Good Tuesday morning, I'm Anna Palmer, and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing, sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association.

And I'm Jake Sherman. The reverberations from Donald Trump's joint press conference with Vladimir Putin are still being felt.

The general consensus on Capitol Hill among elected Republicans is that the president thoroughly embarrassed the United States.

Even loyal Trump allies like Tom Cotton criticized the president, albeit not by name.

Congressman Will Hurd, a Texas Republican who was a covert CIA operative before becoming a

politician, told CNN's Jake Tapper, quote, I've seen Russian intelligence manipulate many

people in my career,

and I never thought the U.S. president would be one of them. Lindsay Graham, Trump's golf buddy,

even had choice words. But privately, high-level Republican aides and lawmakers, had a second message.

What the hell do you want us to do? Hold hearings. They've done that, they say. Nearly every Capitol Hill probe

into the 2016 election showed that Putin's Russia did indeed interfere in the election to boost

Trump. The president chooses to ignore that. They've slapped endless sanctions on Russia,

and they've also sought to boost Russia's foes and strengthen NATO, a pretty

strong rebuke from a president's own party. At the end of the day, high-level Republicans

told us yesterday it's up to the president to conduct foreign policy. The Hill can and does

criticize and conduct oversight. So the answer to the media feedback loop from yesterday is,

of course, Congress is not going to do anything substantive. They have no idea what they

should be doing. Trump is clearly testing Republican patients more than ever, but most Republicans

see Trump is an uninformed neophyte who likes the vibe of strongmen, a man who believes

it's wise to ignore past misdeeds to pave the path

for future deals. They don't think he's a wannabe autocrat looking to turn the United States

into the next Turkey. The New York Times has the stepback piece writing that Trump has shed all

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