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president trump had a meeting with canada's justin trudeau, and before that, the french president macron. the two sat together for 90 minutes, mostly polite but sparring on near every topic that came up. turkey, russia, isis, explaining how at odds this president's world view is, even those who are traditionally the closest world allies. it's been remarkable, kaitlan. all the nations want to present unity, but -- >> reporter: it all started when he was asked about this brain death he thinks nato is experiencing in part he put on president trump and that withdrawal from syria. trump fired back saying he thought it was disrespectful and

nasty, and of course just hours later the two were in the same room together, and it could not have been more tense than what we were seeing, john, which is a far cry from what we used to see between these two leaders when he used to describe them as having a bromance of sorts. they used to be very chummy with each other. that's not what you saw today. they were disagreeing on nato and defense spending but also isis and isis fighters, the president pumacron pushing back when the president joked, do you want us to fight the isis fighters? i said, no, let's get going. macron pushing back pretty hard, criticized turkey for buying that missile system. they chose to go with the russians and that's not complying with being a nato ally. it was pretty stunning as we watched it all play out, john. the president is still here, he's still got several more meetings to go.

he's going to be around president macron, and of course what happened with the two were behind closed doors. it was already as tense as it could be in front of cameras. >> with me live here in the studio to show me their reporting and insights, maggie hagerman, the "new york times," jeff zeleny, retired rear admiral john kirby. let's go first so you can see the body language between the two presidents. this is president trump and president macron. president trump leaned over at one point and said, we have isis prisoners in captivity. would you like some back? >> we have a tremendous amount of captured fighters, isis fighters, many of them from france, many from germany, many from u.k. they're mostly from europe. would you like some nice isis fighters?

>> number one, we need to get rid of isis. >> this is why he's a great politician because that was one of the greatest non-answers i've ever heard. >> admiral kirby, i want to start with you because you've been in the room with many of these, first in public where cameras were allowed and then behind the scenes. diplomacy is normally done after cameras are out of the room. have you ever seen an american president, especially in what was supposed to be a friendly meeting of the nato alliance -- he's not sitting down with putin, he's not sitting down with xi, he's sitting down with the president of france where essentially he said one thing and the president said, no, you're wrong. >> pno, i've never seen that, even with secretaries or secretaries of state when you're behind closed doors. even behind closed doors, i've

never seen that contention given. >> it's 5:00 in the evening in london right now. we'll show the leaders. separately the leaders are having tea, melania having tea with prince charles. another example here. macron has his own politics as well. he sees angela merkel fading in europe. he's trying to emerge as a dominant figure. he believes his interests are back in france. president trump says, i would like to have a good relationship with putin, and putin says, yeah, but. >> i think we can get along with russia. i think it would be a good thing to get along with russia. >> translator: it is important to have a strategic dialogue with russia. we must do so without naivete. >> kaitlan, they did begin friendly. remember, they had the big dinner at the eiffel tower. trump was thinking he could be

the whisperer. >> most of the time we were seeing handshakes. this is where things are. president trump is sticking up with what has been the tradition in terms of russia, but you're seeing that there is a sense among global leaders that there is no benefit to standing there like many have done and engaging in pleasantries. it's not changing what president trump says, and i think what you're seeing now from macron is a harbinger of what you'll see from other leaders, which is to stand there and openly disagree with him, other than what we've seen before, which are diplomatic niceties as we've seen in previous administrations. >> in turkey, the president essentially greenlighted the turkish withdrawal in syria.

the united states pulled out and russia came in. the turks have their own human rights record, democratic record, i'll put it that way. turkey just purchased, over the objection of all the nato allies, including washington, a russian missile defense system. it came up. >> i can only say we have a very good relationship with turkey and with president erdogan -- i do. i can't speak for the president of france. >> how is it possible to be a member of the alliance, to work with office to buy from others to be integrated? technically it is not precedented. >> sitting next to the american president saying, huh? >> he also said it in english which he doesn't often do, so that was by design. i was struck by watching this, just the change in their

relationship from the beginning. the world leaders have seen they get nothing for being nice to him, nothing at all for being friendly and solicitous. but it's impossible to subtract all of macron's own politics. that is a big part of this. but beyond it, using the words naive. he is calling president trump naive for wanting to be so nice. after being around the world so many times with this president watching this dynamic, this to me is the most fascinating. as we're watching a 2020 election, if he wins a second term, which most sitting presidents get reelected, so it's a very tight 2020, what will a second term be like? world leaders know what president trump is doing, so we'll see how the rest of these meetings unfold. but i would think he would have to be furious, essentially slapped down a bit, by emanuel macron. that is not how their relationship started. >> macron just went at him. >> he did.

in fact, right after that clip you showed, he started to wag his finger at president trump directly to say that you are essentially wrong in what you are saying. remember, obviously, president macron is a politician and he has his constituents to worry about. he's worried about public opinion. there have been a lot of domestic issues in france, too, where his popularity is waning, so what he's saying is trying to cater to the more liberal constituents in france. at the end of the day, this is part of the broader theme of president trump putting allies in europe in particular on notice where he has just made it very clear that he's not going to abide by the sort of traditional relationship that the u.s. has had with european allies and he will make it harder for them. he wants them to pay their even share on natualliances like natd other things. he said they need to do more with ukraine and fighting corruption. so this is year 3 of their

relationship. >> with president trudeau, there is a lot of difference between the president and climate change. he withdrew from the paris climate accord. when you talk to diplomats from these countries, they often complain that the president doesn't read the briefing books or seem to care about the briefing books. they don't care about the nato missile systems, not russian missile systems. you have to work better when it comes to ukraine. climate change came up, and prime minister trudeau asked about the differences on climate change. this was the president's explanation. he was asked about climate change and this is what we got. >> climate change is very important to me. i also see what's happening with our oceans where certain countries are dumping unlimited loads of things in it. they tend to float toward the united states. i see that happening and nobody has ever seen anything like it. >> this is where the incoming gets pretty striking, and, frankly, damning about the

president of the united states. dumping trash in the ocean is a serious problem. it is not the cause of climate change. so you can say i'm for clean air, i'm for clean water, people should stop dumping trash in the ocean. that is not a serious answer from a world leader. >> it has nothing to do with climate change. ocean garbage is a separate issue all by itself. my sense is that he can't accept the signs of climate change because then it runs counter to his political comments about what he's doing with epa and deregulations and pulling out of paris. but climate change is a global problem. when he gets up and says something like that, he just further convinces foreign leaders that the united states is not to be counted on for u.s. leadership. and the macron thing, this is ex aspiration with the united states, and i think they'll start driving past this. if jeff is right and he gets reelected, can he bar the door in terms of anybody being able to listen to and respect public opinion on global matters? >> certainly one of the reasons

macron is trying to assert himself. we'll take a quick break. we expect to see the president of the united states with prince charles in just a moment at a big reception. the president not only sparring with other world leaders, at one point minimizing the secretary of state and then quickly cleaned it up. rapid wrinkle repair's derm-proven retinol works so fast, it takes only one week to reveal younger looking skin. neutrogena® long before i had moderatee, to severe rheumatoid arthritis. i've always been the ringleader. had a zest for life. flash forward: then ra kept me from the important things. and what my doctor said surprised me. she said my joint pain could mean permanent joint damage. and enbrel helps relieve joint pain and helps stop that joint damage. ask about enbrel, so you can get back to being your true self. enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal, events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, other cancers, nervous system and blood disorders,

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tumultuous day and his meeting with london. he'll have tea with prince charles. then the president moves on to a session in buckingham palace for important conversations in london. earlier today the president said something that not only set off the global turmoil but the financial markets. the dow has been down about 400 points the last couple hours. that's why the president, you see minus 389 there, the president said he thinks it might be best if the u.s. and china essentially set aside their trade negotiations until after next november, november 2020 and the presidential election. >> by the way, i'm doing very well in a deal with china if i want to make it. if i want to make it. it's not if they want to make it, it's if i want to make it. you'll find out very soon. in some ways i like the idea of waiting until after the election for the china deal. but they want to make a deal now and we'll see whether or not the deal is going to be right.

it's got to be right. >> this one is fascinating because of the politics here at home in the sense that this is the issue on which the president has been perhaps most consistent. i'll only take a deal with china if it's a good deal. he knows, and his campaign team tells him, be careful. look at wisconsin, look at michigan, look at iowa. there are farm states out there where his trade policies and the tariffs are testing his support of the people and the president essentially saying, huh, fine with me. is that honest or is that a china you need to give to? >> i think he's all in on this in a way he's not usually. he often leaves himself some wiggle room. >> this is an issue on which he sometimes hurts himself. >> he believes in tariffs. there are a couple of core impulses that donald trump has been consistent about and there are not many for the last several decades, but one of them is about tariffs. it's not a surprise that this is something that he has doubled

down on. he has been told repeatedly that he's hurting himself and watching the stock market collapse. he says it goes down a little bit and it goes back up, so everything you said is not true, advisers who told me to back away from this. but when he says things like, maybe after the election we'll see what happens, that isn't indicative of a plan that is essentially getting through answering questions. >> he also thinks his supporters will never abandon him. he thinks his core supporters, the famplermers and others, wilt abandon him. >> we'll test that, but this to me sounds like he wants to attest that he is in charge of this, not president xi. i think the majority of his voters will stick with him. he spent a lot of time in iowa and other states. every person i talk to, they believe the president will get a good deal at some point and it's worth the short-term pain, if you will. so we'll see what happens with

this year, but it will test a theory if all of them will stick with him. the manufacturing sector already showing signs of weakness here, and there is worry out there. >> even the campaign officials i talked to, they believe the farmers plan ahead and this is something they're used to. for them waiting for a deal with china is not a make or break situation at this moment. to maggie's point, the president does have this impulse of tariffs and that's why this entire administration is lost from the get-go. he has to release tariffs, even though his advisers told him you have to do this if you want to get a deal. >> i want to move on to another issue. the president was asked a straightforward question. reuters asked it. the secretary of state has been on the record the past few days in press conferences, interviews on another network. he says the united states stands

by the protesters in iran protesting against their government right now. here's a question to the president. >> you mentioned earlier the iran protests. does the united states support these protesters in iran? >> i don't want to comment on that. the answer is no, but i don't want to comment. >> quickly after the meeting, and you could see the secretary of state's displeasure, he was sitting in the front row, you could see his displeasure whether it was just with that or the entire performance. but the president tweeted pretty quickly after, and in his meeting with prime minister trudeau, before they even got to the questions, president trump saying this. >> we do support them totally and have supported them from the beginning. the question was asked do we support them, i thought, financially. we haven't supported them. i don't know if we've ever been asked to support them financially, and, you know, if somebody asks, maybe we would. >> now, the question was not asked financially. i also want to be fair to the president having been in those

rooms, it's loud. people are jostling around so the president could have misheard the question. but it seems pretty straightforward, and in a nato meeting, you would think especially given what pompeo was up to lately, that he could answer that. >> you would hope he was that briefed, could answer questions about protesters. i've been in those rooms, too. it's pretty loud and distracting. i think whenever he hears iran, he automatically goes to the negative because he's so anti-iran and what they're doing in the region. i could be wrong, but i think he hears iran he thinks, okay, that's bad, i'm going to shoot it down. >> it was rare, actually, hear him acknowledge that he heard it wrong. usually he won't acknowledge he had some roled in something, and i was struck that he backtracked and admitted to something. >> there are people risking

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with prince charles. a critical day for the impeachment inquiry back home in washington and the president has been complaining about the proceedings from abroad. >> i think it's very unpatriotic. i don't think i should be censured if i did something wrong, i did nothing wrong. the democrats have gone crazy. >> later they'll be voting on the impeachment report. we expect that report to be available sometime soon. the republicans made their own rebuttal of what they expect the majority to say. tomorrow they take four separate testimonies from lawyers. the president said that's the only venue he would let key witnesses who he claims can exonerate him come forward to testify. >> when it's fair, and it will be fair in the senate, i would love to have mike pompeo, i would love to have mick, i would love to have rick perry and many other people testify. but i want them to testify.

rachel bade of the "washington post" joins us. in terms of today, intelligence committee members get to go in, read this report in private, make any suggestions if they think there's a semicolon missing or they want to change something, but by tonight the republicans will put out their case, hand it to the judiciary committee and we expect that to be put out how quickly? >> i think you'll see it next week. the democrats are still planning to get this done before the christmas time season or the holiday season. in order to do that, they'll need to start marking these up next week. obviously it's a key handoff tonight where adam schiff is going to lay out the case so the democrats don't abuse their power. it's going to be a circus in the judiciary committee tomorrow. you've got some of trump's top defenders on capitol hill who

are already planning procedural hurdles that they're going to lob at jerry nadler who is a narm of t chairman of the judiciary committee. but basically tomorrow they're going to take these facts and they're going to try to argue that what trump did constitutes high crimes ask misdemeannd misd is therefore impeachable. it's going to be a brawl. >> we just heard the president. the administration is refusing to turn over documents, refuse to let key witnesses go up. and republicans say the democrats have nobody with firsthand knowledge. that's because it was mick mulvaney who was key as his aide. can the democrats take his word, he says the process isn't fair, that when he gets to the senate it's a different process, he'll suddenly go vaneymulvaney, go testify, mike pompeo, go

testify. >> i think it's unlikely but i wouldn't totally rule it out. rachael knows this somewhat better than i do. it's a totally different ball game. they don't feel they're at a disadvantage. i think they see it as an opportunity to call a number of their own witnesses. i don't know if they can call whoever they want to. over the course of the three years, you've heard them say, i would love to do this but i can't because of xyz, but i think you'll see the white house bending on certain matters once this gets to the senate. >> i think the unpredictability of that is what makes it fascinating. >> it's also a television show in some respects and the president likes the idea of being involved in that. look how much time he's spending today on television daytime. most of these meetings are usually private and a quick photo op at the top. he enjoys being on television. so i think the idea of the

senate trial going the entire month of january, perhaps he might like the idea of getting his side of the story in there. we'll see if he does that himself or has others come in. i don't rule it out, either. i don't think it's necessarily likely, but i wouldn't rule it out. this is a historic thing, he realizes it, and getting his voice in there might be tempting. >> there are also key republicans who want to hear from people. susan collins of maine, republicans who come from states that need to show they're taking it seriously. the question is going to be, though, do senate republicans sort of bring in these key firsthand account witnesses, or do they try to totally change the topic and go after someone like their colleague joe biden or his son hunter biden or the whistleblower? >> is it facts laid out by the democrats or alternative facts, if you will, laying out something else. how broad is the republicans' case? tomorrow we'll show you four

constitutional lawyers. this is not what did the president do, this is more about the standard of impeaching a president. there will be questions about historical impeachments, what happened with nixon, what happened with clinton? that's what the witnesses are there for, that doesn't mean that's what the lawmakers do. but most democrats want to get this done as quickly as possible. some democrats, even though they might share the idea of keeping this moving quickly, have a broader view. one said, one crime of this sort is enough but when there is a pattern, it's even stronger. when you show this is what happened with ukraine but it's a pattern, to me it strengthens the case. this is an argument among democrats. do you do five, six, seven articles of impeachment to bring more stress to the mueller investigation, or do you talk about withholding an official act in a white house meeting but

not try to broaden it out? >> this is a conflict among a lot of democrats, especially those from swing states who basically want to go home and show maybe they fought for this but that they were also open to the idea that perhaps the president didn't do anything wrong. so the idea of having multiple articles of impeachment for them is appealing because they can choose some and not others and then still go back and say, well, we focused on ukraine and not on, say, the mueller investigation and other broader issues of obstruction of justice. >> to me it's interesting to see how the republicans try to stir up dust. look at biden, there's nothing else to see. the facts are pretty damning and almost uncontested about what happened. rudy giuliani's role, withholding the aid, withholding the white house meeting. today in the "new york times," the former did he waforeign dep ukraine, it was definitely mentioned there were some issues.

the context there being, republicans have said, how could there be a quid pro quo? the ukranians didn't know the president withheld the aid. now you have a foreign minister in the ukraine government saying, yes, we know. that undermines the report they put out yesterday that you can read and what the president has said consistently. >> we knew prior to this that the ukranians knew that aid was being withheld. i guess i continue to go back to what we have seen repeatedly. we saw it with mueller and we're going to see it here, which is the fact this undercuts the argument doesn't mean the argument will stop being made. it doesn't mean they won't be made in conjunction with other arguments or try to shift the apertures, but the republicans will simply ignore vast testimony and things that were said, they'll ignore reasons they had to say what they say, and that is similar to mueller.

that's what we heard in the first volume of the mueller report, there is nothing directly tying the president to a russian intervention effort, and that was his strongest defense. you'll see it again here. >> he believes it worked last time. a disagreement possibly between the attorney general and the justice. that's how the impeachment probe began in the first place.

a reminder we're still waiting for the president of the united states to arrive for tea with prince charles in london. that's a big part of the nato meeting. we'll listen in if we can. back in washington, reports of a big disagreement today of a justice department watchdog over legislation. the president said ukraine illegally spied on his 2016 campaign. an investigator is investigating that assertion. a report suggests that claim by the president is without merit. they also say the attorney

general told associates he thinks horowitz is wrong and that attorney general barr believes the fbi did not have enough information to justify launching that investigation back in july of 2016. amid everything else happening in washington, the campaign gearing up, the impeachment debate gearing up, the need to fund the government, some other things. this is going to be a big deal. and the president has said it's devastating, it's terrible. the early reporting is not so much, that horowitz is going to detail some abuses mid-level at the fbi, and did they have the right to do this? yes. which is not what the president wants. >> that is not going to change the president's response. he knows what he believes on this and he is going to double down on his previous belief. i do not believe in any circumstance he is going to suddenly accept the report from the inspector general. look, this is a bit of a moment to look in the rearview mirror, but it's a topic the president likes to talk about, so

happening at the same time as the ongoing impeachment thing, it actually could help the president by being a distracting forcer. watching the attorney general, he is very close to the white house and the president but is not out there in the open talking all that much about this. look how he responds to the ig's report here, but the president, regardless of what it says -- >> if you're inclined to be suspicious, the summary that bill barr put out about the mueller report was nowhere near accurate. if you read the summary letter and read the mueller report, they are two different planets. so the washington times reporting that the fbi had enough information in july 2016 to justify launching an investigation into members of the trump campaign. if the attorney general, if he disagrees with the inspector general, that's one thing. what does he do about it? >> we don't know. i tip my hat to the "washington

post." it was a clean scope and it was really important. we've seen barr emerge as, i think, frankly the single most important member of this cabinet, and even if he doesn't sit publicly, this is now out there. in the public domain, you are going to see the president's allies seize on this. it's still an extraordinary possibility that you are going to have the attorney general disagree with the ig in this way. attorneys general have disagreed with igs before, that's not anything new. but particularly on this matter. and it will matter exactly what he says, how he says it, does he say anything at all so there is a lot of open questions. this is now in the ether and the president will grab it. >> he's disagreed with the igs on wanting them to go softer on an issue, but if the reporting is accurate. s attorney general wants him to

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. joe beiden is on an eight-dy bus tour in iowa. he started out nice. buttigieg came up and when he said biden set up the stage for him, biden lit up. set it up? no, he stole it. it's the biden plan. elizabeth warren, who has come closest to him in the national polls, biden says this, quote, look at the polli ining everywh. tell me where this great enthusiasm is manifesting itself. candidates love bus tours. sometimes they get in trouble when they talk to reporters. what is this? is this a strategy, joe biden deciding we need to get tougher with the opposition, or is this the candidate sort of freelancing because we know sometimes this is a compliment he gets his irish up. but sometimes when he does, it gets him in trouble.

>> i don't think it was planned for the campaign to go out there and say this, but he can see what's happening around him. i was out there with him on sunday, and one measure of enthusiasm is crowd size. it doesn't necessarily mean everything in the end, but he knows elizabeth warren gets bigger crowds. pete buttigieg was in the same cities, in the same building in iowa, and he had more of an audience. but he's a little bit wrong in the sense that pete buttigieg has been talking about medicare for all who want it since february, but it is more of an extension of the obama/biden plan. but buttigieg had a couple different ways on health care. he initially thought the winds were blowing from the left and medicare for all was the way to be, but he benefited from not having to cast a vote on this. i think biden is trying to show that he's a fighter. he's trying to remind people he's in this. a little bit of freelancing but he knows what he's doing. >> you can do this on day one and you can talk about it on day two. you get asked about this.

joe biden just got asked about his attack on elizabeth warren. >> sure, i think there is enthusiasm for her. the context of our discussion, which is i'm not going to have these discussions with you all anymore in terms of i might be getting to the place of being a prognosticator. the point i was making was i don't think there is -- i don't think the bulk of the enthusiasm in the democratic party is for medicare for all. there is enthusiasm for people who support that, there's great enthusiasm for it. but i don't think that's where the center of the party is or where the left or the right of the party is. >> there's your answer, john. it is not something that was planned because that's not what you do if this was part of the plan the day before. i think jeff is right, i think it is a little more visceral than looking at buttigieg or warren or specifics of where they were on medicare for all. i think he feels like he's been knocked around and i think ezhes

finally getting up off the mat. he's doing something different, but he still has trouble on the fly, as we just saw. >> this has always been a challenge for him in his past campaigns going way back. i was there for part of the first one. it's 62 days before the iowa caucus so this matters. we're now in the crunch time. >> he's clearly on the defensive. this is a guy who was vice president. i think he has the credentials to be president more than any other candidate, but he knocks them down and accuses the media of putting him on a pedestal at his own peril. if he's not going to take them seriously, i think that's a problem. the point he tried to make about pete buttigieg stealing my plan was a little funny, maybe he would even call it malarkey, because he doesn't have a monopoly on concerns that democrats go too far. pelosi is concerned, obama is

concerned. he's feeling concern and buttigieg is one as well. >> what happens on the trail always sets up for the next debate, too. we have one of those just around the corner. the vice president tries to guarantee he's part of the conversation, i guess. brianna keilar starts right now. have a great afternoon. i'm brianna keilar live from cnn's washington headquarters. underway right now, as the president hits the world stage, his presidency is in peril back home. a key house committee set to vote on its impeachment report as another is set to lay out its case. a tense face-to-face as the french president defends his comment that the u.s. is making nato brain dead after president trump called it insulting. plus the dow falls after the president warned the trade war with china might not end until after the 2020 election. and democrats get one step closer to the president's financial secrets