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Sarah, what's the word you're hearing in terms of the president preparing for not only the overall gathering at the summit, but his specific meeting with vladamir putin? >> reporter: the white house recognizes that they will be under an enormous amount of pressure to confront putin about the election meddling. it's clear that if for no other reason than to avoid the backlash back home that would occur if trump did not bring up election meddling, i think the white house is trying to find a way to inject election meddling without acknowledging the seriousness of the hacks in a way that would sat...

Election, i would have walked away. well, in fact, on october 7th, the department of homeland security and the director of national intelligence put out a public statement saying it was the russian government that was behind the election hacks. so it's not really credible that the attorney general never heard about this. he heard about this well in advance of election day. >> and he said maybe. he said maybe at first. maybe he'd walk away. then when he was pressed by a different senator, he said, yeah, sure, absolutely i'd walk away. but his first response was not sure that i would. >> let's t...

Speak of that committee hearing was just noticed, and i think it's got to be reviewed. >> next wednesday, the day before comey's testimony, a senate panel will heal from officials on surveillance, including the nation's intelligence chief, the nsa director, be acting fbi director, including the deputy attorney general. he thinks the unmasking of americans went beyond members of the trump team. >> i have reason to believe that a conversation i had was picked up by some foreign leader or by some foreign person and somebody requested that my conversation be unmasked. i've been told that by people...

Speak of that committee hearing was just noticed, and i think it's got to be reviewed. >> next wednesday, the day before comey's testimony, a senate panel will heal from officials on surveillance, including the nation's intelligence chief, the nsa director, be acting fbi director, including the deputy attorney general. he thinks the unmasking of americans went beyond members of the trump team. >> i have reason to believe that a conversation i had was picked up by some foreign leader or by some foreign person and somebody requested that my conversation be unmasked. i've been told that by people...

Not, the subject of the sanctions, against, regarding the election hacks, did not come up. and now it emerges that he did discuss the sanctions with the russian ambassador according to intercepts. calls reviewed. the vice president of the united states went on national television and told the public flynn didn't discuss the sanctions. it now emerges they and a bit of a credibility problem, jacob? >> you use the word, "credibility problem." intelligence intercepts you say of the phone calls. what is mike flynn actually saying about what he said? >> he's not been commenting publicly. the "washin...