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To homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget. That your business is our business the United States postal service. Priority you welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live every sunday from washington from 7 00 to 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Tonight, trump putin, the sequel, the leadrs meet in helsinki. Things get tricky ahead of the summit. Later republican congressman Ryan Costello joins me live. He says his colleagues conclusions on the russia investigation should be taken with a g...

The sanctions that the international community has put in place over these last four years since the 2014 intervention inkwurgs in ukraine and crimea were meant to isolate russia, meant to say nobody who takes these kind of actions against a neighbor should drobd a member of the civilized world. and what president trump is doing here in effect is saying that youre welcomed back on the stage. >> david ignatius, you have the president of the united states doing what he did again after the disastro...

Direction. im struck by the fact that trumps aides, jon huntsman, the ambassador, john bolton over the weekend said we dont know whats on the agenda of the summit. im calling it the seinfeld summit. its a summit about nothing. the american president doesnt know what he wants to achieve. the old quote goes, if you dont stand for something, youll fall for anything. >> yeah. which is of course the fear of so many right now as were waiting for donald trump to arrive and meet with vladimir putin for ...

Very unscripted summit that has no agenda. what you did not see is any kind of pose toture either in the bo language or verbal language that hell take on vladimir putin in any way. he was as friendly and opening session in this one-on-one as can you imagine, talking about our relations have not been very good but it would be a good thing if it were improved, not a bad thing. the kind of rhetoric hes used in the run up to this summit and the fact thaet talks about everything but cyber attacks. he...

And if you continue to in the words of the head of our intel community try to, quote, undermine american democracy on a daily basis, there will be consequences. was your in reading the mueller indictment on friday, was it your -- did you view that also as much of a statement to vladimir putin as it was an indictment against these individuals who tried to subvert american democracy? >> definitely. i think it was a big move by the intelligence community to declassify these details. its a big diplo...

The russians, we know what youre doing. you know we know what youre doing. if you want to get into a tit for tat we will win this one. is there serious conversations going on in the u.s. intelligence community about what that tit for tat would look like from an american perspective, what would be the retaliatory measures? >> without disclosing what i know from intelligence briefings that i receive classified information that we receive, certainly there is a lot of consideration about what can be...

Presidents often take chances. certainly richard nixon did with china w-an opening to china. first step towards opening of that country. obviously, that upset a lot of concerns when he did it. nixon also upset a lot of conservatives when he -- same with gerald ford when they pushed detent with the soviets as well. there was a lead up to that, there was a strategy with that. what we have right now -- literally three days since the world has seen the evidence that vladimir putin again in the words...

Adversaries, north korea, now we leave a disastrous nato summit and we have the president going to the former head -- former officer in the kgb, vladimir putin, again with a backdrop that suggests that we shouldnt even be taking this meeting because, once again were putting at the center of the world stage someone who is not only acting badly but also acting directly against americas interests. >> joe, if theres one thing weve learned about donald trump, its that he likes to be the disrupter, th...

An attempt to undermine american democracy daily. so you attack the eu, you congratulated putin, and he also, of course, called the press in stalins terminology, enemy of the people. not exactly a lead up to a summit that any of the previous 44 presidents would undertake. whats at stake here and what concerns the world leaders rightly have? >> yeah. its an extraordinary thing. in the tweet he sent out overnight, our time, that american relations with russia have never been worse not because russ...

Permanent. >> this is extraordinary for putin. whatever his plan or his hopes were, this has far exceeded them. no way any russian president could agree this disarray of the western alliance by the leader. any normal president would have done two things over the last week. one, he could have made sure that the foundation of the alliance, u.s./european relations looked robust heading into a summit. thats a foundation of strength. two, all these indictments were to come out from the justice depart...