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Martian" surface and to provide data. the mission is expected to last two earth years or roughly one marshan year with the hope this craft will remain operational for an additional two years. i get fired up about that, dont you? we talk about so much thats wrong with the country and all the problems were dealing with. you watch something like that, you look at the genius of nasa. >> the details of that is literally mind-boggling. slowing down from 12,500 miles per hour to 5 miles per hour. incre...

The president also set to meet with chinas xi jinping. saudi arabias king salman and crown prince salman will be attending. president trump insists he doesnt need to do any prep work. >> how prepared are you for this meeting with xi? >> im very prepared. ive been preparing for it all my life. its not like im going to sit down and study. i know every ingredient. i know every stat. i know it better than anybody knows it. >> president trump is disputing the cias high confidence assessment that saud...

Disrespectful. yes, he apologized for it after. but he should be better than that. he had been practicing for a week. he did the fox news interview as prep work. that is inexcusable on top of the partisanness that we saw. whats also disturbing to me is how president trump spoke about dr. ford at the rally and then seeing senator grassley and majority leader mcconnell, their behavior yesterday, as if the president gave them an okay to destroy good will that they were trying to put as far as dr. f...

Outrageous to have done it or agreed to anything that he does. he has a big problem, and that is, he can sit down with putin, but if he has got such opposition here at home to what he is doing, thele value of it for himself and putin is slight. >> ambassador pheifer, president trump is expected to meet one-on-one with vladimir putin before allowing aides into the room. i want to play you something that the democratic senator mark warner said about that idea. >> we need to have other americans in...

>> frankly dont expect -- i go in with very low expectations. >> he is looking at arms control. probably the most important issue we have here is non-proliferation. the two countries are 90% of the worlds nuclear weapons. you have syria. you have north korea. you have ukraine addressing their malign activity and their election meddling. >> we know trump doesnt do a lot of prep work for these meetings. my fear is that putin could come in with maps of ukraine or maps of syria and try to cut some d...

Conference you were out with the british prime minister headed to scotland. he also said he was doing a lot of prep work for this meeting with either mere putin. what are your sources telling you in terms of what prep went into this, what is their game plan, especially since we are hearing for two different message from administration officials. much tougher on the russians than what we hear from the president, which seems to be playing the good cop in this. >> the president does have the unique...

You have signed on to the letter with a bunch of other democratic senators calling for the president to either cancel the summit or if he doesnt basically essentially make it a one issue summit. ambassador huntsman number one, doesnt want to call it a summit, but a meeting. have you been reassured from mr. huntsman about what the president will do with putin? >> well, chuck i would feel better if ambassador huntsman who i have a lot of confidence in was actually sitting in on the meeting. im ver...

November like we saw in 2016, were not going to have much of a relationship left. >> and democrats on capitol hill remain skeptical that president trump will even address the matter. heres what senator mark warner said in an interview earlier. >> i would feel a lot better if ambassador huntsman, who i have a lot of confidence in, was actually sitting in on the meeting. im very concerned about a one-on-one meeting between vladimir putin and donald trump. we know that trump doesnt do a lot of prep...

>> lets talk about what virginia senator mark warner said, michael. he laid out his concerns today over the one-on-one meeting between trump and putin. lets watch and then well talk. >> im very concerned about a one-on-one meeting between vladimir putin and donald trump. we know that trump doesnt do a lot of prep work for these meetings. he kind of goes in and wings it. in putin, youve got a trained kgb agent who does his homework. my fear is putin could come in with maps of ukraine or maps of s...

How much is prep work and how much is gut? >> its mostly prep work. you dont follow your gut went youre going in with someone like this. under those circumstances you normally star prepping months in advance. you have situation room meetings where you talk about where up your agenda to be, and to steves upon, what the intel analysis is and what your adversary are going to be thinking about you. that involves listening to your intelligence committee, listening to your security adviser, intensive ...