pleaded not guilty. now, one of the arguments the lawyer made in court is that this is not a spy case. he insisted, wolf, needs to be treated differently and what is happening with special counsel mueller's investigation, what is happening with those russians, he said she should not be treated as a proxy for the difficult situation of russia. >> if you read the 17-page document the government released today, government memorandum in support of pretrial -- it read like a spy novel. >> it does. >> thank you. after the white house is forced to clean up another one of the president's comments of russia targeting the united states, president trump goes on the record about what he told russia's vladimir putin and asked if the u.s. is prepared to defend newest nato members, president trump raised serious doubts of the commitment to u.s. allies. stay with us. you're in "the situation room."