For impeachment. And another allegation from a porn star as the 11th hour gets underway tonight. Good evening. Day 425 of the american president , and the breaking news has to do with a telephone conversation earlier today with russian president Vladimir Putin who was just elected to another sixyear term, though no one believes the election was an actual contest. The Washington Post reports tonight president Trumps National security advisers warned him not to congratulate putin but he did so despite the warning. I had a call with president putin and congratulated him on the victory, his electoral victory. I suspect that well probably be meeting in the nottoodistant future to discuss the arms race which is getting out of control, but we will never allow anybody to have anything even close to what we have. The Washington Post says the president s briefing Materials Included a section that had, quote, all capital letters stating do not congratulate, according to officials familiar with th
Conversation earlier today with russian president Vladimir Putin who was just elected to another sixyear term, though no one believes the election was an actual contest. The Washington Post reports tonight president Trumps National security advisers warned him not to congratulate putin but he did so despite the warning. I had a call with president putin and congratulated him on the victory, his electoral victory. I suspect that well probably be meeting in the nottoodistant future to discuss the arms race which is getting out of control, but we will never allow anybody to have anything even close to what we have. The Washington Post says the president s briefing Materials Included a section that had, quote, all capital letters stating do not congratulate, according to officials familiar with the call. The piece goes on to say trump chose not to heed talking points with aides instructing him to condemn putin about the recent poisoning of a former russian spy in the United Kingdom with a
does the president believe the russian election was firm and fair? in terms of the election, they were focused on our elections. we don t get to dictate how other countries operate. what we do know is that putin has been elected in their country, and that s not something that we can dictate to them how they operate. we can only focus on the freeness and the fairness of our election, something we 100% fully support and something we re going to continue doing everything we can to protect to make sure bad actors don t have the opportunity to impact them in any way. so many interesting points just in that last answer alone, which somehow brings us to our lead-off panel tonight. michael mcfall, ambassador to russia during the obama administration, white house reporter to the washington post , cliff engel, and the head of public affairs. ashley, i d like to begin with you, but by doing so, let s listen to something your
lead-off panel tonight. michael mcfall, ambassador to russia during the obama administration, white house reporter to the washington pos post , cliff engel, and the head of public affairs. ashley, i d like to begin with you, but by doing so, let s listen to something your colleague, carol linnig said about what happened at the white house after the phone call. after the president s call with vladimir putin, there was quite a curfuffle in the white house about what just went down, sort of an oh, gee moment of, what are we going to say about this call? are we going to say the president congratulated putin? the russians sort of took that choice out of the white house by announcing that trump had