republican senator lindsey graham and his reaction. it s not the dumbest idea i ve ever heard, but it s pretty close. he gave a really good speech in poland, president trump did, and he had what i think is a disastrous meeting with president putin. nobody s saying, mr. president, the russians changed the outcome, you won fair and square, but they did try to attack our election system. they were successful in many ways, and the more you do this, the more people are suspicious about you and russia. senator marco rubio was more harsh, saying, partnering with putin on a cybersecurity unit is akin to partnering with assad on a chemical weapons unit. kelly o donnell at the white house, good afternoon to you, kelly. the president seems to be reaffirming what the secretary of state, rex tillerson and others have been saying in the readout from that meeting. reporter: well, this was the president s first look person account of what happened with that meeting of president putin.
as far as a specific penalty for what they did, there has been no penalties. yes, it s time to move forward, but there has to be a price to pay. and senator marco rubio tweeting partners with putin on a cybersecurity unit is akin to partners with assad on a chemical weapons unit. adam schiff. i don t think we can expect the russians to be any kind of a credible partner in any cybersecurity unit. i think that would be dangerously naive for this country. if that is our best election defense, we might as well mail our ballot boxes to moscow. these comments coming shortly after president trump fired off a tweet storm saying putin vehemently denied election hacking. the president said satisfactions were not discussed and nothing will be done until the ukranian and syrian problems with solved. but nikki haley says oopgptionsr
terms are odd couple, odd man out in terms of this relationship. amy, we ve heard the commentary today about this cybersecurity unit, you ve heard the white house saying this works out well, if you remember the nuclear war, they had the hotline, they had this tight knit group in case of such situations. is that either of these parallels understandable or workable? i don t know. both people i ve spoken to over the weekend and today specifically are saying they are scratching their heads and going why on earth would they do this, this makes no sense, this keeps the conversation going, this is what we re talking about today. we re not talking about any successes that president trump had at the g20 summit, so i think what it does is it continues to escalate. the narrative keeps building, and you hear people like john mccain and lindsey graham, republicans, saying that this is probably the worst idea that the white house has come up with, and i think that s problematic
the checks and balances and minding, if you will, that fork, or watching what is happening as a result of this meeting with putin and trump. so, on that then, what chris is saying here, amy, there s a new report from the new york times on a russian lawyer linked to the kremlin meeting in june 2016 with the trump campaign, if you will, inner circle, allegedly. this has got to be part of what s going to happen on monday when senators return from all the various committees, four of them, that are looking into potential collusion with russians. right. and once again, this is going to continue forward, the weekend, the narrative of this cybersecurity unit and then this meeting that has been unearthed and people are going to say, you know, paul manafort, the campaign chairman was in on this meeting, so was one of donald trump s sons. this is part of the old drip, drip, drip, and it continues to get worse for the white house.
to cite this one earlier as i did earlier in the broadcast. partnering with putin on a cybersecurity unit is akin to partnering with assad on a chemical weapons unit. that is the take there from that gop senator. robert, real quick, your latest take on the wrinkle in this russia story that jared kushner and donald trump jr. all met with the russian lawyer linked to the kremlin. trump jr. said the meeting was about a russian adoption program. do you buy that? no. it s drip, drip, drip. here s why i don t buy it. there s no credibility with this white house. the reason why i don t buy it is because every time they say one thing, something completely opposite is reality. i don t buy it. more slope an more smoke and when we know there is smoke, there is fire. i agree with what robert said. every time we learn of a new meeting, these are meetings that we ve never heard of before. so, why didn t jared kushner disclose this on his forms when he applied for security