in finland. the announcement comes amid new signs this president is determined to embrace, that's the right word, the russian autocrat without holding him to account for the cyber war in 2016. 17 months after the intelligence community claimed putin ordered an influence campaign that altered the election trump still appears to whitewash russia's role in attacking our dimcracy. unbelievably he tweeted putin's denial. this is trump. president of the united states. russia continues to say they had nothing to do with med dilling in our election. is he flacking for moscow. putin has had an almost hypnotic hold on this president, an aallure that confounded america's alliance. every time the subject comes up, trump talks about what a good thing it would be to get along with russia. >> if we have a good relationship with russia, believe me, that's a good thing.