tomorrow's events are newshour whuse correspondent yamiche alcindor and special correspondent ryan chilcote. >> sreenivasan: i want to start with the basic question for both oyou about what the parties want. at least let me start with you, yamiche. >> what does the president want from this conversation with vladimir putin? >> the president really hasn't given that much detail about what he wants from vladimir putin, what he said is that he wants to have this meeting, he likes having meetings, he wants toee around strong laders, he thinks it is important to have that communicating be good and uour relationship with thted states should be strong with russia. sources inside the white house te me theylso are waiting to hear what the president is going to do. s there are a lot of issey could talk about, among them are the situation in syria, theta mi situation. there is reporting that the u.s. has been offered the to possibly pull out troops if they can get a deal with russia to deal with other things. there is this idea the adaptation of crimea could be a topic that the president could possibly

weaker. >> woodruff: ryan chilcote, covering from london. k you, ryan. >> thank you, >> woodruff: we return now to the u.k. and what the s presidensit means for the transatlantic relathionship, and his meeting on monday with russia's president vladimir putin. john yang has that. >> yang: judy, for perspective on this, here's longtime u.s. diplomat nick burns, former ambassador to nato and former under-secretary of state for political affairs. mr. burns, welcome. this -- theresa may res the first n leader to visit president trump at the white house after his inauguratioon his trip ton is something by all accounts he really wanted to happen. now that it happened and now that this is what he did on this >>rst visit, what do you make of this? ell, john, it's hard to think of a more chaotic and disputacious president to landon or a n.a.t.o.ll as the president has had. before heet theresa may, he started a fight with angela merkel, threatened to leave the n.a.t.o. alliance at one point during the n.a.t.o. meeting, he certainly tr undermine the euro

more of their reporting from brussels is our yamiche alcind and newshour special correspondent ryan chilcote. ryan, yamiche, thank you both. yamiche, i'm going to start with you. the president threw some verbal grenades today, first at the entire n.a.t.o. alliance, then he singled outgermany, then he seemed to cool down. what are we wnessing? >> president trump's rhetoric really set the tone here at n.a.t.o. it made member countries really nerves about the president's commitment to n.a.t.o. and, really, the u.s.'s commitment the n.a.t.o. lieuten nt jrn behodges, who used to be the exphanding general of the u.s. army in europe, said president trump's words were like a wrecking ball to n.a.t.o. he said, really, the people here were worried and concerned about his comments. he was at a gathering called n.a.t.o. engages which isra se but related to n.a.t.o., he said officials there are aetare rired think tak officials and others who used to serve in the government and were talking about president trump really set the mood and worried people. a state deparent official told me, though, that presid

ryan chilcote is live in london with the latest. hello, ryan. reporter: hi, mike.opened fired rounds into gaza today. the palestinians didn't respond. so it's an isolated incident. and the cease-fire still holds, but keep in mind, this is the second cease-fire we're seeing in less than a week. and as you can see, it's already being tested through a very precarious situation in israel and in gaza. now, you mentioned an israeli soldier that was killed on friday by a palestinian sniper. that's not the only thing going on. we have seen a lot of palestinians over the last several weeks taking kites, turning them into improvised fire bombs, if you will, flying them over the fence where of course gaza is in a blockade behind a fence, flying them over the fence. these then start fires inside israel which has been a big problem there but has not led to any deaths. in the past, the israelis would not have responded with military force to those attacks. they changed that stance. they say they are now prepared to do that. this has all got the secretary-general of the united na

ryan chilcote begins our coverage. >> reporter: this was the picture president trump had long sought:audience with queen elizabeth. a military honor guard standing at attention at windsor castle, followed by tea with the 92-year-old monarch. but the courtly scene followed a day of chaos, after mr. trump lobbed a volley of verbal grenades squarely at british prime minister theresa may. in an interview conducted with the "suntabloid before he arrived, the president said may botched britain's leaving the european uon. and, he warned, that's endangered a potential trath deal witunited states. >> i did give theresa-- who i like-- i did give her my views don what she shouand how she should negotiate. and she didn't follow those views. i'd actually say she even went the opposite way. no, it'll definitely affect trade with the united states, elunfortunin a negative way. >> reporter: the broadside struck a prime minister already weakened by resignatio from her government this week over brexit. mr. trump even praised one of those who quit, former foreign secretary boris johnson, aa potential pr

and special correspondent ryan chilcote. hello to both of you. yamiche, you were in the room during this news conference. do you understand what it was that led the presi to say he could not be sure of what his own intelligence communy has found about the 2016 election? >> well, president trump equated u.s. intelligence communitiesha wh said over and over again that rust meddled in u.s. elections with the denial of president putin who says russia thad nothing to do withs. this is a stunning moment because president trump was putting on equal playing fields russia saying they did not do anything and u.s. intelligence agencies, the f.b.i., c.i.a., n.s.a. all saying russia had something to do with russia meddling in ou elections. after the press conference, president trump toldws cbs e does not think russia meddled in our elections, he disagrees that russia couldeddle in future elections. dan coates came out with ema stt after the press conference saying he believes russia meddled in the elect.io cnn said that statement was not clear are the white h

yamiche alcior in brussels, ryan chilcote in london. >> woodruff: late today, president trump told the u.k.'sl sud newspaper that former foreign secretary boris johnson would "make a great ime minister." in the day's other news, the democratic leader in the u.s. house questioned whether russia influenced president trump'sat conduct at thesummit. nancy pelosi spoke at her weekly briefing in washington and said the president's behavior raises a critical question: >> what do the russians have on donald trump politically, financially, and personally? because this is-- there's no wao xplain the disrespect that he's demonstrating. >> woodruff: pelosi would not say if democrats willth investigatpresident, if they win back the house in the gad-term elections. the russia inveson also spilled into the debate over supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. senate minority leader charles schumer said today that kavanaugh's views on executive power suggest he might block attempts to charge presidentp. tr but majority leader mitch mcconnell called that a ar- left conspiracy theory." meanwhile, kavanaugh