all americans know vladimir putin lies. he's a former kgb agents. that's what they do. >> i agree on you what could be positive outcomes in syria, in ukraine on trade with a russia. there are very serious issues there. would you also agree that another positive outcome from the discussions would be to say, to stop them from meddling in u.s. elections? >> of course. i think it's -- it would be great to get them to stop meddling in all elections. they're trying to attack democracy as an institution. and they're trying to demonstrate to fragile regimes that they're autocrat style is better than our democrat style. we need to have offensive and defensive systems in place to be able to deal with this as a global strategy. >> great point. get on the russians. you may want to get on the president to get on them as well. i do want to ask you about something you were uniquely positioned to tell us about which is this 11 hour testimony from peter strzok yesterday before the house oversight and judiciary committees. first of all, i wish it were open. i wish th

he wants to try the same approach with vladimir putin. he knows there's a fundamental disagreement but there is common ground they can find. shannon: they are open to communication and he wants to establish that it feels russia handed everything from north korea to syria all over the place so might as well know your enemy but to your point about vladimir putin being a pariah. heather connolly says russia and the united states will be seen as equals if there's a summit and that is what vladimir putin desires. at a time we are challenging our allies forcefully we are meeting adversaries and offering concessions as if he is following vladimir putin's playbook. >> it was over done with kim jong un. he represents a rogue state, you want to make progress you got to deal with the leader. vladimir putin clearly wants to be back on the world stage seen as a consequential leader in the eyes of his own people as opposed to being isolated the way he is. but the flipside is we have serious problems and i don't think that in and of itself should preven

including a personal representative of vladimir putin. when he came out he was spouting the kremlin party line on the dissolution of nato, the breakup of the european union, the un necessity of the world trade organization, the breaking up of the atlantic alliance, crimea and was a russian speaking province of russia, ukraine that should've been under russian control. the president of the united states has said, defended and continues to say this. he does not fundamentally believe in the atlantic alliance, which means the belief the united states and its allies defeating the axis powers in world war ii and assembling a new world under the marshall plan in creating a network of democracies that have a national security infrastructure and collective strength in nato, in trade links that would benefit both sides, he does not believe in that. as a matter of fact he has said to people including the president of france recently, what you get out of the european union? donald trumpleaving the eu would destroy the eu, which is like letter couldn'

i have written a lot about vladimir putin, well before i joined written a lot about vladimir putin, well before ijoined the government, most of which he doesn't like, by the way. and ifirst most of which he doesn't like, by the way. and i first met him most of which he doesn't like, by the way. and ifirst met him in most of which he doesn't like, by the way. and i first met him in the spring of 1991. so i had known him and had followed his career for a long time. what i would say is this. he did say those things. he also said, the coder to that was only a fool would try to recreate the soviet union. that's the part that people forget about. because he's missing out the communist element, but is not missing out the territorial influence element. well he has, in my view, a very outdated definition of what it means to be a great power. he thinks kind of realpolitik spheres of influence terms. i disagree with him, and by the way, so did his former president, president medvedev. those two gentlemen used to disagree about the nature of what it meant to be a great power in russia, and what it m

putin and start making it clear not just a vladimir putin private but in public that the united states siren to help -- elections interfered with, if donald trump doesn't do that he puts the united states in a very weak national position. jillian: a tough talks have so far as of today worked a little bit with north korea so do you think donald trump needs to be tough with vladimir putin? >> there are two ways to play it. if you want to work with a tyrant you got to play tough and threaten him or butter him up which is what donald trump is doing with vladimir putin, vlad says russians were meddling, he doesn't say it didn't happen but that is what vladimir putin says that he is pointing out the real collusion was not between him and russia but between the dnc and obama administration using state power to interfere in our election. the idea to create a fight with vladimir putin over the fantasy of trump russia collusion is a bad idea. what he needs to focus on is where can we had russians work together, to put pressure on north korea and make the world less dangerous. >> we expect syria

vladimir putin is certainly manipulating that. we do have nato members like macron, like merkel, like t theresa may who have a relationship with putin but says stop meddling. >> the president complained that the nato allies are not paying what they should for defense. he says they have to pay 2% of their gdp, some like germany devote 1%. >> it's economic. but i think it's also a part of how the president sees the world in black and white. you are strong or you are weak. in his mind, the europeans are weak. they are not paying enough for defense. they are not doing their fair share in this relationship. he thinks that that's not good enough. he -- i think he is getting increasingly agitated with each of his relationships. even with macron, who he has had a relatively decent relationship with, that relationship has deteriorated. it deteriorated with merkel. it is deteriorating with may. the president is feeling isolated. it's going to be -- when gets to nato, it's going to be a true test of their ability to hold on to him. he is fee

he treats vladimir putin better than anyone else. china -- anyone else. just let's remember it's not just that putin has not receded in crimea, it's that russia recently attacked an ally, basically trying to murder british citizens, and, of course, did what he did to our elections, and helped install donald trump or took actions to help donald trump's election. so essentially think of the message it's sending to our national security apparatus, who's trying to protect us from russian interference in the next election that donald trump is saying, and possibly the cheapest date imaginable, russia has to do nothing and they will reenter the g8. it's frankly, ludicrous. and different than he treats any other country. >> and neera's point is also applicable to the middle east. everything that he is doing there delights russia. dumping the jcpoa and allowing our allies to kind of go it alone. that's great with putin. he's propping up iran. you want to give putin, syria, he'll do that too. he'll sign that away. so everything that he is doing really does enure to

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does vladimir putin care about peace? >> not in and of itself, because the idea peace is great thing and all that stuff is something that's a sovereignly western idea. if you really want to have peace visa vi russia, you need to start to talk about containing russia. it's not the time to talk about engaging russia, which is what apparently the president is interested in doing. what we need to be doing and what the president i think should be spending a lot more time on, rather than i think giving putin christmas presents in july, he needs to be talking to our other allies and nato allies saying, look, we all need to be on the same sheet on this. we all need to push back on the annexation of foreign countries, for example. all these things russia is doing completely onacceptable on the international realm and i would see the president talking to our allies and saying how are we going to control this and maintain peace on our terms, not on russia's term? >> again, the language the president used today it is notable, it is s

that is exactly what vladimir putin wants. he would love those troops gone. >> an amazing christmas in july for putin. u.s. allies have good cause to be worried about that. donald trump made a huge concession to kim jong-un without getting anything in return. >> steve, president trump did say one of the things he does want to talk to vladimir putin about is about peace. now you were stationed in russia for a long time, does vladimir putin care about peace? >> not in and of itself, no. because the idea that peace is a great thing and all of that stuff is a solidly western idea. i couldn't agree with max more on bringing up the allies thing. if you want to have peace, vis-a-vis russia, you need to talk about containing russia. not the time to talk about engaging russia which is what apparently the president is interested in doing. what we need to be doing and what the president will be spending more time on instead of giving putin christmas in july, saying we need to be on the same page on this. all of the things that russia is

he treats vladimir putin better than anyone else. china -- anyone else. just let's remember it's not just that putin has not receded in crimea, russia hasn't receded in crimea, it's that russia recently attacked an ally, basically trying to murder british citizens, and, of course, did what he did to our elections, and helped install donald trump or took actions to help donald trump's election. so essentially think of the message it's sending to our national security apparatus, who's trying to protect us from russian interference in the next election that donald trump is saying, and possibly the cheapest date imaginable, russia has to do nothing and they will re-enter the g8. it's frankly ludicrous. and different than he treats any other country. >> and neera's point is also applicable to the middle east. everything that he is doing there delights russia. dumping the jcpoa and allowing our allies to kind of go it alone. that's great with putin. he's propping up iran. you want to give putin, syria, he'll do that too. he'll sign that away. so everything that

especially vladimir putin. if you look at donald trump's twitter feed this morning, he's spouting russian propaganda. so i think it is quite a safe bet that donald trump will not do this. but i don't think we can dismiss diplomacy entirely. i think we need to be able to go to that summit with the possibility of getting something out of the russians, but i think donald trump -- i think there's quite a concern that he could scuttle any success, any advantage that we could take home from that summit unfortunately. >> rob rosenstein and chris wray, they're on capitol hill. what are lawmakers trying to get out of this? >> trying to do two things. they're trying to, one, put the focus back on hillary clinton's e-mails because they don't want to talk about donald trump. put the focus back on her e-mails almost two years after the end of the 2016 election. but, two, this is a preemptive strike. it is an ongoing part of a preemptive operation against the mueller probe. they are trying to discredit the mueller probe by g

tucker: do you know vladimir putin? what do you make of the allegation that assigns and f are working together? >> everyone likes to blame russia when something goes wrong in america. i have spoken of the kremlin many times and last time i was there something was happening in the first thing they say is what have ys time? a common joke america likes to blame them for everything. he had no idea trump was going to win the election but it turned out the way it did. tucker: you are speaking get the kremlin, did you ask yourself how did i get here? >> i am and activists, i spoke about the environment and great economy, they invited me to the kremlin and touched a lot of people so i want to continue my work in russia and that was a coincidence. i am on the russian council, the international coalition animal welfare and pardon me? so it is a coincidence, crazy, wild, interesting people. tucker: i know you live in france. you have a home in malibu. you go back there and say i was just over at the kremlin talking to vladimir put

russia's president vladimir putin weighed in on the war of words after a g. seven statement criticize russia for what it called its destabilizing behavior. i think it's time to stop all this idle talk creative idle talk and get to issues related to real cooperation seems that the bush cooperation with moscow looks to be on washington's agenda with trump seen russia should rejoin what was once the g eight putin suggested his door was still open if the group's leaders were willing to hold talks in moscow on russia's terms. there's a lot of criticism there for washington so what's next after all of this material with all these cracks showing does it look like it's the end of the group of seven for what could be the beginning of a new set up or could be the beginning of six plus one but certainly i mean you know during the previous g. seven summit i was on. what's the point of this and the whole point is actually getting together and talking to each other and even if they're trading insults afterwards on twitter one thing is then highlighted here that this form i

why is he being so nice to vladimir putin? >> good question. let me get your take on some reporting this morning that is fascinating. axios is reporting that at the g summit president trump told some of our allies, our allies' leaders, quote, nato is as bad as nafta and they also went on to report that he talked about crimea. that crimea should be part of russia because most of the people there speak russian. if that reporting is accurate and this reporter said they took this off of contem pour rannus notes at the time from being there, should allies be on edge? >> absolutely. he's holding the summit now is an insult to our nato allies. they are petrified of russia. russia's meddled in elections in europe and the u.s. so he's sort of adopting the entire putin playbook. that's a kremlin talking point about crimea. russia invaded another country. seized its territory and donald trump is supporting that. again, his supporters, it won't upset them but he's energizing his opponents with theseis rhetc and decisions. >>> two of the nations top law enf

vladimir putin and donald trump. we will hear from mitch mcconnell in a minute, his first interview since the kennedy announcement. ed henry joins us with latebreaking developments. >> reporter: we learned from the white house the president this evening had a meeting with key players in the senate helping decide whether or not his next supreme court pick will get confirmed. you see key players like chuck grassley, republican chair of judiciary can do, susan collins, lisa murkowski but at the bottom you have democrats like joe manchin, democrats facing reelection in strong trump republican states, in 2016, that is interesting, the president's critics say he doesn't reach out to democrats, he's clearly doing that. heitkamp praised that he is reaching out for democratic votes. contrast that to this process from democratic senators out of the supreme court denouncing the idea the president is going to try to get this pick done before the midterm elections even though barack obama got a supreme court nominee before the 20

maybe more salves for his ego and certainly a better deal for vladimir putin. >> and president trump said he would talk about syria and ukraine, but not about the russian election meddling. how does that change things? >> well, i think he's already made it clear, he doesn't want to touch election meddling because essentially the russians helped get donald trump elected. they helped him a lot. whether they actually tipped the thing in his favor, i think even they didn't expect that. i'm sure they didn't expect that. but that was the end result as james clapper, the former director of national intelligence has said. so he doesn't want to talk about that. he's not going to touch it. crimea, i think there is a relation that crimea is never going back to ukraine. but not because the people there speak russian. just because of the history of crimea and ukraine and the history of crimea and russia as a huge strategic asset. but russia should pay for it. but it basically is never going back. he refuses to deal with anything on principal. >> we should stop referring to the american government

national security advisor is in moscow where he'll meet the russian president vladimir putin. well welcome to our. top stories and world cup action as well. now it's day fourteen of the world cup here in russia with all eyes on wednesday's match between brazil and serbia here's our top pundits predictions for that it count. sara in brazil. i love my place and the money i have fantastic relation with with but no money and the need for holly dates is probably one of my plays that needs all these years he has to go on he has to lose his match. speaking seriously asking sara if you can give a difficult match for those who serve you strong is physical has technical as experience they have a little bit depth depth crazy and emotional side of the game that sometimes bring players in teams to the best level of their performances brazil is obviously brazil will be always brazil with so many beautiful players i think amazing match and emotional part. i sing said we can create a problem. so obvious find somebody been preparing for the match by partying hard in central moscow who's now fa

he's russian and close to vladimir putin. he's only rich because vladimir putin has allowed him to be so. why would vladimir putin and russia and oligarchs there aligned be funding paul manafort for his work in ukraine? why was russia funding paul manafort to do that? what other kind of work did the russians fund him to do? did he still owe the $10 million to a putin-linked russian oligarch when he worked for the trump campaign and offered him private briefings while running trump's effort to become president and while russia was intervening to help trump win? i don't know. we're about to find out. one month from today the criminal trial of donald trump's campaign chairman paul manafort is due to start in federal district court in the eastern district of virginia. paul manafort late today announced he's adding another new lawyer to his defense team. special counsel robert rumuelles office said a federal espionage prosecutor will be added to the team trying the case a month from today in virginia. so, again, we don't know how

he's russian and close to vladimir putin. he's only rich because vladimir putin has allowed him to be so. why would vladimir putin and russia and oligarchs there aligned be funding paul manafort for his work in ukraine? why was russia funding paul manafort to do that? what other kind of work did the russians fund him to do? did he still owe the $10 million to a putin-linked russian oligarch when he worked for the trump campaign and offered him private briefings while running trump's effort to become president and while russia was intervening to help trump win? i don't know. we're about to find out. one month from today the criminal trial of donald trump's campaign chairman paul manafort is due to start in federal district court in the eastern district of virginia. paul manafort late today announced he's adding another new lawyer to his defense team. special counsel robert mueller's office said a federal espionage prosecutor will be added to the team trying the case a month from today in virginia. so, again, we don't know how

vladimir putin has to be in moscow on july 15th. he has the end of the soccer world cup happening then. as far as the location is concerned, sources are telling us it is probably going to be helsinki. vienna and austria is a possible location as well. it is interesting to see. the national security adviser john bolton was in moscow yesterday. you could tell both sides wanted to make the meeting happen. it was a quick top-level meeting where the summit would take place. the topic of the summit, the president was saying syria and ukraine was on the table. john bolton believes election meddling will also be a topic as well. of course, you are right. some of the closest allies looking at this with concern as it seems as though western alliances, alliances with the american oldest alliances are fracturing while the president is embracing adversaries of the past like kim jong-un and vladimir putin and like china as well. interesting thing that is happening causing concern among america's allies. christine. >> fred, thank you. >>> new sate

ok let's go back to russian president vladimir putin his annual q. and a session i think he's talking about syria now we can listen. a real combat operations. that is related to losses and we would never forget those losses and we would never. forget about the family is not in. died in syria but that's a noble cause thousands of. militants. come from russia and from central asian countries and we don't have controlled borders so they're very clear in syria and it was best to you choose troyer them out there in syria then to fight them here. and that is. also help to to stabilize the situation in syria the syrian army and the syrian government controlled territories so for me at this we're ninety percent of people live in the large scale combat operations. and involving russian armed forces. no longer in the city in the used. to stop the situation is moved into the political stage show and that's what we've been working on and again our military's out there. have two bases worn in the port of tire to. the other is the maiming air base it's in line wit

it was a book called "kremlin rising: vladimir putin's russia and the end of revolution." their book made a case which is familiar now but was still very controversial at the time in foreign policy circles when it was published. they made the case that putin wasn't shaping up to be the kind of partner for the west that the bush administration and the early obama administration had hoped for and expected. they described a growing authoritarianism in russia built around the idea that putin would lead russia in a return to the glory days of the super powerful soviet union. susan glasser's been back in washington since 2005. she's been the editor of "foreign policy" and politico. and meanwhile, most americans have come around to recognizing vladimir putin as the figure that ms. glasser and mr. baker described over a dozen years ago. anti-democratic, increasingly authoritarian, certainly hostile to the west. not a friend. pretty much america has come around to that idea. not everyone. this morning as he departed the white house for the g7 summit in quebec president trump capped

kind words for vladimir putin is exactly what he wants. that will signal that president trump has forgotten about all of that very difficult history that we've had with russia recently. >> frank, because you are so often our go-to guy on all things mueller, i have to veer the car into one question on mueller. rueters news agency had line confirmed by nbc news tonight, manafort had $10 million loan from russian oligarch, according to a court filing. how big a deal will this be. is it just another log on the mueller fire. and i'm asking especially because we're four weeks until the manafort trial. you've got to agree we're within the flip window. >> this is news because it's come from an unsealed affidavit in the search warrant last year on manafort's storage facility. mueller has known this for a long time. and those of us following closely with an intelligence back ground, we are not surprised. this indicates manafort may have been patient zero in the russian infection into the campaign. he's likely owned and operated to the russian govern

she stood up to a truculent vladimir putin and eastern europe. she ended -- [applause] read her memoirs and you will get detail on that.she ended a bitter and bloody rockett were in israel and hezbollah and managed nuclear arms reductions to make this a safer world. she also, and anne-marie slaughter will talk about this insured today because she was a big part of it. she pioneered an importance conceptual change. with her aninsight, american diplomacy, american development and american defense must all be linked in one cohesive national strategy. and in contrast, to the absolutely deplorable lack of support for our diplomats over the last year, she inspired our diplomats to represent the united states, our young women, our young men, all around the world. this panels meeting at an important moment when america's greatness on the global stage is being challenged as never before, what has made america an exceptional nation? the indispensable nation as president clinton and secretary albright used to remind us? what has made is the undisputed globa

elections as they say but john bolton said during his meeting with vladimir putin that you know he hopes he expressed hope that relations can be restored and that the two countries can find common goals to work to work towards and to reestablish trust between them but of course the biggest thing that was that is being talked about than has been for now on a month now is the john bolton is here to potentially set up a meeting between vladimir putin and donald trump face to face which would be which would be a huge thing but perhaps europe is in play here as well because united states relations as we just reported earlier with europe have have chilled significantly there's an outright trade war going on and perhaps john bolton coming to russia was more signal to the to the europeans that either you dance to our strings or we'll make friends with russia but there's. press conference coming up will be there and we'll ask him a lot a bunch of questions and hopefully his answers will clear up america's intentions indeed so a lot of topics to cover and i wonder if john bolton will visit any any

by spy master in chief vladimir putin has clearly got something over on donald trump. and i'll say it right now, he is in debt to moscow and he is paying that debt off to moscow. but in 2013 he had a meeting at a restaurant for two hours with the top 12 richest oligarchs of russia when he walked out of there, he was spouting moscow's line, he is still spouting moscow's line. when he goes and says you're not a member of nato but you participant from time to time, the u.s. should be like that to. he means it. when he says let's break up the european union, he means it. the russians have told him it's good. he's not going to betray his base, the russians are his base. >> and say crimea should be russia's. we know that paul manafort, his campaign chairman was in debt to the tune of $10 million, a loan from one of these russian oligarchs, an affidavit unsealed wednesday showed he backed consulting work in ukraine. >> there's a lot of rubbles there. this is the thing i think is important. you mentioned an upcoming summit and we discussed, and malcolm and everyone knows this,

he defended vladimir putin as a strong leader. we said he assassinates his political enemies, he continued to defend vladimir putin and we were wondering at the time what does putin have on him? fast forward two and a half years, that queion stillingers out there. >> there's obviously something and whether bob mueller is going to figure it out, whether history is going to figure it out, i don't know, but there's obviously something. i mean, this is just one gigantic spot in donald trump's field ofision that you know, you just can't take your eyes away from. >> and this past weekend saying let's admit vladimir putin into the g7, make it the g 8 after he's invaded two countries over the past decade. after they have been responsible for shooting down a commercial airliner. i could go on and on. >> it's worse than that and to an extent better than that. during the g7 he sd i told you you should rely so much on the united states. look what the united states is doing now. and donald trump says nothing about this. and goes after justin t

putin said he is ready to hold a summit with u.s. president donald trump if washington was willing and made the statement at a meeting of the shanghai cooperation organization in qingdao china's president xi seemed paint hosted world leaders including iranian president hassan rowhani indian prime minister narendra modi and russian president vladimir putin the iranian leaders said he appreciates efforts by beijing and moscow to maintain the nuclear deal which the united states pulled out of last month's. all right having want to ask you about that meeting in shanghai so the putin she and rouhani were very keen to demonstrate unity especially as after the chaotic scenes at the g seven what does this tell us when it's an opportunity that the chinese and russian leaders wouldn't wouldn't drop actually to to show that they that they care that of course china especially but also russia call the shots when it comes to to regional security in asia and the middle east that they stand aside with the agreement with iran which is important becau

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donald trump, and vladimir putin, because they are trying to stop the investigation into how vladimir putin influenced the 2016 election and how he is still trying to influence the 2018 election, according to our cia director, according to director coats, according to mike pompeo, according to all of the intelligence chiefs, all of whom were appointed by donald trump. >> yeah. they're playing to an audience of one, donald trump. they're in pretty safe distribut distri distribut distributes, but they rely on the support of donald trump or at least on his not attacking them in tweets, and you know, they're trying to deep six this investigation that every professional intelligence official, everybody who's at all objective has looked at, says it's a totally valid investigation. >> gene, gene, can we underline the fact these are not obama officials? >> they're not. >> saying that vladimir putin is trying to rig american democracy, that these are all intel officials who were appointed by donald trump? >> right. they were appointed by donald trump. in the main republicans, life long republi

way to proceed while by the end of the interview it actually turned into a full scale debates when vladimir putin i started asking questions himself on the cost of a independence on the wall street movement and many other international issues and armin wolf refused to answer those questions so it really seems that the russian president they enjoyed himself and actually came out of this with a smile. now an iraqi court sentenced a french woman to life in prison spurring her the death penalty for joining me islamic state terror group molina balladeer was captured last year in mosul and sentenced to seven months in prison for entering the country illegally after the end of the sentence she was jus to be deported home to france but prosecutors demanded a retrial saying she violated the country's antiterrorism law by following her husband to iraq they say he went there to join eisel well out of the almost two thousand people from france that went to fight with the terror group it's believed many were radicalized while serving time in french prisons with the authorities now raising the alarm over

while by the end of the interview it actually turned into a full scale debates when vladimir putin i started asking questions himself on the cause of independence and the wall street movement and many other international issues and armand wolf refused to answer those questions so it really seems that the russian president enjoyed himself and actually came out of this with a smile all right interesting stuff about interview ahead of the republicans visit to austria reporting from moscow thank you. now it is ten days amazingly enough and counting until football's biggest event kicks off in russia so what better time to catch up with former brazil defender a two time world cup winner and food he give us some insight into how his nation may perform at this summer's tournament. expectations are really high not only concern in the world cup in russia but also concerning the world cup in general especially regarding the brazilian team pressure is high you are fighting for a world cup with the brazilian team there are more than two hundred twenty million brazilians that's hundreds and twenty

>> in some cases. >> tucker: you also know vladimir putin. remarkably, impressively. what do you make o allegaon working together to expose hillary's emails? >> that's crazy. everyone likes to blame russia when anything goes wrong in america and i have spoken at the kremlin manyimes and the last time i was there there was something happening. the first thing they say to me is, so what have we done wrong this time? it's a common joke. america likes to blame them for everything. i was with julian before the election and he had no idea, he really did not think that trump was going to win the election. but, it turned out the way the data. >> tucker: s y a speakin at themlin, you're hanging with julian assange at the ecuadorian embassy in london. you ever yourself, how did i get here? this is the life path that you planne [laughs] >> pamela: well i'm an animal activist, i spoke about the environment, i spoke about the economy and they invited me to the kremlin, they love the way i was speaking. i touched a lot of people and i wanted to continue my work in russia. that was

vladimir putin. john bolton striking for a summit after meeting with the russian president in moscow. helsinki and vienna have been named as possible sites, several more weeks will be needed to prepare for the talks. overnight defend secretary mattis said the us will keep its nearly 30,000 troops in the asian aging keeping commitment to security working to denuclearize north korea. the trip comes on the heels of his visit to china. president xi jinping warning mattis they will not give up an inch of territory in the south china sea. the us is concerned of the militarization. and big news yesterday, disgraced fbi agent peter stzrok will face a public here on capitol hill, lawmakers grilling him for 11 hours behind closed doors over his lack of answers about his anti-trump text messages. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has more on what happened. >> we are getting a series of impromptu briefings from lawmakers as agent stzrok's deposition progressed, republicans are convinced his ant

oligarch close to vladimir putin to whom he owed a lot of pony. we know that konstantin kilimnik visited manafort twice while running the campaign. the emails pulkd by the atlantic suggest that purpose of the meeting was to convey messages from the russian oligarch to manafort while trunk the campaign. kilimnik later suggested to acquaintances back thome on one of the visits to manafort during the campaign he, kilimnik, played a role in getting the republican party to change the platform, taking a less hard line against russia. that change in the party platform at the republican national convention remains still mostly unexplained. it's reportedly under investigation by the special counsel office but at least one guy associated with russian military intelligence has been publicly bragging that he is the one who got that done. the special counsel's office has now described konstantin kilimnik in multiple court filings as being currently associated with russian military intelligence. it's not just where he learned english in the past. they're saying

that's the way vladimir putin sees it. it's like he's channeling putin all the time. >> the destabilization of the eu, of course, as rick points out, andrea, longtime putin goal. here's the reporting from "the washington post" tonight. during a private meeting at the white house in late april, trump was discussing trade with french president emmanuel macron. at one point he asked macron, why don't you leave the eu and said that if france exited the union, trump would offer it a bilateral trade deal with better terms than the eu as a whole gets from the u.s. according to two european officials. so there's some "there" there, andrea. >> first of all, describing the eu as trying to rob our piggy bank, they are our market. he doesn't understand international markets. he doesn't understand that when he imposes tariffs, that is a tax on american farmers and producers. and he doesn't know that macron is -- was setting himself up as the leader of the eu to replace merkel. that was the whole macron policy as he came to the big stat

>> reporter:his classic vladimir putin. the smirks, the spin, the denial and brushoffs of anything critical. the russian president denies he rules with a heavy hand and says he and trump had an ongoing dialogue. in a new interview, vladimir putin is suggesting he is tighter with donald trump than many realize. >> translator: we regularly talk over the phone. our foreign affairs departments and special services are working fairly well together. >> reporter: white house officials say there have been eight phone calls between them in the year and a half since trump took office. all of them reported publically. about the same as president obama had with put. >>ncer: putin in his final two years in office. putin blamed the ongoing mueller inion as the reason why he and the president have not had a one osummit. saying trump is, quote, coming under attack. >> this is ironic that president putin, who oversaw and likely commanded an operation that was designed to subvert our democratic institutions would complain that the united sta

you've just given putin what he wants. kind words for vladimir putin is exactly what he wants. that will signal that president trump has forgotten about all of that very difficult history that we've had with russia recently. >> frank, because you are so often our go-to guy on all things mueller, i have to veer the car into one question on mueller. rueters news agency headline confirmed by nbc news tonight, manafort had $10 million loan from russian oligarch, according to a court filing. how big a deal will this be? is it just another log on the mueller fire? and i'm asking especially because we're four weeks until the manafort trial. you've got to agree we're within the flip window. >> this is news because it's come from an unsealed affidavit in the search warrant last year on manafort's storage facility. mueller has known this for a long time. >> and for those of us following closely with a counter intelligence background, we are not surprised. this indicates manafort may have been patient zero in the russian infection into the campaign. he's likely owned and operated to the r

but to stand next to vladimir putin and do it brings it to another level. and he might make concessions or agreement. a lot of people felt he did that, he made concessions to kim jong-un and north korea without getting enough in return. could he potentially do that with russia and only further alien kwraeuting the united states from allies and nato members. >> are things going to get nicer and easier on the hill? >> well, it's not going to be all nice and, you know, fuzzies on capitol hill now, especially in the senate. there are a few things that are more contentious than a supreme court confirmation. you and i know that very well, hugh. one that has the capacity to reshape the court in the way that kennedy's retirement does. it is definitely going to be gloves off from now through november. >> i think you're right. thank you. i'll be right back. the most influential conservative that msnbc audience has never heard of. he joins us next from michigan. hi, i'm bob harper, and i recently had a heart attack. it changed my life. but i'm a survivor. after my hea

also tonight, president trump's first summit with russia's vladimir putin is on. mr. trump's national security advisor john bolton has been hammering out details with putin in moscow. bolton says he expects the president to talk to the kremlin leader about a subject mr. trump often avoids, russia's election meddling. let's go to our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen in red square in moscow. i take it they're on track to meet in just a few weeks. >> reporter: yeah. about three weeks from now, wolf. it seems in the middle of july. that's certainly what president trump was saying earlier today. it was interesting to see what happened here when john bolton came to town here in moscow. originally what we heard is he was just going to meet with the russian foreign minister sergei lo lavrov but he met with vice president and hammered out the summit very quickly, the russians showing they are in the driver's seat on this. national security advisor john bolton face to face with vladimir putin and his top ministers. a quick agreement, president trump and vladimir

today, of course, vladimir putin meeting the president of south korea. dave. >> fred, 11:26 in moscow. thank you. putin hosting the world cup at the moment which is going well for russia. >> it is. >>> from washington to the southern border. confusion and frustration over the administration's immigration policy. anxious parents and the government unclear how to reunite thousands of families. >>> how can parents find kids taken at the border? is the zero tolerance policy on hold? so many questions and little guidance from the trump administration. >>> and melania's trip to the border is in focus because of her wardrobe. what message is she sending? >>> tributes pouring in for columnist charles krauthammer. he shaped american politics for generations has died. >>> and also the "roseanne" reboot gets a reboot. abc will keep the show alive without the comedian fired after racist tweets. welcome to "early start." iemz -- i'm dave briggs. >> i'm michelle kosinski. it is friday, june 22nd. >>> confusion and contradiction in the white house following president t

now that was what vladimir putin had to say about foreign policy obviously most of what was talked about in this q. and a session was domestic affairs the mess the things things that worry russians such as salary taxes health care education corruption always always a big one but let me putin also spoke about the upcoming world cup jus to kick off in about a week in all over russia really andy said that the russian team lately hasn't hasn't played as well perhaps as some would expect and he said he hoped that now that the world cup is here they'll really show what they've got. yeah and hopefully they will when they play saudi arabia in a week's time thanks mariah that was more aghast the air force. now in a bid to win back he says trust facebook is splashing out on a series of news programs exclusively for its video streaming service. i'm shepard smith on facebook live with the fact i love the full circle scene as a live nightly newscast you are in freeze the day i was coming out of this. morning including our public corruption is all around. well as you saw there the shows will be produc

russia's president vladimir putin weighed in on the war of words after a g. seven statement criticize russia for what it called its destabilizing behavior dickerson the but i think it's time to stop all this idle talk creative idle talk and get to issues related to real cooperation assumes that instead of just cooperation with moscow looks to be on washington's agenda with trump saying russia should rejoin what was once the g eight putin suggested his door was still open if the group's leaders were willing to hold talks in moscow on russia's terms. chief political editor michel the coup for joins me now for more on the reaction to the g. seven summit some a sailor america has agreed to a last minute t.v. interview with a german television agency tonight as he's generally not known for interacting with the press so fantine asli what do you make of that and what do you expect to hear but i was also surprised to hear that she says she went into this week a program that very much sets the record for the coming week and this here in germany is pretty much as close

instead you have donald trump reaching out to vladimir putin. the the amazing thing is it's the u.s. president, not vladimir putin, breaking apart of alliance. >>> we're going to talk more about the historical references that you talked about, right after this break. president trump says that president obama is to blame for allowing russia to take crimea, believe it or not. we'll get ben's thoughts and what he says is behind the rise of trumpism, after the break. it was here. i couldn't catch my breath. it was the last song of the night. oon it felt like my heart was skipping beats. they said i had afib. what's afib? i knew that meant i was at a greater risk of stroke. i needed answers. my doctor and i chose xarelto® to help keep me protected from a stroke. once-daily xarelto®, a latest-generation blood thinner significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart valve problem. warfarin interferes with at least 6 of your body's natural blood-clotting factors. xarelto® is selective, targeting just one critical fact

president vladimir putin helped bring the world cup to russia eight years ago after the winter olympics in sochi football's biggest tournament is his next opportunity to impress the world but it's not coming cheap. initial estimates put the costs of hosting the world four billion dollars now it's costing nearly fourteen billion that is a new record even vova matches will be spread across twelve stadiums instead of you regional sixteen. this is a town of about an hour's drive from moscow. this is where the german team will be based deep in the bush in countryside and away from the scrutiny of the media. just two hundred meters that's how close reporters will be allowed to get to the players. came to nearly ten thousand people is a sleepy town not used to being in for support lights but people here were looking forward to welcoming their german guests. of course behind our team but i've got a soft spot for germany they play beautiful football. back in moscow the final preparations are underway the massive funds own is nearly ready to work but over things promised by the russian have not m

-- willadimir putin vladimir putin be asking for this to be released? >> he will probably ask. the reality is that the u.s. sanctions regime on russia was significantly tightened by congress and taken out of the hands of the white house, leaving it in the hands of these sanctions. aske mr. putin may president trump to do so, i don't think he will succeed. shery: how much of a loose willis summit with the united states provide russia -- will a summit with the united states provide russia? >> there is no doubt that mr. putin will take this summit as a positive. foremost, because it probably offers him one more opportunity to do what is his strategic interest, which is to try to split and nato and split the western countries apart, he will try to see if he can get some sort of agreement bilaterally with donald trump that could potentially see a weakening of the u.s. security commitment in nato to some of the eastern european countries. but ultimately, like kim jong-un of north korea, he will welcome this opportunity to share the global stage with the u.s. president. shery: thank y