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>> there's a potential organization here. it's not just a case of mistaken identity. ♪ welcome to the wkd. so glad to have you here. >> and i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. and so admitting that the president handled election interference, quote, poorly. the president tried to walk back a statement earlier this week about what he'd do if given dirt on an opponent. >> here's jim acosta with the president's words and walkback. >> reporter: president trump has caused collusion confusion. now saying he would inform the fbi if a foreign operative tried to offer dirt on an opponent....

>> exactly. >> i might collude. i've got to ask you, though, because, you know, they were supposed to vote today to help secure election integrity, right, and make sure that it is illegal to consort with a foreign power, and mitch mcconnell blocked it. what happened to the walkback? what happened to standing up for the rule of law? >> you know, this is so shameful, don, i cannot believe that republicans can look at themselves in the mirror while they are doing this. they are blocking bills to secure our elections from foreign interference. now, what conceivable rationale could they possibly ha...

Jennifer, i want to bring you in but before i do that i just want to play what the president said a couple of days ago and what he said today, okay, watch this. >> you don't call the fbi. give me a break. life doesn't work that way. >> the fbi director says that's what should happen. >> the fbi director is wrong. >> of course you have to look at it. if you don't look at it, you're not going to know if it's bad. how do you know if it's bad. of course you give it to the fbi or report it to the attorney general or somebody like that. >> jennifer, does that count as a walkback? >> i don't know. it...

Inspecting the goods. some walk-back, maybe though a still listening walk-back, and some cleanup, but let's say for a minute that the president for whatever reasons did, in fact, intend to somehow temper his position. you still have to ask yourself given the latest tweet, given what you just heard, given his original remarks, which rings truer, the so-called cleanup or the so-called gaffe? and we do have some new reporting right now on how all of this is unfolding inside the white house. cnn's jim acosta joins us now with what his sources are telling him. jim, what are you learning about all o...

With the u.s. election. this is not a novel concept. so that's where we left it last night. then this morning the president went on "fox & friends" and this is what became known as the walk-back, the cleanup. listen carefully. >> you have to look at it because if you don't look at it you're not going to know if it is bad. how are you going to know if it is bad? but, of course, you give it to the fbi or report it to the attorney general or somebody like that. but, of course, you do that. >> of course you give it to the fbi, he said, or the attorney general or somebody like that. but you have to...