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Relationship with vladimir putin can change the course of the united states' relationship with russia. the president has made it clear he thinks maintaining and preserving that relationship is a top priority. as a result he has hardly called out putin for anything. i think we'd have a hard time finding any individual instance where the president has specifically gone after putin. cause that change now that putin's administration expels dozen of americans? we'll have to wait and find out. it's anybody's guess. >> speaking of john bolton, the incoming national security adviser, he went to the pe...

How much harder is that going to be without subpoena power? >> we don't have subpoena power yet. if we can't complete our investigation by november or we don't see a complete investigation from the senate and we win the majority, then we will do what it takes to protect our democracy in the ballot box, even if that means having to do this investigation over. >> reporter: on capitol hill, questions continued over the president's warm words for putin, including his phone call congratulating the russian president for winning re-election in a campaign that was anything but free and fair. speaker p...

Has every intention, we are told, of doing it again? what is he doing about it? >> look, just last week, the department of homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen met with a number of relevant stakeholders. they are discussing this process. everybody wants to blame this on the trump administration. let's not forget that this happened under the obama administration. >> reporter: this happened over a year ago. what's he done about it? >> we've spent a lot of time working on cyber security, focusing on protecting the fairness on our elections. >> reporter: most recently, the president has cr...

Look at the facts. he didn't elaborate, leaving the explanation up to press secretary sarah huckabee sanders at yesterday's briefing. >> the president has been extremely tough on russia. he helped push through $700 billion to rebuild our military. i can assure you russia is not excited about that. he helped export energy to eastern europe. i can assure you russia is not excited about that. he has put and upheld sanctions that the obama administration put in place and upheld those and closed three diplomatic properties that were russia's here in the united states. he has taken number of actions...

But he didn't elaborate leavinging the explanation up to sarah huckabee sanders at yesterday's briefing. watch this. >> he hasn't even called out putin. he criticized obama, the fbi. he didn't even criticize vladimir putin. >> he has been tougher on russia in the first year than obama was in alt years combined. he has imposed sanctions, he's taken away properties, he has rebuilt our military, he's done a number of things to be tough on russia. >> why hasn't the president implemented the sanctions which congress passed last year? >> look, frankly that is not completely accurate. this president ...