involvement. i prefer to call it a russian attack on our democratic process instead of meddling. and i m hopeful that he was very clear. i mean, if i m in his shoes, i say, you attacked our democratic process. we re not going to tolerate this. if he in any way ekwquivocates, putin sees that in a much different way than the president imagines. he sees that as a green light to continue. let me throw this in, congressman quigley, because we re now hearing the other side of the story, this is coming from tillerson s counterpart, who was also in the room, sergey lavrov. lavrov says president trump accepted president putin s denial. the quote is, president trump said he s heard putin s very clear statements and this is not true and the russian government didn t interfere in the elections and that he accepts these statements. that s all. accepts these statement.
state media has gone even further, quoting sergey lavrov, the russian foreign minister, saying that trump said that cyber interference of russia was exaggerated in some circles. and so the russian media are saying that actually, donald trump made that concession to the russians during that supposed robust exchange that the extent to which russia was involved may have been exaggerated. at any rate, both sides have agreed to set up a working group to discuss the issue further, which is actually something that the russians have been pushing for for some time. so you can characterize this, i suppose, from whichever side you want. it was a u.s. victory in the sense that they raised this important issue, this contentious issue, but the russians got out of it, you know, this bilateral meeting, bilateral working group to discuss the issue of cyber security in the future. and it s not altogether surprising that that would happen because remember, putin and trump go into this meeting, went into
cannot replace obamacare, he will work with democrats to fix it. so, let s go to our white house reporter, kaitlan collins for more on this and bring in cnn senior economics analyst steven moore, a fellow at the heritage foundation and a former adviser to president trump. so great to see both of you. and steven, let me begin with you. reading our reporting, another high-profile senator of north dakota is the latest republican to say that he s not supporting this republican bill as it is. is this growing list of names what is prompting leader mcconnell to say, hey, we need to may need to work with democrats, and does that sound a tad defeatist to you? hi, brooke. well, i would say one-word answer. frustration. i think that s what mitch mcconnell s facing right now, and you know, i have to give him credit. he s got a tough job, brooke, because he s trying to thread a needle here. he has to get to 50 votes in the senate, and he s got 52 republicans. unfortunately, there aren t going t
of media coverage that is being generated now, that makes it look as if the united states is being tough towards putin without actually taking any serious geopolitical or financial rebuttal towards him. so, i think putin would have been, again, very aware of that. what s very interesting is that putin certainly hasn t been behaving as if he had come under intense criticism. putin tends to react very badly to that. instead, what we re seeing from putin is a man in, perhaps, one of his two modes when meeting world leaders and certainly u.s. presidents, which is the seduction mode. we ve seen putin go very hard towards charming trump, and we ve seen him trying to channel his antipathy towards journalists and the media. and you know, what we won t know is how seduced, if at all, president trump was. the fact that i mean, we know vladimir putin is often late to
but you will definitely have conservatives who can t be placated, i think that they will try to do some sort of repeal vote, so that they can be on the record saying that they voted to repealed, and they ll move on to working with democrats, and when they do, because leader mcconnell was talking about how that won t be for many members, who once it s out of health care entirely, and demand, posing that bipartisan products, which we all hope will fix the system, but those activists will be out in force next year, mid election, angry that they could not have kept their promise. shepard: probably. it s an interesting thing, right? we expected all of these republicans to line up with president trump, we have a