>> woodruff: a, john mclaughlin, what about that?and the white house argument that, well, these are the world's two most powerful nations with nuclear weapons pointed toward each other, their leaders need to at least be on a talking basis. hat? about >> well, i think we can all agree that there's merit in seeking a more constructive relationship with russia but they're going about itntirely in the wrong way. when you go into a meeting with the russians either of the intelligence or diplomatic variety, the one thing you can be absolutely shiewf of is that they will know very precisely what they want and they will have a strategy for getting it from you, and if you don't go in with a very clear idea of your interests and what you're looking for, they'll get what m you.ant fro what surprised me most today, i, th'm at the aspen security forum, was director coats' surpse at the announcement of this summit, the next one, andad it me think this is not a normal government bause, in any normal government, this would have been discussed among

john mclaughlin. for more on the president's relationship with vladimir putin i'm joined by julia ioffe, correspondent for gq and michael isikoff with yahoo! news and co-author of "russian rule evident: the inside story of putin's war on america and the election of donald trump." julia, what do you make of what we've been talking about so far? at some point one goes tired of thinking the president's just not listening to his advisers or the president must know better. you've got to arrive at the conclusion that he knew what he was doing. the whole world told him he wasn't prepared for this meeting and he said he'd been preparing all his life for it. he went in there apparently knowing what he was doing. >> i think that's probably true. i think he went in there knowing that he was meeting with a man who expressed a clear preference for him during the election, after the election. donald trump has seen even more than we've seen in terms of classified intelligence on what the russians did to help him win

he is -- you know, i said this today in the same interview with john mclaughlin. when he goes to this nato conference, who will he represent? will he represent the united states or will he represent moscow? >> or donald trump. >> maria bartiromo did a recent interview with the president where she got a lot of criticism for not doing any follow-ups. she did ask some good questions. here's an example of her good question and just an extraordinary non-answer by the president of the united states. let's listen to this. >> are you going to mention the meddling when you meet with russian president vladimir putin on july 16th? >> i'd like to see some answers as to why we didn't take the server, why the fbi didn't take the server from the dnc. >> and evelyn farkas, that was his complete answer to are you going to mention the russian meddling in our election when you speak to vladimir putin. he said "i'd like to see some answers as to why we didn't take the server, why the fbi didn't take the server from the dnc." >> i mean, lawrence, this isn't the first time i think i've

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and msnbc global affairs analyst john mclaughlin, acting cia director. kristen, the mixed messages from the president continuing. sarah sanders trying to say yesterday that the president wasn't saying that he believed russian intelligence, even though he said that, and another interview with cbs where he for the first time came down hard on vladimir putin. what are we to make of all of this and what is the intelligence community to make of all of it? >> reporter: i think first of all, in terms of what to make in terms of what's happening here at the white house, andrea, this is a white house in full damage control mode. the president clearly realizing it, trying to take a much tougher tone when it comes to vladimir putin during that interview with cbs news in which he finally says yes, he does agree with the intelligence community's assessment that russia meddled in the 2016 election. he caveated that by saying "because he's the head of the country." the mixed messaging is something the president's critics have seized upon. we saw that in full display ye

. >> john mclaughlin. hi - hi there. these are both people i have worked with and for. the whole nature of international is changing and maybe one of the main characteristics there is no national companies left anywhere more bmws are made in north carolina than bavaria. or 40 different countries contribute to the iphone. for a company with that kind of profile and scope how does that change political with one -- correct mom -- correct -- risk compared to 25 years ago. >> that is one of the key variables. so what created the landscape? the first set of changes our politics. the second set is technology and the third set is that companies are global in a way they haven't been in a very long time they are leaving her and more global than 20 years ago so that means there is a risk that is key what is so if you have a disruption in one part of your supply-chain but politically induced or a natural disaster somewhere is high so you add up that string of with a high likelihood something will go wrong somewhere tomorrow so one of the examples in the book we found a little compa

also from aspen tonight, john mclaughlin, former deputy director of the cia who also served as acting director back in '04. he of course is a lifelong expert in counterterrorism and intelligence policy. i have to ask you your reaction upon finding out that our director of national intelligence is unaware that an adversary has been invited to washington, say nothing of others of our allies who have yet to receive their first invitation of this presidency. >> well, brian, you know, my reaction sitting there in the audience today was, you know, our government has slipped out of gear. it is not functioning normally. that would not happen -- i served seven presidents. that would not happen in any other administration. and it shows that the president was not prepared for the helsinki summit and is now improvising again. normally the way this works in a normal government that is in gear is that, as you know, there will be deputies meetings and principals meetings to prepare for these things. the pros and cons would be discussed in detail. but with full knowledge of what we wanted out of it a

steve malzberg welcome bucko this hour good to be here gentleman in the words of the late great john mclaughlin issue one and we'll go to jonathan then steve in that alphabetical order nato bottom line it damage done it just seems to be that trump is on its high rates undermine our allies i mean to refer to the e.u. as our biggest photo and then to work to undermine nato to me i mean looking at this from a political angle this works really well in the hands of the democrats ahead of the midterms i mean it's almost as if trump is working for the democrats because this it does nothing but rally the base he is continuing to go after our allies and to strengthen people that are enemies of our nation and that's exactly who do with nato nato is now furious i mean the lying just i mean just one of the lies that stood out to me was when he said that the u.s. contributes ninety percent to nato the actual number i believe it's twenty two percent just just lying just undermining our allies ridiculous but very typical trump and i appreciate it as a democrat but steve those fuzzy facts leave his fans undaun

john mclaughlin, former acting cia director joins me now.me this morning. >> good morning, joy. >> this indictment, this large stack of papers in front of me right now, does this materially change anything in terms of your understanding of not just what russia did to the united states in 2016 and the response to it? >> well, i think that the evidence now is overwhelming. you know, we could have said back in the summer before the election that it was just beginning to build, you will recall the u.s. government first said something about it in october of 2016. but, by now, i think the various investigations, the indictments, what the intelligence community has said and very importantly, what the senate intelligence committee, on a bipartisan basis said about the intelligence assessment. i think all of that adds up to, you know, unassailable body of evidence that the russians interfered in our election and seeking to tip the election toward mr. trump. >> i meant the fisa warrant application against carter page is what i was referring to. i have

. >> john mclaughlin. it's interesting times, to say the least.ry much for weighing in. >>> michael cohen might have some explaining to do on capitol hill, and will all that eventually backfire? ♪ ooh, heaven is a place on earth ♪ uhp. i didn't believe it. again. ♪ ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth? ♪ i want to believe it. [ claps hands ] ♪ ooh i'm not hearing the confidence. okay, hold the name your price tool. power of options based on your budget! and! ♪ we'll make heaven a place on earth ♪ yeah! oh, my angels! ♪ ooh, heaven is a place on earth ♪ [ sobs quietly ] ♪ ooh, heaven is a place on earth ♪ whoooo. tripadvisor makes finding your perfect hotel... relaxing. just enter your destination and dates. tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites to find the hotel you want for the lowest price. dates. deals. done! tripadvisor. >>> congress weighing in on the results of the cohen investigation. lindsey graham doubting cohen's reliability earlier. >> you should be suspicious of anything he says. he's on the hot seat. he's looking to going to

presents but what the president did instead was to undermine our intelligence agencies, frankly as john mclaughlina cia director under george bush said, we were attacked and the president sided with the enemy. and so he's yet to condemn vladimir putin for his role in attacking our democracy and tried to undermine the seriousness of this attack on our election and now he's invited vladimir putin to come to the iconic white house. the people's house. a symbol of our great democracy. without ever trying to hold him accou accountable for his behavior. >> so did the president do any damage to the country by holding that meeting? and in this aftermath? >> absolutely. first of all, we don't know what happened in the secret meeting for more than two hours. so that is very concerning. this is a very unusual tactic where the president met with a foreign adversary with none of his staff, not the secretary of state, not his director of national intelligence, no members of the staff to take notes. we still don't have a read out from that meeting so some russians television is reporting that some agreements wer

john? >> erin mclaughlin in amesbury.osted. >>> in the meantime, cnn has learned deaths from a bacterial infection spiked in puerto rico after hurricane maria hit the island. medical experts tell cnn an epidemic or health emergency should have been declared. leyla santiago joins us with more. leyla? >> not only do medical experts say an outbreak should have been declared, they're telling us that doing so could have triggered a different type of response. even so, the government of puerto rico is refusing to call it an outbreak. let's go over what we found. cnn has identified 26 cases of help toe spiro sis in the month after hurricane maria. that's a bacterial illness that spreads through water. it's not so common to be so deadly. that number, 26, is twice the amount of those types of cases listed in puerto rico. the official death toll only lists four of those cases related to hurricane maria. so it's another reason to question this death toll. we found the cases after digging through a government database that we had to

well, i think john mclaughlin, the former cia director for president bush said it well, our country wasand president trump stood with the enemy. vladimir putin led an attack on our democracy, personally led in the campaign to interfere with the american presidential election. that's the unanimous content of our insell against agency. it's also the unanimous conclusion, or the conclusion of the senate intelligence committee, a republican-led committee. there's no question that vladimir putin did that and-- >> you're not satisfied with the president dialing that back and saying he essentially misspoke? >> i'm sorry? i'm not satisfied-- >> i'm sorry, maybe there was an audio issue there. that the president said that he dialed that back, that he misspoke, that he didn't want to give the wrong impression. >> look, we have to look at all the president's actions and statements. vladimir putin is a thug, a dictator, and invaded a sovereign country, attacked our elections, is engaged in all kind of mischief in syria. he is an adversary of the united states and now he's invited him to the white h

aaron mclaughlin live with the protesters on the streets of london. erin? >> that's right, john. let me move out of the way so you can see this scene. this is what organizers have called the carnival of resistance. this is the woman's march. marching through regent street, a main shopping center in london. the women's march seen as the precursor to the larger march, the stop trump march which is expected later today, organizers tell me that it's fitting, that these marches begin with the women and as you can see, londoners have gathered on the streets to see this march. people have come out of their workplaces and shops, tourists here. this is -- right over that way is piccadilly circus, you can see crowds of people gathering just to take a look at this march and what they've been chanting is "london, make some noise" as they've been progressing down regent street and really organizers tell me that their objective here is twofold -- to send a message to president trump that his policies are divisive and not welcome here but also to send a message to british prime minister theresa

mclaughlin from cogent strategies. whatever that augments. breaking news -- whatever that meant. breaking news, johnelly, one person has said he has been asked to stay on until 2020. theres important because has been speculation about how he is getting along with the president of the united states. one report says he is been asked to stay on until 2020. much more coming up. this is bloomberg. ♪ this is bloomberg markets: balance of power. i am david westin. shery: i am shery ahn. u.s. intelligence agencies are reportedly seen signs of north korea building missiles. ofpons that are capable reaching the u.s. mainland. all of this according to the washington post. trump'spite president assertions that north korea is no longer a nuclear threat. joining us from washington is a senior research fellow at northeast asia, bruce klinger. we have the latest reports that earlier this year, we were talking about north korea dismantling their rocket testing. what is the latest development telling you about north korea's ultimate intention when it comes to the nuclear weapons program? bruce: the report shows the c

defense argument, white male shoots and kills mclaughlin in front of his girlfriend and three of their children. next sunday, a week from today at 4:00 at the st. johnhurch on palmetto street in clear water, florida, i and national action network will join you and the family raising this issue of stand your ground, this rule in florida and 13 other states, i believe, that we will pose since trayvon martin. tell us about the mcglockton case and why the stand your ground law is so egregious to so many of us. >> well, reverend al, thank you for coming to clearwater on behalf of the mcglockton family. just like the killing of trayvon martin six years ago, you have a white man who is the initial aggressor, starts the confrontation, and then kills an unarmed black man and gets to go home and sleep in his bed at night. now, it is troubling on so many levels that you have this subjective fear, not objective at all, but you get to go home and sleep in your bed at night. black people do this, they are behind bars that night arguing they were defending themselves. it is a double standard, especially when you consider what happened in this case. this strange co