yes all of the nation of course the team's performance provided the reason for this energy to emerge but honestly i think we were charging each other i think has experienced this him self you know when you feel such support you get the drive and with a synergy you can really make history and it cheats the impossible thank you very very much for coming up here and sharing all this with us. it was an absolute honor to have you here. and you know how do we get on from here by the way casper was absolutely amazing it is tournament. i'm sorry peter but he was even better than you. well they took it on the chin well we're from securing its place in the final it's now down to england a creation to fight it out later what about all that will be they going to meet the luzhniki stadium here in moscow to see who will go through to face the french team croatia fans already getting into the party spirit. is there.

something oh. how i don't know but that. they were underdog every play good soccer i think it's a psychological pressure on england team because their favorites so i don't have nothing to lose now i was on edge and ahead of wednesday's semifinal clash may regard england as the favorites but let's see what our top pundit thinks of the upcoming encounter later today. england is fresher. has younger players heads easy group phase where they plea to use the matches and the match against belgian bit change every player sold the players that are playing the be all had one match less than crewe issued to play because they didn't play against belgium and the majority of the players. are young feet players when i look to the dean my seeing ashley young and served is three

years old just today or yesterday something like that and apart of that the players are all very young and between england and croatia i think croatia has a great mentality. a fantastic me to play to control the game in the possession of the game but then when these. is a happy team is a team that you look at them and you see happiness is a team that they went from. eden candidate to candidate and i just hope because that that's what they really need i just hope that they are themselves and not right belgium. the majority of the places they were not themselves in big matches you have to be yourself or a bit better the big match can make you

a bit better that extra adrenalin that extra. feeling of how big i am. can only make you better find out soon enough for the crucial much on the horizon the england squad for the unique we're loosening up a bit. six . back to serious stuff this is huge for england england's reached the semifinals for the first time in twenty eight years and team captain hurricane is among the favorites of the world cups golden boot award now with a six to one goals all this out into the fans' excitement.

oh the way. they are they just insiders one mad rush and the people at something about. in some bad press for example talk about here you can see russia and it's not the english. the poisoning the well so what were the things that you were hearing about russia before came here i'd say. like it's like it's like stereo but it's really got some of my spice ever got from a you know it's true let's get shade on his back pressure it was staunch believe it but once people realized hey this is not because they were out there with we're going to pleasure we want to go beyond the world enjoy it as well tonight with i

think what he should i know is he's i want to come over. but you know we speak to him pretty much every day if you see them up to the games as well you remember the case with. eidetic world when i gave my numbers is how can we not succumb to russia because a possible racism is still like that and having been here we couldn't have anything to say about it yeah even if it did it whatever was said before has completely been overruled by my experience here this week we've had absolutely no problems no trouble. people have been fantastic the food has been great the best been great. and of course coming back to them another time but you russia spot a posse. you still got time england fans coming to russia

is coming on it's coming. yes but from london yesterday that plane was putt huge expectation amongst the fans more gathering in moscow said to be an historic game for many of the ups and downs of the team's fortunes of really put them through all of the spectrum of emotions we've put together if you can bear it some of the best moments of. was was all over the world. so we got more special coverage lined up. team from our studio in moscow that

starts in just to know if i was timed eleven am local time last time you can check in all the way to. a trump kind of view it is an understatement to say donald trump is an unconventional and an orthodox political figure his critics do have a point when they say trump appears to be harsher. than with real or imagined enemies then there's the middle east and iran. obsessed with. all the security back and asms and. we don't want to be part of britain anymore we've got topping out companies we match and banks stopping out everyone wants to get out because if you don't do. super

a not for all the institutions that cover the yearly be part of that and you saw to be a separate go it alone island under a large rain cloud swimming in marmite worshiping some old hag of a crown those people in france germany and italy and the rest are saying no we don't want to be a part of that. at some other headlines this morning the nato military alliance is set to meet later today but tensions between the u.s. and other members of already become apparent donald trump lambasted states for failing to contribute enough to the alliance while in turn nato secretary general said they shouldn't pay up just to please america peter all of the reports as nato leaders come together in brussels the alliance seems more disunited then ever to

start with the most influential member of the block is it odds with its partners and the money. they want to tell you get a set of bills the united states. the for years nato has been a club where the majority of members don't pay what they should including key allies and europe's biggest economies like germany which is way off the pace in fact installed the nato secretary general has said that only seven out of the twenty seven year a p a nato members living up to the two percent of g.d.p. that they're supposed to contribute it was agreed on to expect it to spend at least two percent of g.d.p. on defense to see it moreover european partners a considered a defense force of their own outside of nato. but a europe can ensure a real sovereignty which is to say our ability to exist in the current world to

defend our values and our interests and the beginning of the next europe must have a common force of intervention a common defense budget and a common doctrine for action in iraq. then there's what to do about russia chancellor angela merkel wants to focus more on what she sees as a threat posed by moscow while donald trump wants closer ties with russia he's heading off for a meeting with vladimir putin just told. week after sitting down with these nato buddies this board that's true and we have to focus more on defending the alliance and in order to do that we have to make necessary arrangements for example through a presence in central and eastern european countries of. the nato secretary general it seems isn't too concerned about disagreements between leaders believe so. what we call the dual track approach to russia combining france with dialogue we

don't want a new cold war we don't want on your show is russia so unable to state. we need dialogue with russia on many different levels but that can't gloss over some fairly naked barbs coming from europe directed at the united states the president trump america does not target. and europe india america up to your allies after all you don't have that many with so much dissatisfaction within the alliance it does beg the question just how relevant is nato in today's world i don't think that nato was ever designed to ensure global security i don't think that was ever part of the leaders original mission but once the cold war ended nato has been seeking its mission ever since there was nothing left to do really after the end of the cold war think there is

more of a feeling of threat again that nato led by the us is increasing the tensions not leading to more security. meantime the highly anticipated meeting between donald trump and president putin next monday in helsinki seems to have put the media room a million do over drive some parts are even speculating that the u.s. president's a soviet spy. takes a close look at that when the smaller. it was also free in nj so crazy stuff of conspiracy theorists in pinfall have but they've done it they've really done it and they went right in at the deep end as trump arranges to meet face to face and privately with vladimir putin later this month it would be dangerous not to consider the possibility that the summit is less a negotiation between two heads of state than a meeting between a russian intelligence assets and his handler it's

a whole study with charts and spread sheets and insane conspiracy theories and new york magazine isn't alone more and more media outlets are coming out into the open and saying trump is a russian agent despite the fact that he's starved almost his entire administration with anti russian hawks but the dissent to this new low was gradual take the washington post forty six years ago it brought down a president in the watergate scandal using only quality journalism in two thousand and sixteen it promoted media which aren't. proper knox monitoring report identifies more than two hundred websites as routine peddlers of russian propaganda during the election season we've combined audiences of at least fifteen million americans at some point bashing russia trumped the truth

turns out citing shadowy organizations that have come out of nowhere in an article or fake news wasn't the best idea media and readers are like ripped into the washington post for that one but it was a turning point take m.s.n. b.c. who rachel maddow leftist i've gotten she's developed something of an obsession over russia in recent years seeing putin's hand everywhere everywhere in russia russian russia russia russian russia russia russia of whether or not russia had help whether they had confederates inside the truck campaign when they launched this attack and one very big thing that was definitely off about that meeting if you take that train across that bridge from north korea where you end up in is russia and every day and every day i leave my show and i think we're going to be talking about something else but every day over the course of the news cycle a new piece of it falls in place rachel maddow peddles to

a specific audience an audience that wants the hear what it believes in not what to believe and you can say that of any audience though people only listen to what they want to hear less news more show. his shoe is a piece of sleight of hand presented as a cable news show it is t.v. entertainment it is financed it permits liberals to enjoy themselves you're in what may be the most certainly an enjoyable town the political line or take the new york times which last year claimed that trump associates were in close contact with russian agents jury in the election only to be debunked by none other than former f.b.i. ahead james komi the challenge that i'm not picking on reporters about writing stories about classified information is the people talking about it often don't really know what's going on and those of us who actually know what's going on and

are talking about it quality journalism doesn't sell any more neither does neutrality or even common sense the numbers prove it last september the washington post crossed the one million subscribers mark and the new york times made more than a billion dollars in total subscription revenue and rachel maddow became the most watched who in march society is fracturing and there is little common ground to be found it's a national departure from reality that is being helped along by truth journalism in tao with the truth president. meantime to with midterm elections in the us to november it seems some of taken a doomsday approach when trying to appeal to voters kalibo principle that one. the upcoming midterm congressional elections are certainly a crucial political of that but there's way more to it than you think according to

nancy pelosi the minority leader on capitol hill civilization as we know today is a tourist can the selection we have to win we have to wing civilization at risk goodness that sounds quite serious now she's not the only one to think of the upcoming elections or existential importance and no less if you one of these folks who is watching cable news you know kowtow parties with your friends and you saying civilization is collapsing and you're nervous and worried but that is not what you personally do time energy and money than eve you don't actually think civilization is collapsing you know pushing so hard enough and i would push harder the time for diagnosis is over it is cancer midterms are america's last chance at remission register to vote we can beat these disease now filmmaker michael moore is urging the liberal rank and file to seize the moment what are we willing to commit to what would you give your life for what would you be willing to do to actually put

yourself on the line for that moment is now we are going to lose our democracy if we haven't already we have no choice my friends we all have to rise up so is the future of human civilization really at risk at the november polling place we decided to ask people here in new york city i would say so yes possibly the fate of american civilization at stake i think set out. civilization this but i don't know i think it's a little over the top now not at all they were said kim jong un was going to blow up the world a couple i know how many months ago there hyperventilating they do this all the time why would nancy pelosi say that throwing gas on the fire now it's hard to tell if ordinary americans are is fired up as their t.v. screens and political leaders would like them to be let's forget not. yes the vote is still months away and the hysteria will probably escalate and pick up steam kaleb mop and r.t.

new york always seems to be that way doesn't it that save for no programs continue your part of world off the break international quick reminder the big build up to today's clash between krajcir and england period moscow last question coverage begins in two and a half but i was given always thanks for watching have a great way to say the best team with. twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time but there was one more question and by the way was going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star and a huge amount of pressure you have to be the center of the pole with you and do all the great. good you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get down there we have to go.

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i want the revenge. hello and welcome the cross talk we're all things considered i'm funeral of a trumpy and kind of view it is an understatement to say donald trump is an unconventional and an orthodox political figure his critics do have a point when they say trump appears to be harsher with allies than with real or imagined enemies then there's the middle east and iran why is trump so obsessed with terrain.

across talking a trumpy and kind of view i'm joined by my guest peter ford in london he's a former british ambassador to syria and part rein in washington we have james jaharis he's a former u.s. diplomat and former advisor to u.s. senate republican leadership and in new york we have richard murphy he is a former u.s. career in basad or to syria and currently an adjunct scholar at the middle east institute right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate it james let me go to you first in washington because you've rapidly become the donald trump sharper for me you i know you're a supporter of the president and you have a great foreign policy expertise so i want to see if we can kind of. unpack a few things here for example i give the president trying kudo's with north korea if something good happened there it's very very calm. ok good the parlay is going to be long and hard but i think it takes a lot of courage to engage that unlike past administrations. in europe with his

european allies doing nato tough love there i think he's doing absolutely the right things you want to be protected ok if russia is such a terrible threat but want to pay for it ok it's pretty simple but then the wrinkle comes in james i mean the middle east i mean the trump administration is embrace israel and saudi arabia much more than passage ministrations iran is again on target with the rhetoric and the planning and all of that i don't see any rhyme or reason to it all can you is there a silver bullet for you to give me to make me understand it go ahead james well let me draw an analogy to start with peter people of noticed that trump since the day he took office even before has been under siege from people in the intelligence community i think that's one reason why he and the sun the moon and the stars to the pentagon he had to have somebody who was on his side when we put it to the international context that you just raised look we've got clients and i do call

them clients of not satellites in europe in the far east like south korea and japan i think he can afford to kick them around but we come to the middle east and talk about israel and saudi arabia i don't think there's so much our clients as where their client given the kind of influence the israelis and the saudis have in this town it's not so easy to cross them so i think he is proceeding much more carefully there just as he indulges the pentagon i think he's indulging those countries but we're going to have to see now he can turn the corner especially if he can work out something with mr putin on syria with regard to essentially keeping the israelis and the iranians away from each other near the golan heights we might have the beginning of something constructive in that region but that's going to be a very tough road to hoe i think ok it's interesting peter what way. on that too because i guess if you do. restate my first question in

a much shorter version is that trump is showing flexibility in some areas here but other areas he's seen these seem far more rigid how do you see it i mean particularly in the region of the middle east in iran go ahead peter. well i think the key to understanding i think this with some humility but i think it does help him as an american first first and foremost meaning. to use the term i don't like much myself i thought nation is the opposite interventionist let's recall you know the term america first the america first committee tried to keep america out of the war world war two and this things the spirit of john quincy adams who advised again the america going abroad in the sleigh this tradition which should trump hark back which appealed thought much i

think through middle america and he seems to be consistent in that and almost all his moves can be interpreted in that spirit whether it's pulling back from korea pulling back from nato overreach in europe. the middle east is a little bit different but maybe come back we will come back to that ok richard i mean ok good considering what we just heard from james and peter i think both are moot agree that you know and i like how james put it you know indulging the pentagon i mean the pentagon's got a lot of money right now ok but what does that money for in a lot of people would say is for possible or continued military interventions which the president ran against during the campaign and now we have massive arms sales to so do you radiate saudi arabia and. israel here and there seems to be a lot of ambiguity about what the u.s. policy is visa v syria how do you one tie all this go ahead richard. i don't think

. syria's situation is well understood or has been well understood for the percival years we made a mistake there's no other word for it back in two thousand and eleven assuming that. the regime was very fragile and about to be blown away. it managed to survive and then it was bolstered by russian support to rainy and support in the following years but the color of. washington observer tuj that. you had heard about during obama's time do not get involved in yet another middle east of the war. richard you're absolutely right and that's exactly where i want to go here james they ok all of all of us are kind of more or less on the same page here but then how do you account for the bellicose attitude towards

iran and i think richard's right donald trump knows enough about history is that that he doesn't want to be a president that's brought down by a foreign war that he really doesn't want to get involved in i mean cheri i mean he's old enough to know what happened to lyndon johnson for example or george bush jr with iraq he doesn't want to have that around his collar but james you know using sanctions to intimidate friends and foes not to import a rainy unoiled i mean i again you know you and you look at the american allies in the region saudi arabia and israel which would love to see some kind of regime change or instability that's probably their first priority i mean this seems to kind of go counter what trump in islam is all about when it comes when it goes to foreign policy james. absolutely clearly and i think peter is right absolutely it's america first policy i wouldn't call it isolationism i would simply call it a sovereigntists policy however there is one big fat exception and that is the

middle east we don't have an america first policy in the middle east we have a saudi arabia and israel first policy in the middle east i don't know whether that represents where mr trump really wants to go or whether it is like i said an analogy to the pentagon whether he's indulging the realities that exist so he can do something else if he can get us out of syria i don't expect us to admit we made a mistake in syria of course we did a tragic horrible mistake but in politics people don't admit mistakes if he can slip us out of syria somehow the real question is will he take the bait on what has to be the red line that israel and saudi arabia want regime change in iran and if he goes down that road it's the end of his predecessor presidency he needs to understand that he ends up as george w. bush if he goes down that road may be a lot worse i frankly don't think he's going to do that but he's certainly got a lot of people both foreign and domestic pushing him in that direction and right

now he's indulging them the question is whether he will follow through with that i hope he doesn't you know peter one of the things i've noticed that's unique about this presidency. tweeting a sign is that i think serious people and not just pundits that are partisan one way or another i mean i listen to trump speeches particularly when he goes to the base and there's just a heck of a lot of hyperbole and it's kind of baked in for me ok i'm trying to understand the basis of what he's saying because well most of what he talks about is themself ok that's the trump way but i just have to wonder when you look at his foreign policy views i see that a lot of it is bluster because and i'm kind of agreeing with james here in the bark is really there but there's not always the follow up i mean with syria. we really don't know what's going on there they're not very saying very much because i think there's going to be a withdrawal but i mean could we look at the bluster towards iran is this kind of bluster to keep this up.