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Footage from earlier this morning, were waiting for donald trump to actually arrive in helsinki, just following up on what elise said. i got a call the week donald trump was inaugurated from somebody extremely close to donald trump saying that they were considering vladimir putin summit. this was in january of 2017 talking about trying to shock the world and have a summit with vladimir putin within a month of his being sworn in and they asked what i thought immediate response would be and i said...

Barack obama, the american president, off of his game. certainly you saw none of that here, and you can, again, look at those past meetings with american presidents and vladimir putin is a world leader who lets you know how he feels with his body language. this, again, based on their opening statements, though, certainly seems like its going to be a friendly meeting, or as donald trump calls it a friendly summit. >> im sure it will be and the president used the phrase, theres nothing wrong with ...

Meeting with vladimir putin, that there will be further decoupling of the u.s. and europe. the president describes europe as our foe. he talks about an extraordinarily good relationship with putin. were heading in to territory i think should really worry europeans and worries me as someone who has seen american security based on this strong nato alliance for so many decades. i think thats one of the puzzles that well be examining over the next few hours and days. has the nato alliance begun to f...

Really complicated on the ground. is this a way of the u.s. backing out of syria, abandoning rebels, saying were doing it because of iran, and somehow working with putin but not to undercut assad, to continue propping up his client, bashar al-assad? so, theres that. but primarily on the mueller front, every signal from everything the president has said in the last days, months, particularly since the indictment, is to blame the victim, blame the democrats for not defending themselves better, bla...

Vladimir putin very much wants to happen. for the last two decades hes been looking to drive a wedge into the core of the west, and donald trump has done this for him. something the soviet union couldnt accomplish, something putin couldnt accomplish. now trump is accomplishing it for him heading into helsinki. the british government is looking at this with trepidation and waiting to see what will come out of it and not too optimistic. >> on the eve of the presidents meeting with vladimir putin, ...

Significant shift in the american foreign policy in the post world war ii era. i dont think we should under play that. first on the economic front, kasie, we are reordering our trade relationships around the world, preferring more unilateral, in some cases bilateral cases. ending the regime. more politically, undermining the nato alliance, undermining our historical alliances including with the u.k. and really embracing russia. this is a fundamental shift. so then west virginia e of course, the ...

Kgb spy master, someone who has, you know, completely studied and examined donald trump, and a president who spent the weekend golfing and has not been preparing. there were no principal meetings, no planning for the summit, no deeply organized strategy sessions, what is the agenda, what are the goals, what do they want to get out of it. so, we could be surprised, they could come out and say weve made progress on nuclear weapons, that were going to revive, expand, extend, start nuclear weapons a...

First amendment as american secretaries of state and presidents go to moscow or beijing or now erdogans turkey. to any of these totalitarian regimes, they go in, hold press conferences, the new secretary of the state pompeo did, rex tillerson did not as a regular matter. emphasizing the importance of a free press. for him to use that phrase right out of josef stalins book on the eve of a summit with vladimir putin is so deeply offensive to american values. its quite remarkable. >> and, mike, to ...

Bash. politics reporter for the daily beast and msnbc contributor betsy woodruff. the man who puts memo, nbc news national reporter mike. joining us from london, london school of economics brian class. and from helsinki finland, chief correspondent affairs, host andrea mitchell reports nbc, andrea mitchell. its such an honor to have you here. thank you for staying up with us. >> thank you. absolutely. >> i have watched so many of these meetings, dozens of types of meetings with foreign leaders o...

Were not going to have a record of this one on one meeting. and that is alarming to a lot of former advisors in both political parties who have worked so closely to plan a summit like this. this is even less planned and more impromptu than singapore was, and thats saying a lot. >> andrea, i mean, this is somebody -- vladimir putin has a history of being, as you point out, the former kgb official who does things to either flatter and try to embrace his host in a way that puts them off guard as he...