sir tony brenton, many thanks.ate of florida are trying to work out the motive for friday's gun attack at fort lauderdale airport in which five people died. terrorism hasn't been ruled out. the alleged gunman is in custody — he's a former soldier called esta ban santiago. his family says he has a history of mental health problems. the airport has reopened, although part of terminal two — where the attack happened — is still closed. from fort lauderdale, gary o'donoghue sent this report. this is the man who police say killed five people at fort lauderdale airport, opening fire indiscriminately as travellers collected baggage. he is esteban santiago, a former member of the military. his family said he had been receiving psychological help after his discharge last august. his aunt said he was never the same after returning from serving in iraq in 2011. police say that santiago used a semiautomatic handgun in the attack in the baggage hall, scattering terrified passengers before throwing away his weapon and laying spre

richard haass, john avlon and tony brenton joins us. he does not have a new book out, but he's a knight. that will have to suffice. richard, what do you make of this week? you had tillerson. people aren't saying the same thing trump has been saying on the campaign trail. >> that's the answer to your question. you asked about the new administration's world view. i think you have to make it plural. you have different people coming up with different world views and it's a contrast between any of them and all of them and what the candidate and what the president-elect has been saying since he's been in the public eye. >> won't the president win? at the end of the day, it's not cabinet government like in west minister. he's the president. >> the president can set the broad outlines but there's so much detail in governance where there's friction and that seems in part possible for a second reason. you have so many people at the white house. this is a very center heavy administration because you have the normal crowd, the president, the vice p

sir tony brenton is the former uk ambassador to russia.ys a good relationship between the us and russia will help to improve the situation in different parts of the world. what's going on in washington at the moment is in some sense a struggle about precisely that point, with the agencies who are rather hostile to any rapprochement with russia putting out this report, which in its essentials is accurate, no doubt, but as a weapon to try to tie trump down. in moscow, the top of mr putin's to—do list for 2017 is establishing a good relationship with donald trump. he had a terrible relationship with obama, and that reached the stage of being quite dangerous when each side was threatening each other. the obvious area where the two sides, however, can work together is in dealing with isis. as both putin and trump have said, russians and americans are not killing each other, but islamic extremists are killing both. beyond that, the other area for co—operation, strangely, is cyber warfare. we've seen charges against russia, we've seen the america

sir tony brenton is the former uk ambassador to russia. he says a good relationship between the us and russia could help improve situations in some parts of the world. what is going on in washington at the moment is in some sense a struggle about precisely that point with the agencies are rather hostile to any rapprochement with russia. the report, accurate no doubt, it is a weapon to tie trump down, however. where do you think this new relationship could go? what are your sources telling you in moscow? in moscow, the top of mr putin's to do list for 2017 is establishing a good relationship with donald trump. he had a terrible relationship with obama and that reached the stage of being quite dangerous when each side was threatening each other. the two sides, however can work together in dealing with ice. as donald trump said, russians and americans are not killing each other but islamic extroverts are killing both. the other area of operation is cyber warfare. we have seen charges against russia, we have seen the americans, for example, ha

joining me now from florida to consider the relationship between russia and the west is sir tony brentonthoughts on the events of the past couple of days and what it tells us? it has been a wild roller—coaster, really. the emergence of that dossier set the cat among the pigeons over here. reinforcing suspicions of a lot of people that trump is somehow in the russians‘ pockets while the other hand provoking a violent reaction from him. looking at the dossier itself, it is obvious they are very sophisticated piece of work but it is also really quite implausible in a number of its details. it gets people being in certain cities at certain times wrong. it gets to the russian system works wrong. to give one concrete example, it suggests that the russians started cultivating from five years ago. they would have had to be very prescient to do that because at that stage he was not a serious political figure and certainly not a candidate for president. the dossier itself is pretty impossible and i can understand why trump is so angry that it has found its way into the public domain. the backgroun