according to oleg deripaska, millions of dollars. and then the guy shows up running donald trump s presidential campaign. you don t need to be sherlock holmes to look at that set of facts and say huh, this guy putin was pro-trump interfering in the election. i wonder if we should look into this manafort situation. so of course. and then he s back channeling to deripaska during the campaign, offering him inside data. i ve never run a presidential campaign, but i imagine you re pretty busy when you re doing it. and it would be unusual that you have time on your hands to back channel to a russian oligarch. so, yeah, he is absolutely central, and i think considering how much has been redacted from that case, we don t even know the tip of the iceberg about what man excuse me, about what mueller has on that case. boy, oh, boy. what a night, as it always has been for the last two, three
this administration is free floating. president trump is directing each of these activities. i notice you are not responding to what i am saying. i think i responded to everything that you said, senator. no, you didn t. the question is why is the president taking the side of the kgb guy putin against our own intelligence people. the american public appear to have a hard to comprehending the behavior. a new quinnipiac poll. joining me now, heidi
congratulate putin. only a small number of senior aides have access to the note card. note cards that are printed outside the office and then passed to the president. they are probing which person along the chain leaked the material. one white house said this is not only fireable offense but it might be illegal. the president today sharply defended his decision to congratulate putin saying despite the differences he wants a cordial relationship so russia can help with isis, north korea, iran, syria and while former democratic cabinet official leon panetta says he believes the president should have been more aggressive about pressing putin in meddling of the 2016 election and the allegation that russia used nerve gas in the u.k., former clinton and obama administration seems to agree that the president needs to work with the adversaries. presidents talk to kings and emperors and tyrants
president personally, martha, he is very aware that this guy putin has manipulated our three previous presidents quite successfully. i think our president is itching to get in the room with him and deal with him. he trusts his owning instinct and his own skills. i don t think for a minute talking to putin means appeasing the russians. we have had appeasing the russians by the president s preg said somewhere for eight years predecessor for eight years. i don t believe that will be the foundation. by he has confidence in the team to see if he can work something out. it is likely it will not happen in terms of something substantive and tangible where the world is going to change and it will be more stable result. but it is possible. i think we should give him the opportunity to try that. martha: i think every
regardless of whether or not they were elected with any democratic process or not. so i think the president has a right to talk to putin. and to only see if there are areas that they can agree with. in fact, panetta s former boss president obama congratulated putin on his last election victory in 2012. there was no media storm. who can forget mr. obama caught on a hot mic in his own re-election in 2012 saying he would have more flexibility to deal with vat mir after he got slat mir after he got vladimir putin after he got re-elected. martha: thank you. ed henry at the white house. president trump defending himself against the backlash of the congratulations to vladimir putin on his election. here is senator rubio s take on the controversy last night. i would not, me personally would not have congratulated him. i thought it would be a mistake. he didn t win an election. all his opponents were in