decision and was considering it. she did not rule it out. said the president and his team were considering it, there was no firm commitment but they would get back to us. that prompted bipartisan backlash. they couldn t believe the white house was even entertaining this idea. after 24 hours of that, they ve come back to say it is off the table. the president does disagree with it. in the last segment of the statement, said hopefully the russians will send the 12 military intelligence officers to the united states. that s an idea that largely a lot of people believe is not likely to happen, even the president s own national security adviser, said it wasn t on the table, it was more a show to indict 12 russians for hacking the election. brooke, day four of fallout from the president s explosive press conference in helsinki, and we re seeing again the white house having to clean up one more decision after there was backlash from all throughout
president defend his american counterpart. translator: we see that there are forces in the united states that are prepared to casually sacrifice russia, u.s. relations, to sacrifice them for their ambitions in the course of an internal political battle. reporter: internal political battle, consistently has the kremlin, russian officials, foreign ministry, always characterized the idea that there was collusion between the trump campaign and the russians or even the idea there was any kind of hacking by russia of the u.s. presidential political system, and they stuck to that line time and again. remember just to characterize how well this meeting went from a russian point of view, sergei lavrov, russian foreign minister, normally restrained in his remarks, called the talks magnificent, better than super. and that s worryingly high praise coming from a kremlin
specifically, and the only specific we heard was this bit about russians for the americans. my question to you is how much of what was discussed between presumptive and putin do americans have the right to know? well, as much as president trump has not handled his diplomacy with russians particularly well or diplomacy with allies, i have to say as someone that worked in the executive branch, the president of the united states should be able to meet with counterparts, with a translator present, have private discussions that then they figure out whether they re going to be turned into agreements and then flushed out and then discussed wider, and if they re actually implemented, flushed out even further and discussed wider. but the idea that the united states public should have an immediate megaphone into the meeting of president putin and
ludicrous proposal by the russian leader. putin had suggested his people be allowed to interrogate americans in exchange for the special counsel, robert mueller, getting access to 12 russians indicted for attacking u.s. elections. the white house now quote, unquote disagrees with this idea, but just yesterday the administration showed literally two minds about it, with the white house saying one thing and the state department saying another. does president trump support that idea, is he open to having u.s. officials questioned by russia? the president will meet with his team. we ll let you know when we have an announcement on that. i can tell you the assertions from the russian government are absolutely absurd. the senate approved a resolution to oppose questioning of said diplomats by a foreign government. let this resolution be a warning to the administration
among many lessons including we should be listening to young athletes and the adults failed these athletes, i think those rts main things. but the fact that there was an unbelievable lesson that was sitting there just a few hundred miles away from michigan state and that was penn state. and that the president, president simon, looks at that title th hears about it, didn take it any further in her own brain, doesn t have the ku curiosity, why wasn t she thinking of penn state. and it cost her her job. and that is one of the mind boggling parts of it, if they didn t pay attention to penn state, you hope people will start paying attention to this now certainly. christine brennan, appreciate your insight. thank you very much. still to come, me too survivors will be at the president s state of the union speech. but will the president hear their message and