also this hour the prospect of a second summit between donald trump and vladimir putin stokes fear in the media and among u.s. politicians despite a recent poll suggesting most americans are in favor of closer ties with russia. and facebook is mocked for banning advertising featuring classic works by the punish artist ruben's due to their perch trail of nudity. if you have a social media account we have to take you away from the nudity thing to protect you against nudity even if artistic in nature. this is our teams national coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just one welcome to the program at least fifty people have reportedly been killed and scores wounded in a series of terror attacks in the southwest of syria the deadliest took place in the city of psuedo where a suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated himself in a marketplace two other militants were killed by security services as they prepared to carry out further attacks there the other assaults happened in villages close to the city syrian state t.v. says islamic state was responsible and the attacks come

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vladimir putin stoking the fires when he was asked why the american people should believe hip that hisountry was not involved in meddling in the u.s. elections. >> who is not to be believed. you can trust no one. where did you get this idea that president trump trusts me or i trust him? understand? the interests of the united states of america, and i defend the interests of the russian federation. reporter: right after the news conference president trump tweeting out a clarification. in part it said i have great confidence in my intelligence people. however, i also recognize in order to build a brighter future x can't exclusively focus on the past. still republicans and democrats and members of his own administration would have liked to have seen the president take a harsher tone even though he took a softer tone while standing next to putin. kennedy: president trump's comments at the press conference drew swift condemnation from many members of his own party. including never trumper bob corker. >> anyone who dealt with putin knows the best way to deal with him is through strength. i f

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why is he in fact been so friendly toward vladimir putin from the beginning? and that stokespicions of the more cornettial-minded explanation. >> the dossier. >> exactly. he's only encouraged that kind of thinking rather than discouraged it by this kind of conduct. if he wanted to convince americans that russia didn't have anything on him and there wasn't anything untoward about what happened in the election i wouldn't act this way. but in fact he does. the motivation continues to be a mystery i think. i think has made washington scratch its head trying to figure out. one that's got his own party up in arms trying to figure out why on earth is he behaving this way. >> i know straight reporters have a hard time with secondary characteristics. but did you notice that little smirk on the face of putin when trump's talking? a little bit of i've got this -- how would you interpret that little cruel smile of his? >> well, it's a great question. putin does not -- putin's body language has been the subject of great scrutiny over 18 years. remember of course president obama famously s

vladimir putin in just about two weeks. that one-on-one conversation may be stoking fears among u.s. allies that the president may be too willing to give concessions to the russian leader. we've learned trump has said he thinks he can make a deal on syria with the russians, and last week when speaking to reporters, he seemed to leave the door open to recognizing crimea as part of russia, something his national security adviser john bolton took issue with this morning. >> i don't know that that's what he said. i think the president often says we'll see to show that he's willing to talk to foreign leaders about a range of issues and hear their perspective. president putin was pretty clear with me about it, and my response was we're going to have to agree to disagree. >> i want to talk it over with general wesley clark, the former nato allied supreme commander and is now at the center for international relations at ucla. good to see you, general. all right. so is vladimir putin going into this meeting likely with an upper hand? >> well, i would think he is. i mean, vladimir putin had so

vladimir putin a week from today. there are reports the president's friendly approach to north korea is further stoking anxiety ahead ofhis trip abroad. they report senior european officials have told axios they're worried that trump will spend the entire nato summit beating up on america's closest allies especially germany, for not spending enough on their defense. they're worried he'll make the deficiencies the focus of the summit rather than solidarity in the face of the russian threat. and that he'll have a friendlier summit with putin just a few days after a tense nato gathering. well, here to talk about all of it, andrea mitchell, nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent. and retired four star army general barry mccaffrey who is a democratic veteran of vietnam, former battlefield commander in the persian gulf. welcome you to both. the only way to start on north korea is in simple english and that is did we get played? >> we sure did get played. and pompeo with the best of intentions to try to flush out what in fact was agreed to in singapore if anything, he got snubbed. sarah sanders said he would be meeting

vladimir putin, to visit washington this fall. (grant) the news came after a fallout from the helsinki summit, and stoked more concern about russianupcoming midterm elections. reporter karin (kay-fuh) caifa is in washington with the latest. after their helsinki summit, where president trump was widely criticized for showing too much deference to vladimir putin, the idea of a washington meeting this fall has many, up in arms.rep. eric swalwell / -d- california: most americans when they have their home broken into, they upgrade their security system. they don't invite the burglar over for dinner, and the president shouldn't let vladimir putin take a victory lap.standing next to putin monday, trump declined to endorse the u.s. intelligence community's assessment that russia interfered in the 2016 u.s. elections.upon returning home, he said he misspoke. and news of the fall invitation, extended by national security adviser john bolton, notably caught trump's own director of national intelligence off-guard thursday.dan coats / director of national intelligence: say that again? any visit before november 6th would put putin here at the p