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On because why would you keep something around that's a trap door. this is our president. he has to be the freshest, the fliest, the fliest pains, the best factories and we have to make our core be empowered. trump is on his hero journey right now. and he might not have expected to have a crazy [ bleep ] like kanye west run up and support, but best believe, we are going to make america great. i love this guy right here. let me give this guy -- >> joining us from "the new york times," chief white house correspondent peter baker, kimberly atkins. and with us at the table, my colleague chris matt...

The second example, on july 6th, 2017, the president said, "i think it was russia. the full quote of that statement on that day, here it is. "i think it was russia. i think it could have been other people and other countries. it could have been a lot of people that interfered." the third attempt sadly goes much the same. here it is. november 11, 2017, the president said i'm with our agencies, but the full quote tells a different story. "i believe that putin feels he and russia did not meddle in the election. as to whether i believe it or not, i'm with the agencies. yt and march of 201, the pre...

>> so that's just a bit of their conversation. megyn kelly will have more reporting for russia in the coming days. with us tonight to talk about all of it, the author of the appropriately titled, "nuclear nightmares" rick stangle is also back with us. former under secretary of state for public affairs as well as former managing editor of time magazine who interviewed putin when he was named person of the year in '06. your latest headline were putin just gave trump the arms race he sought. what do you mean by that? >> meet the new nuclear arms race, same as the old.

More than enough to destroy each other, more than enough to destroy human life on this planet, and yet we keep building more. we keep having arguments. each one believes that they're responding to the other. so you heard putin, he's responding to our withdraw from the abm treaty back in 2002. you heard trump, he thinks he's responding to the new introduction of nuclear weapons by putin. in washington, nuclear hawks are already using this speech as a justification for a massive build up of our missile defense system. so yes. you remember, we have enough weapons to just bounce the rubble and we ...

Lebanon's government. >> yes, one of the areas that this administration and israel see eye to eye on is the threat of iran, which they think is the dominant threat in the region. but at the same time, this idea of a syrian civil war is a misnomer. there are many, many wars going on there. it's very complicated, as wendy said. one of the things that israel is doing is now maybe breaking the bonds that it was beginning to have with some of sunni countries where they have some natural alliances. but it's super, super complicated. and by the way, the u.s. is absent from this. there's a russian pea...