communities, intelligence chief have been saying and showing proof of since day one. the problem was the president has never come forward acknowledging it. it s something that bob mueller began his statement yesterday addressing and he closed his statement addressing, and it s something that we don t hear from the president on a daily basis, which is what we should be doing. we should be hearing this president say russia interfered in the u.s. elections. that it is not something that we can allow and here s what we re doing to prevent it from going forward. i want to bring in senator mazey hirono to discuss what s going on. she s joining our conversation. senator hirono is a democrat. she serves on both the judiciary and armed services committee. senator, thank you so much for joining us. thank you. you now say it s time to open an impeachment inquiry. yes. so what s your reaction to the president saying today that he can t imagine, in his words, the courts allowing for him t
russia sanctions and twice in the last week to reendorse n.a.t.o. and today to say there is no way we are turning over a former u.s. ambassador to russia over to the russians. people that are keeping score at home and worried about our institutions i think when it comes down to it especially on russia and other matters of national security here is some evidence that people are standing up. susan rice weighed in on this. barack obama weighed in on this and michael mcfall has said this is someone who has harassed me over and over again. i expect my country to stand up for me. and i think that is another important flag. one of the things you do see is republicans essentially at least the voters falling in line with this president. the recent poll shows almost 70% of republicans approve of donald trump s handling of russia and of putin during this past week.
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equivocating, as well, in terms of what was russia trying to do. do they have a particular candidate. the intelligence is clear on this. this whole idea of just being wishy-washy and not being firm is because it comes from the top. this is what trump does. she is not a russian denier. i think she was trying to make a distinction between influence and infrastructure and she came back and cleaned up and said she believes in the assessment full stop. she doesn t deny that the russians interfered but has denied whether they were trying to help trump sflmpt . i think she was trying to say in the influence they were perhaps doing that but as far as her mandate was concerned election machines, i wouldn t have tried to make that distinction. it is confusing. i think that is why she cleaned it up later. i don t think she is in the camp of people that believes russia wasn t involved.
former u.s. ambassador to russia michael mcfall. sarah huckabee sanders says it was a proposal made in sincerity by president putin but president trump disagrees with it. that was after leaving the offer as optional, something being considered just yesterday. take a listen. the president is going to meet with his team and we will let you know when we have an announcement on that. the reversal came only after strong outrage including from the president s own party. it has been a week of similar overtures that suggested president trump somehow trusts the former kgb agent and not u.s. intelligence officials. president putin just said it is not russia. i will say this. i don t see any reason why it would be. i would like to clarify.