he s the one that brought it up. what s going on here? well, we don t have any journalists who were present, and i m presuming that the secretary of state or the national security adviser both were in that meeting, so maybe they would give us a readout or maybe say we re not going to talk about what was discussed in this in this meeting in the oval office. it seems clear to me that pompeo did raise it. yes and what lavrov is being a little cagey here is that maybe he complained about pompeo to donald trump about raising election meddling and that s how it came up. so i m not sure we re at the bottom of this one. if that s the case that s obviously completely different picture than the one that the president is putting on here. michael, democrats say the president is a clear and present danger to the 2020 election, right? to this election, and yet here he is. the last meeting he had was the day after he fired jim comey when he talked to lavrov about it in the oval office and yet
here he is today. i think all you need to know is just look at that big smile on the president s face with lavrov standing by his side which pretty much tells you that if he did bring up election meddling, you can wonder how stern a warning it was for lavrov. there s the picture and we re showing it now which the president is proud of this picture. not exactly the photograph you want to have out there if you were giving a stern don t you dare do it again warning to lavrov. i mean, ross, here s the thing. the last time trump met with lavrov, the last time was the day after he fired jim comey in the oval office. according to yo the new york times, i just fired the head of the fbi. he was crazy, a real nut job and i faced great pressure because of russia and that s taken off. that s the last one-on-one
imagine, right? the bigger point here is that administration has such a terrible record of transparency and readouts from important phone calls and meetings in the white house and of course, a terrible record of dealing with the truth that when you have a meeting and an incredibly important statement like this that they claim to have made people can t help, but step back and say i m really not sure if i believe it happened the way they say it did. you were there in the beginning of the russian investigation and it was valid and an unbiased launch. the president obviously, we ve had years go by here that he called it a witch hunt and a hoax and he meets with lavrov. the last time he met with lavrov was the day after he fired jim co comey. after everything you know do you believe there is something truly off about trump and russia? there s no question there s something deeply odd about the way this president interacts with russia. we have never seen anything like this before. you g
that s happened including jim co comey and say none of the indictments are accurate. people like rod rosenstein are the deep state, i m going to pardon everybody. to you, walter, finally here, i want you to listen to president trump last night at his rally in missouri and saying who is on the ballot in november for republicans. a poll came out, they said everybody s going out in 2020 because they want to vote for you, they want to vote for the president. they re not maybe coming out in 2018. get out in twa2018 because you voting for me in 2018. you re voting for me. that s not what some vulnerable republicans who are trying to create some distance want to hear. walter, to you, in november, are the persuadable voters, whomever s left, they voting for the president who says that he is against a rigged witch hunt or the deep state as he puts it,