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one of those ways that putin pushes -- >> dana: reminds me of when putin told george w. bush that his dog was bigger, faster and stronger than barney, which gave us a collective eye roll. anton, thank you. >> thank you. >> dana: after the indictment of 12 russian intelligence officers, vladimir putin says russia and the u.s. should work together on cyber security. you think that is a good idea? we'll talk to a former cia station chief about that very thing next. since my stroke, he hasn't left my side. with the right steps, 80% of recurrent ischemic strokes could be prevented. a bayer aspirin regimen is one step to help prevent another stroke. so, i'm doing all i can to stay in his life. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. from this day forward, 'til death do us part. selectquote can help you keep your promise. with life insurance starting under $1 a day. but you promised dad. come on. selectquote helped jim, 41, keep his promise by finding him a $500,000 policy for under $26 per month. and found kathy, 37, a $750,000 policy for just $22 p

i know putin, and i'll tell you what, we get along with putin. i believe i would get along very nicely with putin, okay? >> of course technically when he says i know putin that's before he ever met putin, right? except for the green room thing where they were on the same "60 minutes" episode -- >> i think he meant to say, erin -- erin, i think he meant to say, putin knows me. >> that's the question to you, how troubling is this? by the way, she interacted with trump and his family in some way four times. >> yeah, well, you know, i have a feeling, erin, that bob mueller has a giant white board up in his office and it's got all kinds of lines connecting all kinds of people and all kinds of money and all kinds of russian actors. some we've heard about already. many we probably haven't heard of. one day he's going to take that white board down and he's going to show it to the american people. i hope he does it before the midterm because we can survive two years of trump. we may -- our institutions may hold for four. we cannot survive eight years of t

this ought to worrier putin. this is a surreptitious across putin's bow. we know what's going on within the russian intelligence community. this gives credibility to what trump could say but he's not going to say but he could say you know, we know a lot more than we're letting on, including he could threaten to reveal information about vladimir putin's own ill gotten assets quildly believed to be stashed in the west. he could threaten to impose greater financial sanctions especially on putin and the oligarchs who have all this property in places like london and new york and bank accounts in switzerland and malta and elsewhere. these are all ways could you really hurt putin where he lives and make it clear this is what's going to happen if he continues monkeying around in our elections. of course, we all have pretty much zero confidence trump is actually going to do that, right. >> max and steve, thank you so much. syria, ukraine, sanctions all of which could be on the table at the summit. analysis of what have vladimir putin hopes to gain from his one-on-o

putin's primary tools. not only in the ukraine and baltics, but in germany and france as recently as last year, russian actors have attempted to interfere in elections, disrupt parliamentary proceedings, and shut down media operations. this is in addition to trying to put his thumb on the scale in europe, including spreading misinformation to influential russian-backed media accounts. these questions are not gray. it is great-space war, but any or anyof this body member of the house somehow that does not work, and lots of while many people who serve around the present and do their homework know these things to be true. these things are not in dispute. at its most daring performance today was deciding to take on the most powerful country in the world and influence operations states.he united national political committees and 2016 saw their computer networks breached and data stolen. vladimir putin is not obsessed with political ups and downs in the united states. he is not an agent of one candidate or the ot

putin. he has been standed t handed th ammunition. he has it. he has the opportunity to take ownership. >> let's not forget, these are not just any russians. this is gru. these people do not put a step anywhere without the highest authority from the russian leadership as the investigation assumed from the very beginning. we know that president putin is going to win big time from this because he will come out of his isolation. he hosted a fantastic world cup. he wants to be treated like a world leader with this president. what do the white house officials who you talk to say is in it for president trump? >> vladimir putin wins a lot by showing up. he established a lot. like you said, he is coming off the world cup. he has so much. president trump sees this in a way that he cannot win. he made clear on twitter with the sarcastic remark. he said no matter what happens during the summit, it will not be importaportrayed. they are framing this as a get to know you meeting. that is not the meeting

putin's word for it? that's next. >>> the russians who were indicted, would you ask putin to send them here? >> well, i might. i hadn't thought of that. but certainly i'll be asking about it. i've been making blades here at gillette for 20 years. there's a lot of innovation that goes into making america's #1 shave. precision machinery and high-quality materials from around the world. nobody else even comes close. now starting at $7.99. gillette. the best a man can get. okay. your all you can eat ribenjoy. thanks. ♪ ♪ when i touch you like this ♪ and i hold you like that. ♪ it's so hard to believe ♪ but it's all coming back me. ♪ baby, baby, baby. ♪ if you touch me like this ♪ and when you hold me like that. ♪ all you can eat is back, baby. applebee's. eatin' good in the neighborhood. >>> the russians who were indicted, would you ask putin to send them here? >> well, i might. i hadn't thought of that. but certainly i'll be asking about it. but again, this was during the obama administrati

putin say no. he never said no, we do not have any compromising material on president trump or his family. instead, vladimir putin told a lie, that he did not know who donald trump was when donald trump visited moscow with his beauty pageant. and president trump desperately wanted the last word on this. >> well, please, just disregard those issues and don't think about it. >> i have to say, if they had it, it would have been out long ago. >> as you will hear later in this program, intelligence officials disagree with that. if vladimir putin had compromising information on donald trump or his family of course he would keep it as his little secret with donald trump so that he could control donald trump, especially in one-on-one meetings with donald trump. and then president trump threw in a last line today to end the press conference with a trumpian dash of incoherence. >> and if anybody watched peter strzok testify over the last couple of days -- and i was in brussels watching it -- it was a disgrac

, what did putin get? and what more does he want? and is he really the most powerful man in the world? december 5th, 1989. it was a cold night in dresden, east germany. and it would change the course of vladimir putin's life. the berlin wall had just fallen. all over east germany angry crowds roamed the streets, lashing out at symbols of communist rule. that night in dresden they found a target. the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. inside peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. >> he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. >> putin was a junior officer, but the boss was away. he was in charge. >> the berlin wall had come down. police weren't going to help and he called for instructions. >> desperate for help putin dialed kgb headquarters in moscow over and over again. >> finally one official told him simply moscow is silent. >> and i think it felt like a deep betrayal to him.

i have president putin, i had said it's not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. i have great confidence in my intelligence people. but i will tell you that president putin was extremely power nfl his demiddle eastern today. >> reporter: and putin was asked -- >> you did want trump to win the election? >> yeah, i did. yes. i wanted him to win because he was talking about the normalization of rush-american elations. >> does the russian team have compromising material on president trump or his family. >> putin briskly waved off the question saying only that he hasn't personally known trump very long. i have theard we have collected compromising material on trump when he came to moscow. i don't knee trump was there. trump laughed it off, and peter struck defended the collusion before congress last week. >> it was a disgrace to our country, and you would say that is a total witch hunt. thank you very much, thank you. >> terry moran with us tonight in helsinki tonight. and president trump and putin behind closed

putin knows better than mr. trump does. >> the democrats are warning the president via this letter, asking him to reconsider this meeting. it looks like that is not going to happen. mr. putin is a trained kgb agent. it absolutely suits him. there must be other americans in the room. think about what could possibly go wrong in a one-on-one hour there? >> first, i want to underscore how unusual it is. i attended six meetings with putin when i was in the government with president obama and other officials. there was always another official in the room, it was me. you at least want a note taker. if you don't have a record of it, mr. putin might jam president trump on issues he doesn't know well and read it out to the press to say, oh, we agreed, for instance, that america is going to leave syria in return for something. again, i think it's a big mistake and i hope it's shorter than one hour. >> big picture timing, the summit is three days after 12 russian agents were indicted. listen to what the president said after

is a win for putin? >> well, it depends which side you're looking at. for the president of the united states having witnessed these 12 indictments against russian intelligence officers just a few days ago, to sit down with the leader of russia certainly adds an element of not surprise, but certainly intrigue, especially when the two of them take questions. they will be doing a joint news conference here tomorrow. they have never taken questions together. it will be really interesting. for example, we heard him talk about the witch hunt a moment ago. will he use that term around vladimir putin in discussing cyber security and russian hacking of the american election. >> how is the indictments, lester, you think really changed the atmosphere surrounding this meeting. the timing of the release of these indictments being that it was friday. it's very interesting, to say the least. >> well, i mean there was already plenty of evidence. we know that u.s. intelligence agencies all agree that the russians did thi

or not he believes putin. it was interesting what putin said we had common entrance, better to focus on those points of convergence rather than divergence so that they could work together on some of the issues. we did not get very far on crimea and whether or not the president asked vladimir putin or told him to get out of crime crimea, putin seems to believe the invasion was perfectly legal. he said they held a referendum on it. he knows president trump's position on it. nuclear weapons is another big issue. no particular movement on that front other than for further dialogue. critics will look at this and say, nothing came of this except that the president looked like he was cozying up to vladimir putin supporters of the president say it was probably a good thing when you consider how bad an adversarial relationship between the united states and russia could be. you do open lines of communication, you do open lines of dialogue, you do reduce the tension in the relationship. i think we are at the very beginni

actually what putin said about obama. i know obama is very honest actually what putin said about obama. i think obama is that honest man an honest man who really wants to change much for the better that's what putin said about obama. well i mean i think anything's said about obama it's not going to be. you know hot in the media you know trump's way more talk about trump it's way more sexy in you know intriguing to the general public so i think that's probably why you know the media doesn't make it big a deal about that i found the media has gotten much more fractured and much more opinionated over my lifetime it's much more of a of a left and right kind of. mouthpiece that it used to be i think so what you might say back in two thousand and twelve russia wasn't the boogie man there was no alleged to have no reported meddling no conspiracies yeah there were it was just cringe president obama appears determined to ingratiate himself with the kremlin this unfortunately seems to be the real meaning of his reset policy an outs

the headline reads, "trump, 0, putin, 1." back home vladimir putin holds his hand. the headline, "open treason." this comes only hours after today's remarks by president trump and the former head of the cia was unsparing in his opinions about what took place. as we mentioned, john brennan posted this on twitter. donald trump's rises and exceeds the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors. it was nothing short of treasonous. he is wholly in the pocket of putin. republican patriots where are you? joining me by phone, james clapper, the former director of national intelligence and author of the book "facts and fears: hard truths from a life in intelligence." those are strong words from director brennan. i'm wondering how you see it. >> i think, first, anderson, after we spoke earlier today, or yesterday for you, i actually went to the -- to capture what i phraseology described i witnessed today at this unbelievable news conference. and i think the president reflected his incompetence and his naivete and his gullibility with president putin, in the presence of preside

inside president trump's meeting with russian vladimir putin, one aid, marina gross. >> president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denials today. >> reporter: and the calls are growing today to find out what happened behind those closed doors, after motion cscow said military agreements were made, congressional leaders want to know what was discussed. >> iran's nuclear denuclearizat crimea and your favorite pop to russian interneerns in our election. >> all that i'm asking for is that we understand what our president agreed to, and if he won't tell us, then we should find some other way to figure it out. >> i'm not saying it ought to be done in a public hearing, we at least ought to get access to the notes that translators keep. >> in interpretation, discretion is paramount. >> when in doubt, we keep it confidential, unless a judge orders me to talk about it, i probably wouldn't. this is a legal issue more than a interpretation issue. >> former u.s. ambassador to russia john buyerly, told wolf that gross almost certainly took notes and likely briefed other top officials. >

no advisors -- and putin. no advisors or aides expected during that meeting and that it is expected to expand to a working lunch. john bolton expected to be a part of that. i believe sarah huckabee sanders just entering the room. we know secretary of state mike pompeo is on the ground in helsinki this morning. we have seen the russian foreign minister enter the presidential palace when vladimir putin walked in this morning. we will look for other advisors as we hear from joseph in texas on the line for democrats. caller: think c-span. why are they having this meeting in secret with no recordings, no nothing? as i think about it, i have been following this first -- for quite a while. putinyou anything that want to know exactly what our people have on him with this investigation with mueller. ishat you anything trump going to give them as much information as he can -- i bet you anything that trump is going to give him as much information as he can. thank you very much. host: jim in pennsylvania on the line for d

meets with vladimir putin. before telling you what we can expect on the schedule today the president had an opportunity to meet with finland's president and talk about the relationship we have with their country and the last opportunity for the two leaders to meet over the nato summit. listen to what the president said not long ago. >> highly respect your country and our personal relationship is very good and i enjoyed being with you a couple days ago. nato has never been stronger and clearly was a little bit tough in the beginning and turned out to be love. really was great and everybody together and very worthwhile but appreciate your support and help and you treated us beautifully, thank you very much. >> the president pleased with the way he feels this country has been treated and earlier this morning we saw the pres. and first lady meeting their finish counterparts at the residence, a chance to soak it all up, an opportunity not just for the president to meet with b meant to solidify our relationship with

, they invite putin to the white house. joining me now fresh off her interview with dni dan coats is andrea mitchell, nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of "andrea mitchell reports" here on msnbc and tonight's panel, danielle pletka, an nbc news contributor, jonathan lemire, an nbc news contributor and heather mcghee, senior fellow at demos action and also an nbc news contributor. andrea, let's start with you. you were able to break the news to the dni in the moment, vladimir putin is coming to the white house. your reaction to that and the interview as a whole. it was remarkable. >> what was so remarkable was that, first of all, he honestly did not know that putin had been invited. he acknowledged that he would certainly recommend that there not be a one-on-one again without note takers, that he did not think it was a good idea. still does not know what took place in helsinki in that private meeting, has not been fully debriefed. there have been some comments by the president, but they don't fully know a

for something maybe that putin wants. would you advise the president to do that? >> well, first of all, what the indictment doesn't have is any link to the trump campaign. >> but let's put that to the side. i'm talking about russian interference because it matters because the president always says, roger, it didn't happen. >> no. well, let's not put it to the side. let's address it, and then i'll answer your question. there's nothing in this indictment that shows collusion or coordination or conspiracy with donald trump or the trump campaign. >> right, but it's not the point of the indictment. it doesn't say anything about me either. that's equally immaterial. >> the president made it clear earlier in the week that he intended to bring up the question of hacking with putin. i think he intends to do so. he should certainly do so. >> should he ask for the extradition of the 12 people named? >> i would not be opposed to that because i would like these charges to be either proven or disproven. >> do you think he will? >> i'm

kevin: it was classic vladimir putin. during the answer, president trump tried to get the answer of president bruton with the throw away -- the answer of president putin with a throwaway line involving the world cup. president clinton -- president putin offering a delayed response back. the laughter was muffled. it was not a thing that dominated the room. there was a key moment in which the reporter asked president he wanted candidate donald trump to win the election and putin saying directly, yes i did and then changing to another question. vladimirof policy, putin saying president trump reiterated the u.s. position that the u.s. does not recognize the annexation of crimea to russia. beyond that, in terms of cybersecurity, president bruton suggestingt putin they would be open to an international framework between the united states and russia. the fallout here will be dominated by president trump's comments regarding his previous democratic challenger hillary clinton regarding the intelligence community. and donaldutin, t

putin were alone. we need answers. now.ed them third, our republican colleagues need to end once and for all their attacks on the department of justice, the fbi, and special counsel mueller. special counsel needs to finish his work. the president needs to sit for an interview with the special counsel. now more than ever. enough delay. enough interference. it is time to sit down for an interview. four, our republican colleagues must demand loudly and clearly that the president and cyst the 12 russians named in the indictment last night be sent to the united states .mmediately i'm asking leader mcconnell and speaker ryan, both friends, to make sure these four things are done. sake of ourr the country i am pleading with them to join us in making sure these four things are done. senator mccain spoke out strongly. he's always been the conscience of the republican party when it comes to actually taking action on issues like these. a few of our republican colleagues have spoken out and talked the talk. but it is time for the

putin is very relaxed. this is also very good at projecting for putin as an indispensable figure in the world. >> that's puten the public showman. talk about what his approach is likely to be beind the scenes with president trump? he seizes this. he had summit meetings with three other united states presidents. >> it's hard to say what actually goes on behind the scenes, givent it's just them and translators. it's important for putin to instill a sense that he is the more experienced world leader. this has played out before in his relations with former u.s. presidents. this is particularly, um -- evident in this relationship with trump. now, it's -- it's tempting to say we'll see putin managing trump. yes. given this discrepancy. what kind of commitments would have been made at this tete-a-tete meeting is, it's hard to see. whatever agreements come out, they'll be mostly symbolic. it's not something putin will be fully committed to. the main thing that will come out of this is, as i said, down the line. >>t

i also want to congratulate russia and preez putin for having -- and president putin for having done such an excel gent job for hosting the world cup. >> translator: speaking of the football, actually. mr. president, i'll give this ball to you. and now the ball is in your court. >> joining me now is jeff zeleny, cnn senior white house correspondent. he joins me here in helsinki. again, you and i talked about this already. really disgaysful performance by this president on the world stage. given the chance by reporters who were tough in their questioning, two american reporters, tough in their questioning to the president, asking him if there was anything he had to say to putt putin face to face about his meddling in the election. the president blinked and scurried away essentially. talk us through what we just witnessed and what you are hearing about the fallout around the world. >> anderson it was extraordinary. mainly because of the setting in which this meeting happened. we heard president trump repeatedly give denials of russian interference this the election he said it certainly

confront putin. >> i suppose. that's not what the president said. the president thought it was to make a better relationship with him. >> i don't think the policy was to confront him, certainly not in the president's mind. >> evidently not. evidently not. >> i also think the fundamental question that comes out of this where i'm in total agreement, why does the president do this? getting to the bottom of why is what we cannot lose sight of. >> hold all of those thoughts because we also need to talk about what the effect is on the international stage. >> i have a tweet from a leader from a different country who calls this utterly hideous. germany says it now will reorient its policy because it can no longer assume the united states is a friend. we'll talk much more about this going forward. ♪ . ♪ if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer

>> i know putin. and we get along with putin. putin has no respect for president obama. big problem. big problem. i think that we would get along with a lot of countries thoo we don't get along with today and we'll be a lot richer for it. >> so if you needed anymore reason to not believe as people attempt a cleanup, that was the president answering a question from the russian spy indicted today and charged with being a foreign agent, who i don't know if he coincidentally called on her. but the idea that donald trump had anything other than putin's world view or putin's explanation for what happened during the election in mind is ridiculous. >> up until that statement today, he had been ideologically consistent on this issue of how you views putin and russia. and it flies in the face of reality. we have seen it time and time again. and i tried to prompt him to say once and for all. because every time he talks about collusion and election interference, he always hedges his bets. and this is a moment where he could have said he did it. or at least chosen to say don't do it

isolated putin is no longer. he comes in the wake of this huge world cup, you know, step on to the global stage, and now he's being welcomed with open arms in many ways by the president of the united states. it's not only the kind of attention he's craved, but it's the exact opposite message that has been delivered by world leaders. if you miss behave, that airline crash killed over 300 people. russia was blamed for that. you have the russian meddling, military intervention. that was why he was ice lated by obama and world leaders up to this point. so what president trump is saying here which is consistent with his sort of world view, his history starts now. this starts with me. this is the reset and all that doesn't matter. that's what's so troubling to president trump's national security staff. they're saying, no, no, we need this security staff. we need to put pressure on putin to get somewhere. >> president obama called putin a regional power and that seemed to eric him. he wanted to be known as a global lead

and what he's doing through his complicity in putin's behavior, and we know putin is somebody who needs to be met with strength, he's encouraging it to be ongoing. >> let me ask you this. the president's selling point here was that these are two nuclear superpowers that need to be in closer coordination. virtually nobody believed that. but one person in your chamber did. senator rand paul had a remarkable response to a remarkable press conference. listen with me. >> i think they -- the people we have indicted in all likelihood were people that were meddling somehow in the election. but i would also put it in perspective. i think we have gone a little deranged as far as over the top on this thing. so the russian meddling in the election, maybe they thought it might be better to have trump. but guess what? in the end what they've done is made it impossible for any engagement to happen because everybody's crazy now about the meddling in the election. so when i talk to the russians that's what i say to them. i can't prove whether you did or didn't but think twice about it because you've mes

when he refers to vladimir putin as a competitor, how does putin hear that word? >> i can tell you what vladimir putin thinks of us. he considers the united states his main enemy. what scares him the most is democracy. it's what we hold near and dear, freedom of the press and religion. liberty. all of the things that make our country special. the rule of law. that doesn't exist in russia and if it did, vladimir putin would no longer be in power. >> there's a picture of ronald reagan red square. it may or may not have been vladimir putin. he says it's not him. the photographer insists it is vladimir putin. whether it is or not, he was kgb growing up and he was 35 then, he's 65 now. some things don't change. how do you handle that? >> it doesn't only embody the spirit of the kgb, he is the kgb. he thinks of the world the same way. the tactics might have changed, the strategy is basically the same. >> when you were as we look at this picture of red square point when you reflect on your time and moscow and her time in helsinki, what sort of memories you come back to w

putin may not play along. trump apparently was not tough on any of these issues with putin. but we have a low standard. we are afraid trump is going to give away the store on ukraine, crimea, syria, pulling out our troops, abandoning the israelis. i don't think he did that because i saw nothing in putin's statements that showed that. charles: his actions have been tough compared to the prior administration. charles: a top intelligence officer says we are facing a cyber-security equivalent of 9/11. we'll be right back. i'm a four-year-old ring bearer with a bad habit of swallowing stuff. still won't eat my broccoli, though. and if you don't have the right overage, you could be paying for that pricey love band yourself. so get an allstate agent, and be better protected from mayhem. like me. can a ring bearer get a snack around here? just for a shot. with neulasta onpro patients get their dayr back to be with family, or just to sleep in. strong chemo can put you at risk of serious infection. in a key study neulasta reduced the risk of infection from 17% to 1%, a 94% decrease. n

putin and president trump. congress has a responsibility to find out what happened, what the conversations were. we need to know that before you set up a second summit. it's clear that mr. trip was um not prepared for the first. certainly he was not prepared for his news conference. let's make sure we understand what was done in helsinki before we have another meeting. >> do you support efforts by some members of your own party to subpoena the american interpreter from the helsinki summit? >> i believe we need to know what happened in that room. obviously the interpreter has that information. we need to know what happened in that room. congress has that responsibility. >> you don't know now, but how concerning is it that the president's own national security top aides including the director of national intelligence dan coats, they don't know what happened three days ago in helsinki. >> two things about that, mr. coats' acknowledgment he doesn't know what happened. but also he was pretty clear. for the sake of n

so putin said all right i didn't do it. and the president could easily have said look we had a conversation we will have continuing conversation i am going to hold him accountable. we have issues in syria, eastern europe. the president saw a pile of dog crap and stepped into it. it is not putin. it was the president's choice. he chose to do it. >> susan glasser you have been talking on the phone and getting e-mails and texts from u.s. officials, european officials. what are you hearing? >> look, i mean there is no secret of the fact even before this meeting that president trump was in some ways a party of one when it comes to russia, right? that even many republicans of course have been very concerned about russia's essentially revision of the existing world order other the last decade and a half. so president trump has really not had a group of people around him who support what he is doing. but i think we are going to see a lot more people like the person who just e-mailed me, a senior u.s. official in europe. he said thi

president putin would be coming here to see an assemble of u.s. military power and parade and our service members when he is actually actively attacking us as we speak in the run up to the 2018 election. i am here at the security forum, we heard yesterday from a senior executive from microsoft that microsoft has specific data on hacks related to the 2018 election. it wasn't really surprising admission, but it was i think the first specific evidence that we've seen come out publicly. so president putin could be sitting next to president trump watching the military parade while russia is literally attacking us in real time. it is a disconcerting thought. shawn and i worked together at the white house, it is an enormous strain on the intelligence community whenever any foreign leader comes. in this case we would be literally letting the person attacking us come onto the home land, and we have to devote incredible intelligence assets to support that visit and try to mitigate any counter intelligence attack that would happen during that time as well. >

soft and putin and soft on putin. >> i may be the wrong guest to have on tonight. i thought the whole thing is ridiculous. i saw fdr go to salta. and they make monuments to him today. yet they get angry and hysterical because donald trump isn't saying the word they want him to say. obama in 2014 the russians invade crimea. in october he goes to the baltic states to send the message we are tough, the estonians love him because he's the first african-american president. he missions up the capital cities of the baltic states, he calls an organization democratic that worked for the nazis. it broke the heart of the people in the baltic states and scene message to putin, i don't care enough to spend 30 minutes to vet my speeches. you talk about weakness. i find this whole thing hypocritical. >> he didn't do what the experts say and what the swamp says and what the bureaucrats do. the whole point of the summit is to make peace. not more conflict. lou: i questioned the intelligence community in this country. but where were they during all of that? why weren't they better p

against what putin is doing. tois the president's job articulate basic truths. and while we are being clearer about what vladimir putin is hu. we believe that this isn't just true of 320 million americans. it's true of 7.5 billion people across this globe. we believe in free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, the right of protest not because government gifts us those rights but god created us with dignity. governments are just tools to secure the rights that people have by virtue of having been created with dignity. in other words, we believe the very stuff that terrifies vladimir putin. vladimir putin believes only that might makes right. americans don't believe that. we never have and may we never devolve to believing only that. we're dedicated to the thesis that the dignity of every person is worth protecting. it is not the job of the united states government to be the policeman of every nation on earth, but it is most clearly part of the united states' job to articulate on

is no vladimir putin. >> putin is a much more practiced, subtle, cunning player. he is playing in poker terms a couple of deuces at the highest level. he has reasserted russia on the world stage from a position of relatively weakness like nobody i can think of. that is an amazing feat of geopolitics. . id you have in mind? i don't know. $4.95 per trade? uhhh and i was wondering if your brokerage offers some sort of guarantee? guarantee? where we can get our fees and commissions back if we're not happy. so can you offer me what schwab is offering? what's with all the questions? ask your broker if they're offering $4.95 online equity trades and a satisfaction guarantee. if you don't like their answer, ask again at schwab. the smoother the skin, the more comfortable you are in it. and now there's a new way to smooth. introducing new venus platinum. a premium metal handle boosts control... to reveal up to 100% smooth skin. venus ayep, and my teeth are yellow.? time for whitestrips. crest glamorous white whitestrips are the only ada-accepted whitening strips proven to

president donald trump on russian leader vladimir putin have addressed the media in finland putin told trump it sunday probably discussed relations between the two countries that are holding a closed door meeting at the presidential palace in helsinki. russian the president donald trump said that he hopes for a fresh start with russia i think we have great opportunities together as to come to the frankly we have not been getting along very well for the last number of years i've been here not too long but it's getting close to two but i think we have . been saying and i'm sure you've heard over the years and there's a campaign to.

actually, putin wants her. putin today came out and said not true. i wanted -- i wanted donald trump to win. the second thing i heard was n my experience in 35 years of doing this, foreign policy stops at the oceans, the atlantic and the pacific. what the president has said in the last couple of days is it's actual three democrats' fault in a their servers were so vulnerable that they could be exploited and it is the fault of the department of justice, the fbi, the director of national intelligence, the cia, the nsa to be telling me that the russians are interfering. i believe the rm forekgb agent. i don't remember seeing anything like this. >> i haven't seen anything like this either. jim sciutto, what is the reaction from your sources in washington? >> shocked. i have been speaking to those closest to the russia investigation. these are their neighbors. one said like so many people around the world who hold america dear i am exploding now being thrown under the bus as russia perpetrates war in ukraine. i have heard from former ukrainians who descri

i submit that being friends with putin and having a relationship with putin where you can think of the phone and talk is valuable to the united states. i further submit that mueller should take putin up on this deal. he should send his agents to moscow. when they question those dirty dozen, let them -- what are we afraid of? that mueller's guys are going to blurt out some state secret that some spook in the corners going to write down? it's ridiculous. it's a good idea. let them talk to these guys. let our prosecutors watch the russia prosecutors and ask these dudes questions. >> dana: and exchange commode pollutants have in the press conference, is he wanted to be able to question bill browder, an american citizen and lawyer who was defending the magnitsky act. that's one reason i can see why not to do it. >> jesse: here's what i would've said about the presidents. i would've said russia muddled and i trust our agencies assessment of eight. this happened under obama. i confronted vladimir putin about this. he denied it. it is what it is. we are trying to move past it. we have put it b

president side with putin over u.s. intelligence is just unacceptable. >> i think one of the issues here for lawmakers is that they viewed this meeting as already problematic. yesterday trump's performance, of course, seems like a worst-case scenario for many republican lawmakers on capitol hill. >> moments ago the president tweeted. let me read it to you. thank you rand paul, you really get it. then he quotes rand paul saying yesterday on cnn with wolf, the president has gone through a year and a half of totally partisan investigations, what is he supposed to think? lauren, rand paul is pretty much on an island here. remind us what he's been saying. >> well, there were just a few republican lawmakers who came out in support of president donald trump. rand paul was one of them. mark meadows was another. here's what those two lawmakers had to say in support of president trump yesterday. >> to draw far reaching conclusions isn't indicative of where we are as a nation. where this president is and what actions are required

what is and what should be the vladimir putin and game -- putin end game? will he make a concession on ukraine? won think putin has already because we have the meeting. this is something he has really wanted, a face-to-face meeting with trump, and trump gives him now that meeting. before the meeting even begins, i think putin has got one already. on the trump side, what is it he really wants? it is just uncertainty. this may be his foreign policy, uncertainty. francine: has it not been very difficult for a sitting u.s. president to isolate a russian president completely? if you talk but don't come to eight deal, it wouldn't be a win for putin, or would it? >> trump gives a symbolic victory. people in europe really look at these powers and how they behave, how they talk, as real action. so words our deeds, words are action in foreign policy. it is not just any other meeting. tom: this is incredible. clinton-yeltsin, but i want to go to george herbert walker bush. he got up in a car with a loud speaker at the time, and there was the collapse of the soviet uni

what does putin want? putin wants a free hand in syria the agreement the russians say was reached is an agreement that is contrary to the basic pales of most of the occupation government. why would the russians be admitting that now? it's really interesting. i suspect they have figure3d out president trump needs better optics. that's the reason why president trump has invited putin to come here just before the mid-terms. this has nothing to do we are warding the russians for a good agreement. the russians have trump exactly where they'd like to have him, which is that he needs them more than they need him. i think what they've done is they've doubled down to try to set up some kind of averagements, knowing the president needs something positive to come out of it. this has been a terrible week for american foreign policy, but i suspect the russians may have overplayed their hands, they have humiliated trump. he may react badly to that. >> i want you to listen to, sean turner, u.s. national intelligence said

nonsense, says vladimir putin. presputin: can you name a single fact that would prove the collusion? this is utter nonsense. jon: nonsense, said donald trump. pres. trump: i said it one time again and i will say it one more time, there was no collusion. dni't know the president. there was nobody to collude with. jon: also this uncomfortable question. >> does the ssian government have come from rising -- have l compromising mater president trump or his family? [laughter] pres. putin: yes, i did hear these rumors that we collect compromising material on pres pent trump. whsident trump was in moscow back then, i did not know um was in moscow. i treat president with the utmost respect. jon: forget collusion -- what about simple russian interference, something the 12 ekssian intelligence agents were indicted for last >> would you with the whole world watching teln president pu would you denounce what happened in 2016 and warned him never to do it again? pres. trump: all i can dtiis ask the qu. my people came to me, dan

you know the putin administration so well. what do you think president putin is thinking now? we will play a sound bite in a second. but what does he think while he is watching all of this? whose advantage does this play to? >> i think he is enjoying it at this point. i think that it couldn't have gone any better for him. but i just want to point out for a second what a strange exercise we are engaged in right now. we're trying to interpret something that is just on surd absurd on the face of it. we're trying to interpret it as though it were diplomacy. by virtue as somebody as president of the united states it becomes a kind of diplomacy. but we're observing total insanity. putin was for him just having the summit was already a dream. all he needed to demonstrate was that he could get the president of the united states to sit down with him. the fact that he got him to basically become his accomplice in lying to the world public from the world stage was almost a bonus. >> before i play this sound bite play devil's advocate. we have heard from the russians that several issues w

i don't see where putin fits in a movie to make the world more friendly and the friendship of putin and should be talking to putin but as mike says, not giving him the red carpet treatment in the capital of the united states when he's demonstrated enormously bad behavior to us and all of our allies in the last period of years. >> jane harman, mike rogers, thank you both very much for your -- >> what's so interesting is this is bipartisan. mike rogers, jane harman, key in congress on security matters and in lockstep on how they view this past week. >> they lived it. they know from which they speak. we'll get into more of that. >>> 11 people confirmed near branson, missouri. the duck boat, duck boat in this disturbing, upsetting video, it sank in these intense winds and thunderstorms in the area so we have some new footage of this tragedy which is what you're seeing on your screen right now. the duck boat there is about to sink. see it rocking back and forth. we believe that there are still people on board as this is happening. this video taken by a passenger on a nearby show boat docked.

named today was vladimir putin. instead our president decided to advance a fake moral equivalency that plays right into the hands of vladimir putin's bloody hands. everyone in this body should be disgusted by what happened in helsinki today. helsinki today. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the only thing that cuts through his information of value.

what donald trump said at that press conference and what vladimir putin said and the strength that putin projected and then donald trump just looking like a fan boy to an autocrat. i go back to, i don't know if you watched "snl" this election season but he would get so amused with himself that he would start laughing sometimes as he would do the skit. that was literally putin as donald trump was talking about election meddling. he just lost the kgb. if you go back and watch it without sound, his body language. putin can't believe what is happening. >> a lot of smirking from the president of russia. so, yesterday, president trump sat down with a second interview with jeff glor of cbs after all this no, no, what did he say and what did he mean? here is what he told jeff glor yesterday. >> you agree with u.s. intelligence that russia meddled with the election in 2016. >> i said that before, numerous times before and i would say that that is true. yeah. >> but you haven't condemned putin specifically. do you hold him personally responsible? >> well, i would because he's in charge of the coun