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To use our correspondent in moscow s point that the president of russia this week seems to be more consistent than the president of the united states. that s the problem. it is not just what the president says and does, it is the whole way the administration is managed. yesterday the state department called the russian assertions absurd, while the white house press secretary couldn t figure out how to respond, she said maybe this is still on the table. that s what gives the impression that the right hand and left hand are not operating in synch. i think we should also remember that putin is now smarting. president putin is in a way realizing that this whole thing may have back fired on him, and i ll tell you why. if you look at what his proposal is all about, it was about the so-called sanctions. and if you look at the original ....
Looking at the transcript now from helsinki, even he wasn t proposing that. he merely said that he wanted to have russians come to the united states and observe browder and the american ambassador being questioned by americans. so there was no construction, even putin s absurd proposal, the white house just rejected, never envisioned putting him in any danger. if the administration had somebody with the wit and wisdom to read back the transcript from helsinki of putin s proposal yesterday, i think we wouldn t have had to spend this day worried about whether diplomats would be put in jeopardy. here s my last question, you know about core oh graphing meetings like this. as was reported 24 hours ago, on the russian side they said deals were made, military agreements ....
my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others, they said they think it s russia. i have president putin, he just said it s not russia. i will say this, i don t see any reason why it would be. i have great confidence in my intelligence people, but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. that is the president of the united states directly contradicting our nation s intelligence agencies. but wait because a day later back at the white house the president essentially is saying would, wouldn t, that was a slip of the tongue. the sentence should have been i don t see any reason why it wouldn t be russia. sort of a double negative. i said this wednesday, i ll say it again, that was ridiculous, right? the president now says he misspoke, that despite his comments in the last 18 months ....
The white house says it is off the table. sarah sanders issued a statement saying it is a proposal made in sincerity by president putin, but president trump disagrees with it. hopefully president putin will have the 12 identified russians come to the united states to prove their innocence or guilt. this is a proposal that president trump came out of the press conference, said vladimir putin made essentially that in exchange for letting special counsel robert mueller question the 12 military intelligence officers who were charged with attacking an american election, that they would be able to question some americans they believe have interfered in their affairs, including the former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfall, who has been incredibly critical of russia and vladimir putin and his human rights record. this is astonishing, brooke, that the white house was considering this idea. we had 24 hours of backlash after sarah sanders was asked twice during the press briefing if the w ....
Specifically, and the only specific we heard was this bit about russians for the americans. my question to you is how much of what was discussed between presumptive and putin do americans have the right to know? well, as much as president trump has not handled his diplomacy with russians particularly well or diplomacy with allies, i have to say as someone that worked in the executive branch, the president of the united states should be able to meet with counterparts, with a translator present, have private discussions that then they figure out whether they re going to be turned into agreements and then flushed out and then discussed wider, and if they re actually implemented, flushed out even further and discussed wider. but the idea that the united states public should have an immediate megaphone into the meeting of president putin and ....