you have to make it through and that's a pretty good ground rule >> mitchell sanders. he touched a bit on conservative fiscal policy and conservative attitude towards government deregulation. a larger portion of america is starting to agree with you on that however i think a lot of people need to have conservatism as a social policy. i think a lot of people consider themselves conservative fiscally but more liberal socially. what do you need to do to combat that an adapter that? >> i think it works itself out in different ways. on the one front you could argue the whole question for example of marriage has moved particularly your generation towards what we call the left. .. >> this is a more complicated pattern. sometimes you build the majority around the issues so you can rally a majority with. part of the politics is to focus on the ones he went on not the ones you loose on. one of the things i am proud of is that i help right the only for balance budgets in a lifetime. i think we will get back to that. we will do a series of short courses on how to balance the budge

. >> college of the ozarks mitchell sanders you touch on conservative fiscal policy and attitudes toward government and i think larger portion of america is starting to agree with you but i think that a lot of people think about the social policy especially my generation they consider themselves conservative fiscally but liberal socially so what do they need to do to adapt to that? >> i think it works itself out in different ways. on one friend you could argue that the whole question of gay marriage with your generation what you could call the left but on the other hand abortion is moved to the right and that development of technology that allows you to see the baby at an earlier age has had a devastating effect especially after the first 20 weeks so it is a more complicated pattern. but you build a majority around the issues part of the art of politics is to focus on what you win on not let you lose. one of the things i am proud of as speaker i helped to write before balance budgets in your lifetime and i think we will get back to that and there are ways to do that that are very real i

going toe special >> [laughter] >> yeah, that happened nbc's andrea mitchell treakinghe news to director of national co. sarah huckabee sandersays the president askedna natio securitydviser john bolton to invite putin after the two met privately in finland. >> he saidhey continue the discussion for the things they talk about the, the things they wanted to collaborate on which includes talking about things like north korea, trade and other issues. i think, youw, the community is -- is stunned. we're speechless right now coidering everything tha we've been going through since that helsinki press conference. >> yeah. >> all right. >> well, we're goingabo talk out this a little bit more with our panelist democratic strategist joel pain and aaron anrson. good to see you both. >> eric i want to start with we -- at this point we know the question asked to president trump it seemed like at first he was taking the side, he said he believed putin then he wenthawasn't the . dan coats i feel like is being a bit marginalized right now. >> i think dan coats is stuck right where he should be and that's the sort of e dysfunctional head of th

also an astonishing moment there, andrea mitchell informing the director about that sarah sanders tweete just played for you and coats appeared not to have known about that and simply said, oof, that'll be special. >> that's a good reaction. stick around if you would. we're joined by the former ambassador to russia in 2001 and 2005 also this tweet, what would a visit from vladimir putin to washington mean, and how would it go down >> well, another visit by vladimir putin would i think be a mixed event. on the one hand there's a lot that there's worth following up on from this helsinki summit in terms of limiting the nuclear arms competition, addressing problems like syria where there's a risk our forces could get into direct conflict with each other but at the same time what i'm still missing from the president is a real recognition that russia is actively trying to undermine our democracy, that's it's still engaged in an open aggression against one of its neighbors, ukraine he didn't even mention ukraine at his press conference in helsinki still not entirely clear the president is the

mitchell. >> kansas is the segway. we were talking about bernie sanderso the midwest with alexandra cortez, here in the new york. they were going to campaign together for the first time. this was her foray on the national stage. you were watching that. how in keeping with what you expected was the event out there? >> it was, as you say, her first time out, particularly into red america. you know, it's a different thing to campaign in new york city as a dedicated socialist. same with bernie sanders, very blue vermont. they can sort of be those democratic socialists where it's perhaps fairly safe to do that. going into red kansas and mostly red missouri is another story all together. it looked like the event went very well. senator sanders was the big draw in most cases, as he often is. we've seen that now for years. that he is a magnetic draw and lots of people come out because they want to hear him, particularly young people. and so it was a good introduction for her to sort of ride his coattails into these places. but then she made a very good speech her

. >> bret: kudos to andrea mitchell for asking in real time as this tweet came out, asking the director of national intelligence. from sarah sandersn helsinki, we agreed to an ongoing working level dialogue. president trump asked john bolton to invite president putin to washington in the fall and those discussions are already underway." we will start there with the panel. jonah goldberg, national review. mueller mollie hemingway, "the federalist" ." and mike allen. the coach's was interesting. he laid out where the line was drawn then how the intelligence was there. he is staying in his job and holding the line. your thoughts. >> a lot of people were joking on twitter, i did have a feeling like they got the order of the exit interview wrong because he kind of was speaking so freely about this and it seemed to be so off message. we all have our arguments about the mueller probe and the domestic politics stuff. it does seem to me that this is serious stuff in the national security team. this is trump's handpicked national security team. they should be rated on these things. having to find out from andrea mitchell from a tweet doesn'

press secretary sarah huckabee sanders catching many by surprise, including the director of national intelligence dan coats. he learned the news from nbc's andrea mitchell during a live interview at the aspen security forum. >> we have some breaking news. the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. >> say that again. >> vladimir putin coming -- >> did i hear you? >> yes, yes. >> okay. >> yes. >> that's going to be special. >> that's going to be special. it is a noupsment comes after president trump faced massive bipartisan -- i'm going to say that one more time -- bipartisan backlash for his commons with putin in finland. can you believe that was on monday? feels like a lifetime ago. namely for not backing trump's own intelligence community's clear a segme assessment that m interfeared in the 2016 election and blaming the u.s. for deteriorating relations with russia. in a week of walkbacks, clarifications, clean-ups and reversal, the white house now says president trump is rejecting putin's offer to allow u.s. investigators to question 12 russians indicted for election meddling in exchange for t

happen and within a few hours it did happen and sarah sanders announced it over twitter, actually over the dan coats interview with andrea mitchellon. >> how does this play into the mueller investigation if at all? one of the final questions of that news conference to putin, they have something. the other was investigators going over there to tell them what they had found about the russians. i'm not sure that that really changes anything. the thing about the putin meeting that i find funny, if coats had a problem -- coats said he thought it was unusual that the foreign minister and ambassador met in the oval office in may and now you have putin in the white house. after that you kind of wonder what will coats do between now and the summit. will he allow it to happen or speak up on what he did. he already tried to backtrack on what he said the end of the week. >> president trump is very much digging in his heels. he doesn't like the coverage but he wants to go it alone. he wants to drive this train. as a result, if he wants to bring putin to the white house, he wants to do that. dan coats releasing a statement basically saying, i'

. >> mitchell sanders. you touched a bit on conservative fiscal policy and conservative attitude toward government deregulation and a larger portion of america is starting to agree with you on that. however, a lot of people with conservatism and social policy. a lot of people consider themselves fiscally but more liberal, how do you combat that and adapt to that. >> it works itself out in different ways. on the one friend you could argue the whole question of gay marriage has moved in your generation towards what we call the left. on the other hand i suggest that abortion has moved to the right and the development of technologies that allow you to see the baby at an earlier date has had a devastating effect on the acceptability of abortion particularly after the first 20 weeks. these things, it is a more complicated pattern. i also think sometimes you build a majority around issues you can rally a majority. and focus on the ones you win on and not focus on the ones you lose on. what i'm proud of is the spea