sykes-picot the agreement, which later gets converted to something else. the agreement gets modified and the russians are supposed to take a bunch of territory. i think people would be interested in knowing that after the russian revolution, when wilson shows up at the peace conference in paris. the brits expected us to take the parts that had been assigned to russia, the united states in 1919 was supposed to take over armenia and wilson turned down. could you talk a little bit about that? >> i don't think it was to give sykes-picot agreement handoff in that case. one of the things that is fascinating is that we are never a -- we are a co-belligerent in world war i. we are not allies with the british and the french. we are co-belligerents with them. it creates some interesting differences. as a result, we never declare war against the ottoman empire. as a part of wilson's 14 points, one of which is self-determination of population, particularly -- he was looking at one case, the ottoman empire, and also the german empire -- the challenge was, we sent out o

our thanks to ashley parker, to charlie sykes and frank montoya. appreciate it very much, gang. >>> coming up here, we'll talk to former cia director leon panetta about what he thinks there is between putin and trump and what he made of today's attempted walk-back. >>> then later, an update tonight on the attempt in the house of representatives, the aer for mentioned congress to impeach deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. "the 11th hour" just getting started on a tuesday evening. >>> as the white house continues to deal with the fallout over president trump's news conference with vladimir putin, former members of the intelligence community are continuing to weigh in on this news over the past 48 hours. well, earlier tonight i had a chance to speak with leon panetta, whose resume may be unmatched in the modern political era, starting with his 16 years in congress representing his california district. he was later omb director and chief of staff in the clinton white house. he then served as both cia director and secretary of defense under preside

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the quote from mark sykes showed shows the historic importance of the ottoman empire to great britain. and yet, this is the same mark sykes that will give his name to the agreement to which i will refer later. russia wanted a warm water ports and access to resources. movement through the bosporus and the dardanelles was an one option, and another was access to the persian gulf, the arabian sea, and the indian ocean. the great game often included event solely to create difficulties for the opponent, as was evidenced with russian involvement in afghanistan, which did not seem to serve russian objectives as much as it created problems for great britain. the ottomans wanted to control access to the black sea, dominate the caucuses, and extend their reach and influence into the balkans in europe. the ottoman empire was first and foremost a european empire in the minds of the ottomans and european powers. their middle eastern possessions were something of an afterthought, both to the ottoman leadership and to the competing great powers. the ottoman empire was in severe economic distress in

. >> charlie sykes, folks on the left are fond of calling fox news state run tv. i want to are the you a portion of the "new york times" story. by tuesday morning it was clear mr. trump could not rely on support from even his most die-hard allies. on fox and friends, his favorite morning tv program, the host spoke directly into the camera from november when everyone had you losing, you shocked the world. it wasn't because of russia, but the goal was to up end the process. they hate democracy. he went on to say this has to be corrected. the president later corrected it. so charlie, were minds changed today when even members of the president's base saw that statement he read in the cabinet room? >> only the minds that wanted to be changed. as a walk back, this was ludicrous. as an excuse, this made the dog ate my homework seem like a brilliant alibi to say i dropped this contraction. what you saw in helsinki was the real donald trump. that was not a gaffe. that was what he thinks that is. his attitude and relationship with vladimir putin and in fact whether you want

charlie sykes, thank you, anna palmer, thank you. >>> on thursday, my colleague andrea mitchell will be interviewing the director of national intelligence. dan coats who just rebuked president trump for his comments on russia's interference in our 2016 election, that comment he made, by the way, did not go through the white house for approval. andrea and mr. coats will talk one on one at the aspen security forum. watch the interview live on nbcnews.com and at 3:35 eastern, again, that is on thursday, and make sure to watch msnbc throughout the day for excerpts and analysis. >>> we're going to keep watching the white house where the president is expected to speak in the next hour and talk about the offer vladimir putin made to robert mueller that seemed to be enticing to president trump. plus, president obama is back in the spotlight this morning, talking about family separation at the border. >> for a mother with the child in her arms, we can recognize that could be somebody in our family. that could be my child. >> that is not the only thing he said. we're going to look at his other

she sykes herself up, grab the scissors, she starts cutting the hair. >> come in, come in. >> and this is the moment she realizes something's not right. >> ra ra. >> we would cake it back to the 90s, little tlc at the ball. >> it's a bit crooked. >> mom, can we go to the salon, now! >> she's got a great attitude about it and while we don't see it i have a feeling after this video because of the way she starts grabbing her hair she evened it out. >>> this stunning video was captured. that's a 5-year-old boy. and there's no ledge to stand on, is there? he's hanging from the seventh floor window. he goes flying to the ground, but. >> there's still people there, it's not like they were holding blankets or anything? >> they were holding blankets. this kid was acting up and so his mom left him there alone. since he was there alone he decided to go out the window, lost his footing. the neighbors saw him and they went down with a sheet and tried catch him. he was falling at such a fast pace that it ripped the sheet but it created a buffer for him. the situation is under investigation because a

charlie sykes, contributing editor for the weekly standard and host of the daily standard podcast. former clinton kamm pair advisor, director for sirius xm. lucky for us, all are msnbc contributors. your tweeter feed increasingly causes me anxiety. >> sorry about that. >> it's good, it's good. keeping it real. what are your biggest worries heading into this summit? >> well, my minimal worry is that president trump just lavishes praise on vladimir putin and forgets about the past. that would be a disaster already. my biggest worry, my bigger worry is that he actually comes through on a lot of these concessions that he's been talking about recently. i mean, you just pointed out he doesn't seem too concerned about their violation of our sovereignty and the 2016 election. he has hinted that he might actually recognize crimea as part of russia. that would be outrageous against the entire government of the united states of america, all of his advisors, against the will of the entire world. and i just hope he doesn't -- he's not somehow tricked into or wants to just dis us all by showing

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charlie sykes. mimi, let's start with you here. the president's attorney rudy giuliani tweeting a short time ago, i think we have it here. we'll put it on the screen. if cohen is telling the truth. why are he and lanny davis misrepresenting the language of trump. quote, "do not pay by cash, check." >> what's the potential legal damage here mimi. >> you mentioned rudy giuliani and trump's denial about them making a payment. as to any legal consequences, that's not entirely relevant. if trump is part of a scheme, however that is conducted through ami or directly to pay karen mcdougal to keep quiet and if there are laws broken by that, it does no t matter if they directly made the payments or not. they can be apart of the scheme and apart of the conspiracy. the potential laws we are talking about that may be broken are campaign finance violations which people seemed to be writing off, well, campaig campaign -- it is a serious f l felfel felo felony. this case and this tape shows why this case is distinguishable. this is a much stronge

he's doing a book for us this fall called wiley sykes and it's about patriotism. it's about values and it's about the politically incorrect, maybe, position of saying it's okay and the fact it's essential for us to be willing to say we are the good guys. we are fighting for something good when we are fighting. as a country, we are a force for good in the world and if we are afraid to say that, it will undermine our ability to be a force for good in the world and also undermine really the motivation and more out of our fighting forces, all of our men and women in uniform as well as cops and firemen and people who are doing things for public service if we're not willing to say we are doing something good and we are proud of doing something good and we believe in it. so it's a really interesting thing, it's an important message and its liens into some of the values that i think might be driving what happens in the midterms. >> we are here at the public publishers convention. republican president in the white house. how's business for conservative publishing? >> used

let's get the inside scoop from charlie sykes, host of "the daily standard" podcast, and from karen tumulty, political columnist for "the washington post." scott pruitt was confronted yesterday by a woman with her toddler in a washington restaurant. karen and charlie, take a look at what happened to scott pruitt when he was at lunch earlier this week. >> hi. i just wanted to encourage you to resign. this is my son. he loves animals. he loves air. he loves the water. we deserve to have somebody at the epa who actually does protect our environment, somebody who believes in climate change and takes it seriously. all 6 of us, including our children. i urge you to resign before your scandals push you out. >> that's a moment indeed, charlie. your reaction to that and to what's been alleged about scott pruitt's latest issue which is whether or not he was trying to get a job for his wife. >> well, perversely, scenes like that are probably going to strengthen his hand with the pun person who matters, which is ado donald trump. scott pruitt has become the poster child for swampiness in trump's new sw

while this correspondence was going on between the sharif and high commissioner, mark sykes was meeting with a french diplomat. what came from this set of meetings was a non-binding agreement that is the most famous of all the disagreements. as we will discuss at the end of tonight's presentation, there were a series of treaties that were legally binding. this agreement had none of that. this was an agreement between diplomats for conceptual division of the ottoman territories. as one notes the blue shaded area, it is clear that some of the lands being divided never came from the republic of turkey. the agreement included historic imperial interests and this agreement was referred to by the british and french, from the british and french participant'' names, but there was a russian participant, and the russians were to get constantinople and the straits. it was russian participation that created the diplomatic explosion. once the bolsheviks gained control of the russian foreign ministry, they broadcast the use of the war for furthering imperial interests. the people in the middle east w

jennifer reuben, charlie sykes. billy maxwell, that does it for this hour. i'm nicole wallace. mtp daily starts right now. >>> yep, it's wednesday. we're talking politics and patriotism on this fourth of july. a big happy fourth of july to everybody. i'm chuck todd here in walk. welcome to a special edition of "mtp daily." today is a day when many of us celebrate the birth of our nation, firing up the grill, popping open a beer or taking in a blockbuster or watching fireworks with the family. it's also a day when a lot of folks think of what it's to be american. so we begin our show with the raging debate right now about what it means to be american at a time when the line between your politics and your patriotism has begun to blur. particularly under this american president. practices the biggest ways those lines are blurring are how the president has seemingly attempted to co-op patriotism in his own way to mean a certain level of loyalty and love to him. according to mr. trump, if you don't standing and applaud for him like during his state of the union, you are not being pa

charles sykes writes, republican members of congress need to act like a political party with principles, rather than outsourcing their consciences to a handful of critics. taking action now is not merely a matter of recovering political courage and integrity, it would be congress' articles and system of checks and balances. what kind of checks and balances are we talking about here? >> well, i think for one, even last week in the face of all of the fallout from the beginning of the week to the end, republicans couldn't even pass in the house of representatives legislation that would put more resources into making sure that we protect our electoral system. even though there is an acknowledgment throughout the intelligence community that russia interfered with and meddled in our elections. so i think what you're seeing here is this kind of disconnect. because on the one hand republicans are looking at the president's polling numbers in -- among republicans, but on the other hand, they're faced with a president clearly who isn't even supporting his own national intelligence infrastructure

and charlie sykes, contributing editor for the weekly standard, host of the daily standard podcast and an msnbc contributor. >>> aaron, you write about this interview, great interview george stephanopoulous did off camera with cohen. what leaps out at you in blinking red lights for the president and this white house? >> well, he really kind of ticked every box as far as signaling a willingness to cooperate, a willingness to maybe flip against president trump if it came to that. there have been a number of indications of this over the last couple weeks. there were people talking anonymously to a couple outlets about how michael cohen was not happy with how the president had been treating him. maybe wanted some money for his legal defense in this case, that he hadn't been getting. there was, of course, michael cohen stepping aside from the republican national committee and not just talking about it being because of the investigation, but also talking about it being a result of a policy difference that he had with the president. that seemed really conspicuous given michael cohen doesn't g

joining us at the table, charlie sykes mimi and jonathan are still here lucky for us. >>> let me start with you, charlie. so, i've heard people say today that if michael cohen knows where all the bodies are buried, mr. weiselberg did the digging. this is someone who knows everything. >> yeah. in trump world this has got to be the most terrifying possible scenario when you think about it, that kwlyour fixer is flipp on you and the guy who has all the financial secrets is flipping on you. in terms of -- we've said for some time the trump white house recognizes that michael cohen might pose the greatest existential threat to the presidency even more so than the russian collusion allegations. but now it seems to be weaponized. >> southern district of new york, we talk a lot about the mueller investigation. before there was a mueller investigation, sdny was sort of the -- where all the all-stars came to prosecute the toughest and most important cases. this certainly looks like, has the hallmarks of the way southern district prosecutes a case like the cohen case. >> absolutely. this is a cla

dedicated their lives to working on these cold cases, people like andrew sheldon in atlanta, alvin sykes who worked so hard on the emmitt till bill and case. a law professor from the northeastern law school and paula johnson from the syracuse university law school, who have all done remarkable work in trying to reexamine these cases. while prosecuting the church many booing education, i learned how deeply important this work is to anyone who lost a loved one just because someone else hated the color of their skin. it's also important to the communities where these crimes occurred. it is impossible to express the emotion and satisfaction our team felt at the conclusion of those trials and the guilty verdicts we obtained. it was a privilege to work on cases that meant so much to so many. we have come a long way, mr. president, since 1963, but justice delayed does not have to mean justice denied in so many of these cases. when i testified to the house judiciary committee 11 years ago, i noted that we could never prosecute all of these cases, but that as a country of compassion we should fin

"the who" on the loop but we'll get it -- willie, we will get it together for the third segment of sykes versus bolling. we will call that one the thriller in manila and get it right. >> we owe "the who" a lot of publishing money because you paid it throughout the entire segment. the piece in "the weekly standard" not "the national review." coming up next, it is not just audio tapes that michael cohen has of donald trump. it is years of firsthand knowledge of the president's actions. what are the chances investigators will hear all about it? we will talk about that next with emily jane fox on "morning joe." ♪ out here in the fields s this is not a bed. it's a high-tech sleep revolution. the sleep number 360 smart bed intelligently senses your movement and automatically adjusts. so you wake up ready to run the world. the new sleep number 360 smart bed, from $999. the smoother the skin, the more comfortable you are in it. and now there's a new way to smooth. introducing new venus platinum. a premium metal handle boosts control... to reveal up to 100% smooth skin. venus . >>> nbc news has

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