so interestingly, a.b., putin called president trump. they have spoken now twice in three days. what are we to make of this? there s been a lot of thanking going on. i can t remember a time when the u.s. and russian governments have gotten along so well. and the things that he said at his press conference last week, the way he spoke about trump s leadership and everything going gang busters in the stock market and going over so well here and americans shouldn t question their own system or government and everything. i found those comments staggering. i cannot believe we are at a
presidential commission for this. he called for an end to the russia investigation because it s a witch-hunt, in his phrase. and the national security strategy does not have any sort of overarching look the operations here. david sanger, always a plus. thank you for being part of the new day family. thank you, chris. great to be with you. have a great holiday. you too. alisyn? what is president trump saying about the russia investigation behind closed doors? we have exclusive cnn reporting about the president s new outlook on the probe. that s next. give a little bit give a little bit. -hello. give a little bit. . of your love to me oh, haha.
president trump is expected to fold his america first policies into a national security strategy today. this after an unusual call from russian president vladimir putin thanking president trump for a cia tip that helped avoid terror attacks in st. petersburg. this is the second time the two have spoken in days. joining us is david sanger. always a pleasure to see you. the best for the holy days to you and the family. you too, chris. the phone call, your take? the strange thing about the phone call is not that it s happened. frequently world leaders call and thank each other for cooperation on intelligence issues. the strange thing was that it
mid-level aides. this is a pretty boring world i live in. it had more of a cheerleading stance than the usual sober, we re thankful for keeping everyone safe. talk about the irony and an indication of the crazy days that we are living in that vladimir putin would be the impetus for the president to say something positive about the intelligence agencies that he has been railing against for so many months. it is a bizarre world. it is a strange year. also strange because it came just hours before this national security strategy comes out, which describes china and russia together. lumps them as revisionist powers. what does that mean? it usually means a power is trying to upend the status quo and redefine the global rules under its term. i get that for china.
chilling. that is just asking questions that we need to pay close attention to because of the fact pattern. at the end of the day, you only know what you show. all of this is just political hype. either you will see what the inspector germ comes out. make a case about what comey was doing. you can show the political bias or jaundice was more than something we have seen always at play with human beings during investigations. or it will just fade until their next credit. when you do have the president s network, fox, talking about how corrupt and politically motivated the fbi is, this starts to have an impact. it plants a seed. we know this. i don t think you can dismiss it that easily. it s not about whether i dismiss it or not, it s this is what they do. it happens in waves every time something that comes up sensitive to the president.