ambassador christopher hill, peter spiegel, u.s.imes, and my colleague, nbc's matt bradley is joining us from cornwall in the united kingdom where he's covering all the action on the ground right there. i'm curious, mr. ambassador, with regard to everything that we expect on wednesday with the president's meeting with vladimir putin, what is it that you think can come from it, of a constructive nature? we could certainly have controversy. that would be easily accomplished given the number of issues that are really up in the air and that don't necessarily have a positive undertone to them of late. but what positive could come from this particular meeting? >> well, first of all, i don't think putin is going to hit the side of his head with the palm of his hand and say, now i get it, i'll be good after this. but i think what could happen, which would be very positive, is the president will go through an agenda, he'll have a discussion about it. the president will make clear what our priorities are, and can i think that will be very imp

i want to bring in peter spiegel, u.s. managing editor of "the financial times." and the chief of -- peter, since you're front and center, i'll start with you. overall, that exchange, this special relationship is something we've seen repeated time and time again, with presidents on both sides of the pond, aluting -- alluding to -- >> it's awkward. this is the embodiment of the trumpism. it was trump who championed brexit, and really sort of seized on johnson as his ally in europe. johnson said, we're very excited, joe biden is coming, so he's been trying to roll that back over the course of the last six months, but there is some bad blood. not only had set a member of the torrie party, and there is always tensions between democrats and torries in that regard. there are clearly tensions that are there that are residual, but you have to remember, below that, on the intelligence, on the trait relationships, these are two countries that have an aliance that stretches back. in terms of interest and global interest, you know, particularly with china and russia, and the c

ambassador hill, peter spiegel, matt bradley, guys, thank you so much. that's a wrap. i'm all out of time for this edition of alex witt reports. see you tomorrow at noon eastern. my friend, yasmin vossoughian, will continue our coverage and maybe she'll get you a shot of the red arrows flying overhead. ♪♪ >>> good afternoon, everybody, i'm yasmin vossoughian. we got a lot going on right now, and we're just getting started following some breaking news out of texas. a mass shooting with a suspect still at large. new information from police just moments ago. >>> plus terror in the skies. >> restraints. >> help me, help me. >> passengers frantically called to help the crew of a passenger jet subdue an unruly passenger. coming up, i'm going to talk to the passenger that shot that amazing video. >>> we're also following the major political news of the day, new reaction and new calls for action in the wake of revelations that the trump doj went after house democrats critical of the president. i'm going to talk to a member of the house intelligence committee in just a moment a

details is peter oliver. german health minister, yen spawns in hot water again over his handling of the covert pandemic. this time, it's in relation to allegations made in the news magazine. there spiegel, the article alleges that the government was planning to dish out masks, and p p that didn't meet you standards to vulnerable groups, including the disabled, the homeless, and those receiving welfare payments. the center of this all masks, and the claim being that these particular ones were purchased in spring 2020 at the height of a global p. p shortage for the princely sum from 1000000000 euro from china. the problem being, they didn't come up to the code required for use in the european union. the health ministry here in germany has denied all of these allegations. cool not. and these are corona, virus protection mosques, and would have helped protect people against infection. they were tested several times according to the procedures from the institute for drugs and medical devices in german certification organizations. they were validated as offering protection against infection. politicians from other parties, particularly when there's an election just around the corner. want to