♪ >> dana: hello, everyone. i am dana perino with kennedy, geraldo rivera, jesse watters and greg greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city, and this is "the five" ." a historic summit between president trump and vladimir putin unfolding in helsinki. president trump pushing back against calls to cancel the face-to-face meeting. >> our relationship has never been worse than it is now. however, that changed as of

about four hours ago. nothing would be easier politically than to refused to meet. as president, i cannot make decisions on foreign policy in a futile effort to appease partisan critics for the media or democrats want to do nothing but resist and obstruct. i would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than to risk peace in pursuit of politics. >> dana: president trump stunning washington avenue the world by dismissing evidence of russian interference in the 2016 election. >> my people came to me. dan coats came to me and they said they think it's russia. i have president putin, he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be but he really do want to see the server but i don't think it can go on without finding out what happened to the server. what happened to the servers of the pakistani gentleman that

worked on the dnc? where are those servers question requires great confidence in my diligence people but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. >> dana: director of national intelligence dan coats releasing a statement. saying "we have been clear on our assessments of russian meddling in the 2016 election in their ongoing pervasive efforts to undermine our democracy, and we will continue to provide unvarnished and objective intelligence in support of our national security." "as i've said many times, i have great confidence my intelligence people but i recognize that in order to build a brighter future, we can't focus on the past. we must get along as the world to largest nuclear powers." all the people are here today. we will start with you, greg. >> greg: this presidency is the actual presidency of hope

and change. people keep hoping he will change. this is what you got, and if you keep being surprised by the fact that he's trying to build relationships like a salesman and he gets very disappointing and shocking, you have a good attention. you have to look at this presidency with fresh eyeballs. he is trying to leave the past behind and build relationships knowing you cannot trust a lot of these people. he could have talked tougher but it will never be tough enough for most people. they see him as a salesman. forget about the talk. look at the actions. if you want to strangle putin's russia, a public spat isn't going to do it. you're going to go after the financial pipeline and have sanctions in our ukraine. if he is rushes, i don't know, stooge, he may be their worst russian stooge ever because he's been tougher on them than obama has. could have been tougher but he wouldn't make anybody happy, and this is who he is.

he is trying to create relationships. this is no different than north korea. it may work. you may not work but you can't keep pulling your hair out. we could not have any hair left. >> dana: kennedy, what to think about the undermining of the intelligence community who basically told him. and then they put out a statement saying we can tell these things and if he chooses to not believe it or not, that's up to him. >> kennedy: the intelligence community has gone through a perceptual slight and a lot of it has been self-imposed. the intelligence community -- fbi, cia -- they evolved tarnish their own brands because of what's happened at the very top level. i'm not talking about day-to-day agents who work very hard trying to objectively investigate. but saying that, i still believe them over vladimir putin. one thing i took away from it was the markets were not affected. if it is to be believed, some of

the hysteria from the left, that the this is the most disgraceful performance of presidents has ever given in public, if you're talking about superpowers and one is beholden to a corrupt state, the markets would show that. >> dana: the markets have shrugged off everything. >> kennedy: when the trade talk -- you would see $200 dips per day the fact that the market didn't even pick up. >> dana: may be part of the reason for that, geraldo, is that russia is pretty much a blip on the radar when it comes to gdp. texas has a bigger gdp than russia. we treat them like they are so amazing, they are really not. >> geraldo: i agree. russia is one-tenth of the u.s. economy. i think our colleagues are being too kind to the 45th president who went off the rail in

helsinki. totally off the point. it is like an idiot savant. hillary clinton and the email server. he despises and distrusts hillary clinton and the special counsel more than he does putin and the kgb, the gr you, you call it now. i hate the fact that the mainstream media set this up for failure. they were rooting for her to fail because they don't want anything trump does to succeed. the opening statement was okay. the tweet tea made from air force one. it was okay. but then to go into hillary and the server, what are you talking about? please stop it. i felt very badly for him. it's not a totally unforced error. i feel badly for him.

i would totally -- >> dana: why do you feel badly for him? >> geraldo: i feel badly because he worked hard at it and he wants the best. >> dana: what do you want? you understand what he wants out of north korea. >> kennedy: you understand what he wants out of the nato summit, i don't understand what he wants here and why he is so deferential to a horrible perso. >> geraldo: 90% of the world's nuclear weapons are held by these two guys. they have the triggers 90% of the nukes on earth. i submit that being friends with putin and having a relationship with putin where you can think of the phone and talk is valuable to the united states. i further submit that mueller should take putin up on this deal. he should send his agents to moscow. when they question those dirty dozen, let them -- what are we afraid of? that mueller's guys are going to blurt out some state secret that some spook in the corners going to write down? it's ridiculous. it's a good idea. let them talk to these guys. let our prosecutors watch the russia prosecutors and ask these

dudes questions. >> dana: and exchange commode pollutants have in the press conference, is he wanted to be able to question bill browder, an american citizen and lawyer who was defending the magnitsky act. that's one reason i can see why not to do it. >> jesse: here's what i would've said about the presidents. i would've said russia muddled and i trust our agencies assessment of eight. this happened under obama. i confronted vladimir putin about this. he denied it. it is what it is. we are trying to move past it. we have put it behind us and we are going to try to work together towards peace. i know why he doesn't do it. he doesn't want to say anything that's going to undermine his amazing victory over hillary clinton, and he can't get past that. that's very important to him. also he can't understand why russia would want hillary as president because he would be so much tougher. and has been more tough. >> dana: putin said that today in the press conference that he did watch him. >> jesse: i think he had to say that. >> dana: that he wanted the

good relation. >> jesse: i don't think trump can understand that because he believes he's very tough. thirdly, i don't think the president fully trusts our intelligence agencies for a number of reasons. he was very critical during the primary about the wmd fiasco and all the intelligence agencies said iraq had them and they didn't and we lost a lot of blood and treasure in that desert. now former fbi director, former cia director all kind of scheming against him get during his candidacy and afterwards. throwing spies in there, listening to phone calls and actively undermining him during the early stages of his presidency. that's where he is. >> kennedy: dan coats is not -- >> jesse: i am not talking about dan coats. i am talking about clapper and brennan. >> kennedy: he contradicted what dan coats said. >> jesse: he will have plenty of chances to clean that up on hannity and tucker. to your point, he said whatever

he said and he's going to get criticized no matter what. if he goes and tries to mend fences with putin, they are calling him a traitor. if he starts an arms race with putin, he's a warmonger. he is going to get criticized no matter what. if you think about some of the things putin wanted before the summit, he didn't get any of those things. he wanted troops out of syria. he wanted us to stop sending heavy weapons to ukraine. he wants the crimea annexation to be recognized. he wants sanctions and visas unfrozen. he didn't get any of that, and the media is acting like trump gave alaska back to russia. nothing that comes close to that. >> greg: can answer the question that you brought up. what does he want out of this? i do think as president of the united states, he is seeking to reduce the adversarial trip around the globe while substantially increasing our military strength. the stick has gotten bigger, here are the carrots. if you want these carrots, you can have them and it will be really great explains but if you don't want them, this is the

stick. this is exactly what he did with north carolina -- north carolina. north korea. what makes me laugh is that peace seems to be breaking out all over. a lot of people who normally would be for that are against it. it is like the champions of dialogue are getting crushed by the dialogue in chief. he is the good cop with his words and the bad cop with his deeds. you have a buildup of this amazing military. he does have faults and flaws but so far, it seems to be working. look at the deeds, geraldo. >> geraldo: i have no beef with the substance of your remarks but i know the president well enough to know that he's going to be smarting on the flight home. he's going to be really angry. what was a success in his own mind when he left the podium is going to turn to ashes now. everybody making fun of him. he doesn't take that criticism

very -- >> greg: what is the ultimate event to dialogue when all these people are angry? do you want to nuke moscow? >> kennedy: neutrality. you know this, day now. every president wants to thaw vladimir putin's icy heart. >> dana: putin is a complete and total liar. he wants to reconstitute the soviet union. he's been in power a lot longer than president trump will be. if trump gets reelected and he's there eight years, president putin will still be there years later. it is a blip on the radar for president putin. i don't think -- putin is not going to change and he has no incentive to. >> greg: you can have those competing thoughts in your head at the same time. pollutant cannot be trusted. that is one thought. the other is, we have to deal with him.

that's another one. you can have both of these thoughts in your head. but the medium makes it seem like if you meet with putin, you trust him. they are calling him treasonous. >> kennedy: i think brendan's hyperbole is a little far along the scope of acceptability. >> dana: president trump facing criticism for his comments during the summit with putin. you're turning onto the street when you barely clip a passing car. minor accident - no big deal, right? wrong. your insurance company is gonna raise your rate after the other car got a scratch so small you coulda fixed it with a pen. maybe you should take that pen and use it to sign up with a different insurance company. for drivers with accident forgiveness liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. liberty mutual insurance.

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♪ >> jesse: pullback from both sides of the political aisle after president trump's news conference with vladimir putin. >> for the president of the united states to side with president putin against american law enforcement, american defense officials and intelligence agencies is thoughtless, dangerous, weak. >> what the president said today is not accurate. the intelligence community has assembled probably an unparalleled amount of evidence in regards to russian not just

efforts to interfere in 2016 but ongoing efforts to interfere in american society. >> jesse: the media joining in on the criticism. >> you've been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president. >> what many would say is a disgraceful performance with vladimir putin. >> they came across as playmates on a soccer field more than they did international rivals. >> mr. putin is a master puppeteer of donald trump. >> you should call this the surrender summit. >> jesse: wow. greg, we have talked about it. where were these left-wingers during the cold war when we needed them? >> greg: they were about world expansion and all they did was ridicule republicans remain anticommunist. they were anti-anti-communist for three or four decades. they were drooling bedfellows of all the romantic communists. anybody in south america or

what's his name, castro. r.i.p. anyone who was a revolutionary. che go i was on a t-shirt. -- che guevara. your friend who offers to help you move and they show up after everything's moved. >> jesse: great timing by the democrats. we brought this up in the last discussion. i think every president when they first get in office. obama did it. his first meeting with putin, he sat there and listened to putin lecture him for one hour straight about the history of america-russia relations. hillary had the reset. george bush said i looked into his soul. american presidents come in and do this and at the end of the term, it's frozen again. >> dana: 2001 when president bush first takes office and he is the first meeting with potent, putin comes the white house may have a meeting the oval office. that was before putin decided to do things like invade georgia and i remember at the 2008 olympics when they had the last meeting, the last time they spoke was when wagner put inside

i am hot-blooded and the president said no, you are cold-blooded. then obama comes in and they have the reset but it was romney in the debate talking about russia and he was also ridicule ridiculed. i think if she were on the other foot, if trump had just lost the election and we found out putin was trying to help hillary that he had gotten into the rnc and the conversation might be very different. i feel like the frustration for me, today the missed opportunity to say this has been an attack on all of us and we know what you're doing and you're not going to get away with it again. >> jesse: there was an attempt by the russians to hack the rnc servers. they went after both sides. i guess it was easier to go after the dnc. that's true. there was an attack on rnc servers. >> dana: if you disregard everything the intelligence community has said that all of

the indictments .2 the push to get to the dnc. >> jesse: i agree and he should've been stronger. >> kennedy: so where do we go now? we have sanctions, the president trying to normalize relations. it's one thing to want to put that pass in the past but the behavior is still manifesting itself in 2018 and it will in 2020 unless we do something. so what we do. what kind of an investment only talking about in cyber security. what of retribution will there be if russia continues to do this. russians are the same thing about their systemic government run doping program. they said it didn't exist, it was a few individuals, and that was proven to be completely false. it's the same thing here. they are not trustworthy but want to redo on our side. dana hit on something. if hillary had won, with or without russian metalanguage wasn't necessarily interference. there are three different things: interference, meddling, collusion. we have to take those things separately. i think hillary clinton would've

gone over and would have had the exact same kind of meeting. >> geraldo: imaginative barack obama had done that press conference that you saw today. there would have been calls for them to be impeached. >> dana: the apology tour. >> kennedy: it was, absolutely. >> geraldo: i covered news for "abc news." the central american nations, their elections. the united states does not have clean hands when it comes to mucking around other people's elections. for us to take the high horse is pretty hypocritical. because we have such short-term memories, we forget the context of ukraine. up until four years ago, ukraine was a russian puppet. he was totally -- not only did they have the fleet in the crimea but the president of ukraine was a pro putin guy. we helped engineer the coup that

overthrew the elected president of ukraine. it was pro-russian. that's when putin said my god, they took ukraine from me. what am i going to do? my fleet is threatened in crimea and everyone there speaks russian on i'm going take crime crimea. ukraine, they all speak russian there. don't have the whole country but i have to take the slice. we have to look at where we were compared to where we were five years ago. ukraine was pro-russian. now ukraine, they want to make it a member of nato and putin is looking at his former allies now on his border singing kumbaya and "the star-spangled banner." >> greg: i think this is different then obama's apology tour. i don't see this as an apology. i see it as a custom. when you go somewhere, and you side with north korea and you're seeing it with putin and you would probably see it with iran,

the custom of allowing your adversary to save face in public while you exercise something completely different in private. we don't know what's going on privately but we do know it's happening, there is a lot being done about the pipeline that trump brought up. short of an actual shooting war, going after that pipeline is pretty big deal. >> kennedy: now the president and vladimir putin can answer for what happened and that private sitdown, which is really important. we don't know the details of that. >> jesse: until it leaks. you know there probably will. next, greg takes on anti-trump protests in europe. when heartburn hits... fight back fast with tums smoothies. it neutralizes stomach acid at the source. tum tum tum tum tums... smoothies... ...and introducing new tums sugar-free.

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i could watch tad forever. those are some seriously -- here's more. [cheers and applause] oh, man. no wonder they are worried about america leaving nato. you can learn a lot from the main protest. first, if there is a violent revolution from the left, we can relax. second, you can look it up but i doubt you saw this kind of rage over the organized child sex abuse or recent terror attacks in london. you have to wonder why they care so much about us and our

immigration concerns. these protesters are leftists first, countrymen second. as with all socialists, the cause always outranks any patriotism. what of the giant trombone? the media made it seem so huge but i think i won something like that at a county fair. 20,000 pounds, that's what it took for them to feel good about themselves. the problem with trying to inflate your importance without being important at all. you know booking small, stupid, weak. -- you end up looking small, stupid, weak. looked like a close match. trump landed on that island and became the only thing anybody talked about it. he did you realize wimbledon was won. he came out of the sky, scared the natives, met the queen and now he's gone. they are all saying, did you see that? trump want to -- went to britain

but all you got was the lousy balloon. >> geraldo: that looked like the follow-up to revenge of the nerds. someone should tell him hits like a girl. i bet you can't say that anymore. it's a park there are some girls who can hit. >> geraldo: the thing about trumps -- it's worse than nixon nixon. i am probably the only one old enough to know that firsthand. there is a kind of metastasized hatred that's explosive in many ways. the normally passive, polite brits showed the same kind of reaction that many -- half the american electorate feels.

he generates really caustic responses. >> greg: dana, and it often is very childish. that's okay. when i lived in london during katrina, people in pubs would come in and rail against -- they hated bush. they hated everybody that's on the right. >> dana: i've never understood why they care so much about who our leader is anyway because we don't care about them. it might be some deep-seated thing because we beat them so many years ago. the other thing is whoever the president of the united states is, he's the leader of the free world, there is power in that. they have this former glory. the sun never sets on the british empire. but it sets pretty early now. >> greg: now the balloon blocks the sun. >> jesse: the balloon people might be on watters' world. where making a hard effort to book them. if germany starts bombing london again and trump has to swoop in and save them for the second time, i think he will be pretty

popular. trump gives weaklings like this guy a purpose in life. they get off the couch, get some exercise, get some sunlight, they get to be around people with common interests. i don't want an american president to be popular in europe. i am suspicious of that. obama was popular because he went over there and kissed their you know what. he conceded to all their wishes and signed their treaties. that's okay. trump wants to represent michigan, not britain, and that's fine. >> greg: it wasn't like the protest was about war. trump is the opposite of a warmonger. what are they mad about? they are mad about the man. >> kennedy: they are. they are mad about him and his temperament and personality. it's funny because when you talk to independent voters and those who may be give him a grudge vote, they are getting used to him and that's what a lot of people say. that's why the s reaction comes from progressives because that

is the shrinking outrage. the rest of the world will get used to him almost when it's too late. it's going to be in the seventh year of his presidency when they realize they are going to miss him when we have another bland, vanilla, monotonous president who is long-winded and boring and press conferences. >> greg: are you talking about mike pence? >> kennedy: when they were showing the guy eating the dumm dummy, so then he's not present, then what do you want? that's the opposite of what most people want. >> greg: pence is way more conservative than trump. since tucker carlson, you know him, he sat down with president trump after the summit with putin and he is here next to tell us how the president is reacting.

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>> geraldo: president trump and vladimir putin meeting face-to-face today in finland. tucker carlson sat down with the president right after that extraordinary address to the world. he joins us now from helsinki. did the president -- welcome, tucker. did the president hear the reaction to his presentation prior to boarding air force one? prior to your interview? >> tucker: i spoke to him almost directly after the press conference and i was getting updates on the reaction from the u.s. and read some of them to him. he didn't seem moved by them at all. he dismissed them. i think he knows what he thinks on the russia question. i guess that was obvious from the press conference. he thinks russia is not the primary threat to the united states. china is. and that it's absurd to pass up a chance to become closer to a government that help the

united states in some way. that is the position he has stated for a couple years. he seemed more hardened and it than i thought that he had been in the past. he didn't seem especially disturbed by the reaction. >> geraldo: did he or did you ask him whether the kind of equivocal answer that putin gave one asked the question do you have any dirt on president trump, did president trump say i wish he had been more definitive? did it come up? >> tucker: it didn't. the question was obviously stupid so i didn't consider responding. do you have dirt on president trump? to which putin was supposed to say yes, we call it a dossier. i don't think all reporters -- all questions that reporters asked are dumb but that was. you're not going to get a real answer. >> geraldo: could have gotten a more convincing denial that we

got. >> kennedy: it's a big day. so much emotion, so much reaction. what was the very best question you asked the president? >> tucker: i don't know. i don't know if any of my questions were particularly great. i am interested in the nato question. all the attention has been on how much the allies are paying into nato and i guess it's worth asking why do we have nato? it was one of my first questions. nato was created mostly to keep the soviets, the russians, from invading western europe. nobody thinks that's a possibility now and yet we are struck with this expensive infrastructure and article five, a security guarantee. if montenegro is attacked, america is obligated to go defend montenegro. maybe it's a great idea but tell me why. how is that in america's interest to secure the security -- extend the security guarantee

to albania. the president said good question. i've raised it. i think it's worth debating. everybody should be debating that question. >> jesse: hey, tucker. i know you interviewed the president early on in his term, a month or two in and now you have interviewed him again. did you notice a change at all and him and what was his demeanor like when you interviewed him this time? was he in good spirits, was he tired? how did he seem? >> tucker: i was texting my brother that exact thing. i thought about it all day. he did seem different. i have talked to him in the interim as well. he seemed less concerned with what his critics say. he seems more certain of what he thinks. he seemed funnier. he seemed less sort of aligned with conventional views in washington, for good or bad. obviously most of the foreign policy establishment in washington, that includes republicans, they are what we

used to call neocons. they have a very specific view of the world and he used to pay some lip service to that he doesn't anymore at all. you may think it's terrible. you may think it's great. he is much more defined, my read was, and what he believes and when -- than a year ago. >> jesse: he seemed certain a year ago. can imagine him being more certain. >> tucker: he seemed to be very >> dana: i have to ask you the follow-up from this. there were a lot of things putin was wanting to get. a request to lift sanctions. do you think that will happen? >> tucker: i don't know is the short answer. the real question is what do you do about syria? that is an open wound in the middle -- the ref receipt -- it's a huge deal. russia is a key player. this white house has been

basically a war with the assad regime. will that continue? it's the real question. trump, as much as he has made friendly noises about russia, they have been killing russian citizens in syria. it's very different from the rhetoric. >> greg: it's very hard at least for me to take that media response to this seriously. it's always been at an incredible high pitch. if you don't hear it anymore but i'm wondering if this is because the media is blaming putin for hillary's loss and they are demanding their pound of flesh and nothing will ever be enough. >> tucker: i don't fully understand it. i don't think russia is our close friend. of course they are trying to interfere in our affairs. they have a long time. many countries do. mexico is routinely interfering

in our elections by packing our electorate. i don't understand why we need to believe that russia is the primary issue of american political life. maybe you disagree with trump which is totally fine but the idea that where you are on russia is the defining question, that's kind of demented. it is like 115 on the list of real concerns. at least in my mind. that's my opinion. >> greg: have you eaten any reindeer? >> tucker: i had pizza with crickets on it. i ate weird fish parts. this is a great country. if you can get to finland, don't. overpopulation will destroy. >> geraldo: we've got to go. you are going to preview your interview tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern time and then the extended sit down with the president airs tomorrow on your show "tucker carlson tonight." >> tucker: thank you. >> geraldo: president trump

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>> kennedy: america, are you ready for the 2020 presidential campaign? president trump is already raking in cash. "the new york times" reported his rate for the $88 million over the last year and a half. it gives him a leg up on the competition. here are his thoughts on the prospective democratic field. >> i don't see anybody. i know them all. i don't see anybody. i know many of them. i've seen them. i've dealt with them. so far, they do not have the right candidate. >> kennedy: dana, if they find the right candidate, will democrats be able to kick-start that election? >> dana: it is hard to imagine that now. the economic indicators were so good and the president is raking in a ton of money and i'm not surprised by that. i think he has a 90% approval rating amongst republicans.

they are like, let's keep this going for as long as we possibly can. that said, democrats are super good at reminding people -- they are very good at registering new voters. it swamps republicans if republicans don't focus on it. it is something that republicans, they expect people to go out and vote because it is their civil duty. democrats go out there and they have the infrastructure to sign up new voters. it's going to be a major race. >> kennedy: they are shaking the tree hoping the peaches fall. >> dana: they are going to have the 17 candidates that the republicans had. >> kennedy: that's what a lot of democrats fear. they don't want that. what is the president capitalizing on with the fund-raising push? >> jesse: small donors. he is getting a lot of money from small donors, because that surprises people because everybody thinks the republican party is the rich, elite. booker, i think he is a lightweight. warren, controversies are going to dog her and i don't think

she's going to play nationally. harris, i think she is pretty qualified. quality, i mean. not qualified. she's not uplifting the way that obama was uplifting. biden is an old white guy who is a little bit of a has-been and he's never really campaigned effectively or has a natural constituency. >> kennedy: biden and sanders, seems like they are the ones fighting for the top of the ticket. the wonderful, fresh young voices the democrats have been promising. >> greg: about the money thing, money wasn't the reason trump won in 2016. he didn't spend nearly as much money as hillary. the other thing, the, one of the reasons he won, the contrast theory. if you have 17 people up there, 17 types of pillows. the hard pillow will howl better because it's different. you had 17 soft pillows and one

hard pillow. >> kennedy: was hillary the hard pillow? >> greg: she was a hard pill. there's going to be 17 and you're going to get a trump-like figure. >> kennedy: is a going to be a transformational figure or someone who can out bully trump? a >> geraldo: has to be similar with great charisma can go toe-to-toe. the pillow metaphors aside, i think trump was so much more charismatic and the other candidates. tom kane, tim kaine. he was so bland. democrats tried to go with a traditional politician. >> kennedy: he was a beta mail. we have "one more thing" up nex next. ♪

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>> don't try that at home at the ballpark. >> that's why he wasn't in this morning. let's go to this. greg's vacation video. here's a great video of me at the pool, which is relaxing. i am a harry -- i am a first suit. i went swimming on a full stomach and i was so happy to be there. i really am adorable without my shirt on. >> kennedy. >> there was a mom in lake tahoe california, no stranger to bears, but she has little kids. and a big brown bear bum-rushed her but she took it out, watch. >> no, no, no. no, go! go away! >> and the bear left! no one likes to be mommed.

she wished that the forcible no would really work on her own children. that's pretty scary actually. >> when i turned 70 i took the new selfie that was so notorious. i just turned 75 so i wanted to do something. >> it's a family show! >> my son gabriel and his wife deb and my grandson desmond came in. they live in holland, they worked there. my 12-year-old -- a voyage. 1100 miles, 550 miles each way. my beautiful wife went to a hotel on mackinac island. she flew there. i went by myself. i did it, i'm all bruised up. >> did you have like a period of self reflection? >> also i want to show that even though i'm lame and wimpy. >> you are fabulous. >> thank you. >> that was five years ago? >> and he hosed flying worms off of his boat.

how long did that take you, 110? >> three days, two nights to get there and it really jammed to get back in two days one night. >> glad you are safe. i fear you got to go. "special report" up next with chris wallace's interview with vladimir putin. >> bret: thanks, dana. i'm bret baier and this is a fox news alert. in just a moment the exclusive interview with been waiting for. chris wallace questions russian president vladimir putin with some unforgettable exchanges you don't want to miss. first up, president trump appearing today to take russian president putin's side in the argument whether russia interfered in the 2016 election saying about his intelligence agencies and putin "i have confidence in both parties" and that putin was "extremely strong and powerful" in his denial today. democrats and republicans, former intel officials expressing every thing from disappointment to outreach tonight after the news

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