the united states. and when you look at this investigation, one, russia colluded not colluded, russia meddled in the election, and then there were some contacts between either associates or members of the trump campaign with kremlin-backed russians, whether there was excuse me whether there was some sort of nefarious intent, whether there was some sort of obstruction of justice that percolated out of this, that is what mueller is trying to investigate. i guess i don t understand why you re equating birtherism, which, by the way, was really spearheaded by president trump, with this russia investigation that is spearheaded right now by robert mueller. let s talk about the contacts with russians. you don t get to pick the people with whom you re going to interact. you get to decide who comes into trump tower. let me finish.
the 2012 election? pete: they are also the folks that wasn t it barack obama that said to mitt romney the 1980s called they want their foreign policy back? they have a very conflicted view of russia. now that they think russia, they believe they conspire that russia colluded with the president to win the election, now russia is involved with everything. lisa: moving on with hillary clinton. so there is this vanity fair or video that shows staffer staffers. pete: please, will the book tour continue. lisa: sham page smugly suggesting to new year s resolutions she should perhaps invest in. so take a look. time to start working on your sequel to your book what happened. what the hell happened. get someone on your tech staff to disable auto fill on your iphone so typing an f doesn t become form exploratory committee in 2020. take up a new hobby in the new year.
used to scrutinize anything that fits into a preconceived notion that russia colluded with the trump campaign to fix the election. what do you think is mueller s endgame? he will try to complete his investigation. identify if there was collusion. the real challenge is oftentimes the investigations go on and on and on and don t have anything to do with the underlying conduct. there are deep concerns about the behavior some of the people inside the invetion who he did fire. there are deep concerns about the behavior they exhibited in the text messages. julie: thank you much. rick: three cities suing the pentagon. what they say it s failing to do to keep guns out of the wrong hands? julie: what south korea is saying could happen in 2018 to ease the nuclear tension with
billion megamerger. and russian president putin is praising donald trump this morning insisting all claims that russia colluded with the trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election are, quote, invented. nbc s keir simmons is in moscow, where putin wrapped his annual end of year news conference before more than 1,000 journalists. a marathon news conference from president putin answering mountains of questions from journalists. that is what he traditionally does at this annual fuse conference that he holds every year. this one more important because he is aiming for re-election next year. an election he is widely expected to win. he still is widely supported here in russia, even with questions over the legitimacy of that vote. today, president putin asked directly about allegations that russia interfered in the american elections, again, he
intelligence committee were aggressive and rainy different to protect fusion gps. on capitol hill today attorney general jeff sessions will be grilled for the fourth time this year by democrats about their allegations that russia colluded with the trump campaign. the investigation deepening into the isis linked ambush the left four soldiers dead in niger. us officials going back to the village interviewing locals after it was learned that one villager tipped off terrorists. this amid new reports about what may have happened to sergeant adavid johnson who was found after the others, he was out of the head wind and his winds tied suggesting he may have been executed. partial victory for donald trump s third travel ban. a federal judge granting the trumpet ministration s request to overrule a hawaii judge is