on a cybersecurity unit is akin to partnering with assad on a chemical weapons unit. republican senator lindsey graham saying, it s not the dumbest idea i ve ever heard, but it s pretty close. this from former defense secretary ash carter the russians pulled out the old playbook. i ve seen all this going back to russia in soviet days. when confronted with something they ve done wrong, ask for u.s. intelligence old trick. propose a working group. in this case on cyber. but this is like the guy who robbed your house proposing a working group on burglary. it s they who did this. helping us break it down, reporter eugene scott, and law enforcement analyst james galliano, retired fbi supervisory special agent. good morning to both of you. marco rubio pretty strong on this as was lindsey graham and
will be guarded a cybersecurity unit accused of meddling in the elections. last night, the fact that putin and i discussed a cybersecurity unit doesn t mean i think it can happen. it can t. but a cease-fire can and did. president trump is referring to a cease-fire in southwest syria he negotiated with putin, a cease-fire that appears to be holding. that news didn t help him escape the criticism for floating the idea of a joint cybersecurity arrangement with the russians. republican senator marco rubio tweeting, partnering with putin on a cybersecurity unit is akin to partnering with assad on a chemical weapons unit. republican senator lindsey graham weighing in saying, it s not the dumbest idea i ve ever heard, but it s pretty close. and this from former defense secretary ash carter the russians pulled out the old playbook, kw i ve seen all s going back to russian and soviet
agencies say he should. the ambassador to the u.n., nikki haley, said we should tell russia this is not allowed. she defended the idea of some sort of a cybersecurity unit just so the u.s. could get its perspective across. sure. to the russians. let s talk about the other story. the story about don jr. and other top members of the trump team meeting with a russian attorney during the election. they have been promised they ve been promised dirt i guess on the clinton campaign. how damaging is this in your view, james galliano, that this was the nominee and people around the nominee meeting with the russian national about either research everyone does the opo research or something more unseemly? a couple of things to unpack here. first of all, you re right. the appearance of impropriety is unseemly. i went back and looked at this from the legal perspective. on the federal side, i could
what the president did is he immediately came into the meeting, talked about russian meddling in the u.s. election, went after the issue at least two times. this was not just a five-minute piece of the conversation. this was an extensive portion of the meeting. reporter: priebus comments came a day after after several administration officials given multiple opportunities to correct the record, refute putin s claim, declined to do so. back to you. okay. president trump appears to be backing away from the idea of forming this cybersecurity unit with the kremlin. sunday morning, he tweeted, putin and i discussed forming an impenetrable cybersecurity unit so that election hacking and many other negative things would be guarded but as of last night is showing an aboutface. the fact that we discussed it doesn t mean i think it can happen. it can t, but a cease-fire can and did. president trump is referring to a cease-fire in southwest syria he negotiated with putin that
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