>> ♪ l happy thursday. goittle breaking news tonight. amid the backlash the white house announced a short time ago the president invited vladimir putin to washington and his u.s. intel chief >> it's stunning to see the video. we'll show it to you shortly. as you can seeyhis is one of the things we're talking about tonight at 6:30. let's get right to itre >> we have someaking news. the white house hadou anned on twitter that vladimir pomin ising to the white house in the fall. >> say that aga [laughter] >> you -- vladimir putin coming to the -- >> did i hear you. >>eah, yeah. >> okay. >> yh. >> that's going toe special >> [laughter]

>> yeah, that happened nbc's andrea mitchell treakinghe news to director of national co. sarah huckabee sanders says the president askedna natio securitydviser john bolton to invite putin after the two met privately in finland. >> he saidhey continue the discussion for the things they talk about the, the things they wanted to collaborate on which includes talking about things like north korea, trade and other issues. i think, youw, the community is -- is stunned. we're speechless right now coidering everything tha we've been going through since that helsinki press conference. >> yeah. >> all right. >> well, we're goingabo talk out this a little bit more with our panelist democratic strategist joel pain and aaron anrson. good to see you both. >> eric i want to start with we -- at this point we know the question asked to president trump it seemed like at first he was taking the

side, he said he believed putin then he wenthawasn't the . dan coats i feel like is being a bit marginalized right now. >> i think dan coats is stuck right where he should be and that's the sort of e dysfunctional head of the intelligence.ational at least two of our intelligence agencies nsa and the question as to whether or not the russians were involved in this and i think bot of have given the president their answer in nuncertain terms and yet we're completely marginalized inlahe responses at the to somebodyoa like dts he's a former pureicgreat state of indiana sed a different couple terms. now white house.erving is th >> joel let's get your take on this today. when you heard the news that the president asked john bolton to invite vladimir putinis toit washington what was your r>>ction to that. his is what this president ere's a consistency hereis. llthat we can a count on, even

when he screws up which undoubtedly he screwed up over the last week t10 days he doubles down. this president doesn't back down. he doubles down i thi for his critics they would say that's the worst of his qualities because most presidents would have readjusted their approach by now and brought in different aides, brought in a different strategy. this president doesn't do that. he decides, hey, i'm going to double down on my mistake, so we shouldn't be surprised that 's doing this. i will say this. people are rightfully concerned abouthe relationship here with vladimir putin.what does he have president? why is the president being somo magnadi titon has h attacked our country and we've sgot intelligence thatws it. we saw the new york times story yesterday that demonstrates that t president was shown infoatn ioth vatif a lot of ques to be answered here. >> joel, we talk about thator back and f and the the lack of cohesive messaging on this particular issue. but there are a lot of people

who support this preside and still do to this point senator jo s cornyn of texasaid he misspoke. we do it a the time. >> i disagree. i don't th bk there's aack and forth. i think the president has been pretty clear. he is an avowed ally of vladimir putin. even if theest of the country isn't. and even if the entire not.onal security community is s inner circle of hand wishes of selected advisers and people who support him othis. so, this isn't a mistake. i know -- i think the mistake was ting to clean it up. that's where you saw t president gettingau ct up and, you know,etting turned around. the mistake wasn't t the -- thee cleanup, it wasn't the original act. >> you bring up a really good point there a i want to bring in you for a second eric yesterday we heard sarah huckabee sanders defendthe president by saying in that t he had forth that he had that he was not saying that russia -- he wasn't saying no to the qstion on russia but on the white house's ownb web

that meeting, we have e transcript a a person says mr. president, is russia still targeting the u.s.en the prt says thank you no.ch. the question is, t no, you don't belihat to be the case, sir, the president says, no. it's on the white house's own web site as a transcript from that day. is there a messaging problem from the white house? how do the american people believe white house? comes out of the >> there mgi proble imsn from the white hous, it's a messaging problem from the oval office. tthat's really where confusion resis and i -- you know, i think the comments that were made on fox andni were right on the he gone awry on this? joel, i would agree with, you know, what doe mr. putin have on mr. trump that suddenly the man finds it completely incomprehensible to reverse the conversation. i'm struck in my senses by

sort of the deja vu that we had coming out singapore& and his meetings witon kim j un and now what we'ting with m putin. this is just ane incompe in peopley being abl being ablel answer would be. i looked at this last week as a disaster for american foreign policy. we walk out of the nato meetings having embarrassed our allies, we walk intond lo and emb mra gssayos. t mo fid we do the same thing there. at some point somebody needs to put a cap on what mr. tmp is allowed to say in front of the press. >> every time we get into a situation like ts, a lot of media community a lot of pundits say what's going to change here? but l's b clear. there m areany people eric and joel, ym sure both agree, there are a lot of peopleor who t the president who support his policy and say you about the feelings oferforget

countries, what matters is h pow thistains to fellow americans. but i think what we're seeing s inhat's n the way to doit, aty this clima >> wel iyl,juay'linl stgte i lnt he's doing with vladimir putin, right. this is not cow towing. this is allowing a essentially a country, nation that has attacked us set our agenda. i mean, he's talking about getting vladimir putin -- giving vladimir putin political oppts here in the united states and handing them over. i mean, just -- it's mind boggling doesn't even cover it. reat's tonous. i mean, that's not an overatement toay that's toasonous for a preside discuss that.by the way, in a rh nobody else barack obama's laides wilell you there were rare the amounou of times that ld be in a room by himself with someone like vladim putin.

so many presidents are being broke here and it's not just about him shang the system up. this is reckless. i mean, that's the difference here. >> eric let me ask you, we've heard so much about -- you know, the criticism for the rrent president. if barack obama had done this, doou thiank that we'd hear lot more from the republicans than we're hearing right now. >> oh, my goodness, i thi bnk he would een cooked at the steak to be quite honest. the nuance that you're catching herend i'd like to bring this up is that what the president has done on the trade front i can understand why he wins accolade from the american citenry in trying balance out what has beeenn an playing field. >> sure, sure. >> what heas done i the foreign policy side, on the other hand, i is atrocious. my analogyal bring forth and i'ked to some of my friends on this, we're seeing a repeat of chamberlains peace for our time and ts is what

mr. trump is doing now wit ah mr. putinnd what he's done with kim jonn. >> well, i --'rric i know wee going to see that. i hate to cut bou out we have to move on. i appreciate you bothoing us eric anderson and joel pain. >> thank you. >> bwe'll have you back very soon. >> thank you gentlemen. >> want to bring it back a little closer to home e because is a lot of talk -- we talk so much about virginia and thics. rry oveteoleit ps moved certainy the last several years, tim kaine up far and there's a lot f attention to the senate htowdown in virginia rig now. that's right. >> we know corey stewart a very vocal irinc wse goiling to take on incumbent democratic .enator tim kaine he won the gop senate primary by a thin margin in june and we know right n towheeee betwn stuart and kane is shaping up to be o of the much locked. republican we saw serve in the statehouse.

and we know tha a republican has not won a statewide race in virginia in nearly a dede. >> you know, this is -- stewart certainly has been -- created a firestorm, folks have been talking about him. he's offered up things like ar-15's for different rallies at he's had. he was very vocal. we know he used to be the trump campaign chairman in virginia back when the president was running for election. so he certainly has sparked lot of emotion within voters in the state so it will be inowresting to see this one plays out. >> we'll talk a little bit more about everything else in the world ofs politic when 5 ht back.comes r >> ♪ axin

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big debate betweenhe tthem tomo. >>b thanks so much for joining muse ask you, what are the big things we need totc wa this is not going to be televised voters will be intested in this one. what are the big this you'll tomorrow.ng from this debate >> tirst thing because it's not telised and the way that people will understand it, know what happened, what are the issues is whay read and how the media i think you'll see both of the candidates focused on t core constituency the hyper independents. the both will want to be declared the t winner he media as they alwayso and third i think they both --hey really have that magic moment they want in their debate, there is to say something with that sound bite that they know thatil the medial cover and will get played and replayed across the media and so i thi are the three things thatoth of them willmp try to accosh

in the debate on saturday. >> coreytewart is a candidate who we talk a lot -- i mean, he knows how to find his way into the headlines,ove can create contrsy but you can't ignore the fact that he defeated in a primary for governor, had some competition in the primary for senate. so, one thing i i think we're going to expect to hear a lot from is tim kaine's run for vice president withlary clinton. does that -- does that stand to hurt tim kaine, the fact that he has thatnder his vice president race. the >> reporter: i think there is some image restoration for kaine t only in terms of his performance in the debate with now vice president mikeence, but when you look at the two most recent polls, even one with the plus oreit above an percent butou if ye incu at 62, 65 percent and i dohink corey stewart, v aggressive. ng the clinton and

kaine together the best he can. he'll be fairly aggressive i anticipate during the debate. >> what do you think tim kaine needs to do to i guess sorel of prove hims and as you said raise that image and those and points back up. >> you know, i think strategiatc choices to make. willefe de coreywa srt as being too far to the right ceinnl oynairump and facing in terms of corey stt.ewar eresting what rolet more calm, cool, keep focused to his core constituents and stay corey stewart willn o try to jab him a little bit to see if he can get himip offt. >> we paid a lot of attention to the governor's race in virginia and really it went down to the line but you saw ralph northaml pul out a

sizeable victory over ed gillespie in the end. we're talking months away. but this could be another nail-biter towards the end. >> you know what's interesting the commonwe vth ofirginia is becoming much more blue and even back when -- in offear elecon when you had 38, 40,42nc ce eri tell gng bo and prevail in the commonwealth of virginia but right now coreywa ste is absolutely betting that he's nnruingng base race and that's growing to be pretty challenging ik thin this environment. >> we will that certainly allbey ha ttsoing us. hiwenk debs its lior licen. a d.c.om advisory cssion voted to support a petition to do that. >> they say the president is not in at least their

estimation good character. fitzgerald live at the trump hotel in northwest. so, what does this allome down to, fitz. >> reporter: the oddball thing about this is it is a neighborhood advisory commission that' these are typically hyper h,cal government bodies that deal witou know,neighborhood isu come and go with in your life every day. they typically dn't take the president of the united states but that's what's going on here. this is coming outf anc, it'c4.and this hotel is not locd in anc4c. that raises the question why are 33 doing this. this petition passed unanimously. he saidhis. when they looked at the regulation about who does and who does not get a liquor license in the district of comb saw this phrase

"good moral in the vie the."cthaerra say the namesake of this very hotel donaldmp t in their opinion does not have good moral character. >> what the complaint says is laowner of the trumpinternationu abra adminisation sh take action. >> reporter: is this a political stunt? >> no, i don't think so. >> reporter: they say it's not a political stunt. some other folks disagree. but here's theti situa. we talked to d.c. attorney joshua levy today . ep'sresenting seven district residents who are actualt putting this compinto d.c. to get this liquor license revoked. now, what t anc board is doing is passing this petition to support that effort. keep in mind here, this isn't the only effort aimed e this hotel becausf donald trump's name being on building. the attorney general in maryland, the attorney general

in d.c., they both have federal lawsuits that are constitutional violations with donald trump even being involved in the ownership of this building. that's making its way through the federal courts right now. we talked to some of the people at this hotel. they said whether or not tity disagreeh donald trump they also raised other questions. if thiwere to happen what does it mean to the baenders, the servers, worker in this hotel wholso depend on this building for thei livelihood. this building pumps millions of tax revenue into the district. how would that hurt those folks. here's some of the samplings of the opinions we heard. >> that's baloney. >> reporter: baloney.al >> that's baloney. >> reporter: you're not down with it? >> no. why should he be penalized? >> ts is just spiteful stuff. reporter: spiteful. >> yeah, because of the fact thatny -- anything that they can go after the president about, they're going too after. >>r: rep so s-little

cross section of opinion here. we should t j youndim a reach oe tr comment on that. they have not reached back, but, you know, wre a certainly willing and hopeful to talk to them at t any point hey want to discuss a this. >> when you talk about the anc, mean, these votes, arly're not binding,le c a petition, a petition, rigea. >> reporter: welh,ey're supportt lawsuit of jhua levyfe and his sevendants. could they lose their liquor >>r: but i think iny not. the day and age we live in, this is something, you know, especially if you're the trump organization you have to pay attention to because as we've seen time and time again in thisthings happen that you do not expect to happen sometimes. so, they know about this. they're paying attet ion to it. bu think you probably in the short term wouldete able to a drink here for thee foreseeabl future. >> yeah. >> yeah, i thinkoo s, fitz but nonetheless, it's fun to talk about. >> reporter: we should alsoiq

tell you theiruor license here is up in march of 201 these will come up when this liquor license comes up for renewal so mark that e on your calendar next spring 'cause that's going to be interesting sei ion. >> just askto do it. >> u.s. military commanderhe is orseaing t fight against

>> welcome back. growing threat just seven months after the president declared victory over items pgrou king advantagecifal instabilityh onnstries.om has om pentagon.m the pentagon. december president trump declared victory in the fight seven months later, the pentagon warning the militant group is creeping back into parts of central iraq bringing a new wave o kidnappings

assassinatio and terror attacks. er.the fight of isis isovot we must work with our iraqi partners to set the conditions that will prevent the resurgence >> reporter: the situation even more dangerous in afghanistan where isis has been gaining strength after being pushed out of syria. .sthey're now fighting. backed forces and the taliban. with countless civilians caught in the crossfire. >> our res bnsibility toe as supportive as we can in all of those things and support the afghan as they work theirth way through . >> reporter: the threat has american diplomats trying a new tactic, secretary of state this week to start directier talks with the taliban hoping to end decades of war and focus on the fight against isis. >> we, the united states, are ready to tawe with the taliban hope that they realize this and that this will help to move the peace proce forward. >> we and our afghane partners ar moving forward with a sense of urgency and purpose to ensure that we don't miss the opportunities that are being afforded by this reporteri

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