beneficiary of a concerted effort together with the russians to affect the 2016 election. as to that, there's no evidence publicly. but everybody who participated in the press conference thursday agreed as has the president on several public occasions that the intelligence community assessment of russian meddling in 2016 is valid. >>chris: one of the most powerful ways mr. trump can try to prevent any meddling in the 2018 election is to stand up in public and call out vladimir putin and say, knock it off. i want to go back to helsinki and to the joint summit news conference there. >> i have great confidence in my intelligent people. but, i will tell you that president putin was is cleanly strong and powerful in his denial today. >>chris: i know you say it was the first issue that president trump brought up with putin in