are there. oh, i remember that one. yeah. i remember that. what was that meeting all about and what do you remember about papadopoulos that day? i don t remember anything about him. i just remember being there. it was something we went over there and talked to that community for a short period of time and i just remember we went and left. but i don t remember anything specific as far as if russia was in there or anything like that. it was more the stance with the united states and policies with israel. when you read the details of the papadopoulos guilt plea, does that, to you, sound like collusion? no, because, again, i haven t read it and i haven t seen what led up to that and what they are charging him with. i can t comment on that. why were suthey told about stolen e-mails before the americans knew about russia hackings? i wish i could answer that
president trump is responding now to some block buster reporting about the allegations of who ordered the russia hackings and they re inching closer to the kremlin. now he is really focusing on president obama questioning why he didn t act on the russia hacking information. i just heard today for the first time that obama knew about russia a long time before the election and he did nothing about it but nobody wants to talk about that, that the cia gave him information on russia a long time before they even, you know, before the election. and i hardly see it. it s an amazing thing. to me, you know, in other words the question is if he had the information why didn t he do something about it? the former kgb agent and
good to be with you. thank you so much. now let s go to the panel. so guy wx let s react right there to the congressman. he s saying that the republicans are taking the allegation of russia hackings into the election just as seriously as they stand to take this claim that donald trump s phones and trump tower were wiretapped by president obama. mike, start with you, is that based in fact? is there a fair statement? well katie, your assessment of it is right, but what we re seeing is those people going out, especially the administration officials you showed at the top, they re going out and they re defending this because i m told the president believes it. we had a senior white house official telling us that the president thinks he s going to be vindicated, absolutely convinced he will be, but at the
protection agency. today we heard pru it push back on the notion that he is a climate change denier. wilbur ross, trump s pick for commerce secretary, he slammed countries he says don t follow fair trade rules. and then, of course, there is south carolina governor nikki haley who has been nominates she questioned the russia hackings. i want to go to manu raju. chuck schumer, we heard him a few seconds ago, saying republicans have a specific reason for jamming nominees through the confirmation process. what did he have to say? yeah, that s right, jake. he saws that republicans are trying to hide these views of these nominees and schumer promising a, quote, extensive debate on the floor of the senate. and that could deny donald trump from getting the seven nominees he wants confirmed when he is sworn in on friday. the republicans firing back accusing democrats of playing politics.