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It was perhaps the most explosive exchange in an incendiary press conference: Russian President Vladimir Putin appearing to frankly admit to a motive for, and maybe even to the act of, meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, despite repeatedly denying Russian interference in American politics during the rest of his appearance with Donald Trump in Finland on Monday.

But the exchange doesnt appear in full in the White Houses live-stream or transcript of the press conference, and its missing entirely from the Kremlins transcript of the event. The White House did not immediately provide an explanation for the discrepancy.

Understanding what Putin said depends on what you watch or where you look. If you watch the video of the news conference provided by the Russian government, or by news outlets such as PBS and the Associated Press, you will hear the Reuters reporter Jeff Mason ask a bombshell of a question: President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?

Putin then responds with a bombshell of an answer, according to the English translation of his remarks that was broadcast during the press conference: Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S.-Russia relationship back to normal..

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/07/trump-putin-press-conference-transcript/565385/

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There is some question if Putin heard the next part. The first part that the WH house took out it is clear that it was heard.
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Waiting for the usual Trumpanzees to spin this one.
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IIRC, this is what did in Nixon in Watergate.
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LIsJustice posted...

IIRC, this is what did in Nixon in Watergate.

IIRC, it's what they wanted to do. Investigators asked for the tapes from the White House recording system, Nixon administration said nah they're really hard to understand, and there's lots of nothing, and personal talk, so let us just transcribe the important bits for you. Fast forward to the Supreme Court saying nah how stupid do you think we are, hand over the tapes.
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alt_no_1_loves posted...

LIsJustice posted...

IIRC, this is what did in Nixon in Watergate.

IIRC, it's what they wanted to do. Investigators asked for the tapes from the White House recording system, Nixon administration said nah they're really hard to understand, and there's lots of nothing, and personal talk, so let us just transcribe the important bits for you. Fast forward to the Supreme Court saying nah how stupid do you think we are, hand over the tapes.

he's trying to one up Nixon.
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LIsJustice posted...

IIRC, this is what did in Nixon in Watergate.

Yeah, but politics were different then.
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