their step to combat the threat of russia interference. which ultimately hinders our ability to russia aggression. to deter russian, moscow needs to believe that the united states will impose costs beyond the sanctions and other pich punishments. what we saw yesterday it is the vice president who is still saying this is a threat and we need to do something. he is on a different page from the president. and if anyone else is saying hey, go into the room, we can see that. at the same time we are bleeding expertise in fbi on cybersecurity. they are walking out the door. malcolm, have you seen this? the last person i saw do that
me on it and i admitted it. do you think that president trump should be partnering with vladmir putin on a cybersecurity task force? i believe that on a cybersecurity, that russia is our adversary and we should be preparing our capabilities to do cyberoffensive and defensive russians, north koreans, iranians, chinese, not partnering with them but going after them. what makes you think that president trump agrees with you? i don t think he does. it would be up to him to clarify. you have not heard him say anything that he feels as strongly about russian meddling as you do. i thought you were talking about the cybersecurity piece. did it seem to you that he did think he should partner with russia on cybersecurity? yes. he seemed to indicate clearly that they discussed this partnering on it. i don t know exactly what they discussed inside of that meeting. it seems like it is not as much
can t seem to get on the same page when it comes to reforming health care. listen to senators ted cruz and john mccain on the prospects for getting a deal done. if you shut out the adversary or the opposite party, you ll end up the same way obamacare did when they rammed it through with 60 votes. we don t have 60 votes. to my view, it s going to be dead. if we can t get this done now, i agree with the president. let s honor the promise on repeal and spend more time to get it done. i believe we can get it done. i think there s an agreement. my objective for the last six months helping lead the working group on health care has been to reach consensus to bring together and unify the republican conference, and the wei way we do it is focusing like a laser. president trump sounding like it s now or never on twitter tweeting, for years, even as a civilian, i listened as republicans pushed the repeal and replace of obamacare.
for more on the proposal of a u.s./russia cybersecurity team, matthew chance. what s the view from the russian perspective? reporter: the view from the russian perspective is a positive one. they went into the face-to-face meeting with low expectations. they thought they weren t going to get a second meeting with trump given the poisonous issue of russian politics. they were happy with the fact that the two sat down for over two hours and to hammer out or go over at least some of the most difficult issues in the relationship between the united states and russia. president putin, said his spokesman, is satisfied with the meeting. as well you might imagine he is. in terms of the working group, sergei lavrov, foreign minister, said, look, the issue of cybersecurity hacking in all its forms, organized crime, counterterrorism, these are areas that affect the united states and russia equally, and areas where there should be working groups and cooperation.
days. which confronted with something they ve done wrong, ask for u.s. intelligence old trick. propose a working group in this case on cyber. but this is like the guy who robbed your house proposing a working group on burglary. it s they who did this. all right. for more on the prospect of a u.s./russia cybersecurity team and what president trump did or did not say to vladimir putin, let s go live to moscow and bring in cnn s matthew chance. good morning to you. when you take all of this in context, is it being seen as a big win there in moscow? reporter: the way the kremlin is characterizing it is that it was a win for both sides. the kremlin spokesman last night, dimitri peskov, said take it from me, vladimir putin is satisfied with the meeting. while they should be. they went into the first face-to-face meeting between the