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Investigation. president trump meanwhile saying there was absolutely no collusion here, calling the inquiry a, quote, democratic hoax, a claim backed by president vladimir putin who this week dismissed talk of election meddling as spy mania. i want to bring in our panel, ambassador mcfaul, former ambassador to federation and karen desoto, nbc legal analyst to talk about this. ambassador, i d like to begin with you. president trump and his russian counterpart shared a fn call we know in which the president changed putin for glowing remarks regarding u.s. economy. i want to get your reaction to that call. i thought that particular piece of it was very strange. the president shouldn t be responding to praise from putin. that s exactly what president putin wants. there s no content involved in terms of american national interest for that. we should note in the readout the white house put out, they did say they talked .economy, ....
And then they added a line about north korea. that s good. the president should be talking to vladimir putin about north korea but not just calling them up to say, thank you for praising me on national television in russia. if there s in upside to that part of the conversation, what is the potential downside, potential threat to national security, if there s any. well, it just goes back to something i ve said for years now, because candidate trump said this as well. i think, i fear the president confuses good personal relations with the leader of a country, in this case putin, with american national interest. they are two different things. sometimes you want to pursue engagement and talk to leaders to pursue a national interest. sometimes you want to sanction them. sometimes you want to push back. but you most certainly don t want to make it personalized. it sometimes seems like his goal of his russia policy is just to get nice words from vladimir putin. that doesn t help us in nor ....
Remind you of this, is because donald trump himself was casting doubt before the election on whether he was going to accept the result of it. that s why all the questions came his way. i m not sitting here as a democrat, i m not sitting here as a republican, i m not even sitting here as an independent, i m sitting here as an american who is so frustrated by the idea that people are suiting up in their usual jerseys on this issue, respectfully including you, and instead of uniting against a common enemy in this case putin and russia and being pissed at the idea that he put his thumb on the scale in our election, instead you look at the result of the election and we like the result of the election and therefore we don t want to deal with this anymore. hold on. wait, wait. just stop for a second. i m not suiting up. i m actually using fact. facts that the washington post even put in there. this is what they wrote. they wrote that the 17 agencies couldn t conclude with certainty what h ....
What he saw in the last minute was neither side was going to give. those missiles were in place in cuba. he had to find a way to deal with the soviets and allow a chance for khrushchev to back off. he took some missiles already placed in turkey and said okay, secretly to khrushchev, you ll need this to take to your generals. tell them if i promise to pull them out secretly, you can pull the missiles out of cuba. at a certain point you have to give the other side a chance to back away or you re go i think to have war. i think in this case putin, we ll wait and see. trust and verify and all that stuff. but i think putin has a chance to be a great world leader for a few months leading up to his winter olympics next year. so don t put down the chances it s in putin s interest to be the good guy here. i think it s possible. up next, she hasn t made it official, but it looks more and more like hillary clinton is running for president. you re watching hardball, the place for politics. ....
it appears that is what he is trying to do with the initial reporting. thank you. the rnc is fiercely fighting back against claims that russia meddled in the election to help donald trump and that the rnc was also targeted in a heated exchange, spokeman spicer said the claims were personal agendas and wrong intelligence. listen to this. i m not sitting heesh as a democrat, i m not sitting here as a republican, i m not even sitting here as an independent. i m sitting here as an american who is so frustrated by the idea that people are suiting up in their usual jerseys on this issue, respectfully including you. and instead of uniting against a common enemy, in this case putin and russia, and being pissed at the idea he put a nuthumb on th collection. we like the result of the election, therefore we don t nt wa to deal with this any more. hold on. wait. wait. stop for a second. i m not suiting up. ....