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His opponents would say that he obviously has some sort of affinity for russia. maybe hes even feeling pressured by his business connections with russia. of course the president himself would say that he is really is interested in having russia being part of the table because so many people are talking about russia. so many people are talking about annexing russia. when i pressed him and said why do you keep changing and doubling down on the idea that obama was outsmarted when every other countr...

Arent a good thing. but donald trump may take offense at that. does trump give full support to johnson? or does he have a dig against him on twitter? >> in the meeting, president trump has mentioned he wants to invite russia. keep in mind theres a possible trade war in the u.s. why is that what weve seen before. >> he likes vladimir putin. thats as simple as that. whether or not its because of russias interference in the 2016 election, or his personal affinity for putin as the strong, tough lead...

Its manufactured alcohol. in the trash. we try to prevent them from taking it back to the units. >> when our producers checked back in with tim duncan, who has an affinity for pruno himself -- >> thats my only vice. all i can do is drunk. i dont do drugs. so i drink. >> officers overherd him talking to our crew about his drinking, sparking a surprise search of his cell. >> theyre not going to find nothing. there aint nothing there that aint supposed to be in there. maybe smell some wine -- i don...

Picture of president trump interacting with boris johnson for the u.k. they have been interacting at a different level. theyve always had an affinity to one another and a lot of people are looking forward to seeing the tet denmark, the yeuropean countri s countries-- >> boris johnson will be focused on the next couple of months is brexit and president trump does want to get a good trade deal between the u.k. and the united states through this brexit process. so thats probably going to be at the ...

Statement. its really only one leader in the g7 who seems to have this affinity for vladimir putin. you know, its interesting. earlier in the week when donald trump first raised the idea of perhaps reinstating russia into the g7, once again making it the g8, he seemed to pin this on french president macron. making clear, at least suggesting that the french president had raised it with him and the french president would table this. well, in recent hours weve heard from that very french president ...

Bolsonaro has called the trump of the tropics. he feels an affinity with trump. he came and visited in march. and immediately upon his return in march he started to talk about how he wanted the u.s. to go in on his sort of development plan for the amazon. but his development plan is essentially an a pock liptic plan and were seeing the manifestations of that in the wildfires. >> burn it down, grazing for agriculture? >> bolsonaro represents the agri-business, so its those forces and the forces o...

Made clear sure wed love to have russia back but russia has to get out of crimea and do other things. president trump says, no, let them in. >> if somebody would make that motion, i would certainly be disposed to think about it very favorably. we spend a lot of time talking about russia at those meetings an theyre not there. i think it would be a good thing if russia were there so we could speak directly, not have to speak, you know, by telephone and other things. >> i mean weve seen this before...

Russian state television. >> that tells me that ronald reagan and barry goldwater would be rolling over in their graves. the contrast couldnt be worse if you think about the span of recent history. the president is in a war of words with denmark, a nato ally that lost dozens of soldiers or troops in afghanistan fighting along side us. its pilots flew missions in libya when we were fighting there. meanwhile russia was kicked out of the g8, turning it in to the g7 because they invaded an annexanne...

Work, its become something of a cliche in my line of work to talk about the presidents affinity for strong men. when you repeat these things over and over enough, it becomes like the f.a.p. on your key board but its true to hear the president use the word "strong" or "strongly" to describe the people he likes and admires, how does this play out while the rest of the g7 is looking at us this coming weekend? >> yeah, look. unconditional love is a beautiful thing unless of course youre unconditiona...

Opportunity to say something positive. what he should have said is we should all get together in the g7 and support the new democratically elected president of ukraine. thats what he should have said instead of this incredibly inan remark he made today. >> frank figliuzzi back to your lifes work and your line of work, its become something of a cliche in my line of work to talk about the presidents affinity for strong men. when you repeat these things over and over enough, it becomes like the f.a...