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So, i think when you look at his actions, people still have that question in their minds. do they make sense of him congratulating him putin, for example, because putin may have something on him? i mean, thats unclear. well find out when mueller continues as he continues his investigation. but i think you do have to -- you cant just say the president is soft on russia, yet his administration is taking all of these steps. i mean, he is the head of the administration. he could stop some of these t...

And you did have the obama administration marshaling the countries of europe to unite, even though some were dragged in kicking and screaming on the anti-russia sanctions for ukraine. you didnt have this kind of, you know, the right hand doesnt know what the left arm is doing. i think thats really scary. we dont know even where our executive branch stands on russia. >> how would you, michelle -- our policy towards russia in the trump heera, how do you look at it? you can look at it through the p...

I think this has been stoked from the beginning as a conspiracy. im surprised that the meeting was originally scheduled for only 30 minutes. doing any longer if you need to finish all the collusion you been doing? this is an important conversation for things that are really happening around the world. demonstration was serious when they are getting about finding a new partnership with m putin. he has a weekend, we have a strong hand. barack obama lost to a we can because he didnt know how to pla...

Didnt know how to deal with putin from a position of strength. he says and believes tillerson does that putin responds to strength and power. here is a big change in the dynamic after threats and a red line from president obama, this administration wants to look very different by comparison. a condemnation of this strike by president trump, his own line, red line, then immediate action followed up by tillerson who i think is going to initiate muscular diplomacy against russia of lets get rid of ...

Deconflictions, theres no way now were going to get a u.n. security council resolution. this is a huge diplomatic crisis between world powers whether the trump administration likes it. they try to minimize this by saying were going back to business, thats not going to happen. russia is taking this very seriously. >> but to david points, this does change the davids point. you will recall hillary clinton called him putins puppet. this seems to defy that. >> it takes the heat off the investigation ...

Initiate no play zones, target regime targets, will you commit to changing the assad regime and try to bring in other players, the turks and iraqis to change, i bet they are going to say the americans are short term, staged some relatively small strikes against one airfield but they dont want in this game after what happened in afghanistan and iraq and that we gamble and will once again step away. i dont imagine its a huge step for the future unless we follow-up. >> lets not forget isis. isis is...

Thats not a rationale to do it under the constitution they should all quit. so this is political more than legal. so that takes us to pure politics and lets go to russia. this has been a big boost for president trump in terms of defending this idea that he is putins boy. he told him this was coming, toll h-- told him to stand down and he did. >> but im not sure putin will see this as undermining a potential for syria -- we did not see that. we could have seen announcement by the white house sayi...

Action now, the previous state of play is putin is doing everything and -- is on his heels. thats changed. >> for five minutes of t-lams. >> for this process, a huge russian red line, its not about did we strike one thing or ten things, its about what theyre view of international law in the sovereignty of states and this is extential for putin, they felt burned for libya, now were attacking syria. they see that as a challenge to international relations that you cant attack unless you have some s...

And when rex tillerson does full till that visit next week to moscow? >> reporter: first we hear that that visit is going to go ahead. not formally from the president, putin or elsewhere, but people have parliament have said theres no reason to cancel that meeting and therefore that will be a very, very important meeting and hopefully presumably those people sitting around a table are going to try to figure out whether in fact theres a new chapter in this effort contain and stop the syrian war a...

>> the president could have said did my predecessor wiretap me and gotten a deaf inti answer. he didnt do that. >> i do find it fascinating how often that president trump invokes the nixon era and watergate when he talks about whats happening today. why do you think that is? >> he seems to be a man that is projects on to others what is falling on him. we saw if during the campaign. whenhill hillary rodham clinton called him putins puppet, he turned around and called hillarys putins puppet. somet...