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[ applause ] welcome back to "morning joe." with us now -- >> by the way, so there's -- >> yeah. >> is he in that picture. >> talking with everybody. what a line outside. >> look at the long line. couple nights ago having dinner and john heilemann warns me, phil ismsnbc, i walked across from the convention center bill griffin turning cartwheels, happy man, phil was elated because a couple nights ago, i guess, msnbc came in first place. >> he should be. >> over cnn -- >> joyful. >> fox, i think abc. >> wow. >> two nights in a row. >> phil. >> two nights in a row. i tell you, they were -- >> y...

President very well does end up pursuing. the question is how does he pursue that with the many issues of disagreement between the two countries right now. >> i'm going to go to jim acosta because he was at the press conference. i want to talk about an extremely contentious back and forth you had with the president-elect over cnn's reporting. today the bottom line of what he seemed to be trying to say in light of all the allegations improper things that the russians may know about him, he's trying to say now he may not get along with vladimir putin. >> reporter: that's right, erin. you heard h...

Campaign. and so i do think that is a measurable difference but perhaps the weight of the presidency is starting to bring him to the reality that vladimir putin may not actually be on his side. >> now that brings me to your heated exchange. you went to ask him a question after he had attacked cnn, because cnn, jim sciutto, that team reported trump was presented with documents that had allegations that russians, operatives had information, compromising information about donald trump. we reported that he was briefed on that. as we all know, others have reported what those allegations are. we hav...

>> i am extremely careful. i'm surrounded by bodyguards. i'm surrounded by people. and i always tell them anywhere, but i always tell them if i'm leaving this country, be very careful because in your hotel rooms and no matter where you go you're probably going to have cameras. i'm not referring just to russia, but i would certainly put them in that category. >> reporter: the allegations reigniting questions about donald trump's ties to russia, which he has often touted in the past. >> i was in moscow a couple of months ago. i own the miss universe pageant. and they treated me so great. putin e...

Elections in which they failed so disastrously. so part of the excuse for the republican party picking the nominees may have been there was really no broad understanding of how awful and radical these guys would be as candidates. if that republican dynamic from last year is still in effect, and is affecting republican presidential politics this year, that would explain things if the party were on course to nominate somebody who is a real unknown, somebody like a herman cain or somebody like my personal republican muse this year, thaddeus mccotter. but that could not explain or predict a michel...