vladmir putin saying he has a transcript of that. andrea mitchell of nbc news asked the secretary of state about all that a few moments ago. here is how that exchange went. >> mr. secretary, vladmir putin is offering congress a transcript of that lavrov meeting. do you think the russians were bugging the oval office? >> there is no way to know that. >> rex tillerson says, i have no way of knowing that. white house officials i have talked to hearsay they simply don't know whether or not the russians were able to record or keep a transcript of that conversation. here is what president putin had to say. his specific offer. he said, we are ready to submit a transcript of lavrov's talk with trump to the u.s. senate and congress, if, of course, the u.s. would want this. i can tell you they would not want that. they don't want to say they are depending on vladmir putin for political cover in a domestic scandal. this is a typical day. the president is in connecticut. he is going to give a graduation speech and we will see if he addresses any

in a phone call, donald trump and vladmir putin have discussed how they could work together on problemsanging from north korea to syria. they agreed to try to meet at the 620 summit injuly. and this story is trending on bbc.com. it could almost be the plot of a hollywood film, a surfer stranded at sea off the scottish coast in freezing waters, and a life saving rescue operation. this is the dramatic rescue, the surfer survived 30 hours with nothing but his board. that's all from me now. stay with bbc world news. now on bbc news, it's time for hardtalk. my guest today nearly drank himself to death. he is one of the founding members of guns n roses, the rock band who became as well known for their bad behaviour as for their music. for duff mckagan that stopped when, as he puts it, his pancreas exploded. it prompted him to sober up, go to university, and now, alongside his finance column for playboy, he has his own wealth management firm. how does a bad boy of rock become a businessman? duff mckagan, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me here. tell us about that moment, i suppose it wa

a phone call between donald trump and vladmir putin — where they discuss north korea and syria.o hizon in singapore — also in the programme: improve your service or we'll force you to improve it — that's the threat from us lawmakers to the nation's airlines. and — how free is the global press? we find out as the united nations marks world press freedom day. live from our studios in london and singapore. this is newsday. welcome, it's 8am in singapore and iam here in london where relations between the british prime minister theresa may and the head of the european commission are proving tense. mrs may has warned jean—claude juncker that she will prove to be a ‘bloody difficult woman‘ during the talks to separate britain from the european union. it follows reports that mrjuncker had accused her of being deluded about the entire process. theresa may has been speaking to the bbc‘s political editor, laura kuenssberg. i think what we have seen recently is at times these negotiations are going to be tasked. during the conservative party leader campaign i was described by one of my coll

donald trump and vladmir putin discuss global problems ranging from north korea to syria over the phonetwitter says its working with media firm bloomberg to create a 24—hour rolling news channel for the messaging service. that's one of the top business stories on our website. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. the japan times lead will raise cries of "not in my backyard" as the government draws up plans of disposal sites for high—level radioactive nuclear waste. the paper says the process could face challenges amid public concerns over safety. now, which is the worst place in the world to be a journalist? 0n world press freedom day the new york times reports that mexico is right up there as one of the deadliest. we were hearing that from rico's interview. the front page shows a family mourning at the graveside of a murdered journalist, one of at least 104 killed in this country since the year 2000. on a different note, china daily has a picture lead of firefighters tackling a blaze in yimuhe forest in mongolia. and this story is interesting, a next generation b

president trump picked up the phone for another world leader, president vladmir putin.ll over the place these days. what this means for the future of u.s.-russia relations. next ambassador john bolton is here to sound off. ♪ why paus spontaneous mome? cialis for daily use treats ed and the urinary symptoms of bph. te your doctor about your medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas® for pulmonary hypertension, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess. to avoid long-term injury, get medical help right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. if you have a sudden decrease or loss of hearing or vision, or an allergic reaction, stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. ask your doctor about cialis. melissa: a new cold war. president trump speaking by phone with russian president vladmir putin, the first time they have spoken since the u.s. launched launched a missile strike against a syrian airbase. the president and putin on the

emmanuel macron meets vladmir putin for the first time and issues a warning about the use of chemicalss of british airways says he's sorry about the disruption caused by a computer meltdown —— but he refuses to resign. golfer tiger woods blames a reaction to prescription drugs for his driving under the influence arrest. and a steep rise in the number of deaths from cholera in yemen.

emmanuel macron meets vladmir putin for the first time and issues a warning about the use of chemicalish airways says sorry for the disruption caused by its computer meltdown, but refuses to resign. tiger woods blames a reaction to prescription drugs for his driving under the influence arrest. and a steep rise in the number of deaths from cholera in yemen. we have a special report. hello.

emmanuel macron meets vladmir putin for the first time and issues a warning about the use of chemical weapons in syria. after two days of airport chaos, the boss of british airways says he's sorry about the disruption caused by a computer meltdown —— but he refuses to resign. golfer tiger woods blames a reaction to prescription drugs for his driving under the influence arrest. and a steep rise in the number of deaths from cholera in yemen. we have a special report. against the grandiose backdrop of the palace of versailles, europe's newest leader confronted an old hand today. france's emmanuel macron met vladimir putin of russia. at a press conference which was strained at times, putin insisted that any implication of russian meddling was nonsense. from paris, lucy williamson reports. despite these well during weather, this meeting held a touch of frost from the start. at the entrance to france's versailles palace, the two leaders greeted each other with brief handshakes and small, grim smile is. two hours later after their first meeting, the smile is. two hours later after theirfirst

emmanuel macron meets vladmir putin for the first time and issues a warning about the use of chemical weapons in syria. a week on from the manchester attack, exclusive bbc pictures of the bomber. salman abedi is seen shopping the day before, and police release an image of him with a suitcase. after two days of airport chaos, the boss of british airways says sorry for the disruption caused by its computer meltdown, but refuses to resign. tiger woods blames a reaction to prescription drugs for his "driving under the influence" arrest. and a steep rise in the number of deaths from cholera in yemen. we have a special report. hello. against the grandeur of the palace of versailles, europe's newest leader confronted an old hand today. france's emmanuel macron met vladimir putin of russia, and standing right next to him at a press conference, criticised the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government, which russia backs, and attacked the output of two russian media outlets as propaganda, not journalism. he's already accused moscow of interfering with the french election. mr putin insist

emmanuel macron meets vladmir putin for the first time and issues a warning about the use of chemicalnchester attack, exclusive bbc pictures of the bomber. salman abedi is seen shopping the day before, and police release an image of him with a suitcase. after two days of airport chaos, the boss of british airways says sorry for the disruption caused by its computer meltdown, but refuses to resign. tiger woods blames a reaction to prescription drugs for his "driving under the influence" arrest. and a steep rise in the number of deaths

this, possibly a july, july 20 meeting between president trump and vladmir putin.the talk, this is the third phone call between the two world leaders. one at the inauguration. one after the april terror attack in st. petersburg. we may see a face-to-face meeting coming up this summer. charles: it is interesting, the liberal media taking shot at president trump's, vladmir putin or kim jong-un, but i think other was say this is what you want a president to do. thanks a lot. we appreciate it. >>> now this, the president trump will meet with palestinian leader abbas about an hour. david rub bin joins us now. former mayor of shiloh, israel. david, thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. charles: what are your initial thoughts about this meeting? >> well, we know that the meeting was going to happen. the problem with trump meeting abbas and talking about a peace process is that we've been doing this for about 30 years now and mahmoud abbas has been paying terrorists to perform terrorist attacks against israels. every single terrorist that commit as terrorist attack agains

vladmir putin gave a speech on the 72nd anniversary and assured his people that they would never be defeatednquer their nation. well, as that celebration was underway, russia's neighbour is preparing for a party. ukraine is hosting the annual eurovision song contest, which has really become a mix of pop and politics. this year ukraine has banned the russian entry from entering the country — julia samoylova has been told she cannot attend because she performed in crimea in 2015. the russians knew that when they nominated her to be the entry, that ukraine would not allow them into the country, so there was cynicism on moscow's part. i like a different anniversary. 0ur correspondent steve rosenberg is kiev, and while he's also reporting, he has taken a break to play the piano. for an hour, he took requests — offering to play all the winners from eurovision contests from its entire 62—year history. have a listen. the reason would like 0nly teardrops. let's have a go. that was 2013 in denmark. betty says, puppet 0n betty says, puppet on a string please. that was back in 1967, 50 yea rs please. th

this couldn't possibly ever have happened on its own and there must be something nefarious by way of vladmir putin and donald trump involved. >> thanks, trish. i think it is important to remember absolutely, yes, director clapper yesterday said there was no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia, however that is not to say that the russians didn't ject themselves into our electoral process. that, what director clapper said doesn't mitt bait the feelings of hellory supporters like myself. doesn't mean russia didn't interfere, objective truth from 22 independent intelligence agencies last five months russia absolutely did interfere. we have not found evidence of collusion twine the trump campaign and russian hackers. there may not be. it should not be conflated that director clapper yesterday said there was not, he did say there was not collusion he did not say there was not hacking. he did not say there was not interfering. we have to make sure talking about two different topics. it is unfortunate that the president intimated in hess tweets acting attorney general yates w

know later this hour, in fact the next half hour the president is expected to talk on the phone with vladmirn of russia. we don't know what he will be doing with the air force academy in the oval office or whether he will usher them you out. we doç know the call is coming. at same time think about it, the president showing willingness to talk to the north krien leader as well -- north korean leader as well as have rodrigo due -- due tar day have in this rogues list of leaders changes how you deal with rogues. cia analyst claire lopez these are not as threaten or dangerous as you think. explain. >> neil, this president likes to deal directly with foreign leaders by telephone or in person and likes to take america sure of foreign leaders who we have to deal with one way or another directly. that is his approach. neil: talking about the whole asian community or theater and philippines and not exactly always friendly to the united states is there a risk he could be look like he is being used by them? >> not if he handles the imagery correctly. not if he handles policy. and the public statements

melissa: russian president vladmir putin, what role does he play in this?has said that the world should talk to north korea rather than threaten it was pretty much what he said. what do you think about that? >> that is not going to work. the fact is is, he intimated that we are intimidating kim jong-un and it won't work. the fact is, only thing that will work, if you intimidate kim jong-un and he will not survive. that is what we're going to have to do. the sanctions would be a lead to it, but i would start prepositioning u.s. forces and allied forces in the region and start taking action because it will be air and naval power that will be the decisive factor over there. we do not want to go to war but they must know we will not trade off seattle, los angeles, and san francisco for seoul. we don't have to because we can, we can eliminate that artillery and their capabilities on seoul far greater than most people realize. melissa: general mcinerney, thank you. appreciate your time, sir. >> thanks, melissa. >> by the way we're getting breaking information abo

our allies were certain to take little comfort in the president's remarks, even vladmir putin did.democrat on this evening. melissa, it is 10:35 at night here in sicily. president trump expected to land here next 10 or 15 minutes for the g7 summit to take place tomorrow and saturday. the white house saying on this night, some big issues will be trade and terrorism of course. also one of the things many people looking at, whether or not, how big of a push rather there will be from some other countries as it relates to the paris climate agreement. the white house saying the president will make a decision on that end after the summit wraps up. melissa: blake, you are getting literally zero sleep. you're seeing best places in the world. david: i was going to say. he was getting sympathy for being in sicily. melissa: we love you, babe. david: you're eating italian food. melissa: wrong crowd. reporter: we've got the view. we've got the food. it is fine. david: enjoy, appreciate -- melissa: there you go, my friend. david: president trump as blake was telling us putting nato on notice when

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what you have to do with vladmir putin, because he respects strength, he tries to intimidate.es in the baltic states or in eastern europe. we are never growing to countenance the fact they have taken the territory of ukraine. if you establish those fact, and by the way, i also think what president trump has done rebuilding the american defense budget is sending a very strong message that america is back in the game. brian: should we send arms to the ukrainians? should we instead of blankets and do it now? >> i think we should arm the you ukrainians. you want to be careful how you arm any group facing an insurgency. we learned that lesson in afghanistan when we found weapons on the other side. but we should indeed arm the ukrainians. let them defend themselves. when it is a bad principle, people trying to defend themselves -- ainsley: you talk about finding in your book, called, "democracy," finding democratic openings in other countries. when you have totalitarian government collapses what we've seen in syria, is there a chance for democracy there? >> the hardest case is when

susan, i, i can understand maybe 65,0, 98%, that is like vladmir putin election. do you buy that?dy reported, it set a new standard for negative media coverage. i haven't seen anything but negative media coverage of president trump from the time he was candidate up until now. if there is anything that is remotely positive it is quickly drowned out by some new bombshell or gotcha story. i think, you know, trump has played a role in this obviously. he set himself up as an enemy of the press. he took the press on in ways no other candidate ever has. as president he continued with that. and he is also, you know tweets all the time and says things that people think are controversial. so he contributes to the overwhelming coverage of his every move but i think you also have to look at what role the press is playing here in their zeal to hold president accountable -- neil: they are relentless. eric, i didn't realize the degree to relentless. they say the president is thin-skinned and all . neil: when he get as bow like when he spoke to congress, it is short-lived and on to the next scand

and, what he has said in the past about vladmir putin, even though that did not, you know he, assurerelations, since the tomahawk missile raid on syria. what do you make of that? it is not predictable? when do you think? >> i think it is okay. like i said, it is okay to test diplomatic intentions. doesn't mean you give in to their views of the world. we're looking for friends. we're not looking for foes. if you have the opportunity to meet with somebody on the table. you express your concerns about this. we have mutual interests here. i'm not troubled by that. this is a new administration. he is reaching out here. there are american interests in that part of the world. he also spoke to the, the thai leader. spoke to the singapore leader. i understand he extended invitations to them as well, but no specifics on that. so, i'm comfortable with that. now, you know, once again, when you come right down to it, if there is a meeting i think it would be important for the president to express his concerns, if that is what the u.s. government sees going on in the philippines. there seems to be

comments apparently that house majority leader kevin mccarthy made last summer he was just joking about vladmir paying off donald trump. but, they're not letting go of it. and many arenvinced it wasn't a joke. how do you feel aut the dust-up over that? >> it is a joke and they're pushing everything they can to try to prevent from republicans getting agenda passed to help the american people. he said it was a joke. democrats know it was a joke. the american people know it was a joke. democrats came to washington to obstruct and resist, anything from getting done. we have to keep focused why we're here. i'm from michigan. i know that people sent president trump here because they're hurting. the obama economy failed them. and they need meaningful change in their lives. and they are expecting this president and republican leadership to help them in states across this country. neil: all right. rona, very good catching up with you. thank you very much. >> thank you for having me, neil. neil: we're getting a few more details on the incident in times square. bear with me on this. the nypd is investigat

one was vladmir putin's offer to validate what happened in the oval office, to provide his own transcript of that meeting. but also the russian publication of photographs from that meeting. al the russians had to understand the publication of those photos would be harmful to the president or the president would have invited american press into that meeting. what do you think motivated the russians to publish those photos? what do you think motivated putin to make a claim to provide their own transcript of the meeting? is this further efforts to weaken the president, disrupt our political process, how do you explain those events? >> a lot of questions there, mr. schiff. first, point i'd like to make is that i shared classified information with the russians while i was director with the cia. the cia on a routine basis shares information with the russians. it doesn't mean it becomes unclassified. it retains the classification but is releasable to russian or other partners. that's not unprecedented. i don't know what was shared in the oval office. but if the reports in the press are true that

vladmir putin has been very aggressive in going into the baltic states, threatening them. more territory. there is the issue of crimea. there is the issue of ukraine. so we must taken main nato as a credible deterrent. and then adapt it to what it must do to protect the citizens of europe. again, charles, in the '80s, i was under cover in germany chasing terrorists. back then it was red army faction, the raf. they were he defeated eventually by working closely between the u.s. and german intelligence forces and special operations forces. so the time again now is to refocus that. nato has not been pushing hard. charles: let me just ask though,. >> sure. charles: we saw the faces of theresa may, angela merkel and others, they didn't seem too happy with president trump bringing up amount of money they may have added to this. >> right. charles: earlier today barack obama was at an event with angela merkel where he said we're making a mistake by just only counting the budget, a defense budget with respect to contributions. it should include other things as well. what do you mak

he knows that vladmir putin above all else, wants to see economic sanctions against them lifted.come on crimea and ukraine? that is where the president will use his economic leverage to gain the greatest concessions from the russians. charles: unlikely they will give up crimea. access to the black see is too critical for them and ambitions in the region. >> right. charles: a lot of our nato allies are concerned stopping them from any further encroachment to the former soviet republics. >> i agree. the minsk agreement is not respected by either side. they will find more realistic sees fire going from there. i agree on crimea but anything is possible. charles: let me ask you about this, mark, it is starting to swirl the core donald trump backers, a little anxiety building. donald trump met with epa chief scott pruitt at white house. they discussed the paris climate agreement. remember, president trump picked ivanka to lead the review on this deal. if the president doesn't pull out completely of the paris climate deal, will this go against his base? >> there is a lot of pressure the

, the red line fiasco with russia's closest middle east ally when president barack obama accepted vladmir putin's offer to remove chemical weapons from syria, a failed effort. 2014, we stood largely idly by and did not offer defensive weapons when russian-backed separatists tried fighting despite bipartisan support by this committee. we had long since been ignores inf treaty violations. 2015, russia had a massive surge into syria and continued its effort to block u.n. security council resolutions. to 20, they pummeled aleppo into submission. they rejected to numerous provisions that i wrote in the espionage effort and increased the amount of time they were buzzing air kroscrafts and wars. president trump promised to reverse those policies. secretary clinton largely campaigned on continuity. that doesn't sound to me something that the kremlin would be happy about. >> i'm just going by the intelligence. it was very clear of the russian perceptions. >> given that eight-year history, that russian intelligence and leadership felt emboldened to undertake the hacks of those e-mail systems and re

talked about this earlier, barack obama is the sitting president, talking to president medvedev, about vladmire the election. abby: presidents during that period of time, after that transition period before they won. >> clayton is pointing out that is correct, at the time about the talk by jared kushner, november, december time frame, president-elect trump was not yet president. north factor here, were those conversations with the russians undermining of the obama administration and united states government that was in place then? that is different than 2012. pete: simple question, how are the leaks happening? personality phone calls, emails, texts, how are reporters getting these? >> reporters use apps like confide, it will disappear to give information. pete: there is no trace. >> number one, because it is encrypted. number two they're using go-betweens. you hear a lot of conversations you could submit to lie-detector test, i did not leak that information to this person because you maybe handed off to a different third party. abby: we want to ask ourselves, what is true journalism what is a

only thing your mouth is food for is being vladmir putin's pole [bleep] pollster.re, even though everyone in the audience was laughing. i want to bring this up for cbs to be angry at this white house, john dickerson spent the whole day with him. flew with the event to him. flew back. toured the oval office. on monday morning, you know where cbs morning show was in the east room for three hours. talked to everyone except the president because he spent the whole day with his sunday show host. why does the president, donald trump deserve that type of treatment from a late night host when he gave the network much different treatment. ainsley: he doesn't. colbert, he is democrat, he is comedian, he hates donald trump. most of these democrats are doing, going -- congress. they're going after every single thing the president ran on. they don't want to pass. no compromise. brian: not traditional late night. ainsley: extremely disrespectful. my mouth was open couldn't believe he was saying that about the president of the united states. steve: we talked to tucker carlson ask