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Back and give some perspective of president trump's predecessors and their handling of russia and its leaders and you look back at that moment. president barack obama sitting down with-out going russian president and what he told him he would be able to do post election. here is that moment. bring this into the conversation. >> after my election i have more flexibility. >> sandra: of course, that was the president saying this is my last election. after my election i have more flexibility. >> i remember take that moment well and criticized it. when the president says mistakes have been made wit...

>> we ask that question in the media, and i'm wondering if that is the wrong question because you almost feel like the media predicates the importance it puts on a story on whether that 30% cares about it or want. if trump voters don't care about it, it is not important. some things are objectsively important, right? is the media doing too much excavation of trump voters feelings, and if they don't care, then the media says, well, maybe it's not that important because it won't stop him from being re-elected. >> that was the -- you know, in the post-election, post-2016 there was this endless ru...

Trump was, does anybody know him, does anyone know anyone who knows him and we're really keen to try to figure out who this president was and how you would be able to work with him or figure out what he was going to do or who you needed access to to some sort of sway over him, potentially. this doesn't surprise me this was going on. what is surprising is the amounts people were willing, apparently, to offer to a person who had absolutely no experience and no real claim to be able to say, okay, this is what president trump is going to do and here's when he's going to do it. >> that's the questi...

To this whole thing? >> why are you surprised the russians would continue this? >> we're getting more evidence from it. >> what i'm saying is that nothing has been put in place post-election to try and stop any of this. there's no look at it. there's been no serious oversight from the hill. i guess they would say there has been -- >> today the senate intelligence committee reported out and i read it in your paper inside pages on the a section, but the fact is they talked about 18 to 21 states that were hacked and whatever, they're trying to screw up the registration of our voters. >> the admin...

Further. there's a lot we don't know t. is not clear, you know, we are not clear in terms of the sourcing that we have and exactly when he learned of the payment. we know it was well before the air force incident, you know, but my sense it may have been long before that. i don't want to go beyond what we know. the at time he denied it, he knew before. >> when we say months, he knew a long time before, it could have been before or after the election. you are not trying to weigh in on the about or post-election. just that he knew before he said he didn't. >> right. rudy giuliani addressed some o...