the associated press reports that the double flip-flop you watched play out there was reminiscent of the president s response to the violation in charlottesville back in 2017. quote, he initially blamed violence on both sides of the altercation after a wave of bipartisan condemnation and scathy cable news coverage, he issued a cleanup statement at the white house days later. yet after watching the response to his reversal p. he doubled back to the original position during a wild translatotrump tower news conference. earlier today on cue he doubled back to the so-called squad, tweeting i don t believe the four congresswomen are capable of loving our country. in other words, here we go again. with that i want to welcome in my panel on set, washington chief for vice news, shawna thom i. msnbc political analyst robert costa, former poll cy
especially given what we have learned just in the last few weeks? yes. the intelligence community assessment is the russian meddling that took place did not affect the outcome of the election. that s not true. today the director of the central intelligence agency said something that was untrue. very important. and not true. he said the intelligence community s assessment is that the russian meddling that took place did not affect the outcome of our election. not true. quoting from the intelligence community s january report, quote, we did not make an assessment of the impact that russian activities had on the outcome of the 2016 election. so the cia director made exactly the opposite statement to what the intelligence community put in writing a few months ago. blowback from the comments and then the cray had to put out a cleanup statement. this is it. the intelligence assessment with regard to the russian election meddling has not changed and the director did not intend to suggest