mr. putin last year in deciding not to come to the g-8, and unlike mr. obama deciding not to meet mr. putin in moscow, i did decide to come to the press briefing today. it's kind of an odd role. you know, in russian literature, there is a tradition of the "lishniy chelovek," the superfluous man. and in some ways, you ? i feel a bit like a superfluous man talking about a meeting that is not going to happen, but ? and in a relationship which, frankly, is not in a good place ? how?s that for an exciting quote? some might call it a train wreck. it?s been like watching a slow- moving train wreck for nearly two years right now. what?s the good news? well, the good news is that this is not the cuban missile crisis. the good news is that this is not even the georgia war of five years ago in which one could?ve imagined the possibility of u.s. and russian military forces, perhaps by accident, come into conflict with each other in the ? in the black sea. but one thing is clear to me, that this is the wors

and/or the possibility that mr. putinure, as the future de facto and de jure leader of the russian federation. my view putin on the cold war, i think he's been more affected i've what he's seen with u.s. behavior after the cold war. and in the 1990s, he reflects a very broad kind of consensus in russia that the united states in particular, the west more broadly, was taking advantage of russia during a period of historical weakness. and a lot of this sort of developments, particularly in the international security system, sort of nato expansion, being the big one, and the experience of the serbia war in particular with the u.s. and russia view operating outside of international law, had a deep impact on putin. and then subsequently, i think maybe even a deeper impact was, you know, after 9/11 when the russians worked closely with us and others to take out the taliban in afghanistan, there was a sense that this was, that was the high point of view is russian relations and probably the last 20 years, even talk of possible al

and my hope is that over time mr. putin and russia recognize that rather than a zero sum competition, in fact f the two countries are working together, we can probably advance the betterment of both peoples. chuck todd. >> thank you, mr. president. given that you just announced a whole bunch of reforms based on, essentially, the leaks that edward snowden made on all of these surveillance programs, does that change-- has your mind-set changed about him? he is now more whistle-blower than he is a hacker as you called him at one point, or somebody that should be filed charges. and should he be provided more protection? is he a patriot? you just used those words. and just to follow up on the personal, i want to foum on a personal -- >> i want to make sure everybody is asking one question, would be helpful. >> i understand t was part of a question that you didn't answer. can you get-- can you get stuff done with russia, big tough done without having a good personal relationship with putin? >> i don't have a bad personal relation

mr. putin operative" which is almost a -- psychoanalysis how mr. putin became to be who he is. and bear trap on russia's road to modernization. i think we're not going have any formal presentation. i'm going to ask a few questions and then we'll throw it open to the audience to follow up and ask better questions than i can think of. i think i want to start with a question to all of you. we'll take it one by one. the most generally and obvious question that bring us here, which is on the surface it certainly appears that u.s. russia relations are -- we look at the snowden over the antigay legislation, over syria, the canceled summit that happened a few weeks ago. at least on the surface appears pretty bad. i'm wondering who people who look at it closely. is it what it appears? whatever happens to the russian recess? what is from each of your perspective, the overall u.s.-russian relations. i think we'll start with steve. >> let me make three points in response to providing the context. the first

>> i would urge the president to cancel the bilateral summit he's having with mr. putin. president putin's behaving like a school yard bully, and in my experience, i've learned, unless you stand up to that bully, they ask for more and more and more, and he's always going out of his way, president putin is, to seem to poke up in the eye, whether it's in iran, syria, now with snowden pep so i would urge the president not to go forward with the bilateral meeting next month. that would give putin the kind of respect he doesn't deserve at this point in time. i would also urge the president to try to urge our allies, if it were possible, to move the g-20 summit away from st. petersburg. some of them may not want to do that. the g-20 summit's important, but certainly on our own end, for the president to meet with putin in a one-on-one meeting later this month would give him respect he doesn't deserve after all he's done. >> schieffer: so you just moved the whole thing-- not only cancel the summit with putin but also move the whole international conference. >> if possible. i think

that's the way to treat mr. putin, not just canceling a meeting. >> reporter: snowden's father continues to defend his son who he is prepared to visit him in russia after recently securing the papers he needs to travel. smanl lifts argue that the president shouldn't be tougher with russia and instead work on restoring that relationship. especially as the u.s. confronts unrest in places like syria and egypt. >>> a grim milestone in afghanistan this year. the military says insurgents killed three u.s. servicemen sunday ten years after nato took command of international forces in afghanistan. that brings the total of troops killed there to 100. >>> well, authorities in central voluntary colorado are still searching for a woman seen clinging to a tree during a massive mud slide friday. new video shows water gushing at almost 30 miles an hour pouring down highways and residential streets in the tourist town of manitou springs. at least one person was killed about 40 cars were swept up in this river of mud. nbc's dylan dwye

i must say on a personal note i know mr putin i've interviewed him twice spoken with him on the phone is a lot of things to commend him i'm disagree with him completely on this and i'm shocked at it i'm surprised in this modern world that they would take this tough a stand were you surprised at the tough stand but they're taking well i think that i mean why now it's a bizarre thing especially when you know we see what's happening in the states with the issue of same sex marriage to marriage or me on marriage equality and equality in general and i think the main message is that you know we need to realize the thing that we need to remember is just because things are doing so well here in the states doesn't necessarily mean that there isn't more to do outside of the united states and so you know while things may be going great over here you know in russia and many countries in africa you know i mean there are serious atrocities that are taking place you're calling for the boycott of the twenty fourteen winter olympics if you want to america not to send as police as we did in one nine hu

my hope is that over time mr. putin and russia recognize that rather than a zero sum competition in fact if the two countries are working together, we can probably advance the betterment of both peoples. chuck todd. >> thank you, mr. president. given that you just announced a whole bunch of reforms based on essentially the leaks that edward snowden made on all of these surveillance programs, does that change -- is your mindset changed about him? is he now more whistleblower than he is a hacker, as you called him, at one point, or somebody that should be filed charges and should he be provided more protection? is he a patriot? and then to follow up on personal -- >> i want to make sure that everybody is asking one question. >> i understand. just part of the question you didn't answer. can you get stuff done with russia, big stuff done, without having a good personal relationship with putin? >> i don't have a bad personal relationship with putin. when we have conversations they're candid, they're blunt. often times they'r

. >> mr. putin does not have united states/russia relationships in any priority, and treat him in a realistic fashion. that's the way to treat mr. putin. not just canceling a meeting. >> reporter: snowden's father continues to defend his son who he is preparing to visit in russia after recently securing the papers he needs to travel. some analysts say the president shouldn't be tougher on russia but should instead try to restore that relationship. especially as the u.s. confronts unrest in syria and egypt. i'm danielle leigh. richard, back to you. >>> attorney general eric holder is looking to change the way some drug offenders are punished. today the attorney general will direct federal prosecutors to move away from the severest mandatory sentences. this decision will impact only those found to be low level, nonviolent drug offenders with no ties to gangs or large-scale drug organizations. suspects will be charged with crimes that specify a range of months or years. this gives judges the ability to

it's also very revealing about the state of our relations with russia and mr. putin. >> i'm going to get to russia in a minute, but let me ask you about some breaking news and that's the fact that today the state department has reopened 18 of the 19 missions and consulate diplomatic posts across the middle east, north africa, near asia. did the administration do the right thing in closing those embassies ies to respond to the terror threat or are some of the foreign partners -- did it seem to be an act on retreat of the part of this country against its threats in the middle east? >> i'm not sure it was a matter of retreat, but it authenticates the incredible threat that al qaeda poses to the united states of america and our personnel and embassies and consulates throughout north america. you can't say you have destroyed quote core al qaeda. by the way that's semantic gymnastics that is remarkable. you can't say that and at the same time have to close embassies and consulates all over the united states. look, al qaeda is on the rise, they have continued to penetrate.

nuclear weapons not i remember that i was having this conversation access to mr putin in. in order to dismantle all the nuclear weapons in the world to eliminate russia does not want to have such weapons i know that. it's natural why should it. but because. it is. defense in defending ourselves against a zionist we don't need such weapons which. i think. are. wise rational people in the us who would not allow the zionist regime to do such a stupid think. nuclear facilities are not going to go away with bombardments. they are in the heads of scientists we have. localized that. iran is a one million. square kilometers. so. everybody. this is psychological work of course we all ready to defend ourselves. if. this was the wrong mahmoud ahmadinejad who is presidential term ends on august the fifth thank you for being with us and i will see you in the next edition of. wealthy british style. markets. scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on our t.v. . do we speak your language or not at the. news programs and documentaries in sp

and my hope is that over time, mr. putin and russia recognize that rather than a zero sum competition -- in fact, if the two countries are working together, we can probably advance the betterment of both peoples. chuck todd. >> thank you, mr. president. given that you just announced a whole bunch of reforms based on essentially the leaks that edward snowden made on all of these surveillance programs, has that changed -- does your mindset changed about him? is he now more whistle-blower than he is a hacker, as you called him at one point, or somebody that shouldn't be filed charges, and should he be provided more protection? is he a patriot? and to follow up on a personal -- follow up on a personal -- >> i want to make sure everybody is answering one question, it would be helpful -- >> no, i understand, it's part of a question you didn't answer. can you get -- can you get stuff done with russia -- big stuff done without having a good personal relationship with putin? >> i don't have a bad personal relationship with putin. whe

we need to understand that mr. putin does not have united states/russia relationships in any priority. and treat him in a realistic fashion. that's the way to treat mr. putin. >>> how about this story over the weekend. hannah anderson, the teenager abducted and taken into the idaho wilderness, is reportedly back with her dad. a group of horseback riders was the first to spot the 16-year-old and her captor, james lee dimaggio. thursday, they spotted them. they said something seemed a little off on their new camping gear. investigators found their campsite by air. and federal agents hiked 2 1/2 hours through the woods. dimaggio was shot and killed in the raid, ending a week-long manhunt, for the man who investigators say brutally murdered the 16-year-old's mom and 8-year-old brother. the bodies were found in his burned out san diego home last week. for the family, it's a sense of relief and of course, deep loss. >> i'm excited for my son, who gets to have her at least. he lost his wife and his -- my beautiful, handsome gra

that is how to treat mr. putin. not just cancel a meeting. earlier in the week you were trying to convince the government they were backing to again to release political prisoners and to reach out to demonstrators, muslim brotherhood in the street and try to persuade them to go back it a democratic system. generals not only rebuffed you but said they would crack down if they didn't clear the streets pretty quickly. question, what do you think should happen if the generals go ahead with their threat and violently crack down on the muslim brotherhood protesting? should we cut off aid to egypt and what would that do to the chances of deinvolving into a civil war? >> when the united states of america refuses to call a military takeover of a government -- refuses to call that a coup, then it is hard for us to urge them to observe the rule of law and constitution. but there's no doubt that president morrissey abused his power as president and there is uprising against morsi. but now it is a coup and we may have jailed leaders of the previous govern

that's the way to treat mr. putin. >> reporter: snowden's father continues to defend his son, who he is preparing to visit in russia, after recently securing the papers he needs to travel. some analysts argue that the president shouldn't be tougher on russia but should work on restoring that relationship. especially as the u.s. confronts unrest in syria and egypt. reporting live in washington, i'm danielle leigh. >>> a grim milestone in afghanistan. insurgents killed three servicemen on sunday. that brings the total number of foreign troops killed there to more than 100, 78 american. the deaths come as the u.s. prepares to withdraw combat troops by the end of next year. >>> here's your "first look" at scrambled politics. vice president biden will attend a steak fry in iowa next month. he appeared with senators barack obama and hillary clinton. it's one of the largest democratic party events of the year. with a history of attracting politicians eyeing the white house. >>> speaking of 2016, the donald is back. billionai

anybody who can do whatever he wishes to because we have to act within a framework in russia can mr putin do anything he likes a mentor is this constitution or is this parliament or difference of political groups is this public culture a social system in place yes maybe somebody has some wishes and he cannot fulfill them in eight years. yes we have great expectations that everybody has good grades and wishes but can we hope that they can all be fulfilled and they can all come true of course not. because some material words or some obstacles you the conditions should be provided yes i do believe. i have achieved greatness great success in its in achieving my wishes and my dentist has made some opposition she. this is a free society people express their views and their mind. yes the way i do things has been different from others yes naturally i have been a post mr president why do you think iran never had direct dialogue with the united states in eight years because there were attempts from the from the us side. you know the principle of dialogue is good in principle to be talking having di

mr. putin. i think that's what that comment about the personal comment about the slouching kid in the back of the room. it seems with that it's harder to imagine that you could see them pivot and kind of walk back and make the decision, well, in fact we would like to meet with you. maybe the situation in syria, which is extremely grave and dangerous could justify that. >> that is just a brief portion of an event from earlier. looking at the upcoming g20 ?ument russia. we'll have the entire program for you at 5:50 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. >>> in our original series "first ladies influence and image" we look at the public and private lives of the first ladies. we'll feature the first lady in their own words. >> the build of human rights would be one of the foundations built on which we would bit in the world an atmosphere piece could grow. >> i don't think the white house ever can completely belong to one -- it belongs to the people of america. and i think whatever lives it in the first lady sho

and mr. putin putting his thumb right in america's eye. >> goldie, who has more to lose here, president obama or president putin? >> i think actually we do. at the end of the day, we've been coming to this point for quite some time. in terms of russia, we have seen what they are. lack of support for what we're trying to do in syria. we're watching in terms of what they're doing with lgbt rights, and in terms of edward snowden and nsa. all of those things are, i believe, evidence that russia has no real intent of having normalized relationships with us. you know, it is important to note that several cabinet secretaries, including secretary hagel and secretary kerry, are meeting with the russian counterparts. what we're not going to have, president obama and putin meeting together. i think that's appropriate for right now. >> who has more to lose here, boris? >> president obama has more to lose. this continuing general perception that he's weak on foreign policy. that was a real opportunity there to

mr. putin would have said, get on your horse and get out of here. and barack obama would have looked humiliated again. >> a great "washington week" to talk about that. gwen: even better to be in the room. and we would like to do that. there was another big topic. renewed threats from al qaeda that brought about u.s. evacuations this week from yemen. which raised the question, has al qaeda as promised been des meated? -- decimated? this is the president's answer. >> this tightly organized and relatively centralized al qaeda that attacked us on 9-11 has been broken apart. and is very weak. and does not have a lot of operational capacity. and to say we still have these regional organizations like aqap that can pose a threat. that can drive potentially a truck bomb into an embassy wall and can kill some people. gwen: so was that the fear of what was happening this week and that's why americans were evacuated? >> yes. the officials i've spoken to say that was precisely the fear in yemen. it started in yemen. was the threat to blow up the u.s. embassy or

mr putin or or tony blair or or margaret thatcher you're hearing or someone who has attained a great deal of power that go that goes away really goes away very quickly and another thing you always know you know the interviewer is in control you is sophie are in control of this not me you control this moment and once i understood that whether was frank sinatra or vladimir putin or the mailman i control the situation and if you control it there's no reason to be nervous there's no reason to be scared there's no reason to be apprehensive because you control the moment you this is your show but if that one minute of intimidation that you fail gendered for you . now i'm not i don't think so. i don't know i when i say intimidated that's a momentary it's just a flash that's. i said a minute it's probably twenty seconds you know you have been to meet someone that you you you've seen on a large screen on a large stage you go into that setting and you have a you know when you when you do it long enough then you get famous so sometimes i'll go into i've gone into people and the first thing they

and then he said to me you can't really retire in fact mr putin also told me you can't retire other people say how can you leave so carlos slim why not why can't we do something together my wife came up with the idea of why not larry king now so we develop this internet show we think the internet is the future of colors invested in it i'm his minority partner and who distributes us and then we maybe arrangement the licensing arrangements with with your wonderful network and then added a show called politicking which deals with politics every week and of course that's my bread and butter what i miss was the immediacy i i i really it really hit me the night that osama bin laden was killed the night he was killed i was sitting at home and i wanted to get out of my seat and run somewhere and broadcast i've been around so many major events in my life that when a major event occurs i want to be in front of a camera want to be asking questions and it really hit me that i truly missed that this is very addicting this camera this means of communications here you and i a sitting where thousands of m

obama canceled a summit with mr. putin and said this. >> i don't have a bad relationship with mr. putin. when we have conversations they're candid, they're blunt. um -- often times they're constructive. i know the press likes to focus on body language and he's got that kind of slouch looking like the bored kid in the back of the classroom, but the truth is that when we're in conversations together often times it's very productive. >> reporter: putin has signed legislation criminalizing public displays of homosexuality in russia. the president condemned that law but says he opposes a u.s. boycott of the upcoming winter olympics next february in russia. the president said he hoped american gay athletes would i can make a point that the athletically inclined putin would not forget by winning gold, silver or bronze. >> glor: why isn't s the president proposing this opposing court on the fisa courts. >> reporter: well, the court often renders one-sided statistics. in twelve, 1,488 cases were in 2012, 1,788 cases were brought before the court, every one was approved. 212 cases were broug

. >> sure. >> uma: when he was on, you know, the late show, with jay leno saying that, you know, mr. putine cold war mentalities here. by giving mr. snowden that asylum. does that help matters any by having the leader of our country saying that? >> i think it's very important, i think the president has been direct about mr. putin's behavior and the consequences of his decision on the relationship between the countries. the snowden event was the most recent occurrence in a series of events that cast a real question about russia's willingness to be a bilit ral partner in a way good for our country and good for the world. if you look at the way they play in other venues, iran and -- >> uma: let me get congressman in here. >> it should be grave concern here. >> uma: go ahead, sir. >> i think those are important points but you have to remember the things that he is describing are as a result of american policy toward russia. and not russian policy toward america. we push them in their relationship with iran by not giving them any other place to utilize the engineers and nuclear physicists as th

my hope is over time mr. putin and russia recognize that rather than a zero-sum competition, in fact of the two countries are working together, we can probably advance the betterment of both peoples. >> thank you mr. president. given your nostril much of reforms by the leaks edward snowden made and all the surveillance of mems, does your mindset change about him, is he now more whistleblower that he is a hacker as you called him at one point or somebody that should be filed charges and should he be provided more protection. is he a patriot? and to follow-up on the personal. spiegel everybody asking one question would be helpful. >> can you get stuff done with russia, big stuff done without having a good personal relationship with putin? president obama: i don't have a bad working relationship with putin. they are candid, they are blunt. oftentimes they are constructi constructive. i know the press likes to focus on body language, he has that slouch looking like a bored kid in the back of the classroom, but the trut

i have encouraged mr. putin to think forward as opposed to backwards on those issues with mixed success. i think the latest episode is just one more in a number of emerging differences that we have seen over the last several months around syria, around human rights issues, where it is probably appropriate for us to take a pause, reassess where it is that rush is going, what our core interests are, -- where it is that russia is going, what our core interests are, that what we're doing is good for for the united states and hopefully good for russia as well but recognizing that there are just going to be some differences and we will not be able to completely disguise them. and that's ok. keep in mind that, although i am not attending the summit come i will still be going to st. petersburg because rush is also in the g-20. that is important business in terms of our economy and our jobs and all the issues that are of concern to americans. i know the one question that has been raised is how do we approach deal of pick

and my hope is that over time, mr. putin and russia recognize that rather than a zero-sum competition -- in fact, if the two countries are working together, we can probably advance the betterment of both peoples. chuck todd. >> thank you, mr. president. given that you just announced a whole bunch of reforms based on essentially the leaks that edward snowden made on all of these surveillance programs, is that change -- is your mindset changed about him? is he now more whistleblower than he is a hacker, as you called him at one point, or somebody that should be filed charges, and should he be provide more protection? is he a patriot? and to follow up on the personal -- i want to follow up on a personal -- >> i want to make sure everybody is asking one question. >> no, it was a part of a question you didn't answer. can you get stuff done with russia, big stuff done, without having a good personal relationship with putin? >> i don't have a bad personal relationship with putin. when we have conversations, they're candid, they're

and the biggest concern that i have is that mr. putinty of foreign policy actions has made a determination that he's going to snub and poke the eye of the united states as often as he can. it's important then mr. putin hear that the president has had enough. because we can harkin back to the times back in the '60s when the leader of russia where there was a fear that president kennedy at the time had not really understood what he was up to. if we do not send a strong signal to putin right now, and frankly what the president's sending right now is a symbolic symbol, this is just going to get worse. >> so you don't think that he -- you're not critical at all that the president has chosen to cancel this meeting with putin? because there's been a lot of criticism of him. >> i understand, but there's a point in time when you start thinking not only about the domestic discrimination and actions he's taken but on syria, on iran, on snowden, the list is getting longer by the hour and by the day. this so-called infamous reset, the president used

interesting thing that i have heard a lot about that it's not going to be as big not spectacular mr putin's not going to be that but you say it's going to be more money so people think that if putin is not going there then you have to downplay the significance is not the case i mean there will be several new planes presented transport planes made by the lucian construction constructors and also there will be several helicopters brand new presented nobody knows how this will go maybe the people the businessmen there will be so impressed with these new planes that they will just decide to sign deals a very moment but what i've heard so far from the experts from both financial experts and education experts that there will be lots of deals and even probably surpass the ten billion mark which was said in twenty eleven well and will that be lots of acrobats in the sky then we expect and see lots of surely swishing around the thing as usual. two hundred forty planes will be on the ground station for the people to watch will be the businessman and then will have the final day or the next show where

mr. putin first allowed mr. to enter russia and remain at the airport, it was a clear poke in the eye of the united states. by allowing him to leave the airport and remain in russia he has taken the situation a step further and put our relationship in even greater danger. snowden also appeared at the black hat conference winding up in las vegas today but only as a cardboard cutout passers=by were invited to vote. hero or villain. since this is basically a hacker convention, so you might expect a lot of hero but it turns out it's a dead heat. and some people are asking somewhere in between. hot temperatures apparently >> let's look liven our roof can from downtown san francisco. >> you can see some lingering fog. >> we are expecting the fog to return to maar and be patchy and a wide spread. >> mostly sunny for friday and warmer conditions than today. >> will have more on the forecast coming up in just a bit. >> will be back after the lead to hot tempers and study out of berkeley! it found that that aggressive act

and i've encouraged mr. putin to think forward as opposed to backwards on those issues. with mixed success. >> reporter: arizona republican senator john mccain wants to put more pressure on putin who he says really doesn't value the u.s./russian relationship. mccain suggests bringing the country of georgia into nato, though that could drag the alliance into conflict with russia since russia and georgia have themselves gone to war in the past decade. eric? >> wendell, see if they have another photo op. what that looks like. if one's way over there and one's way over there during the g-20. thanks so much. >>> the stage is now set for a major showdown over obama care. republican senator ted cruz is leading a new campaign to repeal the health care overhaul. an effort president obama says has consumed the republican party. >> i think the really interesting question is why it is that my friends in the other party have made the idea of preventing these people from getting health care their holy grail. their number one priority. the one unifying principle in the republican party