37% of republicans in the united states have a favorable impression of vladimir putin. i believe that's a higher favorable rating among republicans than president obama has, and his point being was that donald trump the president-elect has been cozying up for want of a better word, praising putin. >> we have become a very tribal nation so when people are listening to these poll questions they're responding from sort of partisan instincts. you've seen not only improvements in the flafrt toward vladimir putin but wikileaks, where three years ago those numbers flipped p republicans slightly more positive toward wikileaks and a lot of this was in part aided by much of the discussion before the election about the need for this election to be taken seriously and treated as legitimate and now republicans, having won the election are feeling a little bit like well you told us we needed to accept these results. now we're being told this election was illegitimate.

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