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Terrorism, as well as brexit, trade, and other sensitive issues. he is a wildcard who could jolt are the election with a single tweet. carol is in london where it is already tuesday morning. the central question here, how could the president get the welcome everyone knows he believes he deserves from bo-jo and build in this invisible wall of separation between the two guys for the duration of these meetings? >> well, i think its going to be very tricky for donald trump just because this presiden...

Leader, meeting with other global leaders. and so that will be a nice split screen for him. the question is whats interesting about the trip to london is hes not scheduled to meet with boris johnson who has an election in a few weeks after that and thats because boris johnson is trying to stay very far, far away from trump. he doesnt think trump will be helpful in the election. its a reminder even abroad he is seen as very -- hes not helpful to his political allies even there. that will be a ten...

Billions of dollars in the balance that could be tariffs going both ways. an escalate thats been ratcheting up pretty much since president trump has taken the presidency, but as of late to a very, very significant degree. donald trump not all the time even knows where he stands based on his actions. to say nothing of his word. he pulled back a little bit. talking about how he doesnt want to necessarily dampen the christmas spirit but taking a hard line on what he considers unfair trade practices...

Host leader to bring in people who are not members of the g-7. it should be noted the g-7 next year will be in the united states. so that will be up to president trump. we have seen that in other g-8s before. gamesmanship going on there. and something i dont think it president appreciated. but he will have to deal with in a situation like that when hes not playing the game on home turf. >> lets play what mnuchin said and i will ask you to respond. >> the president said before, since iran wants t...

>> new podcasts of course and a new episode launches tonight and tomorrow, its brand-new. shannon bream and the whole team is up next. take it from here. >> shannon: it is 11:00 p.m. eastern at 11:00 a.m. in hanoi vietnam. we are waiting the official start of the historic consummate between president trump and north korean leader kim jong un. anytime now were going to see more of the president there. just moments ago he arrived at the presidential palace in. visiting the head of state there. the...

Overseeing the justice department is facing recusrecus. hes distancing himself from matt witz kerr. >> i didnt speak to matt whitaker. i know matt whitaker. he has a great reputation. thats what i wanted. >> kristen welker is there. kristen, already some drama in the presidents trip. >> there is some drama. good morning to you. president trump as you said is here to mark the 100th anniversary to the end of world war i to celebrate peace among allies. and yet at the moment he was touching down he...

Battle. the president is there with ma krorn. right now we will go to kristen welker, who is joining us. she is traveling with prumpl. she -- president trump. shes the msnbc correspondent. >> reporter: hello, lets set the scene here for why president trump is here in paris this weekend. he is here to mark the 100th anniversary of armistice day to essentially celebrate peace among allies and it was stunning, darragh, as he was landing yesterday, as he was touching down here in par israelis. he la...

They will be at a couple of group it contindinners, but thet they go to the side when the cameras are watching to look like theyre whispering pleasantries seems unlikely. everybody ive talked to on the american side seems to think thats unlikely. putin as host leader seems to be very busy. but to go back to the syria question, theyre butting heads on two things. one is edward snowden, but the second thing happens to be syria of course. and whats interesting is as tough of a reception as john ker...

Session, putin, whos chairing it, since this is -- hes the host leader here, said lets table any discussion on syria until the dinner tonight. and that dinner doesnt start for about another hour, in our half. thats when youll see from what i understand the presidents going to make his personal pitch, make his plea. the question is does it become a full-fledged debate at that dinner between the president, and putin, or does putin sort of hang back a little bit and watch the president frankly stru...

Diplomat a liar. i guess do we chalk this up as the character that is putin or do we hit him back hard on this? >> reporter: well see. what was interesting about yesterday, he does this official interview with the associated press and russias channel 1 and he for putin sort of had an olive branch for president obama saying that they disagree on some things, but they have plenty that they would like to work together on, that he thought that they could get through this. and then of course he turns...