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Can do that will satisfy them. others surrounding the presidents brief meeting with vladimir putin at the g20 summit, which i thought was hilarious. the press did not think he was strong enough on his morning against russian interference. they said to him, are you going to tell them to stop meddling in the elections? heres what the president said. >> i think putin, for his part feels as though that attitude the cavalier attitude about the russian threat to our fundamental system, gives him licen...

There is nothing this president can do that will satisfy them. others surrounding the presidents brief meeting with vladimir putin of the g20 summit, which i thought was hilarious. the press did not think he was strong enough on his morning against russian interference. they said to him, are you going to tell them to stop meddling in the elections? years of the president said. >> i think putin, for his part, feels as though that attitude, the cavalier attitude about the russian threat to our fun...

This isnt a good person. this isnt someone who is moving the needle in any decent way. this is someone who has helped cause one of the worst humanitarian crises in the -- in the fight in yemen. this is someone we should be holding accountable. this is someone who we should be pushing to do better. this isnt someone we should be talking about as a friend. >> final question. you referred to the president in his sort of ardor for strongmen and dictators as a dictator in the making himself. what do ...

With him. >> reporter: that prompted a sharp rebuttal from former obama national security adviser susan rice with this tweet. this happening the same day that iran has exceeded its uranium stockpile limit set in the 2015 obama administration nuclear deal with iran. the move is tehrans first major breach of the accord since trump withdrew from the agreement last year. the deal limited irans ewe rur enrichme enrichment. trumps meeting with kim came after several days of cozying up to other dictato...

What message does that send? >> well, it certainly doesnt do anything to dispel this theme among the presidents critics that he is more comfortable with these strongmen, with these authoritarian leaders than he is with our natural allies to the united states. but it also sends this very unfortunate message around the world that the president just doesnt care about the human rights abuses by these leaders, about the journalists they have killed or otherwise intimidated. it sends the message, of c...

There are things that mueller did not investigate that some thought he was going to investigate, it looks like there are other investigations, we dont know. but even if you took all of that off the table and said, theres no financial history, theres no kompromat, theres nothing, all of it is is watching the way trump behaves around thugs, dictators, autocrats, strongmen, its the one consistent throughline of his foreign policy. so you put him in this place with putin and basically they are, hes ...

Jurisdiction over the world. this week, putin met with chinese president xi jinping. their cozy relationship, which putin called unprecedented, coming at odds with u.s. interests. cnns brian todd has more. >> reporter: it was a split screen tailor-made by russian president vladimir putin. just as president trump was meeting with americas most important allies in europe, two of americas biggest adversaries were holding court in moscow, in a summit that analysts say was timed to send a message, pu...

Movements. >> this is the movements that predate world war ii, i think mr. trump has spoke disparageingly about the treaties and alliances that strengthen the ability of the united states to work on these very, very important issues. so i think mr. meech john meech others see that mr. trump is undercutting the united states ability to be the leader of the free world and make sure these authoritarian leaders and tyrants are not able to use political environments in order to strengthen their own g...

Is he talking about these guys? oh, no, those guys, those are the people this president makes excuses for. he praises. he sides with against his own intelligence agencies. wont call on the carpet for murder. the presidents fine with dictators and strongmen, but he unloads on u.s. law enforcement and counterintelligence officials. hes calling his fellow americans, including lifelong republican robert mueller, the worst human beings on earth for doing their jobs and investigating russias election ...

Intelligence agencies. wont call on the carpet for murder. the presidents fine with dictators and strongmen, but he unloads on u.s. law enforcement and counterintelligence officials. hes calling his fellow americans including lifelong republican robert mueller the worst human beings on earth for doing their jobs and investigating russias election interference. an attack on our democracy. and what is the president doing tonight in the face of all this? the same old strategy. distract and deflect....