Such a formidable way what he thinks of donald trump, what he thinks of the u.s. leader. normally he s a bit more tight lipped and it s the other ones that do the praising. but this time he s being quite gushing, talking about how he sees him as a good partner. and so i think that putin sees him as somebody that he can really into do business with. thank you so much. i want to talk more about the white house declining to knock down putin s claims that president trump accepted putin s word that russia did not interfere in the u.s. election. joining me now, democratic congressman ted lew from california. thank you so much for being with us. this is coming from key white house players who were giving a briefing aboard air force one. hr mcmaster, steve mnuchin, who were asked multiple times about whether the president rebuts the claim that he agreed with the president of russia that they
Happened in the meeting, but today during this gaggle an be board air force one on the flight home, as you mentioned, those three administration officials, gary cohn, hr mcmaster and steve mnuchin were asked about this and didn t set the record straight. listen to part the exchange with secretary mnuchin. another country making a statement about the president of the united states. do you not want to respond to that and correct the record if it s long? i won t make comments about what other people say. president trump will be happy to make statements himself about that. but the president handled himself brilliantly. he made his position felt and after substantive dialogue, they agreed to move on to other discussions and i think that it is very clear that they have opened the dialogue, that it s important to have a dialogue.
Did some meddling, but maybe other people and other countries did, as well. and so a lot of critics are clamoring for a much more definitive of statement from the president on this matter of russian meddling. and so far we haven t gotten it. athena jones, thank you. the russian president is revealing new details about his views on president trump after their big face-to-face heating. putin speaking out about trump bringing up railroad are shan hacki ha russian hacking. watch. translator: theu.s. president raised this question and devoted a lot of time to this issue. our position is well-known and i repeated it, there is no basis for thinking that russia interfered in the election process. what is important is that we agreed that the uncertain heity on these matters cannot exist especially in the future. joining me now from moscow, matthew chance.
Also the man who runs east asian nonproliferation program at the james martin center for nonproliferation studies jeffrey lewis. first to the president s mixed messages. what is going on? i think he s been hoping to build up the relationship with president xi. you saw that meeting at mar-a-la mar-a-lago. he went in talking tough but then came out hoping they could have a better relationship. he hasn t seen the progress that he wants, but i think he doesn t have a choice but to work with china 2r50iing to get some cooperation on north korea and i think it will be a mixture of carrots and sticks. you saw that they agreed for more defense cooperation, china is going to join some u.s. military drills in the pacific. and they will have some visits by the defense ministers. but on the other side, i think president trump is really using trade as a weapon. he wants to see china decrease
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