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President prepares for a critical overseas trip which includes his first meeting with russias vladimir putin. cnn senior diplomatic correspondent michelle kosinski is joining us now on this story. so, michelle, this meeting, its actually been upgraded from a more formal meeting. >> reporter: thats right. the secretary of state has put out a statement on north koreas launch of this inter continental ballistic missile. three months ago he said the u.s. had spoken enough on north korea, but this cl...

Region, and the world. global action is required to stop a global threat. any country that hosts north korean guestworkers, provides any economic or military benefits, or fails to fully implement u.n. security council resolutions is aiding and abetting a dangerous regime. all nations should publicly demonstrate to north korea that there are consequences to their pursuit of nuclear weapons. we intend to bring north koreas provocative action before the u.n. security council and enact stronger meas...

You read that statement, there is nothing in there that i think the international community would sign up to except the very broad statements about wanting to see peace and stability in the region on the peninsula. everybody can sign up to that. but the great irony is here that neither of those two countries has done anything to try to bring that about from a diplomatic perspective or from an economic perspective. im speaking mostly of china here. we have the toughest regime sanctions in place o...

Office. lindsey graham tweeted, mr. president, this is what is wrong with the greatness of politics, not the greatness of america and on and on. my question is people say this and come out when donald trump does these things and say all of these things, but then they go on and support them -- support him in everything he does. hes going to keep doing it again. theyre enablers. what should lawmakers do? should they denounce him, is 140 characters enough, governor? what more can they do? >> and le...

Very well could be saying mean things to her. >> that is so true. >> there are a lot of people responding. susan collins spoke to anderson and denounced it. he tweeted this isnt normal and its beneath the dignity of your office. "mr. president your tweet represents what is wrong with american politics, not the greatness of america" and on and on and on. people often say this when donald trump does these things but then they go on and they support -- him in everything he does and hes going to kee...

You have to be cognizant of politics but dealing with russians, you need to focus on the outcome first. >> scott, i want you to listen to kellyanne conway in which she told cnn. >> reporter: my question for you what is president trump doing to prevent russia from doing this again? >> this report is new and we will discuss it with him later. he has been very clear on the record that he believes in any type of number of measures to make sure that democracy flourishes and that voter integrity is in...

Governmental tames or anything else, who knows, i think his story may have changed. i mean, youll have to take a look at that because then he has to tell what actually took place at the events. >> reporter: but when cnn pressed -- >> but my question for you is what is the white house, what is president trump now doing to prevent russia from doing this again? >> this report is flu and well discuss it with him later. >> reporter: again and again -- >> against russia, what is he doing specifically ...

We have agreed, unless they pay a price theyll do it again in 2018 and 2020. may not be the democrats next time. it may be the republicans. so we should have a bipartisan interest. the only question here is why they are so resistant to recognizing this national security threat, and i heard the explanation earlier on your show that emotionally he resists it because it seems to threaten the legitimacy of his election, but no one is insisting that it had an impact. the point is to prevent it from h...

Nothing extraordinary. so whats the reason for debates on new sanctions? well, thats evidence for the fact that there is internal political struggle this the u.s. >> whats the reason? whats the possible reason for sanctions? more sanctions, or tighter sanctions on russia? joining us now, brian class, author the despots accomplice, how the west is aiding and abetting the decline of democracy. he is a fellow of comparative politics at the american school of economics. is that a typical vladimir pu...

How the west is aiding and abetting the decline of democracy. he is a fellow of comparative politics at the american school of economics. is that a typical vladimir putin appearance where he just pretends to be utterly oblivious to large and obvious truths? and is that something that he gets away with with the russian population who dont necessarily have access to the full information. >> absolutely. it is striking he was on rta glorified kremlin propaganda network. which seeps to be paying peop...