mr. putin's lies and illegal military invasions. in short, mr. trump did mr. putin's bidding. in russia, they're smiling. at the white house, they're scrambling. congress must speak out and act. congress must repudiate the president's actions and make it clear to the american people and the world russia, directed by mr. putin, attacked our free election system in 2016 and tried to tip the scales in favor of mr. trump. russia illegally invaded the sovereign state of the ukraine and illegally annexed crimea, which the united states must make clear we will never recognize. russia, under mr. putin, murders its political opponents and journalists. russia has interfered in the politics of several european democratic states. madam president, six months ago i authored on behalf of the senate foreign relations committee democrats a report entitled "putin's asymmetrical assault on democracy and europe: complications for -- implications for u.s. national security." i sent a copy of that report to president trump and hoped he would absorb it, use it in his meeting with mr. putin. unfortun

what happened this week with mr. putin and mr. trump needs to be repudiated. katty: you say americans demand action, but there is a new reuters poll that says that only 32% of republican voters actually side with the u.s. stelligence community' assessment that russia meddled in the 2016 election. wh do you make of that? sen. cardin: the facts are the facts. there is no disagreement that russia interfered at mr. putin's direction in the u.s. election. that is a fact. that is not subject to dispute. the only person in the leadership of the united states about thats question is mr. trump. his intelligence team, his closest advisers all understand that it was russia thatin rfered in our elections and trying to do it to help mr. trump. katty: senator cardin, thank you very much. 'aura: their story of survival captured the wo's imagination, and now the 12 thai boys and their coach-speaking -- and their coach are speaking for the first time about their cave rescue. the boys spoke about their ofdeal, calling it a momen miracle when the rescuers found them. jonathanead

mr. putin's terms. mptty: you are clearly not happy with the way mr. ts handling this, but what can democrats do about it? you are pretty powerless to change the actions of the president and the words of the president. sen. cardin: congress is an independent branch of ment and i expect my colleagues to speak out and take action to -- katty: but senator, it does not look like republicans are prepared to do that. sen. cardin: i must tell you that i've talked to a lot of republicans and they will be chlenged to stay silent. icam demands action. the global community expects the ws. to lead the free world. what happened thk with mr. putin and mr. trump needs to be repudiated. katty: you say americans demandn acbut there is a new reuters poll that says that only 32% of republican voters actually side with the u.s. intelligence community's assessment that russia meddled in the 2016 election. what do you make of that? sen. cardin: the facts are the facts.di there is ngreement that russia interfered at mr. putin's direction in the u.s. election. that is a fact.

page on -- undyed is amazingdictment work and is what the president should have used to stand up to mr. putin. he should have demanded justice. rather than take the opportunity to confront putin, rather than take the opportunity to demand that putin hand over the named agents, thelligence president sided with vladimir putin's denial over the unanimous conclusion of the united states intelligence community. kgb overhe word of the the men and women of the cia. blame onan placing , the president put what is best for him over what is and for the security well-being of the united states. what if now looms, anything will congress do in response to this awful trip? where are our republican colleagues? where are the republicans who roared approval when reagan told gorbachev to do it on the wall? where are the republicans you demanded a strong response when pugin annexed crimea? -- when putin annexed crimea. now is the time for republican colleagues to join us and stand up. if we wait much longer, our global lines is will fracture, ,he institutions will crumble our allies will consider , and pugin's r

mr. putin's activities going forward. we are at risk in our 2018 elections because mr. putin knows he can interfere and has the president of the united states on his side. a very sad day for our country and for our democratic institutions. we need to take action to protect ourselves and the republican leadership that controls the agenda in the house and the senate, we need to use the independence of the congress to protect the national security of america, particularly in light of what president trump has done with mr. putin. that means our committees have to be actively engage in oversight hearings, bringing key people to know exactly what happened. senator menendez raised a lot of questions we need answers to. that listening to press conference, we are worried about what those answers may be. we have a right to know what happened in that room. the american people have a right to know what happened in that room. six months ago, the senate foreign relations issued a report about mr. putin. they talked about his use of his arsenal, including the us of his military, but al

special because mr pass cover great to meet with us on the eve of one of the most important events in global politics this year i'm referring of course to the summit between vladimir putin and donald trump in the capital of finland thank you mr pascoe of thank you first let me ask you does it make any sense to talk to a person who can break his promises when we talk about global politics for example the principle of america first or the promise to stop wars all over the world and not to start new ones. with the principle of this principle works for any head of state any head of state when talking to their foreign counterparts has to take care of the interests of their states and our president is quite pragmatic and consistent he always says that he cares about the national interest of russia above everything else that's why he understands the reciprocal beliefs of donald trump and of course such an approach can only be viable if accompanied by another principle this approach has to be based on a commitment to develop mutually beneficial corporation taking into account the interests of the other countries as well and these factors together can create the right environmen

>> yesterday mr. putin heard what he wanted to hear. when you give russia and opening, give mr. n an opening, he will move on it. we saw that ten years ago when they moved into georgia blocking georgia's entry to nato. we saw that when he invaded the ukraine. he interfered in our elections and believings that he can do those activities and the american president won't take action. the damage has been done to america's national security and leadership by that summit. we don't know what happened in the meeting, in the room one-on-one. it's clear from the news conference that mr. putin was happy with the meeting. >> neil: does this change anything? the president acknowledged that he might have misstated himself. others say he pulled a 180. does it change anything, senator? >> i don't think so. when you take a look at the totality of what the president said, he is siding with mr. putin. he's basically saying the relationship between these two countries are so important, he's not treating russia under mr. putin as an adversary. we know that is wrong. he will continue to act against ou

mr putin is asked if he has compromising material on donald trump, and denies it. well, sort of.theresa may caves in to pressure over her brexit bill and helps neutralise a potential rebellion — for now, at least.

approval these hands on a so this basically is an unreal indictment against mr putin and it makes it very all at an awkward for mr trump to be speaking with mr putin and asking mr putin well do you agree or not these to agree with my justice department who's indicted you for trying to interfere with the campaign and hoping to help hillary clinton need i mean help him rather than hillary clinton even if he didn't succeed and so in an unwitting way in my judgment what this particular indictment does with the optics it makes it impossible for mr trump to fire mr moore because it will peer to everyone except the most dense that it appears that mr trump has something to hide with mr putin donald trump says ties with the u.k. are at the highest level of special to sit after starting a controversy in an interview with london sun newspaper entertains suggested plans for blacks that were too soft and if they stand the u.k. should not expect a trade deal with the u.s. but on friday trying to dismiss the report with his own words as fake news china hall has more from windsor a day that ended fo

given what mr. putin said today, given the indictments, given --t mr. trump said today that cannot happen. sanctions should be ratcheted up. and, as you know, the house republicans have been pushing i can sense bill that would create a loophole in sanctions targeted at putin's defense and intelligence sectors. they should drop that immediately. second, our republican colleagues to demand, as we are, that the president's national security team that accompanied him to the wintun team immediately come and testify before congress. what kind of briefings to give them before hand? what did he say to them afterwards? we need them to come before congress and the american people immediately because there are some new troubling questions out there. and, if you think the press conference was that, imagine what happened inside when the president and mr. putin were alone. we need answers. now.ed them third, our republican colleagues need to end once and for all their attacks on the department of justice, the fbi, and special counsel mueller. special counsel needs to

go i think mr putin is well aware that donald trump does not control the apparatus of his own government whereas putin is master of his house trump really is not and he has to proceed much more carefully and can he give orders that he knows will be obeyed and lastly as far as the allies go i think the one who has the most to fear is theresa may here's somebody who's going to dissolving out from under her we've got their fingerprints on not only on the white helmets and the tackle false flag like like peter was referring to the scriptural thing and also the steel dossier let's not forget that i hope mr putin hands mr trump a real dossier about what they've been overt up to over there and the united kingdom to try to subvert american interests but you know peter one of the things i've done in number of programs on this but you know i've had experts on talking about the interests of this country versus the interests of this one and geopolitics and sometimes it just gets down to trump having a memory i remember how you supported hillary clinton i remember the donna ca i remember him isaacson

go i think mr putin is well aware that donald trump does not control the apparatus of his own government whereas putin is master of his house trump really is not and he has to proceed much more carefully and can he give orders that he knows will be obeyed and lastly as far as the allies go i think the one who has the most to fear is theresa may here's somebody who's going to dissolving out from under her we've got their fingerprints on not only on the white helmets and the tackle false flag like like peter was referring to the scriptural thing and also the steel dossier let's not forget that i hope mr putin hands mr trump a real dossier about what they've been overt up to over there and the united kingdom to try to subvert american interests but you know peter one of the things i've done in number of programs on this but you know i've had experts on talking about the interests of this country versus the interests of this one in geopolitics and sometimes it just gets down to trump having a memory i remember how you supported hillary clinton i remember the donna ca i remember him isaacson

and mr. putin must be now with his team just rejoicing in what has happened in helsinki. >> director brennan, thank you for joining us by telephone. john brennan, former cia director coming out of these startling comments by the president today. let's go back to frank figlouzi at the fbi. frank, i know you're in agreement with the director. >> yeah, to follow on to what john brennan has said, what we saw the president do today was refuse to defend and stand with a u.s. federal indictment of 12 foreign intelligence officers who tried to undermine our election system. in refusing to do that,ly chose to stand with russia and walk away from our rule of law and system of justice. americans need to understand that, of all stripes. and those on the hill who refuse to do something about it, to speak out against it, are essentially making that similar choice today. you either choose to stand with team america or you are choosing to stand with russia. and that's what we watched happen today. i could not have

trump's leverage mr putin is rightly suspicious on whether mr trump could deliver on any promises he may make to him mr trump may be unhinged but he is not unconstrained and he has congress and also part of his own parts of his own administration that are deeply distrustful of any outreach to mr putin any deals that that could be made for europeans of course this is a terrible situation to see these two europeans congregate and tash out plans that could very much be harmful to europeans at the same time it's a reminder that we europeans need to come up with our own agenda because of the russia german foreign minister mark has talked about in the new austerity that we need to devise what's our vision for european security order and that includes russia for outreach to to russia for dealing with russia i think it's a reminder that we shouldn't leave that to trump and martin but that we need to make our own policies on that front. the. the americans say that the russians are not truly reliable when it comes to reducing the nuclear warheads the russians all the other othe

go i think mr putin is well aware that donald trump does not control the apparatus of his own government whereas putin is master of his house trump really is not and he has to proceed much more carefully and can he give orders that he knows will be obeyed and lastly as far as the allies go i think the one who has the most to fear is theresa may here's somebody who's going to dissolving out from under her we've got their fingerprints on not only on the white helmets and the tackle false flag like like peter was referring to the scriptural thing and also the steel dossier let's not forget that i hope mr putin hands mr trump a real dossier about what they've been overt up to over there and the united kingdom to try to subvert american interests but you know peter one of the things i've done in number of programs on this but you know i've had experts on talking about the interests of this country versus the interests of this one in geopolitics and sometimes it just gets down to trump having a memory i remember how you supported hillary clinton i remember the donna ca i remember him isaacson

what is the play that mr. putin has to play back home? mr. playing the surrounded by enemies card for quite a while now. is being hindered by western interests. so having a big meeting with president trump really does play well back home. it shows respect from the west. it shows that one of the world's leaders is meeting him one-on-one and looking to talk. but overall, how should one speak to president putin? if president putin gets the respect he wants, will he be more on board with the u.s. and in general the west's interest in the middle east, and how to do with north korea? is this maybe how president trump gets him more onside? possible. is of course, russia borders north korea, so having a weaponize north korea is not in russia's interest. russia has had a lot of skin in the game in syria for quite some time now. we've already seen the u.s. style back on syria -- the u.s. dial back on syria from previous administrations. we are looking for them to discuss this. but as we've heard before, there are not likely to be any major deliverables

mr. putin and the frontal assaults on our closest allies for 70 years have been an integral part of america's relationship with the world was in contrast. a bad week for the united states and foreign policy. yesterday capped it off. >> katty kay, we heard across europe yesterday discouraging words from american allies that stood with us through a generational cold war with the soviet union. it was constantly being pushed to do more by american presidents, to push back against russia. yesterday, in britain, in germany, across the continent, we had one leader after another say we can no longer trust the united states of america. >> yeah. it was the german foreign minister, one of the first to come out and say, this means we can't trust the white house anymore after that press conference. remember, those european allies are right up against russia's borders some of them as well and feel this very intensely. they know what russian meddling looks like. some of those countries experienced it firsthan

away from even pulling berlin for working together with russia here is the reaction we heard from mr putin's press secretary to that it would you mr bush but let's not forget that north stream too is an international project it's not even russian german or german russian it's a multinational enterprise which has many shareholders among them very big companies from farias countries and let's put it like this threatening the shareholders as well as threatening russia and germany with sanctions if this project goes further these threats are a big concern speaking of the enormous amounts of work in terms of craps by both administrations the press secretary admitted that the agenda is far from being for here's mr peskov with more on that very process. there's no clear agenda existing it will be created by heads of states as they go. we will be showing the full version of that exclusive interview with the press secretary of the russian president on monday just several hours before donald trump and a lot of my proving me and helsinki. a fifteen year old palestinian boy has been killed during the la

all at an awkward for mr trump to be speaking with mr putin and asking mr putin well do you agree or not agree with my justice department who's indicted you for trying to interfere with the campaign and hoping to help hillary clinton the i mean help him rather than hillary clinton even if he didn't succeed and so in an unwitting way in my judgment what this particular indictment does with the optics it makes it impossible for mr trump to fire mr moeller because it will appear to everyone except the most dense that it appears that mr trump has something to hide with mr putin. all along let's just speak president trump has done a lot of things that you think surely he he wouldn't do because of what it implies that he has so obviously that that question still remains but the fact that he is still going to have this summit in light of what has happened what does that say to you and actually there is one particular. mosque moscow based rather foreign affairs analysts who said this that this decision to have this summit is a victory for vladimir putin is it seen that way. no i don't think

--mr. putin. we have learned the secretary of state will defend the president. >> have you seen any benefits or positive changes from this president, in regards to nato or our relations with other countries? >> the nato alliance is critically important to the u.s., the strength of the eu is important. the president has jeopardized all of that unity. what he did in interfering with the u.k. and prime minister may, dealing with the brexit issue, what he did with the leader of germany, ms. merkel, undermining her credibility. what he did as far as saying the g7 should become the g8. really making it impossible for a successful g7 summit among our closest allies in canada. using a national security waiver to say we have to impose tariffs against a country like canada or europe. all that has questioned the president's sincerity in regards to relationships with our closest allies that stand next to us in battle and are always there for us. is indispensable leader, there is no question about it. but the

mr prime minister are you going to a company mr putin to helsinki. yes i would do the as well as secretary pun pal we had a couple of conversations with mike can tell we discussed what kind of arrangements we should for see for the for the meeting and helsinki and parallel to the meeting between the two presidents which they want to start one on one would be meeting with mike is invested as to russia and to the united states respectively and we will discuss any issue which each of us would like to raise there would be no fixed agenda but there are obvious items which would certainly pop up. the two presidents will meet alone by the way i the end of you and mr putin i know in. part a few times and when i when i've been with him he doesn't speak english are they going to be interpreters at that private meeting between the two presidents. yes that would be interpreted as president putin actually understands english but for the sake of better expressing his views he prefers to use the interpreters of good office. will there be there be no other aides in

he gave comfort to mr. putin who is trying to bring down our democratic system of government. >> is it treasonous? >> i'm not going to characterize it one way or the other. i think that it was one of the dark moments of the presidency of the united states and it compromised the security of our country. >> you also said following this summit that congress will need to play an even stronger role in order to keep our country and our institutions safe, in your words. what is that role? what will your fellow republicans do, do you believe, to get on board with you? for example, senator corker, republican, extremely critical of the president yesterday. he sits on the foreign relations committee with you. he could hold a hearing, could compel testimony about what happened behind closed doors. will he? should republicans? >> first starts with speaking out. europe and the global community know that wihat president trump did doesn't represent where america wants to be. secondly, we can have oversight hearings, we can bring

if you are mr. putin, but the time you get to presidency round number two, you basically got the oligarchical situation cling to. you've got estate created with the security service are basically your security service. in that situation you can promise of future. you just can't because is not going to be rule of law under you because there's not going to be rule of law under you. so you have to do something else besides promising policy, and the thing you can promise is a foreign policy of spectacle which is what the wharton ukraine largely is. and syria, too. in the last week in september september 2015 in the russian press, the subject change literally from wendy to the next. i think it was 22 the 29th. one day from the next from ukraine to see, bank, like that. forget about the wharton ukraine. it didn't sort out the way we expected but look at syria. it is roughly speaking the same storyline. what, if any, the and good, the legitimate leader against the overwhelming power of the west. russia's of the

mr. putin's terms. i would like to hear directly from the president and his close advisors who are privy to what happen in the room. i would like to have that in a closed session so that we can understand what agreements have been reached and what is expected next. the president talked about the next meeting. we do not know what happened at the first meeting. we are concerned about that. we have russians that have been indicted. in statements about sharing some of the investigation material. we need to understand exactly what the president is doing. >> harris: about the close session, and you hear people talk about this all over the country. those might be the better ways to get things done, because it seems like when you get a bunch of lawmakers together on capitol hill, some of them, only a few like to grandstand a little bit, sometimes we do not get all of the facts. maybe that would be the best way. we will cover the facts as they happen, senator ben cardin, thank you for being on the program. >> go

mr. putin, he has low expectations. >> i go into a meeting like that never with high expectations, but maybe some really good stuff can happen. >> not high expectations. you're just -- it's a one-on-one conversation. >> whatever it is, i'm representing our country. i want to do great for our country, and i'm sure he wants to do well for his. but that doesn't make it mutually exclusive. i think we can do something that's good for everybody. >> reporter: last friday, special counsel robert mueller indicted 12 russian military intelligence officers for their efforts to undermine the 2016 presidential election. putin has denied ordering the interference, but national security adviser john bolton today called foul. >> i find it hard to believe, but that's what one of the purposes of this meeting is, so the president can see eye to eye with president putin and ask him about it. >> the russians who were indicted, would you ask putin >> well, i might. i hadn't thought of that. but certainly i'll be ask

approval these hands on a so this basically is an unreal indictment against mr putin and it makes it very auden awkward for mr trump to be speaking with mr putin and asking mr putin well do you agree or not this degree with my justice department who's indicted you for trying to interfere with the campaign and hoping to help hillary clinton need i mean help him rather than hillary clinton even if he didn't succeed and so in an unwitting way in my judgment what this particular indictment does with the optics it makes it impossible for mr trump to fire mr moore because it will peer to everyone except the most dense that it appears that mr trump has something to hide with mr putin donald trump says ties with the u.k. are at the highest level of special that's a quote decide after soaring up controversy in an interview with london's sun newspaper and that interview he suggested plans for brock's that were too soft and if they stand the u.k. should not expect a trade deal with the u.s. on friday trump dismissed his own words as fake news john hall has more from windsor a day that ended for

after each meeting, president trump said putin sincerely denied the claims. mr. trump told reporters, every time he sees he, me says, i didn't do that. and i believe, i really believe that when he tells me that, he means it. well, putin may mean it, but here's what the intelligence community determined. two key findings in their january 2017 assessment -- russian president vladimir putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the u.s. presidential election and that putin and the russian government aspired to help president-elect trump's election chances, when possible, by discrediting secretary clinton. in may, the top democrat and republican on the senate intelligence committee agreed with that finding. there's no ambiguity there. president trump, however, has been all over the place on putin and russian meddling. >> the cia has concluded that russia interfievened in the election to help you win the presidency. your reaction. >> i think it's ridiculous. i think it's just another excuse. i don't believe it. president putin and russia put out a statement to

if you don't have a record of it, mr. putinresident trump on issues he doesn't know well and read it out to the press to say, oh, we agreed, for instance, that america is going to leave syria in return for something. again, i think it's a big mistake and i hope it's shorter than one hour. >> big picture timing, the summit is three days after 12 russian agents were indicted. listen to what the president said after he was briefed on those indictments. take a listen. >> we are competitors, not friend or enemy. he's not my enemy. hopefully, some day, maybe he'll be a friend. >> what is it? is he trying to play a charm offensive? >> i don't understand it. lebron james and seth curry are competitors. let's be clear, we are not competitors with them. there's russian military officers that did that. i don't understand why president trump thinks by using words like friends that he's going to get president putin to get in a concession. there's no history whatsoever that works with putin. >> this issue, also, is, a, we have not seen putin

i think mr. putin realizes now that mr. trump cannot deliver nearly what he may or may not have thought mr. trump was capable of delivering. apparently this wasn't lennon's term but the notion of useful idiot comes to mind where, in fact, mr. putin can on one hand gain the legitimacy that is -- that flows from a meeting with donald trump on the world stage, continue to attack america's political system and state and registration system in the run-up to our election and use mr. trump as cover in the process elevating his own role. i cannot imagine a sum that pmi produced less for the united states. you asked if it produced a resuming of arms control talks, dialogue. i think that would have been useful minus what you saw in helsinki, that 45-minute performance by mr. trump and the fact that the russians continue without american pushback to continue to try to interfere and manipulate our electorals. >> it's hard to figure out where this is going next. one of the things that clearly has happened is that, of course, europe -- e

would enjoy, that mr. putin could enjoy the cooperation of the u.s. government in furthering his political enemy's persecution, to me it is outrageous and not just because mr. mcfall was a former public servant of the united states. >> david sanger. this week, the walk backs, the clarifications, we're unclear what transpired between putin and trump behind closed doors. i was talking to jamie reuben last hour, former assistant secretary of state, he was saying all these calls, to talk to the u.s. interpreter in the room is a reflection of people's lack of confidence and trust in the u.s. government. how do you see it? >> brooke, it has been a remarkable week. i mean, if you start with the president on monday saying that an offer was incredible, the state department saying on wednesday the same offer unchanged was absurd you have an idea that the president not schooled in this doesn't know diplomatic immunity much less issues tom raised before, step in and do this on the fly with little preparation. the russians said there were several agreements, the in

mr prime minister are you going to accompany and mr putin to helsinki. yes i would be there as well as secretary pon pal we had a couple of conversations with mike on pal we discussed what kind of arrangements we should for see for the for the meeting and helsinki and parallel to the meeting between the two presidents which they want to start one on one would be meeting with mike is invested as to russia and to the united states respectively and we will discuss any issue which each of us would like to raise there would be no fixed agenda but there are obvious items which would certainly pop up. the two presidents will meet alone by the way i the end of you and mr putin i know him. but a few times and when i when i've been with him he doesn't speak english are they going to be interpreters at that private meeting between the two presidents. yes that would be interpreted as president putin actually understands english but for the sake of better expressing his views he prefers to use the interpreters of good office. will there be there be no other aides in

the two presidents will meet alone by the way i the end of you and mr putin i know in. part a few times and when i when i've been with him he doesn't speak english are they going to be interpreters at that private meeting between the two presidents. yes that would be interpreted as president putin actually understands english but for the sake of better expressing his views he prefers to use the interpreters of good office. will there be there be no other aides in the room you will not be in the room well as things stand now that's what the american side proposed and to be polite to people so we agreed. what are you looking forward to from the summit what from the russian standpoint will be a successful summit. well a beginning of normal communications. all channels of commit most channels of communications established during the last seven eight ten years have been frozen. on very important issues count that there are these and there are g. drug trafficking cyber security many others afghanistan other regional conflicts and what we have now is a spare reddick meetings b

were even more worried about what happened in those two hours when the president was alone with mr putin i believe the senate foreign relations committee should hold a hearing with the american translator who was present during president tramps and president putin's private meeting to determine what was specifically discussed and agreed to on the united states behalf now this all comes a despite agreement reached upon so we're just going to have to see if divestiture backlash hinders russia u.s. relations. with spoke to former pentagon security policy analyst michael maloof who told us that trump had been thinking long term in talking to moscow. regardless of what he just said about the translation. and interpretation he did underscore his support for the u.s. intelligence community and in fact the information goes way back even during the obama administration that there was alleged meddling. which amounted to no more than social social networking in the bye-bye whether it was russian chinese or anybody else in the world and but but he's but he's trying to get above that i think and move

he has to be very careful not to provoke mr putin.eply involved in the manipulation of the american election in 2016, he has to be very careful not to provoke mr putin into leaks which he... if he does know what happens, there could be very damaging leaks which could drive donald trump ever closer. we've mentioned syria, and we have heard that the syrian state flag is now flying again over seraa, the rebel hold out —— deraa, the rebel hold out that has crumbled. what sort of arrangement could russia offered to donald trump that would suit both men over the future of syria? in a sense, russia has achieved what it is wanted in syria, and syria is a united country. and secured its naval base. the bases are not that important, because russia, unlike america, which has bases everywhere, russia is basing its strategy on the nuclear arms. it's not basing its strategy on bases. they are tiny. symbolic. i think what happened there in syria was an unusual combination of iran and russia, america and israel cooperating so well that they have mana

he also said what i thought was very interesting mr putin said the two countries still have to speak about the overarching philosophy of the bilateral relationship and he said just that they also need to convey. working. maid of top political scientist in both countries who take stock of what has happened up until now and see if we can move forward whether that's going to happen and who knows i think the political class especially the political class of the united states still opposed to mr trump count sabotage this process but let's hope for the best. something else interesting was said about syria when president was asked by our correspondent. as to whether or not they had signed any specific specific movements on working together in syria he kept referring to israel in his work with israel and russia was also working with them and that perhaps the three of them could come together do you think we might be seeing something there or is that just a bit of a misunderstanding we're definitely seeing something there and there have been reports in the western media that particularly prim

we do know that in the public settings after the meeting in front of mr. putin, president trump raised questions about our own intelligence agencies, sort of accepted president putin's statement that he was not involved in the -- interfering in our elections in 2016, allowed mr. putin to make a comment about american former diplomats being made available to the russians. that was not dismissed out of hand. and the list goes on and on. so there is not a comfort level at mr. pompeo has a deep understanding as to what happened in that room. >> you mentioned that understanding as to what happened you would like to know what happened. we saw a number of moves by lawmakers in congress this week who tried to raise some issues. we saw resolutions being introduced on various issues regarding nato, regarding the intelligence committee's findings to reinstate those. we saw some very strong statements from the republican leadership. speaker ryan, leader mcconnell, saying that president putin uld not be welcomed on the hill. but my broader question is, what is the role of co

while seeming to defend mr. putin. >> he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. but i really do want to see the server. but i have -- i have confidence in both parties. i have great confidence in my intelligence people. but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. >> now, the golden rule of american politics is that partisan attacks end at the frontiers, and no high official ever sides with a strategic competitor or rival. trump's attack to undermine his own intelligence agencies comes after a week overseas where laid into nato, germany, or in the uk and calling the eu a foe. the setting for this summit, helsinki, has a special history in cold war politics, going back to 1975, and meetings between then soviet and american president. history will record the deep significance of this one. in part, it was the brainchild of the finnish president, sa auli niinisto. and there you are, welcome to the program. >> thank you very much. >> and we see you with the two presidents. it's

. >> mr. putin goes to washington. let's play "hardball." >> good evening, i'm chris matthews in san francisco. dizzying week for the trump administration. rather than get tougher on vladimir putin, president trump is rolling out the welcome mat. the president intends to follow up another round of talks with putin this autumn. quote, president trump asked john bolton to invite putin to washington. dan coats told andrea mitchell that he felt duty bound to speak out. >> when you watch that, in helsinki, what was your gut reaction watching him validate vladimir putin's assessment over yours? >> well my thoughts is that i believed that i needed to correct the record for that. and that this is the job i signed up for. and that was my responsibility. >> coats is also one of many who have had to fact check the president when it comes to russia. trump has been at odds with members of his own administration. >> i have president putin, he just said it is not russia. i will say, this i don't say any reason why it would be. >> my

again it's quite possible that it was because of mr putin that he said office in the first place and so. i don't think the issue here is increasing defense spending per se it is a a a a club to be used against an organization that he doesn't believe that now i think made it may well and probably will survive the trump president's presidency but. but but but i'm not sure that the defense spending is the issue i think the question for the europeans now is how do they stand up against this kind of bully. you know i'm not saying that i'm not sure the right response is to increase defense spending i mean this is becoming a one way street in which trump is dictating and what are the europeans going to do about a u.s. president who is undermining their agenda let's take the issue of. climate change perhaps the biggest long term national security issue that we've world security issue that we face the with us as the one country in the world that's not a member of the paris accord the iran agreement which seem to provide in the eyes of most europeans and many americans the best path to prevent

did he pass written notes to mr. putinnd to the russian translator so that our translator would not see it? i don't know. but there's something that is very, very puzzling about this. i am concerned because i know how manipulative the russians are and mr. putin is. and as the special counsel's investigation continues to go forward, we are going to find out the facts, as bob mueller uncovers them, about whether or not there were individuals that were very close to mr. trump and in the campaign who were actively abetting and aiding the russian efforts to interfere in that election. >> why did july 27th, 2016, that press conference where he asked russia to hack into hillary clinton's e-mails, why did that raise so many red flags? >> because it was basically overt collusion, encouraging the russians to try to find her e-mails. and so we see, you know, collusion in plain sight. now the question is were there things going on behind the scenes that may have in fact helped mr. trump get elected? he was elected. i know he -- whenev