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His national security advisers and briefing materials that said do not congratulate, in all capital letters. that's according to the "washington post." back with me now, chris cillizza, laura coates, ana navarro, and scott jenning. so given what i just read, chris, i'm going to come to you first. do you understand now why people are so suspicious about what the deal is between the president and the russians? >> i mean, look. at some point, don, you have to add up his unwillingness to come out and say, without any caveats, yes, russia did this. he's clearly pained when he does do it. his toutin...

President, no one has ever done this before in office, if you do this, it will be a break of protocol, it will be record setting, he's sure to do it. i think you have to understand his psyche. he is someone who is naturally a provocateur, a contrarian, does not want to be told what to do. all of these things are at play here. and that it has to do with russia, that he didn't bring up the poisoning, that he didn't bring up the confirmed russian meddling in the 2016 election. and the intelligence community saying they will do it again, in fact, they're probably already at work to do it again in ...

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Putin, the most surefire way to do so is to tell him not to. the one thing we have learned throughout his political career and really his private life, as well, if you say to him, mr. president, no one has ever done this before in office, if you do this, it will be a break of protocol, it will be record setting, he's sure to do it. i think you have to understand his psyche. he is someone who is naturally a provocateur, a contrarian, does not want to be told what to do. all of these things are at play here. and that it has to do with russia, that he didn't bring up the poisoning, that he didn't...

Cameras caught instances of people literally stuffing ballot boxes. senator john mccain released an angry statement in response to trump's congratulatory call which read an american president does not lead the free world by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections. trump's call came just days after the u.s. placed new sanctions on russia for interfering in our election and he made it despite an apparent russian-orchestrated assassination attempt on a former spy that involved the deployment of a nerve agent on the soil of america's closest ally. "the washington post" reports tonight t...