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Submissive, and unpatriotic. as the drudge report puts it, putin dominates in helsinki. he made trump wait 30 minutes to start their meeting. and then he spoke first at the press conference. joining me now is democratic senator jeff merkley of oregon, a member of the foreign relations committee. senator, good to see you again. >> good to see you. >> it's a strange night. this is a night -- usually people talking about unpatriotic and treasonous and traitorous. these are things that recall some of our worst moments in american history. but today people on all sides of this political spectrum ha...

Gotten under putin's skin. >> it's kind of a -- the achilles heel of vladimir putin that we found through this magnitsky act, and that's why he's so obsessed by me and by the magnitsky act, and that's why he keeps on bringing it up with trump and people close to him. putin's got a real problem here because i put his money at risk. and that's why he's so angry. >> putin may be angry, but he's also in complete control, which was on full display in the way he owned the room at today's press conference. i'll have more on that next. it was not a very forceful presentation from president

Republicans in congress cannot continue to turn a blind eye toward the very real possibility that vladimir putin has compromised our commander in chief and turned him perhaps without his knowledge into a russian asset. one is left with diminishing possibilities here as to why donald trump won't take one of the easy options and try to confront vladimir putin 1/10 as much as he goes after trudeau and merkel and may and others. >> well, it's hard to know. i would say he's acting like -- of course we don't know the facts yet. we'll find out eventually. but he's acting brilliantly like what we woul...

You think the reason is, it is just unpatriotic. >> it is only a feeding frenzy today because donald trump dumped a dump truck of chum in the water. he brought this on himself. he sided with putin during the course of this press conference and god knows what happened in the meeting. probably a foot massage. and did he something today that brought this feeding frenzy on. and almost every republican in d.c. in elected office has come out and said, please, donald, stop talking. you're hurting the team. >> i'm sorry we didn't get to talk about amazon prime. there's always tomorrow. thank you for j...

And at that point you in the senate and your colleagues on both sides of the aisle have got to think about what the next steps are. >> well, absolutely. we should be in full investigation mode to try to understand exactly what's going on. but our republican colleagues who control the committees aren't going to conduct those investigations. therefore, we are where we are right now in simply kind of speculating from the outside. but what we don't have to speculate about is what happened today in which the president did not represent american interests. he abandoned the arguments and evidence put...