that statement by ivanov, basically saying we confirm everything we have been saying. there was no hacking, and the u.s. president agrees with it. and we'll be asking everybody we know tomorrow in washington, did president trump, did he really accept this? did he really say that? it sounds insane. it sounds out of this world that he would just go and put it away like that with the entire country interested in this investigation. >> ambassador mcfaul, i have the final question for you. it may be the hardest to answer. going forward, is the trump administration taking the position that russia either didn't meddle or it barely mattered, so it's all good, or is there a view that to the extent they meddled, it was to help trump? so he doesn't really need to prevent it because it could help him again in the re-elect. >> i don't know the answer to that obviously. i wasn't in the meeting. by the way, i used to negotiate who would be in those meetings, plus one, plus two, plus three. i had assumed that the russians kept the americans out. if this reporting by "the new york time

ivanovic has is now part of the baseball him on salary. he played with the texas rangers, but is probably best known in washington for catching stephen strasburg's fourth team major-leaguehis league debut. other members of the class include tim raynor, bud selig, -- josh are we start the second quarter. 37-26, mystics. big with the block. mystics on the move. she had a huge first half, fourth her three-pointer of the game. second half alone, she went 14 for 22. 30 points. that is a mystics win this 1, 77-70. in football, after three long days of hardware, the redskins finally get a break. today was the first day off since camp started. they will get back to work on monday. they have their walk through a 10:30 in the morning, and at 3:00 p.m., -- ,> this was there one day off coming up, and i wanted to have two the days of practice and jump back into it. try to get them every three to four days. these guys are working extremely hard, and it can be beneficial to their legs and bodies. robert: much more tonight on sports sunday. you want to h

when we saw ivanov, the former kremlin chief of staff lose his job. this i interpreted as putin trying to rein in some of the parts of hi atic inner circle to bring in you think yer people who will be willing to steal less and work harder. imthis was an attempt to rein in kleptocratic russia because rebuilding an empire is expensive. this tension, i think, is something we always kind of need to keep our eye on between these two russias that, again, sometimes are working hand in glove but sometimes are working across -- at cross purposes. paul: on that, we'll conclude the briefing. thank you so much, brian, thank you to the full panel. fascinating briefing and we'll see you all at the next one. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] d on c-span 2, a look at the deloit a national public safety network for first responders and on c-span3, local officials estify on ways to finance u.s. water