based. we can continue to attack isis from positions in iraq. i will wait to see but i ve seen strong actions by this administration on the part of russia. you also mentioned the u.s. withdrawal from syria which is something that i think russia applauded. they don t want the u.s. in syria. but let s move on to the other big story. you just heard your colleague senator mark warner talking about the fbi counterintelligence investigation into whether president trump worked on behalf of russia against the interests of the united states. warner said the president at one point was almost parroting putin s policies. do you have any concerns president trump may have unwittingly been doing things that would help russia and hurt the united states? yeah, i heard an awful lot of innuendo from senator warn or the intelligence committee and has a lot more knowledge about this than i do. that s part of my frustration. i wish the mueller investigation
providing lethal defensive weaponry to ukrainians to defend their integrity. the jury will be out on other actions this president will or will not take. in the end you just have to basically judge him on his actions. we defeated basically isis and have taken away that caliphate. we were concerned about a precipitous pullout. that s going to be conditions based. we can continue to attack isis from positions in iraq. i will wait to see but i ve seen strong actions by this administration on the part of russia. they realize russia s a threat, and i think by and large we have been responding to that threat. you also mentioned the u.s. withdrawal from syria which is something that i think russia applauded. they don t want the u.s. in syria. but let s move on to the other big story. you just heard your colleague senator mark warner talking about the fbi counterintelligence investigation into whether president trump worked on behalf of russia against the interests of the united states. warne
issue is about right here? well, that s what you keep hearing from his people, that privately you read this, you hear this. he just doesn t want his win den graded or downgraded or called into question. but that doesn t speak to even if that were the case, it doesn t speak to where we are now. i mean there is a threat now. and wouf the reason there s is the confusion that leon speaks about is that the president is parroting putin s line. when the president calls the russian investigation a hoax, that is exactly what moscow said today. this is the kremlin line today. they were bitterly denouncing the investigation and said there was no truth to it. so the president keeps reinforcing the kremlin s line. and that is a source of great concern and confusion for anyone who is trying to read what s actually going on here in our own government. david axelrod, secretary leon
denigrated or downgraded or called into question. but that doesn t speak to even if that were the case, it doesn t speak to where we are now. i mean there is a threat now. and one of the reason there s is a confusion that leon speaks about is that the president is parroting putin s line. when the president calls the russian investigation a hoax, that is exactly what moscow said today. this is the kremlin line today. they were bitterly denouncing the investigation and said there was no truth to it. so the president keeps reinforcing the kremlin s line. and that is a source of great concern and confusion for anyone who is trying to read what s actually going on here in our own government. david axelrod, secretary leon panetta, thank you very much. a lot more straight ahead, including the breaking news of a federal judge s rebuke of trump administration attorneys who wanted a civil liberties group, the aclu, to take charge of finding hundreds of immigrant parents deported without their
likely. they ask your view is that the pee tape is real? if you don t know what i m referring to, google it. merkley responds something close to that. yeah, i think it s important we don t fixate solely on that as the bright, shiny, salacious obvious. we are searching for an explanation for why donald trump is shows unusual reluctance to criticize or confront vladimir putin out of all of the other humans on planet earth. how come he won t only not stand up for american interests, but is parroting putin s party line in public and apparently in private. so something is not right. his own administration tries to contain the president. his own administration tries to be tough. mike the anton won t come on and defend. you can t defend the indefensible. thank you both very much. next, a man who said putin wants him dead. by the way, the russian president chose to call this individual out by name in today s press conference. bill browder, is he the