substance problem, and that is that the president did not handle the news conference right from a substantive attempt point of view. now he has a communications problem that has lingered. i do not know why it has to be so hard. i do not know why president trump will have a news conference with president putin and not simply say to president putin on camera, do not mess with america s elections, he should have done that. he has done it with angela merkel and theresa may, he could have and should have done it to president putin was saying that there are things that we could work on. if he did that, everything would be so different. harris: trish. trish: it was a layup, it was easy. all he had to say was, yes, i m not going allow it to happen. anybody that wants to mess, we will come after you. that was an easy question to answer. he missed that opportunity, and now we are looking at the fallout. and it just gives the left ammunition. they are running as hard as they can with it. you
will not say yes or no he will talk and the more that you talk, the more there are problems. trish: he apparently missed speaks. not so clear often with the words. as we learned in helsinki. that could be a problem. melissa: my question for ari, the conflict thing, the witch hunt, is that questioning, doesn t make him look guilty? is it childish? strictly from a messaging point of view? ari: contradictory things can be true at this time, in this instance, one, it is not a witch hunt, accept the fact that mueller should look into this and report what he finds. or if there is nothing, we deserve to know that too. if you are on the receiving end of an investigation and you know that you did nothing wrong, of course it is a witch hunt to you. if you know it s, that is how it feels. so he is saying it. if the public, i think that you have to wait for mueller to
melissa: more outnumbered in just a moment, but we touch base on harris and what is coming up on outnumbered overtime. harris: tim scott, democrat senator ben carton joining me on the president s latest comments holding vladimir putin responsible for russian meddling. which comes as a new poll shows two-thirds of republicans approve of the president s handling of the summit. has the president cleared things up? and what does senator cardin plan to ask pompeo about the summit at next wednesday s hearing? i will get to the bottom of it. and president trump reveals his dream opponent for 2020. wait until you hear who it is. and why. outnumbered overtime at the top of the hour. melissa: former president barack obama blasting an entire gender yesterday. speaking to a crowd of some 200 students in south africa. here is how the former president responded to a question about curbing correction corruption .
recollection that the catch and release issue was from a supreme court case in 2001 that said that you cannot do do to attain people that have crossed across the border. in 2014, that s when obama tried to provide some guidance, there is no question that we need comprehensive immigration reform, abolishing i.c.e. will not remove policy, that is ludicrous. i think that if you rewind back to when i think it was marco rubio and john mccain were talking a little bit about going to the back of the line, pay a fine, earn your citizenship, pay your taxes, et cetera, and i always suggest, you have to stop the demand, which no one is talking about. if employers were actually fine, because what is happening is that they are employing individuals because they do not want to withhold or pay security, if you want to help, make the security and medicare more solvent, you find those people tend time or, the medicare and social security holding and watch the demand go
that today are blocking the resolution on russia, this have a moment to go. trish, i will go to you on that one. the fight continues, seemingly over the non-core issue. how do we battle back over resolution and what we are going to see you stand up? trish: lindsey graham set a very well, they should be consulting professionals that can give them the right information and come up with a plan that could get the right amount of funding. we do not know what it is, we do not like money just being sent and nothing being shown for it, but get the right amount of money and right people in place to make sure that we secure ourselves. i do not think that anybody would say that we should not. it is just a question of how do you do it, and i hated that they are getting bogged down on all of the political you know what, because ari: we know what it is.