within a few months, the countries of western europe and scandinavia were free and independent. for the countries occupied by russia, stalin had other ideas. throughout eastern europe, elections were held. but the russians had placed the communists in key government positions and in the secret police. within a short time, the non-communist leaders had been liquidated. russia had swallowed up eight european countries without firing another shot other than those of the execution squads. great britain and the united states protested that these countries had ben: worst -- had ced by force and russia had broken her treaty. russia ignored the protest. stalin knew the greater part of the allied forces had gone home, leaving their arms to rest in the field of europe. in the west, men were impatient to be demobilized. the war was finished and they had other work to do. the russians had not demobilized. they retained overwhelmingly the largest force in europe. the small group of men in the kremlin long ago dedicated themselves to the spreading of communism by all possible means. they knew

what did it actually achieves in western europe and how did it do that. well, what was the entrance of every likes to focus on the money. it was $13.2 billion spread over four years. to put that in a contemporary context, if we were to do a marshall plan of equivalent size in terms of percentage of our annual output, that would be $800 billion. so this was a significant amount of money. what did it do? well, the participants of 16 marshall recipient countries did recover very dramatically over the years from 1947-1952. output increased by over 60%, and the early accounts of the marshall plan tended to just ascribe it all to the marshall plan and leave it at that. eventually my fellow economists started taking over the debate. it were much more skeptical and started running simulations and that just led them to be rather baffled because things that they were looking for didn't seem to be there. for example, was it that the marshall plan allowed these country to import much more than it would otherwise because they had no dollars in gold anymore, and he fou

foreign policy presence outside its borders because of all these gas exports particularly into western europe so anything that weakens that donald trump does seem to be weakening that. weakening or trying to weaken at least that western european purchasing of russian gas will worry those in the kremlin there is something else to talk about here though and that is the view that is how old it here in russia but also in other parts of europe particularly in germany has to be said that there's something else going on here there's something else behind this american opposition to russian gas exports into europe and that is essentially that america it's believed wants to get in on the energy market place in western europe that if it can force russia out that basically gives an in for the united states and its liquidnet natural gas exports because for as long as russia is there with its cheaper pipelines american l.n.g. is not going to get much of a look and so if it can force russia out than that obviously gives donald trump's mercantile transactional foreign policy perspective these days much more

and other capitals in western europe would like to have drawn he seems to be wavering all over them all right thank you. well evidence of prisoners being killed tortured and disappearing from secret jails in southern yemen has been published by amnesty international the rights group says what's happening there could amount to war crimes the u.a.e. has denied previous allegations. al-jazeera obtained a voice recording late last year of a man who said he'd been held prisoner in southern yemen operated by so which is from the united arab emirates. there are various methods such as the use of electric shock waterboarding as well as forcing detainees to strip naked this is how they torture us in different prisons they use different methods amnesty international says evidence from more than seventy families government workers and prisoners all show crew on unlawful practices in prisons run by amorality and yemeni forces some of these detention facilities are not actually official. what we and others. in our investigations is that there is a network of secret detention. the most egregious viol

but western europe.stuff like that happens all the time over there and strangely enough nobody's ever allowed to talk about it to me and that a common enemy unites people this particular enemy is hungry an american billionaire george soros or bonds government has cast him as a model for how illegal migration can threaten hungary and heritage their hearts we will fight against everything that the imperial of george soros is doing to hungary and this planning to do this is our life our home we have no other that's why we will fight for it to our last breath we won't ever give up so hard i. always fall against some kind of enemy in one nine hundred eighty nine it was the cameron ism and the upcoming decades it proved to be liberalism the european union and i.m.f. they come with. the migration now the united nations everybody that is. not a fan of politics. n.g.o.s that soros supports are being harassed like amnesty international not long ago legislation was passed that made it much harder for n.g.o.s to ope

that perhaps donald trump has ulterior motives that he's not just warning western europe about the dangers of reliance on russian energy what he's actually done trying to do is create a space for american liquid natural gas exports to be able to come in and fill any void if western europeans manage to get themselves off russian gas. marx makowski is a senior fellow at the land to council and former u.s. defense official he's also the author of flexible expansion nature enlargement in era of austerity and uncertainty he joins us now from washington thanks very much for being with us so what do you make of things isn't trump's attack on america is right at the start of a nato summit what was he trying to achieve anything. you know i think president trump reviewed his visit to brussels laying out his frustrations over burden sharing and trade imbalances and germany in particular is the main target of his is dire german germany has not been able to fulfill its two percent threshold commitments agreed to in two thousand and fourteen and as a result he wants to take advantage of that

created almost 70 years ago for a specific and noble purpose keeping the soviets from invading western europe. the soviet union no longer exist and it hasn't existed for almost 30 years. nato is still around and it's getting bigger. why is that? more to the point, is it serving america's interests or is it imperiling them? those are vital questions. official washington does not want to answer them or talk about them, they are trying to crush anyone who asks we are not intimidated obviously. joining us is felipe raines the omer hillary clinton spokesman. he suggested where working for vladimir putin for daring to ask about nato and montenegro. it's a serious question, defense guarantees or serious promises. why what the united states promise to defend montenegro? >> the nato treaty has kept the peace since world war ii. i don't want your son to find it montenegro, i don't want your son to fight in germany or any other ofy the 29 nato countrie. you are presenting nato as something likely to trigger a war when nato in fact has been what has avoided war. while the soviet union has fallen, the rus

function at least in western europe i believe the culture of europe. thanks for joining us here on our teams rational hawkins wherever you are today welcome to the program. i was just the dust had started to settle on the trunk putin summit in helsinki the white house dropped a bombshell inviting the russian president over to washington later this year. confirmed his intentions to meet again with putin and interview. second meeting potentially with with one of your putin. is that in the works is it planned has it been you know i would say it's in the works look we had a tremendous discussion on many things to the fact is we get along very well i think i have a good relationship with you and so far the russian side has neither accepted nor declined the invitation the decision to invite putin to the u.s. outrage in the western media demand that even president trump now says interfered in u.s. democracy invited to the white house and now the president has apparently doubled down they said by having him to washington so let's collude again like we did last

function at least in western europe multicultural has made. this country. just after midday here in moscow on this friday you're watching r.t. international welcome to your news. just as the dust had started to settle on the summit in helsinki the white house dropped a bombshell inviting the russian president to washington later this year the move sparking. outrage in the western media. demand that even president trump now says interfered in u.s. democracy invited to the white house and now the president has apparently doubled down case inviting him to washington so let's collude again that we did last top spy in the united states he doesn't know how is that possible that the president of the united states is inviting putin for a second summit in a couple of months in the fall over at the white house because the president he works for is donald trump. lottie's kill him off and now reports on the very latest from the white house. in helsinki president of the united states agreed to go in working level dialogue between the two security council staffs presiden

function at least in western europe multicultural has made euro because rich this country. arrive mid-morning on friday here in moscow the international economy is top story . just as the dust had started to settle on the putin summit in helsinki and the white house dropped a bombshell inviting the russian president to washington later this year the move the whole move i should say just created outrage in the western media man that even president trump now says interfered in u.s. democracy invited to the white house and now the president has apparently doubled down that announcement left some administration insiders surprised you have the right and that's a kind way to put it right top spy. in the united states he doesn't know how is that possible that the president of the united states is inviting putin for a second summit in a couple of months in the fall over at the white house because the president works far as dante chop. them up and reports on the latest from the white house. in helsinki president of the united states agreed to go in working level dialogue between the

promises to the perfect twenty first century societies don't function in the west at least in western europe multicultural has made europe as rich this country . the twentieth and it is now just after eleven am in moscow of course the international in a very warm welcome to you. so just as the dust had started to settle on the putin somewhat in helsinki the white house dropped a bombshell inviting the russian president over to washington later this year at the move. in the western media demand that even president trump now says interfered in u.s. democracy invited to the white house and now the president has apparently doubled down that announcement left some administration insiders surprised at the right and that's a kind of top spy in the united states he doesn't know how is that possible that the president of the united states is inviting putin for a second in a couple of months in the fall over at the white house because the president he works for is donald trump. artie's column up and not reports on the latest from the white house in helsinki president of the united states agreed to go

don't function at least in western europe multicultural has made. this country. in the morning on friday this is the international the whole news team to put together your top headlines. so just as the dust had started to suck along the summit in helsinki the white house dropped a bombshell inviting the russian president over to washington later this year. reports on the latest from the white house. in helsinki president of the united states agreed to ongoing working level dialogue between the two security council staffs president trump asked john bolton to invite president putin to washington in the fall and those discussions over ready on the way we have the announcement from sarah huckabee sanders the white house press secretary this comes in the aftermath of quite a bit of media hysteria in response to donald trump's a meeting in helsinki with the russian president if you look at time magazine or the new yorker there's been quite a bit of hysteria in u.s. media now in recent comments the russian president has actually warned the world about the hysteria in th

hello there it is staying hots for many of us in western europe and for many places it's also been very dry over the last few weeks as well that's called a problem with wildfires for some places including here in the western parts of germany and here it's going to stay dry over the next couple of days and it's also going to stay halts not really what we're expecting over many parts of western europe the unsettled weather is generally a lot for the east the first legal this is larry of low pressure here that's giving us a lot of wet weather and more in the way of clouds as well and we're also seeing some severe thunderstorms down in the southeastern parts of europe these gradually will spread their way towards the west as we head through monday and this area of cooler weather will also be working its way westwards into sweden so stop time no higher than a round to twenty one but the western parts of europe staying hot and dry as well a bit further towards the south of for many of us here the weather is pretty hot at the moment because it is that time of yes i thirty eight degrees fairly

drawing in the heat up from western europe.stem which squeezes out the rain showers and keeps most places largely dry. tuesday, showers. wet weather beginning the day. early rises should get that. the crowd increase —— increases to the west later on. only producing a few light showers. lighter winds elsewhere. in tuesday night, we'll see the dash is still see whether northwards and eastwards. basically, a quiet zone. wednesday will be dry. a few light showers here and there. the vast majority, a pleasant day, a bit of cloud bubbling up into the afternoon and temperatures starting to climb. we could finish with some rain across ireland. across northern ireland, northern and western england and into parts of scotland but high pressure building up to the south of this means the weather system will fragment, shower then rather any persistent rain, and he burst possible that by two conditions developing through the day. further south to continue with sunshine and dry weather throughout. into friday, the high—pressure system is with

keepit's important t collective security for western europe together in the ashes of second world war to try to stop the spread ofco unism at that point in time and was very successful in winning cold war when it happened. no nato mission has to pivot boundariesfcaaplhi protecting wt for dem of coursety and making world safe fo dem of course say and including areas of cyber likely to middle east as well and i think nato is important military alliance to spur economic well-being for those countries.ta >> lelk about that. there's two battle fronts here traditional military as sfokt this weee concerns over crimea and sign he front. whicone now is prio i your view. >>> well they brother weighing one against other. signer is fifth domain of which the united states has piers with china russia, other the natomunities don'thy when spent they're not spending on tanks and differentgreople on the nd. they're not spending it and and research going into it. if we can get nato countries to take resources and devote it to cyber defenses for example that would have to be something the united states w

russia will be selling more and more gas and oil to western europe.ll be dependent on russia. secondly, the other thing that he raised and should have, is the western europe, nato allies don't pay fair share of defense. a lot of those countries are a lot richer than we are, such is as germany. melissa: senator shelby. thank you. appreciate your time. >> thank you, melissa. >> on totally different note. we have breaking news. a spoiler alert on world cup. melissa: wow. david: watching the world cup, you want to see it tonight, don't listen. croatia beating england 2-1 advancing them to the world cup finals. looking live images. this sawing greg, -- sagreb, croatia. let's hope nobody hurts themselves. melissa: amazing. he was in the camp belgium. there you go. >>> anti-trump bias at fbi. lisa page filing a subpoena to appear on capitol hill. peter strzok is next to testify. james comer, a member of the house oversight committee sounds off on possible consequences for page and what to expect when strzok comes to face lawmakers tomorrow. ♪ what's the hesi

. >> tucker: nato was created to prevent the russians from invading western europe. you don't believe there at risk, so what is the purpose of nato? >> president trump: it's okay, it's fine, they have to pay. they weren't paying, other presidents went, they made a speech and they leave and nothing would happen. the fact that they didn't pay is not a new fact, this is something that people have known for a long time. other countries were delinquent, we say in business they use the word delinquent, they didn't pay. i went there three or four days ago and i said you've got to pay because were not going to pay it from-90 -- were not going to pay 90% of the costs to defend europe and on top of that, the european union kills us on trade. we lost $151 billion on trade, they don't take our product our farmers beautiful goods, they don't take our cars and if they do the rate of taxes many times what we would charge them, we only charge them 2.5%. their tariff is substantially higher. with china they charge to add a half percent, when we send a card to china they charge us 25%

other parts of western europe and indeed other traditional american allies but i think he's demonstrated that he can sort of look at a piece of evidence and take a tiny piece of it or just look at a completely separate. sort of universe and decide well no that's fine they all of course we've got the meeting with with coming up that is something something that almost feels like that's the key part of this whole trip because the way he dismissed nato was almost like we're discussing pastore these days until that one comes up as i read it the nato summit wasn't good i think it's fair to say the tenor of the conversation the sort of pin bowling between is he going to withdraw from nato is he just making a threat to it to the sort of ostensibly positive but still quite veiled threat of the press conference at the end the fact that he turned up late and left early those are all very bad signs now the alliance survived but i think there's any progress that might have been made on afghanistan on. increasing nato political will against russia just general sort of nato comedy i think has has not b

us that the perfect twenty first century site is why i don't function in the west at least in western europe. mohammed what do you think of staff blokes common to basically multiculturalism doesn't work with examples he says. thank you for inviting once again on russia today. i'm quite surprised to hear this from the foreign minister that foreign minister knowing his country is a safe haven for the multicultural. people who walk or ride from different are all across the world than live in you know peacefully in neverland i'm not sure the definition of him multicultural society is a society's talks about integration of different culture and once it's mighty or he think that we should divide people based on what on on a color or nationality or identity this is the question we do address what is identity that we are not able to live together with if you look at england london is one example for example what a. city that has been able to to world come and able to be a platform for multicultural society we can see the mixture of color the mixture of languages the mixture of even religion that liv

many in western europe prefer weak not and a strong america. for example, remember obama's apology tour revered by the leaders in europe. >> america, like every other nation, has made mistakes and has its flaws. in america there is a failure to appreciate europe's leading role in the world. in. stead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you for common challenges, america has been air gants. -- arrogant. we have seen muslim majority countries elect a woman to lead. meanwhile the struggle for women's equality continuous in many aspects of american life. >> sean: the press picked up on europe's love affair for barack obama. one headline. obama wows berlin with historic speech. bret president obama goes abroads and the world is happier for it. let's go back to ronald reagan. like president trump reagan led the world with american exceptionalism and the concept of peace through strength. america did not love reagan. in london and west berlin reagan was jeered during a speech in france. and his policies ushered in the end of

to weaken as we go through the week, and in doing so, we start to tap in to warmer air across western europemorning, it is a reasonably warm and not muggy start to the day, across parts of the south and east in particular, temperatures 17—18 celsius for the morning commute. a few showers in the south and the west. cooler, even with the sunshine across northeast scotland, around 6 or 7 degrees. through the morning, we'll see showers develop quite widely. areas most prone to it — east anglia and south—east the odd heavy one. also from the south—west of wales, midlands, towards yorkshire and again across scotland, some of those can be heavy and thundery in the afternoon. there will be a few showers elsewhere but a lot of the time we'll be dry through the afternoon with some longer spells of sunshine than we saw through the weekend. with that and lighter winds, it will feel a little bit warmer, temperatures up a couple of degrees for many of you. into monday night, the showers we do see will fade away for a time. but then they'll get going again towards some southern and western areas, particula

going so well that they want to expand their business a sort of new silk road between china and western europe and it's hard to believe that all these items are counterfeit the original brand doesn't even produce this model. and most things aren't that much cheaper i don't think i'd shop here it's like a gigantic version of a german street fair. enough but for better. or. for this is this or that this is the goods here are obviously counterfeit everyone knows that the managers officially deny it become a household even if you turn off the camera and ask just between you and me what about product piracy you still get the same answer it's not counterfeit about but i've been to the us but if you need anything let me know. i must admit the market isn't as wild and rough as i had expected but it does have a certain kind of magic i think i understand this place a little better now. but i tell you spending several days in it is fascinating microcosm i've learned three thinks efforts in a multicultural environment you need a sense of humor of the people of odessa definitely have that cited common inte

were promised to the perfect twenty first century site is don't function in the west at least in western europe i think the remark you just based on. ignorance of how can societies can bring together big example i can ensure we can witness is the work of the french team for example look at french team french team contains a multicultural society france beat another team from a small country in the balkans and all the players in this small team of the country of origin so there is no rule to be taken out of that to meet the multiculturalist that doesn't function is what you have communities living next to each other and not mixing it is very easy for example for asians to. melton and become members of society but we have some some part of the population that refuse it to want to impose their culture in the public space like the slum for example democracy can only be based on respect respect of the art each other culture respect it comes also from form not to fear from other people culture from the other society we import misery we have a social security system which is based on the contribution

come on and welcome to world a part of western europe has long been the birthplace of both the most dangerous and the most in the light and ideas that almost burned the planet alive with the two world wars and came up with the european union as a prevention strategy against the third is the euro centric way the only strategy of saving the world from a new disaster or is it perhaps the surest way of bringing it about well to discuss that i'm now joined by collapse and the collide is director of the center for international studies at oxford university professor nickell it is it's an honor talking to you thank you very much for your time thank you now i know that for much of your cadet make career you've been focusing on how people collectively negotiated diet difference.

hello the rain is pushing its way into the western parts of europe now to be a bit of a shock for some of us because it's been hot and dry for a while now but here's that area of cloud as it gradually edges its way eastwards and as it does so it will bring a drop to the temperatures but not too much for london there will still get to around twenty four degrees on shoes day further south it was still we won't for many other parts of western europe but we'll also see water to thunderstorms some of them over the alps could be rather violent and bring you some hail and some damaging gusts of wind those thunderstorms also extend down across the coast of the adriatic as well and for the eastern parts of year it's a bit different here we've got an area of low pressure in charge so it's cloudy it's wet it's also not that hot and that's the way it's going to stay as we head through the next few days and no major change for us across the other side of the mediterranean you can see the winds feeding down from the north so for the north coast of egypt the temperatures on that high that go inland t

coalition of over forty jewish groups from fifteen different countries have backs the leader of western europe's largest socialist movement they reject the idea that it's anti-semitic to go israel racist one of those groups is jewish voice for labor and joining me now is one of its founders richard cooper rich thanks for coming on the show so i have to ask this question how can you support a labor leader who is a might and a racist according to a senior former labor cabinet minister margaret hodge has apparently now they deny that she swore. kerry is not and has never been mocked or a racist it is margaret hodge to make this accusation and to make an accusation in that form whether or not with the expletive deleted should be an acceptable behavior and she should apologize that is not the way in which we come back debates of the labor party which is a lot of support from blair and factions within the labor board he may have support from blairite factions in the labor party it is nothing to do with the labor party to the day with its absolute commitment to fight anti semitism in all its forms the

these men stand next to the american seventh army, on the outer perimeter of the free western europe,mergency. was confronted with the suez crisis in the fall of 1956, the canadian army was called upon to provide personnel and materiel to assist in policing the area. serving under the u.n. flag, aboutan units helped ring a successful prisoner exchange between egyptian and israeli forces. in the troubled middle east, canadian soldiers at still represent the interests of peace. [church bell ringing] the fighting history the canadian army is a proud one and nowhere is it more at the military college in ontario, where future officers are trained. modern army camp near london, ontario, the oldest regiment in the canadian army makes its headquarters. the royal canadian regiment has been part of the regular army carries battle launders from the northwest rebellion of 1885. the regiment continues in a state of combat readiness, dividing highly trained men for duty anywhere canada requires them. already, members of the regiment have experience as military policeman and you and observers and ha

promised us that the perfect twenty first century site is don't function in the west at least in western europe i think the last remark you just based on. ignorance of how can societies can bring together a big example i can ensure we can witness is that what the french team for example look at french team french team contains a multi-cultural society france beat another team from a small country in the balkans and all the players in this small team of the country of origin so there is no rule to be taken out of that to meet the multiculturalist that doesn't function is what you have communities living next to each other and not mixing it is very easy for example for asians to. melton and become members of society but we have some some part of the population that refuse it to want to impose their culture in the public space like islam for example democracy can only be based on respect respect or for that are each other culture respect it comes also from form not to fear from other people culture from the other society we import misery we have a social security system which is based on the contr

perhaps we can clarify for our viewers because you know we have been watching this of course from western europe but you know how you experience this event really depends on where you are in the world right tell us more about that yes in principle two thirds of the world can see each and every six weeks because it's last several hours and the us or teasing underneath but there are some continents and always miss up and this time unfortunately it's not america that doesn't get to see if there's. just a perfect view all of asia and also africa because of mexico to snow when times are not so much longer and so they are of you enjoying the beautiful except on there in south africa you can be out from there have been watching live feeds for the past hour as we mentioned this is the longest eclipse of the twenty first century you know the moon appearing darkest for for around one hundred three minutes why so long. because the moon is pretty far away from the earth right now the moon's orbit is not circular. and right now the moon is very close to leave prior end of the ellipse so it's far from earth a

to weaken as we go through the week and, in doing so, we start to tap in to warmer air across western europeuggy start to the day. across parts of the south and east in particular, temperatures 17—18 celsius for the morning commute. a few showers in the south and the west. cooler, even with the sunshine across northeast scotland, around 6 or 7 degrees. through the morning we'll see showers develop quite widely. areas most prone to it — east anglia and south—east the odd heavy one. also from the south—west of wales, midlands, towards yorkshire and again across scotland, some of those can be heavy and thundery in the afternoon. there will be a few showers elsewhere but a lot of the time it will be dry through the afternoon with some longer spells of sunshine than we saw through the weekend. with that and lighter winds, it will feel a little bit warmer, temperatures up a couple of degrees for many of you. into monday night, the showers we do see will fade away for a time. but then they'll get going again towards some southern and western areas, particularly across england and wales where temper

coalition of a forty jewish groups from fifteen different countries have backs the leader of western europe's largest socialist movement they reject the idea that it's anti semitic to go israel racist one of those groups is jewish voice for labor and joining me now is one of its founders richard cooper richard thanks for coming on the shows i have to ask this question how can you support a labor leader who is a might and a racist according to a senior former labor cabinet minister margaret hodge has apparently now they deny that she swore. jeremy is not and has never been. or of race.

ago, the soviets challenged the western alliance with the gray the new threat, hundreds of new and more deadly ss 20 nuclear missiles, capable of striking every n europe the western alliance responded by committing itself to a counter deployment unless the soviets agreed to negotiate a better solution, namely, the elimination of such weapons on both sides. for many months, the soviets refused to bargain in earnestness. as the alliance intern, prepared to go forward with its counter deployment, there were difficult days, days of protest like those during my 1982 visit to the city -- and the soviets later walked away from the table. but through it all, the alliance held firm. and i invite those who protested then, i invite those who protest today, to mark this fact because we remained strong, the soviets came back to the table. [ applause ] because we remained strong, today we have within reach the possibility, not merely of limiting the growth of arms, but of eliminating, for the first time, an entire class of nuclear weapons from the face of the earth. as i speak, nato ministers our meeting and iceland to review the progress of our proposals for elimi

, and whatever i do i-- [ speaking german ] our gathering today is being broadcast throughout western europe. i understand it is being seen and heard as well in the east. to those listening throughout eastern europe, i extend my warmest greetings and the goodwill of the american people. to those listening in east berlin a special word, although i cannot with be with you i address my remarks to you just as surely as to those standing here before me. for i join you as i join your fellow countrymen in the west in this firm, and unalterable belief -- [ speaking german ] behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, and part of a vast system is of barriers that divides the entire continent of europe from the baltic south, those barriers cut across germany in a gash of barbed wire, concrete, dog runs and guard towers. farther south, no visible or obvious wall, but there remain armed guards and checkpoints all of the same. and still, a restriction on the right to travel. still, an instrument to impose upon ordinary men and women the will of the toe the tatalitaria and yet it

presidents because they thought that it was a way of creating peace stability and prosperity first in western europe and then in europe as a whole remember that you know this emerged as a peace project after the devastation of the second world war and during. the cold war so that that's fashing correct now he's going to do his best to drive europeans apart whether it's by playing divided rule by currying favor with his ally populists authoritarian far right allies. he's clearly set out a trade war that's going to hit europe as well as china he's undermining and potentially going to even pull out of nato and so yes it's an existential challenge for europe and for the global system and europe has to rise to the occasion pauline what's your take on this america may be in the view of a scholar and philip was agreeing him a with him a rogue state but donald trump is a democratically elected president what's to be done about this well basically he has the potential good news is that in the american democracy the president is elected for his four years and. maybe he won't squeeze the president of the unite

but at the end of the day, brian, nato is deterence and peace for the united states and western europe. so it has to be nurtured. we need leadership out of the president. rather than this public rudeness and denigration. and embracing putin, i mean this guy is a threat to the russian people and to his neighbors. he's an impoverished deeply dictatorial regime, why he is embracing mr. putin? >> and andrea mitchell to that last point, what is the level of concern in your orbit about a president asking to sit down with putin with just translators, no other record of their conversation? >> extreme. and that is certainly the concern of our allies. i've spoken to a lot of senior european officials. they were nervous before quebec. but after that g-7 meeting when he went into the meeting, the president did, arguing that russia should be invited back despite the fact that they took crimea and eastern ukraine and haven't really paid or acknowledged that to say nothing of attacking our election as well as other european elections. that so unnerved our allies at the g-7 who overlap with our nato a