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Also today, re forging an old alliance. As brexit negotiations begin, the uk government travels to india to begin the early work on a future trade deal. And picture perfect . Or is itjust too perfect . What melania trumps First Official portrait tells us about the new first lady. Im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. The pictures are appalling, the pattern all too familiar, and the International Response predictable. Civilians in a rebel held area of syria have been gassed a...

Just a conversation away to going back to threatening one another. what we need to make sure is that they do not have nuclear weapons. the only way that you can do that is by putting a process in place similar to the process put in place in iran, where you have people on the ground testing and checking on a consistent basis and free to do so at any time. the one area from a broader perspective, where republicans in the senate have shown a significant willingness to president this president, at l...

Efforts in trade in general i think are good good and hes gotten a much better deal with canada and mexico than we had before. i think hell achieve the same things with the eu and japan. i think hes been better for us in terms of our regulatory policy, and has put much more of a focus than we were putting on when we controlled congress and could have done more too on regulatory issues. i think there are times in foreign policy where he acts impulsively, whether discussions about syria, i think h...

You dont even need it? >> look at you. >> laura: i asked you whether the party went in a good or bad direction and you said the old guard wouldnt have beaten hillary, youre absolutely right. they have the couldnt win their home state, they couldnt win florida, their key states, mitt rom any couldnt win michigan when he was up against obama. so the new guy comes in and says look i think all your policies have been wrong on trade. he thinks the foreign policy was too intervention any of the in ira...

In four hours, ive reversed all of this. well, that was music to putins ears. >> wendy sherman, you were involved in negotiations with vladimir putin as well. you know the u.s./russia relationship. how important it is is not just because of europe but because of russias influence on north korea, around the world, iran, syria. nothing else really matters coming out of this meeting now that the president has conceded american intelligence to vladimir putin. >> its really extraordinary, andrea. i a...

For me, id check the soccer ball for listening devices and never allow it into the white house. >> joining me now is chris dickey, veteran journalist for the daily beast here with me in helsinki. chris, your response? >> well, i think in front of the whole world right now, we witnessed the collusion of donald trump and vladimir putin. thats really what we were looking at. however you want to interpret it. was trump taking direction from putin? absolutely. had he met for two hours and ten minutes...

But individuals from those five muslim majority countries on the list were ven ezuela -- none wee involved. >> if you match up the map of the ban -- >> i said -- i meant to say north korea, not north carolina. >> if you match up the map to that list you put up, they dont match. you can see that. the administration will make the argument that places like syria, iran, yemen, somalia, north korea, they do still pose a threat to the national security of the united states. but you are right to point ...

Because its subjective, i doubt they will be able to get themselves off the list. list. t he wants them off that >> the humanitarian situation in many of the countries, especially syria for example, maybe half a million people have been killed in the civil war over past several years, is certainly dire. are you planning on taking action to make sure that the most vulnerable people in these countries can still get waivers to enter the united states as refugees? >> of course. the decision just cam...

>> i dont believe anybody will be able to stop the president from his tweets. its his style. again, what im hoping is he has counsel. and we do the right things, that is working with our allies, verifying that, you know, exactly who caused this before we take any military action. >> i understand. listen, im responding to your sanguine response to this. do you think a tweet like this escalates whatever the tension is with russia about syria? >> i dont know how you can escalate beyond the use of c...

Why do you need more of a plan right now if the american people dont want their treasure increased at all in that region? >> one of the issues of legality of force, this is something to what happened in kosovo. they were going to veto whatever we were going to go through the united nations. so we went through nato. it was a multilateral action. i think there is press department in trying to figure out how else to respond. >> syria is not part of that alliance? >> no. but it doesnt -- its us work...