it would be terribly embarrassing to vladimir putin if president assad had exposed vladimir putin as having completely failed to get rid of those chemical weapons. you wouldn't want to be bashar al assad in a conversation with vladimir putin after that. unless you had a conversation with him before that. unless vladimir putin said i have an idea. go ahead. do a small chemical attack. nothing -- nothing like the big ones you've done in the past. just big enough to attract media attention so that my friend in the white house will see it on tv. and then donald trump can fire some missiles at syria that will do no real damage, and then the american news media will change the subject from russian influence in the trump campaign and the trump transition and the trump white house. it's perfect. it doesn't just change the subject. for most of the news media, it changes the conventional wisdom about the dynamic between vladimir putin and donald trump. president trump has finally dared to do something that vladimir putin doesn't like. it changes everything. as long as you never, never question

if vladimir putin really does have ways known or unknown to drup donald trump to influence donald trumpeveryday is a good day for president trump and president putin. not one word that i have just said could possibly set of any president prior to donald trump. don't you miss those days when if it is a chemical attack in syria, you can be absolutely sure that president assad and putin did not do that in order to help the image of the president of the united states. that, that is the world that donald trump has given. that's the range of possibility that donald trump have given us. you will hear opinions at this hour that's contrary to the possible scenario that i just talked about. but -- you won't hear is proof that scenario that i just outlined is impossible because what the presidency of donald trump has shown is that donald trump, anything is possible. you have heard puns on television reaching for the momentum as they always do. reaching the line for better or worse will get your attention. you have heard the profound announcement that last night donald trump became president of the

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now, behind closed doors, is there any give in what vladimir putin and his administration is, i can't believe just called it that, the kremlin is going to allow. is there any give at a. and, you know, i don't see it. i don't see where putin is going to back down on any of this stuff, accept, possibly, softening -- something to do, for example, we'll allow you and inspectors in there to say who really set off these bombs and let's see who really dropped chemical weapons. was it really strike or rebels setting off their own bombs and factories. yesterday we heard the defense ministry of russia saying there are two stock piles of chemical weapons that we can't get to because the rebels control that territory. they're allowing for fact that there are weapons out there they don't know anything about. >> david, let me get to one point before we go. and that is -- the linkage between carter page in today's news and eric trump. eric trump using the missile attack in syria by president trump, using that as absolute proof that, obviously, donald trump is innocent and his campaign is innocent, h

passenger and creating a social media auto pouring over. >>> the trump administration against vladimir putin. secretary of state rex tillerson in the middle of it. this is his first big overseas test. he'll be landing in moscow in an hour. putin says his government will call on the u.n. to investigate the syrian chemical attack. i have a great team to help break it down. i want to start off by heading to our bureau in the russian capital. what else are we hearing from president putin this morning? >> reporter: good morning. it's just in the last half an hour vladimir putin has been speaking at a news conference with the italian president and he said some extraordinary things, really. first of all, moscow will appeal to the u.n. to investigate the syrian chemical attack and then he said the missile strike reminds him of u.s. claims in 2003 that iraq had weapons of mass destruction and more interestingly he says more chemical attacks are being planned on sites south of damascus in order to blame president assad. he's not quoting sources, just saying our sources are telling us that more attacks

vladimir putin a war criminal. you have a president of the united states that's not calling for assad's removal anymore and says we have to be cognizant of the political realities of that country in syria. you've also got investigations across capitol hill of president trump and his ties to russia. do you think those investigations right now are undermining his ability to be an effective commander in chief on this issue and more broadly? >> no, i don't believe that. that's a separate endeavor, it's an important one. i'm involved in that on the intelligence committee. it's an important part of oversight. to me it's an ongoing practice and the foreign relations committee, we've heard from our allies in europe and this isn't going to end in 2016. we'll continue to see efforts to undermine our democratic institutions. it's part of vladimir putin's asymmetrical plan to undermine a world order that he believes constrains russia, which is not true, but that's his belief. on the first point, sure, there are policy disagree

malcolm, first to you on the question of what did vladimir putin know and when he know it. do you share general mcmaster's feeling that it seems to him very, very hard to believe that sad woulhave used chemical weapons without putin knowing it ahead of time? >> yes, i share his point of view. and there is a reason that i do so. principally because shayrat airfield is a very small airfield. it has two runways. it has 25 vetments. when you use chemical weapons on an aircraft, you to do very special handling. you have to have decontamination units that follow the aircraft. everybody has to be wearing gas masks. you do not want to be on the flight line if one of these things exposes, right? so the russians would see all of this coming from the arsenal, move on to the aircraft, go to a special handling area, use special aircraft controls for it to take off, and then fly off on to its target and delivery. there is no way russia could not have known that. also, we may have intelligence that comes from the ground on that base from the syrian level that indicates that they were eithe

this is certainly a decision that vladimir putin did not expect. for the last eight years, during the syrian civil crisis in the civil war, there was so much confusion coming out of the obama administration. i could tell you're talking to intelligence sources on the ground in syria, on the ground in iraq. they didn't know which way was up. neither did the people who belong to the free syrian army. nobody knew what was going on. were we there to take out a solid? or were there to go after islamic state and isis and a looser and al qaeda? what was the deal? there was a moment where they felt emboldened, russia, syria, iran. >> sean: weigh in on the saber rattling, one interesting develop much of the chinese propaganda newspaper saying china might take out north korea's nukes. they are sending back: importing american coal. there seems to have been some breakthrough with china in this meeting tomorrow lago over the weekend. >> what this is showing as the president foreign policy is reminiscent of ronald reagan, i think what he's done here as establish

he was even awarded the order of friendship by vladimir putin a few years ago. opments? >> and again, you know, prior to this being sort of the appetizer is the secretary of state saying that russia is either incompetent or explicit in the chemical weapons attacks inside syria. and the russian president, vladimir putin, responding just a few minutes ago, he was giving a speech, he said, that the united states risks repeating the mistakes the u.s. made prior to the iraq war in 2003. sort of the pre-text for an invasion on terms that did not turn out to be, as claimed, also, this continued sense from moscow, the russian government suggesting that the united states is presenti ining eviden that it was a syrian chemical weapons attack and that evidence might not be sound. >> indeed, we're waiting for u.s. secretary of state, rex tillerson as he has just arrived in moscow, after these very pointed comments that he made at the g-7 summit in italy. we're going to continue to follow this and monitor this and bring you the latest. >> and again, steven cohen, a professor e

he move a lot to get under vladimir putin's skin.he narrative that the president is vladimir putin's puppet. >> it is fair to say at this point that the trump as putin puppet storyline is officially dead. it could come back but it would take something really remarkable. at one point donald trump said the worst relationships we have had with russia ever. that strikes me as a little too far hyperbolic we but very clear things are not going well and everyone in a tailspin trying to figure out what the theme of the putting of american foreign-policy right now. >> in other news authorities are wrapping up security this week easter weekend following terrorists nearly massacreing one of yours top soccer teams. sales exploding close to a bust packed with players in germany hurting a defender and a police officer, both are expected to be okay. authorities a lead is linked to the disgusting attack revealing it was carried out in the name of islam and included kill list, one suspect is an extremist from iraq was arrested. accused of killing the

i have no relationship. >> do you have a relationship with vladimir putin? do have a relationship. and i can tell you that he is very interested in what we're doing here today. >> i have nothing to do with putin, i have never spoken to him, i know nothing about him other than he will respect me. >> i was in moscow, and they treated me s great. putin even sent me a president, beautiful president with a beautiful note, i spoke to all of his people. >> i got to know him very well because we were both on 60 minutes, we were stable mates and did 60 minutes together, by the way, not together, together. he was probably shot in moscow. >> >> donald trump on vladimir putin, a man he said today he does not know. that is our broadcast for tonight. thank you for being with us and good night from new york. >>> tonight on "all in." >> putin is the leader of russia. russia is a strong country. >> foreign agents. >> paul manafort has done an amazing job. >> new questions about trump aides working for foreign governments as rex tillerson meets with vladimir putin. >> we touc

the one thing that this brace of pressure will force vladimir putin to do is ta ke will force vladimire russians are operating with the syrians. this reminds me of the mh17 tragedy. even if they are culpable or not, they managed to impose more control in eastern ukraine. here, ... vladimir control in eastern ukraine. here, vladimir putin in the last few minutes is said that the us strike on syria reminds him of the wmd claims in iraq. not as surprising analogy for him to draw, but one thatis analogy for him to draw, but one that is difficult to defend against. in other words, bad intelligence, again. at this stage, litres try to find the right analogies to push the buttons that work. the americans have few options. they can't independently present evidence of russian culpability. what they are relying on is the body in the hague, the autonomous body in the hague, the autonomous body in the hague, the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons, for those wheels to start turning up some evidence to be presented. you say that will chime of the domestic audience in russia. it wil

life hurts, feel better. >>> pretty stunning claim from russian president vladimir putin just a few hoursying there will be new chemical weapons attacks, and they will be carried out to frame bashar al assad. putin went on to say that president trump rushed to act too quickly. >> all this is happening as the president nears 100 days in office. joining us now is angela wrrye, and jeffrey lore. jeffrey, during the campaign, candidate donald trump essentially said would it be such a bad thing to have a friendlier relationship with vladimir putin in russia? now the russian leader is accusing the trump administration of a war tantamount to a false invasion and suggesting that syria is being framed here. >> so much for the idea that vladimir putin was going to give donald trump the presidency. i don't think this worked out the way critics have suggested. i've said all along from day one, it's not possible that vladimir putin preferred donald trump over hillary clinton. donald trump is going to take, i think, vladimir putin and every other world leader at face value until they do something that

vladimir putin, the rush president was in st. petersburg at the time the blast took place, he's been on live television as the blast happened, in fact, giving answers to a q&a session a media forum broadcast on state television. later on this afternoon he's expected to meet alexander lukashenko, the president of the neighboring country of belarus, so there were the two national leaders in st. petersburg when this blast tack place, both of them well out of harm's way according to the kremlin but there has been a statement coming from vladimir putin expressing his condolences to the family of the dead and the injured. vladimir putin saying that he's now working with the fsb, the federal security services, the successor to the kgb, on trying to establish the cause of this explosion and of course for bringing those responsible to justice. so that's pay paraphrase of the kind of remarks that he's been making, but clearly vladimir putin the russian president is vowing a tough response to this explosion on the metro station in the cente

vladimir putin had no idea how president trump was going to react. he was in a state of panic, he would constantly contact the russian ambassador trying to figure out how is president trump going to react to our policies overseas in syria? how is he going to react to our policy with iran?s i think for so many people there was such a misconception regarding president trump and a vladimir putin and now we are seeing which those analysts were telling me was right. it played out fully, they didn't expect president trump to do what he did and i think he made a very poignant decisive decision. it was accepted throughout the world by most people. there was a controversy as to whether or not he should have gone to congress, but he made a decision, and was a decision that does not lead from behind but certainly from the front. >> sean: certainly if rex tillerson and the president are talking about putin and russia being complicit or incompetent, it doesn't sound like the president is deeply compromised having colluded with the russians to defeat hillary clint

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vladimir putin kept rex tillerson dangling. they got a notion there would be a meeting but it wasn't official. he has canceled his departure tonight that was scheduled. he will leave in the morning. they're meeting right now, it has been just under an hour. they started about seven minutes after 11:00 your time. seven minutes after 6:00 p.m. our time. they're meeting at the kremlin, and putin started the day with a slam on the u.s. policy on syria as you just pointed out saying there is no evidence of the intelligence. we're expecting tillerson will be presenting that intelligence. lavrov greeted tillerson with a very cold shoulder saying not only they have disagreements over syria, but saying there have been conflicting issues coming from washington. mixed messages. we all noted that, but he seized on the american press criticism, and the analysis from the u.s., and also said that there is no one for russia to talk to because this administration has not appointed anyone to the state department to work under secretary tillerson

we were together just a week ago with obviously on two occasions poisoned by vladimir putin's regime and find ourselves here again today on this issue. i just fear that we have reached the point where we're desensitized to all of this. if this happened at any other moment in the history of the world, five, seven, ten years ago, this will be leading every newscast. people would be outraged. now it's just like another day in the life of the cry si world. this is outrageous. this is outrageous. you have a government that's using nerve agents against civilians, against its own people. and maybe it's mentioned and i'm not blaming the press. there's ore things to cover these days but i think we have reached the point as a nation and a world where we become desensitized to human suffering on this scale, on this scope. i had people say it's terrible but what does it have to do with america? why should we matter to us? this is who we've been. a people that care about these sorts of things. it's the imbedded in the founding principles and the belief all people have the right to life, liberty a

saakashvili, you're unique when it comes to russia because you've gone to war against vladimir putin.is defending assad on this, in the words of rex tillerson. do you, sir, think russia is implicit or incompetent? >> well, we should understand what putin is all about. he's all about testing the red lines of the west. he does it very diligently and carefully. my gut feeling is telling me that the chemical weapons attack was a russian design to test the new administration's resolve. >> i'm sorry. you're saying you believe it was a russian design, that the russians were in and complicit? >> i cannot imagine a situation where assad is so dependent on russian help. i cannot imagine any circumstances like that. and that's kind of a way to test the new trump administration, how they would react and if they failed to react, that would have been the end of it. so basically it looks like a very careful design. i don't think it was accidental in any way. >> do you think vladimir putin even wants to have a good relationship with the united states or do you think it's good for him back home, all o

meanwhile, secretary of state rex tillerson met the with vladimir putin. just ahead, we'll cover much more of that trip and speak with a poisoned critic of putin. and during another meeting with putin and other officials, they described as rhetoric used by the united states as quote, primitive and loudish. folks, just 17 days of the first 100 days of president trump's presidency. and big components of his foreign policy are still unclear. administration officials have sent mixed messages on syria, and a large number of top jobs remain unfilled at the state department. all of this is happening as tensions have been escalating among top aides in the white house over a slew of policy questions including foreign affairs and america's place in the world. on the one hand, you have the chief strategist, steve bannon whose car with jared kushner has spilled out into the public. last week, banner was removed from his spot on the national security council while kushner traveled to wrak the joint chiefs of staff. and headlines like this, calling at this time latest si

he's considered a political opponent of russian president vladimir putin. >> it did not stop there thoughh his arrest. he had started using his vast fortune to fund and lead an opposition effort against putin. and so not only did putin have him arrested again and thrown in jail, he also took his company. >> with a blow of the gavel a russian auctioneer succeeded on sunday in dismembering russia's foremost private oil company. the auction of the corporation's biggest subsidiary. >> vladimir putin has cracked down on freedom of the press and eliminated several local elections. top of his list is russia's richest man. he's been in jail for more than a year facing tax fraud charges and the company has been slapped with its own $28 billion tax bill. analysts say the auction was ordered to clip his wings. >> putin arrested the billionaire who opposed him, seized his company, gave it away for pennies to the kremlin owned oil company. he went on to spend a decade in jail. he was finally let out in 2013. he now lives in exile. that is one relatively famous story of what happens when you oppose vla

secretary of state and vladimir putin. so yesterday it was unclear if president putin would meet with secretary tillerson, they did in fact meet, do we know how it went? what was discussed? >> reporter: this was four hours in total of meeting, that's a lot of time to focus on the most urgent problems, mostly syria, some north korea, even the russian meddling in the u.s. election came up, but they were looking for any areas that they could find of common ground, i mean even just re-establishing some constructive dialogue would be a positive. here's tillerson on the relationship. >> i expressed the view that the current state of u.s.-russia relations is at a low point. there's a low level of trust between two our two countries. the world's foremost nuclear powers cannot have this kind of relationship. >> reporter: what came out of this was about as much as was likely to. an agreement to keep on talking at the highest levels, a working group to focus on the most critical issues and reopening the lines of communications that ke

official who did not make it seem there would be a meting face to face between president trump and vladimir putin anytime soon. charles: tammy, let me start with you. this whole thing weren't last 24 hours was a big drama. initially putin wasn't going to meet with miller on. it obviously was intense. they go back a long ways. rex tillerson doing a lot of business in that country. you had to know it was a very fringe discussion. and then we saw a very frank press conference. tammy: tillerson knew putin well. now we are seeing how that works and why that works. tillerson has a counterpart who is familiar with him. that you can't really play a game. trump on the other hand is a man who is clearly keeping people on the back of their heels. that's an edge for trump. for putin, he has a serious problem and he knows it. for 8 years he could do whatever he wanted. now that has ended and he has been exposed as being "the wizard of oz." there is no there there. they have the gdp of iceland at this point and they relied on isle to bring up the nature of their income. all of that of course has been destroyed

then there was an interview with russian president vladimir putin. as you mentioned, he talked about the relationship getting worse, actually deteriorating under president trump. quite a change from what we were talking about months ago in the lead-up to the election. president, then candidate trump, talking about putin being a strong leader. now things are much different. listen to what president trump said in an interview this morning. >> frankly, putin is backing a person that's truly an evil person, and i think it's very bad for russia. i think it's very bad for mankind. it's very bad for this world, but when you drop gas or bombs or barrel bombs and have these massive barrels with dynamite and they drop them right in the middle of a group of people and in all fairness you see the same kids, no arms, no legs, no face. this is an animal. >> reporter: secretary of state tillerson also had a strong message that he wanted to deliver to the foreign minister. how this meeting went, though, we're not hearing much about. we are waiting for that press con

i think three times all together to criticize vladimir putin personally. at frankly is what struck me. even before what happened in syria, you heard republican leaders across the board from mitch mcconnell, others calling putin a thug, cia agent, terrorist and killer. when it came to the president, he was asked specifically about his feelings about vladimir putin and he tried to kill him with kindness. again despite the fact that relationship has definitely not great. >> first time we heard david and the president say that the u.s.-russian relationship in his words may be an at all-time low. is there a new cold war we are witnessing? >> it seems there could be one. if there is one, it's coming from the most unexpected quarters if anyone was paying attention to donald trump's public statements over the last two years. i will say this. this is what public diplomacy with a choreography of public diplomacy looks like. you have tillerson delivering very same low-point message in moscow. donald trump doing that here whether that is a negotiating k tactic to start

he did not meet with vladimir putin.although that doesn't mean that a meeting might not happen because mr. lavrov will be talking to vladimir putin about what went on and what was said and putin may be weighing up whether it's meaningful for russia or the joint national interests of the u.s. and russia for him to meet with rex tillerson as he did so often with john kerry when john kerry came here. and we expect the two men, mr. tillerson and mr. lavrov to have a news conference in two hours time. that's the scheduled time anyway. the meeting was preceded by a pretty well cold almost hostile reception with vladimir putin saying he believed relations between the u.s. and russia were even lower under donald trump, that they have deteriorated, especially on the military level with the deputy foreign minister here talking about american rhetoric being primitive. and then at the beginning of the meeting sergey lavrov giving a five-minute well almost lecture to rex tillerson warning that the u.s. should not use missiles against

the secretary of state rex tillerson meeting with the russian president vladimir putin. this meeting has been going on now for almost two hours. we're expecting to hear from tillerson and his russian counterpart at the end of the extended day of talks on russia's involvement in syria. the military strikes ordered by president donald trump among other issues. our senior diplomatic correspondent michelle kosinski is joining us live from moscow. and ben wedeman is at the border between syria and turkey. michelle, what does it say that president putin has been meeting now apparently for so long with secretary tillerson? >> reporter: well, even the fact that he has agreed to meet with him, that he scheduled this, is kind of part of the theater of the whole trip. the state department officials say they did expect this meeting to happen at some point, but president vladimir putin broke with precedence. he would normally expect and schedule to meet with any u.s. secretary of state. but this time he kind of strung the state department along for days. they couldn't even put it on

meantime, president trump still has not publicly said anything against vladimir putin personally. >> lia, i had the sense that trump still wants to pull a master stroke of foreign policy and cut a deal with putin that somehow uses russian leverage on our side in the middle east so that everybody will say greatest president ever because if he can pull a deal like that, it will be better than teddy roosevelt in the russo-japanese war. what do you think? by the way, when russians say things that aren't true at the top, do the people over there believe them? do they believe there wasn't any gas used in syria? >> yeah. i mean it depends on what -- you know, how many versions you see of this. but, look, russia has always acted not just as bashar al assad's ultimate backer but as his defense attorney, right? they're his johnnie cochran. they don't need to prove definitively that somebody else used the chemical weapons. they just have to muddy the waters a little bit and offer other potentially plausible versions so that people can say, well, all these other things could have happened too, an

so, we'll find out. >> reporter: and trump speaking fondly of a closer relationship with vladimir putin who u.s. intelligence believes meddled in the 2016 u.s. election. >> putin is the leader of russia. russia is a strong country. would be fantastic thing if we got along with putin and russia. and that could happen. >> reporter: but the chilly greeting for secretary of state rex tillerson in moscow today makes all that seem a distant dream. tillerson was clinked glasses with putin. today a two-mour heating with him. >> the current state of u.s./russia relations is at a low point. he blatantly called for regime in syria. >> our view is the reign of the assad family is coming to an end. >> terry moran joins us live from moscow. strong words about the regime from the secretary of state. what's russia's response to those words and the chemical attack, any common ground here sf. >> not right now, david. vladimir putin has shown for years he will not back down under pressure. he's standing behind the assad regime. the common ground is fighting islamic state in syria. >>> meantime there are q

in the past he talked about the relationship he had to vladimir putin. today once again, he said i don't know him. so there's a lot to parse out of what he said today, but i think the biggest most striking thing is as the president told us in the rose garden a couple days ago during his visit here with the king of jordan, he said that he is flexible, those comments were in advance of the cruise missile strikes that took place in syria. we are now witnessing more of that flexibility on so many topics. >> peter alexander, east room of the white house, peter, thank you very much. let's go across the pond, richard engel, chief foreign corresponde correspondent, is in our london bureau. richard, what was it like listening to and watching the president from the perspective of being overseas? >> reporter: well, what a different president he's turning out to be than the candidate. effectively he was saying we're not just going to make america great again, we're going to make the whole world great again and going back to the russia relationship, what has happened

sean spicer as recently as yesterday calling vladimir putin our ally.atement based on everything we know about the russians and their involvement in our election regardless of whether it was collusion or not. what president trump did i actually applaud. but i want to know what plan b is. if plan b is to do nothing further and stand by as the russians and it is the russians propping up assad continues to slaughter innocent people, and we have put a marker down that we're not going to accept certainly chemical warfare but sean spicer said he won't accept barrel bombings. they happen on a a daily basis. will we bomb the syrians on a daily basis? until we have a statement from the president himself, not rex tillerson who said strong things against russia in the last 24 hours but from the president himself telling us what the policy is towards syria and what our policy will be toward russian involvement in syria we should reserve judgment about where the relationship is headed. >> shannon: we know there have been tensions since president trump was sworn in.

vladimir putin dismissing the u.s. accusations reminding the world that america was wrong about wmd in iraq. how do they come back from the brink. peter alexander is in washington and will be with us throughout the hour. first of all, tillerson and nikki hailey, taking a hard line on russia. president trump has not said a thing about vladimir putin since this chemical attack. >> i think you're exactly right. he is effectively riding in the back saelt as these two are driving this train right now for an administration that seems to be falling. we heard from rex tillerson earlier on this day, making it very clear that the assad regime would be coming to an end. what remains unclear is what form this will all take going forward. tillerson saying that they have a decision to make right now. will they pick a side? or will they, instead, side with regime and other militant groups. we're also getting a unique window into his thinking in advance of his decision to strike in syria. we were hearing from eric trump that spoke to

a meeting is underway in moscow between russian president vladimir putin and us secretary of state rexon just hours after president putin claimed relations between the two countries was at its lowest ebb since the end of the cold war. earlier rex tillerson held talks with his russian counterpart sergei lavrov. rex tillerson wants russia to withdraw support for president assad following the chemical attack ona assad following the chemical attack on a rebel town which killed more than 80 people. our correspondence is travelling with rex tillerson and sent this report. this is not the kind of meeting that once seemed to be on the card. long gone talk of a grand resetting of relations with russia, producing is encouraged by donald trump was replaced by tensions over the chemical weapons attack in syria and russian anger over the military response from america. translation: is important for us to understand your intentions. the intentions of the us and the real intentions of this administration. the theft of state said both sides have some explaining to do. we can further clarifying areas o

. >> secretary of state rex tillerson met with vladimir putin today. they discussed areas of common ground. but the syrian chemical attack against their own people changed the dynamic as russia continues to defend the legitimate si of bashar al- assad -- legitimate rule of bashar al-assad. >> reporter: after leaving that meeting with vladimir putin. secretary of state rex tillerson made it clear that the united states' position is that there is no place for syrian president bashar al- assad. >> russia is their closest ally in the conflict. they have the best means of helping bashar al-assad recognize this reality. >> reporter: secretary of state rex tillerson revealed few details about his meeting with vladimir putin. today the russian minister called for an investigation into the chemical attack in syria which killed 80 people. >> it's our colleagues, if they try to avoid the investigation, they are not wanting to find out the truth. >> reporter: they warned the united states not to strike syria again, in the meantime south carolina governor nikki hal

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and russia may be in the arctic where russian president vladimir putin is now planning a massive militaryorking the story for us. brian, putin apparently has big plans for russia's frozen north. >> wolf, putin has enormous plans for the arctic. he has already built two sprawling military bases there and he is not about to stop. tonight we've got new details and spectacular pictures of a massive new base where putin is deploying troops and warplanes. on a frozen wind swept expanse in the arctic, vladimir putin's military ambition is on grand display. painted like a russian flag, it is named for its three-cornered structure. it can house 150 troops and warplanes. >> this is a lot about the projection of russia's status, right? russia's status is a great power. second, the fact that russia is an arctic power. >> sweeping in on massive military transport, the russian president recently visited the base. he hammered at the ice. russian troops will be living under the harshest of conditions. 18-month deployments where the temperatures can dip well below zero. >> these are bases set up and perha

have you, donald trump, ever met russian president vladimir putin? do you know him? sort of relationship with him? you saw there his answer to the question as of this afternoon. this topic has been a moving target for donald trump who has changed his answer to it over the years. >> what exactly is your relationship with vladimir putin? >> i have no relationship with putin. >> do you have a relationship with vladimir putin? >> i do have a relationship. and i can tell you he is interested in what we are doing. >> i don't know anything about him other than he will respect me. >> i was in moscow a couple of months ago. they treated me so great. putin sent me a present, beautiful present with a beautiful note. i spoke to all of his people. >> i got to know him very well because we were both on 60 minutes. >> we did 60 minutes together, not together. >> i spoke indirectly and directly with president putin who cld not have been nicer sdprmpt en i don know putin. i never met putin. this is not my best friend. >> donald trump on vladimir putin, a man he said today he does not

trini president trump said he could get along very well with vladimir putin. wednesday at the white house a decisively different tone. standing alongside the nato secretary general at a news conference, the president described nations with russia is needing significant work. >> it would be wonderful as we were discussing a little while ago if nato and our country to get along with russia. right now we are not getting along with russia at all. they may be at an all-time low in terms of relationship with russia. this is built for a long period of time. reporter: comments came after a two-hour meeting in moscow with putin reportedly said in an interview, one could say that the level of trust on the working level, especially the military level has not improved, but it's rather deteriorated. tillerson met with his counterpart sergey laff rob who discussed his discontent for this street last week. back to you in new york. lea: the battle over health care has resumed. three weeks after republicans were forced toul legislation to replace about medicare, president trum

the us secretary of state has been meeting his russian counterpart and vladimir putin in moscow followingn and moscow. the health secretary has ordered a review into the shrewsbury and telford nhs trust in shropshire after concerns raised over a cluster of baby deaths. police in germany have detained a man they said may have links to islamist groups over the attack last night on a coach carrying the borussia dortmund football team. a man has beenjailed forfour months for making threats to kill bmp caroline ansell in a facebook post. 0n the first lady, melania trump has received an apology and damages from the daily mail of allegations about her work as a model. ina her work as a model. in a moment it will be time for sportsday but first a look at what else is coming up this evening. i'm joined by a foreign policy specialist to further analysed talks between the us and russia in moscow. and more on 100 days at seven o'clock as well before from comments made by sean spicer about hitler and his use of chemical weapons. more on the health secretary and his decision to order a review into hosp

so, we'll find out. >> reporter: and trump still speaking fondly of a closer relationship with vladimir putin who u.s. intelligence believes meddled in the 2016 u.s. election. >> putin is the leader of russia. russia is a strong country. it would be a fantastic thing if we got along with putin and russia, and that could happen. >> reporter: but the chilly greeting for secretary of state rex tillerson in moscow today makes all that seem a distant dream. tillerson himself as ceo of exxon, once clinked glasses with putin. today, a tense two-hour meeting with putin. the kremlin not releasing pictures. in front of the camera, the secretary of state. >> the current state of u.s./russia relations is at a low point. >> reporter: then, he angered russia by bluntly calling for a regime change in syria. >> our view is the reign of the assad family is coming to an end. >> and terry moran joins us live from moscow. terry, strong words right there about the assad regime from the secretary of state. but what's russia's response to those words and the chemical attack, is there any common ground here? >> not

russia is not vladimir putin. russia is an ancient proud culture and tradition embedded in its people. vladimir putin just happens to be a tyrant that today controls its government, but i thank you for inviting me to participate in this event. and i'm incredibly proud to be here with vladimir kara-murza. when we talk about people around the world who risk their lives in the name of freedom, vladimir is an example of just how true this is. and his brave fight for democracy and freedom in his country is truly an inspiration. we have an award in america called the profiles in courage, and it is large lly given to someone who took political risks because you might have lost an election or took nasty criticism in the press for doing so. a real incredible level of courage is knowing that your position on politics can yhave you killed or exiled or both. the state of human rights under vladimir putin and russia has long been on a severe decline. this deterioration has only accelerated in recent years as putin and his cron