the country quickly fell in love with vladimir putin. the number one song in russia was called "a man like putin." >> he's just very -- he's a beautiful man, you see? >> but, the biggest surprise, america also loved vladimir putin. preside george w. bush thought he found a kindred spirit. >> i was able to get a sense of his soul. >> everyone hollywood fell for the new russian president. >> he bonded with stars at a charity dinner. but the honeymoon would soon come to a crashing halt. he was a kgb agent, by definition, he does not have a soul. >> next, when vladimir putin met hillary. >> it is important to remember how much he despice hillary clinton. [woman] we did it. [man] we're campers. look at us. look at us. it's so nice to get out of the city. it's so... quiet. is it, too quiet? it's awful. yeah. feel at home, pretty much wherever you are. t-mobile is america's best unlimited network. desp . >>> how many ways will she light up the world? this is the woman. [ applause ] the scandal that rocked the 2016 presidential election was an ol

vladimir putin has navigated hard times well. ty program, allowed the ruble to fall. putin is is a fiscal conservative. >> the outward seeming aspect of wealth looks closer to dubai than moscow 30 years ago. just an amazing transformation. >> add to the economics putin's secret sauce, nationalism. and it surged in 2014 after an invasion that shocked the world. >> bigger nations must not be allowed to bully the small. >> vladimir putin grabbed a piece of ukraine for russia. the west was horrified. >> that's the sort of thing adolf hitler did in the 1930s. we thought those days were gone. >> but it all looked very different through russian eyes. >> i have never meat a russian who accepted the notion of ukraine as a totally separate state. >> of course, many ukrainians deeply resented the invasion. but not russians. they see it as a revival of a deep sense of power and national destiny. >> putin has given them their pride back. russia is once again a great power. ♪ >> putinism is an ideology of social conservatism, of anti-westernism

i want to remind you and some of the viewers about some of the things he has said about vladimir putin past. >> i spoke directly and indirectly with president putin who could not have been nicer. >> putin called me a genius. he's off to a good start. >> i like him because he called me a genius. >> he's very much a leader. >> he's said nice things to me. >> i've never spoken to him. i don't know anything about him other than he will respect me. if we get along, we do, if we don't, we don't but it would be nice. >> he could not have been nicer. >> if putin likes donald trump, guess what, folks, that's called an asset, not a liability. >> i hope we have a fantastic relationship. >> i don't love, i don't hate. we'll see how it works. we'll see. >> david gergen, how does that set the stage for the meeting tomorrow? >> well, i think that it opens up for the russians the possible psychoanalyzing donald trump and how they might work with him or work against him in the putin meeting with him tomorrow. and namely, what we know, john s. a number of countries have been analyzing his tweets to try

what should president trump try to get from this first meeting with vladimir putin, am babassa? >> well, he has -- >> hang on a second. we are seeing our first pictures. let's listen. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. president putin and i have been discussing various things. i think it's going very well. we have had very, very good talks. we are going to have a talk now and obviously that will continue. we look forward to a lot of positive things happening between russia and the united states and for everybody concerned. it's an honor to be with you. [ speaking foreign language ] >> we spoke on the phone with you several times before -- on bilateral and international issues. phone conversation is never enough. go on to development bilateral and be able to have -- personal need. i'm delighted to be able to meet you. i hope as you have said, our meeting will have results. >> thank you. thank you very much. thank you very much. guys, that's it. thank you. thank you. thank you. >> all right. there you have it. the first pictures of what we believe to be the first official me

against vladimir putin. would you regard that as a problem7m against vladimir putin.out of the room. because they do have expertise. they will have neuronss to follow up. having a two person meeting probably lead to a much more frank discussion that we wouldn't have had otherwise. itjust depends on how it went. so, we will see. that bothers me less than the president's constant undermining of american values in public diplomacy, infailure to american values in public diplomacy, in failure to stand up to russian meddling in our elections, and i hope this meeting was a pivot to some of those tougher stanzas, and if that was the purpose of having the smaller meeting, that is absolutely fine —— tougher stances. we'll have to see how it went. this president needs to stand up to vladimir putin, and we will find out very shortly were they did. —— whether he did. thank you very much, nancy soderberg in florida, who was

and despite what president trump has said over the years he has never met vladimir putin, never dealt. but i also think it's important to remember there are really presences in this meeting. one is the russian interest which is represented by putin, the second is america's interest which is represented by president trump but the third interest is donald trump's ego. i think vladimir putin will have the ability to set aside his own feelings and he'll have a purpose that is nationalistic and pretty set. in donald trump we have a person who capitulated to this meeting in the first place and the second part is he is far more wounded and vulnerable than vladimir putin is and will have a need to satisfy. he wants to be recognized by putin more than putin does by trump. >> one of the best analyses of vladimir putin might be a kgb assessment of putin and that's what the u.s. should be looking at right now. >> when vladimir putin was training to sort of join the elites of the kgb and participant in foreign service an assessment found he is not vulnerable to flattery or women or drink but he wa

they have been implicated in those years under vladimir putin or caught together with vladimir putin. i would argue that i highly recommend this study and it's emblematic that the military raises this question that there's russian style corruption is the style of big businesses in russia. it became a common feature and they don't want to implement any measures to protect businesses. previously last year, in the report for free russia foundation i also argue that the term oligarch is no longer meaningful. in fact, it's commonly widespread that it's some sort of private businessmen exist in russia. they don't. they been hijacked by criminal groups. business in russia really means state favors, tax breaks, sponsors from kremlin and the oligarchs are really cash handlers of cash flows allowed by vladimir putin and kremlin has special compromising material or other leverage. even these previously considered oligarchs live in the west and appeared to be a western businessmen and have lifestyle like western businessman but they are vladimir putin handlers because their bases in russia but th

president trump in the first face to face meeting with vladimir putin. thing started. >> thank you very much. do appreciate it. president putin and i have been discussing various things and i think it's going very well. we've had some very, very good talks. we're going to have a talk now and obviously that will continue. we look forward to a lot of positive things happening, russia, for the united states and for everybody concerned. and it's an honor to be with you. thank you. >>. >> we spoke over the phone with you

trump and vladimir putin about to sit down for their first official meeting. at stake, armed conflicts in syria, ukraine, trade in europe and asia, domestic politics and questions about past, present and future espionage. all that in a simple question of whether the two men will get along. they already shared a brief handshake. an arm grab right there. a simple pat on the back. a brief grin. that's on the sidelines of the g20 summit in germany. a short time ago they assembled for this, their class photo. president trump there on the bottom left. angela merkel, the moshost, rig in the center wearing red. while we wait to see what happens between trump and putin, outside, this is what it looks like. protesters clashing with police. so far, more than 150 law enforcement officials have been injured. plus, we have new cnn reporting. u.s. intelligence officials say russia has stepped up spying efforts in the u.s. we're covering all of this with our team of reporters. yes, i want to begin with white house correspondent sara murray. live at the g20 in germany. anticip

got the handshake between president trump and vladimir putin already this morning, while president trump is tweeting that he's looking forward to meeting with world leaders including putin. what new details have you learned about this meeting? it's going to take place in just a few minutes. >> reporter: well, we expect that they are running behind at this point. not a big surprise when you get leaders of this stature on the world stage together, sometimes the conversations extend and things slide a bit. so we'll have to get an update on when we think the trump/putin meeting will actually happen. we expect it could be as much as an hour behind. perhaps they can find time where else in the schedule. a bit of other news related to mexico, the president has already met with his counterpart from mexico. that's a tense relationship too. the president was asked by our colleagues in the white house pool do you still expect mexico to pay for the wall. one of the biggest issues of the campaign and one of the most severe issues between the two countries. president trump did respond, choosing to ans

sounded good to vladimir putin. the natural gas thing, troops on the border thing, the president say russia meddled in the election, to make this meeting more awkward. >> the great irony of this administration is donald trump has been more hawkish on russia then any of the previous presidents, obama, george w. bush, clinton, hw bush during the cold war. this has been extremely hawkish administration as katie hendrix pointed out, syrians in syria backed by russia, that might make this awkward. heather: the last question cut off and russian meddling in the election, will this force donald trump's hand now and force him to bring that up in the meeting regardless whether he was going to or not? >> reporter: that is the meme that will dominate the next couple days, the only thing anyone talks about. the polish president and donald trump both bonding, really hate the media, poland like the united states has been run by a red center government, and they really dislike. >> the press in europe and stuff. they do media really

assumed rob goldstone was referring to uri, the russian prosecutor general, and close ally of vladimir putin. are you familiar with him? mr. browder: yes, he is one of putin's closest confidants. he is one of the people most compromised by the magnitsky affair. he was deeply involved with natalia veselnitskaya, working hand in glove with her on this whole initiative they had launched in america. not just in terms of donald trump jr., but lobbying congress. sen. blumenthal: again, he would have a financial and political interest in the magnitsky act, would he not? mr. browder: he is a potential magnitsky designee, someone who should be targeted under the magnitsky act. given he and his family are very wealthy people, they would potential be very exposed to be added to the magnitsky list. sen. blumenthal: finally, natalia veselnitskaya was not just any russian picked from a crowd. she was vladimir putin's point person in trying to repeal the magnitsky act. his prime foreign policy interest? mr. browder: correct. >> senator durbin. sen. durbin: are you familiar with mikael friedman? mr. browder

first meeting with vladimir putin since he attained white house. as supposed to press not only election meddling but ukraine, assad. both sides screaming for capitol hill to take the hard line. really go in there and press putin on this. he's an adversary. he's not our ally. his behavior during the election was abominable. our own spnlg agencies have come to the conclusion he meddled for donald trump. president trump doesn't want to press too hard on that because he was the sole benefactor of the meddling. he's been reluctant to trust his own intelligence community. >>> apart from russia's interference in the election, meddling in democracy, there's the collusion issue, the mike flynn issue, the firing of jamesectomy issue. lavrov, the man that came out on putin's behalf saying president trump accepted president pupt's deniales the same guy along with kislyak with the ambassador in the oval office the day after comey was fired with the president telling lester holt at nbc news, yeah, it was over the russia they think. yeah. now we've got robert muel

uses a system like that and there is documentary evidence of people who have gotten rich through vladimir putin and then done lots of foreign policy work, not just in america but also all over the world. putin's to further agenda which is adverse to decency and democracy and liberal thought. so, yes. -- anare obviously in open and free society. and some of them take advantage of that, sometimes unbeknownst to us. do you think that these fast forl entities, national enterprises, and people like vladimir putin should be forced to register under the fara act and lobbyist disclosure act? >> i think it is absolutely essential that they do. there is that transparency about who these people are talking to and what their interests are. issue -- we have a free society, free press, democracy, open ideas, first amendment and etc. -- they are taking advantage of that. the only way we can keep our free society is having absolute heresy. if everyone knows who it is that is doing the talking, we can calibrate whether that person is credible or whether their interests should be taken into the account -- if the

summit here in poland coming ahead of trump's highly anticipated meeting with russian president vladimir putinfriday. all eyes will be on whether trump keeps up the warm tone he used toward russia on the campaign. >> if putin likes donald trump, i consider that an asset, not a liability, because we have a horrible relationship with russia. >> reporter: or whether he surprises even some of his own advisers by taking a tougher line with putin. now, president trump's national security advisers say there's really no set agenda for this formal bilateral meeting with putin. they say it's really up to president trump to decide what he wants to bring up, but of course everyone will be watching to see if he does bring up russians meddling in the u.s. election in 2016. back to you, john. >> sara murray, thanks so much. lots to discuss with our political panel. with me alex burns, matt lewis, steve israel, scott jennings, an all-star group of people. a big week. we've been talking all night. what do you expect we will learn about president trump this week? >> well, i don't know. i mean i think he's comin

browder: vladimir putin is a former kgb agent. and like i said, there is no such thing as a former kgb agent, there are only kgb -- present kgb agents. they enlist people with no empathy or morals. they get them to go out and influence people using one of two ways, with bribery or blackmail and extortion. they figure out what you can bribe somebody with, and what people are scared of, to blackmail them. that is there modus operandi. it is entirely plausible they would've looked at all people who potentially influenced leaders in america and try to figure out if they are probable or extort a ball. -- extortable. sen. hirono: that is why the firing of sally yates, and the raising of concerns over trump's campaign operatives in their dealings with russia. as you described, this is a russiansrandi for the to collect incriminating evidence on their target, so they can gain leverage or control over them. sen. hirono: this is exactly what they do. there is a russian word, which means to collect compromising information about the target.

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how do you think vladimir putin is going to take that? >> i think they are going to exchange pleasantries and make tougher points not designed to have a kitchen cabinet debate like president nixon gorboshah and they will say something that's considered tough and not what the other side wants to hear but i don't expect a lot of drama out of it because it is their first meeting. the president made a tough speech. lauren: paul, if you look at the optics of all this, putin is a former spy and dealt with past u.s. presidents, president trump is relatively new to this game, how do you think the psychology element will play out? has donald trump been prepped? what do you know? >> yeah, i think definitely been prepped but donald trump has been around, maybe not kgb spy but done real estate in new york city, that's not child's play. he's using to size up people and use today trying to get his way in a deal. that's what business negotiators do, so i'm not expecting either man is intimidated by the other person and i don't think they expect to go ov

richard, you're following the vladimir putin angle. you've covered this man quite a bit over your time. and this is jared novanca, as well. we saw the first lady and president trump arrive a moment ago. in the meantime, richard, let's talk a little bit more about this highly anticipated putin meeting. putin is known to come to these sorts of things with basically a list of grievances, and to roll over the meeting and talk while he's -- talk over everything else, dominate the meeting. is that what we should expect for this one between him and president trump? >> reporter: i would be very surprised if this meeting was like that. we're going to get a readout quite soon, or at least going to hear an official's version of what really happened in the room. we're going to hear from an american official who is going to say -- his spin or his take on what happened behind the closed doors. maybe we'll never know exactly what was said. but i think before we even hear the official explanation, it is significant to know that it was supposed to be 3

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national security council, are all prepping him for tomorrow's sit-down with russian president vladimir putiny of dealing with the russian president and mattis has taken a harder line on putin than the president has publicly. over the last several days advisers gave the president a large binder of material for his nine meetings on the sidelines of the g-20 summit but aides say the section on putin and raush s russia is only a few pages written in one sentence talking points to keep the president focused. senior administration officials say the president has been receptive to their advice. >> we're at the very beginning, and i would say at this point it's difficult to say exactly what russia's intentions are in this relationship. i think that's the most important part of this meeting is to have a good exchange between president trump and president putin over what they both see as the nature of this relationship. between our two countries. >> reporter: in a statement, secretary tillerson offering the only clues so far as to what the leaders will discuss on syria, writing, quote, the united stat

the president impressed vladimir putin on more than one occasion about russia involvement and vladimir putin denied such involvement as he had in the past. he pressed him, let's talk about how to go forward. that is the right place to spend our time, rather than spending time for disagreement. >> we didn't want to deliver that point. a cease-fire in syria will take effect tomorrow. and hope there will eventually be a political solution in syria. the bilateral meeting with the president and president xi jinping, that is the last we will hear of donald trump at the g 20. it would be great to hear more from him but that is what they decide. david: terrific reporting this whole week. to kirk liphold, former commander in the u.s. navy and former commander of the uss cole. let's talk about what the president has done. it is extraordinary that his two trips abroad, all the media, mainstream media was worried whether he would be the trump from his tweets or a man of state. he has done this country well, whether he comported himself but what he is bringing home, jobs, various trade deals etc..

so how strong really is vladimir putin in this meeting? iculty surface. >> i think if trump was more read in on russia's current situation, maybe he would have an opportunity to exploit, the window of opportunity. vladimir putin for all intents and purposes next march will announce he is running for another term, russian president, he is still very popular at home. there is one opposition candidate of any who is out there and he's not expected to get much support at home regardless of how much pressure russia puts on him. so for vladimir putin, despite the fact there are all these negatives. you got a shrinking population as well in russia. a lot of sxhik head winds. one thing that set him more than anything is being called a regional power, which obama viewed him. being viewed as a global power, which is how president trump is approaching this is music to his years and he can bring it home to his people. >> we have much more ahead on president trump's meeting with vladimir putin. the president's interactions with world leaders this morning

well, of course it's vladimir putin who controls at all. there's a third circle that is the cronies. four of them have been sanctioned by the u.s. government. [inaudible] this is the real vladimir putin circle. these are not kgb people. they don't work in state companies. they are his real friends whom the u.s. government assumes is a part of newton's wealth. analyzing this, you wonder how do they make the money. essentially in two ways. asset stealing, that is they buy assets, financial control companies and television companies cheaply and they get big state procurement orders that are massively inflated. and there's no competition because these are vladimir putin's friends and everyone knows they've been given it. looking at the numbers, i come to the assessment that 10 - $20 billion. year has been taken out by this group of essentially half a dozen people. if you added up, this is 100 - $200 billion that has been taken out by this small group of people. of course a consequence of this is there's not much corrupt avenues left for the oth

>> this is vladimir putin yesterday in poland, pam.ia but i think it was probably also other people and countries about election interference. >> which is something james clap t per said yesterday he had seen evidence of dni. >> on the one hand, some people say russia was involved, and on the other, some people say it wasn't. this one basically everyone says they were. giving that, and to brian's point, everything he's said up now, this is the moment unwilling with the republican party, it's odd to me a little bit that he decided to lead off with this and represent a change of heart, frankly, from just yesterday when he was unwilling to even say, yes, primarily was. rex tillerson was in the room. we're unlike toly to hear from trump. who knows, he does have his twitter feed. again, though, it seems to me, and i know we won't get an answer on this, but it seems to me that we should get an answer on did donald trump change -- did he -- was he presented with something between poland on thursday and germany on friday that led him to say, i

author of "how russia fell in and out of love with vladimir putin. w how the meetings with go and sometimes how putin puts on power plays, making people wait a long time before meeting with him. that didn't seem to happen today, did it? >> you got a sense a little this was a vladimir putin who thought he was pushing on an open door as opposed to running into opposition, the way he felt sometimes during the obama administration. you saw him laughing during the pool spray and smiling. then tillerson in describing the meeting emphasized the warmth between the two men and the chemistry. that might have been a tact i wouldn't have taken, given the suspicion people have between trump and putin, but that's how they characterized it. it is a different tone from recent years. >> rex tillerson did they there was chemistry. did you see chemistry, based on what you've seen in the readouts? was there chemistry there? >> i think it is very important to acknowledge that putin has several modes in dealing with world leaders. one mode is intimidation. we've seen him u

i think what is very important for president trump to remember about vladimir putin is that he's comingn agenda. he's not coming just to chitchat. he has things he wants to accomplish. he believes that pulling putin towards him and towards his point of view about the world with create an alliance between the two of them against their detractors. including fake news in america, alleged fake news, the deep state in america, he's going to talk about those things. and so president trump needs to be prepared to -- how to respond to those kind of accusations. i'm just not sure he's ready yet. >> resist any effort by putin to bring him in, reel him in, if you will, and to establish some kind of alliance. how important is it for him to mention the election hacks and the distress in america over that? >> had we done this to the kremlin, had we done this during his election, how do you think vladimir putin would respond? it is not totally hypothetical. when secretary clinton in 2011 released a rather, what i thought was a rather innocuous statement about criticizing the free and fair process in a

that that was the first thing, according to secretary tillerson that president trump raised with vladimir putin. and what we do know, based on what secretary tillerson told reporters gathered not far from here is there will be ongoing conversations at a staff level. no immediate plans for another presidential level, putin-trump, trump-putin meeting. the issue of interference in the election will be something they work on out of the state department and their counter parts. interestingly, we have heard from the russian side, the foreign minister lavrov takes a different view of what happened there and referred to cyber hacking as something where there was more agreement and the president raised the issue of some in the united states who think that perhaps there was some russian connection there, very much soft pedalling it and describing it differently than secretary tillerson did. as we listen to secretary tillerson's voice, this is a man who was in business for a long time, ceo, a matter of months as a diplomat and he had a very measured tone. very out of character, compared to his boss, presi

did president vladimir putin bring up his concern regarding the deployment of the system? what is the expectation of president trump regarding the meeting with the chinese president? did not come up in the meeting with president latimer putin. progress ofthe north korea in the last missile launch, those are some of the differences of views we have in terms of tactics and how to deal with this. hasident vladimir putin expressed a view not unlike that of china that they would support a freeze for freeze. if we study the history of the last 25 years of engagement with various regimes in north korea, this has been done before. and every time it was done, north korea proceeded with its program. the problem with freezing now, if they freeze where they are today, they freeze their activities at a high level of capability. we do not think it sets up the right tone for where the stock should begin. we are asking north korea to be prepared to come to the table with an understanding that these talks are going to be about how towe help you chart a course cease and rollback your nuclear

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but there are cost to playing let's make a deal with vladimir putin. spent months looking at what putin's russia is like today, a place where business deals can get you killed and where speaking out also can land you dead. we've met analysts and activists who say putin is playing trump. first there are still protests under way in this city and fires burning tonight as demonstrators clash with police. we spent most of our day here in hamburg on the streets covering the protests and clashes that shut down the center of the city. they were big. tens of thousands of people. from all across europe united by a shared desire to scream their frustration at all that's wrong in the world from environmental degradation to war, greed and poverty and to do it within earshot of the world leaders they hold responsible. the other thing they had in common -- what do you think about president trump? >> well, first, personally, we in germany, we just like we haze him. i personally, i think he's sexist, he's racist. he mocks people with disabilities. >> most of the protes

the big story at this summit continues to be president trump's meeting with russian president vladimir putin. who do you think won the day? >> reporter: well, i think putin came out way ahead of trump on that one. you know, look, the idea that we just move on in relations with russia suggests that russia has been a victim somehow of american aggression, a victim somehow of american and international sanctions. those all happened as a direct result of russia's own actions, the invasion of ukraine, the annexation of the crimecrimean peninsula the attacks on the core of american democracy. to come out of that meeting and say, well, it's time to move on is to say there are no consequences for such actions and that is a very, very bad position to take when you have somebody who's innately as aggressive and ambitious as vladimir putin. >> "the washington post" is reporting on tensions at the summit as they push back on issues like climate change and free trade. has the u.s. president lost clout as leader of the free world? >> reporter: well, i think he thinks he's gaining it. i think he thinks tha

>> he should begin by really understanding what vladimir putin is trying to accomplish. putin has three audiences and one objective, first audience, people in russia. secondly, putin wants to project strength globally particular ly to allies like assad in syria, iran, all of the other nations that he's sort of building alliances with. and then thirdly, he wants to project to donald trump. he wants to project friendliness and openness. he's a master of moving in between the three persona. president trump needs to understand that. the big objective for putin is relief from sanctions. they are really hurting his economy. they were levied because of accident -- the invasion of ukraine. and this is going to be an ongoing source of controversy between the two. so what president trump needs to do is project strength because russians respect strength. he needs to bring up the cyber intrusions in the u.s. democratic process. putin will not respect him if he doesn't do that but should open the door for cooperation. in summary, president trump needs to confront where he must on thes

meetings with theresa may it was a tremendous meeting he had with vladimir putin. he also spoke at the end of his visit with president xi jinping of china and with the concerns about what is taking place in north korea right now. how is here the president addressed it during that visit. >> i appreciate the things they have done [ inaudible ] very substantial problem that we all face in our career, the problem is that something has to be done and [ inaudible ] success may take longer than i'd like and take longer than would you like but there will be success in the end. >> a little bit of new color about that meeting with president xi of china. we're told it lasted about 90 minutes. with translators in the room so you could split that number in half. but nonetheless another long meeting the president had here and we're told by senior administration officials that the president in their words basically was very direct in his talks specifically on that issue of north korea, richard. >> peter, you covered many a gathering of such leefaders fro around the world and as w

go first than end up like saddam. >> let's talk about the first face-to-face meeting between vladimir putin and president trump. hear why putin and not the president may be the one bringing up election meddling. >>> plus, a justice department employee quit over the president's, quote, stunning behavior. hear what she says is the tipping point. >>> and a new york police officer and a mother of three ambushed inside her car. why the nypd says there's evidence this was an assassination. whoooo. looking for a hotel that fits... ...your budget? tripadvisor now searches over 200 sites to find you the hotel you want at the lowest price. grazie, gino! find a price that fits. tripadvisor. honey, we do? we need to talk. i took the trash out. i know. and thank you so much for that. i think we should get a medicare supplement insurance plan. right now? [ male announcer ] whether you're new to medicare or not, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. it's up to you to pay the difference. so think about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare

all of that is precisely what vladimir putin would want out of that meeting.e went so far as to say that, you know, on our larger goals are very similar to russia's and that on some issues they might have a better solution than we do. it continues the very consistent pattern of the administration, candidate trump and then president trump and his administration accommodating russia consistently. it is very difficult to view that set of facts as distinct from the reality as our intelligence agencies have said that russia helped donald trump get elected. >> yep, 17 of them. heidi, i saw you tweeted there about the president attacking john podesta on twitter just hours before that meeting with vladimir putin. so besides the errors in the president's tweet, was this some sort of a strategy for dealing with putin? >> it's hard to know. if you want to believe that it was a strategy, then this is my theory on what was going on. if you couple this with the fact that he was also denigrating our intelligence agencies, think about who john podesta is. he is the primary vi

, getting bad deals from vladimir putin.anything that indicates the russians feel as though they need to fear a tough and equal donald trump? >> that is exactly the point. when jack kennedy went into summit with the russian leader nikita khrushchev in vienna, very wild french guy said need to impress on him is being willing to fight if necessary. kennedy didn't because khrushchev put nuclear missiles in cuba next year. has trump done that? that to me would indicate if the summit was successful or not. >> steve wrote about important implications on the wind that the administration is talking about. embarrassment wasn't limited to interference in the us election. where rex tillerson claimed american and russian objectives were the same as we have seen discussion of this cease-fire that is supposed to go into effect in 24 hours but they don't know anything about it and as we discussed the russian cease-fires are not worth a couple of rubles. >> do you know who will enforce the cease-fire? russian military police. we have nothin

how can he go in and confront vladimir putin and say, stop it in a serious manner without vladimir putinaying, what are you talking about? of course i didn't do it, but listen to what you have been saying. you don't even believe your own intelligence communities. there are many similarities, but many differences and one is that vladimir putin will never publicly question or disparage his own intelligence agencies. so from that perspective the president couldn't offer anything other than raising the subject and moving on to something else. >> do you think donald trump thinks that today went well? >> i think he largely does. i mean, vladimir putin has had an outsized place in president trump's mind since 2013 when he was a celebrity developer and reality star. >> when in 2013 he said, i think we could be best friends. >> and retweeting about a beauty pammant in moscow. he is someone that he said was a stronger leader than president obama and of course he has discounted time and time again the findings of the intelligence community that russia was behind the hacking. he raised doubt over an

democrats believe that president obama and the obama administration did not do enough to confront vladimir putin, president obama did confront putin at a g20 summit in china in september of last year, and we should also point out, a senate hearing in may, six intelligence agency heads said, at this hearing, they believe russia meddled in the election. as for this meeting tomorrow, jim, we should point out, senior administration official said it's believed this is the president's first face to face encounter with vladimir putin before he was elected, mr. trump has given a range of answers on that question, claiming in the past that he had a relationship with putin, and then later saying, he did not, jim. >> now, he had somewhat mixed message on hacking, but earlier in the day, the president was tougher on moscow with regards to ukraine. >> reporter: that's right, despite his answering on russian meddling, the president offered some encouraging words to u.s. allies in europe in a speech to the polish people earlier today. he took russia to task over it's actions in ukraine and syria, and here's mo

later donald trump spoke with vladimir putin for nearly an hour using a translator for vladimir putin. >> the white house acknowledged the previously undisclosed conversation last night calling it brief and informal. president trump defended himself on twitter saying "fake news story, a secret dinner with vladimir putin" ." >> all g20 leaders were invited was another comment added. >> the list of attendees at the donald trump junior's meeting with a russian lawyer continues to grow. a soviet foreign businessman who came to the u.s. in 1991 was also in attendance along with son-in-law jared kushner and paul manafort the russian lawyer as well as a russian-american lobbyist. dan rather is weighing in on the trump vladimir putin facebook page saying in part " what is president trump talking to vladimir putin about? what secret deals or promises were made? what are they trying to hide? it is high time we start getting some satisfactory answers. this is not about politics. it is about the safety of our democratic institution" >>> it is a little hot out there. it doesn't feel too bad just y

demonstrators resent both vladimir putin and donald trump being him.etty slim against police was water cannons. in some overnight battles, a minority of protestors throw missiles and used sling shots, summit leaders hope it can be contained, they are nervous enough about the crises in the wider world that already divide them. so, no surprise, all eyes on donald trump, less than six months in office, and bringing to the summit his unsettling style and america first policies. his host, angela merkel, has clashed with him repeatedly in recent weeks but it is donald trump's first face—to—face trial of strength with russia's leader that will electrify the gathering. today he tweeted... vladimir putin may stand seven inches shorter than his american rival but he too is a natural fighter, with 17 years at the top in russia to his advantage. yesterday, donald trump landed early blows, accusing russia of destabilising tactics in syria and the ukraine, something that the kremlin strongly denies. the two presidents have shaken hands for the first time, a scene ca

just ahead president trump preparing for his upcoming meeting with vladimir putin.ll have the upper hand in that meeting? >>> president trump has now arrived in europe ahead of his meeting on friday with russian president vladimir putin at the g20 summit in germany. i'm back with my panel now. phil mudd joining us as well. we played earlier some sound of what trump has said on putin. i want to play now what putin has said about trump. have a listen. >> translator: he is a brilliant and talented person without a doubt. isn't he bright? he is. >> translator: i did not say anything else about him, but there's one thing that i paid attention to, and that i definitely welcome, is that mr. trump said he's ready to restore full-fledged russian/american relations. what can there be bad about it, don't you welcome it? we all welcome it. where do we get some relationship from? we didn't have any relationship at all. there was a time when he used to come to moscow, but, you know, i never met with him. >> phil mudd, is that calculated praise by the former kgb agent? >> look, we

rubio tweeted vladimir putin basically will never be a trusted ally or reliable constructive partner. is like partnering with asaad on a chemical weapons unit. steve mnuchin was touting the effort of the u.s. fighting cyber together with russia as a significant accomplishment. those were his comments just yesterday morning but basically 13 hours after first boasting about it, the president ditched this idea altogether writing the fact that president putin and i discussed a cyber security unit doesn't mean i think it can happen. it can't. >> what? >> mika, back to you. >> wait. peter, i -- >> reporter: that's the time line. 13 hours. >> okay. peter alexander, thank you. i don't even -- i don't know what to say about that. joining us now member of the judiciary committee, amy klobuchar of minnesota. also with us former chief of staff and department of defense jeremy bash. okay. let's go to the donald trump junior story. because i -- that tweet thing is just such red meat for everybody to mock and ridicule. we'll let it speak for itself. donald trump junior's statement about going to pot