President Trump says he doesn't believe Robert Mueller's most dire warning, and suggests you shouldn't either.
On Thursday, Trump told reporters that he'd called Russian President Vladimir Putin the day before and had a "short talk but a good talk." But the topic of Russia's interference into America's election system didn't come up, Trump said, and then suggested that he still doesn't believe in the interference his intelligence officials have concluded definitely happened.
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