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nobody is blaming obama or trump. the question is what will you do now, what could he have done when he found out. i need to look forward. we look forward to the next meeting. is it better, communications guys, south regional director, to have it before the mid term or to have it after? >> i think if he has him in washington, it has got to be a show of strength. it's got to be more choreographed and scripted than we have seen. i think they're looking at the fall. it would be before the mid terms. >> it could be after. it could be after. from my perspective, we talked about this in the newsroom, is it possible to have it after the mid term, then republicans are running against remember what happened in july when the president stood next to him or could be running on what could be a stronger donald trump the second time around. >> i think if he has it before mid terms, it puts every establishment republican at risk who is on the ballot. donald trump's campaign was centered around destroying the republican party. if you'

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, obama cia director warned counterparts in russia and president obama warned putin directly in a meeting about russian meddling. there's plenty of evidence there were attempts to do things before the election. president trump is not even willing to sort of address now what is a crucial issue which is what happens now. what happens when there's an election three months from now in november, a mid term election that most in the intelligence community expect russia to do some of the same things again. right now we expect that the white house isn't going to back down, despite a lot of folks suggesting unless president trump will forcefully address this with vladimir putin, it shouldn't go forward. the president is going to go into the meeting with putin and expects to address a slew of issues and do so with the objective that maybe they could have some kind of personal rapport. obviously there are deep issues here, escalating issues here, and a lot of evidence piling up that this was an attack directed by the highest levels of the russian government. jim? >> no one in intelligence can contes

obama administration do something. he did something. he told president putin to cut it out as you say, the hacking, also there were sanctions implemented at the very end of 2016. are you satisfied with the obama administration efforts to thwart the interference campaign by putin? >> i think what we saw was candidate trump was saying this entire election process is rigged. i think what you saw is president obama bending over backwards to try to not interfere with an upcoming election by talking about this issue. when you absolutely felt they had to, they confronted him, talked about it publicly, and issued sanctions. president trump's reaction is just the opposite. he enforced watered down sanctions, passed by congress. only when he was forced to. and he delayed that measure at the same time. and oh, by the way, he's called it a hoax and witch hunt, has to be great news for vladimir putin. >> you talked about looking back. look forward, four months from the mid term election. the president says he is not worried about r

did one with obama voters in detroit. i did one for obama voter that is didn't vote in 2016. i didn't see a lot of love for donald trump. i saw a lot of people who probably could vote democrat but they just want to know what the party's for. they want to party to stand for something. they want the party to be unafraid. >> it's so weird because in 2 a 2008, ten years ago, we had everything. democrats the white house. the senate, the house, we had a shot at the supreme court. we had hope. now it's 2018 ten years late interwe got nothing. like literally nada. what happened? you were there. you seent it. what happened in the obama era that we lost all this stuff? >> one thing happened was there was a bit of a transactional view of politics after 2008. it was okay, i'm going come up for obama, work for obama, organize, hand him my vote and then i'm going to go back to my life and he's going fix everything. i think what we are learning now after donald trump became president is the business of democracy is an everyday struggle. especially as democrats we have to be organizing and f

i wish president obama had been more aggressive in pursuing it during president obama's term. but the think the department of justice can get to the bottom of this without a special counsel. i think the mueller investigation, the problem with special counsels is exactly what happened in the starr investigation and that is that they run far a field of it. people are threatened with life in prison for tax evasion and so what happens is you end up spending years and years and millions ever dollars. i think that in the end it's too enormous of a governmental power. can you imagine if every businessman or woman in the u.s., if we went back through 30 years and knit picked what their tax returns. what we could do to every individual if the full power of the government came after that and threatened them with life in prison if they made a tax violation? we would live in a world nobody would like or appreciate at that point. i do think the department of justice would have investigated the russians and i think indicting these officers that were hacking elections is a good thing. >> thi

it doesn't surprise me they liked obama. it wasn't surprising to me reagan was up the list a little bit as well. it doesn't surprise me president kennedy still gets high marks. frankly, i think he did some things during his short and tragic time in office. i wasn't terribly surprised by this research. over time the view of presidencies change. office he had very low approval ratings and today they are much higher. >> that has a lot to do with trump, i'm sure. >> and how we view presidencies? obama won two times for a reason. he was a really talented politician who inspired a lot of people. i won't deny that. a lot of people who voted for him once or twice are still proud of those votes. >> i would jump in and say bill clinton and barack obama both won the popular vote. george bush, the first time around did not and neither did donald trump. that might account for something. >> i'll give you the last word. >> i think the coarseness and callousness we're seeing from the white house. melania's choice of the jacket and harsh mes

president obama tried it his way. first with the reset and being more aggressive in the second term. that didn't work. why not give it a shot with president trump's way? putin grabbed territory in georgia during bush years. grabbed territory in crimea and ukraine in obama years. hasn't done anything yet during trump's years. why not give it a try? >> i don't disagree, jake. i think in light of the indictment and because of the indictment it is really important to meet today. trying a different approach or trying to get something better started with russia is always a good thing. i don't dispute that. that said, what bothers me is trump is going in with blinders on or rose-colored glasses. i don't think he fully understands the scope and depth of russian activity and malign intent in the middle east and world. he is naive going into this. >> you heard the impression from dan coates and others take a hard line against russia. a good cop-bad cop situation. trump willing to criticize putin and the rest of the administrati

he said the russian individuals did their work during the obama years why didn't obama do something about it? because he thought crooked hillary clinton would win that's why. had nothing to do with the trump administration but fake news doesn't want to report the truth as usual. but of course none of this is about whose watch it happened under but rather about who was responsible. and especially just a couple of days before this helsinki meeting this really seems to underscore that president trump is hesitant to blame vladimir putin for this. he has said in the last couple of days that he plans to talk to putin about election meddling. but the president says he doesn't want to belabor the point. doesn't want it to get in the way of a summit that he thinks should be about several other issues and about building a potentially positive relationship with russia. on the other hand, as you pointed out, a lot of democrats are saying that the president should go ahead and cancel the meeting that the indictments really poison the well and prohibit any sort of progress being made on the united stat

obama didn't do it. obama was a patsy for russia. he was a total patsy. look at the statement he made when he thought the mikes were turned off. okay? the stupid statement he made. nobody does a big deal about that. getting along with president putin, getting along with russia is a positive, not a negative. now, with that being said, if that doesn't work out, i'll be the worst enemy he's ever had. the worst he's ever had. >> so trump was referring to the time president obama not realizing he was caught on a hot mike told then-russian president dmitry medvedev that he'd have more flexibility to negotiate missile defense issues after the 2012 presidential election. so let's discuss now with senior political commentator david axelrod. >> hi, don. >> with how weak the president looked, he's attacking president obama for being a patsy. i remember living that statement and reporting that statement. a big deal was made out of it by some in the media. it seems now, now it just seems completely benign. telling someone -- >> well, listen, we heard vladimir putin --

we know how you feel about obama. let's undo what obama is responsible for. and then thirdly, i fear that putin will appeal to trump's instincts to look at nato and the eu and wto and g7 and say these institutions are obsolete. let's create new ones and build a better foundation. >> thank you for your expertise. >> thank you. >>> let's see what you're say og on my twitter and facebook. love you michael but what are you smoking this morning? trump has the opportunity now to promote putin. he's a traitor, plain and simple. >> peter, he can no longer with a straight face regard this as a witch hunt. not given the tremendous detail that was put forth in the 29-page indictment. that will be a joke the next time it should come out of his lips and i am saying that now is an opportunity that he's been handed by rosenstein and mueller for a reset to really be the tough guy that he has sold us he is. and to say vladimir putin, here it is. he should wave that indictment at putin and demand extradition treaty or not that those 12 individuals be handed over to the united

so now is not the time to look back at what the obama administration did. the president and his team really needs to look forward and figure out how they're going to secure these upcoming elections. >> and it's still somewhat befuddling, even a mystery, if you will, why president trump goes back and forth on the russia interference. there are two theories, let's discuss. one is big, that the russian president somehow may have compromising information on donald trump. the other, more innocent, that donald trump just refuses to acknowledge russian interference because he thinks that delegitimizes his election. your thoughts. >> yeah. so you know, let me take the compromising information question first. you know, there's been a lot of discussion of that. there are a couple of things i would say about it. one, i think that people have to understand how the russian mindset works when it comes to compromising information. russians identify individuals of influence, individuals of some notability, and they collect compromising information on them all the time. the

obama didn't do it. obama was a patsy for russia. he was a total patsy. >> he says, i've been tougher. i've done more, and i know i need them. and i can get putin to help me with nukes in syria, to hold down isis, to tame iran, and to help with north korea, and that's why i'm treating him the way i am. do you accept the argument? >> i think all laudable goals. i think it misrepresents the obama administration approach. there was no denial of russian adverse and hostile activities to the united states. president obama didn't deny that, in fact, the russians were trying to hack the election and took a number of steps during the course of the campaign and afterwards. but what it also does is i think it underscores and underestimates that you have to go with this one position of strength, chris. it also misses the fact just how broad-based the hostile activities by russians are against the west and the united states. it's not just the elections that i was saying earlier. it's crimea, the taking over of territory for the first time since

for barack obama and that does matter in the democratic primary. that is who we have as of now. >> thank you. joining us now cnn senior political analyst and editor for the atlantic, good to have you with us. president trump is always weighing in on who he wants to face off with in 2020. in fact, here he is. >> who do you think your democratic opponent will be? joe biden says he will make his decision by january. >> that's a dream. joe biden ran three times and never got more than one percent. president obama took him out of the garbage heap and everybody was shocked that he did. >> what do you think of the president saying biden is his dream opponent? >> i think biden ran twice, actually. joe biden has real assets as a potential nominee and a couple of serious drawbacks. both sides of the ledger exemplify the choices. i think biden could be effective at being a reassuring figure for center right republican leaning voters who are personally revolted by trump and are thus loosening their connection to the republican coalition. he is also someone who

president obama canceled the summit in 2013. he was due to travel to moscow and it was called off in the wake of moscow granting asylum to the refugee intelligence contractor edward snowden and the white house said apart from that, there was not enough momentum in u.s./russia relations to make the summit worthwhile. i think it is very unlikely that were the president somebody he also other than donald trump that this summit would be taking place. this after all is an attack on u.s. sovereignty and u.s. democracy. and the idea that an american president would give vladimir putin that kind of platform on a level sort of stature with the president of the united states when the world has learned the extent and the breadth of this staggering operation seems very unlikely. and i think it is also difficult to believe that another president would not use that summit to publicly be rate oig president putin. last year we saw you emmanuel macron publicly confront putin over the activities of russian propaganda outlets in the french electio

but again, trump's complaint was often voiced by the obama administration. and in neither of these cases is there any indication that donald trump's crude and aggressive

it doesn't surprise me they liked obama. it wasn't surprising to me reagan was up the list a little bit as well. it doesn't surprise me president kennedy still gets high marks. frankly, i think he did some things during his short and tragic time in office. i wasn't terribly surprised by this research. over time the view of presidencies change. when president trump bush left office he had very low approval ratings and today they are much higher. >> that has a lot to do with trump, i'm sure. >> and how we view presidencies? obama won two times for a reason. he was a really talented politician who inspired a lot of people. i won't deny that. a lot of people who voted for him once or twice are still proud of those votes. >> i would jump in and say bill clinton and barack obama both won the popular vote. george bush, the first time around did not and neither did donald trump. that might account for something. >> i'll give you the last word. >> i think the coarseness and callousness we're seeing from the white house. melania's cho

again, this was during the obama administration. they were doing whatever it was during the obama administration and i heard that they were trying or people who were trying to hack into the rnc too, the republican national committee, but we had much better defense. i've been told that by a number of people. we had much better defenses so they couldn't. i think the dnc should be ashamed of themselves for allowing themselves to be hacked. >> i might, but i hadn't thought of that. amy, what does this tell us, if anything, and maybe i'm overanalyzing what the president said here about the seriousness with which he received those indictments on friday? >> well, you're right in using the word "might." it doesn't command any sense of power or any -- he isn't displaying any anger about this and that is really surprising, because he's essentially choosing to believe vladimir putin over his own country and over his own justice department and his own intelligence. and that, to a lot of people, including some republicans, is very problematic. >

he is blaming president obama and the dnc. he says, quote, these russian individuals did their work during the obama years. why didn't obama do something about it? because he thought crooked hillary clinton would win. that is why. m had nothing to do with the trump administration. and this. where is the dnc server and why didn't the fbi take possession of it? deep state. joining us now chairman of the dnc, tom perez. and we know you you weren't the chairman at the time this hacking happened, but what is your reaction to the president's statement? >> well, it is breathtaking. what you just mentioned, not only was this an attack on the dnc, this was an attack on democracy. the attack on state election boards, the efforts to infiltrate secretaries of state databases. this was an attack on our democracy. and this president knew about it before he left for his trip to europe. and he was still calling it a witch hunt. it is anything but a witch hunt, it is a frontal attack. it is not about republicans and democrats. it is about the

obama didn't do it. obama was a patsy for russia. he was a total patsy. look at the statement he made when he thought the mikes were turned off. okay? the stupid statement he made. nobody does a big deal about that. getting along with president putin, getting along with russia is a positive, not a negative. now, with that being said, if that doesn't work out, i'll be the worst enemy he's ever had. the worst he's ever had. >> so, trump was referring to the time president obama not realizing he was caught on a hot mike told then-russian president dmitry medvedev that he'd have more flexibility to negotiate missile defense issues after the 2012 presidential election. so let's discuss now with senior -- csenior adviser, david axelrod. >> hi, don. >> with how weak the president looked, he's attacking president obama for being a patsy. i remember living that statement and reporting that statement. a big deal was made out of it by some in the media. it seems now, now it just seems complete lly benign. telling someone -- >> well, listen, we heard vladimir putin -

let's look at what president obama did and the inaction by president trump. president trump wants to blame everybody but putin for russian aggression and attack on our democracy. president obama confronted strongly and directly the adversary nation that is russia. he did not sit down with him as an equal and call him a great nuclear power. president obama demanded a stop to the attack on our state election systems and threatened severe consequences if that didn't stop. he did not say he would simply ask president putin about it. president trump said over the weekend he was going to maybe raise this, he would ask president putin about it. that's like asking the defendant if he's guilty. you don't ask something you know the answer to. president trump's own intelligence community and own justice department laid out a very clear set of evidence about the attack on our democracy and president putin -- president trump, rather, it's as if he doesn't credit any of that and leaving the question open for president putin. the real question, john, is not what did his pre

looking at efrlg we know shouldn't president obama have done much more? >> jake, our committee will lay out what the obama administration and the fbi should have done or shouldn't have done shortly. the basic facts remain. the reason why we have difficult relations with russia is not because of the mueller probe but because russia intervened in our elections. they hacked into the democratic national committee, hacked into hillary clinton's team. they interfered in the electoral systems. they use social media. this is a full on assault on our democratic system. matter of fact as the intelligence committee made they did it with the intent of helping trump and hurting clinton. that's the reason why we have difficult relations with russia. i am stunned that this president will not call out putin or russia's bad behavior. >> you didn't answer my question which is president obama did not do enough to stop this while it was going on in 2016. i think it seems obvious to anybody reading the indictments or reading the newspaper for the last two years. do you disagr

for ukraine they say it was obama's fault and we'll agree to disagree. this falls under what color is the sky in your world because that's not what president is doing. he is showing a resistant to being tough with russia. and the reason this reports from the senate injrtel committees a important, they say that he personally ordered this. we need to learn from it going forward, we also know that 21 states had their voter databases broken into. that is a significant warning shot for what he spoke about, but the president is showing no desire or willingness to do so. >> i want to make this point quick, what they told congress, we have not been instructed to do anything, to take any sort of precautionary terms from the president for the midterms, but can't we assume they are taking those? do they need an objective? >> yeah, directly at others, have been directly tasked by the president. >> let's see here what was said. >> yeah -- >> has the president directed you and your agency to take specific actions to confront the russian activities. >> he has been very

what the obama administration did in response as to what they learned? >> yeah, that's a really good question. let's start with the obviously point. this isn't an attack on our country the first thing we do is we say, go, it didn't happen on my watch. technically speaking, it is correct. i'll say two things about that. the story needs to be told and told again that they when to the nancy pelosi to mitch mcconnell to the speaker of the house and the leadership and said we have a very serious attack about occurring and about to occur. we need to talk to the american people about it. to warn them about it the senate leader, mitch mcconnell said, no this is a partisan attempt to do x, y, z, i will not permit it. mitch million ccconnell said st is happening. yes, i do believe the obama administration should have responded more. we seen the closure of two facilities. >> that is a lot more pain extracted from him. >> thank you so much for being with us this morning. ? thank you. >> still to come, 12 boys and a soccer coach rescued from that thailand cave are ex

by the time president obama left office, u.s./russia relations were at their lowest point since the cold war. >> and there was that october 7th rose garden announcement from the president that russia was interfering in the election. trump supporters and a lot of republicans say, you didn't go far enough. the democrats say, but mcconnell couldn't get on board and put out this joint statement. that's that and that's politics. what about the facts of actions the trump administration has actually taken against russia? >> well, while we're comparing these two sides, we're comparing obama's eight years in office with president trump's 18 months in office. in that year-and-a-half, there is no doubt the trump administration has cracked down on russia in response to their actions. this past december the trump administration decided to arm ukraine with lethal weapons, including anti-tank weapons which can be used against those russian tanks in eastern ukra e ukraine. in february the doj indicted 13 russians and three entities for alleged i

he says, quote, these russian individuals did their work during the obama years. why didn't obama do something about it? because he thought crooked hillary clinton would win. that is why. m had nothing to do with the trump administration. and this. where is the dnc server and why

they didn't like the obama administration. and as you heard putin himself say, that's why he preferred and worked to try to help donald trump win the election. do you think there's any evidence -- have you seen any evidence at all, senator, that the russians right now are working to help democrats? forget about sowing discord or chaos, but to help democrats win the midterm contest. >> the most recent reports that we've had have simply been they'll do everything they can to undermine the confidence in the election process. they do not like democracy. they do not like free elections. they don't like it when the united states has confidence in the outcomes of elections. so what you'll see them do is sow seeds of disbelief. they'll work their propaganda. they're not just doing it the way they used to do it, which is through newspaper ads and tv ads, commercials and so forth. they're using it through social media now. then they're doing one more thing. they're also trying to suggest -- and they will do everything they can to reinfo

do you like -- >> president obama could answer that question for you. >> exactly. do you like president trump enough to get out in the rain or whatever you have to do? get off of work to go vote for this republican who's not trump. >> i think that poll suggests they're not. >> i think that's a fascinating question. even more so than the obama years, when you talk to trump republicans, they don't like congress, even their own congress. they have great disdain for the establishment. will he be effective in getting them to turn out to help him essentially? here's another number. wooe we're an evenly divided country. that's not breaking news. it's gotten more exacerbated in recent years. but look at this question here. republicans in congress have been too close to trump, 38%. not close enough to president trump, 48%. is there any question you could ask in america where you don't get a divide like this? >> no. >> i think you now have gotten us to that place. but i think that question is really important about who turns out to vote. we've seen it in poll after poll afte

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med and obama. and he could take a page out of obama and regan play book and one up it. this is the negotiation that could get something going out of this talk. other than -- and change the dialogue if you will between the two countries. >> well i appreciate both ever you for being here with us. too many smart minds that -- to not use that brain power here and help educate us. thank you very much robin wright and david. coming up caught on camera. georgia officers suspended after flipping a coin before making a decision on whether to arrest a woman for speeding. >> head or tail? okay. this is tail, right. >> yeah. >> so really, 23. ♪ ♪ let your perfect drive come together at the lincoln summer invitation sales event. get 0% apr on select 2018 lincoln models plus $1,000 bonus cash. show of hands. let's get started. who wants customizable options chains? ones that make it fast and easy to analyze and take action? how about some of the lowest options fees? are you raising your hand? good then it's time for power e*trade the platform, price and service that gives you the

we had the reset from the obama white house. the reason for that is quite sound i think. vladimir putin's hold on power in russia depends on a story he can tell about the relationship with the west. the idea that he the west is out to get russia. only vladimir putin is strong enough to stand up to the west. warmer relations with america, to some extent are a threat to putin's hold on power. that said, and the way that russia babes towards america, towards other allies makes it very, very hard to have those warm relationships. we've been talking about some of these things. the annexation of ukraine, the u.s. election meddling and so on. so it's really the timing and the context of this meeting that makes it so extraordinary rather than the fact that an american president is try too have warmer relationships with vladimir putin. >> one obviously for years now, one of putin's goals has been whatever he can do to create to foment discord in the european union, to photo meant and undermine the nato alliance. talk if you would about the concerns that u.s. allies have about what

obama didn't do it. obama was a patsy for russia. he was a total patsy. look at the statement he made when he thought the mikes were turned off. okay? the stupid statement he made. nobody does a big deal about that. >> what do you think? >> i mean, it's his go-to play whenever he is in a obama, he t about hillary. i remember when putin pushed into crimea, it was obama who rallied the allies, european allies to join the u.s. in some wi withering sanctions on russia that crippled the russian economy. i don't really know what he is talking about. i am not sure he knows what he is talking about. i think that for his base, the thing to do is go back to obama or go back to clinton. you know, in fairness, you saw the polling. 79% in one poll, 68% in another, republicans approve of what he did in helsinki. perhaps he thinks this is an effective tactic and that's why he doubled down on his invitation -- with his invitation to putin. >> i don't want to run out of time. i want to get to a really interesting guest you have on the ax files this week. the very newly fo

, obama, and why isn't he looking at the criminal activity and the

this way under obama. i wrote a lot about immigration in the obama years and they have been rebuked by the supreme court multiple times for overcharging people so they can deport them and they've been slapped down repeatedly and completely out of control. but as a political issue, i'm not sure that it works great for democrats because i think swing voters in line with the democrats traditional position which is a more moderate position. but like i said, i think they're right on the facts. it's just a question of whether or not this -- >> i don't think these democratic senators are even serious about it. i think they found a good slogan but listening to gillibrand talk, warren talking, reimagine. like it's an art assign. . you are u.s. senators. write a bill and say how you would reimagine it because you are actually talking about abolishing a law enforcement agency that may be flawed but they have tools in the senate to hold hearings, write letters and to jump on the slogan because somebody won a race in n

this is during the obama administration, they were doing whatever it was during the obama administration. >> so he says he hadn't thought about requesting the extradition of 12 officials. what do you want president trump to do when he meets with vladimir putin and the building behind me tomorrow? >> i don't think putin will probably deliver the 12 russian spies. but i sure as heck think the president of the united states ought to ask that these russian spies are actually released to the american government for american -- legal process to continue. they attacked our government. let's take mueller investigation in full over 30 indictments, five guilty pleas and we still have whole questions around obstruction of justice and the various people part of the trump campaign who are now cooperating with the government to see whether there was absolutely collusion. these are still questions mr. mueller's investigation have to answer and i just wish the one thing that president would stop doing was stop calling this a witch hunt. this has been a very productive investigation that put further proo

under obama, it started to go up. that's the percentage of the gdp of these countries spent on the military. united states is 3.57. all these other countries well blow 2%. their commitment to nato is 2%. the president is trying to get them there. the question is, do you do it quietly, privately, or when he's so unpopular in europe, if you do it publicly, don't you make it harder for merkel, macron, may, and others to go to their legislatures, their parliaments and say, need the money? >> two things on this. the first one is that a lot of the nato allies came together in 2014 to recommit to this 2%. they agreed they'd have ten years to get to that 2% budget. we're not at that ten years yet. they have been increasing their commitment over time, but you can't all the sudden put in billions of dollars. the other thing is tone. that's what you're asking about. president obama also had concerns about how much allies were putting toward defense for the nato alliance, but he did it in a way that was sort of -- well, way more

he was fired by the obama administration, but allowed to keep clearance even as he led those lock her up chants. >> the president's plan seems to be unplanned likely at the suggestion of rand paul. he is considered a big vote in the supreme court battle. we have more from cnn's jeff zeleny on what "the wall street journal" calls a dumb idea. >> reporter: dave and christine, the officials have been critical of him and his presidency. this has never happened before. it is something we are told the white house is considering. in the briefing room, sarah sanders acknowledged the president was considering it when she said this. >> the president is exploring the mechanisms to remove the clearances because they mondetie security clearances of being influenced by russia which is inappropriate. >> reporter: the white house is considering it. it is unclear if they will do it. a senior administration official tells me the president likes this conversation and debate, but has not decided if he will go ahead. it served to change the subject. certainly the russian investigation in all of the entire

no. >> president obama faced a lot of criticism in how he handled immigration. it wasn't on this scale. it wasn't on this scale. >> president obama didn't try to demagogue the issue -- donald trump said, his purpose is to serve his base, not to serve the american people. apparently trump feels that he is -- he can prevent time from moving forward. we know that we had a black president serve. we had a woman who got more votes than he did. latinos are the fastest growing. marriage equality. trump it telling his supporters can we push back the clock to the 1950s and pretend progress isn't happening. it's about reinforcing the -- >> it's a radical and very dangerous situation to abolish an enforcement agency like ice. >> i'm not clear, who is for abolish? who is for reform? that's at the core of the problem? let's debate it regardless. thank you so much. >>> coming up, the race to save a youth soccer team trapped more than a half mile underground in a pitch-black cave. now the hard work ahead. crowne, we know business travel isn't just business. there's this. a bit

he'll also, putin will point to obama and say to president trump, obama is responsible for the current state of relations him we know how you feel about obama. let's undo what obama is responsible for. thirdly, i fear putin will appeal to trump's instipths to look at nato and the eu and w. t.o. and g7, say these institutions are obsolete, let's create a new one a better foundation. >> thank you so much for your expertise. >> thanks, michael what do we have on the facebook pages? i love you, michael, what are you smoking the puppet master and his public will be laughing at all of otherwise in his secret meeting. he can no longer regard this as a witch hunt, not given the tremendous detail put forth in the 29-payment indictment. >> that will be a joke the next time it should come out of his lips. i am saying, now is an opportunity he has been anded by mueller for a reset to be the tough guy that he has told us he is and to say vlad, here it is. he should wave that indictment at putin and demand extradition treaty or not that those peaceful people be handed of to the occupation. in so doc

he's putting the blame on obama. there are those that feel like president trump is the ultimate deal maker who has said repeatedly he doesn't show his hand in a negotiation. the president is trying to make putin feel safe and come monday he's going into the meeting and he's going to drop the hammerer. what do you think? >> i think that's wishful thinking. though hope springs eternal. what these indictments show is that russia was engaged in covert intelligence operation to ruptd the it u.s. elections. at the center is plausible deniability. which means the state sponsoring it it is going to say they didn't do it. so single one of the denials is also part of the covert operation. and at this point they no longerror have plauzability. so trump is going to not only have to call putin out on it but we have to wonder what he does at home with his own intelligence agencies and whether he authorizes them to take agreszive steps moving forward. >> coats says this is still a current problem. we heard from the department of ho

president obama speaking out today in south africa. listen to this. >> given the strange and uncertain times that we are in -- and they are strange, and they are uncertain. with each day's news cycles bringing more head-spinning and disturbing headlines. >> per usual, president obama did not mention donald trump by name. in this case, he is not naming yesterday's news. you infer it from what he is saying. what do folks do with this? >> you know, i think that the president -- former president was making a speech. it would have been crazy for him not to at least mention it, what is going on in the way that he did. it's interesting, people who are close to the former president are asked all the time -- i know and i'm sure you do -- where is he? why isn't he using his voice more? the answer they give kind of makes sense, which is what does donald trump love more than anything else? it would allow the perspective of -- my understanding is president obama and the people around him, it would allow the current president to kind of say, okay, d

>> we compare it to the way obama pulled u.s. troops out of iraq in 2011 which seemed like a political win but was followed by a resurgence of al qaeda in iraq which then became isis which then created a huge problem for the united states and had to come back in the region in 2014. that's what trump is risking, he'll get us out but create a much worse problem and we'll find ourselves back in the region with a much worse problem on our hands only a couple years from now. >> i know i mispronounced your name, sorry. the president said he will discuss election meddling. do you really believe he's going to do that with any kind of force? >> i believe he'll bring it up, but probably without much force. he said yesterday that don't expect, you know, don't expect a perry mason moment. he will ask putin if he meddled and putin will say no. the problem with that is president trump shouldn't really have to ask putin if he did it. if he believes american intelligence information, and if he believes these indictments that were handed down yes

some of this started under obama. no question the tax cuts and deregulation of the trump administration have helped. they've added fuel to the fire, if you will. gdp growth, 4.1% for the quarter. the unemployment rate of 4%. consumer confidence near a 14-year high. whether you voted for the president, whether you're a fan or not, he does have reason to brag today. >> absolutely. 4.1% growth itself is unsustainable. if you look below the details, ignore the export stuff, you have strong growth in business investment. it looks like the underlying trend is around 3%. that will continue through the third quarter. can the president take credit? that's the $65,000 question. the tax cut was supposed to help business investment, and we're getting strong business investment, but maybe a lot of that is just because oil prices are up, so there's a lot of drilling going on. if you look at some of the other numbers like how much equipment are people buying, that seems to have tapered off. but these nuances aren't going to matter m

so we can have a debate about what president obama did. but president-elect trump and president trump, when he became president, has known about this and has done nothing. in fact, he has done the opposite. he has sent messages to the kremlin to say, it doesn't really matter. that is a major problem. and will congress stand up to him about this? >> cynthia, let me ask you this. you saw the russian foreign minister there when we were speaking to nic robertson, sergey lavrov, in effect repeat phrases that the u.s. president has said about this. you know, that there's no evidence, that, you know, as you heard president say, he accepts president putin's denials. how powerful is that for russia to have the u.s. president echo their propaganda, right? because we know russia's lying. >> oh, it's extraordinarily powerful. and it doesn't help matters that this summit has rather inexplicably been scheduled for the day after the world cup final soccer game is being played in russia, and this month-long tournament has kind of gone off with great succe

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obama took a different path. he went to congress, he wanted their involvement, they didn't want to dmoig with it because congress is all about giving up its authority to the executive branch. so he did nothing. trump did do something. he hit syria. he bombed them. but. but when it came to hitting russia over their role in syria, what happened? nikki haley was on tv saying this. >> you will see that russian sanctions will be coming down. secretary mnuchin will be announcing those on monday if he hasn't already. >> now, you remember what happened there? the next day the administration suggested she was confused. nikki haley did not like that. she said i wasn't confused, i said exactly what i wanted to say. but ultimately, they all walked it back. why? trump didn't like the idea. he didn't want to go toe to toe with russia on this. the poisoned spies in the uk. that led to some sanctions. but trump dragged his feet on the initial response. he waited almost two weeks after theresa may said russia did it. trump issued

i think that's mostly agreed to by obama people. nonetheless, this is a complete diversion, blaming the victim. it's a distraction to make that argument. what we're learning about what happened in london, in the streets of london and in the american elections makes it plain there's something much more sinister going on, much more dangerous going on than president trump has said and has acknowledged. what we know is general knowledge, you would know this better than i would, general knowledge is under putin the number of spies that have been sent out from moscow has increased dramatically. it's back to cold war levels. so what we're dealing with is a president putin who is closely, closely tied in. these are vital appendages of his operation, that we need to take very seriously because they really can threaten democracy. i mean putin is emerging as a sinister figure. do you really wanting th that a friend in world politics? do you want to depend on what promises he makes to you in syria? >> the russians are quite open about that. the

more than anything obama ever did. on the other hand, i don't view zte as simply a sanctions violator, i view them as a company that the chinese government can use to spy on americans and steal american intellectual property. i disagree with him on zte. but on the broader china issue, no administration, republican or democrat, frankly, has been stronger or tougher on the chinese than this administration. and that's been long overdue. we've allowed them to get away with it for far too long. >> that's a good point. the u.s. has been weak in dealing with the chinese copyright infringement and all of that. have you raised the issue specifically of zte with the president? >> i did. we spoke about it may be two months ago. we just have a difference of opinion, with is normal and life and in american politics. he viewed it as, you know, one way, and kind of focused on it from a sanctions perspective. and he pointed to the fact that, you know, the previous administration did nothing about zte sanctions violations and he did. a