it's a little bit of suspense for this potential third meeting between president trump and vladimir putin that has been in the works for several weeks now. the president's national security adviser was in moscow this week meeting with putin to set up the details of this meeting and now we're learning that the meeting will be on july 16th in finland, that just coming through moments ago in a statement from the white house. this would be after the nato summit on what will be president trump's trip over to europe for several events on their budget. let me look at this statement. president trump and vladimir putin of the russian federation will meet on july 16th in finland. the two leaders will discuss relations between the united states and russia and a range of national security issues. that last line being fairly vague because perhaps the biggest issue on the agenda, according to a lot of people here in the united states, is russian meddling and president trump weighed in on that this morning on twitter once again casting doubt that he believed that russia did, in fact, meddle. he wrote, r

he wants to try the same approach with vladimir putin.ows there's a fundamental disagreement but there is common ground they can find. shannon: they are open to communication and he wants to establish that it feels russia handed everything from north korea to syria all over the place so might as well know your enemy but to your point about vladimir putin being a pariah. heather connolly says russia and the united states will be seen as equals if there's a summit and that is what vladimir putin desires. at a time we are challenging our allies forcefully we are meeting adversaries and offering concessions as if he is following vladimir putin's playbook. >> it was over done with kim jong un. he represents a rogue state, you want to make progress you got to deal with the leader. vladimir putin clearly wants to be back on the world stage seen as a consequential leader in the eyes of his own people as opposed to being isolated the way he is. but the flipside is we have serious problems and i don't think that in and of itself should prevent us b

including a personal representative of vladimir putin. when he came out he was spouting the kremlin party line on the dissolution of nato, the breakup of the european union, the un necessity of the world trade organization, the breaking up of the atlantic alliance, crimea and was a russian speaking province of russia, ukraine that should've been under russian control. the president of the united states has said, defended and continues to say this. he does not fundamentally believe in the atlantic alliance, which means the belief the united states and its allies defeating the axis powers in world war ii and assembling a new world under the marshall plan in creating a network of democracies that have a national security infrastructure and collective strength in nato, in trade links that would benefit both sides, he does not believe in that. as a matter of fact he has said to people including the president of france recently, what you get out of the european union? donald trumpleaving the eu would destroy the eu, which is like letter couldn'

right now, vladimir putin is in austria. they consume a lot of russian energy. ntinue to exercise? yes, absolutely. and you're right. he doesn't think of energy exports thing about markets, it thinks about it being about russian power and in my view, tragically, we do not have a common strategy for dealing with that right now. we, the transatlantic community, are divided and are becoming more divided and he is winning more and more. on that note, we have to win that thank you very much for being an hardtalk. they give having me. thank you very much indeed. hello once again. it's variations on a theme, rather than a great change of weather type that many of you are experiencing just at the moment. blue skies on tuesday in the sheffield area. it didn't start that way but you got there eventually, like so many other places did. and even when there was some cloud in the sky, well, a number of our weather watchers in the worcestershire area, and in some of the surrounding counties, in fact, were rather taken by that pattern in the skies. now, what's driving our weathe

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that is exactly what vladimir putin wants. ld love those troops gone. >> an amazing christmas in july for putin. u.s. allies have good cause to be worried about that. donald trump made a huge concession to kim jong-un without getting anything in return. >> steve, president trump did say one of the things he does want to talk to vladimir putin about is about peace. now you were stationed in russia for a long time, does vladimir putin care about peace? >> not in and of itself, no. because the idea that peace is a great thing and all of that stuff is a solidly western idea. i couldn't agree with max more on bringing up the allies thing. if you want to have peace, vis-a-vis russia, you need to talk about containing russia. not the time to talk about engaging russia which is what apparently the president is interested in doing. what we need to be doing and what the president will be spending more time on instead of giving putin christmas in july, saying we need to be on the same page on this. all of the things that russia is doing t

and start making it clear not just a vladimir putin private but in public that the united statesed with, if donald trump doesn't do that he puts the united states in a very weak national position. jillian: a tough talks have so far as of today worked a little bit with north korea so do you think donald trump needs to be tough with vladimir putin? >> there are two ways to play it. if you want to work with a tyrant you got to play tough and threaten him or butter him up which is what donald trump is doing with vladimir putin, vlad says russians were meddling, he doesn't say it didn't happen but that is what vladimir putin says that he is pointing out the real collusion was not between him and russia but between the dnc and obama administration using state power to interfere in our election. the idea to create a fight with vladimir putin over the fantasy of trump russia collusion is a bad idea. what he needs to focus on is where can we had russians work together, to put pressure on north korea and make the world less dangerous. >> we expect syria to be a big question. >> deadly news

he treats vladimir putin better than anyone else. china -- anyone else. just let's remember it's not just that putin has not receded in crimea, it's that russia recently attacked an ally, basically trying to murder british citizens, and, of course, did what he did to our elections, and helped install donald trump or took actions to help donald trump's election. so essentially think of the message it's sending to our national security apparatus, who's trying to protect us from russian interference in the next election that donald trump is saying, and possibly the cheapest date imaginable, russia has to do nothing and they will reenter the g8. it's frankly, ludicrous. and different than he treats any other country. >> and neera's point is also applicable to the middle east. everything that he is doing there delights russia. dumping the jcpoa and allowing our allies to kind of go it alone. that's great with putin. he's propping up iran. you want to give putin, syria, he'll do that too. he'll sign that away. so everything that he is doing really does enure to

that's exactly what vladimir putin wants. oops gone. >> this would be an amazing christmas in july present for putin if this were to come to pass, remove u.s. troops. u.s. allies have good cause to be worried about this because we already saw that he made concessions with kim jong-un. >> he did say one of things he wanted to talk to vladimir putin about was about peace. you were stationed in russia for a long time. does vladimir putin care about peace? >> not in and of itself, because the idea peace is great thing and all that stuff is something that's a sovereignly western idea. if you really want to have peace visa vi russia, you need to start to talk about containing russia. it's not the time to talk about engaging russia, which is what apparently the president is interested in doing. what we need to be doing and what the president i think should be spending a lot more time on, rather than i think giving putin christmas presents in july, he needs to be talking to our other allies and nato allies saying, look, we all need to

he is trying to strike up a relationship with vladimir putin as is angela merkel tries to maintain a good relationship. what they are concerns about, about this leadup to the nato summit which will take place right before president trump's summit with president putin. it's promising to be very animated in the words of one official. they are concerned this will be a reprise of last year's summit or the g7 summit where he is lecturing that the narrative is that these europeans are fleecing america, whether it's on nato and not paying their fair share of the defense burden, or they are fleecing america on trade. so what they are concerned about is that the optics of having this very tense meeting with the europeans, with nato and then he goes on to have a very chummy meeting with vladimir putin and that will only help to kind of damage the unity of the alliance. that's what vladimir putin wants to do. it has been his goal is to divide nato. they feel president trump is playing into his hands. >> your source talks about europeans having what the source describes as a special place in, quo

vladimir putin and donald trump. we will hear from mitch mcconnell in a minute, his first interview since the kennedy announcement. ed henry joins us with latebreaking developments. >> reporter: we learned from the white house the president this evening had a meeting with key players in the senate helping decide whether or not his next supreme court pick will get confirmed. you see key players like chuck grassley, republican chair of judiciary can do, susan collins, lisa murkowski but at the bottom you have democrats like joe manchin, democrats facing reelection in strong trump republican states, in 2016, that is interesting, the president's critics say he doesn't reach out to democrats, he's clearly doing that. heitkamp praised that he is reaching out for democratic votes. contrast that to this process from democratic senators out of the supreme court denouncing the idea the president is going to try to get this pick done before the midterm elections even though barack obama got a supreme court nominee before the 20

especially vladimir putin.f you look at donald trump's twitter feed this morning, he's spouting russian propaganda. so i think it is quite a safe bet that donald trump will not do this. but i don't think we can dismiss diplomacy entirely. i think we need to be able to go to that summit with the possibility of getting something out of the russians, but i think donald trump -- i think there's quite a concern that he could scuttle any success, any advantage that we could take home from that summit unfortunately. >> rob rosenstein and chris wray, they're on capitol hill. what are lawmakers trying to get out of this? >> trying to do two things. they're trying to, one, put the focus back on hillary clinton's e-mails because they don't want to talk about donald trump. put the focus back on her e-mails almost two years after the end of the 2016 election. but, two, this is a preemptive strike. it is an ongoing part of a preemptive operation against the mueller probe. they are trying to discredit the mueller probe by goi

with the breaking news this morning and that high stakes meeting between president trump and vladimir putin. michelle kosinski is at the state department with more. >> reporter: it's unclear what that tweet is trying to say. is he taking up putin's side? it almost sounded like there was a but coming, but the u.s. believes that russia did meddle in the u.s. election in 2016. that tweet, however, has not come yet. we did, i should say, hear from the secretary of state yesterday when he was grilled by lawmakers on the hill about this meeting coming up. was he going to bring up election meddling with putin? secretary of state mike penompe said he was confident that meddling in the election was unacceptable. we heard from the national security adviser john bolton that the expectations are not super high for this meeting. he says that there weren't specific goals and just having this summit would be a deliverable. we are hearing from source that's president trump thinks he can make significant headway with russia on the issue of syria. even though all of our eyes tend to be focused on what about

to great expectations, the concerns surrounding the president's upcoming summit with russia's vladimir putin. >>> plus, the prankster in the president, how a comedian got the white house to put him on the phone with president trump. >>> and we begin with a live picture of the white house appearing to defy a new court order that families detained under the zero tolerance policy must be released within 20 days. "the washington post" says that the new filing does not explicitly say the trump administration plans to hold families in custody beyond the 20-day limit, but says official plant to detain them as they undergo detention proceedings, which in many cases can last months. the news coming as more than 130 demonstrations are set for today in an effort to pressure the administration to reunite some of those families and put an end to the zero tolerance policy. meanwhile, president trump is at his home in new jersey this weekend and shifting his focus to the short list of candidates he's considering for justice kennedy's replacement. here is what he told reporters aboard air force one last nig

ok let's go back to russian president vladimir putin his annual q. and a session i think he's talking about syria now we can listen. a real combat operations. that is related to losses and we would never forget those losses and we would never. forget about the family is not in. died in syria but that's a noble cause thousands of. militants. come from russia and from central asian countries and we don't have controlled borders so they're very clear in syria and it was best to you choose troyer them out there in syria then to fight them here. and that is. also help to to stabilize the situation in syria the syrian army and the syrian government controlled territories so for me at this we're ninety percent of people live in the large scale combat operations. and involving russian armed forces. no longer in the city in the used. to stop the situation is moved into the political stage show and that's what we've been working on and again our military's out there. have two bases worn in the port of tire to. the other is the maiming air base it's in line wit

russia's president vladimir putin weighed in on the war of words after a g. seven statement criticize russia for what it called its destabilizing behavior. i think it's time to stop all this idle talk creative idle talk and get to issues related to real cooperation seems that the bush cooperation with moscow looks to be on washington's agenda with trump seen russia should rejoin what was once the g eight putin suggested his door was still open if the group's leaders were willing to hold talks in moscow on russia's terms. there's a lot of criticism there for washington so what's next after all of this material with all these cracks showing does it look like it's the end of the group of seven for what could be the beginning of a new set up or could be the beginning of six plus one but certainly i mean you know during the previous g. seven summit i was on. what's the point of this and the whole point is actually getting together and talking to each other and even if they're trading insults afterwards on twitter one thing is then highlighted here that this form i

tucker: do you know vladimir putin? you make of the allegation that assigns and f are working together? >> everyone likes to blame russia when something goes wrong in america. i have spoken of the kremlin many times and last time i was there something was happening in the first thing they say is what have ys time? a common joke america likes to blame them for everything. he had no idea trump was going to win the election but it turned out the way it did. tucker: you are speaking get the kremlin, did you ask yourself how did i get here? >> i am and activists, i spoke about the environment and great economy, they invited me to the kremlin and touched a lot of people so i want to continue my work in russia and that was a coincidence. i am on the russian council, the international coalition animal welfare and pardon me? so it is a coincidence, crazy, wild, interesting people. tucker: i know you live in france. you have a home in malibu. you go back there and say i was just over at the kremlin talking to vladimir putin what

lot of hope for the future saying that perhaps relations as they are now could be improved in vladimir putin very diplomatically polite he said that relations aren't in their best shape you know some others would say that there is a historic low nevertheless lied to me a putin said that that is mostly a result of internal united states political dynamics struggles. between different factions within the united states he also said that expressed hoop that john bolton donald trump's national security adviser coming over for these talks you know. that there is hoop yet that relations can be repaired and salvaged and a brighter future waits a saw you also congratulated the united states on winning their joint bid for the next world cup and he said that russia is ready to share its experience on on hosting so you know those things to work on common goals to work on but. sending john bolton here that was think a message of itself john bolton is a hawk he's aggressive when it comes to foreign policies real support of making america great again no matter the cost to others be they opponents or allies

vladimir putin technically had to run for re-election this year. theoretically he might have had competition in that election. a popular opposition in russia was very much opposed to putin. he announced he would run for the presidency of russia against putin because he was seen as a potential real threat to get even some minor percentage of the national vote. putin blocked him from running. they drummed up fake corruption charges against him which technically disqualified him from appearing on the ballot. he promised to keep campaigning. so russian courts soon ordered the campaign foundation to shut down as well. they wouldn't allow the real opposition guy to run against him, but putin still does want to look like an elected leader. so what he does is whenever he's up for election he handpicks people he's more comfortable running against. this year famously he picked a woman who is seen as the paris hilton of russia. she's a former reality star, a famous russian socialite and the daughter of one of putin's oldest political colleagues. he picked her

national security advisor is in moscow where he'll meet the russian president vladimir putin. well welcome to our. top stories and world cup action as well. now it's day fourteen of the world cup here in russia with all eyes on wednesday's match between brazil and serbia here's our top pundits predictions for that it count. sara in brazil. i love my place and the money i have fantastic relation with with but no money and the need for holly dates is probably one of my plays that needs all these years he has to go on he has to lose his match. speaking seriously asking sara if you can give a difficult match for those who serve you strong is physical has technical as experience they have a little bit depth depth crazy and emotional side of the game that sometimes bring players in teams to the best level of their performances brazil is obviously brazil will be always brazil with so many beautiful players i think amazing match and emotional part. i sing said we can create a problem. so obvious find somebody been preparing for the match by partying hard in central moscow who's now fa

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vladimir putin has to be in moscow on july 15th.e has the end of the soccer world cup happening then. as far as the location is concerned, sources are telling us it is probably going to be helsinki. vienna and austria is a possible location as well. it is interesting to see. the national security adviser john bolton was in moscow yesterday. you could tell both sides wanted to make the meeting happen. it was a quick top-level meeting where the summit would take place. the topic of the summit, the president was saying syria and ukraine was on the table. john bolton believes election meddling will also be a topic as well. of course, you are right. some of the closest allies looking at this with concern as it seems as though western alliances, alliances with the american oldest alliances are fracturing while the president is embracing adversaries of the past like kim jong-un and vladimir putin and like china as well. interesting thing that is happening causing concern among america's allies. christine. >> fred, thank you. >>> new satell

>> in some cases. >> tucker: you also know vladimir putin. remarkably, impressively.n working together to expose hillary's emails? >> that's crazy. everyone likes to blame russia when anything goes wrong in america and i have spoken at the kremlin manyimes and the last time i was there there was something happening. the first thing they say to me is, so what have we done wrong this time? it's a common joke. america likes to blame them for everything. i was with julian before the election and he had no idea, he really did not think that trump was going to win the election. but, it turned out the way the data. >> tucker: s y a speakin at themlin, you're hanging with julian assange at the ecuadorian embassy in london. you ever yourself, how did i get here? this is the life path that you planne [laughs] >> pamela: well i'm an animal activist, i spoke about the environment, i spoke about the economy and they invited me to the kremlin, they love the way i was speaking. i touched a lot of people and i wanted to continue my work in russia. that was just a coincidence. i am on

. >>> coming up for us, trump may be just weeks away from a meeting with vladimir putin. ut what does russia stand to gain from a meeting with donald trump? that and more next. >> will you meet with president putin sir? and where? >> most likely. jonathan bolton is there right now. getting along with them is good for us, the world, everybody. we'll probably be meeting sometime around my trip to europe. >> president trump saying today he's likely to meet with putin when he travels to europe next month, even as mueller's investigation into russian election interference continues. he spoke about the summit after his national security adviser, as you heard, john bolton met with several russian officials, including putin himself. with us tonight to talk about all of this, michael mcfall, author of the new book "from cold war to hot peace -- an american ambassador in putin's russia." and the assistant director for counterintelligence who in the past has worked for robert mueller among others. ambassador i'm going to mush together three questions. i always like to ask you how far

so, vladimir putin and russia. i think it is important to understand where he is coming from. putin represents a deep sense of grievance in russia. nthat russia, since the end of the cold war, has lost its geopolitical position, has presided over declining economy, had a failed experiment in democracy. has really become a middling power as opposed to a great power. and so putin is determined to reassert russia as a great power. using just about any means necessary. he is determined to re-create a sphere of influence around russia's borders.and most importantly for us, he is also determined to undermine democracy as a model. central and d eastern europe or here in the united states. because the biggest threat to vladimir putin is the potential for true democracy to reemerge in russia. despite the relative economic weakness of russia compared to the european counterparts, vladimir putin has actually played a limited hand very well. he is reverted to the kgb playbook. and used a range of asymmetric means to try and advance russian interest and influence. intelligence operations, p

by spy master in chief vladimir putin has clearly got something over on donald trump.'ll say it right now, he is in debt to moscow and he is paying that debt off to moscow. but in 2013 he had a meeting at a restaurant for two hours with the top 12 richest oligarchs of russia when he walked out of there, he was spouting moscow's line, he is still spouting moscow's line. when he goes and says you're not a member of nato but you participant from time to time, the u.s. should be like that to. he means it. when he says let's break up the european union, he means it. the russians have told him it's good. he's not going to betray his base, the russians are his base. >> and say crimea should be russia's. we know that paul manafort, his campaign chairman was in debt to the tune of $10 million, a loan from one of these russian oligarchs, an affidavit unsealed wednesday showed he backed consulting work in ukraine. >> there's a lot of rubbles there. this is the thing i think is important. you mentioned an upcoming summit and we discussed, and malcolm and everyone knows this, every

had in recent years. >> and is that order he's more comfortable with, does he share that with vladimir putin terms of this disruptive ally in the west is that with putin? >> the ends are the same. i don't know what's in trump's head as to why he feels so deeply -- and clearly he's bitter about our allies in a way he doesn't seem to be bitter at all about the dictators and authoritarian leaders. he has a grievance if you listen to him talk about europe and canada even, this idea he's getting robbed, cheated, ripped off, you never hear that when he's talking about russia. the two of them, whatever is in their head, their end is the same, right? which is chaos and instability inside the western alliance. >> susan glasser staff writer at the new yorker, thank you for being here. it's great to have you here. >> thank you. >> stay with us. we'll be right back. ♪ (woman) one year ago today mom started searching for her words. and my brother ray and i started searching for answers. (vo) when it's time to navigate in-home care, follow that bright star. because brightstar care earns the same accredita

but to stand next to vladimir putin and do it brings it to another level.nd he might make concessions or agreement. a lot of people felt he did that, he made concessions to kim jong-un and north korea without getting enough in return. could he potentially do that with russia and only further alien kwraeuting the united states from allies and nato members. >> are things going to get nicer and easier on the hill? >> well, it's not going to be all nice and, you know, fuzzies on capitol hill now, especially in the senate. there are a few things that are more contentious than a supreme court confirmation. you and i know that very well, hugh. one that has the capacity to reshape the court in the way that kennedy's retirement does. it is definitely going to be gloves off from now through november. >> i think you're right. thank you. i'll be right back. the most influential conservative that msnbc audience has never heard of. he joins us next from michigan. hi, i'm bob harper, and i recently had a heart attack. it changed my life. but i'm a survivor. after my heart

in recent years. >> is the order he is more comfortable with, does he share that vision with vladimir putining in terms of this disruptive toward our allies in the west, is that putin's agenda >> listen, the ends are the same, right? the ends are the same. i don't know what is in trump's head as to why he feels deeply clearly and personally -- he is bitter about the allies in a way he doesn't seem to be bitter at all about, you know the dictators and authoritarian leaders he's comfortable with. he has a sense of grievance if you listen to him talk about europe, listen to him talk about canada even. this idea that he is getting robbed, cheated, ripped off, you never hear that when he talks about russia. and i think that, you know, the two of them really -- whatever is in their head, their end is the same, right, which is chaos and instability inside the western alliance. which is chaos and instability inside the western alliance. >> susan glasser staff writer at "the new yorker," thank you so much for being here. it's great to have you here. we'll be right back. you wouldn't accept an incomp

if vladimir putin let's say did have something on donald trump and donald trump were to carry out vladimir putin's top geopolitical, strategic goal, would it not look exactly like what happened this weekend? >> it absolutely would, joe. two quick points going back to canada for a minute. we have to remember that we have a trade surplus with canada and also that we have higher tariffs than the canadians do. so you go back to what are the explanations here. now, i'm loathed to comment on justin trudeau's appearance because people stop me in the airport a lot and say, you know, you look a lot like justin trudeau. >> you really do. >> so i can understand that frustration that the president may have. but, you know, as the nato commander, i watch canadian troops die in afghanistan. i watched their jets with us in libya, afghanistan, aq, so inexplicable. and then to the summit, i'm just going to take jeremy's point and richard's excellent point and add another thought, which is, it's not just russia. this really plays in favor of china, who is seeking to dominate that region. and by walking us aw

oligarch close to vladimir putin to whom he owed a lot of pony. we know that konstantin kilimnik visited manafort twice while running the campaign. the emails pulkd by the atlantic suggest that purpose of the meeting was to convey messages from the russian oligarch to manafort while trunk the campaign. kilimnik later suggested to acquaintances back thome on one of the visits to manafort during the campaign he, kilimnik, played a role in getting the republican party to change the platform, taking a less hard line against russia. that change in the party platform at the republican national convention remains still mostly unexplained. it's reportedly under investigation by the special counsel office but at least one guy associated with russian military intelligence has been publicly bragging that he is the one who got that done. the special counsel's office has now described konstantin kilimnik in multiple court filings as being currently associated with russian military intelligence. it's not just where he learned english in the past. they're saying

now that was what vladimir putin had to say about foreign policy obviously most of what was talked about in this q. and a session was domestic affairs the mess the things things that worry russians such as salary taxes health care education corruption always always a big one but let me putin also spoke about the upcoming world cup jus to kick off in about a week in all over russia really andy said that the russian team lately hasn't hasn't played as well perhaps as some would expect and he said he hoped that now that the world cup is here they'll really show what they've got. yeah and hopefully they will when they play saudi arabia in a week's time thanks mariah that was more aghast the air force. now in a bid to win back he says trust facebook is splashing out on a series of news programs exclusively for its video streaming service. i'm shepard smith on facebook live with the fact i love the full circle scene as a live nightly newscast you are in freeze the day i was coming out of this. morning including our public corruption is all around. well as you saw there the shows will be produc

today, of course, vladimir putin meeting the president of south korea. dave. >> fred, 11:26 in moscow. thank you. putin hosting the world cup at the moment which is going well for russia. >> it is. >>> from washington to the southern border. confusion and frustration over the administration's immigration policy. anxious parents and the government unclear how to reunite thousands of families. >>> how can parents find kids taken at the border? is the zero tolerance policy on hold? so many questions and little guidance from the trump administration. >>> and melania's trip to the border is in focus because of her wardrobe. what message is she sending? >>> tributes pouring in for columnist charles krauthammer. he shaped american politics for generations has died. >>> and also the "roseanne" reboot gets a reboot. abc will keep the show alive without the comedian fired after racist tweets. welcome to "early start." iemz -- i'm dave briggs. >> i'm michelle kosinski. it is friday, june 22nd. >>> confusion and contradiction in the white house following president t

i'm not worried. >> because vladimir putin said they didn't. >> the dimindictments don't mat. it doesn't matter rob mueller is doing what he's doing because he's going to come up and said wait, putin is right. >> i was going to say by trey gowdy was right about one thing. it is an investigation that's hurting this country. it at least the senate is doing something. but mr. -- >> republicans are acting like public ser haven'ts. >> they're doing their job, but the house are hurting and they are helping russia by not acting responsibly. >> i hold, joyce -- there was a great -- i think it was george conway wrote a gray law fair column saying you know when donald trump goes out and balla about this, we hold him to a different standard. we hold non-lawyers to a different standard. there was somebody who was like talking about how unconstitutional robert mueller's investigation. and it would be you one thing if it was donald trump but this was one of the cofounders of the society so he should be ashamed of himself in the words of former chief justice renquist -- he is an officer of th

canadian prime minister last an expert what this could mean also coming up russian president vladimir putin says he welcome a meeting with trump this comes as china poses a much more harmonious meeting of the shanghai cooperation organization. and north korean leader kim jong un makes an unexpectedly early arrival in singapore president trump said he will run for their highly anticipated summit later today could he hit the ground running. thanks for joining us i'm mary and i haven't seen an acrimonious and to the g. seven summit in canada after all seven nations signed a final communique seemingly finding common ground with an agreement on the need for rules based trade us president donald trump withdrew his country's endorsement with a tweet is the first time a g seven gathering has ended without a joint statement and it followed two tense days of talks. is the german chancellor lecturing the u.s. president is the us president being belligerent whichever way you look at this photo posted on instagram by angle americans office you can't ignore the tension that tension was evident before dur

while by the end of the interview it actually turned into a full scale debates when vladimir putin i started asking questions himself on the cause of independence and the wall street movement and many other international issues and armand wolf refused to answer those questions so it really seems that the russian president enjoyed himself and actually came out of this with a smile all right interesting stuff about interview ahead of the republicans visit to austria reporting from moscow thank you. now it is ten days amazingly enough and counting until football's biggest event kicks off in russia so what better time to catch up with former brazil defender a two time world cup winner and food he give us some insight into how his nation may perform at this summer's tournament. expectations are really high not only concern in the world cup in russia but also concerning the world cup in general especially regarding the brazilian team pressure is high you are fighting for a world cup with the brazilian team there are more than two hundred twenty million brazilians that's hundreds and twenty

and how all this connects with mr precaution who is a restaurant owner instant petersburg who vladimir putin knows personally but if you really think that a person who is in the restaurant business even if this person has some hacking opportunities and owns a private firm in this field could use it to sway elections in the united states or european countries could it be that the media and political standards in western countries have reached such a low level that a russian restaurant can sway voters in the european country with all the united states isn't it ridiculous once again glad i'm reporting the stress that russia is not interested in interfering in other country's elections and rather quickly after that the conversation changed its course when arman wolf practically started firing questions at the russian president without stopping much to listen to the answers and that of course caught the president by surprise and you. need to motorscooter your pretty trisha's to quote it's going to repeat to me because it. means to you do. you think it is because this conservative thing is if it i

vladimir putin.ohn bolton striking for a summit after meeting with the russian president in moscow. helsinki and vienna have been named as possible sites, several more weeks will be needed to prepare for the talks. overnight defend secretary mattis said the us will keep its nearly 30,000 troops in the asian aging keeping commitment to security working to denuclearize north korea. the trip comes on the heels of his visit to china. president xi jinping warning mattis they will not give up an inch of territory in the south china sea. the us is concerned of the militarization. and big news yesterday, disgraced fbi agent peter stzrok will face a public here on capitol hill, lawmakers grilling him for 11 hours behind closed doors over his lack of answers about his anti-trump text messages. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has more on what happened. >> we are getting a series of impromptu briefings from lawmakers as agent stzrok's deposition progressed, republicans are convinced his anti-

you're going to have the president saying very nice things about vladimir putin. 's already done that. so we should expect that. and that therefore achieves putin's objectives without getting anything in return. that is a bad deal. i don't know in business if that's a good deal, but that's a bad deal when it comes to diplomacy. >> frank, diplomatic speed dating. if a appointed you 60-second briefer of this president and said to you, your job is to kind of normal up donald trump's view of russia and putin, what would you say to the president? >> so i would remind him that vladimir putin poisons people, he orders people murdered who don't agree with him. and that at the heart of the russian goals and objectives is the goal of sowing complete disarray and undermining the american way of life. any sitdown with putin has to start with that understanding. and so i'm concerned about a dangerous naivete in the president where he feels somehow that his force of individual personality, force of nature, an art of the deal approach sitting down with people is going to change t

that's the way vladimir putin sees it. 's like he's channeling putin all the time. >> the destabilization of the eu, of course, as rick points out, andrea, longtime putin goal. here's the reporting from "the washington post" tonight. during a private meeting at the white house in late april, trump was discussing trade with french president emmanuel macron. at one point he asked macron, why don't you leave the eu and said that if france exited the union, trump would offer it a bilateral trade deal with better terms than the eu as a whole gets from the u.s. according to two european officials. so there's some "there" there, andrea. >> first of all, describing the eu as trying to rob our piggy bank, they are our market. he doesn't understand international markets. he doesn't understand that when he imposes tariffs, that is a tax on american farmers and producers. and he doesn't know that macron is -- was setting himself up as the leader of the eu to replace merkel. that was the whole macron policy as he came to the big state v

>> reporter:his classic vladimir putin.rks, the spin, the denial and brushoffs of anything critical. the russian president denies he rules with a heavy hand and says he and trump had an ongoing dialogue. in a new interview, vladimir putin is suggesting he is tighter with donald trump than many realize. >> translator: we regularly talk over the phone. our foreign affairs departments and special services are working fairly well together. >> reporter: white house officials say there have been eight phone calls between them in the year and a half since trump took office. all of them reported publically. about the same as president obama had with put. >>ncer: putin in his final two years in office. putin blamed the ongoing mueller inion as the reason why he and the president have not had a one osummit. saying trump is, quote, coming under attack. >> this is ironic that president putin, who oversaw and likely commanded an operation that was designed to subvert our democratic institutions would complain that the united states is n

that's not how vladimir putin operates, that's not how he's ever operated and if anything, vladimir putin feels incredibly empowered, because he interfered in our election and donald trump's own ego is keeping him from fully admitting it. and fully looking into it and making sure that it will never happen again. so that is such a fundamental misunderstanding by donald trump of vladimir putin and his motivations, that, yes, it's truly petrifying. >> it's petrifying, it truly is. >> you know willie, yeah, i think what we just saw there in the interview is donald trump's version of george w. bush's "i have looked into his soul and i've seen he's a good guy. i can deal with him." donald trump suggesting he can deal with him. it's so interesting what he said on the plane, i reflected back to gosh, it was such a long time ago this past weekend. when donald trump said that actually, that the crimea invasion made a lot of sense. because the people of crimea wanted the russians to be there. which reminded me of something that i saw last night on twitter. someone had quoted a page from david halver

mark: president trump and vladimir putin will hold a summit july 16 in helsinki. p -- this will be the third meeting between the two leaders. ahead of that meeting, president putin boasted about the countries respect to have nuclear weapons saying that they are ahead of four designs. the graduates a russian military academy, he hugel ssians have made a leap. conte is demanding that other countries share the burden of refugees arriving in italy. conte and merkel are meeting one-on-one in brussels. jeff sessions announced today what he called the largest health care takedown. chargingear, we are 601 defendants, including doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and other medical personnel, with more than $2 billion in health care fraud. mark: of those chars from a 160 two were prescribing and distributing opioids and other dangerous drugs. global news 24 hours a day, on air and on tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: we return now to the summit in europe. we welcome now our gu

also tonight, president trump's first summit with russia's vladimir putin is on. mr.ational security advisor john bolton has been hammering out details with putin in moscow. bolton says he expects the president to talk to the kremlin leader about a subject mr. trump often avoids, russia's election meddling. let's go to our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen in red square in moscow. i take it they're on track to meet in just a few weeks. >> reporter: yeah. about three weeks from now, wolf. it seems in the middle of july. that's certainly what president trump was saying earlier today. it was interesting to see what happened here when john bolton came to town here in moscow. originally what we heard is he was just going to meet with the russian foreign minister sergei lo lavrov but he met with vice president and hammered out the summit very quickly, the russians showing they are in the driver's seat on this. national security advisor john bolton face to face with vladimir putin and his top ministers. a quick agreement, president trump and vladimir putin wil

instead you have donald trump reaching out to vladimir putin. the the amazing thing is it's the u.s. president, not vladimir putin, breaking apart of alliance. >>> we're going to talk more about the historical references that you talked about, right after this break. president trump says that president obama is to blame for allowing russia to take crimea, believe it or not. we'll get ben's thoughts and what he says is behind the rise of trumpism, after the break. it was here. i couldn't catch my breath. it was the last song of the night. oon it felt like my heart was skipping beats. they said i had afib. what's afib? i knew that meant i was at a greater risk of stroke. i needed answers. my doctor and i chose xarelto® to help keep me protected from a stroke. once-daily xarelto®, a latest-generation blood thinner significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart valve problem. warfarin interferes with at least 6 of your body's natural blood-clotting factors. xarelto® is selective, targeting just one critical factor.