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The Trump-Putin relationship is examined. russia. putin has an untrammeled authority. i don t see any checks on his power. he is able to make singular, rapid decisions. the absolutism there is unlike anything i ve ever seen in russia. all that power is propped up by an astonishing approval rating, over 80%. and that s according to american pollsters. donald trump wins the presidency. but when the united states elected a new president, it looked like russia had fallen for a new leader. there were toasts all over moscow. at the parliament, known as the duma. on talk shows. and at bars. [ laughter ] we are the champions of the world but one man seemed utterly unsurprised by trump s victory. he s happy to take credit. and that means that he won the u.s. election. the man who is simultaneously president of russia and in charge of the united states. at the heart of all this are some deadly serious questions. does vladimir putin have some kind of hold over d ....
would the media like to hear mick mulvaney s report or would you find it extraordinarily boring and therefore not fit for camera? yes, please. would you like to hear it? yes, please. why don t we do this. we ll say grace afterwards. we are actually going t use that as an opportunity to take a bit of a break here. president trump there, weekly cabinet meeting, calling on his budget director mick mulvaney for a presentation. we will go back when the president starts to take some questions there from reporters who have assembled in the room. craig melvin here once again from mcallen, texas. you heard president trump there going on a bit about the economy, going on a bit about the bad hand he has been dealt with regards to iran, with regards to north korea as well, and, of course, with regards to mexico. all of this coming just less than a day really after president trump did an about-face on his policy of separating children from their parents as they illegally try to c ....
he then added this. based on the fact that no president has been tougher on russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the democrats. they definitely don t want trump. they didn t don t want trump, he said. even though last week russia s president admitted he did favor mr. trump, at least in the last election, which is what intelligence agencies had been saying for a long time, but putin finallied a mid it. president putin, did you want president trump to win the election? and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that? translator: yes, i did, because he talked about bringing the u.s./russia relationship back to normal. now president trump says the russians actually don t like him, despite what president putin just said. which is weird because not only did truputin say he liked trump the last election, but because of that helsinki summit, relation ares with russia had suddenly changed in matter of hours. he said that. it was recorded. everyone heard tha ....
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Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. his son to cancel the meeting. he did not tell the fbi about the meeting. and if anything, he further encouraged and emboldened the russians to hack. because he went out just about a month and a half after the meeting and said, russia if you re listening which is two years ago from today as you pointed out you would be rewarded for hacking hillary clinton s e-mails. let s go to kelly o connell in new jersey also joining us u.s. congressman danny heck of washington and glenn kushner. first to you, kelly in berkeley heights, new jersey not too far where the president is spending the weekend at the bedminster resort. i want to talk about the ten different ways we ve counted that the president has refused to answer questions on camera regarding cohen in that 2016 trump tower meeting in the month of june. are we hearing any feedback from the white house on this? and all of this radio silenc ....