at this time. he was also asked specifically about his conversation with vladimir putin. it s notable as he prepared to speak about the fbi. again he referred to some of the leadership there as being corrupt, specifically speaking about the russia investigation that s taken place. as he has been criticizing in recent weeks the fbi. he praised vladimir putin, thanking him for the nice things he said about the u.s. economy. those are some of the headlines. we re going to have that tape for you within the next minute, stephanie, but that was the stuff that really struck me as we wait for the president. peter, please put a hat on, put a scarf on, your nose is going to fall off like in one second. it s way too cold out there. clint, exactly to the point, president trump yet again complimenting vladimir putin. he has an all-star list of people he always compliments, putin and ivanka. he s going to speak at the graduation ceremony. this is two weeks after the president has said on the world
extremely careless. we are told this process of drafting the statement was a team effort. we are not saying he was in this all along, but from a political optic standpoint, the statement cleared clinton, combined with the fact that he was dismissed from special counsel mueller s team, and he could have been seen as favoring clinton and anti-trump, and he gave further credit to those trying to discredit the special counsel s work. the new fbi director is trying to boost morale in the fbi. that s right. my colleague, evan perez, obtained a statement that he sent to the staff, sort of a cheap your chin up, and over the weekend trump was on the tweet storm calling the fbi in taters, and ray s statement was there will be tough questions ahead
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being pushed back down street and sort of taking on police. and you bring up an important point. is the national media giving a fewage today taters agitators who are willing to get in the face of the police and yell and scream at them, are we giving them too much air time? and, thus, sort of distracting the national conversation from the important issues you brought up of health care and tax reform, of the debt ceiling as boring as this is, jobs, energy policy? no, and i think that for what we re looking at here in iowa, in the midwest states, the most critical things is, fine, you have freedom of speech leland: doug, i m going to stop you for a second because we ve established connection with molly line down there on the ground. molly, tell us what s happening. we have an aerial view, but we can t tell what s going on on ground. reporter: hi, leland, i
certainly there are racist symbols and am once in our history that we need to overcome as we work towards being a more perfect union. again, i m saddened. i will tell you that we don t know what happened with that car yet but from my point of view it appears to be deliberate. let me condemn that as if it was deliberate it s a terrorist attack in that shameful and i cannot believe this is happening in my home. kelly: were waiting to get clarity. i want to read something to you from senator marco rubio who is weighing in. he said these haters in charlottesville are added taters in search of relevance and publicity for a cause very few