he threw rex tillerson under the bus as soon as he tweeted out and faced all that backlash. he didn't mind that his secretary of state was out there sort of touting this. >> secretary mnuchin as well. >> you don't have to be a foreign policy expert to see right away this is a bad idea. so you do wonder how it ever got to the point where anyone thought this was a good idea, let alone the president comes out and touts it. so the next question is, okay, so the president raised the issue with putin. he didn't raise it as well as he could have. he could it was americans that were upset about it, not him. and this was the solution to the problem, right? so if this isn't it, then what is he doing? what is he doing to hold them accountable, because this was a bad idea. he recognizes it was a bad idea, but what's he doing instead. when we come back, how and why the president's son met with a russian attorney. tom freedman weighs in and says where he thinks the president is