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That and whether he can help prove it, thats an open question. We also know on the day that donald trump junior formally accepted that meeting, candidate trump touted the big upcoming speech about hillary clinton. I am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week, and were going to be discussing all the things that have taken place with the clintons. I think you will find it very informative and very, very interesting. Candidate trump did not make that monday speech. As trump now repeats his denials about any advance knowledge of the meeting, it is critical to note this is a me...

The intelligence agencies have run amuck. >> reporter: congressional leaders, including top republicans, wanted gordon to stick around. senate chairman richard burr called the departure a significant loss. saying i will miss her candor and deep knowledge. instead of gordon, the president named joseph mcguire the acting dni. he is a former navy s.e.a.l. and current corrector erdirector ol counterterrorism center. being macguire said he is not a yes man. >> i will give the truth as accurately as i can and more than willing to speak truth to power. >> reporter: it was not entirely unexpected that...

Listen, i'm just digesting again -- if i could pipe in here. this, i believe, is the first time the president has stood next to the russian president in a public forum where they're making comments since that helsinki moment which by all accounts republican and democrat was an embarrassing moment for the president to take putin's side against u.s. intelligence agencies, u.s. lawmakers, et cetera, about russian interference in the election. the first opportunity to correct that, to make a tough stand, to choose country over politics, perhaps, and the president makes light of russian interferenc...

Impeachment isn't popular but you have to try to run again? >> well, kevin mccarthy, i don't know where he was, but the house passed 100 bills already. on healthcare, on prescription drugs, on election security. it is the senate who has declined to do anything until about 15 minutes ago when they finally agreed to vote on disaster aid. even disaster aid has become political. the house is doing everything it's supposed to do and holding trump accountable. they're doing their job. >> dana: paul ryan used to blame the senate too. >> that was not a very compelling argument, kind of lost outside of...

You. >> yeah. this is not some great scoop. this is simply talking to folks and listening to cabinet officials talk many public about their efforts to combat foreign election interference. what they say, the department homeland security secretary with our own peter alexander in aspen talked about the things dhs is doing, working with the states on election security. then she said, that's not enough. we really need the whole of government strategy. what she didn't say there isn't one. that's what everybody you talk on has said. i was flabbergasted when they said there has been such a strategy w...