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>> it depends. they certainly would go prepared. every single president who ma meat with putin and any russian leader goes in knowing what the agenda is offered and there are advisers there to help but even if there is moments alone like reagan and gorbachev had during some of their meetings everything is almost scripted to some degree. its not a game of improvisation. the stakes are way too high and especially when our elect oral system is at stake and you need to have some kind of advice and s...

See. >> we will find out in due time. thank you, hugo gurdon, in washington d.c.. >> thank you very much bill. now we go to michael wallace, also former advisor to dyck cheney and good evening to you. you were listening to that conversation. good afternoon to you where you are today. give us a sense about, if you or an american look at this tomorrow what are you thinking? >> of just reading three days in moscow from brett bear. about the relationship between reagan and gorbachev. you know, somet...

Ronald reagan called the soviet union the evil empire and it was several years after that that meaning fail talks began with gorbachev. theres an irony here and i dont think any president has been tougher on russia in the last 25-30 years. we are sending lethal weapons to ukraine. any number of russian diplomats ejected from the united states. in syria, there have been hundreds of questions killed by american troops without any apologies from the united states. probably the first time since i do...

Critics are saying its unnecessary. is that true? >> tremendous duplication of expense. if you are russian, would you want a new country with nuclear power in your border? they have an interest to work with us on north korea and iran. it can save us a lot of money if we pool our resources and can save a lot of money in terms of raising money for nato if they would spend less on their defense. a lot of mutual interest. that is why trump said the one in russia will be easy because it is easier. it...

So at home that may play well with his base, but there are a lot of people who genuinely believe that donald trump is working to undermine the western alliance, that he is more sympathetic to someone like putin than he is to nato given his world view that the relationships are really transactional and not based on values. so donald trump has domestic political reasons to show hes tough on russia interference in our election, but bill, i have no faith that he will actually -- he will actually rai...

Tomorrow. especially comes a religious and political prisoners. the state department also say they want russia to release 150 people today. lauren greene is live in new york city. >> hi bill. activists are using the historic backdrop of helsinki, ronald reagan prepared for his meeting with gorbachev, the demand that president trump challenge vladimir putin to release political and religious prisoners. according to the state department there, whether hundred 50 are currently jailed. some 20 are j...

Hours on this. and perhaps they will go longer than the one hour that many have described. think about what has happened over the past four years. crimea was the big one. eastern ukraine, that is 2014. since then, the encouraging you call in syria and the ongoing conflict, think about the election and the meddling we have talked about here. the list is long. but how do you take relations that have been described now as being the worst as we have seen since the cold war? how did that happen? >> i...

Trump ahead of his one-on-one tomorrow with vladimir putin. so what is at stake for the russian president? and what does he expect to get out of the summit? joining us for more on this, the director russian studies and resident scholar at the american enterprise institute. those questions, what is in it for vladimir putin? >> well, what is in it is a tremendous domestic political boost. in a pretty weak economic time that all of this comes, from a russian president or a soviet leader sitting dow...

The "fox report". the bottom of the hour. thank you for joining us. president trump arriving helsinki earlier this evening. and the closely watched meeting with let me point to market human rights activist urging the present you the opportunity to pressure the russian leader to release more than 150 religious and political prisoners held there on phony charges. chief correspondent lauren greene is live with more. >> activists are using the historic backdrop of helsinki. it is where ronald reagan...

Doesnt know well and then read it out to the press to say oh, we agreed, for instance, that america is going to leave sir in return for something that is ambiguous. so i think its a big mistake and i hope its shorter than one hour. >> joining me now, republican congressman from florida francis rooney. thank you for joining me. i want to get your reaction to what you just heard there from ambassador mcfaul who talking about that meeting says its a mistake for the president to go in with no record...