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Brian: all right delaware democratic senator chris coons walking back comments he made last week suggesting the government has ties to russia. >> there are transcripts that provide very helpful critical insights into whether or not russian intelligence and senior russian political leaders, including vladimir putin were cooperating were colluding with the trump campaign at the highest levels to influence the outcome of our election. >> to the extent those comments that you just replayed might in some way be misinterpreted as leading to a sort of hyperventilating attitude here in the senate abou...

373 per 100,000 people, and that stat taken at the end of last year. so you can see there has been a dip in both statistics. his top adviser, kellyanne conway, pressed on this in an interview last night and she said realistically she was not sure where he got the stats from, but clearly the administration trying to do a little bit of walking back, and it's something that press secretary, sean spicer, will be pressed on today when he holds his daily briefing. >> he is going to become a champion backwards walker. we have to take a break. when we come back, president trump is expected to speak ...

Good start. >> martha: juan, does any of this disturb you today? >> what we have just seen in terms of the statement on president netanyahu and israel, trump walking back, i think of the campaign mode is able to say, we are israel's ally. i don't know that we weren't ever israel's ally, martha. >> martha: many people felt that under president obama it wasn't always that open and warm, big, warm embrace. >> no -- i think they didn't get along personally because i think president obama represented the united states of america is interested in making sure that there are some kind of lasting peace...

With the united states and i've been talking to senior administration officials here at the white house who say they have been working with her on that. the other topics, national security and potentially torture. remember, president trump earlier this week, tamron, reopening the door indicating he's considering possibly changing some of the tactics for the way united states treats detainees. the prime minister very insistent she is not going to consider tactics like waterboarding, which president trump said he would csider reinstating. >> going back to the mixed message coming from white hous...

States. but that was moderated later to extreme vetting, not necessarily of all muslims. where do you expect, based on all the conversations, the reporting you have done, as president of the united states, where do you expect donald trump to move this policy? >> well, i think that's still an open question in part because that's not what donald trump is spending his days holed up in trump tower working on. he is still building out his cabinet. he did moderate his tone. he talked about extreme vetting and also talked about how that was an expansion of the muslim ban. he said he wasn't rolling it...