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Alicia Menendez focuses on raising voices that arent typically featured on cable news.

Alicia Menendez focuses on raising voices that arent typically featured on cable news.

Alicia Menendez focuses on raising voices that arent typically featured on cable news.

From taking an official act is crazy. he said i was prepared ask committing a crime. whatti did trump do yesterday, putin. said if you stop investigating how about ask mattis. me, i will get your legislation ask putin? what? >> i know. done. a thing of value if you stop you cant make this up. you wouldnt make this up. doing something of value for me. its ridiculous. and no one is talking about that. but in plain sight once again tillerson while he was secretary of state said the pre compare - th...

President trump threatens nato. takes on theresa may on brexit and praises her rival. >> i actually told theresa may how to do it but she didnt agree -- she didnt listen to me. >> and the gop versus the fbi. republicans in congress charge fbi agent peter strzok with bias against president trump in the russia investigation. >> that is bias. agent strzok may not see it, but the rest of the country does. >> and strzok fights back. >> i strongly believe todays hearing is just another victory notch i...

Conversation that needs to take place. again, chuck, this is why its so important to get our senior leaders together because these conversations have happened at the local level. im on the ground, im on the front lines in moscow. they happened at our level but they havent happened at the senior most levels in the detail that were likely to get tomorrow. thats why this gathering is important for one reasons. >> two things. will the president ask putin to extradite the 12 military officers and hav...

Al assad. and dont meddle in the democracies like the united states and our allies. absolutely, that should be the conditions. everyone is talking about we need a better relationship. putin wants a better relationship. my view is its up to the russians. because they need to take actions to get that better. >> youre basically saying president trump better not give in to any of putins asks. putin may ask to get american troops out of syria, putin may ask to lessen the sanctions to crimea and lesse...

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...

Thats serious. >> you realize, senator, everything youre discussing, you guys have forced the administration on this. he himself though rhetorically seems -- does that -- when he rhetorically downplays this concrete action that youre talking about doesnt it undermine the action? >> look, the javelin system wasnt forced on the president at all. president obama didnt want to do that. president trump, secretary mattis did that. putin understands power. let me mention one other area. energy. chuck, ...

Resigned to trump being outplayed by putin. a view perhaps best summed up by a former state department official. im afraid he told me that our guy here is like an amateur boxer going up against muhammad ali. amy? >> we heard from the ambassador that its just a meeting. so its not a summit. >> hang on. we went from summit to meeting at some point he went down to detailed conversation. >> so already we know where this is. lets face it. putin has already won. its not simply that the presidents goin...