we know there was a second meeting, the white house confirming that second encounter after reports of it surfaced in the media. president trump lashing out calling coverage of his previously undisclosed second meeting with russian president vladimir putin sick, and a legend that's made to look sinister. an official tells cnn that the sideline meeting after dinner lasted nearly an hour and no other u.s. officials were present. ignoring protocol, the president relied on a russian translator leaving the u.s. with no official record of their conversation, the white house downplaying the second encounter asserting, the insinuation that the white house tried to hide a second meeting is false, malicious and absurd. this new revelation the latest in a string of undisclosed meetings between trump associates and russians. >> this kind of private meeting is virtually unprecedented in the diplomatic world. there seems to be a pattern of reckless or willful concealment of contacts with the...

he ended up taking over breitbart news when breitbart died. >> his world view became this sort of america first, anti-global, anti kind of -- is it fair to say anti-other? >> absolutely fair to say of the bannon had always had these nationalist, populist politics and a real anger, i think, at liberal secular culture. what breitbart did was try to start a small publication that would fight back against the media. bannon took that over and really used it as a vehicle to push his ideas into national politics and elevate politicians like donald trump who he thought could carry that message for him. >> let's talk about that, because you also say bannon had been looking for basically a ve vessel and he had worked with sarah palin, sarah bachmann, jeff sessions, but not until he found donald trump was it sort of a match made in bannon heaven. what was it about donald trump that allowed this symmetry to

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had a second meeting with the russian leader, vladimir putin,

lives are at stake as americans are with health care. >> look, i think that's exactly right in terms of his psychology of saying rgs fi, fine, we'll l fail and that will change your mind. but this is the opposite of harry truman saying the buck stops here. you can't say, fine, i'm hands off, i'm not going to own it, because it's happening on your watch and you have a moral and political obligation to try to fix it and help people's lives. >> that's why this business move doesn't work in this particular context, because this is a business, to use the analogy, that is on his balance sheet. so he can't walk away from this. he has set responsibilities. and if he were to walk away, as he suggested he would, which means, how do you walk away? how do you let it fail? you don't provide the federal subsidies. you don't let insurance companies know whether or not the insurance mandate, that creates a healthier and wider pool, exists. if you do that, people will lose care. it is mostly on his...

campaign with the russians, i don't think it's appropriate. i think this is another example where the president must think, oh, look, i can just forge this relationship, i can make it work, not understanding that putin is an enemy of the united states, is manipulating and has manipulated u.s. leaders, and let's find out exactly what they talked about. i'm interested to find out whether the president is going to get tough with putin for attacking america during the campaign. there is no evidence of that. the previous president had in place countermeasures that he could have used. instead they are now having, you know, the two-hour meeting and then a separate meeting, and the president's position seems to be, well, look, he said he didn't do it, so what am i going to do, get into a fist fight if we disagree? to me that's not good enough. >> just to be clear, the president took on this reporting calling it fake, but there seemed to be a misunderstanding on his part of what the reporting...

do their jobs. they're the ones who have to carry most of the water here with the russians. they need to know exactly what did putin say, what did he commit to, what did our guy say? that's what you need as the admiral saying at least your own interpreter. they should have planned for this. >> let's remind people, donald trump has a long history of conducting meetings on his own and by himself. this may be an adjustment to the presidency. we'll have to see what comes out of what he says this meeting was about. i see you shaking your head, john. i get it that it's not the right way to do it but it's the way he's done it in the past. gentlemen, thank you so much for your perspective. i appreciate it. >>> chris, new jersey governor chris christie is not getting any love in the polls. how did the crowd respond when he caught a foul ball one-handed at a mets game? the bleacher report, next. >> strong. and we don't want something like meningitis b getting in their way.