another about face from the white house today responding to the avalanche of outrage over president trump considering the request from president vladimir putin. it is a proposal made in sincerity by president putin. press sec story sarah huckabee sanders said this in a statement but president trump disagrees with it. secretary of state mike pompeo also ruling out giving russia access to mcfall and the others. with respect to the particular question the administration is not going to send, force americans to travel to russia to be interrogated by vladimir putin and his team. reporter: putin s proposal was to allow robert mueller s team to interview the 12 russians indicted for cyber attacks in the 2016 election in exchange russian investigators would get to question mcfall and 11 others for crimes russia accuses them of, a deal that trump at first found intriguing. what he did is an incredible
citizens, let alone former ad s ambassad ambassador. congress found this proposal so outrageous that just moments ago the senate voted 98-0 against making current and former officials available for interrogation by the russians. ambassador mcfall has thanked the senate in a tweet by saying bipartisanship is not yet dead but took a swipe at the white house. thanks so moch. what the hell is going on? seriously, what the hell is going on? sincere offer from putin and an incredible offer? i m looking at you to see if you can answer the question. what? that s kind of my reaction, too. obviously, what they are trying
forbidden that he is engaging in under our federal ethics laws. moments ago interior says the immediate office of the secretary complies with all applicable laws, rules and regulations. we include additional information in briefings that are made available to the public t. is common for schedule items to be cancelled the day of which is why something can be referred to in an e-mail or briefing and not be on the calendar relief. he is facing investigations with about a dozen federal probes looking into his actions. thank you so much. my gang is here with me. i want to talk about a different cabinet secretary today because the department of homeland security secretary is at that aspen security summit and asked about the conclusion that the russians not only interfered in the election in 2016 but did so
she is not reading. for me that is a very dangerous spot to hold as a former committee on homeland security staffer. i need you to read. i want to take one second to note that the president tweeted the summit with russia was a great success except with the real enemy of the people, the fake news media. president trump did not say that vladimir putin was the enemy of the american people. he did not say that the 12 russian military intelligence officers who were indicted by his justice department where the enemy of the american people, but i am an enemy of the american people. he never will say that. he clearly has an affinity for vladimir putin. nobody really knows why. or is it he seems to have an affinity. he does like strong men. it looks like we will have putin here in the fall.
con frntrati confrontation with russia. they hate the fact that i will probably have a good relationship with putin. it is a statement strikingly similar to what vladimir putin himself said today. translator: we see that there are forces in the united states that are prepared to casually sacrifice russia/u.s. relations for their ambitions in the course of an internal political battle. reporter: ti time magazine releasing its new cover today morphing the faces of the two leaders. if vladimir putin does come to washington this fall as sarah huckabee sanders says he has been invited to do so, you can t ignore that that would come right around the time of the mid terms which mike pompeo was still at the cia he is now secretary of state he said there is no doubt in his mind that russia would once again try to interfere with the election. it would be stunning timing, jake. maybe he can come and see what his guys are doing and what they are accomplishing by interfering in the election