we leave to him. i don t think he s under pressure to resign because the intelligence wasn t accepted. i think he is more important than ever to stay, at least through the what could be a crisis period here now and see this through. i want to go back to another point. what we have learned in domestic politics is that resistance to trump has sparked a really strong pushback, especially among women. we see that among women candidates, women voters. and i think we re going to see much the same with the europeans. angela merkel said a few weeks ago we have to learn how to be independent and might be a good thing. yeah. it is there s something healthy about the europeans becoming more self self reliant. one other thing interesting, katd la kaitlan, and president trump i don t know if he believes there s something special about america. he draws lines of moral
scratching their heads as to why the president would do something like this. and then democrats have to spend some time with the allies, traveling, talking to countries in the nato, the european union hoping they hold on to the alliance just so we can get through the next two and a half years to make sure that the trans atlantic alliance is still there when the trump presidency is over. democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut thank you for your time. we appreciate it. thank you, jake. we have heard the mantra of president trump. america first. but when it comes to russia, is it really america second? stay with us. . when i found out i had age-related macular degeneration, amd, i wanted to fight back. my doctor and i came up with a plan. it includes preservision. only preservision areds 2 has the exact nutrient formula recommended by the national eye institute to help reduce the risk of progression of moderate
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reporter: that, of course, is at odds of what president trump is saying for more than two years even back during the presidential campaign. he was always saying that a russia doesn t want him to win the election because he ll be harder on them. today here in helsinki in the presidential palace behind us, that s where that myth was dispelled. president putin saying with his own words, yes, i did, wanting donald trump to be the 45th u.s. president. jake? all right. jeff zeleny, thank you so much. let s talk about this with my panel of experts. david gergen, president trump saying in twitter, doing revisionism, i said i have great faith in my intelligence people. which he did say and the rest of the sentence is, but putin strongly denies this or something along those lines. i m defending it. that was the meat of what he was getting at. have you ever before seen a u.s. president side with a former kgb
gorbachev could not do. they feared something remotely, vaguely approaching this would happen. they re saying things like they re speechless, gutted. they hold the u.s. and have long held the u.s. to be this shining example of democracy and strength. like one country strong enough to stand up to russia. so to see this happen, it is stunning. i mean, i know we re saying this over and over. but there was one time that trump called out vladimir putin by name. and that was for supporting as he put it in a tweet animal assad. this is one time that he s standing next to vladimir putin, one chance he had to at least attempt to put he wants to put it to rest? put it to rest calling him out once. he couldn t do it. he has gone above and beyond the