welcome back. today marks the end of a really bad week for president trump. it began with that disastrous press conference with russian president vladimir putin in helsinki on monday and ends with an invitation on the table for putin to come to washington. in between, the white house tried to walk back or clarify the president's position on all things russia, including, of course, whether the president believes russia interfered in the 2016 election. but the people around him were a lot more definitive. >> he's got his view, he's expressed his view. i can tell you what my view is. the intelligence community's assessment has not changed. >> like terrorism and other national security threats, a malign foreign influence threat requires a unified strategic approach across all government agencies. >> it was important to take that stand on behalf of the intelligence community and on behalf of the american people. obviously i wish he would have made a different statement. >> let's bring back today's