MSNBC says Reuters says he's claiming he misspoke

He said "I see no reason why it would be Russia" but meant to say "I see no reason why it would not be Russia," is their story, now.

Reuters says he says that on the tape, still being edited and yet to be released, of remarks starting at 2 and now (2:43) completed.

Completely incredible, given everything else he said before and after that single sentence.

MSNBC asks which C-word fits.

Trump publicly asks the Russians to hack Hillary and find her emails and make them public, and that very night the 12 indicted Russians attempt to do just that.

Coincidence?

Or collusion, right there in public?

So, how much of this is about Trump getting great real estate deals for golf courses and hotels in Russia?

A guy on MSNBC is saying he thinks Trump and the Russians, and Putin in particular, have extensive and longstanding financial ties that may include collusion in money laundering and other crimes.

That's what they've got on him, he says.

2:50 they finally release the tape.

The usual Trump mix of lies, bromides, and bragging.

"Full faith and support for America's great intelligence agencies . . . . I accept our intelligence conclusion that there was Russian meddling in our elections . . . .  no collusion . . . . "

"I said 'would' instead of 'wouldn't', and the sentence should have been 'I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be Russia.'"

So Reuters is right and he's just lying through his teeth, again, as he so often does.

Then goes on to blame Obama for keeping it fairly dark during the campaign.

And says his administration has taken a firm stance and will take strong action to secure the election process.

Obama went to Mitch McConnell and asked him to go public with the administration in making the Russian interference public so it wouldn't look like an effort to help Hillary win, and McConnell refused.

So the Obama administration thought it better not to give the problem much public attention, rather than undermine Hillary by inviting a firestorm of Republican accusations Obama was blatantly trying to undermine the Trump campaign.

Not a word about that from The Duce.

Not a word about McConnell virtually forcing silence on the Obama administration on the topic in order to protect the Trump campaign.

Then Trump turned to bragging about Korean denuclearization and talk about the possibility of reducing the number of nuclear weapons both sides have.

Finished up with a lot of talk about how much faith he has in our intelligence agencies.

He ended saying that he and the GOP leaders are going to have a special closed meeting about more tax cuts and somehow legislating something that will prevent future congresses from "stealing back" the GOP tax cuts.

And that's just campaign bullshit, too.