and donald trump's national security advisor is visiting moscow john bolton is meeting that amir putin let's cross live now to our tease for more a lot to talk about obviously what topics do you think will be on the agenda today . well the white house made clear why john bolton national security advisor was coming in was to discuss difficult and outstanding issues between russia and the united states syria. developing arms race as well as relations which are at an all time low but when vladimir putin and john bolton met today was all very civil very official and both expressed hope that you know tomorrow would be brighter than it is today putin opened up by saying that he was being diplomatically polite that will. in their best shape but he said that is more the fault of internal u.s. struggles political struggle here dynamics. but it would have to begin with regrettably stating that relations between russia and the u.s. are not in the best shape and i said it many times and i want to repeat it at the meeting with you i think this is a result of acute internal political clashes within

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 but he said you know where we're donald trump is for stability that we're here and we're ready to meet with anyone and that's john bolton. the russians have walked all over the obama administration for eight years it's really been a pathetic performance if you make them feel pain and others feel pain then the possibility of deterring future conduct like this increases that's what we need to do the white house was pretty straightforward when they issued a statement as to why john bolton was coming in was that this discuss serious issues such as syria ukraine the developing arms race between russia and the united states alleged in the fear and by russia and the u.s. elections as they say but john bolton said during his meeting with vladimir putin that you know he hopes he expressed hope that relations can be restored and that the two countries can find common

president donald trump's national security advisor john bolton is visiting moscow where he's currently meeting the russian president vladimir putin let's cross over to. for more on the meeting the purpose of john bolton's visit you mentioned earlier in your report better relations with russia what do we expect to come out of it. well they're meeting now and they've both made opening statements vladimir putin stated the obvious that you know the relations between russia and the united states right now. exactly in their best shape and he says that because of internal political dynamics in the united states you know political struggles between various factions of the united states but he said john bolton's visit to russia even in an overt itself gives gives hope that relations will be restored between russia and the united states to which john bolton said that you know we'll will meet anyone we're open to even meeting a rainy and officials and that donald trump is supports global global stability and they both reiterated that nobody wants any sort of conflict but the white house clearly s

national security advisor john bolton to moscow where he met with the russian president. reports. like the mayor putin's advisors has revealed that this summit was indeed agreed upon before john bolton trumps national security advisor even came to moscow so this must must have been in the works for quite a while as i say details this guy all we know is that there it will happen outside of russia outside of the united states somewhere in a neutral country third party will play host the meeting is expected to last a few hours and end in a joint declaration by both donald trump and blasphemy of putin which which will be a breakthrough given covered relations earlier today we saw blood timea putin meet john bolton and you know it was all very official handshake smiles but they exchanged a few words an opening statement and let me a putin said that relations he was being perhaps very diplomatic he said relations out in their base shape now others might say they've never been worse but. said that this is the fault of internal u.s. politics and dynamics i have to begin with regrets a bel

press conference that john bolton gave was pretty frank and straightforward he was asked challenging questions such as why why this summit now russia's changed nothing in its behavior. at which john bolton replied that you know donald trump is in favor of weld stability he's in favor of talking of negotiating and finding a solution mend relations with russia despite its two inch criticism both at home in the united states and abroad the fact is that it's important for the leaders of these two countries to meet their wide range of issues despite the differences between the square at those present tramp and present couldn't think they may be able to find constructive solutions i'd like to hear someone say that's a bad idea it's important to bear in mind who is saying these words john bolton national security adviser to donald trump now but he says that aggressive man when it comes to foreign policy it's america first thing him and everyone else second said that he hopes that russia and the united states will mend relations and that they'll find common goals to work towards especially g

john bolton at which he. said i don't want to reply i don't want to comment on this question but let me also extend. the friendship they both reads rates at the desire med relations to make peace and good and even offered to share russia's experience of hosting. it was with i want to congratulate you on winning the right to host the feed for world cup in twenty twenty six we so far managed to organize the world cup appropriately we'll be happy to share our experience in the. most appreciative of your courtesy in graciousness here and i look forward to hearing how you handled the world cup so successfully among others. bolton's visit to russia was discussed during trump's meeting with the portuguese president conversation inevitably football's biggest event portugal's stop laughing. i think they're doing a fantastic job with the world cup right now. it's in russia and i will tell you that it's exciting my son loves soccer and he loves watching the world cup and they have really done a fantastic job as you spok

national security advisor john bolton you can see him see said. to give us more details on me saying that is now set to take place that had been reports of it for some time now and. we now have confirmation that there will be a meeting between the russian president putin and. as event donald trump this comes off to a meeting in moscow john bolton that are on a visit to the russian capital he's been meeting with senior figures there including the russian president vladimir putin he also had a meeting with the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and the defense minister as well sergey shaw so you. haven't yet heard about where precisely that meeting will take place the logistics is still a little unclear we don't know when or where the meeting will occur but we know that it will be in a country the meeting is unlikely to take place either in russia or the united states but obviously a great deal to discuss discuss we have seen a deterioration in the relationship between washington and moscow recently not least over alleged russian interference in

john bolton at which he. said i don't want to replied i want to comment on this question but let me a book and also it's that. friendship they both reads rated that desire med relations to make he said that they have even offered to share russia's experience of hosting a world cup it was with that i want to congratulate you on winning the right to host the feed for world cup in twenty twenty six we so far managed to organize the world cup appropriately we'll be happy to share our experience you know and. most appreciative of your courtesy and graciousness here and i look forward to learning how you handled the world cup so successfully among other things donald trump has also confirmed that the meeting is taking place i think that ukraine and syria are likely to be among the topics of discussion we asked a former pentagon official michael maloof about any common ground the two leaders might be able to find. i think first of all they'll agree to disagree on certain things for example on the alleged russian int

meet john bolton and you know it was all very official. smiles but. few words an opening statement and said that relations he was being perhaps very diplomatic he said relations out than there. are now others might say they've never been worse but. said that. the fault of internal u.s. politics and dynamics. have to begin with regrettably stating that relations between russia and the us are not in the best shape and i said it many times and i want to repeat it at the meeting with you i think this is a result of acute internal political clashes within the u.s. but your visit to moscow gives hope that we'll be able to at least take the first steps. between our countries. while this trip john bolton coming to moscow has been talked about for weeks there was so much speculation about what you know what the point was given this this is john bolton himself and he's aggressive in his foreign policy he's. the sort of person that would always put america first there's everyone out second coming here and you know this breakthrough coming now is certainly someth

president donald trump's national security adviser john bolton has arrived right here in moscow where he'll be meeting with the russian president vladimir putin. for details on this. one might expect there's a list of issues for the two to discuss here what are your expectations. i'd house said itself the as a number of reasons outstanding serious issues between russia and the united states we're talking syria ukraine we're talking this developing arms race as some call it as well as what the united states calls alleged russian interfering in the u.s. two thousand and sixteen elections but the real juice of it is that there's been a lot of talk room is mostly about a potential meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin face to face but look at who's coming john bolton he said to meet with me a putin but the character himself speaks volumes john bolton is a hawk he's aggressive when it comes to foreign policies are the real america first everyone else second kind of guy so even if trump is you know set on improving relations with russia which are a absolute low it's not a fact tha

well john bolton was trying to tamp down expectations he did at mit that there are many areas where the u.s. and russia disagree he also did try to get into the ongoing investigations here in the united states about whether the russians may have interfered in the two thousand two thousand and sixteen presidential election even though the u.s. intelligence community has concluded that that interference did take place but bolton said that it's important to get the two men into the same room to start hashing out these issues and to try to build this relationship for the long term one other point bolton before he joined the trumpet ministration had been very critical of moscow's behavior and several of the reporters during this press conference raised some of his past writings as a question you know how do you square what you did before the administration with what you're doing now and he basically said that when you joined a presidential administration in the u.s. you put your personal views aside and you were there as an advocate for the president now whether people in the room bought it

the state department officials believe that the national security adviser john bolton made those libya to get the talks off track. jeff zeleny is one of the correspondents breaking the story. what are you learning about the president's reaction to bolton's comments behind closed doors. >> the president was caught off guard by this when he saw the new national security adviser on television talking about this. he was surprised and wasn't sure why he was doing it. to remind folks, this is what the president saw while he was surprised last month when john bolton said this. >> but is it a requirement that kim jong-un agree to give away those weapons before you give any kind of concession? >> i think that is right. we're looking at libya model of 2003 and 2004. >> we heard discussion about the libya model. people who are supportive of john bolton said he was talking about the disarmament, not the removal of the leader there. but the reality is the president wondered why he was saying that. so in recent days we're told the state department officials believe john bolton was trying to blow thi

john bolton at which he. said i don't want to reply i don't want to comment on this question but let me also extend that in friendship they both reads rates at the design med relations to make he said to me i wouldn't even offer. to share rush's experience of hosting the world cup it was with that i want to congratulate you on winning the right to host the feed for world cup in twenty twenty six we so far managed to organize the world cup appropriately we'll be happy to share our experience. most appreciative of your courtesy and graciousness here and i look forward to learning how you handled the world cup so successfully among other things specific details that's the way that donald trump to me a good thing will meet i still secret they decided to share them synchronously the kremlin and the white house in washington to get that tomorrow decided build an ounce and location it will be russia the united states it will be a. country hosting the event in a meeting that six back to the last few hours ago and in

national security advisor john bolton to moscow where he met with the russian president reports. this summit is indeed happening one of like me at putin's a aides also said that it was organized before john bolton's visit to moscow but we learned we had a few details as to why or how this summit was organized john bolton said that don't trump ease for mending relations with russia despite criticism both at home at the broad the fact is that it's important for the leaders of these two countries to meet there are a wide range of issues despite the differences between the square both president trump and president couldn't think they may be able to find constructive solutions i'd like to hear someone say that's a bad idea which you know it's important that it's john bolton saying those words because he's aggressive when it comes to foreign policy he cool russia's alleged meddling in the u.s. elections an act of war and dad now he's backing donald trump saying that we do indeed need this summit that you know it will benefit it will benefit everyone especially at this stage with vladim

president trumps national security advisor john bolton has arrived in moscow is going to be meeting with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov he'll also be meeting with the russian president vladimir putin. has this report. white house said itself that the official purpose of this visit is to discuss the outstanding in serious issues between russia and the united states but really what everyone's talking about is that potentially they're setting up a meeting between the lad timea putin and donald trump and in that vein vladimir putin himself is going to meet john bolton later today as to the and bastard of john bolton in this case well he's quite the character he's a real hawk aggressive when it comes to foreign policy a real kind of america first everybody else second kind of guy so even if donald trump eases interested in in warming relations you know making up with russia now the relations are at an all time low it isn't a fact that john bolton build support him. the russians have walked all over the obama administration for eight years it's really been a pathetic performance if

as far as john bolton not being there, the president is someone who has thought he could handle this largely on his own, but north korea was upset by john bolton's comments about this before. >> kevin, let me play for you what president trump told reporters of after that meeting. take a listen. >> a letter was given to me by kim jong-un and that letter was a very nice letter. >> it was a very interesting letter. >> i haven't seen the letter yet. i purposely didn't open the letter. i haven't opened it. i didn't open it in front of the director. i said would you want me to open it? he said you can read it later. i may be in for a big surprise, folks. >> kevin, it is hard to overlook that obvious contradiction. was that letter simply immaterial to the president's decision to move forward with the summit? what do you make of that response? >> i just think the response speaks for itself. one of the takeaways here is this is a response to where we were just in the last weeks. it would suggest that secretary of state mike pompeo, the former cia director, former congressman, has really been

with that with regards to this meeting with the russians but john bolton bolton should be available to the press later today we've got a whole bunch of questions lined up for him and you know once we hear his answers it might give us a clearer picture of whether the united states genuinely wants better relations with russia. and i'll tell you some what i guess dear thank you. father was an unexpected outcome of choose various primary elections in the u.s. state of new york twenty eight year old socialist alexandria a car so quite a terse challenge the incumbent democratic party candidate and won a seat in congress is a correspondent. the country is reacting to the results of the primary congressional elections that took place tuesday in five u.s. states now the media has focused on the fight between donald trump and his critics but a lot of the surface another fight is boiling the fight for control of the democratic party in new york city's borough of the bronx a ten term democratic congressman faced off against a twenty eight year old for the nomination of the democratic party because

politician and a rush to russia this time at national security advisor john bolton is in the spotlight some commentators are describing him as kremlin affiliated after a meeting with vladimir putin. i was cross live former u.s. diplomat jim john trust jim always good to have you with us here when i think of john bolton and especially is history the last thing i think of is kremlin affiliated what do you make of these allegations of john bolton's links with the kremlin. you know it's really shot it's really hard to talk about that and keep a straight face i mean if there's anybody who's not a criminal an agent as john bolton i who who else can you think of on the american political spectrum look i mean we had such his steria in the last well well over a year even before the election regarding donald trump and russia tried to block any kind of normalization of ties with russia that i think some people are literally becoming unhinged there was one fellow on c.n.n. the other day talking about how putin has devoured trump i think i think mr bolton who is by no means pro russian is saying ye

the battle of john bolton versus mike pompeo. what they feel. tariffs have been involved in this and sanctions. when it comes to the actual domestic stuff it's a battle of people trying to fight each other basketball. they are not debating each other. i don't like you. a lot of the people complaining about leaking, the people on tv are some of the leaks as well. it's a lot of mess when it comes to domestic. >> it's interesting to know john bolton seems to be sidelined in this process. this whole career has been denuclearization of the korean peninsula. he hasn't been in the last two months a key player in this. kennedy: he's going. >> even when you look at the president, he talked about how they are afraid of john bolton. i think john bolton has become the trump bad cop. kennedy: i think you are right. i think the president appreciates that john bolton really gets under their skin. he says things the president doesn't have to. john bolton, like hip or not, he has an incredible command of the facts. he just has a very specific way -- >> i don't t

politician and russia this time national security advisor john bolton is in the spotlight some commentators are describing him as kremlin affiliated after a meeting with vladimir putin political analyst to gina loudon believes bolton was merely doing his job by laying the groundwork for the some well i think that the president and john bolton in turn at the will of the president because he answers directly to the president serves at the will of the president i think it's completely normal that we would want to meet with russia every u.s. president in the history of my life anyway has met with the president of russia and i think that maintaining dialogue and discourse are important next steps between the two countries and i don't know why as as as john bolton said i don't know why anyone would be opposed to that and i think that most americans would hope that whatever the united states and russia could agree on would be able to be discussed and so that if there are some good things they can agree on they can move forward on those things. fifteen of you russia world cup decided which of the r

john bolton to which he. said i don't want to reply i don't want to comment on this question but let me also extend. friendship they both reads rates at the. federal nations to make he said he couldn't even offer to share russia's experience of who. i want to congratulate you on winning the right to host the fifa world cup in twenty twenty six we so far managed to organize the world cup appropriately we'll be happy to share our experience. most appreciative of your courtesy and graciousness here and i look forward to hearing how you. successfully among other specific details when donald trump will meet still secret they decided to share them synchronously the kremlin and the white house and washington together tomorrow. some new creation it will be russia the united states it will be a. country the event in a meeting that six back to the last few hours ago and in a joint declaration. now known trump has also confirmed that the meeting has been agreed on adding that ukraine and syria are likely to be among the

john bolton said the. fool mending relations with russia despite criticism both at the broad the fact is it's important for the leaders of these two countries. and. there are a wide range of issues despite the differences between the square those present trump and present couldn't think they may be able to find constructive solutions i'd like to hear someone say that's a bad idea it's important that it's john bolton saying those words because he's aggressive when it comes to foreign policy he cool russia's alleged meddling in the us elections and act of war and now he's backing donald trump saying that we do indeed need this summit that you know it will benefit it will benefit everyone especially at this stage with vladimir putin pulled the relations not in the best shape which is perhaps diplomatically very polite others would say that the relations between the united states and russia. are at an all time low you have to begin with regrets about stating that relations between russia and the us a note in t

well i think that the president and john bolton in turn at the will of the president because he answers directly to the president serves at the will of the president i think that it's completely normal that we would want to meet with russia every u.s. president in the history of my life anyway has met with the president of russia and i think that mean dialogue and discourse are important next steps between the two countries and i don't know why as john bolton said i don't know why anyone would be opposed to that and i think that most americans would hope that whatever the united states and russia could agree on would be able to be discussed and so that if there are some good things they can agree on they can move forward on those things. go back to our breaking news story with five people have been killed and several injured in a shooting at a newspaper office in annapolis in the u.s. state of maryland because live now to talk about fondant who's in the u.s. . what more do we know. this point police are giving the number of five for the number of people killed the number of fatalities t

john bolton wasn't there for the oval officeting o frida oneorth jong-un's right-hand man. cnn there is an escalating feud between bolton and the secretary of state saying that pompeo told trump it would be counterproductive to allow bolton to attend the oval office meeting. the white house is downplaying the idea of any sort of rift and insisting that the meeting was always intended to be small. joining me to discuss cnn national security analyst samantha vinograd, adviser to president obama's national security adviser and michael alan. good to have both of you with us. it is never a good idea to have your secretary of state and your national secity adviser at odds. that being said, the fact that this is happening at this time and that it is so public, sam, how troubling is that? moving into this meeting, that the north koreans know this is going on. >> i think it is dangerous. it is unprecedented but also dangerous. this shows how thirsty donald trump is for the meeting to happen. he knows that the north koreans don't like john bolton. john bolton has called for regime ch

fleitz has worked with john bolton before.t sense he's not much of a surprise in terms of somebody who john bolton might want to hire. but is he an unusual choice for the national security council given what it does? >> well, i think the one thing that john bolton will expect from him first and foremost is that he's going to be sort of an enforcer within the national security council. as you mentioned at the beginning of the trump administration there were a number of people who had these sort of conservative controversial views about islam, and i think we may be seeing a return to that at the nsc. but he's going to be i think john bolton's enforcer first and foremost within the nsc to clamp down on leaks and sort of enforce john bolton's vision. the big question we're trying to understand here is how much is his personal view going to influence what happens with the nsc, and we are waiting to get some clarity on that position. >> somebody who says that there ought to be a new house un-american activities committee, who was th

here is how the president's national security adviser john bolton defined that back in april. >> northea has to give up basically its whole program before the u.s. begins to relieve economic sanctions. >> yeah, relieving that pressure isn't going to make negotiation easier, it could make it harder. chris: mr. chang, do you think that kim will ever give up entire missile and nuclear program, what's the most that we can hope for in that area? >> yeah, i think we could actually get cvid. this is not a kim question, though. kim certainly doesn't want to give up missiles or nukes, he doesn't want to give up any of that, of course, this is an issue of what president trump will do, whether president trump will use the elements of american power to force kim to do what he doesn't wan do. for instance, we can tightening sanctions on north korea, although the sanctions restrict, they are not strict enough and we need to put sanctions on north korea's major power backers, the chinese and russians who have been violating sanctions blatantly for the last three months. so clearly there's a lot that

let's see what john bolton has to say and i'm fascinated to see what he's got today. thank you, matthew. >>> also, we are following more breaking news. the supreme court handing down major blows to unions representing public sector employees and the president tweeting about it. saying this, t supreme court rules in favor of non-union workers who are able to support a candidate of his or her choice without having those who control the union deciding for them and for the coffers and the democrats. jessica schneider is outside the supreme court with much more on this. jessica, lay it out for us. what do the justices have to say? >> the supreme court striking down in particular this illinois law that allow public sector unions to collect the so-called fair share fees from all employees, all public sector employees regardless of the fact if they were members or not. that's a violation of free speech and striking down this illino law and what's important is there are 22 states around the country that have similar laws like this and this does deal a majorlo to these public s

chris: north koreans just plain don't like him, right in. >> hostile language about john bolton.g that with donald trump. certainly there's a lot of hard feelings from the bush days when john bolton advocated -- chris: david, the president has said from the start this week in canada, if this meeting is a waste of time, i am going to walk out. do you think there are any circumstances on which he would walk out or given probably at the very least there's going to be the optics to have two men meeting and talking that he will play the singapore as disaster? >> a lot of ground work, rough process. the president really wants this to be a success. he sees political victory here. he wants something predecessor have done, start meeting, he lowered expectations, i see very unlikely the president gets up and walks out, you know, even if he won't see a sort of grand bargain in the end which no one expects to happen. it's a start of a process. the president said it could take more meetings and certainly the staff to nail down details. chris: your man, mike pompeo at the state department has

>> reporter: we were advised john bolton would be participating. his absence is worth noting and andrea added the appropriate context and an intans chief of staff john kelly, supposed to be head of the structure here felt it appropriate he do this. if we turn the tables a bit and flash forward to say the summit happens, and if it is in local time based on being in singapore. in the united states, we'd be watching that in the middle of the night. today with this incredibly important visit for a north korean official, it's now about 2:00 in the morning in north korea and time zones matter. we know that the world in north korea is not the 24/7 cable environment we live in, but time zone matters for this reason. in just the last month north koreans decided to adjust their time zone to unify it with south korea. it had been a 12.5 hour time zone. they 14ishifted a half hour so north and south would be in the same time zone. in a moment of diplomacy, even small gestures like that are a sign, and give us a sense of the new moment that president moon of sou

wednesday at the white house where he said that syria and ukraine would be topics of discussion john bolton who is in moscow said the the alleged interference in the u.s. election by russia will also be discussed what's getting a lot of attention this morning in washington over a mostly the political classes at least is a tweet from donald trump that he released shortly before the out of bounds but it was made in the opening sentence is russia continues to say they have nothing to do with meddling in the election exclamation mark that is you know on the face of a statement of fact russia does continue to say it had nothing to do with meddling in the u.s. presidential election but that is causing some consternation here in washington at least art sheraton's a live press in washington she had thank you yes defense secretary james mattis has been meeting his south korean counterpart in seoul the two al talks on washington's decision to suspend joint military exercises which have long angered north korea that happened during the recent summit between donald trump and kim jong mattis says this i

here to refute that image is ambassador john bolton.heers and applause ) ambassador bolton, thank you for joining us. >> oh, my pleasure, stephen. it's very important to me that nobody thinks president trump has handed the keys to the war machine to some sort of hair- trigger lunatic. >> stephen: well, that's very reassuring, sir. >> because if i heard someone say that, i'd blow them up quick! ( laughter ) trump's giving me the nukes! bladda-boom. bup-bup-bup-bup-bam! ( applause ) wo! >> stephen: sir, i just want to be clear: i am not the one saying those things about you. >> good, because if you did, i'd chase you through a hotel flinging mini shampoos and staplers at you. come on! come on, colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ahh! you're next, saddam! ( laughter ) >> stephen: so, sir, you're saying there's no truth to the stories of you being an unhinged bully? >> stephen, those stories are only hogwash and poppycock, they're also poppywash and hogcock. ( laughter ) i'm as soft and tame as general snowball. >> stephen: i'm sorry. who's ge

among them secretary mike pompeo, chief of staff john kelly and national security adviser john bolton. north korea analyst gordon chang joined us earlier to tell us what they can expect. >> for us this is going to be a very tricky, very intricate

. >> he's not more of a neo con than john bolton. >> but john bolton isn't getting what he wanted atll. that's the big splinter within this administration. you're watching how mike pence and john bolton seem to be completely opposed to what donald trump has envisioned for peace with north korea. i think that it is testament to donald trump's belief in his own cult of personality that he got to this point. i think it's a good thing that from this point onward, donald trump is going to have not as much firsthand contact. it's going to be -- >> he invited him to the white house. >> well, exactly. >> he just opened the door. i talked to two former senior intelligence officials who said to pte i out of tube. he is now a coequal to the united states of america. >> he has done that. he has elevated kim jong-un. i do think he's the only person whcould have gotten away with doing it because he has so much cover from the right. he has cover with john bolton being his national security advisor. no other american politician could have conceded so much and have not reaped a political whirlwind fr

by national security adviser john bolton. you'll see that as it's happening. our tv cameras via the pool set up live. walk across the colonnade and into the over's office, where he will meet president trump we are told. where this letter handoff will happen. remember what is why kim yong-chol, former top spy in north korea, you said, kim jong-un's right-hand man, it's a personal letter from kim jong-un to president trump. he didn't come all the way here to send a letter, go pound sand. it's probably a sign kim jong-un is trying to make the singapore summit happen june 12th. we know overnight according to north korean media committed to the restoration of the peninsula. a story we've heard before. we'll see if the u.s. takes it serious enough to take donald trump overseas.

he is first sending john bolton to russia. we have fred pleitgen with more. >> reporter: the visit for john bolton is important, michelle. the spokesperson for vladimir putin saying the russians are aware the visit is going to take place. obviously they will try to hammer out what would be discussed at such a summit. one would assume russian meddling in the 2016 election would be on the agenda, but also geopolitical issues like syria and ukraine as well. we have been hearing in the russian media that the russians expect they could get concessions from the trump administration especially on the issue of ukraine and annexation of crimea. it looks like the summit may take place in vienna. meanwhile, vladimir putin is in the middle of the diplomatic offensive. he is hosting the football world cup and south korean leader moon jae-in is here. >> that is something everyone will watch. thank you, fred. >>> a check on cnn money. global stocks higher today. trade tensions with the u.s. and china continue to hit wall street. dow is now d