Trump: Yeah.

Stahl: Okay, people don’t understand why you never have a harsh word for Vladimir Putin.

Trump: Okay, you ready?

Stahl: I don’t understand it.

Trump: I have been– you don’t know what I talked about with Putin in the meeting prior to the press conference–

Stahl: No, I mean publicly. You never say anything harsh about him publicly.

Trump: Excuse me, I didn’t? I’m the one that gave Ukraine offensive weapons and tank killers. Obama didn’t. You know what he sent? He sent pillows and blankets. I’m the one– and he’s the one that gave away a part of Ukraine where Russia now has this–

Stahl: Well, I mean him personally, Vladimir Putin–

Trump: I think I’m very tough with him personally. I had a meeting with him. The two of us. It was a very tough meeting and it was a very good meeting.

Stahl: Do you agree that Vladimir Putin is involved in assassinations? In poisonings?

Trump: Probably he is, yeah. Probably. I mean, I don’t–

Stahl: Probably?

Trump: Probably, but I rely on them, it’s not in our country.

Stahl: Why not– they shouldn’t do it. This is a terrible thing.

Trump: Of course they shouldn’t do it.

Stahl: Instead, do you believe–

Trump: That’s your–

Stahl: –Do you believe that the Russians interfered in the 2016 campaign election? Our election–

Trump: They– they meddled. But I think China meddled, too.

Stahl: But why do you–

Trump: And I think other countries–

Stahl: –Say China meddled, too?

Trump: And you want to know something?

Stahl: Why do you say chi– why don’t you just say the Russians meddled?

Trump: Well, let me ask you– because I think China meddled also. And I think, frankly, China–

Stahl: This is amazing.

Trump: –Is a bigger problem.

Stahl: You are diverting the whole Russian thing.

Trump: I’m not doing anything.

Stahl: You are, you are–