talking about. ana is wearing very patiently looking lovely and red waiting. you said there s been no evidence. the investigation has not colluded. no report has been put out. who knows? we don t know. we have no idea if there s evidence of collusion or not. anna, to you. that was a press conference cleaning up what he said on air force one and let me read back to you, a reporter said to the president last november, did russia attempt to meddle in the u.s. conversations? the president says, he said he didn t meddle. he said he didn t meddle and the reporter says do you believe him? well, i can t stand there and argue with him. so that s what he initially said. that s a recurring theme with him. where he attacks the u.s. intelligence community and somebody reminds him that he is the president of the united states and what that means for those agencies and then he cleans it up. we see this over and over again. i think it s no coincidence that
interactions with foreign nationals. in a statement of offense, we learned he reached over regarding his connections, that he could arrange a meeting between trump and putin. campaign adviser paul manafort and rick davis were indicted on multiple counts, including conspiracy in the united states. in november the president of the united states met with vladimir putin, and i said, quo, he said he didn t meddle. every time he sees me, he tells me, i didn t do that. i believe that. when he tells me that, he means it. the president went on, give me a break, talking about the national security folks that put together that report i quoted earlier. give me a break, they are political hacks. on december 1st, he pled guilty about making a false statement to the fbi on sanctions. this is a little walk-through what happened over the past year. i would like to ask you, mr.
do th p between in a state of offense, we learned that he reached out regarding his connections that he could help arrange a meeting between trump and putin. on october 27th, former trump campaign chairman paul man a fort and rick gates were indicted on multiple counts including conspiracy against the united states. in november the president of the united states met with vladimir putin said, and i quote, he said he didn t meddle. i asked him again. you can ask only so many times. every 250i78 he sees me he said i didn t do that, when he tells me that, he means it. the president went on to say, give me a break, talking about the national security folks who put together that report that i quoted earlier. give me a break, they are political hacks. on december 1st mike flynn pleaded guilty to one count in making a false statement to the fbi about conversations he with had the russian ambassador. this is a little walk-through of what happened over the past
welcome back to hardball. president trump told reporters this weekend that he believes russian president vladimir putin s claims that russia didn t meddle in the 2016 election. but putin s not the only strong man or dictator to win over the president lately. today trump had this to say about rodrigo duterte, the authoritarian lee eleader of th philippines. we ve had a great relationship. this has been very successful. the asean conference has been handled beautifully by the president in the philippines and your representatives. and i really enjoyed being here. well, the new york times points out that shortly after boasting about that great relationship with duterte, the philippine president shut down reporters from asking further questions. quote, as journalists shouted questions about whether mr. trump would press mr. duterte on human rights, the philippine president quickly silenced them. you are the spies, duterte told
they are confronting the men who assaulted them. and they re being believed for really the first time in history. it s not immediately being thrown back on them and they re being blamed for it. granted, some of that has happened and it s horrible. but overwhelmingly, the women are being believed as they should be. as they are brave enough to go out and to air the very worst time and terror of their lives. and we should believe them. we owe them better. and we should do better. thank you so much, elise jordan. it s great to have you as a colleague. and think kyle whitmore with a tough assessment and ryan williams for national look. coming up, donald trump says he trusts putin and takes him at his word when putin says russia didn t meddle in our election. it s the most blatant example of trump putting his trust in russia first over the analysis of our own intelligence community here at home. and he did on foreign soil. plus, after the democrats