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President shows some backbone, like saying he would be putin's worst enemy if things breakdown, he also seems to waiver and extend an olive branch, like inviting putin to washington for a summit. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> joining us to discuss, regional director for the campaign, and former communications chief of staff for georgia's governor. >> good to be here. >> we spent the last few days watching the white house not would but wouldn't, no, but not that no. and hey, let's do this again. we are stretching onto a week. why hasn't the white house taken control of the narrative while put...

>> reporter: they pounced on that with a cruel insult of trump. >> translator: when he says that because of foolishness and stupidity of the united states we have bad russian relations, it smells like he is a kremlin agent. >> reporter: another sign of putin's manipulation, reports of a secret offer. according to bloomberg, he proposed to hold a referendum on russia's operation in the east ukraine. the report says trump asked putin not to discuss it publicly so trump could think it over, supporting what would likely be a sham vote in ukraine would run counter to america's stance against the in...

When he was standing next to the man. >> there's a disconnect to the words and his record. which has been much tougher on russia than we have seen historically. better record than bill clinton, than george w. bush's. >> what president obama did, you've seen the images. last time these two men met, president obama was very clear. he stood up to putin, told him a lot of thing he continues to do to harm our country, so this whole narrative that the republicans want us to believe that trump is going to put america first and he is strong on foreign affairs, he is the weakest leader on foreign affai...

Great power again. >> reporter: there's this high tech taunt from russian state media. putin's team releasing video of russian weapons being developed, nuclear powered cruise missile, underwater drone, two missiles that fly faster than the speed of sound. a u.s. official says some weapons aren't close to being operational. analysts say that's not the point. >> putin is showing videos of current or imagined russian weapon systems is part of the deterrents part from his end, saying we have capable defenses, they're getting more capable, doesn't matter what nato does, you might as well stop tryin...

We have to fact check him constantly. thousands of mistakes he makes on a regular drum beat basis. now we're sitting in the united states in a precarious position. we angered all our european allies. putin is able to take lead on what happened in helsinki, and we have no transparency coming out of this white house of what possibly was said. this can cause big problems on things like the ukraine down the line because putin will say trump told me this would be okay to do, and we have no recourse to it. and finally having putin do a victory lap here in washington, d.c. is just rubbing salt in the...