been forthcoming on what it's doing with the trump campaign? >> let me say this. the fbi is the premiere investigative agency here in our government. and i believe that they will do their job and get to the bottom of this without political

tweeting this 2003 photo with schumer and vladimir putin. senator, you tweeted -- >> good morning. >> good morning to you, sir. to finish up this little tweet back and forth, and there is so many tweets to keep up with. you responded happily talk my contact with mr. putin and his associates. would you and your team? that's obviously you challenges them under oath. let me ask you this. this morning the president's press secretary says the following. reports concerning potentially political mow vated investigations immediately aide hft 2015 are very troubling. is that a fair ask of this administration? >> well, look. president obama has flatly designed that he has done this. and either way, chuck, the president is in trouble. if he falsely spread this kind of misinformation, that is so wrong. it's beneath the dignity of the presidency. it is something that really hurts people's view of government. it's civilization warping, as ben sas called it. and i don't know if any president...

television history, celebrating it's 70th year. this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. it is a pretty good bet that the white house hoped and expected the big story this week would be president trump's initially well received speech on tuesday night. instead, the white house was back in a defensive crouch, forced to fight off a parade leaking the trump campaign to russia, perhaps to distract everyone from this drip, drip, drip, president trump tweeted yesterday without any evidence that president obama had his phones tapped. quote, how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process? this is in addition son water gate. bad or sick guy. the revelations this week added a growing list of people to the trump campaign whose contact with the russia came to light after reporters broke the story. attorney general jeff sessions who was forced to recuse himself to any investigation involving

to any investigation involving the campaign and many episodes traced a familiar path. full denials followed by, oh, yeah. i forgot about that meeting. >> i have recused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. >> that statement by the attorney general on thursday came after the washington post revealed that sessions set twice last year with russian ambassador. sessions cramabled to clarify. in retrospect i should have said, but i did meet one one time. >> he met with him on july 18th after speaking to him at the republican convention and again on september 8th, three days after president obama took a hard line on russian sanctions in a g-20 meeting. trump has repeatedly denied any contact between the campaign and russian officials. >> i'm just telling you, it is

in july he denied that to appease the russians the campaign fought to have the republican platform not include weapons for ukraine. >> i don't know who everybody is, but i guarantee you -- >> nobody from the trump campaign wanted that change in the platform? >> no one, zero. >> but former trump policy adviser j.d. gordon tells nbc news that manafort was not forth wright with us. gordon says he was in the room and told the committee chairman that the amendment was a problem for the campaign. gordon also met with the russian ambassador at the convention. and then there is another person at that meeting. he has change his story. >> i had no meetings, no meetings. >> but on thursday, paige's answer changed. >> did you meet sergei kiss lack? >> i am not going to deny i talked with him. >> we contacted paul manafort

talked with him. >> we contacted paul manafort last night and he told us he has also been honest with us and he had no knowledge of the change. he couldn't have authorized the change. joining me now is senator marco rubio, republican of florida. welcome back to "meet the press," sure. >> thank you. good morning. >> so you traveled with the president on friday down to fl flr on air force one. on saturday morning, the president went on a tweet storm, including accusing former president obama of illegally having him wiretapped. do you have any insight, first of all, did the president talk to you about this on friday? and do you have any insight on what precipitated all this? >> we never obviously discussed that, number one. and i have no insight into what exactly he's referring to. i would imagine the president and the white house in the days to come will outline further what was behind that accusation. i have never heard that before, and i have no evidence or no one has ever presented...

russian officials. >> i'm just telling you, it is all phony baloney garbage. all the contact by the trump campaign and associates was with the american people. >> so you are not aware of any contacts during the course of the election. >> how many times do i have to answer this question? i have nothing to do with russia. no person that ideal with does. >> but the sessions reversal is one example of a growing list of admissions dragged out of the trump administration after reporting on contact between trump associates and russian officials. there is now former national security adviser michael flil who publically denied he had discussioned sanctions with kiss lee yak in december. but after reporting detailed transcripts of those phone calls, he reversed himself and was forced to resign. there is the president's son-in-law. he was part of a december meeting with kiss lee yak at trump tower. then there is paul manafort. in july he denied that to