also with us, christopher dickey. and in washington, former senior director at the national security council and former special assistant to president obama ned price. welcome to you all. thank you for joining us so early on what should be a monumental day, to say the least. president trump is in finland, where later today he'll sit down with his first official meeting with vladimir putin. this summit comes on the heels of his controversial uk visit and that highly contentious nato summit from last week where among other things, the president asserted that the russian leader was not a friend nor an enemy but actually a competitor. over the weekend, trump discussed his goals and expectations for this meeting. watch this. >> what's your goal from the putin meeting? >> i'll let you know thafter th meeting. nothing bad's going to come out of it. i go in with low expectations. i'm not going in with high expectations. i don't really -- i can't tell you what's going to happen. i don't expect anything. i frankly don't expect

joining me now is msnbc white house correspondent, geoff bennett, christopher dickey, world news editor at the daily beast. also an msnbc contributor. and sara mchammond, covering the white house. geoff, i'm describing the main event, lawyers fighting lawyers. give us your perspective here on what's going on and what's going to happen next. >> where to begin, wolf. you begin with lanny davis saying that rudy guiliani waived some weeks ago. remember, after the fbi raided michael cohen's properties, a system was set up so someone known as a special master would give the trump team and the cohen team a chance to sift through all of the evidence to determine what was privileged. before that tape was released, the trump side waived privilege, attorney-client privilege, on that tape. that's one of the ways we now -- the public has been able to hear it. so that's what lanny davis is alluded to in his statement. and, of course, he's also speaking to the fact that rudy guiliani, apparently, as is the case so often on these sunday talk shows, is saying a lot about his client. in fact, in many way

. >> christopher dickey, part of our team in helsinki, thank you very much.e checking in as soon as we know more. our next guest is a democratic member of congressman from new york, who was then an aide to president clinton during the 1994 summit. if that's the summit i'm thinking of, i was there in the press corps. >> i was at the 1988 summit in moscow. there was a lot of laughing there too. boris yeltsin was a colorful guy, as you can imagine. you're thinking of the hyde park summit. they have great personal chemistry, it's true. but the president took these seriously and did an enormous amount of preparation, none of which is in evidence here. >> well, let's talk about that. i guess you know something of this president's preparation. you certainly know what we'll call normal preparation for a meeting like this. we know this president likes to learn a certain way and briefing books are not his thing. so how much? how many hours do you think has gone into this? >> right. hard to say. i can tell you from my conversations with white house staff during this adm

also with us, christopher dickey. and in washington, former senior director at the national security council and former special assistant to president obama ned price. welcome to you all. thank you for joining us so

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