Breaking overnight, the Trump Administration disclosing previously secret documents detailing why the fbi thought a Trump Campaign aide was working with the russians. Theres been such a complete firestorm based on this completely false narrative. The target of that warrant carter page will be here exclusive to respond. Next, taking on donald trump, he tells us who he wants to battle for the next four years. I dream about biden. But is biden the way to go . Seth molton weighs in. Hello im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is still reeling from that trumpputin summit as trump continues to deal with the backlash, and just overnight the Trump Administration released a heavily redacted version of the previously top secret application of surveillance for former campaign aid carter page. And the fbi believes that page has been collaborating and c conspiring with the russian government. The warrant itself of course has been the subject of a very partisan fight in the house intelligence committee. And theres little doubt that the department of justice and the fbi misled the courts, witch hunt, rigged, a scam, in fact that tweet itself is a scam. In fact the fbi did use information from the steele doz y dossier, it noted that steel had been a reliable source of information in the past. Lets talk to former Trump Campaign advisor carter page now. The fisa application says, quote, the fbi believes that carter page has been collaborating and conspiring with the russian government. Theres probable cause that such activities involve or are about to involve violations of the criminal statutes of the United States. The document accuses you of being, a, quote, agent of a foreign power. Were you . Jake, this is so ridiculous, its just beyond words, you know, its youre talking about misleading the courts. Its just so misleading, going through those 400plus page documents and it only continues, its really sad. Were you ever an infoan agen a foreign power . No, i have never been an agent of a foreign power by any stretch of the imagination. I may, back in the g20 when they were getting ready to do that in petersburg, i may have participated in some meetings that people from the Obama Administration were sitting in on in geneva, paris, et cetera, but i have never been anywhere near whats being described here. So you have advised the kremlin in the past, that was 2013, that g20 meeting, i believe . There were experts from around the world talking about Energy Issues and i was one of countless companies, you know, myself and a lot of academics, and Business People who were involved in these area you discussion sessions. But it was nothing. But you did advise the kremlin, i just want to make it clear, you did advice the kremlin back in 2013, or 2012, somewhere in there . Jake, its really spin. I sat in on some meetings, but to call me an advisor i think is way over the top. Except in a 2013 letter you wrote, it says, quote, over the past half year, i have served as an advisor to the kremlin in preparation for the g20 next month where issueEnergy Issues be a Prominent Point on the agenda. This is really nothing and just an attempt to distract from the real crimes that are shown in this misleading document. You know, page 8, it talks about disguised propaganda, including the planting of false or misleading articles, which is exactly what this is. So thats kind of the pot calling the kettle black by mr. Comey and co. One thing thats interesting is that the documents make it clear that they were relying on information from Christopher Steele, but not only investigation from Christopher Steele, on fisa renewals assert that youre an agent of an foreign power, and then it was signed off, the fisa application and then three renewals, by four judges all of them appointed by republicans. This isnt just Christopher Steel or james comey, this is many, many people over four administrations, over and over believing that you were an agent of a foreign power. How do you respond to that . Actually it would be a good question for them, jake, is whether they believe that what they did was appropriate now. You know, again, they were misled and if people are giving them typically when the department of justice is giving a court information, i think its reasonable for a judge to believe that thats true. Im hoping that the judge will the fisa is just the first part, lets see what they do in Southern District of new york to try to correct the record. Most of the material has been redact redacted. But some of the information in there says carter page has been the subject of recruitment by the russian government. In violation of u. S. Criminal law. It says that the russians were trying to recruit you. We know you said that you went to russia in the summer of 2016 to deliver a the commencement address, was it not a possibility that russians were trying to recruit you even if you didnt take the bait . It seems to me like that would be your job and you worked with trump, and you had worked with the kremlin in the past, that would be a reasonable thing for them to do. Thats totally misleading and it actually referred to testimony that eric holder and preek barara talked about that prior case. A lot of that is incredible spin. That individual, a young diplomat in new york, i talked with him about my class. We had coffee one time. I met him at a conference, we met once for coffee and i gave him some of my class notes that my students at New York University were looking at and it was in one ear and out the other, he never asked me to do anything. Its just so preposterous. This is about spin. If you would just answer the questions that would be great. It says you established relationships with russian officials including russian Intelligence Officers, youre telling me they pulled that out of the air . You had no relationship with russian Government Officials . You have already told me that you were san advisor to the kremlin in 2013, you do have relationships with russian Government Officials, right . Lets see what they are referring to specifically. As you correctly noted, theres a ton of information thats blacked out. If you read mr. Clapper and cos d nrk dni report of january 2013, theres this sputnik Propaganda Network agencies allegedly were influencing the elections. Now we know through these documents that the defamatory article in september 23, 2016, was used as a Central Source of this. So really, its another situation of the pot calling the kettle black, and the fact that you have this 500 million plus a year broadcasting board of governors funding this ridiculous smear campaign. Carter, you have relationships with russian Government Officials, true, yes . Lets see what theyre talking about. Im just asking you a straight question, do you have relationships with russian Government Officials. I can tell you i dont. But again, you lived in russia, youre an academic, you worked in energy in russia, you went there in 2013 and delivered a commencement address, do you have relationships with russian Government Officials. Jake, if you read through these 400 pages, theres two men that i have never spoke with, communicated with in my entire life. You have never spoken, the application says you spoke with igor satchen, it charges that you guys discussed in 2016, quote, prospects for an associated move to lift ukraine sanctions against russia. So youre saying you never in your life spoke with igo satchen . Kellyanne had to answer these questions, you had a very good interview with her on september 25, 2016, asking her about a range of campaign issues. And since it was put on the table two days earlier, that friday, you know, it was a question you brought up asking about these things. And you know, kellyanne was someone who recently joined the campaign, i never had any relationship, i have never spoken with her in my life. Its just a real misinformation and, you know you had a good you were very fair in terms of asking the questions but it really put her on the spot and its just really a sad state of affairs with this Election Interference Campaign by the democrats. You still havent answered my question whether you have any relationship with any russian Government Officials. You said you dont have a relationship with igor as tr at. Totally false, and, dpen, th again, thats directly from the dodgy dossier, its absolutely preposterous. Did anyone at any time, any russian Government Official at any time in 2016 talk to you about either lifting the sanctions or compromising the material that they had on Hillary Clinton . On compromising material, not one thing. I was hearing about things when you were hearing about things in the main stream media. When i was there in july of 2016, a few people brought it up in passing, but, you know, again, its a Major Economic issue and so, you know, there may have been a loose conversation im very careful in terms of making sure that theres a clear record. There is nothing in terms of any nefarious behavior. So you did discuss the sanctions with individuals in russia. Did you ever hear from a russian, not from the media, from a russian anything about compromising material about Hillary Clinton . Never. Never . Never. All right, carter page thank you very much for coming this morning and taking our questions, we appreciate it. After a painful week of walk backs and denials on russia, is anybody buying the denials. Your society was led by a woman, who governed thousands. Commanded armies. Yielded to no one. When i found you in my dna, i learned where my strength comes from. My name is courtney mckinney, and this is my ancestrydna story. 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Carter page, im not claiming that hes james bond, hes not 007, but this is a guy, even before the campaign, this is not trump related. Even before the campaign, this is a guy who went around bragging about his contacts in russia. Then you see the guy hanging around the leading campaign and so then the fbi said we got to look at this guy, by the trump campai campaigns own admission, carter wasnt a big player. The fact that they were looking into carter page doesnt prove anything about collusion or anything. Carter page was one of these guys we never would have heard of him before all of this, but he was a guy who was on their screen before the campaign, and when he comes in the near orbit with the campaign, they put that together with whats happening with russian interference, thats when they looked at him. I dont think theres anywhere broader plot to interfere in our elections by the russians. So you think the fisa warrant was justified . They laid out the evidence, there was a lot of reasons unrelated to the dossier why they wanted to look at carter page. And carter page was not a member of the Trump Campaign, and the Trump Campaign has said that. Plans are in the works to bring Vladimir Putin to the white house for a meeting in the fall. Whats your reaction, and do you think if putin comes to town, he should also come to capitol hill . My understanding is the president always wanted to meet with putin in america first, he didnt want to go to moscow first, he didnt want a third country first, he didnt want the meeting to be on the sidelines of any other engagement. He agreed to helsinki, but he wanted the first meeting with putin to be on his home turf, in trumps home turf. No ones been tougher on putin and interference than i have been. But i dont have a problem with the president interacting with the president of the russian federation, they do have nuclear weapons, but we should be clear eyed about who putin is, hes not interested in better relations with the u. S. , i think he walked away from that a long time ago, hes interesting in gaining the upper hand to his benefit. You have suggested in the past that you think putin might be responsible for war crimes, not just in syria. I know he has. Do you have a problem with him coming to the white house . Meeting with him is one thing, but coming to the white house is another. The symbolism is one thing, people could make the argument about it. There is no doubt in my mind that putin has authorized war crimes. And he does have nuclear weapons, so its kind of one of these situations is, if he was a dictator of a third world country, we would treat him differently. But geopolitical reality means we have to deal with him. This is the guy who shot down that malaysian airliner, this is a guy who took crimea, this is the guy who bombs aid convoys in syria and helps the Syrian Regime gas people by covering for them at the united nations. This is who we are deal with. As long as we know that. Does President Trump know that . He calls him very strong, i cant imagine youre very happy about the way that President Trump behaved. Donald trump has not spent his whole life in d. C. Doing all these things, in his mind, if i can interact with this guy over a period of time, we may be able to get some things done together. But because hes not a political creature, he doesnt realize that putin is not one of our allies. I think they i dont have any doubt that President Trump is aware of the things Vladimir Putin has done. Im not sure his rhetoric reflects that, but his policies do. Dont you think youre being remarkably forgiving in your criticism of trump . If a democratic president has done those things, i cant imagine that you would be really outraged. I think the difference is, i have interacted with donald trump for two years, three years now, and i have a sense of who he is. Ultimately i look at the poli policies anding thats what im trying to influence, the rhetoric matters the policy matters even more. Just as we sent additional aid to the ukraine. If we keep doing those things, hopefully the rhetoric gets better on it. Look, i am concerned any time you undermine or say at a press conference that you agree with putin over our Intelligence Community and thats why im glad he came back the next day and walked that back. Sort of. It was certainly better than the impression left after helsinki. After his press conference, President Trump said it was an incredible offer for russian official s cooperate with american officials. In her statement rejecting it, press secretary sanders said it was a proposal that was made in sincerity by president putin, does it bother you that this was ever taken seriously . I dont believe it was ever taken seriously. I dont think they were going to do that. He said it was an incredible offer. In the white house, i dont think at any point anybody was ultimately going to say lets do this, once it was analyzed and look at. It was a choice of words, i remember wednesday or thursday morning thinking they should rule this out completely. I want to play the moment when president putin appeared to side with putin over the Intelligence Community and helsinki. Dan coats came to me and some others came to me and said they think its russia. I have president putin, he just said its not russia. I will say this, i dont see any reason why it would be. Now, 27 hours later, after two Television Interview where is he didnt say anything, but five tweets where he didnt say anything, then President Trump after being told by pompeo claims that he meant to say that he didnt see any reason it wouldnt be russia. I know what he said and i dont think it was a good moment for this administration and i disagree with it. And i know he came back the next day and cleaned it up. Im glad he did it, im glad he cleaned it up, because if you watch the video, its clear that it sounds like hes saying, my Intelligence Community says one thing, putin says another and im agreeing with putin. I dont like the way this was handled throughout the week, i wis wish it would have done differently. No matter what is being said, what actually happens is good for america. Its not good for america to have any country interfering in our elections. Especially Vladimir Putin who believes that weakening us is going to make him stronger. When youre a democrat or a republican, we are america, we should be a little bit territorial about our elections and our policies and the idea that another country gets to come in here and upset that is something that should be stopped going forward. Putin wants nothing more than the Nato Alliance to be weak weakened. Take a look at what President Trump said to fox this week. Lets say monte negro who joined last year was attacked, why should my son go to monte negro to fight. Because theyre aggressive people. And one, twyoure in world war. Obviously when you see those statements it kind of raises concern. Heres what i will say to the president , and most people in the administration clearly understand this. Number one, we dont want have to worry about monte negro being aggressive, because the alliance is if they are attacked, we have an alliance and we defend ourselves. And i agree with him is that we dont want a war over monte negro, and the way we dont have a war is a strong Nato Alliance. And that means two things, a strong commitment to live up to the words of the alliance, which some are concerned about when it comes to the words of the president. But it means a strong capacity, and that means that all of those countries contribute to their own defense. And thats what trump is concerned about and president s before him have been concerned about. But one of the main reasons we didnt have world war 3, strong alliances prevent wars, not cause them. I want to ask you something about russia that i want to discuss. You have in your career have been a voice of moral authority when it comes to Foreign Policy, whether youre talking about russia or china or cuba. Do you think you risk under mining that moral authority by pulling your punches when it comes to criticizing President Trump . We have. When the president does something right we support it. When he does something wrong we try to change his mind or influence the decision and if that doesnt work, well line up against it. As an example, months ago, in the president s view, my take on it is that he views any sort of russian interference as an admission of collusion. Russia was going to sblinterfern our elections whether there was collusion or not. My experience is they did interfere, and theyll do it again in the future. And 30 days after the election if the director of National Intelligence tells us that they interfered after the election, then putin knows whats going to happen. There are times that because i disagree with the president on russia, now i have to vote against the Supreme Court nominee. Thats absurd. We have to be in a place where we agree with people when we agree and disagree when we disagree. Human Rights Groups say hundreds of people have been killed in clashes between the government and antigovernment protesters. Strong u. S. Reaction is coming, they will pay a big price for crimes against their own people. I impress upon the i think youre already going to see, and theres work being done to set up sbit all of this could have been avoided weeks ago. The message to ortega is clear, you allow legitimate elections and you can move forward and everythings going to be fine. But if you soak your hands in blood, youre going to have a problem. Hes basically tried to burn down the university and has now waged war, attacked churches and is kidnapping people and the like. So i think that opportunity is now gone for ortega. This is a dying man, his wife is crazy, shes a lunatic, shes also the Vice President of the country. Theres no future for them in power. And my biggest fear about nicaragua, the possibility of a civil war in nicaragua is real. It would trigger a migratory progress, and so theres an interest for the United States to see democracy in nicaragua. On friday it was revealed that the fbi has obtained tapes of cohen and President Trump. Are you concerned about at all about what might be on the tapes . I dont know whats on them. I cant make an opinion on tapes i have never heard, well find out. President trump knows his dreamer oppone eopponent in 202l he get his wish . A rising star on the democratic side will be here to weigh in next. Clean food that looks this good. Delivered to your desk. Now delivering to home or office. Panera. Food as it should be. Panera. Does your Business Internet provider promise a lot . Lets see who delivers more. Comcast business gives you gigspeed in more places. The others dont. We offer up to 6 hours of 4g Wireless Network backup. Everyone else, no way. We let calls from any of your devices come from your business number. Them, not so much. We let you keep an eye on your business from anywhere. The others . Nope get internet on our gigspeed network and add voice and tv for 34. 90 more per month. Call or go online today. Welcome back to state of the union. Im jake tapper. Well, since President Trump wont tell anyone, including apparently the top intelligence official in the country what he said, what he may have agreed to with Vladimir Putin, democrats are looking to that interpreter to find out what he said. Of course republicans have shut down that idea. They are trying to find the right candidate to battle the brawler with the bully pulpit. Former u. S. Marine officer and democratic congressman seth molton from massachusetts. Obviously theres been by partisan criticism on trumps Foreign Policy this week. I want you to take a look from democratic senator Tammy Duckworth from illinois. It says republicans cannot continue to turn a blind eye to the very real possibility that Vladimir Putin has compromised and turned him without his knowledge into a russian asset. Do you agree with that, congressman . I think the problem is we just dont know, jake, and thats whats so embarrassing about this situation. I dont know of a time in american history, when an american commander in chief has gone into a oneonone meeting with an adversary and refused to tell him about it. Refused to tell his own intelligence chief what he discussed, so this raises an awful lot of questions what russia may have on trump and what trump is trying to do with putin. So you think its possible that trump is a russian asset with or without his knowledge . Im just saying i dont know. But the behavior i saw from the president on television, rather than standing up for our allies, rather than hammering putin for the way hes tried to undermine our democracy, russias been the fact that we have to question the integrity, the honesty and the loyalty of a commander in chief when it comes to dealing with russia is a problem in and of itself. And thats why we have got to elect a new generation of leaders in november to hold this president and this administration accountable. Amid all the wildness this week, there are obviously a lot of questions in the president s mind about what role the Nato Alliance should play. I want you to take a look at an interview with the president this week about the nato ally monte negro. Theyre a very aggressive people, congratulations, were in world war iii. Add that to your little equation on monte negro. You as a marine could have been called on to defend monte negro. How do you view these served in served under general mattis who is now the secretary of defense. And our Division Model was no better friends or no worse enemy than a u. S. Marine. That means theres no better friend for a u. S. Ally and theres no worse enemy. And that should be our policy towards nato as our friend and russia as our adversary. I understand that we have a commander in chief that dodged the draft five times. But it just shows how out of touch he is with Foreign Policy. The fact that we would abandon them to russia because theyre going to start world war iii is ridiculous. Senator rubio is right, a strong Nato Alliance is what will prevent us from going to war. And dont make any mistake about it, putin is trying to under mine nato, hes trying to influence the west and that seems to be exactly what hes doing through our own commander in chief. I want to talk about your quote from the leadership in the house. Nancy pelosi was talking about your call for a new generation ofinconsequential. They dont have a following in our caucus, none. Is she right . Tim ryan ran against her, he had one week to run and a third of the caucus voted for him so i dont think thats inconsequential. What we need is a new generation of leadership to be honest about the problems we face. A lot of americans are hurting, a lot of americans are working two jobs just to make ends meet. We need a president that will talk honestly about the future. Were not losinglosing someo whos willing to reform government, someone who has a vision for the future. We need a uniter in our party. We can continue to have our narrow and divisive politics or we can find leaders who will bring us together. Are you that leader . We need a leader that can create a majority. Are you that leader . I have said previously that im not challenging nancy pelosi. I have been traveling around the country recruiting young people to run. I took them down to the border. We spent two days on both sides of the border, trying understand the crisis, so that we can actually come to washington with solutions. These candidates were avoiding the advice of their campaign, you know, consultants and everything who said they should be just spending their time campaigning. We met with a guy who was in the United States navy, had come to the United States as a kid, his entire family , his kids were legal residents. And after he got out of the navy after serving ten years, he got a dui. And because of that dui, they deported him even though he had served 10 years for his country. So we need to have a new attitude that youre going to see from i and others in the congress have been supporting. Alexandria acasio cortez. She wanted forgiveness of all student loan debt, abolishing i. C. E. Represents the future of the democratic party, do you agree . Well, i think that she has an important voice in the democratic party, but the reality is if were going to be a majority party, if were actually going to win in november, we have got to have a diversity of views, and i think thats one of the things thats made our party strong in the past. But if we become narrower, if we become more divided, we can do that as democrats, were just not going to win, but the stakes are so high this november, the stakes are so high to put a check on this president that he have got to make sure that we have a broad base. 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Having spent almost a decade as an undercover officer in the cia, i have seen the russian intelligence manipulate many people in my career and i never would have thought the u. S. President would be one of them. That was texas republican congressman will herd during my interview with him from helsinki when the president appeared to side with Vladimir Putin over u. S. Intelligence agencies. And congressman, youre a former cia officer, youre a former fbi agent. What do you think, is he overstating the case . I would be a little cautious. I think he did overstate the case. One thing we do know is that hub brus is the number one recruiting tool that will get you do something youre not willing to do. And you have seen this play across this investigation with the young woman who was just arrested, she was an agent of the intelligence services, they recruited her to be an agent of influence, those are the kinds of things theyre going to look for, and the president walks into it. And my bigger concern, jake, in this is that i dont think he understood what he had done is if you know the russians are using operations around the world, influence campaigns, they did it in france, they did it in germany still doing it. Still doing it, absolutely, the worst thing that you can possibly do is use information from your own words that they can use against our intelligence and defense agencies around the world. Theyre taking trumps words and theyre unjekti unjekting it in influence campaigns. We have seen republicans continue to undermine every instance of muellers investigation, i sit on a judiciary committee, we have spent hours and hours and hours questioning peter strzok, questioning lisa page, but nothing about our elect shumpb security. I think what the president did w was incredibly disturbing on so many levels. It feels like were upside down, and here you have the president of the United States, the head of the Republican Party saying he believes putin over the russian intelligence over our own intelligence agencies. But secondly, i think there is deep trouble when republicans refuse to do anything to shore up our elections. And we just had a motion on the floor, a motion to recommit, a bill to put money into election security. What are they afraid of . And finally, as we look at all the evidence thats coming out, it is clear to me that there is real concern with republicans who fear their own political futures, now with all of the information thats been released with buttina, you see there may be republicans who won their races in part because of donald trump and interference of russians in the elections. But also that have a lot to lose if the nra and the ties that republicans have to the nra are part of the whole thing. Senator . I think the president s comments were damaging and i agree with mike, that theyre going to be used against us, and it going to be harmful to us. On the other hand i believe the president s policies on russia have been very, very strong. And hiss administration has been pretty clear about continuing those policies, continuing to fight. Republicans are trying to do something about the election, marco rubio was just on this program and he talked about the bill that he and Chris Van Holland have put together, it has bipartisan support in the senate, and im certain that the senate will act on it. And thats letting putin know that there will be consequences for interfering with our leshe can u can election. The republicans have done absolutely nothing to protect our upcoming elections. No one, no investigation theres money. But democrats pushed for more money. No, they just took money away, 3. 8 billion that was taken away. This was storing out an already small amount that was in the 2018 budget zeroing that out. So there are no additional dollars that have been spent on shoring up our elections. And we have seen in our reporting over and over depend that republicans are just not doing what they need to protect us. Even in the days leading up to monday, you had donald trump in you were attacking our allies. You had donald trump blaming democrats for being hacked. Meanwhile, knowing that 12 Russian MilitaryIntelligence Officers were being indicted for their involvement in the meddling in our election, i should really call it a cyber attack of our elections. And he goes into this meeting, the commander in chief goes into this meeting for more than two hours, and we dont know whats in this meeting, we have to trust russia on what happened in this meeting, going in there alone, his military, commander in chief, his military doesnt know whats going on in this meeting, his Intelligence Community doesnt know whats going on in this meeting, he created this situation, now he continue to find out theres nothing happening, and now putin is rewarded with a meeting in the youUnited States at the whi house . So think about it, while putin is in the white house, his Intelligence Officers are trying to hack into our election for 2018. Michael cohen and trump discuss on tape a former playboy play mate of the year. The president tweeted, inconceivable that the government would break into the office in the early hours of the morning, even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client. It certainly is odd. Your response and are you concerned at all about what might be in these tapes . Hearing the reports of that particular conversation, i dont think theres anything particularly problematic in that conversation. But it raises the other question, how much did he record and when did he record and whaewhat else is there . I basically believe that the president is focused on russia for the wrong reasons, which is he keeps getting dragged back into this, that he was somehow guilty of something when theres no evidence anywhere that the president did anything to collude with the russians and the best thing this president can do is walk away from this whole russia scenario, tastop talking about it. I think the Mueller Investigation is going to be pretty clear, they have this investigation going on roger stone, but theyre so far away from the president. Michael cohen is a separate investigation with the u. S. Attorneys office. All of this is related to this whole idea that trump somehow and his campaign colluded and that somehow the russians had a derminitive effect on the election, which he did not. So i think he needs to stop talking about this and walk away from it. Do you think hes licking his chops . Nobodys licking their chops because our president is at risk and michael cohen, here it is, its the same pattern, jake, its lie, cover up, when youre found out, miss direct, redirect it to somewhere else, which is what hes trying to do right now. But its very, very clear that this president thinks its okay to lie and these tapes show that again, and we have a real problem here. I think theres two separate issues here. One is that the madam is related to the fact that she did scheduling for roger stone. And if you look at the fact that they were look at Andrew Miller because of scheduling, se ingsc doesnt think that these people are going to fold like cheap chairs, hes got Something Else coming. And the subject of this week of the state of the cartoonon. President trump is getting a makeover idea and his design ideas are all right taking off. Air force one is going to be incredible. Reporter first on trumps list, nix the colors selected by the kennedys in 1962. Do you think we should use baby blue or not . I hate to make changes, really. Maybe the president wants to go with something a little bit more on the nose. Maybe we should go with red, white and blue. The former Real Estate Developer is known for selecting only the finest materials, maybe a solid gold plane and marble for the wings. I want the plane to be immaculate, i want it to be polished. Of course the president could just go with his favorite image. Do i look like a president . How handsome am i, right . How handsome . On the other hand there is already a famous plane with a red, white and blue design, perhaps the president got some inspiration on the tarmac in helsin helsinki. I think i could have a very Good Relationship with russia and president putin. And for one more exclusive, i want to offer a special welcome to team tapper, Charles Davis austin jr. , as is he family. Thank you so much for joining us, fareed zack kkaria starts r now. This is gps the Global Public square, welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you live today. On the show today, trump, putin, the helsinki summit and the after math. The meeting raised many more questions than it answered. I think that the United States has been foolish, i think we have all been foolish