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joining me now is ambassador nicholas burns. a former undersecretary of state for political affairs. he is now a professor at the harvard kennedy school of government. max boot, a senior fellow for national security studies at the council of foreign relations. he is a former adviser for mitt romney's 2012 campaign. and "new york times" reporter and msnbc contributor yamiche alcindor. let me start with you, yamiche. we finally get the president admitting he is under investigation. we went for a long period of time with statements and charges and rumors back and forward. and he kept really emphasizing, i have been told i'm not under investigation. now, it switches this week. he admits or concedes he's under investigation and then goes right after the investigators, saying it's a witch hunt. >> well, to me, it's a remarkable moment because now we have the president saying with no questions that he is now undeinvestigation. at's really important because he fired james comey for the main point that he wanted to get rid of this quote/

kevin: nicholas burns, the former ambassador to nato under the george w.tion, he was testifying and criticizing president donald trump's response to russian cyber hacking into the election, but also president barack obama saying that neither president did enough. i spoke with a democrat from west virginia to get his take on this, take a listen. >> i think that ambassador burns was very direct saying please, take up the russian sanction bill that the senate passed 97-2. it could've been controversial, but it was not. we are asking the colleagues on the house side to do the same. kevin: they kicked it over to the house, but no word yet on when the timeline will be. anna: trump in moon meet tomorrow, trade is on the agenda. kevin: trade, how to deal with north korea, and expect china to come up as well, for how they are working with these two countries as well. david: thank you kevin cirilli, for joining us. at 8:00 p.m., cohosting the boston fireworks spectacular . it starts on the fourth of july at 8:00 p.m. you can catch all of our interviews on the bloomb

yesterday, former nato ambassador nicholas burns testified at the committee's hearing on the russiandling in elections. and here's what he said. it is his duty, president trump's, to be sceptical of russia. it is his duty to investigate and defend our country against cyber defences because russia is our most dangerous adversary in the world today. if he continues to refuse to act it is a dereliction to defend the country. russia is going to do this again. those are pretty strong words. it seems that everybody in congress sees the russian interference as a problem but when donald trump hears russia and the russia investigation he hears it is bad for him and he does not want to engage with it so how do you get round that? we do not have an emperor, we have a president. we are getting ready to start the appropriations process and when it comes to... we are looking to get more money to the agencies trying to collect more information on the russians. our secretary of defence has been very clear at the threat russia poses. i was recently in ukraine and i saw what the russians were doing in

nicholas burns joins us. thank you for joining us. you testified before this panel, what was your bottom line on the cyber threat from russia? >> my bottom line is that we're seeing a systematic attempt by russians in the netherlands, germany and france in elections in summer, filling the air waves with untruthful lies about the candidates. president trump has not looked at this, so it's time for congress to lead. 97-2, to impose very tough sanctions on russia. i testified this morning that congress needs to lead now, and we need tough sanctions on russia to respond to this. >> as you know, president trump has been very critical of president obama for not doing enough while he was in office to deal with this russian threat. what if anything, as far as you know, as president trump done since taking office, approaching six months in office. when sergey kislayak was in the white house did he raise this issue and stop it? >> reporter: there's not an indication that president trump has raised this with lavrov and kislayak. we're in an extr

nicholas burns is a former u.s. ambassador to nato. in senate testimony today, he blasted president trump for not addressing russia's interference in american address. his remarks come just a day te castigated the media for reporting what she called the russia-trump hoax. >> we've been going on this russia-be tru trump hoax for the part of a year with no evidence of anything. >> i find it dismaying and objectionable that president trump continues to deny the undeniable fact that russia launched a major abocyberattack. if he continues to refuse to act, it's a dereliction of the basic duty to defend the country can. >> ambassador burns says he believes president obama should have acted more quickly to be more transparent with the american public about russian interference. >>> the new president of south korea is in washington for a summit that begins tomorrow. and one of his first stops upon arrival, the marine corps museum. moon memorial park. president moon says he continues to be grateful to the marine corps. >>> right now a rally at

bush state department official nicholas burns earlier today in congress suggested that president trumpld be in dereliction of duty if he, quote, refused to act on russia. that seems rather strong. what do you think? >> well, i would completely agree with that. the national security needs of the country have to come first, they certainly have to come as a higher priority than whatever effect this would have on, you know, how he views the legitimacy or the size of his election victory. that is not what's of great consequence here. what is of most consequence is preparing the country for another potential russian interference in our affairs. right now the message the russians are getting is they're not going to pay much of a price for this. indeed, their best spokesperson is the president of the united states because he is the one casting doubt on what they did. so we are, i think, very poorly prepar prepared. if the russians interfere with the midterms, if the president won't acknowledge what happened in his own election, what hope do we have that he will speak out if they do this again?

ambassador to nato and greece, nicholas burns and mike baker. thanks so much for being with us. ambassador, i want to start with you on the subject of russia. you caused quite a stir when you testified the president, his lack of response to russia represent as dereliction of the duty to defend the country. why such strong words? >> well, because they are warranted because there is a systematic cyber attack by the russian government on our elections. it was repeated in the dutch, french and now german elections. there's no doubt about it, the intelligence agencies in the united states are conclusive on that. in response, president trump has not investigated what happened to us back in 2016. he's not initiated any effort to build our defenses because we have midterms coming up in 2018 and another presidential election in 2020. he has not actually worked with our european allies to have a collective response to russia and he's not supporting strong sanctions with the senate republicans want to put forward toward russia. his first duty is to defend the country. we have been assaulte

president's advisers are struggling to convince him of the threat russia poses as former nato ambassador nicholas burne president's response to russia's election interference in testimony before the senate. take a listen. >> it is his duty, president trump's, to be skeptical of russia. it's his duty to investigate and defend our country against a cyber offensive, because russia's our most dangerous adversary in the world today, and if he continues to refuse to act, it's a dereliction of the basic duty to defend the country. >> this as reuters is reporting that the kremlin says vladimir putin and president trump will meet on the sidelines of the g-20 summit next week. joining us now to discuss this is democratic congressman adam schiff. he is the ranking member on the house permanent select committee on intelligence. thank you so much for joining us. start with the news that president trump and president putin it looks like will meet on the sidelines of the g-20. what are they going to discuss, and also, if i could ask you to respond to ambassador burns there saying he views russia as the number one th

. >>> former bush state department official nicholas burns accused the president of dereliction of dutydefend the country for his disinterest in russian meddling and criticized the obama administration. he joins me now with jim sciutto. jim, president obama did sign an order on cyber security. any evidence that he's focused directly on the threat from russia itself? >> reporter: no, little evidence that he's focused on the threat. we're hearing that from people inside his own administration. i've spoken to democrats and republicans on the hill who don't see the level of urgency either. this is not just looking backwards but looking forward, anderson. because everybody says, not just russia, but china, iran, north korea, very actively targeting the u.s. political process, political organizations, et cetera. and there is no reason to believe that russia in particular will not attack again, and the big concern, anderson, is that this time, they will take the alarming step of targeting voter tallies. that didn't happen in 2016, but there's real concern a lot of these probing attacks or layi

ambassador to nato, nicholas burns, saying he now believes this is the most serious threat to the united states of america. he had harsh words for president obama, but particularly for president trump who he said could be accused of dereliction of duty in his reluctance to kind of take on this issue of russia. do you think that's a fair assessment? do you concur with this idea that russia is the number one threat currently facing the united states? >> i do. i don't believe it's china. i don't believe it's terrorism for a couple of reasons. let's look at facts. one is the fact that russia has unpredictably intervened in europe and threatened some of our allies with whom we have treaty obligations. i think china is more predictable and i think we have at least part of a handle on the threat of global terrorism, a handle we didn't have after 9/11, 16 years ago. if you look at the way forward, i do believe there's a dereliction of duty. this isn't very complicated. the white house had the easiest talking point ever. the president comes into office, turns over to his national security adviser

nicholas burns, a former state department official under president bush testified before the senate intelligence committee today on the threat of russian influence in our election. listen to this. >> i find it dismaying and objectionable that president trump continues to deny the undeniable fact that russia launched a major cyber attack against the united states. it is his duty -- president trump's -- to be skeptical of russia. it's his duty to investigate and defend our country against a cyber offensive because russia is our most dangerous adversary in the world today. and if he continues to refuse to act, it's a dereliction of the basic duty to defend the country. >> admiral kirby, those are strong words. do you agree? >> i do. there's nobody in my mind more respectable or reputable on this issue than ambassador burns, and i completely agree with his view. it is stunning to me that this president has not, since the election, acknowledged overtly that russia had a role here, that they tried to meddle in the election, that they tried to affect the outcome. again, whether they did or not is an is

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