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Over and over, senior officials expressed concern about the state of America's democracy and called for the outcome of the election to be respected.

Outreach to moscow. and you know, you've just got -- it's like a drum beat right now. and it's just hard to believe that the press conference yesterday and those comments in particular are really going to change that dynamic. >> the president was also pressed about his campaign and any possible ties to russia, also how he is planning to handle a resurgent russia. given that there have been several incidents, peter, as of late that have raised concerns among security officials, here's what the president of the united states had to say about one of those during the news conference. let's listen....

The most generous interpretation. >> peter trubowitz, fair to say there are several contradictory messages that we are all sifting through here. the full transcript of the president's news conference is online at cnn.com. i urge viewers, yourself, anyone, to go check that out to try to understand the president's remarks and some couldn't draktry statements that were made. peter, thank you so much. >> delighted to be with you. >> now let's bring in cnn's senior media correspondent brian stelter joining us from new york. brian, where do we start here? first of all, fair to give the president cre...

In this one instance that the president pointed out. but at the sam time president trump saying that he would not tell people what he plans to do, if anything. rather in this news conference reiterating that he is hoping for closer ties with russia, peter. >> yeah. well, i think right now there's two messages that are coming out of the administration. it's -- you know, if you were flying at 30,000 feet, the pattern kind of looks like good cop bad cop. you know, you've got the president on the one hand talking about how he wants to improve relations with moscow and at the same time you have bot...

>> reporter: is now preoccupied with cracking down on them. >> i've actually called the justice department to look into the leaks. those are criminal leaks. >> reporter: trump also spent much of his time criticizing his favorite foil, the press. >> the information coming from those leaks is real. then how can the stories be fake? >> the reporting is fake. >> and if i may ask -- >> jim, you know what it is? here's the thing. the public is -- you know they read newspapers, they see television, they watch. they don't know if it's true or false. because they're not involved. i'm involved. and i'll...