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>> joining me now is ambassador christopher hill, former ambassador to poland and the dean of the joseph korble school of international studies at the university of denver and msnbc diplomacy expert. good to see you. thank you very much. just to touch on poland, a country you know so well, the significance of that event today, that reception, especially compared to what hes now going to get in hamburg. >> obviously hell get a different reception in hamburg. he may have had a different reception ...

Over the phone lots of times on the whole of the international agenda, just last monday the president assured the chancellor he wants to contribute to the success of the g-20 meetings but, yes, you are right. there are some differences and i would name here climate change, of course, and trade, and i guess those differences will be, or will have been addressed during that meeting. >> how important is it for the two leaders? were looking at pictures, i should tell you, of their greeting before th...

>> president trump has chosen to first go to poland and meet with a leader who very much likes him and has a similar world view before he has gone to uk, canada, mexico, some of these key, key u.s. partners, and hell get a very different greeting in poll land than he will in hamburg, in germany. chancellor angela merkel wows using his name saying these will be tough talks. >> i think again would be to go to poland and stand there as a representative of the united states and say, you guys have du...

In libya, yemen, iran will be easier, in syria, these are hard things to do. the documentation that someone is my brother in the united states, theyll have to find some proof for that or that they have a job. school is easier to prove than brother or fiance. if it is your fiance in america, you dont get to come here. >> exactly right. the legal groups that have been watching this, that managed to get it shut down in the first place until the government said they could enforce it. they said theyr...

Ill check with our legislative team to see what they have done. that being said, you know, we have made it clear for seven-plus years were going to repeal and replace it. >> reporter: this afternoon at the white house on two powerful leaders prime minister modi and president trump, two democracies log meeting and greeting with a number of discussion, but modi said that india will join -- the fight against terrorism. at the same time yesterday addressing the indian-american community senior -- sa...

Which might be why he thought of me and why were drinking shine for breakfast. where theres food theres also gonna be booze. and likely a lot of it. oh, thats good. >> andy: this is nam prik ong. you make a chili paste with chilies, garlic, shallot, shrimp paste, and tomatoes, and then you mix it with pork. >> farmer: thats for you. okay. >> anthony: oh yeah. oh, the nam prik is awesome. >> andy: isnt it delicious? this rice is grown here in the village. you just kinda make a little spoon-shaped...

Welcome back to cnn "newsroom," muslims around the world are now celebrating eid al fitr, marking ramadan. >> for the first time in two decades, the white house did not host a dinner commemorating ramadan. instead they release aid statement that reads in part, on behalf of the american people, melania and i send a warm greeting to muslims as they celebrate eid al fitr. during this holiday we are reminded of the importance of mercy, compassion and goodwill. with muslims around the world, the unit...

>> look, you know, people have different accounts of accidents. i dont know james comey. i do know jeff sessions. hes an honorable guy, i have a lot of respect for him, hes done a good job as a senator and attorney general and i trust him. i dont know how this is going to come out today. i know thats again speculation about what jeff sessions is going to say. as you know when you have two people in a conversation a lot of times you get a different version of what happened. >> do you trust the ju...

Media feeds them. the crazy train you say republicans are on, i understand it, they are not getting off it. president trump has insulted, humiliated, attacked his own party time and again and they continue to line up behind him. did you watch that greeting, the praise he had with his cabinet yesterday? it was bizarre but they continued to do it. what gives you confidence that republicans will get off that crazy train? they control the house. >> what i have said is -- they control the house and t...

And say is that this is a big nothing burger. this is as one commentator who said it is a soap bubble, it is not going to go anywhere and not going to end in impeachment. >> we will wait and see because it is going on for some time certainly in many different directions. lets move to the other international following, the isolation of qatar by the other powerful countries in that region. mixed messages coming from the trump team. trump saying one thing about it, his secretary of state saying ano...