in helsinki, what the hell happened in helsinki? we don't know.use of incompetence or because of nefariousness on the part of the president of the united states? this is unprecedented. we have never had a president of the united states whose loyalty has been called into question by responsible members of both parties in the congress of the united states. it's never happened. >> john, carl has said president trump is unhinged in a way we've never seen publicly with nixon, with the tweeting and his behavior and what he does at rallies and on and on. privately was nixon unhinged? >> nixon had a drinking problem. he would get fairly loose late at night own get on the telephone and have some pretty unhinged conversations, but we went in the office in the morning and was cold sober. he wasn't somebody who drank on the job or totally lost control. there were checks that were placed on him late in watergate. his secretary of defense, for example, said listen, don't follow any extreme orders without clearing them with me first which is highly unusual. the

>> yeah, so i'm in helsinki.on and off throughout the course of the day. >> stephen: sure, sun goes down, sun comes back up again. >> yeah, and i keep getting texts and i check them during commercial breaks, and it's from andy saying like, "so, how hot are the guys in helsinki?" ( laughter ) i'm like, "i don't-- i'm-- i'm-- i'm on the air!" >> while you are in helsinki, i was hosting the "new york housewives reunion." would anyone like to hear about that ? ( cheers and applause ) because... thank you, thank you. >> stephen: yes, we would. go on, andy. >> well, much like trump and putin, carole and bethenny... ( laughter ) >> stephen: oh, no! >> yes! ( applause ) >> stephen: oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, bethenny is an oligarch. she'll poison her enemies with that skinny girl ( bleep ). ( laughter ) >> hasn't bethany now put out a statement correcting some of the words she used in--? >> well, that is a classic housewives apology-- i mean, for real. >> stephen: what i meant to say was... "you're a whore." >> yes, exactly,

. >> let me take you back to helsinki. the president seemed to indicate that he may believe vladimir putin when he says, he didn't have any influence in the 2016 election. what is your belief about the russian government involvement in meddling in 2016? >> well, the relationship to the 2016 election, of course, none of us were in office at that particular time. the president, the vice president, i think everyone on this stage has acknowledged that the ica was a correct assessment of what happened in 2016. our focus here today is simply to tell the american people, we acknowledge the threat. it is real. it is continuing and we're doing everything we can to have a legitimate election that the american people can have trust in. >> so that was the answer. that's the tension on the intelligence. then there is a separate tension about how do you indict is that punish the people identified by very intelligence for attacking american democracy. we all know, there is a busy special counsel operation he has denigrated and lied about

. >> that's the president shortly after the helsinki summit. the white house claimed the president didn't mean, no, they aren't targeting the u.s., he meant no as i don't want to take anymore questions. the reporter said the president was answering no to her questions. the cleanup was after the helsinki summit saying he meant to say wouldn't instead of would although in that cleanup the president said it could be others meddling and since then calling the russia story a hoax and investigation rigged. the difference between the president's reluctance to call out russia and the security team's willingness to was noticeable. striking enough to call out this question from dni coats. >> in the run-up to the helsinki summit,s u.s. officials, nato ambassadors to russia said the president would raise the issue of maligned activity with the president. he didn't address that. you said to make the issue of meddling a priority. how do you explain the difference between the president and you as advisors. >> i'm not in a position to explain fully or talk abo

what happened in helsinki. we still don't know. the secretary of state doesn't know. the national security advisor to the president doesn't know. only trump and putin know what occurred there and there's grave

>> i'm not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened in helsinki. >> that is a pretty shocking statement from dan coats 2 1/2 weeks after helsinki and the summit between president trump and president putin. he says he is not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened in helsinki. >> it opens up the possibility that donald trump knows something that we don't know about russian interference because of his conversation with vladimir putin. i think that it extremely unlikely. i think the truth of the matter is dan coats is asked a great question that is fundamentally unanswerable. the u.s. intelligence community, mike pompeo, chris wray, dan coats, anyone that you can name not named donald trump will say the russians interfered in this election to help donald trump and hurt hillary clinton except donald trump. that's the problem. dan coats can't answer that question which is why is donald trump the one not reading off the same song book? >> does it look more like the president is keeping his director of national intelligence in the dar

why -- there have been lots gone since helsinki. today out of nowhere this extraordinary tableau, do you have a sense of timing? >> i think hallie is right about the sense of frustration. i was there earlier in the week. they're frustrated with the media narrative the president is not being being tough on russia. he's not being tough because we watched with our own eyes when he was in helsinki standing next to vladimir putin. this is a legitimate concern there is a serious danger, there is a threat. claire mccaskill's e-mails were hacked or attempted to be hacked by russians. there are other examples of interference that might be underway the intelligence agencies have been trying to ring the alarm bells on at capitol hill. coats' interview with andrea mitchell a week or tua go, but they have not had this sort of a platform. but it's a classic case of the administration being out of step with the president because the president hasn't said any of this. >> so, clint, i want to ask you because this is your forte and your wheel house.

the president did bring up his meeting with vladimir putin in helsinki. >> in helsinki, i had a great meeting with putin. we discussed everything. i had a great meeting. i had a great meeting. we got along really well. by the way, that's a good thing. not a bad thing. that's a really good thing. now, we're being hindered by the russian hoax. it's a hoax, okay? i'll tell you what. russia's very unhappy that trump won. that i can tell you. but i got along great with putin. and everybody said, wow, that was a great -- that was great. a couple of hours later i started hearing these reports that, you know, they wanted me to walk up, here's a podium here, they wanted me to walk up and go like this. they wanted me to go up and have a boxing match. i said, whatever happened to diplomacy? >> he liked me, he really, really liked me. president trump had plenty of time to complain about the press. >> fake news. despite only negative publicity, only negative stories from the fakers back there. [ audience reacts ] even these people back here, these horrible, horrendous people, even these people bac

but let me make a larger point because this goes way beyond helsinki. helsinki is one animal. what i think is we now are seeing is consistent with my theme earlier of a world which is seeing the united states in a different way. america is seen as having moved away from its traditional foreign policy. it is not clear what we have moved toward. exactly how america first will play out. clearly if we are first, where does that leave others? i think it is a really unfortunate tagline. the rest of the world has come to the conclusion that we are not reliable and not dependable. that will mean basically one of two things. we have already seen both and we are going to see both in the future. will be that others when they feel they cannot rely on us will rely more on themselves. before anyone says, that's fine, a world of self-reliance. that is a world of far more proliferation, capability, and centers of decision-making. but i think we are moving to that. a lot of governments and countries are going to begin to reduce the numbers of eggs they put in the american security basket. and

trading is the best answer trading in diplomacy how about ten more helsinki type meetings about ironing like adults ironing over some of these issues about dealing like adults with crimea with who started ukraine the us fomented the coup in ukraine created the unrest the us created the unrest in syria by arming jihad has to take over the government so an honest discussion ten more goals thinking type meetings and he needs to clean house in this treasury clean house in the state department get out the people who are determined to pursue a hillary clinton barack obama foreign policy when you mention the healthy summit but after the helsinki summit there was also uproar about trump being too close to russia is there any happy ending for the democrats on this side you know what that approach was in the prague to ask us mainstream media there was a gallup poll that came out immediately after the helsinki meeting and it showed that ninety seven percent of republicans wanted president drum to meet with putin again the media doesn't like to report this and among all americans it was over sixty

defending his meeting with president putin in helsinki. >> in helsinki, i had a great meeting with putiniscussed everything. i had a great meeting. >> there's an astonishing moment during that press briefing with high ranking members of the intelligence community when the director of national intelligence said this when a reporter asked him about that singapore summit. >> i'm not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened in helsinki. >> two weeks after that summit took place, the senior intelligence adviser to the president unable to talk about what happened. joining me now is the director of national counterterrorism center, now an msnbc intelligence and national security contributor. thank you for being with me. i want to focus on what dni coats said here. he seem like the most capable of what sounds for radical honesty in this administration. the first clip that we played of him. we are here. we are treating this as a threat. how do you square these dueling administrations i've seen it characterized as? you have the advisers saying one thing. vociferously. a

more than three weeks after the trump/putin summit in helsinki, does anyone know for certain what theyuring their one on one meeting? how'd that go? he kept spelling my name with an 'i' but it's bryan with a 'y.' yeah, since birth. that drives me crazy. yes. it's on all your email. yes. they should know this? yeah. the guy was my brother-in-law. that's ridiculous. well, i happen to know some people. do they listen? what? they're amazing listeners. nice. guidance from professionals who take their time to get to know you. when we switched our auto and home insurance. with liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. hey! oh, that's my robe. is it? when you switch to liberty mutual, you could save $782 on auto and home insurance. and still get great coverage for you and your family. call for a free quote today. you could save $782. liberty mutual insurance. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ whoooo. tripadvisor makes finding your perfect hotel... relaxing. just enter your destination and dates. tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites to find the hotel you wan

putin in helsinki, he gave a free pass to mr. putin.o, no, we haven't heard from the president in the strong terms that we need and that's absolutely essential to be fully defending against what russia is doing. >> the director of national intelligence dan coats was asked about that disconnect which we saw on display clearly in helsin helsinki. he said he's not in the position to understand fully what happened at that trump/putin summit. how concerning is it to you, senator, that the director of national intelligence is still in the dark on that very important meeting? >> it's really shocking that the director of national intelligence does not know what happened in helsinki in the meeting between the president and president putin. that's absolutely amazing. he need to have that intelligence information in order to do his job. yet he doesn't know what happened in that room. that's why as an oversight function of the united states senate, it's absolutely essential that we have the information about what happened in the meeting between mr.

i saw helsinki. in the private meetings, spilling into the narrative about mr. putin and his concept of how governments operate. compromising our democratic system in the manner of which that meeting took place. after the meeting, they were celebrating in moscow. and they were scurrying in washington to try to figure out some of the statements that were made. so, first, try to assure me that -- you say sanctions need discretion. i understand that. from the point of view of the executive branch, you need discretion and policy. the problem is, one person can exercise that discretion. the president of the united states. we saw that the president might very well -- we know there have been discussions about sanctions and with mr. putin, etc. have you been briefed as to what happened in helsinki in regards to discussions on sanctions? sec. mitchell: i have been briefed on the appropriate information i need to carry out my job in regards to russia. the president was also clear in an interview yesterday. the question you are asking, he was very clear about this. beyond

of course, the meeting in helsinki last month was two hours long. so this was not the entire discussion. but this was a laundry list of things that the russians said they were willing to start talking about, renewing the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty. or extendsing it. to limit the nuclear arms on each side. it included an appeal to start talking about an agreement that could limit or prohibit weapons in space. in some ways a very traditional kind of russian diplomatic overture. the u.s. and the russians have been signing these kinds of agreements for decades. and obviously it's in vladimir putin's interests to try and get some of this moving. a lot of people don't trust him. would russia actually live up to these agreements? an open question. i think the bigger question here is is whether or not with all of this white noise, all of these things we're talking about, the way the russians have been acting, the terrorist attack in britain, there are activities in syria, in ukraine, clearly the meddling in america's electoral process, is it possible that washin

because of what the president did in helsinki. he raised doubts in a lot of the american people's minds about where his true allegiances lie. you've seen them. he had to come out and clean his statements up afterwards. because they realize, he created a serious problem for himself. the problem is, you can't on the one hand admit to election interference and admit that the russians are continuinging to try to interfere in the elections as they did by sending this parade of national security officials out yesterday. and still call russian interference a hoax and attack the investigation that is holding russians accountable. that has indicted 25 russians accountable so far. so the president has this problem. he believes politically he has to continue to attack the investigation because he doesn't know where it's going to go and it might get awfully close to him. either people around him or to him himself. but at the same time, politically, the white house seems to know now, they is there to be more up front and honest then they have

. >> not understanding fully what happened in helsinki. >> he needs that information. what is the message to the american people. she going to be at the center of everything. >> this is new day. >> something very colorful. extensi extensive. >> yeah, welcome to the beginning of your day a lot of news this week. the top security officials are trying to warn americans about what russians are doing. for whatever reason the president does not believe them. it is a hoax, we don't know why s he is ignoring the warnings of his intel chiefs. and democracy. >> what is striking too is that it has been nearly three weeks since the summit in helsinki, and we still don't know what the ramifications are. the director of national intelligence said yesterday that he does not fully understand what happened in that two hour meeting. there is at least one source, the president and the national security advisor, suggests that vladimir putin says election interference is the first issue that president trump brought up. list let's go to kaitlyn collins. >> it was quite a show of force yeste

it was a summit in helsinki in andand between american russian leaders. europeans were there as well. but they're signing of the helsinki accords, which many people at that time thought was a great soviet diplomatic victory because it recognized the established boundaries in europe at that point. but it will also recognize that human rights were an international concern and recognize freedom of conscience and gave interestingly enough, this summit, this agreement, led to the establishment of groups that called themselves helsinki watch, not only in west, but in eastern europe as well. it gave dissidents a foundation to stand upon. the dissidentthat movement got this great boost from the agreement of 1975, which led to the downfall of communism in eastern europe and eventually even the soviet union in the decade that followed. both of these things, the marshall plan and the helsinki accords were examples of america promoting democracy without using military as a means of doing so. if i have learned anything in my career as a journalist, was used all the pr

first, the message that putin got is the guys within helsinki don't believe it. they said the operations by the russians continue even after the helsinki meeting. there is no cost to this. the president should be participating in a message to putin, too. when you think of new york, where you are, alisyn, there has been messaging but public figures to the people of new york and elsewhere. see something say something. guys on the intell tried to stop terrorism. the point i'm making is that the president should be out there talking to people on facebook and twitter saying this is what you need to watch out for. who is the spokes man to the american people about what they need to be careful about in the next election. >> so let me ask a question to anyone that wants to take it. is it possible that in this meeting that the president had with putin, said to him, and they said you have to be tough privately. is it possible that he sent that message and the administration is happy to be quiet about it? >> possibly, but they could therefore after the meeting say it was th

no one else puts out a statement after what happened in helsinki. there's no voice like john mccain's. >> first of all, the point needs to be made that for as mavericky and original that john mccain has been, he proved himself in battle and in prison, he was very much a creature of washington. he loved green rooms. he knew the back of every green room in washington. no question about it. i think he set the record for most appearances on ""meet the pres press". he was around. he was aware of the many acts he has had over the years and the many cliches he's embodied. over the last year his voice has been very powerful. it's among the people who have been most outspoken about donald trump, whether it's jeff flake or bob corker. i would put mccain in a different category, he would be outspoken anyway. it's a much more profound back story and a much more profound experience he speaks with. >> i think i'm speaking with all of you saying we all send our thoughts to the mccains today. >> absolutely. >> after the break, donald trump's cfo a man for whom the

well, constructive for whom, the helsinki summit? >> the russians are reacting in the way that's predictable. they were hoping the summit at helsinki were usher in a greater openness towards russia. these sanctions signal two things, one, the u.s. officially blaming them for the nerve agent attack in london, and slapping on what are even stronger sanctions to isolate the russian economy and to affect even potentially the existence of russia/u.s. trade. the russians will not react well to this. keep in mind, the russians have always seen the arena of economic warfare as part of the competition with the united states. so they see this as a bit of an act of war, another act of isolation of the russian economy. that's why they're reacting the way they are. they're threatening no doubt titanium exports and other things the u.s. needs. >> i guess i was not aware that we rely on russian government made engines for our rockets. i knew we were relying on them to bring our astronauts and supplies to the space station, but i didn't realize, cli

in a position to understand fully what happened in helsinki or talk about it. i understand talking about it, but understand fully. >> a stunning but honest reaction i would say. we should be deeply disturbed as a country that the director of national security does not know what transpired. >> would you admit it is odd. >> transparency is important in this process. we need all the agencies working together. the president is going to -- he makes the decision for himself. he was elected to do these diplomatic conversations. it is his discretion. >> two hours -- >> everyone stick around. >>> why robert mueller wants to talk to a russian pop star? and then ivanka trump saying the news of family separations at the border was one of her worst moments during her time in the white house. did she mention this to her father? (vo) when bandits stole the lockbox from the wells fargo stagecoach, agent beekman was one step ahead of them. because he hid his customers' gold in a different box. and the bandits, well, they got rocks. we protected your money then and we're dedicat

this is getting more attention post helsinki. honestly, senator, are any of these efforts going anywhere? we're 90 plus days out from the election. >> that's the test about whether the republicans in congress, whether the republican leadership in congress is really interested and willing to protect our democracy going into 2018. they made some nice sounding statements. >> they don't seem to be opposed to what you put out. the deter act you put out with rubio. >> that's exactly right. we have strong bipartisan support. the ultimate question is whether the republican leadership in congress, whether senator mcconnell, who said positive things did the deter act, whether he is willing to put it up for a vote. we did get a troubling sign just the other day when we had a vote in the senate on providing more resources to states to protect their election systems and virtually every republican senator voted against that simple measure to allow that protection. i will say that momentum is building among republican and democratic senators to

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both presidents called it a success the american political class and corporate media describe the helsinki summit as a failure and trump even worse are the united states and russia destined to be enemies forever. cross talking with a phobia i'm joined by my guest brian becker in washington he's the director of the answer coalition as well as host of loud and clear a daily news show on radio sputnik also in washington we have earl rescues and he is the executive vice president of the eurasia center and in managua across sudan he is an adjunct professor of law at the university of pittsburgh as well as author of the plot to scapegoat russia all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it dan when did you finish writing your book the date. yes last last year like last so what what did you know that we didn't know then because it sounds like an absolutely perfect idol for the moment in the current news cycle go ahead. well russia has been a scapegoat at the united states for a long long time you know we could go as far back

last month today they cover the whole range of pretty much what it being touched upon a in helsinki they talked about the nuclear nonproliferation they talked about cyber attacks they talked about the situation in syria in afghanistan and ukraine as well and this meeting of course comes when relations between moscow and washington are at a particularly low ebb with sanctions from the united states against russia looming over the poisoning of said in the united kingdom earlier this year russia denies any role in the attempts on misguided piles life when it came to the iranian sanctions in the iran nuclear deal john bolton unequivocal who saying that the will be sanctions put in place against iran on doing business with iran and that the sanctions all coming into november and he's in the russian side didn't ask for any exemptions during the meeting today and that the u.s. side on expecting to gave many exemptions at all i think this whole notion that sanctions also are a weapon and the how we as a country americans i can't you know threatening even more severe sanctions and i think th

intelligence admits he still does not know what the president told vladimir putin last month in helsinki. think about it. the director of national intelligence. and ivanka trump says that it was a low point for her when the separations of children from their family were happening under her father's administration, through her father's policy. she says it was low point. she was, felt bad about it. the big question is, will she do anything about it? besides prepared comments. with us we have national affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc john heilemann. donny is here. donny deutsch is here. republican strategist and nbc political analyst susan del percio is here. columnist for the "washington post" david ignatius and pulitzer prize winning historian jon meacham, author of "the soul of america: the battle for our better angels." a battle we're in right now for sure. joe will be back aon monday. willie what did you think of the president? your gut watching? >> extraordinary a couple hours after his entire national security apparatus appeared in the white house briefing room laying out chapt

more than a month after president trumps helsinki meeting with president putin we remain in the dark about what the two leaders discussed. we continue to hear more information from the russian government that our own. it's not only embarrassing but i believe his lack of transparency has implications for our lack of security. i'm not convinced those in need to know in our own executive branch have a full understanding of what happened. after more than three hours with the secretary, the committee has less insight than we did before the meeting. this administration has failed to answer requests or provide any information . i am formally requesting the department to provide all classified and unclassified able traffic related to the helsinki meeting memorandums and policy directives. i won't end time running through process ongoing transgressions, i think president trumps cabinet, director mattis and others have warned that russia continues to undermine our democracy. russ is uses chemical weapons, invade the neighbors illegally annexes territory. assad's murderous regime relies on the

started in 1959, in helsinki. and culminating in may 1972. the salt i agreement limited the number of anti-ballistic missile sites that each country could have. and, it limited the number of intercontinental missiles, and submarine launched ballistic missiles, by freezing them to existing levels. and, the senate approved the agreements very quickly by august, by an overwhelming vote. the second part of ditente under president nixon, was opening relations to china. nixon made a dramatic trip to china in february 1972. carefully orchestrated, like a television production. the air force transported almost 40,000 pounds of equipment. including a full television ground station, so they could cover this historic trip of nixon to china. the two most striking images of the whole trip were nixon shaking hands with -- a vivid contrast to and secretary of state had refused to shake his hand during a convention back in 1954. as well as nixon's famous walk along the great wall. during their meetings, nixon called of mao tse tung quote. those on the right

i am matt miller in helsinki.are 12 minutes into the session. , let's goock stories to annmarie hordern. buyoca-cola agreeing to custom coffee, that deal giving heavyweight to the stock this morning. daimler to the downside by 1%. president trump calls the eu trading block as bad as china. he is rejecting the eu offer to scrap auto tariffs. daimler, bmw also down as well. as well as auto parts makers, and per really luxury tire maker, down 3.5%. this is not just on trump comments. they cut their targets for pirelli, and said the luxury tire market is oversupplied. ,uy: thank you very much annmarie hordern. president trump has rejected a european union offer to scrap tariffs on cars. he spoke exclusively with bloomberg's editor-in-chief. they createump: standards that make it impossible. they has standards like with medical equipment, we cannot -- not that the standards are higher, they are just different. our companies cannot get medical equipment into europe. i said you have to change her ways because the europea

>> dana: john, you asked director coats, i believe, about helsinki. you were there. >> i did. >> dana: you were there for the press conference and you said you wanted to know. and what was his answer? >> i wanted to know because the president said that vladimir putin made a very convincing argument that russian government had nothing to do with election meddling in 2016. so i asked director coats, who had put out a statement after that saying that, yes, they believed that russia did meddle and director coats said that he fully supports the findings of the intelligence community assessment. and that assessment was that russia and russian government interfered in the 2016 election. so, despite what the president said about putin making convincing argument, dan coats certainly isn't convinced. dana? >> dana: do you think what they did today standing up there as principles talking to the american people and to the world because, our enemies, allies, the military, serve watching you, when you are in the white house briefing room and it's live and have you

at a rally in pennsylvania, president trump touted the helsinki summit with putin and talked about attacks on american democracy. >> we got along really well. by the way, that's a good thing not a bad thing. now we're being hindered by the russian hoax. everybody said, wow, that was great. a couple hours later, i started hearing reports that they wanted me to walk up. they wanted me to walk up and go like this. son of a -- >> for you wondering how the president may box. you're welcome. hours earlier, key members of the national security team appeared in the white house briefing room to warn the country the russian election interference is ongoing. >> in regards to the russian involvement in the mid-term elections, we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and divide the united states. >> russia attempted to interfere with the last election and continues to engage and malign influence operations to this day. >> our democracy itself is in the crosshairs. free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. it is clear they are the target of our adv

>> i'm not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened at helsinki. >> helsinkihe last word. how can he not be in a position to understand and discuss with full cogency what happened in helsinki? he's the director of national intelligence. helsinki, still stinky when it comes to what happened between these two men. and at least dan coats needs to know. now, if this is all an accurate reflection of what they want us to believe, yet the president keeps telling us something very different, we get the play. what's happening? trump is putting the me before the we, and that works for an adoring crowd. but he was elected for the we. in this case that would mean owning the facts of what happened with russia and doing what he must to keep the country safe. bottom line, he needs to be on the same page with his people. that's what being president demands. so let's take a quick break. when we come back, we have governor john kasich. he's following what russian attacks on the democracy meant. he has ideas for what needs to happen. he has ideas for what he has to see his party

. >> in the run-up to the helsinki summit, u.s. officials, ambassadors to nato, ambassadors to russia said the president would raise the issue of the malign activity with president putin. he didn't discuss that at least at the press conference. you're saying today that the president has directed you to make the issue of election meddling a priority. how do you explain the disconnect between what you are saying, his advisers, and what the president has said about this issue? >> i'm not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened at helsinki. >> lahnee, that's the director of national intelligence. >> that happens to be the truth, i guess. >> kudos to director coats. he handed it off to bolton, but the director of national intelligence doesn't feel like he can speak about what happened. >> this is another problem the president could solve. if the president wanted to, he could come out and say this is exactly what we talked about in helsinki. >> maybe he doesn't want to, though. >> whether he doesn't want to o

nothing could have gone worse than your meeting in helsinki. it embarrassed our country. it enraged our allies. it strongly reinforced the idea that putin's got something on you. >> jon: mm-hmm. >> stephen: and it's the first time your party turned against you, even a little. ♪ so, let's collude again like we did last summer ♪ "thanks, guys. guys, thanks so much for cleaning all the poop off me. now, if you'll excuse me, i'm going to make a snowman out of turds." ( laughter ) ( piano riff ) ( cheers and applause ) i'll tell you, this meeting is gonna be really a tough one for director of national intelligence and statler being informed of waldorf's demise, dan coats. ( laughter ) now, you may remember, trump threw coats and his intelligence agencies under the bus to side with putin in helsinki. so it is hard to imagine the look on his face when he heard about this. luckou imagine it, because he was giving a live interview when the news broke. >> we have some breaking news. the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fal

we have had inner agency discussions about the helsinki summit. >> i will try one more time. this is about as simple as it gets. you can go, did you tie your shoe or not? yes or no? did you hear whether or not sanctions were discussed in this meeting? yes or no? do you know if they were discuss discussed or not? >> i don't know the specifics of whether they discussed sanctions at the meeting, but i think the president has publicly discussed his conversations with district who did. -- with mr. putin. >> but you are in charge of implementing these things. >> what i can tell you is that following the helsinki summit, my mandate remains the same, which is to continue to impose sanctions to counter russia's maligned behavior. and we have done that in full force. >> the fact is, russia is still in syria. they have not changed their behavior. they're still in ukraine. they're still using cyber attacks. they're still meddling in elections. they're preparing to meddle in the upcoming elections. they're still violating the imf treaty. this is all taking place while we have sanctions in

i think people are concerned about what happened in helsinki. i think people are correspond about the economy and these tariffs. and just going back to helsinki very briefly, people here in texas were embarrassed by what they saw. and i thought the president had a chance to turn the page. many people think, was he compromised? is there something to that dossier? and when he was with putin on the world stage with cameras in front of him, he had a chance to be tough. instead, he let putin walk all over him. and i think it just further reinforced that there's a lot of fire to all of this smoke that's happening around this investigation. and he didn't do anything to move on from this. and with the latest revelations and everything that's going on right now with the manhattan madam, paul manafort and roger stone, it just appears to be getting worse and worse for him. and it also begs the question, why in the world did the republicans on the house intelligence committee think that now was the time to end the investigation? the american public just, in

i mean, no one else put out a statement like the one i read after helsinki. no one else boiled it down to brass tax, called it a tragic disgrace. there is no voice like john mccain's in that town. >> first i think the point needs to be made for as mavericky and original as john mccain has been, obviously he proved his mettle on battle field and prison you can only revere. he was very much a creature of washington. he loved green rooms. he was probably drn i don't know if he loved green rooms. he knew the back of every green room in washington, no question about it. he probably -- i think he set the record for most appearances on "meet the press." that was true for a while. and so, yeah, he was around. he was very much a creature of this town. and he also -- he played a part. he was aware of the many apps he has had over the years, the many cliches he has embodied, the short time people talk about in politics. clearly over the last year his voice has been very powerful. i think it's emblematic of the people who have been most outspoken about donald trump from