He then added this. Based on the fact that no president has been tougher on russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the democrats. They definitely dont want trump. They didnt dont want trump, he said. Even though last week russias president admitted he did favor mr. Trump, at least in the last election, which is what Intelligence Agencies had been saying for a long time, but putin finallied a mid it. President putin, did you want President Trump to win the election . And did you direct any of your officials to help him do that . Translator yes, i did, because he talked about bringing the u. S. russia relationship back to normal. Now President Trump says the russians actually dont like him, despite what President Putin just said. Which is weird because not only did truputin say he liked trump the last election, but because of that Helsinki Summit, Relation Ares with russia had suddenly changed in matter of hours. He said that. It was recorded. Everyone heard that. Lets play i
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. The cleanup was after the Helsinki Summit saying he meant to say wouldnt instead of would although in that cleanup the president said it could be others meddling and since then calling the russia story a hoax and investigation rigged. The difference between the president s reluctance to call out russia and the security teams willingness to was noticeable. Striking enough to call out this question from dni coats. In the runup to the Helsinki Summit,s u. S. Officials, nato ambassadors to russia said the president would raise the issue of maligned activity with the president. He didnt address that. You said to make the issue of meddling a priority. How do you explain the disconnect between what you are
speech and his officials were so clear in the russia involvement. I think the fact the president continues to acknowledge this is exactly why the intel chiefs had to do this. When you have a threat
unsanitary conditions are rampant in these facilities. the president calling that story a hoax, suggesting that the new york times is working hand in hand with democrats to try to plant stories that will embarrass him. instead, the president says he believes that migrants at these facilities are happy because conditions there are better than in their home countries. listen to more of what the president said. and in all cases, if you look, people that came from unbelievable poverty, that had no water, they had no anything where they came from, those are people that are very happy with what s going on because relatively speaking they re in much better shape right now. reporter: president trump was also asked if he would visit one of these migrant detention families. he did not answer the question directly, but instead suggested that he would have the press visit one of the facilities to document conditions for themselves and to try to disprove this reporting in the new york times.
the cleanup was after the helsinki summit saying he meant to say wouldn t instead of would although in that cleanup the president said it could be others meddling and since then calling the russia story a hoax and investigation rigged. the difference between the president s reluctance to call out russia and the security team s willingness to was noticeable. striking enough to call out this question from dni coats. in the run-up to the helsinki summit,s u.s. officials, nato ambassadors to russia said the president would raise the issue of maligned activity with the president. he didn t address that. you said to make the issue of meddling a priority. how do you explain the disconnect between what you are
it doesn t seem like it, because the president is still attacking the intelligence community. just yesterday he launched plans to yank the security clearances of former top intelligence officials, some of whom were the very people who warned him about russian interference during the 2016 campaign. he continues to attack the russia probe, calls the russia story a hoax, but now he is also warning about the russian threat, except with this democratic twist. so what changed? well, today secretary of state pompeo was asked what happened behind closed doors between the two presidents. what is your understanding of the agreements that were made between president trump and president putin there? the president has been clear about some of the things that were agreed to. we re going to put together a business council. there will be places we ll start processes. there were many things that came from what i view as an incredibly important meeting between president trump and president putin, on