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But if the public comments are any indication about what he said privately, i'm not sure that would give anyone any reassurance he was talking tough to putin and in line with his national security leaders are saying. >> you have clearly the national security guys trying to reassure allies and reassure the country the taking this seriously and interference in the election, immediately undercut not only by the president and his -- i believe you called it a week of walk-backs, but also what the government is actually doing, right? who's handling it? dhs has a piece, doj has a piece. but normally ...

Sanctions or compromising the material that they had on hillary clinton? >> on compromising material, not one thing. i was hearing about things when you were hearing about things in the main stream media. when i was there in july of 2016, a few people brought it up in passing, but, you know, again, it's a major economic issue and so, you know, there may have been a loose conversation -- i'm very careful in terms of making sure that there's a clear record. there is nothing in terms of any nefarious behavior. >> so you did discuss the sanctions with individuals in russia. did you ever hear from ...

The sentence should have been, i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia. >> president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial. >> i accept our intelligence community's conclusion that russia's meddling in the 2016 election took place. >> you say you agree with u.s. intelligence that russia meddled in the election in 2016. >> and i've said that before, jeff. i have said that numerous times before. and i would say that that is true, yeah. >> could be other people also. a lot of people out there. >> coats says the threat is ongoing. do you agree with that. >> well, i would a...

>> apparently it means going the other direction, though. it doesn't mean going towards responsible governing. >> here's what happened this week, and this is why this week is good week. it's a good week in america because at the beginning of the week because of this guy and some other folks over at helsinki everybody got to see the degree of leverage -- we don't know exactly what it is, but the degree of leverage that vladimir putin has over donald trump was laid bare on the international stage with the hot lights of the world watching on monday. and at the end of the week with all the walk ba...

As of this evening, president trump has officially completed 18 months in office. white has a lot of competition, this week has been nominated as the most remarkable. since that meeting with russian president putin on monday, we have seen the president walk back comments he made on russian election interference and then walk back those walk-backs. here a friendly reminder of what has transpire over the course of just three days. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others. they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this....