captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening, i'm judy woodruff. on the "newse ur" tonight: ternational fallout from the helsinki summit. from ukraine to syria, what president trump's meeting with putin means for united states policy abroad. then, ghting to breathe-- military veterans exposed to toxic air in iraq and afghanistan struggle for a proper diagnis. >> my feeling is that constrictive bronchiolitis is very prevalent, and probably second only to p.t.s.d. >> woodruff: and it's friday-- mark shields and reihan salam lee here to discuss a vola week for the white house. all that and more on tonight's "pbs newshour."

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the security council is set toci keep enforng sanctions until dee north acts. >> chairman kim promise. he told president trump and moon izhe's prepared to denucle he understands what that means. there's no mistake about the scope. we need to see kim do what he promised he would do. >> woodruff: south korea's central bank estimated today that the north's economy sharply contracted last year, duto the sanctions. in southwestern syria rebels and civilians began evacuating from the frontier near the israeli- occupied golan heights. dozens of buses transported them to opposition-held areas in northern syria, as part of a surrder deal. united nations' refugee officials welcomed the arrangemen >> we urge all parties in syria to protectnd provide safe

passage to civilians displaced by the recent fighting in the south of the country. an estimated 140,000 people remain displaced across the southwest and need safe passage out of the area, plus immediate humanitarian asstance, protection and shelter. >> woodruff: the rebels are now confined to part of northwestern syria. kurdish militias control large parts of the northeast. back in this country, the talked about possibly paying off a former play boy model in a secret recording. the "new york times" and others are reporting his former personal lawyer michael coen made the recording two months before the 2016 election. made the recording, two months before the 2016 election. karen mcdougal claimed she'd had an affair with mr. trumphen 2006, whic denied. his current lawyer, rudy giuliani, says the conversation shows mr. trump did nothing wrong.

the justice department reports at least 364 igrant children older than five have been reunited with their parents. they are among more than 2ar00 children sed from their parents at the mexican border. a federal judge in san diego has set a july 26 deadline t reunite all the families. divers in missri have recovered 17 bodies from an amphibiousoat that sank on a storm-tossed lake. it happened last nighty-near the counstern tourist town of branson. nine victims came from one family. witness videos captured the boat capsizing in churning waves and winds of 65 miles an hour. today, missouri's governor pledged a full investigation. >> gonna take time to know details of everything that's the sheriff, the highway patrol, a lot of people are trying to answer questions you're asking. we don't know the status of all the events yet, it's still bein. investigat >> woodruff: a severe thunderstorm warning had been bsued for branson about 40

minutes before tt went down. repair crews were out in central iowa today, after tornadoes hit yesterday and injured 17 people. forecasters say at least five twisters swept across three cities-- bondurant, marshalltown and pella. social media video captured the storms flattening buildings. nearly 6,000 customers lost power, and one hospital was evacuated.il mean much of the south is roasting in triple digit heat llat could last into nexweek. the republicans old their 2020 national conventi charlotte, north carolina. the party made its choice today. las vegas was the other finalist. the charlotte city council endorsedhe idea this week, by a single vote. the president now says he'sin wito go the limit in a trade war with china. phe told cnbc that he'd s tariffs on everything that beijing sells to the u.s. unless chinese trade policies change.

that's more than $500 billion dollars worth of goods. the president acknowlet could damage the stock market. s but heaid, "if it does, it does." >> i would have a higher stock market right now, it's already up almost 40%, as you know, since the election. it could be 80% if i didn't want to do this, but ultimately, what i'm doing is making it so it's right. 34 woodruff: the u.s. already imposed tariffs onillion dollars worth of goods from china-- with another $16-billion he works. china has retaliated in kind. the president also criticized the federal reserve again today for raisininterest rates. but his budget chief imristed trump respects the fed's independent role. on wall street, the dow jones industrial average lost six points to close at 25,058. the nasdaq feel five points.sl and the s&p 50ped two. still to come on the "newshour," what president trump's

relationship with vladimir putin means for ukraine, syria and to. at least 100 new allegations of sexualbuse at ohio state university. iraq and afgnistan war veterans exposed to toxic particles. plus, much more. >> woodruff: president trump has made waves on the world stage an here at home over the last ten days. as foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin reports, from nato to helsinki, many are asking, what happens now? >> schifrin: in scow today, russia's coordinated and consistent message machine crafd its version of the helsinki summit, from russia's state tv... to a phalanx of russian generals... russia's ntp diplomat in the u.s. the message: presiputin and trump are on the same page. >> ( translated ): they went over the whole cycle of bilateral connections, as well

as the problems in regional and global security. >> schifrin: russian ambassador to the u.s. anatoly antonov called the summit pivotal, and called u.s. criticism of president trump a sign ofer an hysteria. >> ( translated ): as president trump said, a witch hunt is what it is. >> schifrin: in the u.s., senior officials re initially in the dark on the details of the trump-putin meeting, but secretary of stateioike pompeo cad against accepting russia's narrative. >> well, i'm not sure i'd take the russian ambassador's word for a whole lot. from time to time they are wont to tell stories. here's what i know: i've had a chance to talk with president trump about his discussions with ident putin. there was progress made on a handful of fronts. >> that progress despite a flnsry of questhether trump did or did not agree to at the summit. beyond the washington political ping pong thedu summit proced, there's serious pol icy consequences in the two presidents' dialogue.

the two presidents discussed more than a half dozen issues, including eastern ukraine-- where russian-backed separatists have battledbacked ukrainian soldiers to a stalemate. putin proposed holding a new referendum to determine the area's fate, similar to thed widely questiollot that led to crimea's annexation. today the white house rejected putin's propsal, saying, "to organize a so-called referendum in a part of ukraine which is not under government control would have no legitimacy." the two leaders also discussed nato-- the historic foundation ransatlantic alliance-- a thorn in russia's side, as president putin reiterated yesterday to russian diplomats. >> ( translated ): the key for safety and sustainable development in europe is c broadeniperation and rebuilding trust, not expanding new bases and military infrastructure of nato nearrs russia's borde >> schifrin: president trump's aides insist he supports nato strongly. this administration has maintained support for nato oops based near russia's borders and secured increased defense spending from nato allies. but president trump has berated those allies. and toy, german chancellor

angela merkel admitted that has taken a toll. >> ( tranated ): i think it is fair to say that the values, or our usual framework, aressnder strong pe at the moment. >> schifrin: trump and putin also discussed the future of syria anits border with israel, where today syrian rebels evacuated, consolidating syrian government control. u.s. officials say trump and putin want to limit the influence of iranian-backed troops that support syria, and repatriate hundreds of thousands of refugees. but the 2,000 u.s. troops in syria have not received any new marching orders,ays top middle east commander general joseph votel, and still consider russia an adversary. >> russia's support and protection has allowed the syrian rege to escape full accountability for their use of chemical weapons and horrendous violence against their own people. >> schifrin: and the world's two largest nuclear powers also discussed the future of their arsenals. russia wants to renew a 2011 treaty that caps large nuclear weapons, but expires next year, as putin said this week.

>> ( translated ): i reassurp president trat russia stands ready to extend this treaty, to prolong it, but we to agree on the specifi at first. >> schifrin: but the u.s.f accuses russiaolating a 1987 treaty restricting medium- range nuclear weapons. and the russian milis testing new nuclear weapons. it released video today of what it called a nuclear powered cruise missile. in the.s., the president is dogged by questions. in russia, officials are trying to control the narrative, pleased with what they consider a successful performance. for the pbs newshour, i'm nick schifrin. >> woodruff: so where do the u.s. and russia go from here has the helsinki summit paved the way for better relations? we get two views. dimitri simes is president of the center for the national interest, a foreign policy think tank founded by presidentxo richard he is a native of the soviet union, and since 1980 has been an american citizen. during the george h.w. bush administration he was a

consultant to the national c intelligenncil. andrew weiss worked for both publican and democratic administrations as a staffer on the national security councilin anhe state and defense departments. he's now at endowment for international peace. welcome you both to the program. andrew weiss to you first. we heard second pompeii owe sary thatess was made on several fronts at the helsinki summit. others say they're not so sure. what's your reading? is it your sense that they made head way on some of these important issues? >> i would be ve surprised if they made head way. the real progress that's been made i think i the administration has basically set a new standard for not sharing information for what happened. four days since the su'vit thdone a very i think subter futing job keeping that information so cloly held that people in congress, the allies

around the world is effectivelyh in dark including big farts of our government. iasically there's a message going out there's to be this great new relationship between the united states and russia but no real acknowledgment that the differences and the problems and what is alan adversa relationship run very deep. they will eva easy ick solutions unless of course donald trump basically sells out on key aspects of eure's foreign policy. >> woodruff: dimitri simes what do you see, tangible pr'tress. >> i dnow what tangible progress is. i don't think the summit was about spicecagreements. i don't think either side was prepared tsign or agree to the agreements. that was about the relationship. yis was about chemis between the two presidents.d ey are feeling a little better about each other witdehot surrng any importance. i don't think it's necessarily so bad. it would be bad if from the

basis of this general but somewhat hopeful conversation anyone would concle that our relationship is fundamental re changed. united states remain and like in the case of u.sl. reationship, we should strive for the best but be aware of difficules and certainly not to yield to each before there is a real agreement. >> woodruff: well, if there were no agreements at all, then we may b asking about more than exists. but andrew weiss, let's talou some of this. i mean tensions between president trump and nato in the face of that, we heard pesident putin speak and people who have talked to president putin say he's talking about a proposal that he made to president trouble about a referendum in ukraine -- president trump about a referendum in ukraine. what cute of that much is thatti something real >> it's completely realistic. i think it's a by-product of

basically only meeting with vladimir putin one-on-on president trump basically insisted that this had to be a one-onne meeting it went more than two hours and s was dealing with a foreign counterpart who een at this for 20 years, who basically knows althe bodies are buried literally and figuratively and make ideas sound convincing to foreign ears. so donald trump seems to have stepped into a variety of self made problems for himself. it would have been a lot easier ifd a couple senior advisor ong for the rde some of this could have been oided. >> woodruff: whether there was progress made on any specifics, is it your sense that the u.s. comes out of that that nato come out of that he meetings stronger or not givenr ample what the conversation may have been about ukraine. >> i'll briefly say something about the referendum. the referendum itself is not a problem. >> woodruff: in ukraine.

>> in ukraine. fit would be a problemt would be a referendum about independence. the russians today very specifically dend the ferendums they're talking about. it would be about independence like several years ago in the case of premier. they are talking about autonomy inside ukraine. my point is the details. both russians and ukrainians are talking about peace keepers. a very different idea about whethepeace keepers would be located and what they would be doing. what we have accomplished i hope that we have started ain negotiprocess. president trump by his very nature is not equipped to shade details awe been greement. that's why pompeii owe and his colleagues now will be in the driver's seat. >> woodruff: we're not going to understand have full answe

heearly because we don't, as you said andrew at the outset there's a lot weon't know. but just quickly let me touch on two other things. the startnew start nuclear weapons agreement. is it possible there was some progress made in discussing extending that? >> well judy, i think before we turn it out on th ukraine piece, just so everyone knows there's no progression in the nuclear agreement which is the guiding direct document that will hopefully provide lasting peace in ukraine about a referendum. ding ald imagine hol reference are dumb in an area held by a neighboring country whicis engaged in such an awful campaign of subversion ani aggression at its neighbor. on the new start question, we have i think a rereaquirement as the two leading nuclear powers which is what trump alluded to, to deal with our relationship in a constructive fashion and that these treaty is

piring in21. the two sides could move forward rather easily on an executive agreement to extend it for five years but there's a bigger issue which is rssian cheating on the inf treaty. so the administration's either going to have to basically sucke it up and he critical heat of extending without resolving our returns about the nf treaty or look for a dea tl on tade. it was alluded to, donald trump is not the person to b negotiating complex arms control deals. we'll see what comes of this but i think the russians are going to see if the u.s. wants this more than they do and the already are playing hard to quick. >> woodruff: just quickly, where do you see any hope for progress on the new start. >> on te new start i actually think consideration to the agreement signed and pased by the administration. i have reservations out t agreement today. i don't think this is an idealen agre

having said that this is the only agreement we have. i think it would be a good idea to extd it but only as andrew said if the russians would agree to credibly address the arms corol specifically missiles. that is a condition preseed by the united states. >> woodruff: less than a minute left but i do want to get a comment fr oom bo you on this apparent plan by the administration by the white house to invite vladimir putin to washington for a second summit time this fall. andrew weiss? >> donald trump seems completely tone deaf of washington which ie en his making by the disastrous performance on the kerches monday. republicans and democrats look at a new round of sanctions against russia. this is the worst case outcome. i don't see how russia or the trump administration could feel good about what they created here. it's a huge mess. >> woodruff: a c quimment. >> if mr. trump wants to make

his relations with russia center piece of his electoral campaign range would be a very idea then of course he can proceed with the summit in washington. if he also wantso create new difficulties in the relations, again as anrue said if he wants to have another relations and sanction the summit is >>way to go absolutely is a bad idea. oodruff: sounds like there's agreement on this. dimitri simes, andrew weiss, we thank you both. >> tnk you. >> woodruff: now, a sexual abuse scandal from deces past blows wide open at ohio state university. the university announced today that more than 100 former studen are reporting firsthand allegations of abuse by a former team doctor and professor at the school. n amaz gets more details on

an independent investigation at ohiotate. >> nawaz: a law firm retained by ohio state has conducted more than 200 interviews already. the investigation began in aprie after former m of the men's wrestling team said the team physician, richard straussd abhem. since then, athletes from 14 varsity sports have made similar allegations. strauss killed himself in 2005. the former students and athletes said strauss committed the abus0 between the and 1990s. jennifer smola is a higher education reporter who has been covering this story for the "columbus dispatch." i spoke with her earnd asked her about the scope and the nature of the allegatis. there are now athletes from 14 sports teams that have reported abuse by ds. str some of the wrestlers have been some of the vcals. la crosse, volleyball, swimming, football. really think of a men's varsity sport in college, you mai name

he worth them. he was a doctor with human health services and saw stunts who went to the student health center on campus and as we know he established private practice here in columbus in the mid 90's sounds as though that was not in operation very long, but through our reporting we found that he did offer some work experience to some nursing students at oh ohio state and e students did part time work with him and may havseen athletes at that center as well. seere have been reports of abu through his time with the sports teams, had you his time at the student health center and through his time in private practice. >> the university phases two class action lawsuits from some former wrestlers. what do we know or what they didn't know about some of the alleged behavior. >> right.s those lawsure filed this

week on behalf of five former wrestlers. each of themllege they were abused by dr. richard straus and the university knew about that abuse and yet ohio state failed to stop that mist.cond the reports about what university administrators may have known vary from athletes saying that this was mmonly joked about, that his misconduct was joked about within the locker room or discussed openly within the locker room and faches were very aware it. to most recently this week weth reported ofirst record of a written complaint that was filed by a student who saw dr. straus at the stltudent hea center in the 1990's. he filed a complaint after having uncomfortable experience with the doctor and was told by administrators there that dr. straus denied some of those allegations as well as in terms of accommodating for the inappropriate touching. he said h he washe said he was s

job. the student felt it was his work against dr. straus'. no action was taken and an rator said no other complaints had been made previously against dr. straus. so it runs the gamut >> the ails from those lawsuits is really disturbing now. going through thaemrlier, there was one you mentioned who said he dilag another coach to some behavior from dr. straus that he found inappropriate andi others sd for a rib injury to see dr. straus andoas asked drop his hands. how are these stories disturbint y are, how they are in the os community. >> that remains to be seen. ohio state has really encouraged students, former stdents, alumni to continue coming forward and contact indepordent investigif they had an experience with dr. straus. as we work through thest ination which is still ongoing, the question just remains who knew when they knew

diat they knew and whad they do about it and this is kind of one of the first times we're seeing a case like this play out with new and i think the accounts of athletes talking about it ownly and joking about it is interesting because some have said that they joked about it, they tked about it and it made shem feel like because it wa joked about, they didn't need to make a point of reporting it formally, that they shouldn't have to. >> there's also potential involvement of a congressman ofw jim jordo has been specifically named in one of the lawsuits. what do we know abut his involvement. >> jim jordan was a former assistant wrestling coach at ohio state from the 80's and into the mid 90's. there have been a number of wrestlers who have said that during jordan's tie in tt locker room that he knew about the abuse by dr. straus and thas itpenly discussed and a number of wrestlers have questioned why jim jordan hasn't said, acknowledged that he knew about that. a number of ovether wrestlers ha

come to jim jordan's defense. yinghat's still sort of pla out. in terms of the lawsuit, he's been named in terms of news reports that wrestlers have said that he was aware of thu abse. he's not been named as a definitdefendant at this point. >> we should mention jim jordan says he knew nothing about those allegations during his time at the university or after. thank you for staying on this story from the columbus dispatch. >> thank you. >> woodruff: stay with us. coming up on the "newshour," mark shields and reihan salamig in on the russia controversy. and a brief but spectacular take on homelessness. but first, more than 2.5-million men and women have served in the wars in iraq and afghanistan. the health challenges many veterans face when tturn home, such as post traumatic stss disorder or traumatic

brain injury, are well documented. but there's another illness many military personnel suffer from that's led to fight among doctors over how to diagnose the condition; some doubt it even exists. nick schifrin returns now with this story, produced and reported by the newshour's dan sagalyn. >> schifrin: on the edge of a mes. base in kuwait the entire horizon has beco cloud of dust. >> that is just insane schifrin: it's 2011. u.s. service members he been stationed in the desert for eight years. and in a matter ofwaeconds, what once a blue sky, becomes thick yellow dust. and then red. and then darkness. >> and now we can't see anything.ds >> schifrin: srms like this were routine-- not only in kuwait, but theater-wide, in iraq and afghanistan. so were thick black clouds ofe. sm >> luckily the winds are not blowing our way. >> schifrin: the military used burn pits toispose of pretty ch everything. from tires... to batteries... to styrofoam.

all burned near where soldiers lived. and where soldiers worked--ho the rror of car bombs produced combat dust and debris. soldiers inhaled all that dust, all that smoke, and it may haveh afflicted with higher-than- average rates of asthma, bronchitis, and other pulmonary disorders. ( explosion ) >> i find myself struggling, even when i pull into a parking lot at the grocery store, because i kn what's going to happen. if i have to park in the back of the parking lot, by the time i get inside, i'm so winded that it's miserable for me to even do my grocery shopping.ch >>rin: former army sergeant cynthia aman, is one of more than 360,000 iraq and afghan war veterans diagnosed with lung disease and y department of veteran affairs. aman's misuri national guard police company deployed to kuwait and iraq in 2003. she says in her yearlong deployment, she suffered dozens of sand storms. >> the only thing we had were scarves.

or things to cover our faces. so, when we were out doing these missions in these all camps, a sandstorm would come up so quickly that you-- the only thing you can do is try to cover your fac i joke now, but it was almost like we were eating it. >> schifrin: aman livein delaware with her husband and daughter. she leaned on them for support while she struggled to figure out what was wrong. >> it's been a year and a half, almost two years of nonstop jumping through hoops and fighting trying to get answers and get a definitive diagnosis. >> schifrin: aman travels from her home in delaware t shington to advocate for veterans. she says at first, doctors said the problem was in her mind.t >> when i fiarting going to the v.a. and explng my symptoms, automatically th were telling me it was anxiety, i was hyperventilating, they try to put me on anti-psychotic meditions, mood stabilizers and thingsf that nature. and i was telling them, "no. it's shortness of breath, it's something physic.

it's not psychological. i'm not depressed, i'm not anxious." you know, i want to find an answer. >> schifrin: after dozens of medical tests, aman got a surgical procedure like the one seen here: a lung biopsy, where doctors remove a sample of her lung. when they examined it, they realized she had constrictive bronchiolitis-- a lung disease where the small airways are destroyed. it's rare among civilians. and there's no treatment or cure. the first time u.s. troops came down with constrictive bronchiolitis, it's believedhe they'd brein the black haze caused by a sulfur fire like this one. s wed toxic fumes for almost a month. but the unit's doctors couldn't figure out the source of theie so' lung problems, so they sought out dr. robert miller of vanderbilt university. >> when we started seeinge servmbers with unexplained shortness of breath, they had already had a number of non- invasive studies. chest x-rays, c.t. scans, pulmonary function tests,se exerests.

none of these tests seemed to explain their exercise limitation. >> schifrin: the patients were un-diagnosable without lung biopsies that are expensive and invasive and carry some risk. he published his findings in the "new england journal of medicine." >> small airways disease is known to be a stealth-like disease. it is difficult to diagnose it without a lung biopsy. >> constrictive bronchiolities is the most common, far and away the most common thing that i see. >> schifrin: docr allyn harris is a pulmonologist at the jackson, mississippi, v.a. medical nter. we met her at a conference attended by veterans with lung disease, including cynthia aman. >> i think it's under-diagnosed for sure, nationwide. >> schifrin: dr. harris says she has around 200 patients who have constrictive bronchiolitis. >> my feeling is that constrictive bronchiolitis is very prevalent, and probab second only to p.t.s.d. >> schifrin: the v.a.'s diagnosed more than 390,000 iraq

and afghanistan veterans witst p.t.s.d, or traumatic stress disorder, and they arguei pats with constrictive bronchiolitis is nowhere near that number. the v.a. told the newshour they've diagnosed only 128 veterans with the disease, and that shortness of breath can bed cay other factors. that skepticism is shared by retired army colonel and pulmonologisdr. michael morris, at the brooke army medical center in san antonio. >> if you are a little bit heavier, you haven't exercised as much, if you have some sleep issues.ux if you have rereflux affecting the lungs is very hard to diagnose. all those things maya role in your symptoms. >> schifrin: morris is researching soldiehe' respiratorth. he believes that unless non- invasive tests show problems,vo doctors should invasive and what he calls risky lung biopsies. >> there is a risk. they have to go general anesthesia. there is a risk to that.is ther risk to the procedure itself.

and our thought is that we should do everything non- invasively first before we proceed to a biopsy. >> schifrin: and he says since there's no treatment plan for constrictive bronchiolitis, ayopsies serve little purpose. but cynthia amanher lung biopsy eliminated so many doubts that had been plaguing her. >> the biopsy has given me a definitive diagnosis and some answers. it was funny, because when i got the results the first words out of dr szema's mouth-- wa stop, i'm sorry. ( crying ) literally the first words out of his mouth were, "cindy you're not crazy." because for so long, after you're getting a normal pulmonary funcon test and you have doctors saying your tests are normal, we don't think anything's wrong, to hear the words that there's definitely something wrong with your lungs was just such a relief. >> schifrin: but getting a

proper diagnosis from the inhalation of dust, debris and smoke is only a first or these veterans. the next step is to qualify for dibility compensation. and doing that, turns out to be a second, major challenge.en aman applied, she says the v.a. ignored her diagnosis and assigned her its lowest nefit rating. >> they gave me a 0% becse they said my pulmonary functioning is normal. i'm not using inhalers or corticosteroids every day. >> schifrin: aman appealed and ultimately won. the v.a. rated her 100% disabled. e now gets disability compensation. >> if i had to guess how many people were getting de benefits because of this, i would say probably 80-90%or >> schifrin: ay kerry baker represents veterans struggling to obtain v.a. coverage. he used to lead the v.a.'s legislative and policy staff.e >> one of oblem is, veterans are pushed through the claims process so fast, even though it takes such a lon time. v.a. examiners might do an examination for orthopedic disabiliti, the next one may be hearing loss. the next one may be some other

lity. and when you're a physician's assistant doing that for a living, the oddsf you having any real knowledge of complicated exposures, such as burn pits, it's not likely. >> schifrin: dr. miller thinks vets who lived under those dusty conditions and exhibit the symptoms of constrictive bronchitis should qualify for compensation. >> a soldier that presents with unexplained shortness of breath, with the appropriate exposure and no other complicating factors such as heart disease or asthma and has a clear historyof xercise limitation may be a candidate for that presumptive diagnosis. >> schifrin: the v.a. disagrees. in response to the newshour's questions, the agency said, "the evidence simply doesot exist to support the presumption of service connection for constrictive bronchiolitis." and the v.a. also denied any

problems with how it determines disability compensation. out in denver, researchers are trying to figure out if they cao di constrictive bronchiolitis without biopsies. this "lung clearance index tes"" at national jewish health could tscover the same problems a biopsy does, witho invasive procedure. but their research will take years. the meantime, countless veterans exposed to airborne hazards struggle with every breath, more than 15 years after ny of them deployed. for the pbs newshour this is nick schifrin. >> woodruff: we return now to the turbulent aftermath of president trump's meeting with vladimir putin. ofr more, it's the analysi shields and salam. that's syndicated columnist mark shields and "national review"

executive editor reihan salam. david brooks is away.we ome to both of you. mark, it has been a turb length turmoilish week from nato to great britain, to the meeting with vladimir putin, back to washington. what are we left with? >> we're left with, judy, a week of i think a blw to the united states of america. i don't think there's any queson about it, to our leadership. the frang of the relations with our long time allies, a dismissal of disparagement by the america of democrati leaders and the messy problems with democracy requires. an adulation, a sucking sound by e russian dtator.

a writer on politics in america wrote when the setting calls for a show of sphren end resved trump offers differencance, offensiveness equivocation and weakness and i think that'sfa . >> woodruff: do you have an assessment. >> i thinkis think its helpful o take you are spective. donaldumrs meeting with kin jung unis a brutadictator. trud had very warm words for him. some weeks ter mie mom palm may owe the secretary of state met with the north korean regime and they sprawnded they're making this damage stir like demands and taking a hd line position. donald trump when it comes to offering warm words for authoritarian leaders does a lot, goes a long ways in ways other republicans feel makes them very uncomfortable. ithe minority of onn his own administration when it comes to those warm words and when it

comes to actual substances, you see a much tougher line. if you look at pompeii owe, jim mattis, if you look at john bolton, these are people who have taken a consistently hawkish line and the president himself, he reversed himself. again that's quite unusual forto hieverse himself so quickly because republican were four square behind this idea that no, in fact they so, republicans in congress passed legislation bipartisan legislation, keep in mind, that says they can impose sanctionse but president of the united states can't reverse. that is legislation that donald trump signed in 2017. so that's important background to keep in mind. >> woodruff: are we making too much of the words of president trump. >> no. he is the policy maker. he is the face and the voice of the united states of america. every president has been. ronald reagan was when he said tear down that wall and called the soviet union an evil empire. donald trump is when hetands

there and contradicts unanimous judgment of all the men and women who are professionals in the ited states intelligence services who have concluded union in an mustily that russia, russia was behind meddling, cyber attacks and conestio be at this time. and stands there and says pays ultimate complement, talk about his words, we know his words. in his lexicon, the lexon of donald trump there are no greater accomplishments than to say strong anl.power whom did he call, to call anybody weak is the ultate insult. and he paid the ultimate compliment to mr. putten as he stood there and refusing to endorse and support the work of the mes american intelligence proposals. >> there was amoascinating nt during that press

conference where president putin had to say president trump continues to say that the annexation of imea was illegal. president putin actually ofminded the global publi this. why did he do that? that's a really puzzling question, right. you think it would be president trump who would saying that, who would be taking that kind of stern step ofeminding th wider global audience. one of thasons president putin did that is because he recognizes that donald trump alone does not represent the american government in its entirety. what has happened is that republicans are more unified against vladimir putin. democrats are farc more inlined to take a hard line against russia than they had been before donald trump came into office. vladimir putin knows that for his purposes, this was not a victory, it was in fact a deceit because donald trump, his style on of negotiating is re one in which he says a lot at one point but then his adminiration takes very sharply different actions.

if anything we're going to get a more hawkish line on russia in the months to come. >> woodruff: so mark why is the deceit. >> it was a deceit from putin? >> absolutely, absolutely.us bewhat vladimir putin wants is to get some component obipartisan establishment reconcil to the idea of a warmer relation with rush you. in fact we got the exact opposite. donald trump himself on the flight, on air force one back home from helsinki reazed that this did not play especially well with the people he depends on to shield him from investigation and much else. he understood thtremendous vulnerability. he understands that there are people in his own administration who may well leave that administration and leave him in a more vulnerable position, if i he movthat direction. again, look to north korea. >> woodruff: what you're saying is that there was a mess created that required a lot of cleaning up. >> also remember the north kore. preced

remember the fact, we're talking about this as unprecedented. donald trump praised th north korean dictator and then north korea suddenly realized, wait a second that does not amount to us gettiry eveing we want. >> donald trump has told us that nuclear armsre gone from the korean peninsula. >> which is nonsense cull. >> nonsense cull.>> eporter: he did not say the weapons are gone, he said i'm committed to nenuclearization. there's room forerpretation. what we've seen is actually a more hawkish posture in the weeks since then. it's very impoant to keep these precedence in mind before we claim this is some grand break through. >> at what point do we get this ctormograph, this magic dete where the deduct stops and a coupon that allows us to tellse when telling the truth. when he stands there and says kim jong-un loves his people. this is a man who has killed

thousands of koreans, who has stawived -- >> it's appalling. and it's also the case that the nt and thetes govern trump administration did not in fact give away the store. this is solidly rattling. it is wrong for the president of the united states to appear to be kowtowing to the russian president. it's important to recognize, however, that donald trump himself as an unconventional figure, someone seking diplomatic break throughs that i've got to believe are going to materialize wound wood the fuss we're making over the behavr over trump in the end the policy is going to turn out all all ri. is that what user saying. >> it is wrong and disorienting and something that is actually zapping some of the trust people have in him. nthink thatt a good thing. but the policy is moving in a different direction. >> there's no question that he was overmatched with putin. there's no question whos wa the sum law consultan supplicant ane

big dog an and puppy seeking approval. inventory when this epiphany occurred wh healized it didn't work out. they had to sit down with him and confront him with his own administration before he would even acknowledge grudgingly two letters. that didn't change that the united states was at fault, that he blame his own country, that he blamed america first. novamerican president hasr done that before. when you get verbs like revise, revamp, contradict, change, modify. those are not the words of a thoughtful leader or a stronger leader or a principled leader. those are the words of somebody who really is overmatched in a public situation. >> it might also be however the words of someone who has promised diplomatic break throughs and change. this is that irattling for ose of us myself very much included who believe theit arture of existing alliances is e normally

luable. donald trump believes that by shaking things up he is going to bring us to a better place. now it happens that is the ers of the administratio are teamly skeptical about that posture and that is actually the substance of what we're getting. president trump does not have the power to reverse sanctions. that is exact what putin wants and he's not going to get it and he's less likely tot getow than two weeks ago. >> let me just ask one question. d>> please. you think that after 9/11 when dan coa t washe united states ambassador to germany and he stood with the chancellor oft germanhe vandenberg gate and thanked 20,000 germans for their supporting united states and it was all made after the 9/11 attknd invoke nato to support the united states and its attack. do you think donald trump has any idea that that happened.ha do you think h any idea that dan coats even was there? i mean this is a man -- >> i believe it's worth

mentioning that iran is explicitly anti-american. including turkey said we will not allow thete united stato enter our territory. that was fracture within thenc nato alland nato survived. that is also important to remember. dan coats is a loyal public servanwho deserves a great deal of credit but that's not forget history. >> do you th aware of any of this? >> i can't say, mark. >> wdruff: i think temperatures are rising all around after this week. i do want to bring us back at the very end of the program to some news tod tat there was, mark, the revelation, the "new york times" and other news organizations, there was a recording made between predent ump and his lawyer michael cohen about payoment to amer play boy bunny.

that's now been reported. you have that happening at th end of this week. you also have the new information this week that th president's already raised almost $90 million toward his own re-election. are we looking at a situation re where weal with the controversies of the week both on a personal level and the international level but we're atill looking at someone who is going to be a mchine when it comes to raising money and doing the things he has to do to get re-elected. >> i don't think there's any question his money raising is predigits and continues to be and is in lage amounts. if the administrating has its way and the republicans have be lessay, there wil and less disclosed all the time where that money comes from. but i think the michael cohens tapeuite fascinating because it's hard to believe there's only one.e tap i think if you're taping you're not just taping, it's not a run off. i would say in addition, judy, i

don't know whose fault it is, whether it's hillary clinton's or the fake news peoo ple de that tape and put it in michael cohen's han woulded wood about ten seconds. >> we know this is an unpredictable political landscape and there are mn other republicans including mike pence including a number of senatorsho are preparing thei own political futures including t 20/20. we do ow what the world is going to look like in a few years time. i don't think donald trump's fund raising necessarily means his political future is assured. political fund raising has been vein prolific indeed durg the trump era. >> woodruff: thank you both. >> thanks. >> woodruff: finally, another installment of our weekly "brief but spectacular" series where we "the hospitality house" has been offering support to homeless and poor residents of san

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