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Sailors arrived here. only to hear at the end of that long journey that hope is all but gone. authorities try to console them but the anger is clear. many relatives dont explain the explanation for the accident. they hoped a new generation of russian leaders would be more open than the communists. they especially expected more from president putin. its a shame for the whole nation, he says. i think people will stop trusting putin. im still holding out hope my husband will come back alive, she sa...

Commitments to undertake any action beyond agreement that both sides should continue discussions. the president did not receive any written proposals from president putin and the president did not provide any written proposals to president putin. now, even though conservative hawks and democrats have warned the president against trusting putins suggestion on arms control, that subject is about the only part of the u.s.-russia relationship that has bipartisan support in congress that said, this d...

Announce publicly and all that does is force putin to stand up and show that he can stand up to american bullying. what we need to do is get congress and the treasury department together and come up with a package of sanctions which we would then take privately to putin. led by pompeo and bolton and say, heres whats coming unless we see some change in whats being directed against our -- >> you are a career foreign service officer and spent a lot of time in russia over the years. you speak russia...

Presidents who have been pretty tough on russia during various crises, including the cuban missile crisis. >> and no president has ever been stronger. and no president has ever been more popular. you know -- >> tear down this wall. >> he gave a strong denial. >> its just, its just absurd. you talk about the issue of trust. who trusts president trump to debrief them about what actually occurred in that meeting? i think there is an issue there not just with trusting putin. but its about trusting t...

Sanctions. they expelled all these diplomats after the poisoning in the uk. there have been concrete moves but he, with every step, public statement, he undermines them because he makes it clear he doesnt actually agree. when he has the opportunity to stand next to putin, he wont press the issue. >> the big factor here is russia is a complicated issue in terms of our foreign policy because theres areas where we might work with russia, potentially in syria, notably elsewhere in the middle east bu...

The united states, and i can only think back to the president saying that putins denials were powerful was the word that he used. so he has his own intelligence community, not only the dni but his entire intelligence community saying, get ready. things are going to get bad and i think the dni said the red lights are flashing. and yet the president of the united states dismissing it. it seems remarkable to me because only yesterday he had to come out and apologize, sort of, and say, i do have fai...

This whole issue of montenegro. john mccain, chairman of the senate armed services committee tweeted this. the people of montenegro boldly withstood pressure from putins russia to embrace democracy. by attacking montenegro and questioning our obligations under nato, the president is playing right into putins hands. do you think mccain is right? >> yes, i do. i think were seeing in a daily basis here, the attempt to correct the record yesterday, the statements on montenegro today, were seeing the...

Calling for pragmatic cooperation. and that they should find ways to have constructive dialogue. you know, thats something that donald trump himself has suggested would be a responsible move by this administration. he believes that its better to have russia as a friend than as an enemy. thats not necessarily the same view shared by others in the united states government. many members of congress very leery of trusting putin and his regime. including republicans like marco rubio and john mccain. ...

Thats the level of weariness pop the administrations objective, look they would say the goal is very targeted to deter assad from using chemical weapons again and to degrade his cache of chemical weapons he has now. if he gives up his chemical weapons and verify it maybe you achieve that goal. >> you know, on the exceptionalism point as margaret thatcher said if you say youre a lady youre not a lady. i also am very concerned about trusting putin. to see him as this kind of grand statesman, organ...

The discrepancy between 5c and the 5s gets closer. the two get closer and closer. will this be enough? this is incremental. it is not quantum. >> and they need quantum. thank you very much. richard quest. will you replace your broken scarred iphone with a new one? let us know. "outfront" next, a preview of the speech from the white house. it is the most important of the presidents second term. the president has to make a case even though hes changed his mind about syria. and syria says it will...