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Russia connection. maria: yeah. we have a timeline of you, and you acted as a government informant from 2008-2013, but then you were invited to a seminar by stefan halper in 2016, the same individual who ran into other people in the trump campaign and invited you and others to conferences. what do you think happened? >> you know, i just, it was like any other moment where you're in a foreign policy setting you're with scholars, we're having normal conversations. maria: was this conversations you had with informants that you think were not given to the fisa court? what are we going to learn tom...

Was exerting on them, then he would have been very clear about that. because he's not, it gives them the space, the oxygen they feel like they really need to make the argument that, in fact, he was just having a polite conversation, that he was bringing things up in a suggestive manner the way any president might do in that sort of a foreign policy setting. >> and also in terms of things he says, his state of mind, they will also make the point he was doing this, of course, because he saw this deep seeded genuine reasonable skepticism he had of ukraine due to its history of pervasive corruptio...

The north korea delegation, which does not include the president, of course, but north korea delegation, because of a lottery drawing, will be sitting at the very front of this room. they will just be a few feet away from the president as he addresses again what he's calling the menace of north korea and ticking through all those global challenges here. that speech, the biggest one of his presidency in a foreign policy setting coming in about three hours time. >> jeff, that is some interesting color in terms of the optics of the room. we'll all be watching for that. thank you very much. mean...

More time in office. because we've had enough government already. >> so savannah, i guess the key word is let's just run against washington. we'll probably start seeing tv shows run against each other if they're based in washington. watch out, we might be next. >> washington bad, everywhere else good. thanks. new tensions in the middle east as israel launches fresh air strikes on targets in gaza. plus, held at gunpoint by pirates on the hi seas. matt lauer joins us with his interview with veteran sea captain richard phillips. later, the good news, bad news on the jobs front today. employers ...