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An on and off again supporter critic. he was in full critic mode because of the presidents tweetwee twee tweets. the president believes that a lot of the focus narrative is people under cutting him and under minding his election. hes not going to give into that. the problem is now, hes in a position where that position has implicitly accepting the ball face lies that vladimir putin told him in this one meeting. >> marco rubio tweeted this morning, partnering with putin on a cyber security unit i...

City from the terror group. the iraqi prime minister visited mosul this morning and gra congratulated his soldiers. isis fighters are still holding out in one neighborhood and you could see smoke rising in part of that city earlier today. cnn international correspondent nick paton walsh was in mosul less than two weeks ago or so. he joins us now. is this considered a victory? >> reporter: it is. we are still waiting for the announcement that the prime minister abadis office made, tweeted when he...

The chinese game, trading one off against the the other. we dont have really any good options. first of all, the military option, with respect to north korea, a preemptive stripe is basically off the table. second, china has not been cooperative thus far. ive been in many, many meetings where weve asked china to do more. they havent and i dont think they will. third, we got to think about potential regime change in north korea. as dangerous, as difficult, but it should be on the table. fourth, b...

President trump made it clear this morning he wants to make sure were all talking about russia and putin, and it always is a head scratcher to me. lindsey graham, a senator who is an on again-off again supporter and critic, but he was in full critic mode because of the presidents tweets. >> i think whats going on here is the president believes, not unreasonably, that a lot of focus on the russian narrative is from people who want to undercut him and undermine legitimacy of his election. this is ...

Then tillerson in describing the meeting emphasized the warmth between the two men and the chemistry. that might have been a tact i wouldnt have taken, given the suspicion people have between trump and putin, but thats how they characterized it. it is a different tone from recent years. >> rex tillerson did they there was chemistry. did you see chemistry, based on what youve seen in the readouts? was there chemistry there? >> i think it is very important to acknowledge that putin has several mod...

Absolutely adequate in his perception of the dialogue partner, he analyzes things quickly, replies to the raised questions or new elements in the conversation. >> that was of course following their meeting. meantime, heres what president trump has said about vladimir putin previously. >> putin says very nice things about me, i think thats very nice. it has no affect on me other than i think its very nice. >> two-part question here. one, is president putins flattery strategic? and two, president ...

Putin, saying well it could be you know russia, it could have been some other countries. undermining u.s. intelligence. and now youve got these two different version of events of the actual conversation. >> fred, i didnt understand why the president took the tack that he did. hes indicated that hes a good negotiator and somehow fundamentally misunderstood that he went into this meeting with a real position of power. i dont know why the president didnt go into this meeting on transmit mode. sayin...

Side, steve miller by his side. they all have the same view, lets not forget the inauguration speech and how awful that was. so hes taken his campaign mode into presidential mode. right. he did it in inauguration and now into the world, into the global mode. we have to remember, this is a president who believes in isolationism. so its not at all surprising. if anything, its embarrassing because it takes us, the u.s. away from that global leaders role that you are supposed to be. were supposed to...

Hes taken his campaign mode into presidential mode. he did it at the inauguration and now into the global mode. we have to remember, this is a president who believes in isolationism and so its not at all surprising. if anything, its embarrassing because it takes us the u.s. away from that global leaders role were supposed to be. were supposed to be the leader of the free world. and now you have these different alliances from the world leaders that are happening outside of donald trump because th...

Never has. let them come to poland. >> bret: that has echoes of john f. kennedy. let them come to berlin. >> i thought it was a great speech, and the contrast was not so much to the obama policy tour -- apology tour. the contrast was to trumps own inaugural address. america first, allies are parasites. it was none of that. it was the opposite. this was an ode to treaties and alliances and even in some ways, to trade. this is completely new. i thought the way he treated polish history was amazing...