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Are we going to say that the president congratulated putin in well, the russians took that choice out of the hands of the white house by announcing that trump congratulated their leader. there was quite a burst of activity trying to figure out what to do. this became widely known quickly. >> that's remarkable. >> caroline, national reporter for the washington post. congratulations on this scoop, this is obviously fascinating. >> thank you, rachel. >> just to underscore what carol just said. omg moment and a burst of activity in the white house to figure out how to make sense and explain this c...

Of advice. >> there is a lot of effects putting into brief him and what he's asked by the foreign leaders and what issues are like tg hot list that he should address with that person. there is a panel of people that's involved to prepare the president for an important call. each one of these calls are apart of our foreign diplomacy. and q-cards, index cards are provided to guide this president and others in the past through the call and apparently these staffers felt that it was important to make clear that there are key topics that should come up and some things should not be said. the presid...

We have not learned this because somebody in the case of that shooting took a snapshot of the picture. we managed to get a glimpse of it. clearly people who were familiar with the warnings from the president's national security aids wanted to make it known to national security reporters and your colleagues at the post that the president ignored this advice. i don't want you -- i am not trying to get you to talk to your sources but is it your sense of your reporting this was an effort by the president's own staffers to signal to him that what he did was wrong or dangerous or try to raise the al...

>> putin. >> on the putin call, where trump said -- and, by the way, this is something for us to all kind of think about. donald trump crazy. but in some cases, crazy like a fox. he's on the phone with putin and putin is talking about an arms treaty. he goes, wait, what is that? i don't know what that is. what is, that guys? his staff tells him. he goes, i don't like that. no, no. another thing i don't like. he pushed back on the arms treaty and so people go he is so dumb, he didn't know there was an arms -- maggie said he was talking about it in detail four weeks earlier and talking about the...

Skin and trump proceeded to call the presidents france, and the uk. in addition, according to officials, during trump's congratulatory call to putin last week, trump added, quote, if you want to have an arms race, we can do that, but i'll win and bragged about america's new defense budget. this may have played a in america's recent rollout of sanctions against russia. one official says trump pushed back on the sanctions by repeating his claim that russia did not affect the outcome of the election but relented after putin's speech and officials say trump's top advisers did not orally brief him ...