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Phil starting with you put the presidents extemp ranes comments here in context. because he wanted to strike a presidential or stark note as i mentioned with regard to the existential question. but he quickly ended up back in a political mode. >> yeah thats right exactly right. its interesting if you look at his actual scripted speech he gave outdoors in war saw. he was trying to reassure western allies. he made a lot of outreach about nato. tried to signal to european countries that have been w...

Extential question but then he kind of quickly backed into a political mode. >> yeah, thats right. and its interesting if you look at his actual scripted speech he gave out in warsaw, he was really trying assure our western allies. try to signal to the european countries who have been very wary of his moves, the west can stand together. but in his statements there at the press conference and his statements to hally jackson about the russian interference were just kind of mind-boggling, because h...

And more you a all of this and more with the meeting with putin still to come. as promised i want to bring in the expert panel nbc white house correspondent kristin welker and white house bureau chief phil rucker. phil starting with you put the presidents extemp ranes comments here in context. because he wanted to strike a presidential or stark note as i mentioned with regard to the existential question. but he quickly ended up back in a political mode. >> yeah thats right exactly right. its int...

Putin by surprise? would that have been maybe part of the reason? do you think it ticked him off? >> id be surprised if he were to take the offer taken by surprise on something like this. i mean, hes probably in wait and see mode. but those comments are absolutely right. russia would like nothing more than to get in some sort of convoluted discussion about how we should move forward on cyber things. this is like a criminal saying, lets negotiate how we killed somebody, lets talk more about that ...

Germa germanys leader. we have a card for xi that can come up. this will matter. north korea, you had xi and the russian president, just to remind people, they put out a statement, basically making north korea and the united states sound like equal aggressors in the situation. north korea has to stand down and south korea and the u.s. has to stand down. >> the u.s. has been taking a tougher line on china. but president trump is surround by bad options in all of the hot spots of the world. he has...

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...

Protection agency is trying to undertake with effect to meth e methane. climate change is a key issue at the g-20. hes facing a lot of pushback in the courts and more broadly at home. more negative reactions to his tweets. he does want positive feedback. this is also taking place at a time where hes had very difficult relationships with european partners and has taken in the past days a harder line with china, with south korea, and then he wakes up to an icbm, were told, being launched to north ...

That will target chinese entities and that risks heightening tensions with china. and for their part, despite the presidents tough language in his tweet about the chinese putting a move on north korea, the chinese, after the launch today, called for calm on all sides and i think theres almost no chance that the hes are prepared with the kind of pressure on north korea that might conceivably lead the north to change its behavior. i remember being in north korea years ago in an earlier crisis mode...

The russian stuff is really serious, and, you know, one flick of the button in the wrong direction is going to cause a huge problem, but im not worried about the future of the country. im just embarrassed for us all. >> no, i think keep twitter dangling in front of him so his thumbs are occupied and away from the important buttons. >> lets not forget, its not that hes using twitter, which is the problem, of course thats an acceptable mode of communication these days. no ones trying to take that ...

Rock. my use of social media is not presidential, it is modern day presidential. it is not the mode, it is the message under fire. he insists his tactics on social media no matter how it is and are no threat to his presidency. >> so the president knew how to strike a nerve with that audience. he had num yous staerous standi ovation. he talks about people wanting him to not tweet. the vice president has a twitter feed and all republican leaders. it is not the social media. it is the contents that...