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History. >> wasn't just the law enforcement community. the justice department, sam. earlier in his presidency, he went after the u.s. intelligence community and saying some rather ugly things about the cia and others. >> exactly. and this plays again into the broader point that this is what russia wanted to see happen. the director of national intelligence assessed back in january that russia interfered in the election to try to undermine confidence in our democracy as part of their ongoing efforts. again, this is nothing new, to degrade confidence in the u.s.-led liberal democratic order. so ...

>> and the fact that he calls the justice can want deep state justice department. he says deep state justice department must finally act. suggesting there is this deep state conspiracy there out to get him. >> yeah. this you know, this makes like the breitbart website look like the london times. this is such crazy talk that again, you know, maybe we're just ignoring these tweets at this point. maybe we're just dismissing them, but the idea that the president of the united states who is the head of the executive branch is talking about something in his justice department that's deep state, i me...

>> but sam, hold on. one at a time. sam. just elaborate on that point you were making that putin sits back and sort of enjoys what's going on. >> i think that he does. the only consistent policy that president trump has really actively pursued is appeasing russia. we've seen him talk a big game on other countries like china and taking action for bad behavior. when it comes to russia other than the national security strategy where he had tough words for russia, he's smiling next to putin or taking his word of the word of his intelligence community. i think putin knows how to push president trum...

Trump keeps falling for it. so at this point, it looks like the president of the united states is being very easily manipulated by the russians rather than for example david to your point, taking steps to in the first instance, hold russia accountable for their attack on the could be tri and the second to deter them from another attack. 2018 is not far away, nor is 2020. >> jeffrey. >> to respond to david's point about you know, why didn't donald trump talk about how bad russia was, maybe he doesn't believe russia was bad during the 2016 election. maybe he thought it was good that russia helpe...

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