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Mention during their call the recent nerve agent attack or the meddles in u.s. elections and any sanctions. let's bring back chris cillizza and karoun demirjian. good to have you both. the president doesn't have is to do anything he doesn't want to do. this is all advice. but there is a reason his national security adviser said don't congratulate putin. what is that reason? >> well, first and foremost, because this is not a capital -- lower case d or capital d democratic election in a meaningful way, he got 76% of the vote. he controls not only all levels of government in russia, he also contr...

What is the one big thing for this morning? >> well, president trump and some of his senior aides are stunned and in some cases generally rattled by that washington post story yesterday which was an incredible leak from what is really a small group of officials who see trump's briefing materials. his national security advisors told him not to congratulate vladimir putin on his electoral success. they also advised him to raise the issue of the nerve agent attack and russia's nefarious activity. he did none of that. he congratulated putin. there's a tense atmosphere, hostility among aides and th...

Moment to figure out how to make sense and explain this call between the president and vladimir putin today. we had not known in advance this call would happen. the kremlin was first to announce it and we're told that the president ignored his national security aids' direct advice not to congratulate putin. he went ahead and did it and make sure to condemn the russian nerve attack, nerve agent attack in the u.k. remarkable reporting, remarkable story. coming up next, we'll go live to austin, texas. we're getting some new and important information about the reported explosion that sent one pe...

Reportedly told him in all capital letters do not congratulate vladimir putin. he congratulated vladimir putin on his election this weekend. he also reportedly ignored their direct advice that he should condemn putin for the nerve agent attack in the uk. first of all, i just wanted to ask your reaction to that news, and your reaction to the president's congratulatory call to president putin today. >> well, rachel, i think john mccain put out a statement today, and his words were better than mine. he says the leader of the free world doesn't call up and congratulate a dictator over a sham elect...

Security aids and these were on the putin call in particular that this warning not to congratulate putin and the warning that he should make sure to condemn the nerve agent attack in the u.k. do we know? >> that's all that we know other than the president and sarah sanders and some sources did they were topics that came up in the meeting, for example, syria and north korea. these were the two places where we know things went off of the script. the reason that it is concerning is not because the president has the right to make these decisions on his own but there was a perception that it would ...