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Issues are syria and the idea they may use leverage to get russia out and all of that will be on the table at helsinki, finland, monday. be there. >> shannon: i dont know when youll sleep but great to see you. house republicans said theres significant new information from fbi lawyer lisa page and appeared behind doors and because she was more forthcoming than her lover, peter strzok, theyre getting high marks from republicans. catherine herridge with more on what shes hearing happened behind c...

Understand that crimea was another bad hand. >> donald trump says he will bring up the topic of crimea with vladimir putin on monday in helsinki, finland and other issues they will talk about, syria. the idea that russia may use its leverage to try to get iran out of syria. some people are skeptical of that notion, all of that will be on the table, helsinki, finland. be there. >> i dont know when youre going to sleep at thank you. knew tonight, house republicans say there is significant new info...

There is it is on the screen, 31% in fox poll saying vladimir putin would get a better deal, obviously the u.s.-russia relationship is much bigger than election issue, should we hope for movement on arms control or perhaps syria. >> i think we might see some sort of a deal come out in syria, president trump has been meeting with middle east counterparts for the last week, including israeli prime minister and top advisers to iranian supreme leader. expectation is syria will be behind agenda and p...

Enough and 53% saying he would not be tough enough and 35% saying he would be about right, so bottom line is basically there are calls to hold vladimir putins feet to the fire, your expectations on that front? >> well, thats right. i hope that the president can use the recent indictment as leverage against putin to not just asking about interference in the u.s. elections and also european elections but to really press them on this issue, we know now that the u.s. intelligence community has asses...

And the russians heeded that command. what if donald trump new beforehand that the russians planned to do this. and given them a signal to proceed. former intelligence officials that i spoke to said this might have been a signal to the russians to give them political cover in order to hack into clintons e-mail and they can do this and use it as leverage later on. saying they were acting on the presidents orders. what came first, the chicken or the egg is something to consider. >> we talked about...

A lot of speculation, that hey, donald trump asked the russians to do that. and the russians heeded that command. what if donald trump new beforehand that the russians planned to do this. and given them a signal to proceed. former intelligence officials that i spoke to said this might have been a signal to the russians to give them political cover in order to hack into clintons e-mail and they can do this and use it as leverage later on. saying they were acting on the presidents orders. what cam...

Leverage. none of those are -- american foreign policy, none of those are supported by either party in the u.s. congress. its not just bluster. this is what the president thinks, this is what hes trying to do, its not working, its not helpful. but its not just him popping off for no reason. >> the president said nato in that room, there was a great collegial spirit that they were unified. beyond the bluster, whats the impact of all this? >> first of all, that characterization is disputed by lots...

Prime minister may has a very thin majority and depends on northern ireland party for her majority in particle lent. the opposition labor party will try to exploit this to their advantage. so this is a development that im sure prime minister may wasnt expecting a couple days ago when she was at the nato summit with president trump in brussels. >> rick: the president doesnt shy away from criticizing world leaders that hes about to meet with. hes done this several times in the past. perhaps thats ...

What does he want to get out of it? whats the leverage whats the exchange? how do you see that working? >> to tell him if you continue to meddle in elections in the united states, there will never be a good relationship. help me contain iran, because iran is a menace to the mideast. stop helping the taliban, lets fight isis together. get assad out of syria and put somebody in syria that we both can work with. change a behavior to get a good relationship. be tough. when he met kim jong un, the on...

I like the country music president, too. >> you had one, bush. >> he does kind of rage. >> rage against the machine. you want to carry this forward? >> i will. i was thinking of something similar. everyone focuses on the way president trump says things. but the way he says it makes you focus on what hes saying. for instance, if president trump hadnt said germany was held captive by russia we wouldnt be talking about the pipeline which is important shall it does give russia leverage over germany ...