this sunday, those ruia hacking indictmentsry >> 12 militafficers by named for conspiring to interferewith the 2016 presidential election. >> president trump says he remains nvunced. >> i call it the rigged witch-hunt and it really hurts our relationship with russia. >> and still looks forward to meeting tomorrow with vladimir puti >> i think that we will have a chance to have a very good relationship with russia. >> the question -- is this the right time to hold a summit with putin? my guest this morning, the u.s. ambassador to russia, jon huntsman. warner ic senator mark of virginia and republicanse nator dan sullivan of alaska. plus, confronting allies. president trump threatens nato.

kes on o theresa mayn brexit and praises her rival. >> i actually told theresa may how to do it but she didn't agree -- she didn't listen to me. >> and t gop versus the fbi. peter strzok is charged with bias against presirump in the russia investigation. >> that is bias. agent strzok may not see it, but the rest of the country does. backd strzok fights >> i strongly believe today's hearing is just another victory notch in putin's belt and another milestone in our enemy's campaign too tearmerica part. >> joining me for analysis, amy walterkrom the coo political report. hugh hewitt, ho on t salem radio network.al nbc news politnalyst elise jordan. and joshua johnson host of 1-a on npr. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> nbc news in washington, the longest running show in is is "meet the press" with chuck todd.

>> good sunday morning. well, it turns out it wasn't somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400pounds. even before friday's indictments of 12 russian intelligence operatives for hacking the democrats during the 2016 campaign, four u.s. intelligence agencies had already weighed in. the fbi, the cia, the dni, and the nsa all of them hadnc ded that russians interfered in the 2016 election and they did so with the goal of helping donald t fmp. t, you can view the russian hacking of democratic it e-mails, oppn research, turnout models as the watergate burglary of the 2016 election. the political crime of the 21st centiny. now, a 1972 it's the penetration of the dnc by hostile actor then it was the rnxon white house. now the russian gont. and as in 1972 the white house this one t was quidistance itself from this crime.

it was pointed out tre were no allegations of knowing involvement by anyone on the trump campaign. that's true. at least for now, in this indictment. ll, president trump didn't do was express outrage over the russian hacking. what he did do was to re-affirm his claim that the matller investn is a witch-hunt and tweet that the russian criminality took place during the obama administration and that it failed to respond. what the president didn't do wae post a summit on monday with vladimir putin. what he did do was si al perhaps that he trusts putin's denials over the findings of his telligence agencies and his justice department leaving much of the world asking why. >> i think i'd have a very good relationship with president putin. if we spent time together. >> the indictment of 12 mission officers three days before the one-on-one meeng is the most detailed account yet of russian's attack on america's democracy. >> i b about the allegations earlier this week.

we need to work together to hold the penetrators accountable. >> but despite that briefing, mr. trump spent the week praising putin. >> he's not my enemy. hopefully, some day maybe he'll be a friend. >> rattling to a allianced establto contain soviet annow russiangr aession, nato, insulting the british prime minister in her brexit strategy. >> she didn't listme to >> and most notably, attacking his own justice department and the special council probe tasked with investigating russian interference in the 2016 election. >> i call it the rigged witch-itnt. i think urts our country and our relationship with russia. >> the indictal fills in the gaps of several extraordinary moments in the summer of 2016.is and questions about the trump campaign's role in the attack on the united states by a foreign power. first, there's theimfamous trump tower meeting. ju 3rd, donald trump jr. is

promised dirt on hillary clinton replying if it's what you say, i love it. especially later in the summer. june 8th, the indictment sa russian intelligence officers launched dc leaks.com an begin to release stolen dnc e-mails. a day later, jared kushner and trump jr. and paul manafort, meet with those tied to the kremlin. second on july 27th, russian hackers tried to hack into clinton's server office. it's the same they that mr. trud said this about clinton's e-mails. >>re russia, i hope yoble to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> mr. trump is consistently qulutioned the coon of his own intelligence agencies. >> president putin really feels and he feels stronnoy that he di meddle in our election. >> he's denied the hacking ofcl

the dnc and inton's campaign occurred. >> she doesn't know if it's the russians, maybe that's hacking. it could be somebody sitting on their bed th weighs 400 unds. n> though mr. trump says he'll bring up hacking, saturday he was dismissive. >> there won't be a perry mason here i don't their. you never know what s right? >> and joining me now from helsinki the site of the trump/putin summit is the u.s. ambassador tosi ra huntsman. welcome back to "meet the press." >> thank you. t me start with a simple question -- is this summit still on and if so, why? >> well, listen, it isn't a summit. i have heard it called a summit. this is a meeting. in fact, it's the first meeting between thepwo sidents. they had one at the g-20s a the other at the summit.fi and this is tht time for

them to sit across the table and have a conversation and i hope it's a detailed conversation about where we might be able to find some overlapping and shared interests. is has not happened before so there's a lot on our agenda been built up over manytiears of a reship that's terribly fraught. so yes, it will happen. and it should happen. >> you -- you obviously are making a distinction between a summit and meeting. this because we don't have an agenda or we don't have deliverables? one of the things you said before in preparation is if you have a summit you have to have an agenda and you have to have a delies. does that mean we won't have a deliverable out of this? >> listen, you have been around for presidential summits and i have been around sin reagan's visit to china in the early 1980s. no state dinner, no joint statement, no deliverables that are prepackaged. you don't know what will come ou of this meeting but it will be the first opportunity for

these presidents to tually sit down across the table alone and then with thei teams to talk about everything from meddling in the elections to areas where we have shared interests. you have to remember that russia is a country of 11 time zones. it touches asia and western europe. it's innceivable we can solve the issues without russia. ecause of the problem solving it's practically impossible so this is an attempt to see if we can defuse and take some of the drama and quite frankly some of the danger out of the >> how did the indictments of 12 russian military officers on friday change the agenda? >> well, i don't think the details are a surprise to folks who have followedthis. that now makes probably almost 30 russians who have been rolled up by the mueller indictment. that investigation continues and i think the bigger pictures we need to hold the russians accountable for at they did.

their malign activity throughout europe as well. that's a part of the conversation that nes to take place. again, chuck, this is why it's so important to get our senior leaders together because these conversations have happened at the local level. i'm on the gund, i'm on the front lines in moscow. they happened at our level but theytaven't happened the senior most levels in the detail that we're likely to get tomorrow. that's why this gathering is important for one reasons. >> two things. will thet presidsk putin to extradite the 12 military officers and have you formally requested that the russian vernment do this? we don't have an extradition treaty. have you begun that paperwork? >> well, the fbi office and the embay no doubt will work on that. i can't disclose any details in that regard. requests can be made, that doesn't necessarily mean that ssians are going to foll through with it. but we'll see if those steps

will be taken. i can't make announcement with you. is the president going to make the ask or not? >> i don't know if he'll make the ask. but it may be part of the agenda. may be part of their bilateral meeting together. we'll have to see. it just came onto the agenda friday. so it's brand new. >> why does it matt that the president have a warm relationship with putin whether not?call it a friendship or he's -- this is putin's actions they're pretty outrageous, annexing crimea. propping up a brutal dictator, interfering in our elections and poisoning british citizens just recently in the uk. and yet we're bending over backwards it looks line. it looks like we're bending over backwards order to have a relationship withri putit now. why? >> well, chuck, you just started that long litany, that long list of grievances and it goes on much longer than that. you have to remember there's a reason why every president in

the post cold war period has tried to engage china. every president. it has started a boom and a bust cycle that's left both sides dejected. angry at each other. finger pointing and it's because we set expectations way too high. >> ambassador, let mepause you there. you said china. i assume you're referring to russia. >> i'm sorry, of course i'm referring -- ought.t's what i you're a former ambassador to china. understandable. go ahead. >> the -- i'm sorry, chuck. the red the resets, which have largely collapsed. so the objective here is to meet to putsur ca on the table. there isn't a thought that's a reset or a redo. pwe have looked atst history. we have interests, they have interests. and it's aunction of seeing where some of the interests overlap. now, they will overlap in the area of strategic stability and arms control where we have a very important arms control agreement. that's coming due in 2021. ssia's in violation of t inf

treaty. that's got to be talked about. you have some overlapping interests in syria. where we have come very close to confrontation. we have got some shared interests with respect to the korean peninsula where we both believe in a nuclear free korean peninsula. a strong northeast asia. nonproliferation. these are areas where conceive my we can strike upon a conversabut we have to let history be our guide. these redos and resets only g you so far. usually end in failure. we have to put our cards the table. we have to remember and recognize some of the malign activity we have been through. >> l me ask you this. does the president buy into the china and russia are determid to make economies less free and less fair to grow their mitaries and to control

information and data to repress their societies and expand their influence. does the president buy into this? >> well, it's his team's document. i certainly assume so. with what you have just described i can't imagine anyone would disagree with that assessment. either china or russia. >> on the issue of crimea, can you say that the president is going to stick to what -- to the piece of paper he signed in brussels with the nato -- with the fellow nato leaders when he said that was never -- you know, nothing changewhen it comes to imea. is the president going to sort of stick to his belief that -- or stickto to the belief of nations that crimea belongs to ukraine and t russia? >> the agenda is the president's. everything will be his call. but i think it's highly unlikely that he'll see any change in crimea. this was a violation of international law. what we have seen in eastern

ofaine is a violation international law. an ongoing conflict and the two so-called break away republics. we have some real issues. >> but you didn't rule it out. ambassador, i notice iou didn't ruout. you said it's the president's call. so he cou very wel just -- >> of course -- >> you know what? either though everybody else k doesn't this is a good idea? >> of course it's the president's call, but i think it's highly unlikely that's going to emerge in their conversation as you suggest. there's a more to talk about. strategic stability, syria, ukraine, dprk, our bilateral ghlationship. we have got a frbilateral relationship, the collective blood pressure between the united states and e ssia is off arts high. so it's a good thing these presidents are getting together. >> aad right. amba huntsman, i have to leave it there. y i apprecia doing this interview outside. i know that wasn't an easy thing in helsinki. appreciate it. >> tha you very much. and joining me now is

democratic senator mark warner of virginia. the top democrat on the senate i intelligence cee which is doing its own investigation into the russian interference. welcome back tomeet the press." >> thank you. >> you just heard from amssador huntsman. u have signed on to the letter with a bunch of other democratic senators calling for the president to either cancel the summitr if he doesn't sically essentially make it a one issue summit. ambassador huntsman number one, doesn't want to call it a summit, but a meeting. have you been reassured from mr huntsman about what the president will do about putin? >> well, chuck i would feel better if ambassador huntsman was actually sitting in on the meeting. i'm very concerned about a one-on-o meetingetween vladimir putin and donald trump. we know that trump doesn't do a lot of prep work for these meetings. he kind of goes in and wings it. we saw what haened when he did that with kim jong-un.

he ended up saying everything is okay with north korea and frankly we have found since that time that's not the case. in putin, you have got a trained kgb agent who does his homework. my far is that putin could come in with maps of ukraine, maps of syria, and try to cut some deal and frankly take advantage ofnt this presi so i really would feel much etter if there were other americans in the room making sure that we make the point that the first and top point of this agendahould be no further russian interference in our elections. >> all right. d i understand y't want the president to do this one-on-one. but let me ask you this. ouldn't -- let me pick up on a point that ambassador huntsman kept making.he what'srong with the two leaders meeting? yes, we have somete cious issues to discuss, but regardless of your pl views of president trump what's wrong with this meeting? >> listen, the idea that two eaders two great nations are

meeting, absolutely makes sense. but what we ave now which w unprecedented is russian intervention in ourelections wh they hacked into democrats and democratic officials' e-mails. released them to benefit trump and hurt clinton. wherehey intervened in over 20 states' electoral systems. where they used social media in ways that were unprecedented. and as an american leader and an american administration, wouldn't start a meeting with the head ofe tuntry that did that intervention and make that top priority then that meeti shouldn't take place. remember, russia massively intervened, they're an adversary and this president has been completely reluctant to call out that activity and call out putin as a bad actor.at why we need to make sure at least there are other people in the room. >> let ye ask though about russia policy. the trump administration has been tough on russia.

why does that matter? >> chuck, the president rhetorically has not been tough on russia. esas a matter of fact, con had to take an unprecedented action basically and say, hey, en we say sanctions we mean you've got to actually put those sanctions in place. trump ug his feet on imposing the sanctions. we had to pass legislation that frankly boxed the hesident in wouldn't -- so we would oid taking that responsibility. >> i want to get into the indictment. number one the timing of the indictment on friday, do you get the sense that the justice department was trying to send a mess sang. ou know, i i had noa when the indictment was going to come. we're still processing and first of all, we should say there's an awful lot of very od work done here to have this level of specificity in terms of these russian spies and how they acted and what they did specifically. we now have the mstller ination with over 30 indictments with five guilty

plea who knows what next is to come because clearly, with the number of individuals that have said they're cooperating with the mueller investigation, i'm sure he's got more to come. >> i want to know actually what you've learned new and what you said you learned a lot new in this and one theings i want to ask you about is in the indictment we learned that on the same day -- on or about ly 27th that these russian intelligence agents attempted aftersh hours to spear f for the first time e-mails associated with clinton's personal office and the clinton campaign. and on this -- this happened on the day of this infamous sound bite from then krad trump. >> i hope you're able to find the e-mails that are mising. >> is this a new piece of evidence to you, senator warner? >> well, it appears rather strange coincidence that the very day that mr. trump call ton the russiahack into

clinton-mails, well, the russian spies actually tried to tat action. and remember, that call for the russians to act came a few weeks after donald trump jr., his son, his son-in-law, his campaign manager had all sat down in the trump towier the russian agents had offered dirt on hillary clinton. you take that, you take the efforts to reach out to trump aide wherehey're offering dirt, there's a pattern of behavior that i think at the end of the day i hope mueller gets to the bottom of. >> we learned about a new piece of the time line in the trump tower meetg in between when the meeting happened and when it was set up. the russian operative set up a website called dcleaks.co literally the day before the meeting, perhaps that was a way of a proof of what they had to

their -- to the folks they were meeting there. is all of this, july 27th and the trump tower meeting and what we have learned now, is circumstantial evidence of collusion? >> again, i'm going to leave those conclusions to the public. leave those conclusions to seeing what else mueller has -- >> what about you? does that look like collusion to you? >> whatg, i'm sayhuck, we have got further witnesses we're going to interview. and one thing we do know, just within the public domain, clearlhere were a lot of folks affiliated with the russian government reachingto o he whole series of folks within the trump orbit, trying to offer informationthat's discriminating, bad information about clinton. again, just based upon donald trump jr.'s response where he said he was anxious to get that information >> you know, reading the indictment andwaealizing this more than just stealing of e-mails, it was stealing of voter files and things like that, the now october 7th

frankly what has been told to me was a watered down warning to the american public about ksssian interference, but that assessment now lwfully, awfully weak. obviously in hindsight this looks whweak. should the obama administration have done that they didn't do then? >> well, chuck our commi ee is going to go and it's going through the final stages of the ough review of what both the obama administration and for right.atter the fbi did did wrong. i think history will show we should have sounded a much stronger alarm. but lettake the fact, you mentioned, chuck, the election interference. in a regular or normal adnistration when we see that a foreign government had tried to intervene in more than 20 states' electoral systems and whenir the currenttor of national intelligence dan coats have said that the russians will be back, in a normal administration you would have had a white house designate

someone in that white house to make sure election secuty was a top priority. again, we have had this administration not step up. the congress has. oucommittee has. and we have put some funds out, we put some bipartisan legislation out. but i think it's abysmal what th administration has not made 2018 election security a higher priority. >> do you believe the 2018el tions are going to be fair? >> i hope they are. but i'll tell you, i think -- i would feel a lot betr if there wa a concerted whole of government effort to make sure not only at the state and local registrar level but on the dmpanies that manipulate own the voter files and maintain the voter files behind the scenes, i think we need a real -- we need to really step up our game. >> allight, mike warner, vice chair of the intel committee, thank you for coming on and sharing your views, t sir. nk you. chuck. when we come back, given what we have learn in the indictments about russian meddling should president trump have postponed his summit with

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and we are back.ne sts here joshua johnson. and amy walter, from the cook political reporter. nbc news' elise, and hugh hewitt.of i want to starff from the new yorker. most experts i spoke withere resigned to trump being outplayed by putin. i'm afraid he told me that our guy here is ke an amateur boxer going up against muhammad ali. >> we heard from the at'assador thatjust a meeting. so it's not a summit. >> hang on. we went fromsummit to meeting to detailed conversation. >> so already we know where this is. let's face it. putin has already won.

it's not simply that the president's going over into his part of the world and having this s down and one-on-one. but the fact is that afterhese indictments what a president should be saying to everyone, not just to putin,ut to the american public writ large, russia did this to divide us. russia didn't do this simply to make sure somebody won and lost. they did this to makure we lose trust in the political system and the institutions and that's not gog to happen. we are america. we may be of different parties, we have different s. but we're a united america. that's what i'm going to say to vladimir putin that you cannot divide us and he can't do. >> hugh, why can he? >> i think he will. i have much more confidence in the president than anyone at this table because ion take a view. there are 26 soviet american summits, six russian-americ -- >> don't call it a summit. >> call it whatever you want, the worst was '61. but the second worst was obama in medvedev on the open mike,

tell vlad to give me some space. what happened after that? we won't know for a year how this plays out and i actually have much more confidence that trump will notsee bullied or ing the approval of anyone because he doesn't seek the approval of anyone er. >> but you could argue that the preconditions though thates ent obama set up for putin to feel empowered is what donald trump ng by going into the meeting on monday. you look at how donald trump the theatrics before the meeting with kim jong-un a how he threatened -- you know, he canceled it, it was back on. he definitely had the north koreans sitting on the edge their seat about would donald trump lend them that prestige by le.ng to the ta here, donald trump is forcing the issue against all rs his top advi he has wanted to have this summit. they tried to dissuade him and there hasn't been a principals meeting available to discuss's

whn the agenda with russia. do i don't see how we canyt expt ng to come out of this. >> i think of the quote from michel angelo our greatest danger might not thatbe we aim and we miss but that we aim too low and we hit. ti just checkedhe home pages of sputnik and rt both of them refer to it as summit. the russians may view this as the itrld views this a little bit more alacrity. the president may be going into this to get what he wants. he may get it. he may just want this meeting to be getting to know you meeting. we need to spend time with people who could be our allies, our friends. he may walk out of there getting mierything he wanted. and so might vlaputin. granted it may not be as visible where the world saw him and north korea shaking hands but they can walk out thinking they're both winners. >> i'm sorry, this is what t president's director of national intelligence said on friday about russia. take a listen. >> we know you run the shop.

know you're making the decisions. you can't pass it off to oh, that's some hacker down ow.ewhere where we don't we know what you do. >> presentation he said a blinking red light comparing it to right before 9/11. so p theesident is going to try to befriend somebody who director i coats said currently attacking the white house. >> framing it like this,one, putin is not going to admit it so why should i ask hi two, it happened under obama's watch. both of those things are true, but that's not the point. the point is not to say, well, did you dond it then have him say of course not, we don't spy. it's to say we know you did it. we know the names of p theple where you're doing it. >> i was reminded last night at dinner by two veterans of the ic. the russians have been the

russians since stalin. they're the same people year in and year out and romney was right in 2012. i think the american media is trying to fuse donald trump with a sort of willful blindness he doesn't demonstrate. >> what the h are you talking about the media? this is this is actual -- this is mark warner. these are serious officials on both sides. this is not the media. that's such a cop-out. >> no. the commentary around -- >> i'm tired of that. >> it tries to make trump look unprepared for be when he has pompeo -- >> it's people inside the white house saying it. hugh. >> the only preparation has been john bolton going over last week and pursuing a policy that's completely the opposite of what

they have espoused in their entit' career. >> one thing to talk about the spying but when it's turning americans against americans and that was their points s for americ not trust, not just the political parties and the political institutns but not to trust the fbi and y other institution. that to me is more worrisome. we point out after pier of the report, it also notes that they minedtc for n. bitcoin gets complicated but what that does is you have t computer system that does incredibly complicated computations and it allows you tore generate bitcoin which means that the russian generated money to make this happen. they literally minted money to hack our electi syst now, the president is saying well, i don't know if i'm go to ask for extradition is stunning. if someone bro into the bureau of engraving and printing and stole millions of dollars to create a rime against t united states it would be an immediate call for extradition.

they are minting money. >> no hirprise in i'm saying that the russians are the russians will be the russians anddownplay t eheve fact that trump knowoo. >> the president is not categorical in saying he'll ask the russians to extradite t men. that alone is a gigantic concern, you have tor i will. >> i think his point is an important one. we should learn from the past. presidt trump should learn from what happened with president obama, what happened with president bush and he's not. advocates the foreignlicy are saying it's good he's going and shaking things up in nato and going against the grain. why do we support what's going on with russian. >> that's the point. when iome back and talk about do republicans think it's right (burke) at farmers, we've seen almost everything so we know how to cover almost anything. even a "cactus calamity".

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mcconnell has provided no public reaction and house speaker paul ryan said, quote, we said all along we know that russia meddled in the elections and we're glad the hackersre being held to account. joining me is dan sullivan of alaska. probably the closest state -- >> wertainly are. >> to the country of russia. by the way they're doing ain lo he antarctic too. >> let me play somethi for you from a colleague of yours on thursday. cory gardner. >> i think we should name russia a ste sponsor of terror. i have been on record saying that. >> he said this before the indictaments came out. do you agree with him? >> i think russia is an adversary and what you in the previous segment it doesn't get a lot of press, there's a lot of dw cussion on e president seems to downplay issues with putin. what doesn't get a lot of

discussion is the conc tte actions congress and the white house have been taking with regard to russia. there's a numb of them. rebuilding our military. which we, you know, defense spending actually declined almost 2025% from 2010 t. that rebuilding includes the european reassurance initiative. billions odollars for our oops in poland n the baltics. boots on the ground. second, you know, this administration has given lethal weapons the javelin antitank system to ukraine. president obama never did that. congress bipartisan members of the senate armed services committee wanted to do that. we're finally doing that now. that's serious. >> you realize, senator, everything you're discussing, you guys have forced the administration on this. he himself though rhetorically seems -- does that -- when he rhetorically downplays this concrete action thatou're

talkinbout doesn't it undermine the acheon? >> look,avelin system wasn't forced on the president at all. president obama didn't want to do that. president trump, secretary mattis did that. putin understands power. and energy, chuck, we have this great opportunity unleashing amican energy. i was in a meeting with senator mccain about a yr and half ago meth a senior russian dissident. at the end of thing i asked him more can we do to push back on putin? the number one thing you americans can do is produce more american energy. we're doing th in alaska with the opening of anwr, lng. so we're doing a lot. it's the white house and the congress together. these are concrete action that putin understands. to your point on the rhetoric, you know, i think that actions speakder than words. particularly as it relates to vladimir put and hopefully when the president meets him they're going to be able to tale these concr actions that we were taken.

>> i know you're close to senator mccain. >> i am. >> he basically says if you're not doing to stand up for this, what do you make of that? >> look, i think we should still have the meeting. i don't think senator m, cca you know, said that -- >> what should be the agenda? we know there may not be one,ul but what sit be in your mind? >> the agenda should be number one, that we should let vladimir putin -- the president and thet should let vladimir putin know if you want a better relationship, if you want, for example, sanctions to be lifted it's going to be up to you. what do i mean by that? n't invade your neighbors and move out of the countries that you have invaded. don'tit align yourselfh the world's biggest state terrorism in terms of iran. don't back regimes bashar al assad. and don'tur medal inlections and our allies. absolutely, that should be the conditions. everyone is talking about we needp. better relations my view is it's up to the

russians. because they need to takeac ons to get that better. >> you're basically saying prident trump better notive in to any of putin's asks. putin may ask to get american troops out of syria, putin may ask to lessen the sanctions to crimea and give back the compounds that we took away. so if the president gives in on any of those things, what are you going to do? >> if the president is giving in on lifting sanctions without putin taking action i think that would be a mistake. now the presidenhas mentioned other areas you saw ambassador huntsman talk about other areas of possible cooperation. nt that the presi highlighted in his press conference with theresa may was on nuclear proliferation. i mean, i think if we can make progress on nuclear proliferation which right now the weapons of mass destru ion proliferation threat is very significant. getting russian cooperation on thatuld be important. so there are things outside of the direct relationship, but if

he wants a better relatiship marley -- particularly wants a lifting ofanctions he'sot to take actions to make that happen. >> i want you to comment on something -- somebody who i believe was a colleague of yours at the state department, nick burns. he was an taundersec during the bush years just like you. and this is what he tweeted this trump's trip to europe is the single most chaotic and destructive of an american president. he's put us at odds with the eu and disparaged germany and undermined may. he's a wrecking ball. the americans have been diminished. do you agree with him?of >> i have a lo e miration for him. we're an ally rich nation andch likena, russia, iran, they're ally poor. they know eat and they h tried to undermine our -- >> why isn't the president helping? >> well, look, i think the nato summit turned out pretty well.

there's always drama that comes into the summits. i helped president bush prepare for some of his itsu there's always drama but at the end of the day that summit turned out well. y you had the president fu recommitting to our focus on nato. very importantly we made progress on the 2% gdp spending which, you know, couple of years ago all -- most countries were declining their defense spending including us. even the president raising this issue of energy in germany and russia was important. so i think overall it was a successful summit. >> senator sullivan, i apprec cte youing on, sharing your views. sounds like you're taking the presidens signature at his word, not necessarily his rhetoric. >> i like actions more than words and i think on that fro frofron russia's listening. >> there's my takeaway. >> we have a lot of work to do. >> thanks very much. >> thanks very much. later with the panel in "ent who would have thoug,

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"datdownload" time. we have a grand slam for you, from nationals park rightere in washington, d.c. home to thisear's major league baseball all-star game on tuesday night. the last time they hosted the year was 1969.me wow,ca was a different place and so was america's pastime. think of how much more diverse. 74% werewhite. 15% african-american and 11% latino. this according to the baseball researchers. well in 2017, the player census read 63% white. just 6% african-amyican. obviou that's down from '6 but nearly 30% latino. obviously, players fro country like the dominican republic in particular and venezuela have n iven a lot of the change the game. of course this trend also reflects the growing latino population right here in the united states and as the country's population has moved

towards both the south and the west again, baseball has followed suit. believe it or not, in 1969 in had never been a -- there had never been a major league team in the states of florida or colorado and oteam in texas, the houston colt 45s turned astros. if you bld it or if you move there, they will come. now, we've got the miami marlins, tampa bay rays,second team in texas, texas rangers. colorado rockies and the arizona diamondbacks. all as the populations of the states have obviouslyrown rapidly. regrettably taking your family out to the ball game is more competence than in 1969. back then you can get a lower level ticket to the all-star game for just 12 bucks. in today's dollarsy the way adjusted for inflation it's at $2. guess what, this year, the lower level ticket isto going run you about $350 face value. i'm not talking about behind home plate by the way. even though the attendance has

ticked dow slightly it's a pretty good news story over a generation. we still got more than double the amount of fans showing up for games today than in 1969. an average of 14,000 per game back then. and an average of just over ay 28,000 t and finally who's most likely to be tuning into the game tuesday night? bewell, it wouldn' d.c. if we didn't slide some politics in. our friends at simmons research found 35% of republicans say they're interested, a slight edge over both democratsnd independents who are 29% each. but even in this polit divided town there's one thing we all agree on this week. we're going to root for the hometown, let's go nats and root for the home league, let's go national league. coming up back to the studio with the panel and "end game." >> coming up, "end game" and "postgame." brought to you by boeing. cont cont uing our mission to at&t provides edge-to-edge intelligence, covering virtually every part of your manufacturing business.

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investigation and something rod rosenstein said to me that was hinting at more to come and more divisiveness to come. take a listen. >> it's importantor us to avoid thinking politically as republicans or and instead to think patriotically as americans. the blame for ele interference belongs to the criminals who committed election interferenr. >> amy wal -- >> good luck with that. >> yeah, we know that the -- that the potential for indictments of actual americans are coming. and that sounded to me likery man worried about where this is headed. >> loo we don't know where this is going. neither do most americans so what we're filling in with the gaps we don't know is are partisanship. if you like the president, you don't trust this process. what you feel even about the russians whether it's a serious issue this is a "washington post" poll asked the estion, do you think that russian efforts to influence the electionwa a serious issue

only 13% of republicans believe it's serious. >> republican senator johnson said we have -- said this week said it was blown out of proportion. >> so we aren'going to agree. it doesn't matter what comes out. these in terms about how you feel -- these numbers about how you feel about mueller and russia are baked into the cake. >> well, let me speak as a doj alum. i'm proud of the department of justice and what i take away if you colluded with american, given the capacities that were demonstrated in theme indi we will get you. we know everyone who colluded ether or not -- if they're not yet revealed, put your hand up and run to the special counsel because we know everything that mehappen. >> sing else happened this week. it was the peter strzok hearing nd for some reason it was decided to put it in public which made it have a show trial feel. house republicans'l w see what you guys think if they covered themselves in glory or not. take a listen. >> i don't give a damn what you appreciate, agent strzok. >> how my times did you look

so innocent into your wife's eyes and lie to her about lisa -- >> mr. chairman, this is outrageous. >> by the way i'm a dentist. okay, so i read body language very, very well. you've got -- you got very angry in regards to the gold star father. that shows me that it's innately a part of you and a bias. >> elise, most of the hearing was speeches. and in fact at one point peter strzok said can i respond to the question, no. he was told. peter strzok committed some -- he obviously some problems and he appeared to at least let some of this stuff get to him a bit. what the heck was that? >> it wa political theater. t was a circus that both sides weaponized for their own purposes. we didn't learn anything new at the end of the day. after sitting thwaugh i think it eight, nine hours of the r, theahat new information actually came out of it? we just know this is going to continue to rip the country

apart as they dig into their bias and seize on to ahe sides theal most to their impresses. >> well, it also doesn help us rehabilitate the image of the fbi or get down to what's actually happing at the fbi, whether there are any changes that need to be made. remember that news conference that chris wray the director gave las the inspector general's report. before he started to take questions talked about the work that the fbi has been doing in the less ten months, rescuing more than 1,400 children from predators including one who is 7 months d. th stopped the terrorist plot against a mall imiami. againsfisherman's wharf in san francisco. they're doing this amazing work from an otdated building, t j. edgar hoover building. that's a legitimate conversation to have about fbi about whether the politics motivated the investigation. a worthwhile question that needs to be answered. >> we learnethat the fusion

gps dossier was given to bruce ohr. it came up in the question. >> it came up in jim jordan's head. >> it wasot contradicted by strzok. >> nglook, we're runut of time here. it didn't -- he was told what he couldn't say by the fbi, hugh. >> we'll find out in the end how it allth came to. but one investigation. i ask everyone to wait on orerything until the end. >> that's all today. thanks for watching. and remember, if it's sunday it's "meet the press." >> you can see more "end game" and "postgame" sponsored by boeing on the "meet the press" facebook page.