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The whole town is alive. Its going to be even better when we win a world series here. Dont jinx it. Thank you. We will celebrate. Good day, im Andrea Mitchell in washington, which is celebrating. But were awaiting the president s Press Conference with italys president on a day when mr. Trump is already refusing to accept blame for turkeys incursion into syria despite the call with turkeys president , saying its not our problem, we are not a policing agent, his words. I wish them a lot of luck. I...

In turkey has said he will immediate in a number of days with vladimir putin but has indicated he does not want to meet with vice president pence and secretary of state pompeo who are headed to the region. >> extraordinary. >> what does it tell you? >> it tells me the breakdown in bilateral relations between turkey and the united states are at the lowest point than i can ever remember. by the way, thats just another example of how we have not been practicing diplomacy in the trump years, that en...

Were the most confrontational when i was in the government, ukraine and syria. we spent more time arguing with vladimir putin about those two different portfolios. and on both now you see capitulation from president trump. these are big, giant victories for vladimir putin. >> michael mcfaul, ambassador mcfaul, thank you very much, joining us from stanford today. and at any moment we expect that press conference from president trump and the president of italy. you see the east room but i dont b...

These in a general election debate with whoever the nominee is. jonathan is right, this is not great ground for trump and its going to continue to be brought back to trump. if he wants a fight about this, its going to go right back to his kids. >> and mike memoli, youre in the best position to tell us, why did they decide to try to inoculate against this on the day of the debate? >> well, andrea, its interesting, in my conversations with the campaign and those close to the family about how this ...

Broken down the trump foreign policy making process is. by the way, this is not just a ukraine story. i think you see the exact same thing happening with respect to this decision on syria, where instead of having an interagency process where the president sits in the white house situation room next to a secretary of defense, next to a secretary of state and the entire members of the nsc, hes sitting in his residence on the phone, based on his intuition or personal interests is a way to conduct f...