i was strong by how strong nick burns sort of came after this president and calling it, nick, a dereliction of duty to not defend this country against russia. >> total dereliction of duty. i mean, it obviously is. he has done nothing to deal with this russia investigation or acknowledge it. i mean, it's as though it never happened. you've got manafort who got $17 million for running a campaign on a candidate in ukraine who was beholden to the kremlin. you've got his son-in-law, who suddenly couldn't remember that he met with the russian ambassador. you've got mike flynn, who was meeting with the russian ambassador and couldn't remember what was said. and then you've got the attorney general, "i don't recall" jeff sessions, who didn't remember anything. >> let me bring john into this. what is to be made at this point, we are, as we said at the top of the show, five months in. we now have these sort of dots that nick just connected for us. a president who we now know in eight interactions with jim comey, never asked about the status of the russia investigation. we've got sean spicer who said

one thing to go beyond what nick burns just said in that excerpt, and that is the president also hasbility to the our country to inform the american people of what has happened in terms of russian interference in our affairs and to work on taking steps domestically to prepare the public for the next russian interference, to prepare our elections infrastructure and personnel and none of which he is doing. >> so let's talk about why, congressman. it's chris cuomo here joining clarissa, and it seems pretty clear from everything that the president puts out that he doesn't take it seriously, because he believes you have turned it into a witch-hunt nap all you're using it for is -- a kind of goose chase, trying to find things on him and his people and you found nothing and it's time to end that part of the probe and then, maybe, he would focus on what is real about the russian interference. what do you make of that notion? >> of course, anything that the president finds detracts from him or is critical of him or a negative news story about him is all fake. it's all a witch-hunt. everybody'

>> reporter: today the senate intelligence committee heard strong words from former ambassador nick burns who has served both republican and democratic presidents. >> it is his duty, president trump's, to be skeptical of russia. it is his duty to investigate and defend our country against a cyberoffensive because russia is our most dangerous adversary in the world today. if he continues to refuse to act, it's a dereliction of the basic protection of our country. >> they were trying to avoid appearing like they were attempting to influence the outcome something trump, the white house and his lawyer grasped onto. >> why don't we have a special counsel reviewing why president obama did nothing? he gets intelligence briefing but then assures the american people that russia did not interfere in the election. >> reporter: to when the ranking member of the democratic committee had an equally sharp response today. >> the president is criticizing his predecessor for not doing more to speak out against russia at the very time the current president is refusing to speak out on russia. >> reporter: hi

jonathan: it is tough in westminster. , nick burns and mark chandler.pril, if i put to you french politics would be more stable and u.k. politics, what would you have said? >> i would have said you are wrong. i think this is an extraordinary revolution for emmanuel macron. there has been a large majority in the lower house. what he would like to do is take a big run at labor, pension, and tax reforms to get the french economy going, then link up with angela merkel and france and germany forming this center to get the european economy going. this is an auspicious moment now. last two french presidents have also tried to reform the french economy and then defeated by unions, students. he will face that pressure, but has a lot of momentum. jonathan: there is significant optimism behind him from investors. talk to me about the nature of the conversation and negotiations and how this has changed? >> the conservatives got the elections wrong. they have been significantly weakened. theresa may can survive politically, it is not clear she can survive for the ne

i just saw nick burns, former nato ambassador, testifying on the hill and here is a guy complaining aboutrump's diplomacy, but he couldn't deliver increasing the nato spending. he wasn't able to do what we've all wanted them to do. i think secretary mattis, secretary tillerson and president trump all three of them making this a priority, i thought that when secretary mattis said, you know, we can't love your children more than you do, or that, their future safety, and i thought that was a very good moment to kind of put it in perspective to say, we're all wanting to have peace but peace comes at a price and you signed a commitment to pay this percentage of your defense, and you have got to be able to follow through. we understand the budget process, but get it done. germans need to do it. david: finally they may be stepping up to the plate. very quickly, ric, we're running out of time. putin, after all gone on with russian investigations, trump and putin will meet. what do you expect? >> this is their first meeting. i expect them to talk about syria. those are solid policy issues we have

. >> that was ambassador nick burns former u.s. ambassador to nato under george w.demning trump's failure to take seriously the threat of u.s. meddling in u.s. elections. not the first time we've heard this warning but it's striking to the warnings we have heard from so many national security veterans, those who served in democratic and republican administrations. all of them sounding alarm bells about acknowledging russia's role in our 2016 election. this comes as we learn about the people under scrutiny in fbi probe. i'm glad to welcome a chief international affairs columnist from politico and ken dilanian, journalist for the network and all of us. i want to ask you about this russia hangover, that the president can't get out from under, because he can't give a straight answer about why he doesn't see russia as the threat that everybody else with eyes and ears sees them as. >> well, look, this is the issue that won't go away and now it overshadows his legislative agenda, by out accounts the inside reports in white house he's obsessed with the unfolding investigati

bush administration, nick burns, accused trump of dereliction of the basic duty to defend the country for what he says is the disinterest of russia's meddling. adam schiff told cnn this afternoon that he, quote, completely agrees. do you? >> well, look, in the congress, our response to crimea, but also the russian interference in our elections is the russian sanction bill. i'm hopeful that this will move very quickly through the house and go to the president's desk. i think russia needs to be held accountable. there need to be consequences to this. if there are no consequences there is no doubt in my mind that russia will continue to try to meddle in our elections, whether it be 2018 or the next presidential election. >> is dereliction a fair word? >> i wouldn't go that far. i think, look, china does a lot of bad things, too. there are a lot of foreign adversaries, iran, china, north korea, russia constantly conducting cyber attacks. but i think russia is really the best at what's called disinformation campaign warfare and we better be ready for it this next election sighcycle. >> i w

joining me now now is ambassador nick burns, the former undersecretary of state for political affairs and now a professor at harvard's kennedy school. ambassador burns let me ask you that question, do you think president trump will bring this up? russia's role in the u.s. election? >> you know, i'm not sure he will raise this issue. but he should raise this issue. i testified before the senate select committee on intelligence this week. there's very little support for him on capitol hill. practically no support even from within the administration lower down on his policy, which is not to respond to the russian attack on our elections, not to even investigate it. and it's become such a major issue now i think the president should raise this. and the issue, the pertinent issue is, will he support the senate and house in sanctioning the russians over the russian cyberattack in our elections. and will he support the maintenance of sanctions for ukraine. you would think a negotiator like donald trump would want to start off in a strong position and pushing putin back on the sanctions withe

former ambassador nick burns served as undersecretary of state for political fair affai under presidentdge of that building. ambassador burns, thank you for coming on. >> thank you, chuck. >> look, you're -- i'm not asking you to talk about gossip in state department circles, but it has been an open secret that there is this tension right now between secretary of state and the white house and of course, now it sort of -- they're not even pretending it's not there. they're openly talking about it. the secretary himself talked about this issue. ambassador, i have no doubt in my mind, every secretary of state has promised that they're going to have autonomy, and the reality is different. is this naivete in tillerson's part or overpromising on the white house's part? >> well, i think it's a -- he's had a very tough job. and it's maybe one of the toughest positions that a secretary of state has been in for a long time. because he has this unique american president who is uniquely unpopular overseas, who's created all sorts of problems with american allies, like germany, the nato countries, a

and also with us, long time diplomat retired ambassador nick burns. and we'll look ahead to tomorrow's special election in georgia. most expensive house race in history. >> what are you thinking right now? how do you handicap that one? >> i hate to use the most clicÉe of politics, there is almost no one left undecided in the race. so you have so much money down there, you have everyone focused on the one thing that matters which is turnout. it really is just -- if he wins, it will be a gar beganian thing. >> and i'll say ossoff. i think the president is so low that he's discouraged some of his own supporters. and that the base will feel what's the point at this moment to come out in our full strength. >> looking at the body language ever congressional republicans, is terrible. they will say that it will be a late night. so obviously i think that is a good indication for jon ossoff. my fellow missourian is handed down there today. and i think that is an indication that jon ossoff is running squarely on democratic values and that's a good thing for our

ambassador nick burns, the roy and barbara goodman family professor of the practice of diplomacy and international relations at harvard kennedy chool of government. that's a mighty long title you've got. we're delighted to have you. anis sarts, director of nato's strategic communication center of excellence. ambassador vesko fwmbings arcevic, professor of practice of -- practice of diplomacy at boston university's pardee school of global studies. stelzenmueller, the inaugural robert bosch fellow of the brookings institution center on the united states and europe. thank you for being here to help us better understand russia's activities and the underlying intentions russia might have with that, i turn to the vice hairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman, congratulations on a brilliant introduction of our witnesses. focus on ring russia's actions here in america and their similar in some cases ongoing efforts to undermine democratic institutions amongst our closest allies. senator warner: at this point i believe we have a good understanding of the russian playbook. russia's goal is to sow c

i'd like to welcome our distinguished witnesses today, ambassador nick burns, the roy and barbara goodman family professor of the practice of diplomacy and international relags at harvard kennedy's school of government. nick, that's a mighty long title there that you've got. we're delighted to have you. janis sarts, director of nato strategic communications center of excellence. hopefully i'm getting these names right. i'm trying my best. ambassador vesko garcevic, professor of the practice of diplomacy in international relations at boston university frederick pardee school of global studies. and constanze stelzenmueller, the senior fellow in the brookings institute center on united states and europe. thank you all four for being here to help us better understand russia's activities and the underlying intentions that russia might have. with that, i will turn to the vice chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman and let me commend you on your brilliant introduction of our witnesses and, welcome witnesses. today's hearing continues the committee's efforts to address the issues surrounding russia

our correspondent nick beake is in north kensington. when you look at the burnedyou look at the burned—out shell that is grenfell tower, it's easy to forget this was a newly refurbished building. they'd spent nearly £10 million on this project. involved in that is this cladding we have heard so much about, but now the bbc has learned that a cheaper option was chosen for that cladding, and that is something that has angered a lot of people in this area. the families of grenfell tower have long believed they were not valued. poor people living in a rich borough. now they say their suspicions have been confirmed, with the revelation the cladding used for the refurbishment of the block was changed to a cheaper version. this is like a coffin in the sky, and these children are deeply traumatised. the news has enraged those fighting for justice for grenfell. it is just further evidence of the, of how little value they attach to people's lives, people who live in social housing and the community, those affected and the wider community, are utterly sick of this lack of val

that was catherine burns speaking tojo cox's parents and sister ahead of the anniversary this friday of her death. time now for a look at the weather, nick miller is here. useless weather factor lead, june 13 has a rather special place in uk weather history, it is the only summer day on record in the uk where the temperature has not reached 30 celsius. you know what? it is not doing it again today, better luck next year! tomorrow some of the us will get quite close, but by no means all, big weather contrasts across the uk at the moment. for some of us, it feels and looks like summer, but look at the cloud in scotland and northern ireland, the best of the sunshine for part of england and wales. you can see that all in play on the satellite picture over the past few hours. if you have got sunshine, you are closer to high pressure, weather more settled as a result. scotland and northern ireland, closer to low pressure, breeze, cloud, and breaks of rain, and that is the picture this afternoon. the best sunshine across southern england, where you are closest to that area of high pressure, so this is for a clarke, a range of temperatures, high

that was catherine burns speaking tojo cox's parents and sister ahead of the anniversary this friday of her death. time now for a look at the weather, nicky, it is the only summer day on record in the uk where the temperature has not reached 30 celsius. you know what? it is not doing it again today, better luck next year! tomorrow some of the us will get quite close, but by no