Trump Tries to Fix His Russia Comments..... And Fails Miserably
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2018
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump tries to walk back his comments from the Helsinki summit, but makes the situation worse. He tried to say that he misspoke, but then essentially doubled down on his comments.
Will Republicans accept his walk back? Will they stop with their criticism? And where do we go from here with our relationship with Russia?
We talk to Politico's Lorraine Woellert, WaPo's Eugene Scott and Rep Ted Lieu (D-CA)
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| 1:08.6 | Donald Trump tries to clean up a mess and only makes it worse. What do you say, everybody? |
| 1:16.2 | Here we go on a Wednesday, middle of the week, Wednesday, July 18. Hello, hello, hello. |
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| 1:39.8 | With all the news of the day, just surrounding surrounding all sort of related to still reaction to the |
| 1:48.4 | disastrous summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Helsinki, the disastrous |
| 1:55.5 | news conference following it, where Donald Trump kowtowed to Vladimir Putin and just basically gave him one great |
| 2:06.8 | big wet French kiss and then walked off the stage, decided he would take the side of Russia |
| 2:12.7 | over the side of the United States, came home to a Niagara falls of criticism from Democrats and Republicans |
| 2:20.5 | so much so that unusual for Donald Trump, he really felt that he had to try to spain himself |
| 2:27.4 | and apologize and try to correct the record yesterday. and he failed miserably at it. |
| 2:34.6 | Only, again, only made it worse. |
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