♪ abby: good morning. straight to a fox news alert. here is a live look in helsinki at the airport where putin has just landed. the high stakes summit is less than an hour away. steve: president trump will arrive at the presidential palace for a sitdown one-on-one with president putin within the hour. brian: all right, eventually they is going to get a chance to leave that plane. all eyes on the two leaders as they tackle several crucial issues. election medaling on top of the list. talking about ukraine and what's going on in syria more effectively and some

type of arms control. that will certainly be there. what's going to be fascinating is these two are going to be meeting one-on-one for 45 minutes. sergei lavrov the foreign minister of russia says we will send in an interpreter. even though vladimir putin understands russian he wants to make sure everything is relayed perfectly back in english. steve: apparently not will be a note tarik which is unusual. now we are hearing the meeting one-on-one face to face no note taker, could be 90 minutes. putin is on that plane right now. it takes 30, 40 minutes to get from the airport to the presidential palace. we will imagine things will be getting started a little late. i was looking from my world radar it looks like there was a big storm somewhere between moscow and helsinki. so maybe it was weather. then again, maybe it was just i'm going to make you wait on me. abby: there you have it. the two men on the ground there in helsinki. this is the first time

between these two men that they have had a summit between the united states and russia. of course, they have met before this at other international summits. but this is the first time that this has been preplanned where they have had both their teams working around the clock for months leading up to this about specific issues that they can find some common ground. i want to bring ainsley earhardt who is on the ground doing a fabulous job helping us understand what's going on the ground from helsinki. you think about the high stakes here and the fact that we don't have a good relationship with russia. it might be the lowest it has been sings the cold war. and you say are there things that we can come together on because there aren't many. we don't trust each other and that needs to be said and it's very clear that we don't. are there ways we can find common ground and be able to mo forward together? ainsley: yeah, abby, steve, brian, that's the question that everyone is asking, can we find common ground and can we improve our relationship with this country. and that is why these two leaders have agreed to meet so that they can negotiate and at least try to find

common ground and come together. they chose this place. we were walking around here over the last two days saying this is the perfect spot because everyone here is so neutral. we were asking people that were shopping at the market that is usually behind us. they had close down today for security purposes. we were asking people what they thought about this meeting. we feel positive about the east and west. we are happy they are meeting here. brings helsinki into the spotlight on national television all over the world. they were very, very nice. very neutral individuals. we asked so many people and we really couldn't get strong opinions. the protests here were small. there was one small protest yesterday. it was very peaceful. no one really even holding signs and doing that they everywhere just holding up signs and not saying anything and risenning to live music on the ground. this is the perfect spot. i completely understand why past presidents have decided to meet with vladimir putin at this location. the palace is behind it. it's yellow as you can see. right here on the baltic sea. a lot of cruise ships in this area. this is usually where the

market is set up kind of like just, you know a barzee. lots of little tents and people selling fruits and knickknacks tourists can buy to take home to kids and loved ones. and we were here yesterday and they were selling make helsinki great again hats. i think some of the producers have them. folks are just excite about this meeting. and they have hope and there is promise here. i know there is a lot of people that are critical of it. look at this. steve: make helsinki great again? >> abby: that's hilarious. brian: i know the neighbor is a little nervous about the russian aggression, sweden, norway and finland upset because the russian navy has been a lot of times just meddling around in their area. we are getting reports that vladimir putin did fly first class. he is in front of the plane. abby: look at that

staircase. the motorcade is there, he something is going to come down that plane. is he come off a high from the world cup. busy week for him and president trump just finishing up nato. both of thieves money have got to be exhausted in their own way and momentum and enthusiasm going into what they both hope can come together on something big. we'll see. steve: indeed. while they say there is no set agenda and no deliverables, those things that they have worked out ahead of time. some of the topic its that could come up the president said i will ask him about meddling what is he going to say and what can i say other than don't do it again. ukraine and crimea undoubtedly will come up. the white house has put out a statement regarding what you need to know. they say we agree to disagree on what they have done there regarding syria, we would like russia to squeeze iran out of syria. but that is not very likely. and, when it comes to arms control, they do have, as president, the power to extend the new start treaty

five more years we can see some of the staff -- mr. putin's staff coming down the back gang plank, would you call that a gang plank? no, that's a ship. the stairs on the back of the presidential plane. abby: have you got to remember 90% of the world nukes are between these two countries between the united states and russia. the talk of dawction is a big deal. as we talk about how low the relationship is right now between the united states and russia probably the worse it's been sinces cold war talking about denuclearization where have you 5,000 nukes pointed at each other. if we can pull that back in some way. make it a little less, i think we have got the president coming out now. we are watching this closely as he is stepping foot there in helsinki. brian: that's the full camera. i think they got world, you would think when vladimir putin is going to come out. ainsley: is he coming a little bit late. brian: couple timentsz where the president has gotten mad

at vladimir putin. the white house has not pushed back on this story. number one, he called up when he -- when trump told putin i guess you were just doing election talk when it comes to increasing your nuclear arsenal because we get into an arms race you will lose. and number two he called it outrageous when vladimir putin putte put a video together of this super russia missile blowing up an american city. the president told vladimir putin that's outrageous. and he was really insulted by it and i just think that there is a threshold that president trump has towards the chaos that sometimes vladimir putin likes to put on his neighbors. abby: reminder, brian, it is america first. when there is talk of well, is this really in the best interest of the united states. you've got to think about the people on the president's team here. you have mike pompeo, john bolton, john kelly, my own dad who is a part of this jon huntsman. you look at their careers and the expertise they are

bringing into what is about to happen, all of them are about what is best for the united states. have you got to imagine the advice he is getting is the right advice. what ultimately comes out we will wait to see. obviously what's best for us. steve: mr. putin is about to come out of the airplane and come downtown stairs. ainsley, give us the logistics how this works. takes about half an hour to get to the presidential palace. then what happens once they arrive? ainsley: once they arrive at the palace they will sit down for that scheduled meeting. our president was supposed to leave his hotel at 5:40. the president has not left the residence yet. the meeting was to take place in a little more than 10 minutes. obviously, that's not going to happen. i have think this will all push it back at lease 30, 45 minutes. after that meeting together for an hour and a half, originally we were hearing they were only going to meet for 30 minutes to an hour. we got the schedule this morning, and it said an hour and a half. and there is vladimir putin stepping off the plane here in helsinki, finland,

heading to the presidential palace behind me on this neutral territory and going to sit down with president trump. is he walking down the stairs there pretty quickly and by himself. he has a few guys behind him. i don't see his wife with him. abby: interesting, ainsley, how different this meeting is going to be from the most recent one with kim jong un. ultimately in one-on-one meetings it's about personalities. we know with president trump it's about connecting and looking at each other across the table and trying to understand where the other person is coming from in some way. we had a guest on you spoke with danny hoffman who talked about meeting with the kgb leader and how you have to understand putin if you want to get anywhere. brian: he just took his jacket off and got in the car. i guess it's hot there? ainsley: it's so hot. the last two days have been really hot. the hottest days we have had all year. and then you guys came to town. you are right, abby, that face-to-face meeting they will communicate in a way that they can't when they are on the phone when they

are other sides of the world. this meeting promises to definitely outdo the past interactions they have had. they have met at some international meetings before where they just talked one for 20 minutes, one was just a polite few minutes of conversation. this time one-on-one, closed doors, just those translators like you said, brian. and no one else in the room. and then they have that bilateral meeting. it's a working lunch. that's supposed to last for two hours. and then he will have a press conference. we are not sure what the new schedule will look like. i'm not sure if that will just delay everything and everything will be on the same time frame or if they will make that lunch meeting shorter. maybe they added in that extra time in case something happened. brian: have you been able to try to talk to john roberts to get his pass so you can ask a question at that preference, maybe change your hair so you look like him? we have got to get new there. ainsley: let me ask you this, no matter if you are prime time, morning show whatever you had to be here

by 11 kloss. if you weren't here by 11:00 you weren't getting. in shut down all the streets. big booth like what we experienced at the conventions a block away. go through tight, tight security. they check your bags. had to have credentials. went through another facility the day we got here to get credentials. so tight. all the prime time guys, john roberts and sean hannitys had to leave to go over to the palace to go ahead and get checked in so they will be there for the press conference. i assume that's where the press conference is happening. aj, do you know? >> yes, i'm being told that's what it is. we had sean on earlier he said i have got to get over there. abby: brian and i were talking earlier how interesting it will be to watch this preferenc press confe when you have president trump up there and vladimir putin. the united states press is going to be jumping in and asking questions. they will be asking about election meddling. he knows how to handle hills own press. as brian was talking about me earlier hows is he going

to respond to some of our media? they will get greivel. steve: ask him directly why did you meddle? the u.s. grand jury has returned indictments against a dozen russian spies essentially who tried to hack our elections. mr. putin, please, explain why that didn't happen. brian: when ambassador bolton kind of let us know that vladimir putin told him when they had the pregame for this big show, he said, it was not state sponsored. so it already showed that he is moving off his we had nothing to do with this election. and by the way if we were wondering where aj went, did he get permission to go to helsinki. ainsley: i'm here with the best crew. aj they are talking about you. he i'm here with a.j. nikki. we get credit on air but they are the real reason. allowing air time to see what's happening here. in the west the weather here is crazy. do you know that we have

sunlight all day long except for two or three hours. that happens for two months out of the year there is a public pool over here. people are just -- we have three pools over here. people walking around yesterday was packed. walls they love to have those two months of summer. the rest of the time it is snow, cold and saunas. only finish word we use in america from the finish language sauna. abby: steam room is ours. sauna is theirs. steve: it's a dry one. abby: good way to leave. steve: ainsley, thank you so much. she is live in helsinki where it is 1:13 in the afternoon. putin is on the move to meet our president. brian: valentine's day to his friends. how could summit be a success to our military colonel jim reese live in a matter of moments ♪ ♪

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steve: let's talk to retired delta force operator army vet and fox news contributor colonel jim reese joins us from nashville. colonel, we don't know what's on the agenda. clearly the president is keeping his friends close and his enemies closer, isn't he? >> yes, sir, he is i think it's a very important summit for both countries, especially the u.s. two things that i take very key out of this, which was not brought up much in nato, but one was. the russian pipelines, the germans which is one. the second one is turkey wants to employ the s-400 missile defense system within turkey which as a nato country i just cannot believe we are going to allow a russian weapons system inside of turkey while we are bringing the f-35 ins to turkey also. steve: colonel, don't i think that's just a negotiating employe ploy?

>> absolutely. that's something the president is going to tell putin we are going to push back on that there is no way a russian kevin's system is going inside of nato. brian: especially with our f-35s there so they can de-conflict with us and mix and max technologies. by the way the problems with turkey russia will sell to anybody that's against us. sell to a nato member that's no problem. have you got to whip turkey into shape for that don't you think? >> what everyone has got to understanding right now, russia is sitting in the middle of personally, i believe, is probably our biggest affect and biggest threats around the world outside of north korea and china. they are sitting in syria, which has the turkish effects down in syria and the north with their hatred of the kurds. then you have the iranians, that the russians are continuing to train, and they harbor inside of syria. the iranians are sitting on the israeli border that prime minister netanyahu went and spoke to president putin and asked them to push back. so i believe that could be

an interesting talking points between president trump and president putin to get those iranians pushed back off the buffer zone in israel. abby: look, we have seen this reset button before president putin and barack obama most recently. you have trump who has a very different background. he comes in as a businessman, someone who has negotiated for much of his life. how can that benefit this, do you think? >> like i said, i think trump and his economic aspects, last week i heard people say nics and military or defense are not tied. in i completely disagree. both are tied in together. so i think that gives as aspect to go against putin. i believe putin would love to get back into the g-7, make it to the g-8. he has that piece. i think he needs to be careful. putin with his background at the intelligence service is he a strong negotiator.

brian: absolutely. creating havoc in the area. lieutenant colonel thanks so much. >> thanks, guys. brian: rebeccah heinrichs, dr. sebastian gorka with a onstethoscope all from the summit. don't move. r play sheriff so i can wash it. i use tide to get out those week old stains and downy to get it fresh and soft. you are free to go. tide and downy together.

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it gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, provides the most wifi coverage for your home, and lets you control your network with the xfi app. it's the ultimate wifi experience. xfinity xfi, simple, easy, awesome. abby: back with a fox news alert. just moments ago vladimir putin you can see him there landing in finland ahead of that high stakes summit with president trump. steve: here with more on what we can expect, we have a special panel, dan bongino, former lead secret service agent for the usama bin laden medvedev summit and rebeccah heinrichs senior fellow at the hudson institute and fox news security national analyst and author of the upcome book why we fight dr. sebastian gorka. good to have all three of you. dan bongino, let's start with you, going in, we have no idea what they are going to do. what are your expectations

about what will happen. >> well, steve, i think the best way to look at it is where are there potential areas of disagreement and where are there going to be significant frixz points where there is likely to be no agreement at all. in the areas of agreement, obviously fighting international terrorism, there has been some successful communication between us and the russians before in that effort. and nuclear nonproliferation. are we going to get any kind of a consensus opinion on those issues here? probably not. but, even some kind of communique or commitment to fighting that would be interesting. on the other side, the friction points, it's highly unlikely there is going to be, i think, any agreement on syria. the russian interests in there are not ours. steve as well on economic interests as president trump brought up with the i north norm pipeline friction points

interesting when you watch the summit that played out with north korea and the i think that he handled kim jong un. built him up. reminded him what a strong leader is he in his own way but obviously as a negotiating tactic to get something in return. you ask imagine there will be some similar charming in this meeting. what does putin ultimately want? how does president trump think about this in a way where he can get something in return? >> i think the comparison is with the prior 8 years. remember under president obama, his presidency began with an apology tour. america was deemed to be the source of all international problems. and we actually had a policy. this is not, you know, my opinion, the obama administration had a policy of strategic patience and leading from behind. so, america withdrew internationally and what does putin do? he exploited that vacuum. he stepped into that vacuum in the middle east, in the europe and elsewhere to the

detriment of the western alliance and also to our partners in the middle east. so, now we have american leadership reareasserted under donald trump. we have become the global player, whether it's europe, whether it's arab sharks whether it's anywhere in the world. putin wants to be relevant. he wants -- this is the moment where he says okay, russia is still here, can i still be an international actor? so, for him, it is far -- this summit is much more important for putin than it is for the president because his relevance has been undermined and justly so because he is a destabilizing actor in the world. brian: rebecca, we know that after the olympics he invaded ukraine. we know in georgia he went in there and never really got any retribution. goes into syria, no retribution. the word is that this guy only understands strength and consequences. how does the president get that across in a conversation?

>> right. i would say, you know, that expectations should be low for this. there shouldn't even be an attempt for a grand bargain between putin and trump. what president trump needs to do going in here, he needs to carry a message with him. and that is that the obama administration is out. the trump administration is in. we are not going to take a posture of capitulation towards you. what putin does is when he senses ambiguity or a lack of resolve, he exploits that he finds soft spots and he pushes. what president trump should do is go through that laundry list of things where there are points of disagreement and explicitly state his strong position so that there is no ambiguity for putin. and because what that's going to do is foster a greater sense of trust and a greater sense of respect on the part of putin and that's what's going to deter conflict and preserve peace. steve: looking live at the presidential palace we are expecting putin and president trump to arrive shortly. referred to mr. putin as a competitor.

we are both competitors and both strong guys. with competitors have you got to walk away with a win. do you think so at the end of this they will both be able to say i got something out of the deal? dan dan you know, i'm not sure. this may be one of those face-to-face sessions where they want to get a better feel of one another. i don't know what could come out of this. i know president trump has a strong character, so does putin. steve, nobody has been stronger on putin than trump. people forget it was just a few months ago that the american military wiped out a couple hundred russian mercenaries in syria and had the russians scrambling because they didn't want to claim credit that they were actually russian. i don't think putin expected trump to respond that way. that was not insignificant incident over there his comments about the gas pipeline as well. the russians need this other pipeline. they are -- the russians are not an economic power house. they are a small sliver of the united states economy. they need that money and putin got -- excuse me, trump confronted him on it.

abby: dr. gorka they have set the expectations low. putin said this to cbs. maybe nothing will come out of this i expect it to be low at this point. what would success look like to you. you understand the president and these issues deeply what needs to happen for us all to be talking about this in the end that something big was done. >> i agree with dan. i think the most important thing is to have realistic expectations and to send a very clear message rebecca is right, america is back. two things at bear minimum number one that they create some kind of working relationship, even if our countries have very different interests that there is some kind of connection made between the two men and at the very, very least. i think the issue of syria. we are not going to get any kind of serious collaboration with russia on major issues such as energy or china. but, when it comes to russians, running around syria, supporting the

murderous assad regime, if we can get russia to dial back from their involvement in syria, after we have killed more than 200 russian killed by forces it's time for putin to withdraw from syria. brian: appreciate it. great discussion. very curious to see if we end one a return date with vladimir putin coming to washington. steve: that would be cool. neutral ground. abby: that could happen. steve: what does come next. coming up next on this program we will check in with ainsley who is live with ed henry in helsinki. we will bring you the meeting live. abby: plus, nigel farage. stick with us. ♪ ♪ crabfest is back at red lobster! discover our largest variety of crab and crab dishes all year! like new crabfest combo.

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brian: fox news alert right now. russian president vladimir putin arriving right now at the palace in helsinki. a little behind schedule. abby: yeah, can you see it right there. pump is also expected to make his way there any minute for, of course, the high stakes summit. steve: all eyes are on the two world leaders this morning as they get set to tackle a number of crucial issues. we don't know exactly what is on the agenda. but the president last week said that he would bring up election meddling. figure they are going to talk about syria and crimea as well. there they are. they are pulling up. and not far away ainsley and ed live in helsinki. so, ainsley and ed, low expectations but the president said yesterday we'll do just fine. ainsley: just saying don't expect a lot but i'm probably going to deliver big is what we were saying. ed: when have we heard president trump ever aim small? this is someone who swings for the fences.

people wanted to talk him down during the campaign. they wanted to talk him down throughout the first 100 days, now through the first year and a couple of months. he has exceeded expectations on a lot of the these things. i expect he was very carefully trying to ratchets it down oh, we are just talking. this is diplomacy. buttive got to tell you as we look over our shoulders that motorcade is going right past us. ainsley: i'm counting there is 20 cars before the red car all the way at the very end and police mobile right behind him. they are pulling into the palace, driving up next to that tented area there is a white tent where they will walk through the front door. ed: they put up those tents wherever the president of the united states goes in particular because, you know, it makes it harder for anyone who is up to no good to reach them. ainsley: you will see the white tent that leads into the palace. one of the long cars drove into that tent right there. they closed the curtain so you can't see vladimir putin

sentencing out of his car. ed: there will be a camera inside the palace there where we will hopefully have the arrival and maybe have that on tape. what they do is put that tent out there harder for anyone who has any bad intentions to actually target in this case president putin and there you see him from the inside of the palace. ainsley: how cool to be so close to all of this and, ed, you are just checking another box on the list. this just weeks after of course that sitdown with kim jong un of north korea. interesting your perspective have you been at both now, is the mood very much the same with both of these meetings or do you sense a differenced he had i'm glad you asked that i have two different responses. the quick one is this feels a little different with kim jong un who had never been on the world stage at all. is he a kid, practically. 30, 40 years younger than president trump. i think there was a lot more excitement, anticipation. for this one i'm not saying it's less important, but, i

could tell new singapore there was a bigger buzz about it. very quiet and calm. ainsley and i have seen that the last couple days. not as much hype. could end up dlifertion more hype or no hype. the bigger issue is listen to the "new york times" i have the international edition in the my hotel. when president putin of russia sits down with president trump in helsinki he will have accomplished everything i could have reasonably hopes for. go home, turn off the cameras, putin has already won. that's what the "new york times" is saying to abby's question, before singapore, i heard much the same. i was covering that people say kim jong un has already won he wanted his photo op. with the miner president. that was bunk. that was nonsense. president trump we were covering him in the middle of the night he said folks, we about to go sign something, get ready that

whole thing about expectations the president loves the drama. and i think we are hearing all of this and it's nonsense. nothing is going to happen. putin has already won. it's nonsense. brian: ainsley, so much unscripted about what's about to take place. all right the closed door meeting with 45 minutes with just translators and then we have the bilateral. we don't know where that's coming. evidently the president's staff is a little bit more hard ball than he is. then you have the unscripted press conference followed up by a very tough questioner chris wallace as he sits down with vladimir putin. i laugh when these prognosticators say they know what's going to happen or victory has already been done. no one has any idea what's going to happen, ainsley. ainsley: that's right. in journalism school the worst thing can you do is write the story before you go out in the field u that's what the "new york times" is doing here you need to be presents and find the story. there weren't many protesters. we didn't say search protesting. we went out to get a feel for the people and find out

what it really looked like on the ground. and you don't know that until you come to this place. ed: there is protests everywhere against president trump. you know, he is going to lose. he is elevating vladimir putin. is he elevating kim jong un. and he ends up oftentimes this is one of the reasons why donald trump won the house. everybody wants to knock him down before he actually performs. steve: ed, the headline in your international hotel "new york times" is the same on the "new york times" we are holding here in new york city. what they are talking about how to their point is they are saying with them sitting down together, is a symbolic end to the effort by the united states to isolate russia after they took a ahold of crimea back in the day. and now we are hearing from the white house they put out something what you need to know going in. they said, you know what? when it comes to crimea, we are going to agree to disagree. ainsley: we have slapped sanctions a lot of sanctions on individuals involved in that individuals that were involved in our meddling of

the election. and vladimir putin is not happy about that. that's one of the things that's on the table. he wants these sanctions softened. and when you talk about sanctions, that means individuals. their travels are limited. their assets are frozen. russia's state banks and companies like oil and gas giants. we are -- we're barring them from getting any financing through u.s. banks and markets. that really hurts them in the pocketbook. brian: vladimir putin's friend and vladimir putin's supporters -- we do have information to share with you. we have just gotten confirmation that the president has left his residence and is heading over for this meeting because vladimir putin was delayed he he delayed. much like lodger room champs. that's just the way it is. abby: i am curious, one of top issues that will be discussed is the meddling in our elections. we can not underscore and talk enough about the importance of that and what that means in our democracy and them trying to undermine

it. how do you make inroads in that conversation when you have vladimir putin who continues to deny that's ever happened? have you got the president who maybe has not been as strong as he could pushing back against that, so how do you come out of this meeting making any sort of progress on that front? ed: sure. one way might be to look forward instead of back. all the democrats want to do is talk about 2016. it fit their narrative that hillary clinton didn't lose this. the russians won it even though there is no evidence of collusion after all this time. my point is maybe you look forward at the mid terms in 2018 because, forget about the democrats and the critics for a minute. the president's own intelligence team like dan coats have been testifying that there is a red light blinking, that russia is now going after the mid terms and trying to impact that seems to me it's more productive than talking about the rear view mirror, look in front of the windshield and what's coming right at us, maybe that might be something. ainsley: your dad said yesterday, jon huntsman ambassador to russia. his quote was there won't be

much of a relationship with russia if we find out they are meddling in the next election in november. abby: so true. steve: the president has left where he stayed overnight. he should be near your location on the other side of a brief timeout. stand by, folks. more live from the presidential summit in helsinki here on "fox & friends." very busy monday. ♪ ♪ is i can do! (man)(woman) beautiful just like you. (woman) oh, why thank you. [both scream] (burke) coupe soup. and we covered it. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪

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advil is relief that's fast strength that lasts you'll ask... what pain? with advil liqui-gels brian: 14 minutes before the top of the hour. back with a fox news alert. high stakes summit at helsinki manipulates away. this happened moments ago. abby: this is vladimir putin arriving at the presidential palace just minutes ago. president donald trump also expected any moment. we know he has left his residence. he is enroute. he will be at the palates in just minutes. steve: joining us right now is former u.k. independence party leader and fox news contributor my gentleman nigel o

joins us from london. ainsley earhardt is outside the palace in helsinki. nigel, let's start with you. one of the things going forward knowing it is going to happen very shortly, the president's summit is that there have been a number of democrats here in the united states who have suggested well, after those 12 russian spies were indicted for meddling in our election, they shouldn't have the summit. what do you think let's be clear 12 russian spies have been found spying. it's what they do. they do it to us. we do it to them. it may not be very seemly, but it's how the world works. there is nothing in that other than a very strange coincidence of timing. it seems to me. look, the ultimate sanity test is ask somebody, do you want better relations between russia and the west or do you want them to continual to deteriorate? and anybody with half a brain will say do you know what? talking is better than not

talking. abby: nigel, i know you were with the president a few days ago. talking to him, what is different about this meeting because putin has met with our presidents in the past they have all pressed this reset button, saying things are going to get better. our relationship is going to change. what do you think is different between these two meetings today. >> the fact is the previous meetings have happened around the back of global summits. this is the first time they have sat down specifically to work out where this relationship is going. it is important. there are questions, clearly that the president has to ask of putin. he may not answer them. but i think it's important, you know, president trump says look, if you ever have or you ever intend to meddle in our elections, please get the hell out. but, maybe maybe we can start to have a more sensible relationship. at the moment what we have got is we have got the establishment blaming

without an answers. we'll don't need things worse for russia. brian: go ahead, ainsley. ainsley: thank you, brian. is there any chance those 12 indicted will be extradited back to america so we can send them through the court system in many ways if that was to happen. that would be a gesture of goodwill on putin's part. i'm not sure his personality is quite made that way. who knows. he might just surprise us. brian: unconstitutional for extradite for another country. vladimir putin can't do it if he wanted. to say what do you say to people who say the russians hacked brexit and they hacked u.s. elections and won on both ends? >> this is because nobody thought brexit would happen and nobody thought trump would happen. the establishment who doesn't understand why middle england and middle

america voted in a way that they can't comprehend. they are desperately looking for an excuse. they are trying to put together their own conspiracy theory. i have been accused endlessly by the guardian of working with the russians. vodka. ludicrous. steve: the news yesterday was that theresa may, the prime minister, said when she sat down with the president the president said sue the eu. was that advice from you. [laughter] >> all i can say of this, and all i can tell you is that the president understands negotiations. and he understood that we had paid hundreds of millions of pounds into an organization every single year, you know, tens of billions over the last decade, to an organization who frankly had miss spent our money. so president trump's idea was, you know, stop the negotiations being tough i

don't take credit for it the president makes his own mind up on things he gets credit. steve: did you a little talking before he got. >> there the president talks to all kinds of people. i'm claiming no credit. this guy is 72 years old. he spent half a century making his own mind up. abby: ainsley, we are showing live footage of president trump making his way the residence to the palace. everyone on the ground is following this on the ground closely as well. you have been there the last couple of days. talk to us about the mood on the ground. how excited are they for this moment and how hopeful are they that really something, if anything, can come out of it? >> it's interesting you say that because we have heard that this is neutral territory and it truly is. no one really is excited either way. they really didn't have strong opinions. we were expecting a lot of protests. we saw some small protests and they were very peaceful. we didn't see it truly is

the best place to have a meeting like this. because it is so neutral. brian, did i want to piggy back on your response unconstitutional to extradite. in situations like that, they can just meddle in our election and get away with it they are not held accountable at all. brian: get ahold of ircht poll. if they travel scoop them up. look at vladimir putin and say throw out 12 of my defense officials. that's like us throwing out 12 people in the pentagon and throwing them to russia. it's just not going to happen. especially when you have figure like vladimir putin who says this was not a state sponsored event. may have been russians but i didn't tell them if he did that it would be a state sponsored event because they work for the state. ainsley: we just do that. both sides do it. brian: finland doesn't care. they don't like vladimir putin that much. with the u.s. they are still making their mind up about

donald trump. do you know who cares? president trump. he lives for these big mommy's. he lives for things like the debates. he lives for election day. and he lives for this moment to go down there because he does best under pressure. abby: this is where his business experience and his background could play a real role that's different than other presidents before him that have gone to the negotiating table. we have had these suntle before. press that re-set button. you remember hillary clinton had an actual button she pressed. steve: it didn't say reset. abby: two men. president trump with a very different background of how he negotiates. his style isn't like former president barack obama or george bush. it's very different. ainsley: yes. the difference in this meeting is we all hear the term. there is a new sheriff in town. our president is not a politician. he is not like hillary clinton. so, when we imagine him sitting across the table to vladimir putin, most people would probably be nervous to

sit across from a former kgb officer. is he sitting down with him. and going to negotiate. and i have had guests on this morning saying what do you think is going through the president's mind? do you think he is nervous. every single person said absolutely not. steve: nigel farage, the president last week referred to putin as a competitor. putin has negotiated directly with four u.s. presidents over the last almost 20 years. but this is the first u.s. president who is a businessman and brings a whole different skill set. differential tools in the toolbox as we see the president's motorcade head toward the presidential palace. abby: george w. bush met with putin after the meeting he sang praises and said he really connected. i felt like i got a sense of his soul and obviously after that you had the 9/11 attacks and the world changed and the relationship wasn't as great after that moment. but, he was criticized for

the words spoke after that. not the way we see president trump criticized before this meeting takes place. you already heard hem say this meeting is going to fail. making his way toward the palace. walk us through what is going through the president's mind? you everywhere just with him a few days ago. >> i think the best thing that can come out of this summit is for the two of them to stand up at the end and say we now have an understanding. we now have a genuine working relationship. not just to say it but to mean it. trump, of course, is very transactional. in all of his negotiations. but i don't think that out of this summit we are going to get anything very concrete. working relationships work. look, president macron of france, with his different views could have developed a relationship with president trump if these two guys can get along that's good for the world. ainsley: nigel, i want to interrupt you, excuse me. the president is just arriving. you can see the motorcade pulling up. lots of vehicles behind us.

this the long main street in helsinki that leads up to the palace. one of these cars is going to pull into that tent. there it is. pug into the tent. that i assume is where the president is and the curtain will close, which you will see in a moment. and, of course, ainsley vladimir putin is already there. ainsley: walk us through what happened right after this. >> right after this i assume they will sit down. they were supposed to do that at 6:20. obviously falling behind. yesterday we were being told they were going to meet 30 minutes to an hour. on the schedule it said an hour and a half. 90 minutes. but now that we are running behind we are not sure if they will stick to the original plan and cut that meeting short so they can walk in that bilateral meeting at 7:50. in an hour bilateral meeting is supposed to start. brian: the world cup is over where else with r. they supposed to be? plane supposed to leave at 12 noon but that can leave

late he has his own plane. in germany, germany's foreign minister said after the president's comments calling eu a foe, he says we can no longer rely on donald trump and the united states. we have to rely more on europe. i you have respond to that in a second. as we all see now, the president of the united states is walking in to meet with vladimir putin. steve: that's right. into the presidential palace. this is where george herbert walker bush met with gorbachev before the collapse of the soviet union. he will be meeting with president putin very shortly, ed. >> yeah. and, ainsley is exactly right. the new schedule suggests and it's delayed now so we will see how it all plays out. they are going to meet one o.j. one for roughly 90 minutes, maybe some staffers on the sidelines. but then a much bigger group of people, a john bolton how just saw the national security advisor. mike pompeo, the secretary of state is here.

i believe they scheduled a two hour working lunch. you get the two leaders to sort of feel each other out, see what areas they want to cover but really go through the body language. sort of man to man. leader to leader. but then you get the much larger group over lunch. that's where you would expect they would try, at least, to get some actual business done whether it be on syria, dealing with iran. dealing with north korea. some of these big issues. that's when you hammer out the details. in fact, that is exactly what we saw in singapore. you had president trump sort of eyeing kim jong un. he came in for the dramatic arrival. then they came out a few mention later. they gave us the hand shake. it was the first pictures. and then they had a meal where there was nort north koreans on one side and americans on the other. that that's where they got business done. a few minutes later president trump and kim jong un came out and signed that framework. that agreement. look, whether or not they sign an agreement, we will see. but we do know that after lunch the two men, vladimir putin and donald trump are

going to get together for a joint news conference. abby: that is going to be so fats sinating to watch. putin answering questions from our media. steve: talking about meddling. abby: talk about the u.s. election and putin meddling in our election. how will he respond? cold shrugs or more combative with the media? it will be so interesting. ainsley: big question is why. why did you do this? will you do it again? can we get some sort of an agreement from you that you will not meddle in our elections going forward this november or, you know, the next presidential election? it's very important that we get some answers there. john mccain didn't want this meeting to happen a lot of democrats didn't they are furious with him meddling in our election. abby: this has gone on well before now though. brian: to seat staffs from this president's staff.

the one president have you got to think of is sergei lavrov whether vladimir putin or he has been there guilty cutting deals with secretary kerr i can't understand clinton. one thing consistent. the russians don't hold to any of their deals. almost everything they said does not come true. so no matter what they agree on, their track record, ainsley, doesn't make you feel optimistic. ainsley: you are right. maf love is going to meet with mike pompeo today. our president is going to meet with the president of finland for -- they have already met. they this a breakfast and they will be meeting at the end of the press conference before he takes off. ed: to brian's point i covered a v-8 summit with n. germany with president george w. bush and the russian foreign minister was sergei lavrov. he goes back into the mid 2,000s. that was 2006. this is someone who has outlasted. he was dealing with donsdy rice at the time and i was covering that. this sasha rude player on

the international stage and his boss vladimir putin, the actual president of russia shoe rude is not even the right word. this is a former kgb operative. this is one who has poisoned people, has killed them basically not just meddled in elections. so the stakes are much bigger. i have to say when you hear democrats now saying cancel, you can't meet. brian: it's ridiculous. ridiculous.brian. ed: have they forgotten in 2012 barack obama caught on a hot mic when i get elected i will be able to cut deals. the obama administration wanted to cut deals with this person that the democrats are now saying is the most awful human being in the world. they still wanted to cut deals. i think part of what president trump is saying let's just open a dialogue and see where it goes. steve: exactly. and where, you know, there is no expectation that there will be any deals. some of the areas where they could actually wingsd up talking about obviously the u.s. meddling not only will be a topic at the prrchesz, but the president made it very clear last week he was going to bring it up.

also, what about ukraine and crimea. the white house says we are going to agree to disagree on it because russia is not going to give it back. regarding sanctions, the president, the white house has said none of the sanctions are coming off. unless they do something about crimea and ukraine regarding syria. the united states would like to see russia squeeze iran out. that's downtownful. andowntown doubtful.there is a y could extend some sort of arms control talk. the president does have in their power the opportunity to extend the new start treaty by five years. whether they talk about all those things. whether they talk about none of the things. we don't know right now because ed and ainsley, there is no set agenda. ainsley: nato summit. those issues you just mentioned. also mentioned is he going to be talking about the baltic states. i remember the press conference at nato. had you a lot of reporters all over the world standing up and asking. one lady asked about baltic

state he is 120e7b estonia andt wanena. annexed after world war ii. they are asking for us to help them. they want money to ward off any russian moves against them and also asking us to send troops in there want. the president has talked about he is going to continue those sanctions. vladimir putin wants them softened. we want to increase the russian oil production apparently, opec says they agree to this because it's going to help restrict iranian exports earnings. abby: that's a big deal. because we talk about how bad the relationship is between the u.s. and russia right now and the lack of trust. but, more than anything is the danger that iran is to this world. and if they can come together and find ways to make it more difficult for iran to succeed on the ground in syria, but, also, economically, that is what we should all be cheering for. ed: sure. such an important point. because, iran is funding terror around the world. whether it's through

hezbollah or others. and and on top of that, compare the singapore summit to what we are seeing here. interesting that the president went to singapore and was trying to get north korea to denuclearize. and the democrats were against everything he was doing. now, he is here saying, among other things, i want to reduce the influence of iran and funding of terror. and i want to talk nuclear disarmament with vladimir putin. and schumer and other democrats say don't meet with them. cancel the summit because of election meddling. you basically have a president president saying give peacance that. denuclearize north korea. try to have nuclear disarmament with russia. have you democrats opposing him. finance fascinating. he is leading on the world stage. ainsley: this is a live shot. sorry, brian, this is a live shot of ambassador bolton. you can see that is going to be the room where they will have the meeting. the meeting is set to take place any minute now we are told. brian: that's where the meeting is going to be. i want to go back to your

point. it's not just the u.s. and russia and the citizens of both our nations that care. those other nations or once part of the soviet union but never acknowledged to be soft unionscioto union. nervous about becoming the next georgia and next crew crane. ukraine. they want our troops and willing to pay to have them there. exercises for quick reaction force should the tanks start rolling from russia. they care a lot about this. ainsley: look at crimia, that's why they are scared. they are scared he will come in and annex their territory, too and kill their people. as you mentioned earlier, brian, 10,000 people have died in that fight in crime crimea. abby: i would be surprised if they made inroads crimea. putin has made it clear where he stands there the president is setting the low expectations. i don't think that we should expect a lot to happen on

that front. where we should focus on is arms control. ed, you mentioned that early earlier. when it comes to u.s. and russia. we control around the world the majority of when it comes to nuclear weapons. they are fassing each other. there is no reason we have to live in a world like this. so even talking about do escalating the situation at hand, that could be a big deal. ed: absolutely. with crimia, it's almost similar to the election meddling. how much time do the president's critics want him to spend on crimea, which vladimir putin is not going to give up. you can press him and say, you know, we strongly disagree with illegal move and that should be said by the u.s. president. same on election meddling, is he going to spend the 90 minutes just going over and over why did you do it? what happened? 2016 and leaf out nuclear disarmament in iran and syria and all the rest? i think the president put it pretty well a couple days ago in the u.k. where he said what does everybody want a perry mason moment. steve: we do.

brian: that's why the mueller report that was read by rod rosenstein i think is going to be a huge benefit. it's not going to be what you say and what i say. it's going to say i got the 12 names of the guys that actually did it. and now the president can just turn around and say it doesn't matter what you say. we have got you red handed and pun intended. i will add to something else. they could have done a lot mooter operation. would have been a lot tougher to get the fingerprints. name the 12. for some reason the russians didn't mind being discovered. i haven't heard an effective answer for that. you know what? daniel hoffman our fox contributedder, i talked to him off the air. he said one of the russians discovered it vladimir putin wanted the world to know he is out there and meddling it allows him to try to show strength on the international stage in a bad way. but it enables him to show i'm pulling strings.

that's what president trump is dealing with somebody as ho i mentioned a moment ago is a bad guy. a kgb operative. he kills people. he poisons people. he jails journalists. he is against a free press. these are all things that need to be denounced. if president trump is going to spend 90 minutes reading a list you are a bad guy. you are a booed guy. he is not. he has to be firm with him as ronald reagan would be, i would assume, going behind closed doors. he also has to try to move forward with some business. abby: ed, what do you think putin is most afraid of. if trying to make progress on the meddling in our elections and putin denies he is any part of this. how do you get him in a corner and make him change his ways? what strength do we have? >> i think our strength is promoting freedom and liberty and pointing out that we are that beacon all around the world. that's an opportunity for the president. that's one of the ways that ronald reagan was able to back the softs into the corner. it was spending on "star

wars" and showing we had military might. when you go to the berlin wall and say tear down this wall you are standing up for freedom around the world. something that vladimir putin is not in favor of. ainsley: terrified of life and liberty. he is terrified of democracy. but he does not want crimea to be in nato. is he terrified of democracy. he likes to be the super power. he wants to be in control and in charge. he is a dictator. steve: right now we don't know who is in control of this particular photo op. because two presidents are about to come into that room you. ainsley: there they are. steve: turn up the mic and see if they say anything.

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>> thank you. thank you very much. first of all, mr. president, i would like to congratulate you on a really great world cup. one of the best ever. from what everybody tells me, one of the best ever. and for your team itself doing so well. [speaking foreign language] i watched quite a bit. the united states may call it soccer. i watched quite a bit of it and watched the entire finals and seem my finals and they were spectacular games but beautifully done. congratulations on that.

[speaking foreign language] most importantly we have a lot of important things to talk about. we have discussions on everything from trade to military to missiles to nuclear to china. we will be talking a little bit about china. mutual friends, president xi. [speaking foreign language] >> i think we have great opportunities together as two countries. frankly, we have not been getting along very well for the last number of years. i have been here not too long but it's getting close to two years. i think we will end up having extraordinary relationship. i hope. so i have been saying and i'm sure you have heard over the years and as i campaigned that getting

along with russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. [speaking foreign language] >> i think the world wants to see us get along. we are the two great nuclear powers. we have 90% of the nuclear, and that's not a good thing. it's a bad thing. i think we hopefully can do something about that because it's not a positive force. it's a negative force. so we'll be talking about that among other things. [speaking foreign language]

>> and with that the world awaits, and i look forward to our personal discussion which happens now and meet our whole team. you have quite a few representatives and we do. we have quite a few questions and hopefully we will come up with answers, most importantly. great to be with you. [speaking foreign language] >> thank you very much. thank you, everybody. thank you, everybody. thank you very much.

steve: well, we could hear what the president of the united states had to say. they immediately turned off the camera and took the microphones out. they will be having a 90 minute face to face. abby: if only they could keep those mikes on. steve: there won't be a note taker we are told. there will be a translator in there. we did hear what the president of the united states did have to say. couldn't hear mr. putin because we miked putin and not the translator. the president said some of the things they are going to be talking about, trade, military, china and missiles. he said we have great opportunities. we haven't been getting along for the last couple of years. he has been there close to two years. he said he felt we would be -- end up having an extraordinary good relationship. he said getting along with russia is a good thing. brian: right. a lot of that will have to do with their behavior. you can try to get along with people. if they continue to be bad actors, you won't be able to do it. so let's see if they are going to turn the page. they mentioned haven't gotten along for two years,

we have 90% of the world's nukes and that's a negative force. makes me think for sure the easiest thing to get done would be to extend the start agreement and revisit the intermediate range missiles which the russians are already violated. ainsley earhardt and ed henry are live in helsinki where outside, if you had something, a whisper device we could maybe hear what's going to be going on for those 90's minutes. i'm not sure have you that ainsley. ainsley: hard to believe we are part of this history. ed: remarkable. ainsley: fascinating to watch them walk in the palace and getting the honor of reporting it back to you at home. we didn't expect that. we thought they would go go into a closed door meeting immediately. we didn't know they would sit down together and we would have a little introduction. ed: got to hear from them. look, in covering president obama, one of the things i remember that they always talked -- the obama administration about splitting power and spreading it around and moving away from, say, the g-8 at the time when included russia. they got kicked out of

because of ukraine and crimea and moving it towards the g-20 and getting brazil and other countries involved. i mention that because when i heard president trump mention that we also want to talk about our mutual friend president xi in china, one of the reasons why nato and the g-7 now, not the g-8 are so angry is what you are seeing president trump do, his critics say he is splitting the nato alliance and giving putin more power. maybe we will see. but what he is also it doing is he is really rising, the united states, russia, and china, they are now the three real super powers, key players. you have to just think about that when you hear a lot of critics say germany is mad. they have less influence now because this president is dominating the world stage right now. abby: i'm glad you said that ed, that he brought up china and said it's our mutual friend president xi. this is what a good negotiator does. they find common ground immediately, ainsley. he talked at first about the

world cup and congratulated president putin on what is a successful world cup it was and how well his own country russia did. obviously, trying to connect the very early stage of this meeting. because that is how you want this to go. you want to find that common ground and hopefully get more important things as the meeting goes on. ainsley: it's interesting your dad was saying that same thing yesterday when we were interviewing ambassador huntsman. i'm sure he has been in talks with the president about how to negotiate. because he knows vladimir putin very well. are you at liberty to talk about that a little, abby, to talk to us about what his personality is, what your dad has discovered having him as the ambassador and living in russia and knowing vladimir putin? abby: it is interesting. my dad was an ambassador to china as well. i ask him all the time what is the big difference between being ambassador for china for the u.s. and being the ambassador to russia. he set biggest challenge to russia is lack of trust. china such big trading partners we work together because we rely on each other so much economically. with russia, we don't have

that foundation. and that is a real challenge for us and the president just said that a few moments ago saying we haven't had a good relationship over the past couple years. i hope that it could be an extraordinary one i think it can be. ainsley mentioned my dad being over there in russia the last year. that is the goal, that is the effort. how can we find a way to make the relationship better because as it is right now, it is the worst it's been since the cold war. and so we are all hoping that coming out of this meeting we can find some way, you put those cards on the table and say where is that common ground? what things can we work together on? steve: ed, the president did list a couple of things, he said we can talk about trade, the military, china, and missiles, he never mentioned the meddling. although in the sound bite before that, he said we have got good things to talk about and things to talk about. so, obviously, the meddling is things to talk about. crimea is things to talk about. ed: absolutely. one thing i say is look, this was a brief photo op. it wasn't 10 or 15 minutes.

the news conference, after all of this, both the 90 minute meeting or so. we will see how it goes and the lunch that we expect to last roughly two hours. you would expect a more laundry list. by the way, i didn't hear syria. i said it was hard to hear. so maybe syria came up. i would just caution that just because he didn't mention meddling, there will be critics who will say he didn't mention meddling. he will talk about it in the 90 minutes. this was a quick. ainsley: he absolutely is going to be talking about it. ed: syria is important. retired general jack keane has been saying on our air a very important point. why talk about syria in terms of iran's influence there and one of the things that general keene and others have been really pressing the president is don't pull the u.s. out of there because we have made real gains against isis. something the mainstream media doesn't talk a lot about and doesn't give the president credit for. if you pull out now we might lose some of those gains. that's an important issue as well. brian: as pointed out, whether you like it or not, every time you bring up

russia meddling because democrats have gone out of the way to try to delegitimize the president, the president view us that as a knock on the biggest upset in the history of of american politics that took place in 2016. people say well, get over it well, you get over the partisanship that is taking place and was exposed with peter strzok and lisa page. that's when the president will turn the page. when people recognize that he won, that she lost, they expose their server. they didn't adjust the server. they colluded to stop bernie sanders. the dnc and everything else, until you get passed all of that the president is not going to get past it that shifts ththat's just the makeupf his personality. ed: to your point, brian, when peter strzok testified last week for many hours i heard many democrats on that committee in the house say all right, you had your testimony. the republicans, you got your chance to go after peter strzok. let's move on now. you are right, to your point, brian, i'm sure president trump might hear

something like that and chuckle okay, so you want five or six hours from peter strzok and the dirty fbi agents and then you say let's move on. with robert mueller it's been going on over a year where is the move-on in terms of the president's side. the democrats say okay we got one day of testimony from strzok. let's forget about it that's not a big deal to us. saying look, this never ends. brian: can you imagine if george bush had to address the al gore and florida situation for the first two years of his presidency? we never talked about it again and al gore was kind never to go away unlike hillary clinton. meanwhile we have a great roster of guests to bring. abby: former campaign manager and co-author let trump be trump corey lewandowski. we all know him well on the show. corey, you know the president almost as well as anybody. the meeting is going on as we speak. this one-on-one with vladimir putin. what do you think is going through the president's mind and how do you think this beating imeeting is going? >> this is going to be an opportunity for the president to once again demonstrate the power of the united states.

we are in a position of strength here. that's where the president is the best negotiating. is he going to talk about some very important issues with vladimir putin. including the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. something that he has talked about. it was just a month ago where he was meeting with kim jong un. and he knows that we need both russia's help and china's help to make that happen. what we heard him say at the onset of this meeting going to talk about president xi in china. he is going to talk about the nuclear weapon capabilities between these two countries. i am certain that russian meddling in our elections is going to come up. very importantly the denuclearization of the korean peninsula is also going to come up. steve: you have got to figure that as well. corey, last week, when the president was on his world disruption tour where he took on nato and everybody and theresa may in that newspaper things it was all about trade how to bring back business in the united states whether it was the pipeline or whatever. how can he deal with russia and get a better deal for the united states regarding

trade? >> flint firefighters union to remember for almost 30 years now the united states has been taken advantage of by both our friends and our enemies when it comes to the issue of this trade. this president has put forth a strategy, a plan, and a process that says we're going to put america first for a change. which means these multilateral deals have failed. if we are going to have good trade relations with other country it has to be fair to the united states first. i know speaker gingrich talked about this on fox yesterday. for the first time in a long time, we are going to refocus and making sure that u.s. products has access to other markets in the same way that those markets have access to the u.s. that is what he needs to talk about with russia. is he also going to talk about the natural gas pipeline which is going to germany. because, as you know, germany wants us to pay for their national defense. they are now buying national guard from russia. and they are blaming us for it and outcry across the world this week when the president called out germany because of that, and their close relationship with russia.

but what he said made perfect sense. why is the united states paying for the defense of germany when they're subsidizing russia for gas? brian: bring in jason chaffetz right now. jason, you think it's important for people to understand, too, what was going on with peter strzok and others. because it's not just about vladimir putin and meddling. it's about what was going on with the investigation and the push to label trump maybe illegitimate president by a guy who is leading investigation with impeachment on his mind. you think more is coming out there that will figure into this conversation. in what way? >> well, there is no doubt that, look, russia and some of the others, some of the nefarious characters out there on the world stage want to penetrate into the counter intelligence, the operations within the united states. that's been going on for decades. nothing unique to donald trump. what's concerning about what happened with the peter strzok testimony is, a lot of people serious about fixing the fbi want to understand how is it that

peter strzok had to many vulnerabilities that would make him susceptible to penetration by these nefarious actors? misuse of his telephone. using it in insecure places. sloppiness sending tens of thousands of texts. he has some real issues in his personal life to make him susceptible to potentially being manipulated. so, those are really deep concerns. why weren't there any warning bells going off within the fbi? how did this person stay as the top counter intelligence person in that position for so long. that is a core issue. steve: jason, are you suggesting that peter strzok could have been held up for blackmail for somebody because he was having the affair with lisa page? >> i think if you just look at the basic tenets of somebody that you need who who is heading up counter intelligence for the fbi, what would make that person vulnerable if he was having issues in his personal life.

if he was having an affair. if he was carrying electronics that weren't secure. was he sloppy in using g.p.s.? there are texts throughout saying he was in a scif, which is a place that you are not supposed to bring electronics. how does this person continue to have a security clearance? if you don't have a security clearance, you don't have a job at the fbi. steve: sure. abby: moved to the hr department where they are helping train people on bias within the company. the irony of all of this. brian: why does he have a job? abby: backbone of this beating taking place between president trump and vladimir putin. we just heard from them moments ago and the president spoke we haven't had a very good relationship for the past couple years. he hopes it can be an extraordinary one. we do have that clip. let's take a listen. >> we have great opportunities together as two countries frankly we have not been getting along very well for the last number of years i have been here not too long. close to two years.

we will end up having an extraordinary relationship. i have been saying and i'm sure have you heard over the years and i campaigned that getting along with russia is a good thing. not a bad thing. abby: jason, stand by. bring in dr. sebastian gorka with us as well to get his take. this highlights to me back here at home how divisive our politics are because you hear him talking about these important issues dealing with iran, dealing with isis, dealing with nuclear weapons. yet, have you people at home already talking about this meeting being a failure before it happens. it shouldn't go on. some folks have lost the concept of america first. you know, when things are more important than russia and the u.s. and we can work together. remind us of where we are right now. why this meeting in your mind needs to take place. >> well, you are absolutely right. why is it controversial for an american president to wish to represent mark's national interest above everybody else's?

i go back. i remember it was a beautiful sunny, hot day in the rose garden when the president decided to pull us out of the absurd paris climate accord and then there is that one sentence he used that president, saying i was elected by the citizens of pittsburgh to be their president. not by the citizens of paris. that's what the president is doing. whether he is in north north koa or nato calling them out for lack of serious defense getting in bed with russia or whether he is now in helsinki. i'm sure behind closed doors because i know the man, it will be a very candid discussion about what russia is doing around the world and it's not going to be some flowery protocol diplomatic discussion. yeah, he wants to represent our interest and so should he. steve: let's bring in rebeccah heinrichs.

we did hear from both the presidents a little while ago. what did you glean from that? >> i thought it was interesting that president trump kind of stayed flattery there. you didn't see a lot of that like you saw whenever he was talking about kim jong un because is he dealing with a different character. flattery, charm, that's not going to work on a former kgb guy like vladimir putin. what president trump needs to do is be clear and actually show where, you know, a lot of people are talking about where we can find areas to get along with russia. i think equally important what president trump needs to do is take things off the table of which he is not willing to negotiate on. u.s. missile defense systems. this is something that the russians hate. it's something that president obama was willing to compromise on. under no circumstances should president trump say that u.s. missile defenses are up for negotiation. we are going to make them better. we're going to make them stronger and we are going to do what we need to do. that means possibly even defending against the kind of threats that russia poses. that's going to be really important in this meeting.

brian: rebecca if past is prologue, if president obama decided without negotiation to take the missile defense out of european as a gesture of goodwill, how did vladimir putin interpret that? weakness. if we stop the perez exercises. if we acknowledge crimea. if we do anything that shows acquiescence, i wish it was a different world, but he will view it as weakness. don't you agree? >> what he does is that's exactly right. what putin does doesn't take these concessions okay great, we are going to have a better relationship. he takes that concession, he pockets it and then asks for more. this is why appeasing russia doesn't work. it's a failed policy. on the new start treaty a lot of people are talking about that. president trump has talked about possibly looking for ways to work on nuclear nonproliferation that threaty doesn't expire until 2021. president trump has dissatisfaction. instead of willing to extend that treaty. let's wait and see if you

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>> the world wants to see us get along. we are the two great nuclear powers. we have 90% of the nuclear and that's not a good thing. it's a bad thing. and i think we hopefully can do something about that. steve: well, there yo you have got the two presidents sitting in the helsinki a few minutes ago. we are going to rerun them at the top of the next hour. and so that if you missed them, you will be able to see exactly what the president was talking about. started out by congratulating mr. putin on a great world cup. said he watched a lot of the soccer and went into a little list of things that they hoped they would accomplish. abby: including trade,

military nukes and as he said mutual friend the president of china xi gin jinping. bring in ed and ainsley. ed, as we talked about earlier finding that common ground in the very early minutes of this meeting hoping they can connect in some way to get something done here, something beyond just trade has been some big moves in syria. maybe dealing with iran and isis and terrorism. ed: maybe dealing with nuclear disarmament. i heard president trump kind of repeat something you smartly pointed out earlier, be a, which that the united states and russia have about 0% of the world's nuclear weapons. we talk about the threat of north korea and pakistan and other countries around the world who have nuclear weapons. these are the players with the vast majority of nuclear weapons. if they can take a bold step and say we are going to start reducing those stockpiles beyond what we have already talked about with the new start treaty

and all of that, that's a big, bold move that this president can make. we will see whether vladimir putin is willing to go along i would talk about when you talk about trying to make a deal here on any of, this they are about an hour behind schedule already. you know, in terms of vladimir putin arriving late and then they decided to do this photo op. before they actually sat down for the 90 minutes. we will see how long this goes. we were talking about a news conference at about 9-50 a.m. time a joint news conference. that looks like it's going to be pushed well, well back. maybe they have more time together and work through issues. ainsley: they have a lot of issues to talk about. need extra time. bilateral luncheon afterwards with some of the president's top leaders on both sides. that's where they could start some of the negotiations and talk together as a team. we're hoping that they do stick to the hour and a half for the first meeting and two-hour lunch meeting that they just postponed or pushed back the press conference. we have to see. brian: ainsley, how about the confidence of the president who has had the

job not even two years and never been in politics before. he goes against the most experienced politician, notorious one on the world stage. he goes i would like one-on-one for at least 45 minutes with just an interpreter, if valentine's day needs it. that confidencinterpreter, -- if valentine's davladimirneeds it? >> they like a strong man or woman or anyone who is going to stand up to the enemy or someone they don't agree with. you have season that in this president. he doesn't agree with theresa may on everything. he doesn't agree with angela merkel on everything. doesn't agree with putin on most things. still trying to negotiate. that's what leadership, i feel like, looks like. steve: ed, i will be really interested to watch the press conference. we don't know when it's going to start. all bets are off on this particular timetable right now. but, you know, historically, when you have two world leaders it's okay each side, the americans and then the russians do reporters get to

ask questions and those reporters cram like 19 questions into their two questions. but i think this is going to be more free flowing, more organic. they could take questions for an hour. >> yeah. because, remember, president trump, ainsley pointed out a little while ago in the u.k. it was supposed to be 2 and 2 on each side and the president took something like four questions. he gets knocked all the time for not having foraminal newform formalnews conference. he gets knocked for it he takes more question than any president i have covered. ainsley: ed was talking about the difference in it summit versus the one in singapore because he was there for north korea. you know what's interesting in north korea we went into that meeting with kim jong un walking across the dnc line. we saw that meeting with south korean president. he sent us pictures saying that he was destroying some of thinks nuclear weapons and facilities. and that gave us confidence going into that meeting. this is totally different.

we have just indicted russian diplomatics for meddling in our election. that news just broke a few days ago. this one we are going in with a totally different attitude. ed: steve's question as well about news conference. i attended news conference g-8 as i mentioned in 2006 with vladimir putin. another thing i would watch at the news conference is the body language. this guy does body language like no one else. maybe president trump is the only other person with the confidence and whatnot. vladimir putin, i remember signatures in the front row and he, as he was listening to translators, he was sort of glaring at all of us. come at prebro. what have you got. people on social media say do you see how he sits back in his chair like no one else. like he is the world revolves around him. he may have finally met his match with donald trump who may believe the same in terms of how he can shape the world stage as well. but these two men, behind

closed doors alone is pretty fascinating. abby: certainly more of a match on the world stage when it comes to nuclear weapons. that's a big part of the reason why they are meeting today and the president spoke about that just a few moments ago with putin next to him and talks about nukes and how we don't need to be living like this. here's what he said. >> i really think the world wants to see us get along. we are the two great nuclear powers. we have 90% of the nuclear and that's not a good thing, it's a bad thing. and i think we hopefully could do something about that. it's not a popular force. it's a negative force. so he wool be talking about that among other things. brian: they both made their remarks and they both spoke. we don't know exactly what vladimir putin said because the translator wasn't micked. we heard what president trump said. i'm not sure where you were, ed, probably at another network. do you remember when george bush and vladimir putin were side by side and vladimir putin said to our press

core, you talk about my freedom of the press, president bush just fired one of those news anchors for criticizing him and we said what are you talking about? he thought that president bush fired dan rather for getting his national guard story wrong. as much as he thinks he understands america, maybe he might not really understand what type of questions is he going to get coming at him. ed: i think you are right, actually. the other thing is, again, president trump gets hit all the time. he doesn't have formal news conferences. i see him taking more questions than other presidents free flowing. think about how many times he goes to marine one outside of the white house what have you got and he is talking about this and talking about that and oil prices. he will comment on everything and anything. sometimes to his direct direct . vladimir putin is a dictator accident take questions from a free press. he has an end of the year annual news conference. here is your one shot at me. a little bit nervous.

they are a little nervous about asking putin a tough question. the u.s. press core is not going to be scared. they will go at him. abby: especially if ed henry is asking the questions. ed: i'm going across the street. abby: you can't say though that president trump is not transparent. good point and difference from what we have seen in the past. he takes the country on this journey with them. he wants them to understand the importance of these meetings and what he hopes to get out of it remember, he tweeted a few days ago the letter that kim jong un sent him. he wants us all to better understand that we will be right back with you guys. i think coming up we will have stuart varney talk about economic numbers and the impact specifically going to have ton this summit today. steve: that's right. the summit is now underway. and president trump says the world's to see him and putin get along. we have a panel to discuss that coming up next. you're watching "fox & friends." ♪ ♪ arines

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>> look forward to our personal discussion and then we are going to meet our whole team. have you quite a few representatives. we all have a lot of questions and hopefully we will come up with answers, most importantly. great to be with you. brian: and, after the shake, the talks began. high stakes summit underway. that was the story moments ago. vladimir putin, the president of the united states, meeting and speaking. joining us right now to analyze this. it's no longer pregame. it's during the game. steven united states is here former national security advisor to vice president dick kahne cheney along with rebecca grant is here playing the middle seat and official under president obama david tafuri. david, for you, those comments back and forth we talked about. on deck will be missiles, china, we're going to be talking about he didn't bring up syria. what stood out? >> first of all, it's nice

that we could see the room they are going to meet in. get a sense of the atmospherics. i like that. i like they were going to make some comments. we didn't expect them to do it. i like what president trump didn't say he didn't say they are going to talk about russian meddling and talk about syria and ukraine. now, we just had the indictments last week of russian intelligence officials hacking in our election. and i didn't see -- it didn't seem to me like trump is going to have the fire in his belly to confront putin about the russian meddling. we don't know what's going to happen. brian: something came up, and that the did get mad at vladimir putin twice. one cut a video showing a missile blowing up an american city. is that really what you want? and then he said do you want another -- another defense war where we try to build each other out and he goes we're going to beat you again if it has to be, right, steven? >> he has set the table to say, look are this is where the most of the world's nuclear weapons are.

what's in our what police officer rates out of russia disaster for us. iran, north korea, syria. those kind of things are issues central to that conversation. there is -- this president has a different style. people are still getting used to what that different style is. there is a zero percent chance as a journalist leaders after the meeting are not going to bring up the russian meddling and indictments. is he going to have to say some things during the meeting and have something to say coming out of it on that. brian: rebecca, you want me to bring to you missiles. >> you betcha. first i was going to say it was a gotcha because xi jinping and putin met last month. trump noticed. missiles, so many missiles. is it the medium range missile that our joint chiefs say russia has deployed in violation of the ibf and hypermissile we see on the fighter. missiles going into poland for missile defense that russia doesn't want to see. this tells me they are going to do some serious arms control and military

discussions in this meeting right now. brian: you do you know what just struck me david how much those remarks are unscripted. the meetings 45 minutes. unscripted. meeting unscripted and the press, this threatening is going to be unbelievable. >> yeah. this whole meeting has been freewheeling without an agenda. now they are meeting in private with no one else in the room except for the interpreters. so we don't really know what's going to happen. we might not know afterwards what happened. brian: we will just have to ask the president and see if he says. sean hannity will talk to him tonight and chris wallace talks to vladimir putin tomorrow. thank you so much. >> thank you. brian: when president trump returns home, a booming economy is waiting for him. stuart varney is here. usually when i introduce him is he walking but we will take a shot at finland because that's where we are all focused. ♪ ♪ [music playing]

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♪ >> most importantly, we have a lot of good things to talk about and things to talk about. we have discussions on everything from trade to military to missiles to nuclear to china. we will be talking a little bit about china. our mutual friend, president xi. abby: that was just a few moments ago the summit between trump and putin now underway. the president detailing what the two leaders will discuss including yes, china and trade. steve: stuart varney from varney and company on fox business joins us now. when the president of the united states returns to the united states tonight, probably, he has got a booming economy that will say hello, welcome back. >> i would use that word. it is a booming economy. steve: why? >> best performance in years. go beneath the big numbers.

we are going to get 4% growth. that's the number that everybody pays attention to. brian: that will be unbelievable. >> that's extraordinary. best performance in many many years. 4% growth. double what we got in the first quarter. let me digress the lay off rate at record low. if you are an employer, you don't like expanding economy. you hold on to it for heaven sake the hiring rate that's at record high. 600,000 people came back into the workforce last month because it's an expanding economy. but here's the one that i find most interesting. the job of quitting rating. all-time high. now, why would you quit your job? because you think you can get something better elsewhere. that's a sense of optimism. the economy is expanding. quit what you got because you know pretty sure you can get something better over there. abby: get paid a little bit more somewhere else. >> yes. abby: there have been jitters. you listen to ceos and the media talking about a

potential trade war with china and president trump slapping tariffs on different countries around the world. doesn't seem so far like our economy has been directly impacted by those jitters. at least not yet. >> so far it has not. maybe there is something peripheral areas where prices have gone up. i repeat, 4% growth. we get the official numbers next week. all the indicators suggest best growth rate inners i don't. brian: july 25th the eu representatives come in and talks to the president. i sense that everybody realizes we should cut a deal. >> there that's where we get a sense of do we have a deal or not? that will make a difference to the economy going forward. but right now, you've got 4% growth. that's a boon. abby: it's a huge deal. brian: should we watch varney and company? >> why not. abby: good to see you. >> thank you. brian: 9:00 on fbn. steve: if you missed what president trump said to vladimir putin. we will replay on the other

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brian: straight up 8:00 eastern time, fox news alert. here is live look at helsinki, finland where the high-stakes summit is underway. abby: president trump and russia's vladmir putin are in a meeting at presidential palace. steve: a short time ago the two leaders addressed the press. watch. >> mr. president, i would like to congratulate you a really great world cup, one of the best ever, from what everybody tells me, one of the best ever, your team doing so well. i watched quite a bit, in united states we call it soccer, i watched quite a bit, finals and

semifinals. spectacular games and beautifully done. concongratulations on it. most importantly we have a lot of things to talk about, good things to talk about, on trade, to military, to missiles, to nuclear, to china. we'll talk a little bit about china. mutual friend president xi. i think we have great opportunities together as two countries that frankly we have not been getting along very well for the last number of years. i've been here not too long but getting close to two years, but i think we will end up having a extraordinary relationship. i hope so. i've been saying, i'm sure you heard over the years, i campaigned, getting along with russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. i think the world wants to see us get along. re are the two great nuclear powers. we have 9 90% of the nuclear.

that is not a good thing but a bad thing. it is not a positive force. it's a negative force. we will be talking about that among other things. with that the world awaits and i look forward to our personal discussion which i think begins now. then we'll meet the whole team. you have quite a few representatives. we all have a lot of questions. hopefully we'll come up with answers most importantly. great to be with you. steve: what we did, we took all of president's trump comments. we took out the translator of the we do not have what mr. putin said because the microphone was on mr. putin and not the translator. for their translation of what just transpired, let's bring in newt gingrich, former speaker of the house. daniel hoffman, former cia guy. ainsley earhardt is live in helsinki. mr. speaker, what you heard from the president in last hour in

helsinki, does that tip his hand what he will talk to mr. putin about in the next 90 minutes? >> i don't know if it tips his hand. he is clear what he would like to talk about. he sidestep ad couple unpleasant questions in order to stay positive. i think he would like to create a good relationship. i think if it is possible. we have no idea yet what putin really wants to do. although i think the fact that he agreed, i think very fact he is willing to do an interview with chris wallace, for example, is a good sign. i think putin thinks this is a moment for a charm offensive. he will try to be positive. and i think it will be interesting to watch over the next few hours. abby: daniel, i want to bring you in, you spend a lot of time on the ground in moscow. you have a better understanding how president putin thinks and

the man he is. is he coming to the table in good faith? do you think he is genuine in any way talking about these big issues? we tried to time and time again in the past to rebuild this relationship. it hasn't worked. do you sense is it is different this time around? >> no. i think if past is prologue then vladmir putin does not approach meetings what he called his main enemy the united states in good faith. it doesn't mean we shouldn't be speaking with him. it is important we explain to them what our positions are. that we nevertheless try to find some common ground where we could agree on things with russia, certainly on arms control, extending the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty set to expire in february 2021. vladmir putin at the heart of it is a kgb officer. that is the way he think. >> you have to know this about dan. he has been a wealth of information for our team in helsinki because he served here. he was a station chief in moscow as a cia officer. he worked in iraq and pakistan,

speaks with so many different languages. able to speak with waiters, cab drivers, so many people to give us information on the ground. thank you for being here. we wanted to talk about the delay. first vladmir putin delayed the summit. then our president delayed coming to the palace. >> vladmir putin loves to keep foreign interlocutors. he kept secretary kerry waiting for hours visiting in moscow. in this case president trump beat him at the own game, holding it as the champ as brian kilmeade rightly noted and vladmir putin is kind of the challenger so well-done. >> i have something to throw out at you, newt gingrich. i like the president's tweets i understand what he is trying to do with the eu and nato but what i don't understand this tweet. our relationship with russia is never been worse thanks to many

years of u.s. foolishness and stupidity and rigged witch-hunt. it is really not our foolishness and stupidity. they may not like our things we're doing but you would say foolishness and stupidity is correct characterization. >> i'm not going to try to rewrite the president's tweets. there has been a lot of weakness. the comment just made is the key to this whole thing and goes back to president bush and president obama. this is kgb agent. he was trained by the kgb. he had a good career with the kgb. he is feels bitter that we won the cold war and had the audacity to say he won it. you have to deal with him every guy wakes every morning how to rebuild russia. the efforts to get him to be normal don't get you anywhere. what you have to do is say this is who he is.

now can we work things out given that is true? i think there are times we sent all sorts of signals. the obama red line for example, in syria, after which nothing happened. the way in which we tried to deal with russia in the late part of the bush administration we showed them no respect at all in the balkans. promptly they invaded the country of georgia. these things, this is guy who is very determined to recenter russia as a major power and i think trump going meeting with him, we'll see what happens. i think trump has a pretty good measure how to deal with him. abby: one of the biggest challenges we face, daniel, russia trying to undermine our he democracy, meddle in our elections. they have done this before and likely will continue to do it more. how do you make any progress on that front when you have president putin denies any involvement there says he is not aware this is going on? how do you approach it in the meeting right now and i'm sure

being brought up? how does president trump talk to him about this and make progress when the other side denies it is happening? >> if i would advise the president, moral assuasion doesn't work with president putin. sometimes you have to rap him on the knuckles and make him feel pain. the president drew the red line and syria after assad used chemical weapons. i wouldn't ask him to meddle in the elections used cyber is spa. we tell him we know they do it and if they continue to do it they will pay a price for it. abby: how do the russian media handle it. >> they appear to president trump is coming to president putin we need issues help to solve that would elevate putin stature and kgb authoritarianism to level of the united states and democracy. go to the land of fake news, bo

to moscow. that vladmir putin's state-run propaganda. steve: hopes to have a extraordinary relationship with russia. have you look at the press, said really all putin needed aside from what daniel said, i think that is absolutely right, the picture of him shaking hands with the president of the united states. after what they did to crimea where russia took it, there really was no hell to pay for russia and now this normalizes the relations between the united states and russia because the white house put out a statement overnight that said, we are going to agree to disagree regarding that? >> well, look, i think this president has a very different approach to how you deal with leaders. he met with kim jong-un in singapore. you could argue is the greatest victory a north korean dictator ever got, there he is next to the president of the united states being treated as equal. he is dealing with putin the same way. here is the challenge you have

got. russia and president said it in his statement a few minutes ago, russia is a fact. it is a huge country. it is largest producer of oil and gas in the world. we'll pass it i think in 2021 or 22 but it is still enormous. it has second largest number of nuclear weapons depending whose count you want to use, ours or theirs. this is fact sitting right here. do you find a way to deal with that fact or you kind of isolate i had and hope it will go away. trump's attitude on all these things let's see if we can't make a deal which is his lifetime experience. brian: i would not be surprised if they end up with a date he cops to washington after this, if it goes somewhat smooth. >> or moscow. >> or moscow. my point would be as a guy who grew up in the cold war, worked with ronald reagan, did everything i could to defeat the soviet empire, i'm happy if putin comes to washington, i'm happy if we go to moscow. we have to make it clear, some

things we'll not agree on, crimea one of them. some behaviors we'll not accept. one of our counters may well be, you keep messing up our elections we're going to start doing things in cyberspace inside russia. brian: retribution. >> we have tools too. abby: absolutely. speaker gingrich. always good to have you with us. daniel hoffman, answer -- ainsley, great to have you as always. steve: 8:11 with fox news alert. >> a man accused of murdering a massachusetts police officer with his own gun is set to face a judge. he was responding to a call when emanuel lopez threw a rock at him, grabbed his gun and shot the officer in the head. he is accused of killing a bystander. officer chesnaas, iraq and war veteran leaves behind a wife and two kids. today would have marked his sixth anniversary as a police

officer. former fbi lawyer lisa page is headed back to capitol hill today. page exchanged anti-trump text messages is set to testify in second closed-door meeting before the house judiciary committee. lawmakers say she was cooperative and transparent with a five-hour session on friday. strzok testified for 10 hours in a public session last week. remains of 5300 american soldiers could be coming home. secretary of state mike pompeo says the u.s. and north korea just held productive talks to restart searches for servicemembers missing from the korean war. kim jong-un made the commitment at the summit with president trump, but not known when the searches will start back up. the effort began in 1996 but stopped in 2005 over rising nuclear tensions. world cup win turning the streets of paris into total chaos. [shouting]

look at that police and soccer friends clashing in the street after france beat croatia 4-2. some things throwing rocks and other things at officers. police retaliated with tear gas and water cannons before celebrations took violent turn. french president macron jumping on a table to celebrate his team's win in. brian: i don't understand anger against the cops. they were the target looks like. jillian: all that france is through it is a big one. brian: i'm so glad we didn't win jillian: can you do the pose? brian: in the break i would have to do that. steve: mr. macron was next to mr. putin during the awards ceremony. brian: syria expected to be a big focus of president trump's summit. what does he need to say to vladmir putin to reassure our allies in the middle east?

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abby: russia's role in syria a big focus of today's summit. brian: i think it should be anyway. trump laying down a clear red line in syria with successful airstrikes twice while both russia and iran continue to back the regime. what should president trump's strategy be with vladmir putin? >> let's bring in former deputy assistant secretary for the u.s. army van hipp. >> good morning to you all. steve: we would love to have russia's help regarding syria and do something with iran. how does the president capitalize? >> that could be announcement made today at least begin a pathway along these lines. don't forget, john bolton, our national security advisor, met with putin a few weeks ago in preparation for this trip and netanyahu has actually visited putin twice in the last month. get a load of this. the former iranian ambassador to the united nations last week started trashing putin and said,

quote, russia is throwing iran under the bus. so something, instead of stabbing us in the back. something tells me something is up and i think what you're going to see at least begin, there could be announcement today, remove the non-syrian troops, iranian-backed forces along with the southern border of israel. i think that could go as many as 50 miles up into syria, i just worry about the rebels that we armed and supported and i worry about the kurds. we can't deal them out. they have been invaluable to nile ages of syria. i hope the president's team realizes that. >> i hope you're right. john bolton pretty much hinted at that, been pretty bold our forces would remain there as long as the isis territorial caliphate remains. and as long as iran is a menace in the region. but, let me tell you, if this does happen, i think it shows,

this is what happens when you deal with the russian bear from a position of strength. you work with our allies like israel, one of the best allies we have in the world. instead of throwing them under the bus. abby: president trump made it clear if we draw the red line with syria, we'll not let it stand, right? i think having a different player on the stage when it comes to syria might make a difference. >> it makes a big difference. look at crimea, the timeline back in 2014. instead of showing strength, president obama right after that, goes to brussels and that's toe, the country of georgia, whose membership in the nato application we supported since 2005, he said, georgia, you are no longer currently on a pathway to nato membership. that sent the wrong kind of message to putin. he is thug. ex-kgb agent trying to bring

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$88 million. according to the fed rael election commission. that is just the beginning. steve: hopeful turning around america's relationship with the former soviet union. >> great opportunities together as two countries that frankly we have not been getting along very well last number of years. i've been here not too long. it is getting close to two years. i think we'll have extraordinary relationship. i hope so, i'm saying, i'm sure you heard over the years, as i campaigned, getting along with russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. brian: here to react, fox news contributor, former trump deputy campaign manager david bossie. bring us behind the scenes right now. you listened to the president negotiate and talk, big stories and small ones, what will it like with these two with interpreters? >> this president is going in with a position of strength,

brian. this president came out of the nato summit where he got the enemies of the former soviet union to spend a lot more money on their defenses. that brings this president into a room with a former kgb agent. somebody that the obama administration just failed every day, whether it is crimea, whether the famous russian reset, goof if iness -- goofiness of hillary clinton. he understands strength from a position of strength. that is how he will eyeball vladmir putin and talk about these important issues whether nuclear disarmament or russian meddling in our elections. steve: when the president did talk about an hour and 20 minutes ago, david, he did not mention meddling. however according to the associated press, apparently after the president said thank you, there was shouted questions, one of them was, will you ask putin whether he will meddle in the 2018 midterms and

mr. putin had a little smirk? >> you know what? these are serious matters. to be honest with you, reporters are doing their job but in that circumstance the president said we will discuss these things and other things. clearly the russian meddling is not something diplomatically that you want to rub their faces in in public but you want to do it in a very stern way which this president is going to do. by the way, let's make sure we all explain that this russian meddling happened in the obama administration. i believe those same reporters need to be asking barack obama about his failures to protect this country, to protect us from russian meddling. that is something john kerry and brennan and others need to answer for. i think those questions are very serious but they also need to be asked to barack obama and his former administration officials. abby: yeah. the expectations what we heard from the president have been set

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let's bring in michelle malkin from crtv. ainsley, why don't you ask michelle the first question. >> thank you, steve. i was reading information about vladmir putin who he was as individual. kgb officer originally. head of boris yeltsin's security council. that is how he became president. yeltsin when he resigned, he appointed putin in 2000 got 53% of the vote. accused of poisoning assassination attempts, closed russia's last independent tv station. blamed for downing the malaysian airlines plane over ukraine. said he didn't tamper with the elections. 12 individuals from russia were indicted for doing just that. this guy doesn't sound like a great guy. not a nice guy. some people call him a dictator. he is meeting with the president right now behind us. what is your reaction? >> i don't think president trump is under any illusion who he is dealing with but i will tell you

this, americans in flyover country are far more confident that we have an american president putting american interests first, defending our sovereignty in this meeting and meetings with european leaders and around the world and we have to compare it to what we just got over with under the obama administration. with hillary clinton who had so many financial conflicts of interest, and what strikes me, ainsley, and friends out there is the hypocrisy and double standard for so many of the journalists and backbiting political critics who were the same ones who mocked mitt romney for treating putin and russia with a strong hand and then who slaveored over hillary clinton's reset button and watched silently as obama capitulated to russian aggression. i am very pleased that we have a president who is a realist about

engaging with russia but at the same time, not being trigger happy and calling essentially for the kind of warmongering that we're seeing now among hypocritical democrats over things like russia meddling with our elections. abby: he said on the list of course is going to be trade, military, nukes, china and their mutual friend, president xi xinping in china. what do you think success will look like as they come out moments from now? they will have a bilateral meeting, but then speak both of them, to the press. what can they say will leave us better off than before this meeting? >> obviously success means agreeing on things where we have common mutual interests and at the same time being blunt which president trump is very good at, where we have to protect our interests and they do not

coincide with russia's. so yes talking about strategic arms control. yes, talking about where we can cooperate on counterterrorism, and making sure that behind the scenes that we're clear that we are not in favor of course of russia unfettered in expanding its sphere of influence. brian: also interesting is the president keeps talking about the space force. evidently that gets russians nervous. almost reminiscent of when we talked about a "star wars" defense which we have since deployed to a degree, that having a space force ratchets up this arms race exponentially, if we go through with it. the president keeps trumpeting it. i think it's a good move. >> i think so too. i think it shows we're serious about flexing our muscle when we need to, being unapologetic doing so in the face of putin. steve: michelle, when the

president went through a list of half a dozen things about hour 1/2 ago that he would like to bring up, there is probably 15 in all they could bring it up, we don't know exactly what is going to happen until after the 90 minutes which should be expiring here in a little bit, another thing and a lunch and press conference. ultimately the president said, what is the matter with having a good relationship with russia because right now it stinks? >> look. they will not end up bffs, right. again talk about the hypocrisy of all the foreign policy experts who are criticizing trump for having this meeting in the first place. what exactly do they want? they want us to freeze out and not talk to russia at all when again we have common interests geopolitically, in protecting ourselves and certainly russians do, against other existential threats? we have to have that kind of

engagement. for the press here, particularly american press, to all of sudden bring up all sorts of human rights violations and threats against the media in russia that they overlooked under the obama administration and never demanded that hillary clinton speak out against it, it is really, i don't know the russian word for chutzpah, if i did i would say it. steve: google can translate. >> why do you think all of the hypocrisy for this president? if you look at the past, vladmir putin went to maine. he was with bush 41 and bush 43, there was never uproar. there was never out rage at media. we went out on the streets to see if there were protesters, see how the people of hello sing isky felt about this -- helsinki felt about this. they were calm and supported both sides. this is neutral ground for our presidents to meet with russian leaders and past russian

presidents. why the hypocrisy? it doesn't make sense because they don't like this president and so much, everything he does they want to be negative? >> ainsley, it is as simple as this, trump derangement syndrome is especially acute in america. i think it is wonderful we've had so many fox journalists out there be able to expose that it actually doesn't exist the way that the american media portrays it and rest of the world. whether it is in helsinki or in london where people couldn't even figure out what exactly it was they supposedly opposed about our president. i think it behooves us to remind the american public as well as the world too, that there were essentially agents for russia that had infiltrated the liberal american media. if you don't remember who walter durante is, look it up, teach your children bit. the ultimate hypocrisy of

leftist media now decrying russian infiltration in our country. steve: michelle i googled it. the russian word for chutzpah is naglos. >> word of the day. well-played. abby: michelle, good to see you. >> take care. brian: i don't know what the word is for jillian mele in russian read this for us. jillian: the news outside of what is it going on in helsinki. three police officers are hurt after series of shootouts with a murder suspect. kansas city police catching up to the man a week after he allegedly shot and killed the college student. the unified suspect shot two officers as they tried to approach him for questioning. a third officer was shot before suspect was found dead in a home. officers are expected to be

okay. twice deported illegal immigrant will spend three years behind bar after faking american citizenship for decades. according to court documents in 1980. andres avilaga, used a birth certificate from a u.s. citizen to get a driver's license and social security card. the man collected $350,000 of government benefits which he must repay. he also has a long criminal record. president trump supreme court nominee picking up steam. a top republican senator is confident judge brett kavanaugh will be confirmed. >> we saw three democrats vote with all the republicans for neil gorsuch. i think we'll see something in that range for brett kavanaugh. it would be hard to explain why you vote for gorsuch and voted begins cavanagh. jillian: jo donnelly and heidi heitkamp crossed the aisle to vote for gorsuch.

they are up for election in states trump won in 2016. royal baby property stealing the show. look at this, prince george giving camera a big smile as prince ses charlotte holds baby louis's hand. striking a pose in another photo holding on to the christening robe. kensington palace showing the louis and her mom. brian: can't get enough of the royals. jillian: have that on your phone. abby: he can't figure out how to put a background on his phone. don't get crazy. brian: that is more like me. vladmir putin and president trump meeting behind closed doors. our panel back with their thoughts on what they hope emerges. abby: back out to ainsley who found a fend in helsinki. who did you find, ainsley? >> walking down the street. >> nice to see you.

finnish people are great to see you. >> they put up the great tent for us. they have fans. a little breezier in here. >> it was remarkable to see the two world leaders pull up behind us, ainsley. see putin arrive first. president trump after him. they're running hour behind. no big deal. maybe they catch up on the schedule. maybe they don't. we have a couple big events on "america's newsroom." we have a press conference. we'll see which questions come out. see which reporters they choose and which reporters they go with. interview of chris wallace sitting down with vladmir putin. we'll get a real sense what is happening behind closed doors. >> sean hannity got interview with president trump and chris wallace got the interview with president putin. that will be fascinating. >> in moscow they said this will be a baby step. >> of course. >> president trump said about setting expectations low. maybe all we get out of this is

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abby: we are back with a fox news alert. you are looking live right now at the presidential palace in helsinki, finland where president trump and putin were speaking earlier and addressed the press. >> we are the two great nuclear powers. we have 90% of the nuclear and that's not a good thing, it's a bad thing and i think we can

hopefully do something about that because it is not a positive force, it's a negative force. we will talk about that among other things. abby: here to react, our panel, steve yates, former deputy national security advisor to vp cheney and rebecca grant, former state department official under obama. it is all happening at this moment. they're behind closed doors. if only we could be flies on the wall and hear what is actually being discussed. we were talking earlier, steve about president trump's mission to china when they spoke to the press a few moments ago before this meeting. our mutual friend, the president of china, xi xinping, did that surprise you? is that a way finding common ground before they dive into deeper issues? >> i wasn't surprised this would come up but it wasn't really in a tell going into the meeting, about list of things likely to be addressed. in terms of how the president president's team is thinking about these issues, it is a

return of great power politics in a way. there is a lot of content left to be filled in, what role does the united states want russia to play asia, whether balancing china and north korea deal. it's a good, rich, area to continue the conversation. i think this is the beginning, rather than an answer. abby: there are a couple of things that putin cares most about, rebecca, right? it is his power on the world stage. nuclear weapons he is likely to discuss but also space. that is an important one where he might feel a bit intimidated because president trump talked about how important that is to him. >> space and cyber are becoming as important as nuclear weapons. president trump dealt himself a high card talking about a space force, united states dominance in the space, russia freaked out according to statement from the foreign ministry. this gives him room talking with military issues of putin. bottom line, all the issues they

will go through, trump has to figure out where is putin's political will to do any kind of deal. he is taking measure of the man. that is the number one priority right now. abby: what is in america's best interests? david we continue to go back to iran, iran, iran. as low as the relationship is with russia, ultimately if they come together, push iran out of syria and make it difficult for their economy, wouldn't that be considered at least a step in the right direction? >> that would be fantastic. you know president trump called this a personal discussion. they're meeting alone with only interpreters in the room. we don't know what they will say about syria. trump's vision and u.s. vision for syria is so different from russia. i'm not sure any progress can be made. that is one area. if that happened, if russia committed to pushing iran out of syria. if russia committed to backing a solution to assad leaving power in syria, into a political resolution to the issues in syria, that would be great. also eastern ukraine. russia supports the separatist

at thiss in eastern ukraine. if russia pulled back support for the russian separatists that would be great progress. abby: a lot to discuss. great to have you with us. more coverage live from helsinki. that's next.

brian: fox news alert. we have a live look at helsinki, finland. this is where the summit is happening right now behind closed doors at the presidential palace. abby: president trump and russian president vladmir putin expected to wrap up their one-on-one meeting any moment now. steve: what happens after that? kevin corke has been traveling with the president. he joins us live from helsinki. kevin? reporter: as always guys, great

to be with you. you're right, that bilateral between the presidents still underway at this hour. expected to wrap up relatively shortly. we expect a expanded bilateral. that will include secretary of state mike pompeo, national security advisor john bolton and u.s. and russian officials. that is the meeting to keep an eye on. as you and i talked about threw the weekend there are some complicated issues between these two countries, it is expanded bilateral where you can make a bit of headway. of course the conversation between the leaders alone with interpreters will be wrapping up here fairly shortly. president making it clear, guys, he would like nothing more than to end years of hostilities between our two nations including the ever-present nuclear threat. he believes this summit could be a strong first step in that process. >> we have a lot of good things to talk about and things to talk about. we have discussions on everything from trade to military, to missiles, to

nuclear, to job, china, we'll talk a little bit about china. we are the two great nuclear powers. we have 90% of the nuclear and that's not a good thing. it's a bad thing. i think we hopefully can do something about that. we all have a lot of questions and ultimately we'll come up with answers most importantly. great to be with you. reporter: and the handshake there between the two leaders now. as for the president of russia he is coming here fresh off his country hosting the world cup. he is expected to press the u.s. among other things, sanctions relief. expect the u.s. to bring up host of issues, syria, ukraine, crimea, nuclear weapons, of course election meddling and so much more. we have been experiencing a bit of a delay. not surprising. president putin is notoriously late. we'll see where we are in the schedule with my colleague john roberts shortly. back to you.

steve: showed up an hour late for a 90 minute meeting. kevin corke, thank you very much. we don't know if the president and both presidents will come out and face the cameras between the one and one and five on five. abby: we'll be watching closely. if it does happen we'll bring that to you as you said, brian. trump beat him at his own game. >>. showed up later, more fox news with a lot of news going on in that building. i can't wait to find out what happened.

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♪ [ laughing ] a bad day on the road still beats a good one off it. ♪ progressive helps keep you out there. >> here we go. the trump/putin summit expected to wrap up any minute. everything has been running behind schedule >> a meeting and a press conference. >> at the bilateral meeting abby's father will be in attendance. >> him, john bolton, pompeo.

>> nobody from our family, just yours. >> a press conference. stay tuned to fox news channel all day long. >> thank you, jillian. >> bill: it is 9:00 in new york, it is 4:00 here in helsinki, finland. we begin with a fox news alert where the anticipation is high as we close in now on president trump's joint news conference with russian president vladimir putin. good morning, everybody on this special edition of "america's newsroom." i'm bill hemmer live from helsinki, finland. sandra, good morning. what a day we have ahead of us. >> sandra: a big three hours ahead. good morning, bill. i'm sandra smith in new york city. the two leaders are meeting alone. going on for about 90 minutes. i understand it's all hands on deck with security in the area, of course.