. >>> it's been a good day for sergeant david nicholas and the special response team.rching for a lost key to the jail's armory where a battery of weapons is stored. >> miraculously the keys just appeared. they just showed up out of nowhere. found them on a desktop with no one to be seen. out of embarrassment, someone accidentally took the set of keys home. didn't want anybody to find out about it. the next morning, snuck them back. >> do they still keep the bathroom key with the armory key? >> i do believe they have reconfigured their key sets and how they secure them. but give it six months, it will happen again and we'll go to plan "c." that's it. keys found, case closed. >> in a nearby courtroom, cecil kunkel's case is still open, but not for long. he's about to find out whether he will spend the next 15 to 61 years in prison for selling stolen checks to an undercover officer. >> all right. has the jury reached a verdict? >> we have. >> is it your position that you think you're hopelessly deadlocked? you don't think any further deliberations would help you reach a

david: professor nicholas burns and david kohl of stay with us.0 p.m. when alix steel is cohost here, they will the boston fireworks spectacular live from boston's esplanade. this is bloomberg. ♪ jonathan: the saudi led coalition that has cut links with qatar has added a two day demands thattheir include shutting down the al jazeera network and ties to iran. this is according to al jazeera, the network at the epicenter of the debate. joining us now is nicholas burns of harvard university. are we edging towards a deal here? >> well, that is the big question. if you just looked at the rhetoric coming out of both sides over the past few days and weeks, it is difficult seeing a solution being reached. we had the foreign minister of guitar saying -- qatar saying it would not give in to any demands that would chip away at it national sovereignty. that is what a lot of these demands on this list seem to do. they have said -- saudi arabia has said all along that the list of demands is not up for negotiation. it is important to note that an agreement by sa

earlier today, david westin spoke with nicholas burns, the former ambassador who talked about what pathg this friday. david: a visit to poland and the reset --it, yet never he needs to have a reset with his relationship with angela merkel. the true meaning is with vladimir putin. nicholas: the european union recently reaffirmed economic sanctions against russia for its invasion of crimea and annexation of crimea. i think it's important that president trump reaffirm american sanctions. there's been doubts about that over the last year or so secondly, there's the issue of russian interference in the american elections. our intelligence community is 100% sure that russia launched a major cyber attack to try to get into the databases of 21 american states. our president needs to push back and tell putin that is acceptable. there's a bill in the senate, 97-to vote in favor of the bill to put additional american economic sanctions on russia over this interference, and the trump administration is trying to water it down or even stop it altogether. i think of the president goes into these meeti

former ambassador to russia thomas bickering and nicholas burns and david senger, cnn and political national security analyst. you have met president putin. you know the stakes involved with this meeting. does it sound to you like president trump effectively delivered the message on russian election meddling? >> from what sergey lavrov had to say afterward, probably no. the idea that somehow either what he said or what he implied or his body language was twisted to be a kind of that's okay, guys, we need to put the past behind us, let's move on to the future, certainly is good news in moscow but really quite bad news for him here and for, i think, a large number of republicans who, in any way or another, are, if i could put it crudely, are very unhappy, very irate at what the russians have done to us. >> ambassador, as he is referring to, there are two versions of what went on inside that room. the u.s. version and the russian version. the russians saying that vladimir putin, you know, said that the russians did not interfere in the 2016 election and president trump accepted that. a senior t

david: joining us is nicholas burns. diplomat whor served as the ambassador to greece in nato. welcome back. happened while we were on the air yesterday with president trump speaking out on various issues. he not only admitted that perhaps the russians were involved in the interference in the election, he admonished them about the ukraine. is there a change in his position? >> it's a very good question. i'm not sure we know the answer. we saw two different president trump's yesterday. one was the script did president trump in poland where he criticized russia for destabilizing activity. article fiveirmed for the first time. in that press conference, i thought he gave vladimir putin a break on whether the russians interfered in our elections. our intelligence community is 100% unified. think there is a question about whether he really believes who was the real trump is and we will find that more today if he does not raise this issue of russian interference. i think there is going to be severe criticism here in the united states. we're watching the leaders file in. david: they ar

david sanger. chief international correspondent, christiane amanpour. and ambassador to nato, nicholas burns. we'll have other people come in as we need them. we have a big bank of experts for you. christiane, when i say context, he's getting ready to meet with president putin. in the press conference, he belittles the u.s. intelligence assessment and says we don't know if it was russia. maybe it was russia. could have been other people. that's right before he meets with putin. he's standing next to duet duda was -- he attacks a free press and the united states. conte contextually, what does it mean in the united states? >> it doesn't look good. the president usually goes abroad and touts all of the things that america has made special, freedom of the press, market economy. the idea of the sanctity borders. and the obvious, 100% commitment to article 5 of nato, which he hasn't done and has sent a shudder through allies. we'll see if he defines and redefines those words in his speeches coming up. but you know, putin is a very shre shrewd, tactical player. some say he's not a great strategist.

with us we have alise jordan, nicholas konfasori, david ignati ignatius, robert costa, and joining thekasie hunt. joe, taking it all in after this first hour, when you have the president himself, his attorneys, his staff calling this a russia hoax, when there's clearly been multiple lies about a meeting with not just the campaign manager but the son and the son-in-law, it's mind boggling how to character rise this and put it into words. it's hard to keep a straight face, actually. >> well, i think they're good at that. keeping a straight face and not telling the truth. i think last week was an extraordinarily important week in the development not only of this story but also of the trump presidency. this weekend we saw more of the same. you had a lot of conservative writers that had been saying for some time, a lot of opinion leaders that had been saying for some time this this russian story was much adieu about nothing. that began to change on friday. we talked about not only what david french wrote at the national review, talking about the importance of this investigation as we move f

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nicholas witchell, bbc news. we will have the headlines in a moment, but first, let‘s get the weather. another davidostly in the high teens. deeper into this evening, these showers will face but overnight they will continue across northern ireland, north—west england and the west of scotland, although occasionally some will push further east. clear spells to the south. friday‘s weather is like this, further showers across the northwest uk, sunny spells for many in england and wales but then pick a cloud and rain pushes into south—west england and wales, turning heavier and leading further east across other parts of indian and wales tomorrow evening. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines at 2.30pm. the government has asked independent experts to produce a report assessing eu migration, as the home secretary tried to reassure business about immigration policy after brexit. there will be an implementation phase when new eu workers who come here will need to register their details, but the full new eu immigration policy will be after the mac has reported in the final phase of leaving the eu. the number