of course, under vladmir putin and russia became more and more part of it. then under obama kicking russia out over ukraine and crimea. that has not been reversed as far as i can tell. yet here he's going out on a limb in favor of vladmir putin at the very time when putin has perhaps covered up a nuclear accident. when there have been according to the "wall street journal" when four monitoring, radiation monitoring sites went dark in siberia for a number of days. >> not the mention the u.s. pulled out of the inf treaty because of what this administration said were brazen russian violations. so much going on there with those comments with the g7 and g8. first of all, the president saying that we should bring russia back in, they belong in there, adding no conditionality to this. bring them back in. this was not a day after french president emmanuel macron said publicly maybe russia could come back but they have to resolve the situation in eastern ukraine. president trump attaching no such conditions. then kind of bizarrely spinning the narrative that russia w

vladmir putin is under pressure as people fill the streets of moscow demanding reform.e demonstrations could mean for putin's power. dan henninger from "the wall street journal" coming up next. melissa: traveling overseas for cheaper medical care. not just patients are vying for a better deal. why some doctors are hopping on board. connell: dwindling presidential dreams. new york city mayor bill de blasio making his pitch to a grand total of 15 likely democratic voters. melissa: unbelievable. >> this was actually at a campaign event in cedar rapids, iowa. mayor de blasio according to the "new york post" drew a crowd of 15. melissa: i was not one of them. connell: that is surprising. you could have spent the rest of the day at the iowa state fair. we'll be right back. $4.95. no matter what you trade, at fidelity it's just $4.95 per online u.s. equity trade. content on their endless quest, to nowhere.s, run hopelessly in their cage. but perhaps this year, a more exhilarating endeavor awaits. defy the laws of human nature,at the summer of audi sales event. get exceptional

. >> vladmir putin putin, g 7, g 8 issue, listen to the president blaming barack obama for putin being -- putin outsmarting him i guess is what he says. >> the fact is, president putin totally outsmarted president obama on crimea and other things. including the red line in the sand. should we put russia back in? we have spent a lot of time talking about russia at those meetings. and they're not there. i think it would be a good thing if russia were there. so we could speak directly. >> ben, your caultimaomment? >> i was involved in the decision making to kick russia out of the g 8. that's not something that president obama did by himself. that was the unanimous view of everybody else. russia had invaded and annexed crimea, violating all the international principles the g 7 stands for. it was a no brainer to kick them out. they've done nothing to earn their way back in. that's the first point. the second point is, again, the purpose of the g 7 is to forge common strategies. to meet with countries that have common interests in a growing global economy in combatting climate change and ter

he's open to the suggestion, of -- as the host next year inviting vladmir putin in the election year when we're worried about russia's interference in our elections, inviting putin we assume to doral in miami. >> i don't think it's an absurd proposition to talk about bringing russia back into the g 8. it's important to have a global player, presence like russia at the table instead looking in. you can't do it without preconditions. the reason we kicked them out of the g 8 is because they invaded ukraine. they have not withdrawn their forces. in order for them to get back in they need to make progress, the future status of a sovereign ukraine. but we also have news today suggesting that the trump administration may be considering cutting off or suspending security aid to ukraine, which would be an absolute gift to the the russians. the announcement coming right at the beginning of the tenure of new ukrainian president undercuts him in his efforts to try to push back against russian aggression. you see gift after gift being handl handed to the russians which continues to make us scratch

and vladmir putin has been under challenge recently.ust as a follow up for the -- this whole issue of the imf treaty which has been abandoned, the 1987 era treaty that was signed by reagan and gorbachev. there was a hint that john bolton does not think a new start can actually be renewed. >> new start is coming up for renewal. it's an agreement that was cut by up to a third the deployed nuclear weapons of russia and the united states. again, it's part of the agenda that bolton has to systematically take apart the arms control regime. all that is is giving to vladimir putin to develop thuy weap new weapons and get rid of modifications and limits. i would like to see democrats running for president committing to try to move a new start forward. your point of millennials. under the hood in russia, he can look and empower in the west. there is a recreent survey that shows 44% of younger russians would like to lead the country. we saw the protest in moscow. we should be keeping our eye on the fact that really there may be a kind of building

reporter: this has been a embarrassing incident for president vladmir putin.chdog group raised concerns that russia's radiation monitoring stations in the past a radiation plume that resulted from a cruise missile test august 8th had been turned off. two of those stations were mysteriously turned on. they are sharing data with comprehensive nuclear test ban organization. the group praised russia for its excellent cooperation. president putin pushed back that suggested there was a radiation leak from the rocket accident. >> translator: you need to take note of the geography. there was not any accident in siberia. if you mean that took place in the north sea, that is a different region of the russian federation. there is not a contamination risk. there is no danger of radiation. we sent experts there, notably independent experts who are controlling the area. reporter: russia offered confusing an conflicting explanation nations for what happened on august 8th, when experts believe they attempted and failed to test a nuclear powered cruise missile known as skyfall

. >> you asked about the president's intention to invite vladmir putin back.ates will actually be the host country of the g7 next year and so it would be up to donald trump to decide whether or not he wants him to be there. treasury secretary stephen mnuchin telling me there's no decision on that yet. he hedged a bit and said there would be reasons not to invite russia. >> thank you so much for your insights. mu much appreciate eappreciated. >>> 70% americans say they are reasoni angry at the political establishment. we'll talk about this later. establishment. we'll talk about this later. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from anyone else. why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase sensimist. nothing stronger. nothing gentler. nothing lasts longer. flonase sensimist. 24 hour non-drowsy allergy relief we really pride ourselves on >> temaking it easy for youass, to get your windshield fixed. >> teacher: let's turn in your science papers. >> tech vo: this teacher always puts her students first. >> student: i did mine on volcanoes. >> teacher: you did?! oh

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but my bet is it is going to many there in an election year and vladmir putin will be there. thanks to all of you. >>> turning now to tropical storm dorian, churning in the atlantic according to the 11:00 a.m. advisory from the national hurricane center, puerto rico is still under a hurricane watch from the storm. it's expected to hit there tomorrow. dorian could bring dangerous flash flooding to puerto rico. president trump just tweeted moments ago, wow, yet another big storm heading to puerto rico. will it ever end? congress proved $92 billion for puerto rico last year an all time record for anywhere. we'll bring you the latest updates on the storm as we get them. >>> coming up, opioid reckoning. it's being called a blockbuster ruling against one drug company at the center of the opioid crisis. what is next for 1,500 other cases across the country. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports," stay with us on msnbc. l reports," stay with us on msnbc. t by motley crue) (truck honks) (wheels screeching) (clapping) (sound of can hitting bag and bowl) (clapping) always there in cr

he would much rather be talking to kim jong-un, vladmir putin or some of the other leaders he feels he has a relationship with. >> let's focus in on the topic of gun control. the president -- you wrote about this a little bit. seemingly evolving if you want to use that word. some say back pedaling on the issue of background checks. interestingly enough, there seems to be a little bit of a political calculation here that this, as the president has done previously with other mass shootings, is not really about gun control policy. it's about politics for his base. >> right. and i think what we've seen and the people have perceived it as a back pedaling or flip-flopping back and forth. i think it's the president publicly trying to find a stable politically tenable perch to land on on this issue. i don't think he knows where he wants to be. he has staff in the white house who are trying to figure out on background checks what is a piece of legislation they could get through congress. they are still working to try and revive this toomey/manchin bill from 2013. that wouldn't go as far as demo

people wonder what vladmir putin does in response, does he weapon up and do we weapon up in responseg up? what is happening now? reporter: the u.s. warned russia six months ago, it would do this walk away from the treaty. new defense secretary mark esper recently made the case to law makers. >> we cannot stand by while russia arms itself with intermediate range missiles, ssc-8s nuclear tipped, have most of europe within their range. reporter: nato calls russia the new missile the screwdriver because it is messing with the west. not everyone thinks it is wise for the u.s. to pull out. here is the u.n. secretary-general. >> the world needs inevitable break on nuclear war. this will not reduce the threats posed by ballistic missiles. reporter: china, iran, north korea not party to the inf treaty. all have huge stockpiles of these types of missiles. another reason the u.s. wants to pull out, neil, in addition to russia's violations. >> there would be deployment of land-based intermediate range missiles to the pacific as commanders are recommending if we're not in the inf treaty. >> it is

last march vladmir putin bragged the fact he had a sole monopoly on new generation of weapons that can to 20 times the speed of sound. neil: they have the most advanced space program right now, period, right? as far as busyness? >> right. but they don't have the infrastructure. we have this enormous commercial infrastructure. neil: but they're not all together here. our commercial interests are very scattered. >> that's right. i think what president trump wants to do, is establish some order among the chaos, because we'll have a traffic jam in outer space, that the indians already have gone to the moon, gone to mars. who would have thought nations like that would field a full-fledged space program. neil: when i heard italy would launch, that is game over. thanks, professor. so food seeing you. hopefully peace will be the operative word here in this approach. >>> we have a lot more coming up. stocks are rocketing. see what i did there? all on basic cable. the professor sim pressed. not really. we'll have more after this. that's why, your cash automatically goes into a money market fund

. >>> overseas, vladmir putin says there is no risk of increased radiation levels from the explosiona missile test site on the 8th of august. two russian nuclear monitoring stations reportedly loss contact after that explosion. arms control association executive director darrell kimble is our guest now. what is it really going on here? these thoughts, darrell, russians are trying to keep evidence away? what is your sense what happened? >> russians are trying to obscure from the world the exact nature of this missile related accident on august 8th, which probably involved a new and exotic propulsion system for a missile they're trying and failing to develop and the news just in the last few days is that the russians have stopped transmitting data from radiation monitoring stations that are in russia, that are part of global network of monitoring stations to detect and deter nuclear weapons test explosions. these were established by a 1996 treaty to ban all nuclear test explosions. russia has number of these stations on their territory, six of which monitor for radiation, and two, they

with would be for him how to communicate with vladmir putin to stop the conflicts in eastern ukraine?ake a deal with president putin. he will be invited to the while house and we look forward to seeing him. he has been invited to the white house. he wants to come. i think he will. he is a very reasonable guy. he wants to see peace in ukraine. i think he will be coming very soon, actually. [reporters shouting questions] reporter: joe biden's overnight and -- >> look, joe is not playing with a full deck. he made that comment. i said whoa, i saw it, because i was on something, i had a television. i saw his comment. joe biden is not playing with a full deck. this is not somebody you can as your president. but if he got the nomination i would be thrilled. reporter: what about -- what about your rhetoric? your rhetoric? >> reporter: ban on twitter? >> we're looking at that right now, we have a lot of companies coming in a while. as you know, we'll be very tough with them. they're treating conservatives very unfairly. hollywood, i don't call them the elites. i think elites are people they go

"the washington post" and "new york times" reported that brennan had an asset who was close to vladmir putinon so sensitive and so important that he wanted to put it on president obama's desk and he did so by hand in an envelope actually. so, senator graham, he wants to know about that information. he wants to know who knew it and when. david: phillip, we have only 10 seconds this battle now between representative talib and bill maher fascinates me. president's intention with his first tweets on aoc, everything that got him in trouble, go back home tweets, it seems like he was trying to get the democrats to unite around the radicals and they're being put in a position, independents like bill maher refusing to go there. >> whether or not that was the plan or whether it was a happy accident for the administration that has been the effect. alexandria ocasio-cortez and her squad have become the defacto face of the democratic party. the trump campaign, if you speak with them they couldn't be happier, whoever gets the nomination they will have to own rhetoric coming out of the father left of the d

he talks about vladmir putin has pride. he has a little pride too.s happened. that is one of the things the president was upset about. he tweeted this out, the question i was asked about most today, world leaders who think the usa is doing so well, happens to be, mr. president, why does the american media hate your country so much? why are they rooting for it to fail? katie: just comments, like throwing gas on the fire when it comes to china when the administration and farmers quite frankly who are hurting from this are seeing it as the president standing up for their best interests. and going to the mat for them. being in a tough battle that does require some pouring fuel on the fire to get china to move. brian: katie that is the story line. you could have one story, he is hurting farmers. you could have one story saying he is going to bat for them. instead of personally and professionally trying to diminish the president. this time it is happening on the world stage. steve: wait a minute are you suggesting that the main street media is out to get t