what did putin say to him, how did he communicate to him that seemed to win donald trump over so when he came out of that two-hour meeting his initial instinct, gut reaction say, yeah, this is an incredible offer. i think this is a great idea. i think as we head into the prospect, because one was not enough, why not have a second one, of that second putin meeting. you ve got intelligence officials now scrambling to find out what else donald trump may have agreed to. what did he give away? what were the verbal commitments? you have russian officials and president putin saying, hey, it was great. we came out of helsinki, got agreements, looking forward to working on them and the head scratching going on around washington particularly in the defense community saying, we have no idea. we don t know what our president may have just committed this country to, and now we have the prospect of a second meeting as well. it beggars belief. it s extraordinary. jonathan lamere, you were
nothing radical and the president would have no reason to disagree with him or be upset, but every time we hear back that clip of this long pause and then dan coats with a kind of smirk on this face saying, okay. that s going to be special. it s what makes you realize that the tone of this, right, jonathan, is something that the president is going to find very hard to tolerate. we know donald trump. he is thin skinned about criticism. i found it hard i don t know what you thought, jonathan, listening to that tape not to think that dan coats was kind of mocking his boss. it s also the whole setting. i mean, he s at the aspen security forum. there s a very clubby atmosphere, laughing along, and really in some respects it did look like he was ridiculing the president and, i mean, i could just i would love to be in the room to see the president
powerful in his denial today, and did you want president trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that? translator: yes, i did. yes, i did. because he talked about bringing the u.s.-russia relationship back to normal. there are the moments yesterday. joining us, two u.s. reporters who asked president trump and russian president vladimir putin those questions at yesterday s news conference. white house reporter for associated press jonathan lamere and white house correspondent for reuters jeff mason. gentlemen, good morning. great to have you both with us and great job yesterday. let me start with you, jonathan. take us inside the room. we were all watching on television. it struck as as extraordinary and unprecedented. all the things said this morning. what was it like being in the room? a lot of energy in the room, a tense spot. coming after the two leaders had a two-hour meeting that ran longer than expected followed by
saying, yes, of course i wanted donald trump to be elected president of the united states. that s all happened, by the way, in less than a week. it s been quite a week, joe. i mean, the president s trip through europe, i mean, dismantling and disrupting alliances that have been established for 70 to 75 years, helping ensure peace and prosperity in europe and throughout the world, actually, and then topped off by yesterday s performance, standing alongside vladimir putin and the president acting as if he were there for his quarterly review from his boss, mr. putin. but one of the things that occurred yesterday, and we just spoke to it briefly, but you asked another question, jonathan, of vladimir putin having to do with basically, did the russians have anything on donald trump? and as you know from what you do for a living, eye contact is
ouch. captured nearly 59% of the vote to trump s 46%. oh! and reagan won by nearly 17 million in the popular vote. there s a difference right there, susan. and trump lost. reagan got more by nearly 3 million. votes than his democratic opponent by almost 17 million. donald trump got almost 3 million votes. negative. less. yeah. it s he really should do a little more homework and prep, i think, when doing these speeches, because seriously. the fact that he doesn t care is just so insulting. that he doesn t care that he s lying and he knows he s lying, and it doesn t bother him that he is out there speaking to the american public, giving these falsehoods. now, this is a small example but really representative of the president we have in the white house. jonathan lamere, though, people in the audience are cheering for his lies, and so many times know he is lying. like what is this? is it like is it like a rock