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Russian president vladimir putin just spoke about the impeachment of president trump. let's get to fred pleitgen live in moscow. >> reporter: hi, dave. i would call what president putin said is unconditional support for president trump. he said he does not believe that president trump will be removed from office. he said he believes this impeachment is happening for what he call eed made-up reason. he was mirroring talking points from the republicans. he said, for years, they've been looking for reasons to impeach president trump. he called it a continuation of a battle in washington, d.c. say...

What's been interesting and you write in "the washington post," is the republican response, the talk points, are so easy to debunk, in the inspector general of the intelligence community did debunk the talking points. what is the response going to be? is there a push for more coordinated response from republicans? >> there's no war room, that we saw with the clinton impeachment. a number of republicans are not happy they're not getting a centralized message from the white house. a lot of the talking points they're using are being debunked by the president's own appointees. the inspector genera...

>> i do. i also think his game right now is to keep all of his options open. i think he tries to drag out this pretrial phase. i think he keeps giving the trump talk points to keep the pardon open. i think he loves to be in the spotlight and keep that going. i think for the moment he's raising money for his defense fund through tv and that's why he's going to keep it going. >> that's why people are saying if he doesn't go to jail, he would not be happy because he wants to attention, and he can use that possibly in a book or part of his story. do you disagree with that? >> well, i think all of ...

To lead to additional charges for roger stone in the conspiracy realm. but as far as this goes i don't think he will plea because he doesn't seem like that kind of guy, but he really ought to be looking for some sort of resolution. >> meaning stone? >> yes. he won't but he should. >> you said you won't think he will plead. didn't we hear that from michael cohen and other people, i'm not going to do it and all of a sudden oh, wait, what happened? do you think stone is cut from a different cloth? >> i do. i also think his game right now is to keep all of his options open. i think he tries to dra...

To testify to the integrity of robert mueller. an interesting thing, you know, republicans have been a part of this year-long investigation this republican panel has been doing. you remember lisa struck and daniel page, senior officials in charge of the e-mail russia campaign. jim comey told lawmakers if he was aware of the tech messages they were exchanging, which did demonstrate the appearance of bias, he would have removed them from that investigation earlier. these were the initial headlines out of 230 some odd pages we are beginning to look through. >> our speed reader, susan del percio, ...