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It's also consistent. we've seen on several occasions whether it's poland, trump's take on why the soviet union went into afghanistan, many other occasions we've seen him essentially take kremlin propaganda lines. if you add this to the list, we saw him in helsinki take putin's word over the intelligence community. we see him here essentially behind closed doors taking putin's word over the intelligence community. this is a consistent pattern. the president does not believe the intelligence community. does not rely on them for his information. and instead goes to our enemies, our opponents ove...

Suspicions. at the very least he would want somebody else there to be able to record for posterity what actually was discussed. that's not been the case. >> that's exactly right. and particularly if he was going to confront putin on their intervention or election. you would want others to be able to say, oh, i watched the president take putin to task but, of course, he didn't want any of that. and begs the imagination why this private, secret conversation with putin. >> do you think the fbi was right to "the new york times" reporting after the firing of comey they opened up -- they started loo...

Intervention in our election. you would want others to be able to say, oh, i watched the president take putin to task but, of course, he didn't want any of that. and it beggars the imagination why this private, secret conversation with putin. >> do you think the fbi was right to, "the new york times" reporting that after the firing of comey they opened up -- they started looking into whether the president could be compromised? >> i can't confirm that report. i can't speak to that. >> if that, in fact, is true, though, is that something you think would have been justified? >> well, i can certai...

Seriously, and we know who our enemies are and by saying that, we know who our friends are. >> he was so exacerbated by helsinki, watching the president take putin's side over dan coats by name. and you know, we saw, juan, he felt he had to fix the record and defend the hard work of the professionals. >> i think you're right. andrea, i watched it live, it was a great interview and he was clearly very comfortable with you. you had a great hour-long session with him on lots of topics. but i think to mike's point, he didn't see it as an act of defiance, but given the context and controversy comin...

It has been a whirlwind for ukraine since its government fell apart on february 22. ukraine has formed a new government, of course. it's planned elections for may and faced incursion by russia. and today the eventu may accept t accepted the country $15 billion. either president obama is a weak leader or it demonstrates hypocrisy? the players are jockeying for control. so what they say publicly is a weak indicator of what they mean. take putin. he's using one of robert green's class ib laws of you power win through your actions, never through argument. putin's objective is to provide jekt power...