it's an astonishing bit of detective work. >> and with us now, pete, as well, is nick burns, former nator, russia expertise from the nsc and state department. nick, is this going to increase pressure on the president to cancel a very controversial summit with vladimir putin on monday, or can he say, well, this gives me an opportunity to ask him about it? >> it's going to have a direct and major impact on that meeting in helsinki. if you think about the primary responsibility of the president of the united states, defend the country, defend the country from foreign attack. this is an extraordinary grand jury indictment alleging a criminal conspiracy by the russian military to undermine our elections. they're very specific, into the computer system of the democratic national committee, of the hillary clinton campaign, of the volunteers for the hillary clinton campaign, and of state election officials. if the president goes to this meeting, this has to be number one issue. and he has to be tough about it. i doubt he's going to do that, given his remarks in london this morning. but that's wh

diplomat nick burns, former ambassador to nato and former under-secretary of state for political affairs. burns, welcome. this -- theresa may was the first foreign leader to visit president trump at the white house after his inauguration. his trip to london is something by all accounts w he reallyted to happen. now that it happened and now th this is what he did on this first visit, what do you make of thn,? >> well, jt's hard to think of a more chaotic a disputacious president to landon or a n.a.t.o. ally as the hapresident ha before he met theresa may, he started a fight with angela merkel, threatened to lave the n.a.t.o. alliance at one point during the n.a.t.o. meeting, he micertainly tried to unde the european union. then this explosiventerview in the sun, the tabloid newspaper. theresa may is trying to put a brorit proposalrd that might incite a rebellion in the conservative party. the president came out against it. he camns out ag her strategy. he came out in support of her greatest foe boris johnson, and this was a direct attack on the prime minister, andte deshat the president s

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joining us now to cnbc contributor ambassador nick burns. he's been here all day long. and emily farkas and now the president of farkas global strategies what is the fall out from today going to look like >> the fall out is going to be from our nato allies they look at the kid glove treatment today from president trump and the mayhem caused last week by the incessant criticism of our nato allies republicans saw a president today who was misinformed, who was not on his game, who did not stand up for our intelligence community when asked about whether or not the russians launched a cyber attack on our election and pretty much sided with president putin against our intelligence community and law enforcement community. that is going to rankle in the united states, hurt us overseas. i think we've never seen an american president do anything quite like it so damaging to our national security to essentially side with a dictator against his own government >> evelyn, your take on that news conference. >> well, i have to say i actually felt physically sick to my stomach because i

. >> guys, that just, nick burns' point illustrates what i was saying president trump is not alarmedference why? because the interference as our intelligence community has reported was to help him and if you are interested in your own fortunes rather than those of the american democracy at large, you are not concerned about that as nick burns just said, he has signaled that he is not going or he has no particular impulse to raise those issues, and you have to wonder whether the reason why the first meeting went on for so long without any other advisers present is because he was having conversations with vladimir putin that he doesn't want his own advisers to hear >> well, we don't know exactly why. >> no, we don't. we don't know for sure but if you look at the totality of the circumstances here, that is to say the president's long-standing financial ties to russia, their interference in the election, the prosecution of both russian intelligence officials and senior members of his team, i'm talking about what presumptions have to be. you can't presume that the president has an impulse

a book in front of him i don't think we're going to see that from vladimir putin >> ambassador nick burns, we were just talking about the european factor and this idea that president trump on his way talked to cbs news, called the eu a foe, he said we have moan foe -- many foes. it keeps hitting our allies, trading partners what are they going to do, fight back >> donald trump is the first american president in 75 years to call the europeans a foe of the united states. we compete on trade but these are our best allies, largest investors in our economy, largest trade partners they're with us in defending democracy and human rights they're our partners on climate change there's been a surreal quality to all this as john was just saying the president has turned american policy upside down. none of his predecessors would agree it is a good idea to attack angela merkel, it is a good idea to attack theresa may, it's a good idea to threaten to leave nato and call them a foe that's not true. none of it will be true a year from now the president has donny noe enos damage our allies are worried abo

hallie jackson, ambassador nick burns, all of you for an extraordinary hour of television. that's going to do it for me. hallie jackson will be here during this hour monday. right now more news with my colleague. >> good morning. thank you so much for that. this is definitely a spicy hour. i think it's going to continue to be. stephanie's out. friday, july 13. let's get smarter. >> if they do a deal like that, it most likely, because we'll be dealing with the european union instead of dealing with the uk. so it will probably kill the deal -- if they do that, their trade deal with the u.s. will probably not be made. i would have done it much differently. i actually told theresa may how to do it but she didn't -- she didn't listen to me. >> think the deal she's striking is not what the people voted on. it's a much different deal than the people voted on. it was not the deal that was in the referendum. >> we debris today that as the uk leaves the european union, we will pursue an ambitious u.s./uk free trade agreement. >> i want to thank prime minister may for pursuing fair an

comment on something -- somebody who i believe was a colleague of yours at the state department, nick burnsn undersecretary during the bush years just like you. and this is what he tweeted this week. trump's trip to europe is the single most chaotic and destructive of an american president. he's put us at odds with the eu and disparaged germany and undermined may. he's a wrecking ball. the americans have been diminished. do you agree with him? >> i have a lot of e -- as miration for him. we're an ally rich nation and like china, russia, iran, they're ally poor. they know that and they have tried to undermine our -- >> why isn't the president helping? >> well, look, i think the nato summit turned out pretty well. there's always drama that comes into the summits. i helped president bush prepare for some of his summits. there's always drama but at the end of the day that summit turned out well. you had the president fully recommitting to our focus on nato. very importantly we made progress on the 2% gdp spending which, you know, couple of years ago all -- most countries were declining their de

. >> nick burns, and we want to play again that moment with the soccer ball just when things were getting particularly tense. vladimir putin pulls out a soccer ball. of course, a high on the victory of moscow hosting the world cup and the congratulations from president trump that opened both his bilateral meeting and the conference for how successful that was for russia on the world stage and putin then presents a soccer ball. well, right now lindsey graham has tweeted, finally, if it were for me, i'd check the soccer ball for listening devices and never allow it into the white house. >> joining me now is chris dickey, veteran journalist for the daily beast here with me in helsinki. chris, your response? >> well, i think in front of the whole world right now, we witnessed the collusion of donald trump and vladimir putin. that's really what we were looking at. however you want to interpret it. was trump taking direction from putin? absolutely. had he met for two hours and ten minutes with putin and is there evidence he didn't really understand what was being discussed, that he department r

hallie jackson, ambassador nick burns, all of you for an extraordinary hour of television. that's going to do it for me. hallie jackson will be here during this hour monday. right now more news with my colleague. >> good morning. thank you so much for that. this is definitely a spicy hour. i think it's going to continue to be. stephanie's out. friday, july 13. let's get smarter. >> if they do a deal like that, it most

and nick burns, you're a man of the world. form 0er ambassador to nato. state department employee. tell us your view, your concerns, perhaps, about what has happened when you look at what has happened, a withdrawal from tpp by this president. virtually seedi ingcreeding the to the chinese, latin america, africa, the middle east, intent on becoming a bigger world power than they already are, virtually one foot out the door on nato, the collapse of nato after 70 years, perhaps could happen. give us your view, your concerns about what is happening right now to our position in the world, and the relative silence as we just spoke of from members of the united states senate about this. >> mike, i think it's clear now, 18 months in to this presidency, that the president is abdicating american leadership. in the following way -- he's dismantling our alliances and downgrading them. that's been the power base for the united states for 75 years. he's dismantled the trading system that brought us this unprecedented prosperity, and is replacing it with nothing. he's just tearing down. and i jus

>> well, i don't agree that it's time right now i agree with most of what nick burns says i think there'save a discussion at the level of arms control. perhaps we'll see some kind of an agreement here to extend the time treaty that set the limit for strategic nuclear weapons. that expires in 2021 but there are many other things that the presidents should talk about eventually the timing right now is not good and that's because of, you know, what our president's been doing to our relationship with the europeans. and frankly speaking, the fact that there's no real substantive agenda aside from what i mentioned on the nuclear front so i think the timing is not right at the moment. >> we did not hear any of the hard points mentioned in the pleasantries we had ideas of whether that is indicative of what we might hear later. your thoughts on that? >> i think it's indicative because basically what's happening is this is putin's agenda we heard the president say yesterday he has no agenda this is putin's agenda the last thing i would say, too, i was working for president obama. the relationship s

. >> let me take the question to our other panel lists starting with nick burns and wendy sherman.about our dealing with our allies. certainly when we think about our european allies, it's hard to remember a moment of more friction. how do you see the president, mike pompeo, moving forward to get allied support for the very difficult negotiations that are ahead? >> well, david, first let me say, there was powerful symbolism today in singapore. the president should get some credit here for having arrived at this day, turned away from war where we were seven or eight months ago and turned towards diplomacy. but i must say, i think the big question i've got, david, is does donald trump have the strategic patience to carry out a multi-year negotiation? he's not a famously patient person. it took ten years from the time that president bush started thinking about negotiating and then sanctioning iran to what wendy sherman and john kerry were able to fulfill ten years later. it took three years for the u.s./india negotiations and that was with a friendly country, two acts of congress to a

nick? (grant) and two wildfires are burning in lake and mendocino counties tonight. this is a map showing where the mendocino complex fires are burning near lakeport and upper lake. so far the fires have burned more than 55- thousand acres and is just 10-percent contained. kron 4's terisa estacio is live in lakeport. terisa how is it looking out there tonight? (grant) firefighters are gaining ground on the steele fire burning in napa county. the fire is now 75-percent contained... and it has burned 135 acres. eight structures have been destroyed. there are evacuations in place for pleasure cove and berryessa. (vicki) we are also tracking the ferguson fire burning near yosemite. the ferguson fire has burned more 56-thousand acres. containment is at 30 percent. yosemite valley was evacuated as a precaution. it won't reopen until this friday. (vicki) evacuated or chased from their homes by a wildfire, many residents find themselves lacking even the most basic necessities, like toiletries, infant formula and sun block.(2-shot/grant) those are among the items being donate

nick, the fire has now burned an area larger than the city of denver, and the loss clearly tremendousur viewers. >> listen, wolf, across the state of california right now we have 17,000 homes under threat from flames. more than a dozen wildfires burning in the state. now here in shasta county the carr fire, this is now the worst fire this county has seen since records began way back in 1923. 170,000 square miles have burned here. as you mentioned, 20 people currently listed as missing. six people confirmed dead. this apocalyptic blaze is eating through thousands of acres of forest, so large it's visible from space. the flames have destroyed more than 800 homes and counting. those statistics are stunning. but the personal stories hit hardest. >> you could see the flames in your rearview mirror as you were driving away? >> yes, that was the terrifying part. it was like a wall of fire. it was like a train. it had a noise. i thought i was in a sci-phi movie. >> driving away from a home you may never see again. >> that's what happened. lots and lots and lots of memories. they are gone. i m

burned close to 100,000 acres. the weather forecast is acres. the weather forecast is not looking good. nickt destructive fires to ever burn in california. 150 square miles. an area the size of denver scorched. almost 1,000 buildings destroyed. 38,000 people forced to flee their homes and six lives lost. among them two firefighters, one person who refused to evacuate and three members of a family getting ready to flee the flames. ed bledsoe spoke to his wife and their great grandchildren moments before the fire reached them. >> it's coming at me. the fire's coming in the back door. come on, grandpa. i said i'm right down the road. emily said i love you, grandpa. and junior says i love you. come and get us. come and get us. i said i'm on my way. >> reporter: the fire is so large and temperatures so hot it's creating its own weather system. it can be seen from space. gale force winds chipped towering flames into that firefighters described as fire tornadoes. fire doubled in size overnight over the weekend. this isn't just a back country blaze. the fire threatening and burning parts of redding,

nick drake album "pink moon?" i just hear it it's wonderful. no, i haven't heard it. i can burn you a copy. lovely, thank you so much. we do the first take. circling the block the second time, i said, merrill, have you ever read the new jefferies book? she says, no, i haven't. i said, i can lend you my copy. she said that would be wonderful. the third time around i thought, this is going well. i said, meryl, did you see "the late show" with jon stewart last night? he is so brilliant, i think he is saving america. dead silence.( laughter ) now, the thing i said i was going to explain earlier is i have anxiety, and if you have anxiety and you force yourself to talk to someone, being in silence is like being thrown into a demonic pit. it's so bad. and so i'm sitting in the silence, thinking my life is over. then finally, finally she goes-- no, i don't think jon stewart is going to save america. i think stephen colbert is. ( cheering ) ( applause ) >> audience: stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! >> stephen: may i remind you, she's a very good actress. ( laughter ) >> but not a good liar. you'd

burning in mendocino counties, the ground crew here is hustling. >> they're doing real good, keeping up with the demand. >> reporter: nick welsh job is choreographing as bs to slow t down for the men and women on the ground. >> it buys get around the fire with bulldozer line or hose lines. >> reporter: the troops in the air tell me the air attack is the point of the spear. though the pilots will tell you it's all about the flying. >> got to go. take care. >> reporter: this air base will stay open tonight until 8:00 here at the santa rosa airport. as long as the pilots can see the fire line and get to it. reporting from santa rosa, mark matthews, nbc bay area news. >> a dangerous job, and we thank them so much for their efforts. a wildfire continues to ram obut of control in mendocino. this one isalle the mendocino complex fire. jo jodi hernandez is on the front lines in halake county, jodi? >> reporter: it continues to be a very scary situation. take a look at the scene right now in lake port. you can see all that smoke, the glow of orange. this is where one of the two fires is burning. and cal fire says these fires continue to grow. firefighters a

nick of time. the fire started about 3:05 this afternoon. crews from east contra st fire protection district were calling for aid from con fire and cal fire. the fire is burning on state land as well as private pr coming and going from here, urgent situation with zero percent containment, and the weather as it, is this is likely to be burning for quite a while. reporting live outside of clayton, i'm leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. >> leslie, thank you very much. >> let's take another live look from sky 7. actually, let's get right to weather anchor spencer christian. spencer? >> okay, ama and dan. here is a look at conditions in the area of the fire right now. it is currently really hot and very, very dry. temperature reading right now is 100 degrees. relative humidity is quite low, 14%. and the wind is relatively calm. gusts just under 10 miles per hour. so the wind isn't a big factor at the moment, but certainly the heat and the low humidity. are you can see that it's quite warm all around the bay area right now. we have numerous locations in the north and the inland east bay at or above 100 degrees. lots of lower to mid-90s as well right around the bay it's m