every time you talk to putin and give him a pass, that emboldens him. i see a lack of credibility, calling him now i don t know why the president felt like calling vladimir putin on a fake election. poisoning people with nerve gas is a criminal activity, i wouldn t have a conversation with a criminal. mitch mcconnell never criticizes the president. and the way he put it calling him wouldn t have been high on my list but for mitch mcconnell that s the anger equivalent of grassley saying i wouldn t have a conversation with a criminal. or calling the president an idiot. the chorus of republicans here outspokenly saying it was a mistake for the president to call vladimir putin to congratulate him and to not raise any issues of contention, race the 2016 election meddling,
and the way he put it calling him wouldn t have been high on my list but for mitch mcconnell that s the anger equivalent of grassley saying i wouldn t have a conversation with a criminal. or calling the president an idiot. the chorus of republicans here outspokenly saying it was a mistake for the president to call vladimir putin to congratulate him and to not raise any issues of contention, race the 2016 election meddling, the poisoning in the uk, that very chorus points back to the question of the leak. which is that there is such a giant bipartisan establishment consensus on it being a bad idea for trump to have done these thing so you can imagine john kelly or h.r. mcmaster or any other white house official wanting to broadcast to the world we re with you, we know this was a bad idea. don t blame us. there s one culprit here, the
sanctions against several individuals in vladimir putin s country. president trump woke up attacking the russia probe again in a series of what you likely saw were some typo-filled tweets. john mccain blasted the president for the call. the senate s top republican, mitch mcconnell, he did as well. when i look at a russian election, what i see is the lack of credibility in tallying the results. calling him wouldn t have been high on my list. reporter: that was mitch mcconnell yesterday. sarah sanders saying the white house can t dictate how other countries operate. the vice president is supposed to speak today, his remarks peter, what is she talking about? we comment on those things as a world leader all the time. how could she possibly say that? reporter: it was striking to hear her say that. we re spotted to hear from the vice president later today, if it doesn t get canceled, he s supposed to address the organization of american states,
at that point, my job was to be an olympic athlete and represent the united states as well as i could. i ve always said if the opportunity were still available to me to talk with the vice president, if that phone call was still on the table, i would take it because, you know, what i did say was i didn t feel that mike pence was a great choice to lead the delegation at the olympics, because i didn t feel like as an openly gay man that he represented me. i think that he s pushed a lot of anti-lgbtq legislation. but that phone call i would have with him wouldn t be for me. it would be for those people whose lives have been affected because of that legislation that he s pushed. i think the olympics have given me an incredible platform that i ve really tried to utilize every second that i have to give
piercing bombs that killed thousands, injured thousands of american soldiers including sergeant bennett who is going to be on shortly. this is a guy he blue u blew upa jewish cultural center in argentine that. this is the guy going to assassinate the saudi ambassador by blowing him up in washington, d.c. a an attack that could have killed hundreds of americans. this isn t a political leader, is he a terrorist. he has more american blood on his hands than probably any terrorist than zawahiri and al guide. getting rid of him wouldn t have been desphable blizzing as vietor said it would have made the world a better place. martha: when you see the chants of death to america in the streets of tehran and other cities in iran, this is the man who carries that out. absolutely. absolutely. and the quds force that he runs, these people were behind the co-bar towers bombing in 1996 that killed a bunch of americans in saudi arabia. they were the ones who