robert mueller releases all this damning information about russia's alleged interference in the u.s. presidential election. what do you make of the timing of this? >> the concern i had initially in listening to rod rosenstein talk about how he gave the president a heads up about this indictment, is this is no ordinary criminal cas...