A recap of the days news. Would do. Right . Instead this white house put on a display today in the briefing room. A display intended to send a message to the American People. That message is to convince you that this administration actually takes russias attacks on our democracy seriously. So they trot it out one top official after another. Every one of them pointing the finger at russia, which is all well and good, but obviously there is one person missing. Want to guess who it is . President donald j. Trump who no matter what the members of his own administration say just cant seem to bring himself to blame russia for anything without walking it back in the same breath. Lets compare the director of national intelligence, what he said today to what President Trump said after that disastrous helsinki summit. Here it is. The Intelligence Community continues to be concerned about the threats of upcoming u. S. Elections. Both the midterms and the president ial elections of 2020. Dont. Whatever. What does it tell you when the president of the United States sends out members of his own administration to make the case he should be making himself. That russia attacked our democracy. Russia interfered in the 2016 president ial election. Russia is constantly working to divide america. The facts are there. The Intelligence Agencies are saying it. They all are saying it. And theyre doing a pretty good job of it, russia is. So why doesnt this president , why wont this president in the words of his own fbi director take the threat seriously . Its no coincidence that all of this is happening as the Mueller Investigation is moving into the oval office, as mueller is pressing for a sitdown interview with the president himself. As former Trump Campaign manager Paul Manafort is on trial. The first trial to come out of the Mueller Investigation. And as the president brands the whole thing a witch hunt. The fact is this is no witch hunt. Robert mueller is doing what the president should be doing. Hes working to get the facts. The truth about what russia did in 2016. And about what russia is still doing right now. Thats the only way, the only way we can defend our democracy. Im going to bring in chris soliza and josh campbell. Gentlemen, good evening. Thank you for joining us on this lovely evening. Chris, why Isnt The President as forceful or direct as his National Security team when it comes to russias efforts to attack our elections and undermine our democracy . He doesnt believe it. Despite all evidence to the contrary. Look, i think at this point when donald trump says it, lets take him at his word. Over and over and over again he has not been able to say russia sought to interfere in the 2016 president ial election. My Intelligence Community tells me they did so because they wanted to help me and hurt hillary clinton. That election is over with, but the threat isnt. We need to figure out as a
country how to protect our democracy. All the clips you played, don, could have been a lot of other people, could have been china or a 400pound guy sitting in his bedroom, he cant simply say it because he doesnt believe it. If you need evidence, the show of force, four big major figures in the Trump Administration coming out and saying russia interfered in the election. We need to stop them. This is a threat to our democracy. Hours later that clip you played donald trump in pennsylvania says all a hoax. If the boss doesnt believe it, theres no way that the administration is as focussed on it as they could be. Right. Because theres no urgency behind it. The big guy is not saying you guys take care of this. Make sure of course. Josh, this is what you tweeted today. You said if trump privately tole putin to stop interfering in the u. S. Elections and the Intel Community continues to see
russia efforts to interfere in efforts, then putin is either Disrespecting Trump or didnt get the message. Most likely President Trump doesnt see it that way. Well, he may not see it that way, but i think he should be focussed on the fact that he does not look good. This is simple if you think about it. We heard today from our u. S. Intelligence Community Officials that russia is continuing to interfere in u. S. Elections. So that either means one of two things. Either the president actually sat down with Vladimir Putin and scolded him and said cut it out and putin ignored him or the message never was delivered. Either way it should be concerning for the american citizens. It either means were being lied to and the message wasnt conveyed forcefully or the power of the presidency isnt what it once was and even after being scolded by the president of the United States, someone like Vladimir Putin thinks he can continue interfering with our elections without consequences. I want to play him at a rally tonight. Watch this. I got along great with putin and everybody said, wow, that was great. A couple hours later i started hearing these reports that they wanted me to walk up and go like this. Son of a they wanted me to go up and have a boxing match. I said what ever happened to diplomacy . So, well, theres a lot of things there. I mean, theres i mean, theres a wide gap between diplomacy and actually a boxing match. No one asking him or thought he would have a boxing match. They just thought he would stand up and be a man as the president of the United States and call russia and Vladimir Putin on exactly what theyre doing instead of capitulating. And he skips the part where putin under trump undermined his Intelligence Agencies on a world stage and had to clean up his own mess. And by the way, in cleaning
up his own mess, thats when he said could have been other people also. Like he cant even in the cleaning up of the mess, he still hedged. I meant to say would or wouldnt. Go on. Sorry. Go back to what hes doing there. Look, what you see there is vintage trump. He is telling himself and everyone around him a story of how he sees things. Whether or not that comports with facts it doesnt in this case is immaterial. No one outside of maybe his family and some of his advisers no one who is not on the Payroll Thought whether it was one minute after that summit or
ten hours after that summit that it went well. The reaction in the trump white house, the reaction on capitol hill among republicans was i cant believe i just saw what i saw. So he creates a reality. He tells himself it, and then he uses that to scapegoat the media in some way. The media is the media doesnt make republicans say i cant believe that just happened. We quote them saying that. Right. But thats again, vintage trump. I want to get this in. If you can get a quick response, josh. I want you to take a look at this. This is a surprising moment from the White House Press briefing with the director of national intelligence. Watch. Im not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened in helsinki. Ill turn it over to the National Security director here to address that question. So two and a half weeks after helsinki the top intelligence person in the country cant speak to what happened there . Two key aspects. First he says he doesnt know what happened and he cant talk about it. The second, i can appreciate. Someone in his position, he has access to highly classified information. Maybe he couldnt talk about it. But the fact he indicated he doesnt know what happened, is highly concerning. I know him. Hes a good man. The fact he wasnt briefed by the president on what took place in the meeting is going to do a disservice to the Intelligence Community. What should have happen second down the president should have been sitting down at cia Head Quarters with the head of cia and all the Intelligence Analysts working on russia and should have given them a full debriefing on what took place to inform their analysis and form what it is theyre doing. That didnt take place. The top dni doesnt even know what happened. And the dni, the person in charge of all intelligence, maybe should have been in the room. I was just going to quickly i know youre up against it. I am. Just remember, donald trump is the one who pushed for a one on one meeting with Vladimir Putin with just translators that went on for two plus hours. The only version of what happened there that we know is from interviews that Vladimir Putin has given with russian
state television. Just sit with that one for a little while. Thank you, gentlemen. Appreciate it. When we come back the Mueller Investigation heating up as Paul Manafort is on trial in muellers first russia case. Is this turning into President Trumps watergate . Im going to ask the experts. Carl bernstein is here and john dean. They know. They were involved in watergate. I found my tresiba® reason. Now im doing more to lower my a1c. I take tresiba® once a day. Tresiba® controls blood sugar for 24 hours for powerful a1c reduction. woman wed been counting down to his retirement. It was our tresiba® reason. He needs insulin to control his High Blood Sugar and, at his age, hes at greater risk for low blood sugar. Tresiba® releases slow and steady and works all day and night like the bodys insulin. vo tresiba® is a longacting insulin
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talks around the building of a trump tower in moscow. Right . They were talking about building a trump tower there. What does that tell you about muellers focus . This may be the real sleeper of the whole Mueller Investigation, because clearly on its face the Trump Tower Meeting was convened for the purpose of collusion and collaboration and conspireing. And with don junior and in the letter im going to read. Im going to do something very untelevision like and read the letter that brought this meeting about. Emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting. The Crown Prosecutor of russia met with his father this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump Campaign with official documents and information that would incriminate hillary in her dealings with russia and would
be very useful to your father. This is obviously very high level and sensitive information, but its part of russia and its Government Support for mr. Trump helped by aras and emin. Whats the best way to handle this . That is perhaps the most important document that we have in this whole investigation. And if donald trump, indeed, means it, that he did not collude and people in his family did not collude, it is very easy for him to call these two people, emin, and his father, aras, good friends of the president , call them up and say i want you to come talk to mr. Mueller. Testify on my behalf. Tell them this is, indeed, a witch hunt and this letter does not mean what it says. Trump has the ability right here to put this perhaps behind him if he wants to be honest about the this, well, but it tells you something about where mueller is. This is not just an investigation about obstruction of justice. This is about collusion. Yes. And youre right. So listen, john. More details now. The New York Times is reporting President Trump pushed his lawyers to try to reach an agreement with muellers team about sitting for an interview. Do you believe this president wants to sit down with the special counsel or does he want it to seem that way to the public . I think its the latter phase of the question. He wants it to seem that he wants to sit down. Im sure his lawyers dont want him to sit down. But, you know, the man has such an ego. He might sincerely believe that he can somehow turn mueller to think his own investigation is a witch hunt. I doubt that he can do that. But trumps imagination seems to have no boundaries. Yeah. That is an interesting way of putting it. All right, gentlemen, stick
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getting worse than watergate. Why do you say that . I think this is worse than watergate because the system worked in water gate. It worked