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The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Mark, on top of that, Radio Silence from the president on that statement and on the hack overall. Why . Well, because he doesnt necessarily know what to say. What he has done at this point is that he has put his intelligence chiefs in a very awkward position because they are not go you to have to come out and answer for what President Trump said less than 24 hours ago, where he said that this probe the mueller probe, quote, from the from the reuters article played right into the russians, if it was russia, they play...

Positive. they had a congratulatory phone call and u.s. officials were comfortable with the direction things were going. and then things turned sour. and so one conversation, for instance, he had with vladimir putin, trump actually broached the subject of zelensky and said, what do you think about him? and putin said, according to a western official familiar with the conversation, that this is someone with -- this is a comedian and somebody who is linked to ukrainian corrupt oligarchs. he was speaking of cole moye ski at this point. this is somebody who has a longtime oppositional and sort of ...

With and strengthen with as it was fending off russian-backed separatists in the east. >> according to your reporting, the efforts by putin and orban were actually anticipated by national security officials. i mean how did it go from, you know, folks in the trump white house, the national security team, you know, being concerned that putin and orban were going to be whispering in the president's ear about this to the point where they actually -- that actually happened? >> that's right. there was a very contentious decision over whether or not to invite viktor orban to washington to have a meet...

Kaitlan, reportedly telling the president that all roads lead to putin. here we are with yet another road leading to or from putin. >> and this was a big question inside the white house when the president wanted to make that july call to zelensky because he had already made a congratulatory call earlier in the year. they had already spoken, got that out of the way. people were surprised, we were told when we were reporting this out, by the president wanting to make that phone call because before he had essentially dismissed zelensky, believing he was just like his predecessor. he was going to ...

By leaks of the content of those discussions. >> yeah, john hudson, stick around i want to bring in cnn senior political analyst davidger again and jeffrey toobin. shouldn't putin be the last person on the planet influencing how president trump feels about ukraine given the fact that putin has invaded crimea? >> absolutely, and it's hard to think of a more wholesome trio than giuliani, putin, and orban, you know. it is like what? what are we doing here? listen, a little context. it has been american foreign policy for some time now to support and strengthen ukraine, to come to the aid of those...