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Election observers observed instance of intimidation and voter coercion. 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 th...

>> okay. so the first thing that he did was congratulate. they had it in all caps not to do so. talking points by the national security team also instructed the president 0 to condemn president putin for poisoning of the former spy who lived in the u.k. obviously the press secretary at the white house confirmed that didn't happen. that didn't come up. didn't bring it up. outfront now "washington post" who broke this story. josh, i have to say this was pretty incredible. told directly not to do it in all captains before the call, do not congratulate. >> right. the president is given two differe...

They do not think so. but the president as he did with the turkish president, china president, congratulated him on being able to be president for eternity, and even joked maybe we should try that in the united states. he often does want to deliver these congratulations. >> so the other point you report is that the briefing, written briefing, i believe you are going to say, but please clarify, that the president was told to condemn the poisoning of the former russian spy on u.k. soil. obviously the president did no such thing in the call. but tell me more about that and how you learned about t...

Smart people an him will come to a consensus and say this is what we think. >> i'm glad you brought up the detail of how much detail president-elect trump wants and the fact he admitted that to you. anyone who has worked for the government knows that if you have the elected official at the top of a governing pyramid whose motto is give me the fewest details possible, that's the guy you can fool on anything. you can tell him, oh, yeah, we did that but if he doesn't look at the fuller version he will never realize the thing he asked for isn't in the bill or whatever that policy is. >> i think it...

You. anyone who has worked for the government knows that if you have the elected official at the top of a governing pyramid whose motto is give me the fewest details possible, that's the guy you can fool on anything. you can tell him, oh, yeah, we did that but if he doesn't look at the fuller version he will never realize the thing he asked for isn't in the bill or whatever that policy is. >> i think it is better for him to tell his briefer and team, here's how i want information. i want more data but here's how i like to receive it. i want an oral, a written briefing and different presidents ...