pressure on the russians because they interfered in our election. there is bipartisan consensus that the russians meddled in our democratic institutions in an unprecedentsed scope and scale and they are testing us around the world and then donald trump is saying to them that he was relieved because he had just fired an fbi director who was investigating ties between his campaign and that russian interference. >> i don't know if you heard but the new york times reporter was on. he said the president was joking with sergey kislyak. oh, nice to meet you. i appear to be the only person in my campaign who hasn't done so yet, joking. sean spicer is saying it was actually -- to your point he's saying comey's investigation was the problem. it was creating unnecessary pressure on the white house's ability to negotiate with