“If only that entire unbelievably, historically embarrassing spectacle could have been fixed with an ‘n,’ an apostrophe and a ‘t,’” Dana Bash said. “That is about as far of a stretch as any one of us could imagine. I guess he gets points for being creative there.”
“Maybe that was the one sentence that could have been different, but what about calling Vladimir Putin strong and tough?” Bash continued. “What about not calling him out on the world stage, never mind interfering in American elections, calling him out on Crimea, calling him out on the poisoning of somebody in Britain and the list goes on and on and on?”
She added, “I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but what he just did almost makes what happened yesterday worse.”
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Trump’s latest explanation was downright “Orwellian.”
“You are trying to contradict a video record of something that happened less than 24 hours ago with a specious defense here on one word and, listen, there will be people who will buy it,” Sciutto said. “But all you have to do is repeatedly roll that tape again, both of yesterday and today where he contradicts himself on videotape. And if you don't believe that, then you will never believe the facts, I suppose.”
Matthew Rojansky, Director of the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute, told CNN’s Don Lemon Monday evening that Russian President Vladimir Putin had a lot to say about the two-hour meeting with President Donald Trump.
According to Rojansky, Putin went from the meeting with Trump to a Russian state television interview in which he reviewed the things that the two men talked about.
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He then said that the “kicker” was that they spoke about sanctions without talking about sanctions.
“So, when asked whether Putin asked for sanctions relief, Putin, of course, as a matter of Russian pride and also, I think, a negotiating tactic, knowing Trump could hand over sanctions relief, he simply says, ‘No but we talked about the interests of our two business communities in increasing economic ties and how we might do that in the current environment.’ So, that’s code for, ‘Yeah, they talked about how to get around sanctions.’ They actually had it as surprisingly substantive conversation. We heard none of it in the press conference,” Rojansky closed.
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