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With angela merkel, he brought a huge black lab dor pet to sit next to him because he knew merkel was frightened of dogs. >> how does he go into this meeting? what is your expectation? weve been hearing from the white house that the president is going to kind of wing it, but has putin been looking at a psychological profile? how much research has he been doing? whats your expectation of how he goes into this meeting? >> vladimir putin is one of the most experienced statesmen in the worrell right...

Some white house aides are concerned he might go off script or down playing expectations or how much worry is there? >> in previous administrations i would have same this was gamesmanship, lowering expectations, getting putin to underestimate him. my guess is it may be real. i would will shocked if hes prepared as much as mr. putin has. he may go a bit off script. its been a mystery for two years now about why the president has taken such a sanguine, benign attitude towards russia. we may or may...

About petulant bully versus petulant bully, perhaps we can move on, ambassador, and talk about this meeting that we know is set on friday between vladimir putin and president trump. this is the first time theyve met face-to-face since hes taken office. it has to be one of the most highly anticipated meetings between world leaders in years. the white house has declined to discuss what the details are, although hr mcmaster seemed to indicate that the president was going to go in and talk about wha...

To this euro-u.s. relationship. >> there are a couple of -- if you go back, you remember kennedys meeting with crushoff and he thought that jfk was unprepared, didnt know the world and it sent signals that russia then took very aggressive actions after. many people look at trump as unstudied, having no real agenda. and even mcmasters and the national security adviser have said they dont know what the agenda is. donald trump is going to call the shots and have the conversation he want to have and...

This on capitol hill. good morning. majority leader kevin mccarthy says he believes they have the votes. that was last night. where are they this morning? its a razor-thin margin. >> i think kevin mccarthy, the majority leader, is putting the best face on it. i think its still fairly close. they are expressing confidence because you dont go forward unless you do so. theyre not going to wing it. weve seen that historically, saw it in the tarp vote, in the medicare part d prescription drug vote wa...

Tactical. hes in his full disruptive mode right now. he wants people to know i can say whatever i want. i have confounded all of you experts and i will continue to do so. and in the end, i can always make the deal, which is why he says ill meet kim jong-un, which is why he goes on about andrew jackson because somebody told him he is like andrew jackson. he doesnt prepare for his interviews because he thinks he could wing it. thats very dangerous for the country. doug is right. it is the weirdest...

Learning, pamela, when he was very successful at his business, but he was running a private company. and what that meant was, he did not have a board that he reported to. and he did not have shareholders, in effect, that he reported to. and i think hes finding that the free-wheeling style that he could use as a -- in a private business is very different than governing a hugely complex institution with lots of constitutional checks and balances as well as traditional normative traditionchecks and...

Abby: they have information and disgruntled by some of them. steve: not just a problem in the west wing. i believe it was last week the state department put out a four-page memo about how these leaks are against the law and, of course, it was immediately leaked. we are not leaking this out. we are going to sit down with the president of the united states late this afternoon in the east room of the white house and you will see the exclusive morning show first interview with the president of the u...

Countries make peace with israel. endorsed by arab league and reendorsed in 2007. trump talking about it as if he had the idea over the weekend. theres something unreal with the lack of briefing and preparation, might be because flynn is out. >> did you ever consider being his foreign policy adviser? >> i think if there was a prospect this interview taken care of that. he doesnt seem to want to be briefed. he walks into these things. always negotiated real estate by walking in, talks about in hi...

>> i think if there were any such prospect this interview has just taken care of that. look, i think clearly, who knows whats clear. but he doesnt seem to want to be briefed on these issues. i think he walks into these things, hes always negotiated real estate deals by just walking in and he talks about this in his books. you know, sensing the room, sensing how things are going to go. and, look, he won the presidency, but the point is you dont want into the room with the israeli prime minister a...