but it s also the limits because the constitution of course is there to protect everyone not only the majority and in this case where commitments that italy has taken on the international stage and also there is the duty of the president to protect the savings of the talents that have been probably g kar dies in the last few weeks since the spread between the. bombs and the german bombs skyrocketed after the program of these new parties was published all right so if i understand correctly of the president it forms is part of the checks and balances system in the talian government the to your point though italy has traditionally been one of the most federalist member states of the e.u. a proponent of ever closer european integration we have of course the treaty of rome after all has that all been up ended. well i think in the last few years there has been a very serious issue that europe has shaved in managing which is the issue of immigration italy as being of course it only has almost eight thousand kilometers of shores in the mediterranean sea and we ve been the of course the arrival point of many people who were not longing to come to europe it s usually they were long to come to europe but easily has been left alone with greece and with motor maybe to manage this flow of immigrants a lot of countries that receive huge help and huge monetary sustained support by the european union failed to keep their commitments and of course the need to immigration has been a big issue in the electoral campaign and of course europe has been felt this turned from one issue that we were managing on behalf of the twenty eight countries if there s not just eataly right so there was essential abandonment there s a sense of abandonment step along the italian electorate i just have thirty seconds left so what next what does this all mean for italy and for europe of course this new government headed by got that only will go to the parliament and we ll look for it to get a confidence vote most likely this is not going to happen so we expect most likely do group to go back to elections in september or october thank you even scuffled author of talking to us from rome for spending time with us thank you very much now the prospect of an italian anti eurozone finance minister has had markets to rattled for a week and then i ll tell you how they responded to the latest news after the break right now i want to bring you up to speed with some of the other stories making news around the world. colombia is headed for a runoff presidential election in june after no candidate secured fifty percent of the votes needed in sunday s ballot conservative first place even duke a will face off against a leftist former farkle rebel gustave petro u.k. has vowed to rewrite his the country s peace deal with the rebels saying it was too lenient u.s. authorities have declared a state of emergency in parts of maryland after communities were hit by severe flash floods and ellicott city the water carried away cars and engulfed homes and businesses one man is still missing it s the second major flood to hit the area and two years. malaysian officials have seized over a ton of crystal meth the largest seizure of the drug in the country s history of the hall was disguised as tea and shipped in a container for me in march it s been valued at eighteen million dollars six people have been arrested. now to paris where the whole roic efforts of an undocumented immigrants from mali have earned him a fast track to french citizenship without missing a beat twenty two year old mahmoud to get some luck climbed up on the apartment block and plucked a toddler dangling from a balcony to safety well now the bravery of the real life spiderman has been honored by none other than the french president. with no thought for his own safety mamadou kasama begins to scale the facade of this apartment building in paris above him a child dangles from a ledge and a neighbor looks on helplessly unable to reach the little boy using his hands feet and sheer determination to get some of whose unself from balcony to balcony. within a minute the migrant from mali has reached and saved the four year old boy who was crying and had to inject food. french media claim the boy s father is being detained for parental neglect no wonder kasam has been compared to the fictional here or spite of and and now he s been personally thanked and on it by french president and you michael. so i came out and i saw a child in the full face floor i didn t think about myself a tool. i ran across the road to save him. although i was said to be living illegally in france he s to be given french citizenship and he s been awarded for his courage. because i m very happy as is the first time i ve ever go anything like this before so thank you he will go along with you. back outside the apartment a neighbour s can t believe dishonest bravery. because now you have because it was impressive it s not something that you see every day and that s why people were impressed he said when he came from far away to rescue someone who comes from here . for us in the neighborhood it s something that makes us very happy. and to make the most of this climbing and rescuing skills to some is also landed himself a job to working with the fire brigade. now for parents that s the stuff of nightmares for more on the care of the day to w. s the family we said joins me now from the french capital paris his actions there could be compared to those of a garden angel he was right there at the right moment but is it true that not everybody welcomed the honor bestowed obeidi of president on. well obviously he s being criticized because i am on a kong one he says we need to on of this person and give him french nationality but on the other hand at the same time the government is pushing through a very very tough immigration no law that will shorten delays for immigrants to apply for asylum and also increase the time that can be put into custody before being pushed out of the country so he s been criticized for that because it looks like he s trying to steal the limelight from this hero whereas in general he will not be around the same owner obviously to all the other immigrants who are hoping to have a future in france right that s actually a very good point that you re making there because i mean this is a great story where the great outcome and we don t want to take away if anything from the horrific acts actions so that took place but it begs the question is it do immigrants now have to perform heroic acts to secure a residency permit or citizenship in france absolutely you could very you re very right to ask that question and many people here are wondering that especially as this president is actually tightening the grip on migrants a lot more than his predecessor on the socialist president and for example police
did you ever know that you re my hero the stuff they got away with because it s a cartoon. the father strangling the child. why you little we are going to keep on trying to strengthen the american family to make american families a lot more like the waltons and a lot less like the simpsons. we go to a completely bizarre period of time in 1992 when a sitting president is raging against a sitcom. they have dealt with politics. they have dealt with popular culture. they ve dealt with all kinds of issues of racism, of sexism. don t ask me, i m just a girl. right on, say it, sister. it s not funny, bart. millions of girls will grow up thinking this is the right way to act. they have found a way to talk about everything that s going on in our lives through the filter of the simpsons. american network television has long been considered the home of the blands, the cautious and the predictable. so it was with some trepidation that it the abc network launched a new series that was none of those things. twin peaks is already described by one critic as the series that will change tv. it s directed by david lynch. david lynch was a filmmaker known for his taste in the eccentric and memorable. the idea that he would do television in the 90s was crazy. do you watch much of it? i like the idea of television, but i m too busy to see very much of it. what do you think of that which you do see? some of it i really enjoy. are you being diplomatic? sort of. [ screaming ] the beautiful thing about television is you have the chance to do a continuing story. and that s the main reason for doing it. i think that twin peaks with the initial attention it got allowed all the other networks to say, let s do something different. no more schools, no more asin plexes. you can sense trying to see how they could do things different than they have done five or ten years ago. sometimes that led to really challenging network television that was cool and fun to watch. sometimes it just seemed to fall off the edge a little bit. let s be careful out there at the time, steven bochco was a very successful producer of hour dramas and wanted to try something brand-new. we re the police! we have a warrant for your arrest. so his idea was to combine a gritty cop show with a broadway musical. i saw one in which a bunch of gang bangers were in jail. they began to sing. life in the hood ain t no pizza pie, everybody die when the bullets fly. life in the hood ain t no pizza pie, people die when bullets fly and i said wait a minute. i thought this is it. this is great. this is going to be as innovative as anything i have ever done. he is guilty, he is guilty, judge, you can see it in his eyes he did the crime and now he s got to pay it circled the drain. with advil liqui-gels, what bad shoulder? 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you know, you re a racist scumbag. despite his flaws, despite his prejudices, i think people identified with his pain. i wish there was a way to say this that wouldn t hurt you. there s a famous episode where they are investigating the rape and murder of a young boy. and they find a homeless child molester who murdered the kid and sipowicz to get the confession has to be very sensitive and very good cop. i know this has to be tearing you up inside. but you re going to feel a lot better if you just tell the truth. you can sort of see on dennis franz s face this is killing him to not destroy this guy right now. finally, he gets the confession he gets the signed statement. he walks out of the room, he goes into another interrogation room and he breaks the door in two with his fist. and i m choking up talking about it right now, because that s how great a moment of tv that it is. 20 years from now, the best tv dramas, what do they look like? i don t know. will they be bolder than what we see today? oh, assuredly, assuredly they will be. the 90s gave us several shows that didn t explode in the ratings, but were influential to other people making television. homicide is one of them. shell me with questions all night i m living in a danger zone homicide: life on the street was really innovative in terms of its style. it used music in ways that advanced the narrative and also used feature film directors that brought a look and style to the show that really stood out on television. tears coming out of your eyes. ain t no tears coming from my eyes. those eyes are brimming with tears. they had so many african-american characters in the cast that on several occasions they were the only people on camera interacting with one another. and that sounds like, so? but as late as the 90s, that wasn t done on television. when a cop shoots somebody, he stands by. he picks up the radio mic and calls it in. he stands by the body. if not, cops are no better than anybody else. in the 90s, television was getting more complicated, stories were starting to become more episodic and characters were starting to develop and change. none of that happened on law & order. this was a show that completely delivered on its formula every time. you get a crime, you got the investigation into the crime. you better be packing more than a dirty mouth. you got an arrest. what s the charge? hey, i m asking you a question. what s the charge? there s no charge. this one s on us. then you had a trial. he s badgering, your honor. sit down and shut up. overruled. you will address the court from now on, mr. mccoy. so every time you watched you got what you came for. tell me, doctor. all those women you ran through your examination rooms, do you remember their faces or did you not even bother to look up? you had in law & order the kind of characters people take to heart. i ll let you take me to lunch. one-time offer. and if you re an actor and you say well, gee, maybe it s not really such a bad medium after all. miranda, the supreme court s mimic decision. the whole thing was illegally obtained. they were both represented by counsel. you just get hooked in. it s life and death and stuff. we know what you did. counsel. you hear me? do you hear me? look at me! law & order was like crack. you d have to sit and watch me for 50 minutes just like, not moving, barely breathing. there s times i have almost passed out watching law & order. i need your help. e.r. had originally been written as a movie, forced steven spielberg to direct. we had this two-hour piece which was michael s reflection of experiences as a medical student. you need a large in case they re bleeding. do you know how to start an i.v.? actually, no. e.r. is a hospital show, but it s really an action movie. three walking wounded. red urgent, yellow critical and black a gurney. got it. a gurney comes in, people are shouting instructions, climbing on the body and doing cpr and racing off to the surgical suite. get that gurney out of there! someone wanders in. they re tossing around medical jargon. they don t stop to explain what it is. prep for a peritoneal lavage. i think i know what that is now, but only because i watched a lot of e.r. over the years. you try. we can bypass him. that would be the fastest way. what do you think? you re the attending. there was so much information coming at you that i think it made the experience feel as if you had to watch it in the same way that you d watch a film. you had to stay involved in it the whole time. come on, ben. hold on, buddy. hold on. there was a lot of research that said people didn t want to watch anybody have anything other than a happy outcome. it s not flat line, it s defib. another line of epi. we argued that wasn t really showing what the world was for physicians. i had unbelievable amount of respect for the people who did this because i understood how human they were. we got married after college. and had twin boys. but then one night, a truck didn t stop. but thanks to our forester, neither did our story. and that s why we ll always drive a subaru. mayor maybe they re justnts posinan ordinary couple.uple. either way, this room came at an unbeatable price. no one looks out for you, like travelocity. with price match guarantee, you ll always wander wisely. century. only at select local paint and hardware stores. a book that you re ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! you must never miss an opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. we had been through so much together. you spend so much time with the same set of people, it does become your family. i feel pretty lucky to have the friends i do. i think the legacy of cheers is our need to belong. and i think that s what we as americans are longing for. thank you, guys. the final scene of cheers was really what was sam s real first love. you can never be unfaithful to your one true love. i m the luckiest son of a on earth. his real first love was the bar. sorry, we re closed. how big of a loss was this for nbc? out of the sad, sad sorrow and being scared to death that i would quickly lose my job i was like what are we going to do? in the 90s cable was coming on strong. we had to examine who we are going to be. we wanted to be smart, sophisticated comedy. six months ago i was living in boston. my wife had left me, which was very painful. then she came back to me. which was excruciating. i thought frasier was dead with cheers. but we thought, we got a built-in audience, and great potential to build out the character to another place. frasier was kind of like one-act plays. mother and i moved here when i was a small boy after the tragic death of my father. i kept the pain of that loss buried deep within me like a serpent coiled within a damp cave. okay, that s it. we always assumed the audience was smarter than most other people did. and we played to that. just unschooled like liza doolittle. henry higgins. she ll be ready for a ball in no time. leave it to you to put the pig back in pygmalion. kelsey grammar played pom positive like nobody you ve ever seen and got huge laughs. don t consider a move until my fingers have completely cleared the piece. what s taking so long? but i am analyzing my options unlike your wing-it approach i like to plan a strategy, like a general leading his troops into battle. checkmate, schwarzkopf. i think frasier stands as the single most successful spinoff, at least in the history of sitcoms. and the emmy goes to frasier. frasier. frasier. at the height of must-see tv, thursday nights on nbc, 75 million americans watched thursday night. that was at the time one-third of the country. ooh! what is this stuff? the sweater is angora. well, it s wonderful. the machine that was nbc in the 90s for comedy was untouchable. you re not from around here, are you? it generated so much viewership and money and awards. you do not need this. it s the top of our wedding cake. we re not it s not a scrapbook, it s a freezer. no! we were all kind of part of we certainly associate nbc of the 90s of having extremely successful sitcoms but they weren t the only network that found their way to having some success. tgif was on abc on friday, and it was their block of family-oriented comedies. i can t take it. i need the cake. it was not sophisticated television. but these were shows that people adored. [ laughing and snorting ] cbs. cbs was in a really bad spot. they had just fallen apart over the early part of the 90s and had gone through a couple different network executives. but then suddenly they had this hit with an unknown comic. this was the year of seinfeld, no hugging, no learning, and this was a show being made as if it was produced in the era of the dick van dyke show. i love you. there was hugging. there was learning. i love you, son. all right, all right. if you worked for me, your job was so go home, get in a fight with your wife and come back in and tell me about it. don t sleep on the couch. i just cleaned down there. in fact, the pilot i put in this true thing that happened to me wherein i sent my parents a gift for the holidays of the fruit of the month club. and did you know you sent me a box of pears from a place called fruit of the month. that s right. that s right. how are they? and my mother reacted as if i had sent her a box of heads from a murderer. why did you do this to me? oh my gosh. i can t talk. there s too much fruit in the house! oh! what is happening? what do you think we are, invalids? we can t go out and get our own fruit? i tried to tell him. all right. i m cancelling the fruit club. the real story is where the real connection with your audience is. thank god, all your families are crazy, too. looks like you got the whole family together. yeah, yeah, it s dysfunction palooza. happy anniversary dinner, darlin . can this much love be cleaned by a little bit of dawn ultra? oh yeah one bottle has the grease cleaning power of three bottles of this other liquid. a drop of dawn and grease is gone. well, sensationalism sells. in a plea bargain, 18-year-old amy fisher got up to 15 years in prison for shooting the wife of her alleged lover. so intense is the interest in it this case there are three, three made-for-tv movies now in the works about it. you make money off sex. you make money off death. you make money off crime. the press calls the case the beverly hills mansion murders. the story reads like a script that circulates here in hollywood. we enter into the television news soap opera. a story of basic instincts, anger and fear. i was scared and i just wanted him to leave me alone. and so, broadcast journalism loses its purity and becomes much more shoddy and sensationalistic. and then it all comes together with o.j. simpson. i m larry carrol in los angeles. the los angeles district attorney has just filed murder charges against o.j. simpson. i have to interrupt this call. i understand we re going to go to a live picture in los angeles. police believe that o.j. simpson is in that car? the o.j. simpson story starts with the chase and then goes on to his arrest and then culminates with the trial, which goes on and on and on and is televised day after day after day. this is going to be a long trial. there s a lot of evidence to come in. the o.j. simpson case was such a national phenomenon that those of us who were covering it just lived this case 24 hours a day because there was so much demand for people talking about it. as simpson struggled to slide the gloves on to his hands and turned to a juror saying they re too small, prosecutors were incensed. the trial was on television during the hours that had traditionally been the time for soap operas. he appears to have pulled the gloves on, counsel. and o.j. was very much a soap opera. impeached by his own witness. i ask you to put a stop to it. excuse me, mr. bailey. will you stand up and speak when it s your turn. no question that the best tv show of the 90s was the o.j. simpson trial, and everybody on it was riveting. the simpson trial finally winding to a close. we the jury in the above entitled action find orenthal james simpson not guilty of the crime of murder. in violation of penal code section 187-a the verdict of the o.j. simpson trial viewed by 150 million people. it s more people than watch presidential election returns. that s crazy. because there was trial footage every day, cnn saw its audience increase like five times. the success of cnn was not lost on other people. and so there were competing forces coming into play. how delighted i am we have now reached this moment when we can firmly announce the starting of a fox news channel. unfortunately, with cable news and the ability or the need to be on the air 24/7, where you try to get as many eyeballs as possible at one time, to gravitate toward those stories that are sensational, it brought us the ability to go too far. is the jonbenet ramsey murder investigation turning into a media circus? yes, it s tabloid. but on the other hand it s a tabloid era. here s the point. here s where the fear comes into it, i think, larry. it s the fear that says, gosh, if we don t cover it big time, our competition is. when they cover it big time, they ll get a big jump in the ratings. the first thing is to last, to last and survive, we ve got to do it. what you also see is a whole army of commentators, people who make their business talking about the news. what i say is what we should do is we should bomb his capability of producing oil. take out his refineries, his stations, his wells. they don t have any capability. they re certainly selling a lot of oil no they re not the networks were doing good journalism but they became much more preoccupied by profits. it s much cheaper to have someone in your studio pontificating than to have reporters out in the field reporting. i don t know if any of this is true. but what i heard is that the father went down, opened his basement room, which the fbi had bypassed. every single sentence on cnn, perhaps, on cnbc, on fox, on msnbc, begins with the words i think but after a while people get confused by what is speculation, by what is innuendo, by what is fact. and as far as the viewer is concerned, be very, very careful of unsubstantiated information presented with great hype. in the mid-1990s if you took a look at the list of the 50 most-watched shows on cable, at the top would be nickelodeon. rug rats, blues clues. don t you know cartoons will ruin your mind? ren and stimpy had some very surreal, high-concept humor to it. this is the beginning of the splintering of the television audience and splintering of the family audience, really, because with families having three or four tvs in the house you had a kid watching nickelodeon, the dad watching espn sports, the mom watching lifetime. you know, they were in their own separate universes watching television. by the time of the 90s, mtv wasn t merely a music channel. they were having great success in terms of creating shows that incorporated music but that also were shows and programs that stood on their own. yes! huh huh huh! huh huh huh! huh huh huh! that was cool! beavis and butthead established what mtv could be because the shows were about making fun of music videos just like people in the audience were doing. whoa, check out his neck. yeah. there s like all these bones and stitches moving around. yeah. my manager would call me, like, hey, you got this big bump because you were on beavis and butthead last night. i sit there like a doughnut watching these guys. and i find them endlessly entertaining because i know and you know and the world knows, these guys are always, will be, and cannot be anything but idiots. that s right. mtv has a detrimental, damaging, developmental effect on the sexuality, on the morality, on the spirituality, maybe even the physical development of our young people. now we hit the 90s and once you can go for an audience of 5 million and have a successful show, you can say, i don t care if the parents don t like this. can i tell you something, miss ellen? of course, wendy. don t [ bleep ] with me! what? you heard me. stay away from my man, bitch, or i ll whoop your sorry little ass back to last year! trey parker and matt stone were two of the funniest people i ever met. and their success story is proof that if you just stay true to yourself, you don t have to do anything else. people think, oh, you came and did the show and now you re big sellouts. the truth is, we were sellouts to begin with. perhaps there is no stopping the corporate machine. i mean, we were sleeping at friends houses, had no money, and then one fox executive had seen a cartoon we had made in college and he said, make me another christmas video i can send out as a christmas card. he gave us like 700 bucks. we went and made this five-minute short. i come seeking retribution. he s come to kill you because you re jewish, kyle. oh [ bleep ]. it went around the tv community like wildfire. i mean, it it was the funniest thing you d ever seen in your life. go, santa! somebody showed me the short. go, jesus! i thought it was hysterical. i called and said get them in here right away. oh, my god! they killed kenny. you bastards! south park was able to be topical. south park really, really detests hypocrites. christians and republicans and nazis, oh, my! well, okay, mrs. cartman, i ll legalize 40th trimester abortions for you. could you imagine back then that these people would ever get on network television or any kind of television? it s a miracle. south park is a miracle. the early 90s the hbo shows start to kind of come into their own. and then have i always had these breasts? a lot of people want freedom. they don t want to go back to the networks, which are saying you can come to us where you ll make more money but you ll also have content restricted. you could go to cable and have no restrictions. not make as much money but have freedom of expression, which almost everybody who works in these mediums wants. some of the content truly was, you can t get this anywhere else. you re a fantasy maker, the only limit on the kinds of fantasies is people s imagination. hbo turned to people who said, i can t do that on television, but you can do it on hbo. white people don t trust black people. that s why they won t vote for white people don t trust black people. that s why they won t vote for no black president. like a black brother will [ bleep ] up the white house. like the grass won t be cut. dishes piled up. basketball going in the back. in the late 80s hbo was just sort of gaining ground for series. by the 90s hbo had started to begin its explosion. when we started doing dream on one of the things hbo said to us was, it s got to be something that couldn t be on network tv. that was shocking even for us as writers who created it. we re like, oh, my god, really? what do you want, baby? 911! i ve never done that. call 911! ahh, a h.and a half.. but they can relax. they got an unbeatable price on a suite. with an extra bed. no one looks out for you, like travelocity. with price match guarantee, you ll always wander wisely. gives skin the moisture it needs and keeps it there longer with lock-in moisture technology skin is petal smooth after all, a cleanser s just a cleanser unless it s olay. you ve watched letterman, you ve watched leno, but what about larry? larry sanders, that is. he s the tv alter ego of comedian garry shandling. garry shandling wanted to do a show that deconstructed the kind of show the tonight show was. just pretend like you re talking to me till we re off the air so it won t seem weird. okay. blah, blah, blah, blah. the larry sanders show was sort of cathartic. because in the world of the larry sanders show, there was a network. you want me to [ bleep ] your budget? is that what you want me to do? so it became this weird funhouse mirror thing, where you could use stuff from your misery, your career, as fodder. don t take this as a threat but i killed a man like you in korea, hand to hand. my boy doesn t want to do any more commercials. larry sanders to me was, aside from being a brilliant television show can you say, hey now. hey now. it was my everyday life. i m here for three good reasons. last show. big ratings. movie coming out. bim, bam, boom. the larry sanders show was very unique in that it was very deadpan. and really groundbreaking in its day. i think it made people really go, that s the level of work you may be able to do on a cable network. oz comes on in 97. and it s set in this fictional penitentiary. wow. what a strange show that was. in oz, sometimes the things you can t touch are more real than the things you can. for instance, fear, hate red, loneliness, are more real to me than a shank and a soul. it was jaw-droppingly violent. it was a men s prison. it probably should be. but you know, it kind of announces the idea that hbo is going to get serious about doing scripted dramas. it s finished. it s over. but hbo really in my mind comes to its own in 1999 with the sopranos. woke up this morning got yourself a gun sopranos just is one of those shows that was a benchmark change. it changed a lot of things for everybody. throw out the handbook. tony soprano, the lead actor in a drama, he killed a man. we watched him. he took his daughter on a college tour. pretty, huh? yeah. it was just a melding of a guy and a world what the [ bleep ] you doing? what the [ bleep ] you doing? and a behavior that promoted all the feelings that you would have for a guy that you love in a guy that you hate. you know? sopranos came on tv and it really showed us the future, whether we realized that was going to be the future of television or not. this husband of yours, carmella, how much we love him. he s the best. oh, come on. he s like a father to me. just make sure nothing happens to him. that character in that show was a great inspiration to a great many shows that came after it including one that i worked on. you know what i want, tony? i want those kids to have a father. they got one, this one, me. tony soprano. and all that comes with it. oh, you prick. because of that quality, actors felt there was no longer a comedown to go on television. audiences looked to television for what they had only found before in feature film. what have i ever done to you except deliver the south? you shouldn t have made me beg. network dramas became very innovative. they were making a new mark. once we started making the kinds of shows that we were making in the 90s, you couldn t shut the door on them. get me out. some of my favorite shows of all time aired in that decade. there was still that communal sense from the earlier decades of tv. but it was being applied to shows that were reaching higher and farther and they were great. damn it! you know, i think if parents would spend less time worrying about what their kids watched on tv and more on what was going on in their kids lives, they would be in a better place.
the white house press corps have had for him all week about this. he also left for bedminster this afternoon, ignoring questions once again. it s just a pattern of this white house refusing to answer for why statements made both from the president and also from his senior aides at the white house press podium have not turned out to be true, or at least they are now under question based on what we now are hearing from what michael cohen might have to say to special counsel mueller. it wouldn t be the first time that sarah sanders has had to correct herself after making statements about what the president knew and didn t know, but this time sarah sanders hasn t even been available to answer questions about this. the white house has been virtually silent. yeah. is there reporting on how the president is feeling about the latest news? reporter: well, the president has been very angry. that s what we re hearing from an administration official this week. he s been watching the coverage on television, angry with cohen for releasing the tapes, for bringing up these news stories, for hiring bill and hillary clinton s former attorney, and he s also been angry at the news media for continually asking him questions about this and not about a lot of other things that he would rather talk about. the president has been stewing about this coverage. he wants to change the subject, and he is talking to his lawyers as well, talking about legal strategies for how they cope with this. it seems, though, anderson, that the strategy they ve come up with is attack michael cohen and say nothing publicly to the media. and still no explanation from the white house why it seems like the president lied about his knowledge of any payment from ami to karen mcdougal. reporter: this is another case of the white house making statements about what the president did and did not know. senior trump officials have said the president didn t know anything about these payments. that turned out to be completely untrue based on the audiotape of the president himself talking about that payment were michael cohen before the election. but, again, here the white house refusing to talk about it. white house aides are now referring questions about this issue to the president s outside lawyers even though some of these issues involve the statements made by people who worked in the white house now or very recently. so, anderson, they re hoping that we don t continue asking questions about this. there hasn t been a white house press briefing in several days. there have only been three this month at all. they are clamping down on the opportunities that reporters get to ask both the president and also senior white house officials questions about all of these matters. abby phillip, thanks very much. needless to say, cnn s scoop on michael cohen got a lot of people talking, especially among democratic members of the house intelligence committee who believe their republican colleagues ended their investigation far too soon. earlier tonight i spoke with congressman eric swalwell of california. congressman swalwell, michael cohen testified in front of your committee back in october of last year. did he say anything that indicated the president did, in fact, know about this meeting with the russians at trump tower? good evening, anderson. michael cohen was asked by our committee about the trump tower meeting. we re not allowed to go into what he said, but i do believe this is all the reason that the republicans should release the transcripts, not just for michael cohen but every witness who was interviewed around the trump tower meeting. i will say this, though. michael cohen is being accused of being a liar, but all of the lies that he has told were on behalf of donald trump, and we have seen every day in america witnesses who come forward, testify in court, change their story because they want to tell the truth, and juries rely on that, and that is often persuasive if it can be corroborated. that s what we have to do now is to see if his testimony can be corroborated. if it turns out donald trump jr. didn t tell the truth in front of congress, should he be held in contempt? would there be any appetite from republicans obviously to do so? right now, there s no appetite from the republicans. they closed our investigation. i think this revelation shows how premature and irresponsible it was that we ended our investigation because ideally with this new information, you would bring michael cohen back, give him an opportunity to come clean, and then you d also want to confront donald trump jr. with the new information. thankfully bob mueller is able to pursue this, and that s all the more reason that his investigation should be protected. is there any reason to take cohen s word over the president s on this? i mean cohen certainly didn t make a career as the president s fixer of being guided, you know, it seems by truth and honesty? well, the tough part here is they ve all lied from the president, when he tried to clean up his son s statement and when this was revealed, to donald trump when he first told the public what this meeting was about. but in our investigation, we believe that the president did know for a number of reasons. one, he was just one floor above where this meeting took place when it took place. he had put out days before the meeting took place that new information about hillary clinton was coming. we also know that the president used a blocked number at that time, and donald trump jr., before the meeting took place, talked to the russians in a one-hour period, called the blocked number, and then talked to the russians again. and then finally, anderson, the family that asked donald trump jr. to arrange this meeting were very close to candidate trump, and it s someone that candidate trump corresponded with just days after the meeting. all the circle evidence suggests he did know. just the common sense thing of the headline from that meeting, even from the e-mail, is the russian government is supporting your campaign. if you re donald trump jr., i find it almost impossible to believe that he s not going to say to his dad, hey, guess what, i don t know if this is true or not, but we ve been told now by you know, by this prominent family and these people representing that the russian government is supporting your campaign. we re going to meet with them, or we just met with them and nothing came of it. but they said they were supporting your campaign. and, anderson, because so much of our testimony came from self-serving deniers, the people, you know, who were at the meeting and said that donald trump never knew about it, we sought to build the closeness in relationship between donald trump jr. and his father. and what we established was that donald trump jr. often relayed to his father the most minute information that was coming from the campaign. so, again, to suggest that he wouldn t bring to his father something as powerful as the russians seeking to help his campaign and hurt his opponent, it s just it doesn t add up. yeah. congressman swalwell, thanks so much. appreciate it. my pleasure. more now on the many legal implications for the president, his son, and michael cohen. joining us are carrie cordero and asha rangappa. carrie, the president has never been under oath about this. so i mean if michael cohen not only tells this to robert mueller but also has people who can corroborate it, legally speaking is there any risk for the president? well, there s risk in terms of the broader russia investigation. so a lot of times we talk about collusion. right. but what that really means if we want to translate it into the legal framework is conspiracy. and it s very clear that the mueller investigation is conducting a broad conspiracy investigation. that s what they charged the russian intelligence officers with, conspiracy to defraud the united states. and then they did the hacking and the unauthorized access to computer systems to facilitate that conspiracy. so the closer we get to either the president or his inner circle having advance knowledge of any of those activities, coordinating in any way in those activities, then the closer we get to their legal exposure in the big overall investigation. in terms of donald trump jr., if he lied to congress, there would be legal jeopardy for so they yeah, he could potentially face proceedings for, if he perjured himself in front of congress under oath. any individuals who have been interviewed certainly by the special counsel s team, even if they re not before the grand jury, but if they re interviewed by federal agents, then they have exposure on false statements. so there s a lot of exposure at that lower level. but if we re talking about the overall big investigation and major exposure both legally and of course politically if it turns out they were involved in this conspiracy in some way, that s the big, significant change. asha, just in terms of the phone calls that donald trump jr. made to the blocked phone number before and after the trump tower meeting, we don t know who was on the other line. if that was in fact donald trump on the other end of the line, would that be something that mueller s investigators would be able to find out? yes. they can subpoena those phone records and be able to see where those to whom those calls were being made, and that could corroborate the timing, for example, of michael cohen s account. and just to complement what carrie just said, from the intelligence standpoint, collusion doesn t have to be criminal to be a national security threat. she mentioned the russians were hacking information, trying to weaponize it to promote candidates to help russia. and anyone who worked with them secretly to facilitate or encourage it is colluding, whether they meet the elements for conspiracy is a different story. but i think we have to remember that there is a national security aspect to this as well as a criminal aspect. but that national security aspect, i mean that doesn t i mean that would really only come into play in terms of impeachment proceedings, wouldn t it? or are you saying that would have little emappegal implicati? well t could have legal implications. we see there are tools that are used on the intelligence side like fisas and other techniques that have a lower threshold precisely because we re looking at the security of the united states, not necessarily trying to pursue criminal charges. when what they see crosses into the criminal realm, you re going to see the indictments that mueller is bringing. but there s a whole story behind the scenes, and i think we can just look at the things that we ve seen in front of our faces that don junior happily accepted this meeting from russia offering dirt on his opponent, which is a part of their covert action. and there s a lot of colluding behavior staring us right in the face that may not ever result in charges. carrie, we also know what michael cohen has previously said in front of congress about this very issue. so if he didn t tell the truth then, there s obviously legal jeopardy for him there. he has some exposure in terms of whether he would have to go back and perhaps correct his testimony. so that s something that a witness before congress could do. they could go back and either write a letter or ask to reappear to correct their testimony. but i think the bigger picture whether or not it s michael cohen who provides this information to the special counsel s office, the more important point is whether or not it s true. right. not so much that michael cohen provides the information that donald trump knew about this meeting if, in fact, he did and the purpose of it, but whether it s true. so that goes to the bigger question of whether or not individuals in the campaign knew in advance. so if we look, for example, at the russia indictment of the russian intelligence officers, there was a date that stood out to a lot of people including myself who read it, which was july 27th, 2016. and that was the date that donald trump as a candidate had stood up and said, you know, wikileaks, i hope that you hack into e-mails, and what the indictment shows is that very day, russian intelligence officers tried to access e-mails affiliated with hillary clinton he said russia, look into the 30,000 e-mails. you ll get a lot of praise from reporters. exactly. so there were these activities that were taking place in plain sight. and what it may turn out to be is are those activities that took place in plain sight turn out to have been actual advance knowledge of things that were going on? 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woman 7: ask your rheumatologist about humira. man 1: what s your body of proof? when shakespeare wrote in the tempest that misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows, he probably did not have reagan national airport in mind. take a look at the guy on the phone ain the background at gate 35 x. that s donald trump jr., and in the foreground with the newspaper, that s robert mueller. the two apparently did not speak. but we hope our next two guests will. they are steve cortes. always good to have you. and republican strategist rick wilson, author of everything trump touches dies. how much does it dom appcomplic things that neither cohen nor the president have the best track record with the truth? well, i think the thing with cohen is he s got something that is called paper. and he s got records, and he s got documents. he s got contracts. he s got the record of the ndas that trump has had various women sign over the years. he s got a variety of things where trump went out to make deals and to get financing over the years. so there s a pile of paper on top of michael cohen s just assertion alone, and there s also phone records and there are text messages and obviously the guy records things. i m sure he screen capped tweets and texts and messages back and forth with trump. so he sought to protect himself for some time well before this. so i think it s a bad bet to say that michael cohen doesn t have things beyond just his assertion. i also think it s a bad bet to think robert mueller doesn t have those things. right. and overlaps of those things. i think we re going to end up in a situation where, you know, he said/he said. it s going to redound to the dark haired discusszy guy rather than the blond scuzzy guy. if it turns out to be true that president trump knew about this meeting ahead of time and approved it, do you see that as a big problem for the president, if for no other reason obviously he would be caught in yet another lie? right. well, hold on. i won t say yet another lie because i don t concur with your opinion that he s some sort of serial liar. well he lied about not knowing about the ami deal with karen mcdougal. we now know that. rick, you can steve rick, you can cackle, but i just reject steve but you are admitting he lied about the ami deal, not knowing about the karen mcdougal/ami deal, yeah? because we now have a tape of him talking about it seems as though. i have not heard a satisfactory explanation of that. i m not prepared to say he lied either. i m not. but this is important. i mean it really is, anderson. for you to just say matter of factly, well, the president is a serial liar and xyz, we can t proceed that way well, he lied about millions of illegal immigrants voting in california for hillary clinton, and that s why he didn t win the popular vote. he lied about and got, you know, sean spicer to lie about the crowd size. i mean those are just two demonstrably things on, what, the first day in office or second day. so it s been a litany of things since then. yeah. i not to put too fine a point on it, anderson, steve, look, brother, you are living in an entirely separate linguistic universe if you believe that donald trump does not lie out his ass every single day. he is infamous. these are not just lies of omission. these are lies of assertion. this is a guy who lies about everything constantly. here s the lie. it s not just some here s the lie. [ overlapping voices ] steve, it s not some deep conspiracy. here s the real lie. he makes factual misstatements every single day. every single day. here s the real lie. the real lie one at a time. [ overlapping voices ] steve. here s the real lie. the real lie is that russia somehow won this election for donald trump, that russia somehow convinced voters in wisconsin and ohio and michigan that they were duped somehow into voting for donald trump. that is the actual grand lie that is being told in washington, d.c. and in mainstream media all day, every day. it s a damnable lie. steve, i think the grander lie has to do with total hypocrisy. and is the birtherism of the left. this is the new birtherism. because we want the old birtherism was by the guy he said doesn t lie. steve, the difference between birtherism and russia [ overlapping voices ] the difference between birtherism and russia, steve, is that russia actually helped donald trump, and barack obama was never born in kenya. really? there s smoke and there s fire. how did russia help rick, here s the thing. oh, i m sorry, steve. i know you don t believe our intelligence services, every single one of them. asserted not only did russia interfere in our election, have a meaningful impact on our election. that s a lie. that s a lie. you live in a separate fact bubble. it is not a lie, steve. hold on. hold on. [ overlapping voices ] nobody can hear when everybody is talking over. steve, you brought up birtherism. that was a donald trump lie. you said you don t see him lying. you just compared birtherism as kind of a bad thing as being kind of a not genuine thing. that was a thing of the president s. an incredibly bad thing. that was a thing of the president s. much to his discredit. and the president won t can i answer, rick? will you for one second be quiet? much to his discredit by the way, and he repudiated it during the 2016 campaign. i m very glad he didn t. he didn t repudiate it. he never apologized or yes, he did. he said president was born in the united states and the case is closed. he did. yes, he did. well, he said that. [ overlapping voices ] he didn t say, i lied about it and i ve been making it up. i didn t send investigators to hawaii like i claimed because there s never been any evidence of that. i mean there was none of okay. here s the thing. here we are two years later. okay. two years beyond that point. and rick wilson and a lot of people in mainstream media and a lot of leftists still cannot accept the verdict of the american people in 2016. and they weren t hoodwinked by russia. russia did not hack our election. they decided on their own volition and on their own smarts that we needed to go a different direction. so far they re reaping the benefits of that with massive economic growth. what we should be talking about today, what we should be celebrating and having a parade about is gdp above 4% in this country. the trump boom is real. the trump/russia mania, fixation is not real. it s a mania. it s a new birtherism. sadly, steve, and i hate to bring this back, steve, but you re going to have to live with the fact that russia played a meaningful role in influencing our election. they played a meaningful role in targeted states where donald trump won by a narrow margin. they played a meaningful role in selecting and attempting to maneuver those states and to maneuver public opinion in those states in a pro-trump direction. you re going to have to also accept that donald trump s cam wayne was in direct you re going to have to accept the fact that donald trump has continually lied about the fact that he has no business with russia, no financial ties with russia when all these things are facts. they are coming forward. those not already exposed will be exposed. you can pretend all you want it didn t happen, steve, but it happened. isten,ifyou believe all that by the way, i honestly feel sorry for you. yeah, steve, you know why i believe it? because i can read. okay. well, i read pretty well too. [ overlapping voices ] by the way, the intelligence community in the united states has made many massive mistakes over the years. they are not always correct. their word is not infallible. but regarding the 2016 election, i think here s what s important too. if donald trump were somehow beholden to russia, if he were an agent of russia as has been claimed constantly by mainstream media and by a lot of ral formerly respectable people, for instance, former heads of the cia. if he were an agent of russia, he s doing a really terrible job of it because all he has done is counter their interests, including by the way in terms of the most forceful counter to them, annihilating, literally slaughtering russian troops in the field, american to russia combat in the field in syria. that would not be happening if he were somehow a compromised manchurian candidate. steve, listen, i think that the american people saw very clearly in helsinki that donald trump did everything but strap on his knee pads, drop to his knees and polish vladimir putin s shoes, that this is a man who is influenced and under the control of this of the russians. he is absolutely, completely compromised. his behavior proves it. you ve lot your mind. you re a birther. why is it he won t come out you re al jones of the right. and assertively or of the left, i mean. discussion the invasion of the crimea? why isn t he won t doesn t the president like alex jones? say that the president engages in activities such as assassination. i get it, steve. you re part of the cult. you re part of the trump voterees, and no matter what he says, you re going to say he s the greatest hero in the history of this country. that s not true. i criticized him on this network after the helsinki presser because i thought it was a poor performance. i said so very clearly. i wrote about it on real clear politics. i thought it was the worst performance of his presidency so far. if that s his worst day, i ll take it. glad you made it a shoe reference by the way. speaking of intelligence agencies and the people who are in the position to have answers to the question of interference, we have the former director of national intelligence next. what?! -welcome. -[ gasps ] a bigger room?! -how many of you use car insurance? -oh. -well, what if i showed you this? -[ laughing ] ho-ho-ho! -wow. -it s a computer. -we compare rates to help you get the price and coverage that s right for you. -that s amazing! the only thing that would make this better is if my mom were here. what?! an unexpected ending! 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over a year and a half in, and this administration, and now we re finally having a cabinet-level meeting to address this problem. and in the meantime, there really isn t anybody in charge the best i can tell. i think individual agencies and departments, notably dhs, the intelligence community, fbi, et cetera are doing what they can within their scope of responsibilities to prepare for the midterm elections. the bigger issue, though, apart from, you know, getting the government on the same page, this needs to be not just an intergovernmental thing. it needs to be an intersociety thing. there needs to be leadership across our country about the threat posed by the russians in their continued efforts to meddle in our political processes. appreciate your time. thank you. president trump and his one time personal lawyer michael cohen certainly seem to come apart at the seams this week. just had a look into their long relationship and what s now happening. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, or psoriatic arthritis, little things can be a big deal. that s why there s otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it s a pill that treats differently. for psoriasis, 75% clearer skin is achievable with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and for psoriatic arthritis, otezla is proven to reduce joint swelling, tenderness, and pain. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don t use if you re allergic to otezla. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. tell your doctor if these occur. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts, or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla reported weight loss. your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. other side effects include upper respiratory tract infection and headache. tell your doctor about all the medicines you take and if you re pregnant or planning to be. otezla. show more of you. the most highly recommended bed in america just got better. introducing the reinvented tempur-pedic. designed with the most pressure relieving material we ve ever created and superior cool-to-touch technology. find your exclusive retailer today at tempur-pedic.com. well, esurance makes it simple and affordable. in fact, drivers who switched from geico to esurance saved an average of $412. that s auto and home insurance for the modern world. esurance. an allstate company. click or call. as we ve been discussing, president trump is denying his former personal attorney s claims that he knew in advance about that infamous trump tower meeting in 2016. that was the meeting attended by his son don junior and its alleged purpose was to dig up dirt on hillary clinton, dirt provided by russians who claimed to have relationships with the russian government. the relationship between donald trump and his one-time personal attorney michael cohen, of course, has endured for years. it s one that s built on loyalty but that all seems to be changing. here s cnn s chief political analyst gloria borger. this is some turnout, huh? reporter: in the private conversations between then-candidate donald trump and michael cohen, it turns out there was a tape. when if comes time for the financing, which will be what financing? we ll have to pay with cash? no, no, no. reporter: when cohen decided to release his secret recording in which the two men talked about buying a playboy model s story about her alleged affair with trump, it was seen as cohen s declaration of war against his former mentor, boss, and hero. a shakespearean turnaround. this man has come to a moment in his life, and i won t talk about what he did in the past for donald trump other than being a loyal defender as an attorney. but i will tell you my own personal view. this man has turned a corner in his life, has hit a reset button, and he s now dedicated to telling the truth. reporter: but after more than a decade spent fixing trump s problems, cohen is facing a criminal investigation that led to fbi searches of his office, hotel, and home. michael was, i d always like to say, the ray donovan of the office. i ll take care of it. he took care of what had to be taken care of. i don t know what had to be taken care of, but all i know is that michael was taking care of it. he s the guy that you could call at 3:00 in the morning when you have a problem. reporter: do you know stories of donald trump calling him at 3:00 in the morning? donald trump has called him at all hours of the night. every dinner i ve been at with michael, the boss has called. reporter: but cohen did not call the boss, he says, when he decided to pay stormy daniels out of his own pocket 11 days before the election. i think it s ludicrous. so you believe 100% donald trump knew? 100%. reporter: but rudy giuliani says trump did know. i m giving you a fact now that you don t know. it s not campaign money. no campaign finance violation. they funneled it through the law firm. funneled through a law firm, and the president repaid it. oh, i didn t he did? yeah. reporter: cohen wouldn t go on the record for this piece, but his friends claim this was all part of his job in trump world, giving the boss deniability and protection. if you know the relationship between the two people, he took care of a lot of things for mr. trump without mr. trump knowing about it. that s part of the overall structure is that michael had great latitude to take care of matters. reporter: in 2011, michael cohen described his job this way. my job is i protect mr. trump. that s what it is. if there s an issue that relates to mr. trump that is of concern to him, it s of course of concern to me. and i will use my legal skills within which to protect mr. trump to the best of my ability. it s going to be my absolute pleasure to serve you with a $500 million lawsuit. reporter: often with threats as in this 2015 conversation with a reporter. i m warning you. tread very [ bleep ] lightly because what i m going to do to you is going to be [ bleep ] disgusting. do you understand me? this is also part of the trump-cohen method is you skate on the edge of what s reasonable. everyone else walks up to it as if they re walking up to an electric fence, and they back off before they get shocked. michael has that quality. he is a person that will risk getting electrocuted if it means that he could gain something in the moment. reporter: cohen, a sometimes democrat, first came to trump s attention after buying apartments in trump developments. then went to the mat for trump against one of his condo boards and won. trump loved him for it. i mean that was the beginning of it. and then after that, they became close. it was much more than an attorney-client relationship. it was something much deeper, almost father and son kind of thing. reporter: for trump, hiring cohen wasn t about pedigree. cohen, who was 51, got his degree from western michigan s cooley law school and had some initial success in the less than gentile world of new york taxicab medallions. if you look where michael came from in his legal career, before he started working for trump org, it wasn t like he came from a white-shoe law firm. he came from, you know, a hard-nosed new york trial firm. you can almost say this is donald trump s mini me. for a guy who started really in the middle class on long island to now be quite wealthy himself, known internationally, and, yes, he s in a bit of a jam with the russia scandal. reporter: with continued interest from the special counsel and congress. i look forward to getting all the information that they re looking for. reporter: during the campaign, when trump said he had no contact with russia, cohen was privately trying to cut a deal for a trump tower moscow. it never happened, but mueller has asked about it. the sad reality is that michael pursuing that trump tower deal in december is just another factor that goes into this whole russia narrative. i will faithfully execute reporter: when trump became president, he did not bring his brash wingman to washington. do you think he wanted to be in the white house, be white house counsel or there must have been a part of him that was dreaming of a great job at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. but he s also the guy who not only knows where all the bodies are buried, he buried a lot of them himself. and that ironically disqualified him. they say i m mr. trump s pit bull, that i am his i m his right-hand man. i mean there s i ve been called many different things around here. reporter: because if you re michael cohen, at least until now, you ve always been called the ultimate loyalist. the words the media should be using to describe mr. trump are generous reporter: michael cohen, it seems. passionate, principled. reporter: has changed his mind. with that change of heart, the question now is what exactly michael cohen has that he can tell prosecutors. anderson? 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apply. this applies for men and women or persons. all people. no man is needed. tucker: isn t there a man in the word woman? call me a person, i would be less offended. no need for woman. tucker: the revolution always heats itself, as we often put it. college exams are stressful. we counted on students to deal with that stress. at the university of utah, they have offered something else. they have a cry closet. so at first glance it seems confusing. college is the least stressful place. least stressful? sure, you go to class two hours a week and get drunk the rest of the time? it s very stressful. they are learning, they are the future. these are citizens of tomorrow. and they are learning as much as they can. they are stressed as they can be. they need this bioenergyic way to get out their stress. they need a good cry. a cry closet to prepare to take the exams from everything they learned in the classes. tucker: we don t have time to define bioenergyic. does this suggest something about their health? if you are so stressed at taking a dumb test as a dumb school, aren t you on the edge of a breakdown? don t we all need a good old fashioned cry? it s just about crying. ten minutes of crying. everyone needs a stress ball. many people own stress balls. this is an interpretation of a giant stress ball. tucker: let s say we had a war, i don t know, pick a country, china. challenge us where we had to mobilize a large of americans to defend the homeland. but everyone is crying. would anybody be left to fight the war? can you really defend a country if you are encouraging kids to cry about final exams? this is about psychological help. if everyone take as moment aside to just center themselves, ground themselves, have a cry, maybe for two, three minutes, and then go fight that war, i m sure the war would be won with people in a great state of mind. tucker: could you take a break between battles to cry? the break would have to be done before the battle. but they would be in the right mindset that they would win that battle. that s what this whole closet is about. it s about getting that right state of mind. tucker: would you want to use a closet others have cried in? i don t think i would have a problem with it. sounds cozy. google has done this. they have created ping-pong tables where people can let off steam. tucker: if a cry closet is called for, how about a petting disco, a bunny stroking station. if people are comfortable and work better after being centered and calmer, then why not, bring the bunnies in. tucker: let me ask you a macro point. i thought the idea was to get people to come out of the closet. now you are saying people go back in the closet. go in for ten minutes, get that cry so you can come out confidently and feel good. you might want to go into that cry closet right before a show and have a great show afterwards. tucker: this is like television, you don t want to be too honest. i am honest with you. tucker: if you knew a man, i could date that man, he says i m sorry, i got to cry in a closet while squeezing a stuffed animal. i m going to center myself so i can be a stronger, better person for you, yeah, i would love that person. i think that s great. it s healthy. who doesn t want to be with a healthy person. tucker: part of you would look on and say you weepy little freak, stop crying. what a strong person who understands themselves or he-self or whatever pronoun. tucker: i don t believe you for a second. i think you want to think that, this is wholesome, consistent with my ideology. on a gut level you would say stop wimperring. every place has a cry closet, it can be the bathroom at some means. everyone needs a cry closet. everyone needs a way to relieve stress and tension. tucker: up ahead, we have plenty more highlights from the liberal sherpa. we ll visit her defensively of getting consent from babies before changing their diapers. stay tuned. there s little rest for a single dad, and back pain made it hard to sleep and get up on time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid, plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. i m back. aleve pm for a better am. otherwise, they could grow up to tolerate sexual assault. human babies can t consent to anything. they can t do anything, they are babies. cathy areu thought it was a great idea. so consent for diaper changing from babies. this raises the obvious, practical question, how would a baby give consent? well, the idea isn t exactly the baby isn t going to say yes or no, but give the baby a few moments, talk to the baby, is it okay, i m going to change your nappy, she s australian. tucker: you wouldn t say that to an american baby. it s teaching consent. teaching autonomy. i m not going to touch your body if you don t want me to. like talking to a baby about anything, mommy loves you, daddy loves you. why wouldn t the concept of talking to a people about doing something so serious, changing a diaper, be so ridiculous. tucker: you don t expect a baby to respond in a way that you can understand. again, how do you know what consent looks like? let s just do a little role playing. i m the baby. tucker: and i say i m going to make this change. and how do you express your consent or lack of consent? well, i well, if i start cry, something is wrong. you wouldn t want to make diaper changing that goes along with crying. you want me to be in a healthy state of mind. in the future, when it comes to those things, i would be a well adjusted adult. tucker: maybe the child is crying because his diaper is dirty. yeah, obviously. the parent would have to be the best judge of that. if you make me cry, you ask me and i started crying, you should take the hint. tucker: would it be like an eye gesture. you are a mom. can you read their facial he can presses and know what they are saying? ericsson said, a baby expert, from 0 to 2 are the trust years. you want the baby to trust you. nothing wrong with talking to a baby and those situations, teaching a baby how to trust. this is a moment where you are teaching your baby to trust you. i don t think the baby is supposed to give consent. you are just teaching the baby to trust you. you are asking the baby to express bodily autonomy. tucker: what if the child keeps saying no, like over a period of weeks, and you keep going in there, i would like to change the diaper, child refuses consent, that becomes neglect. teaching, talking about it during that moment. so many parents do not discuss it and the baby, they are not even used to talking about those things. so they are constantly teaching trust. it s trust issues. tucker: you don t discuss anything with a baby. you discuss everything with a baby. i m going to put this lotion on your arm. i m going to dress you. parents talk all day long. tucker: how about a polio vaccine, smallpox? you have to give consent. you can t give organs if you can t give consent. dead people with make decisions. tucker: how do they do that? you don t have to give consent after you have died. people should always give consent if their body is going to be touched. tucker: right. so if the child says no the baby indicates by crying or rolling his eyes, i don t want a polio vaccine, you don t give him a polio vaccine? it s the idea of discussing it with the baby. the consent isn t the issue, it s the idea. tucker: so even if the baby says no, no doesn t really mean no is what you are saying. the baby can t talk during the diaper years. tucker: a baby s no doesn t mean no. where does the obedience part come in? is there any part where the child learns to obey what you say or is it a give or take, a colloquy with a mute person? it s a conversation, talking to the baby. it s not disciplining. tucker: is there a point where the baby says, mom, please stop talking. or dad. tucker: go ahead and change the diaper. i don t think most dads would go for this hey, parent, stop talking. i don t think they can respond. i am touching your body. you should have the right to say yes or no. i m going to teach that concept right now during the trust years. tucker: i like the concept that kids do what they are told. do what we tell you to do. why stop at diapers? 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did zee enjoy zerself at the party. tucker: sound like henry kissinger. many universities have put out these pronoun guides. tucker: i m tracking with this now. let s try the sentence. she cooks dishes using ingredients she has grown in her yard. it would be zhe cooks dishes using ingredients zee has grown in zer yard. tucker: great job. we are going to move on now to co and cost. translate this sentence. he asked himself whether his gender pronounces were confusing. co asked co-self whether co gender pronounces were confusing. tucker: how would i say his car broke down so he had to walk here by himself. zee had to walk here by zer self. tucker: and this is different how? accepted by the lgbt university. from california to georgia have accepted these and added them to their pronounce usage grammar books. tucker: i know members of that community never heard of this. we ll try one last one. my producer promised me this is real. it s yo. they promise this is real. this is real. tucker: yo is for he and she. ya is him or her. yoself is for himself or herself. she better leave now if she wants to make her flight in time? yo better leave now if yo want to make your flight on time. yo s flight on time. pers you can choose which ever you are comfortable with. there are many pronouns. tucker: the purpose of language is communicate mutually agreed upon definitions. if i replace language that s dumber, less precise and embarrassing, how does it forward the purpose of language itself? smarter, not offensive and forward-thinking, i think, is the way we would be correctioning our language. tucker: you are right. identify forgotten the underlying assumption that all change is good. all change is good, language does change. in 50 years, this is just going to be automatic, we are not going to think twice. the transgender community has embraced this. it s not a question of grammar. tucker: there is no community. can i just say, because i can t resist, if i wake up and find out i have been drafted into some community, i m going to resist because the only community i m a part of is my family. does anybody say i m not part of your community? that s the beauty of this. you can be part of a community, you don t have to be part of a community, you can be who you want to do. you can say you don t want a pronoun. tucker: everything is monday torre. all change is good, everything is mandatory. those are the two rules we now live by. pronouns aren t the only thing, during prom season a high school student in utah dared to wear a chinese-style dress despite not being chinese. that s a war crime, as you know. cathy areu came on the set to set her straight. tucker: does this mean chinese people are wearing neckties, which is a western invention, are they committing that? she s exploiting it. she is taking advantage of a culture she doesn t know much about. i don t think a chinese businessman doesn t understand western culture. she had no idea what the dress meant and didn t appreciate it. her comment was it s just an f -ing dress. tucker: so assimilations, is the process of cultural appropriation. i come in and take parts of your culture and make them my own, i adopt your culture. now the idea is everyone stays in their own culture and hates the other culture. she didn t do this to assimilate. she wanted to get as much fame as she could and step right now. tucker: let me ask you this. when someone from dubai flies on an airplane which was invented by the wright brothers, why isn t that gets on the plane and has a glass of champagne and doesn t think of the contribution of these ohio brotherrer ins to flight? that s not cultural appropriation? they are not hurting anyone and they are not offending anyone by doing so. when she put on that dress, she hurt and offended others. tucker: she really hurt them. we have learned that wearing certain dresses is an act of bigotry. yoga is racist, too. cathy areu is there to explain how. our special continues with that, next. yogi is confident. yoooogiiiiiii!! but when it comes to mortgages, he s less confident. here, yogi. fortunately, there s rocket mortgage by quicken loans. apply simply. understand fully. mortgage confidently. get approved in as few as 8 minutes. with proskin technology intimates overnight for two times faster absorption so you can have worry free nights, and wake up feeling fresh and free for a free sample visit tena.us copd makes it hard to breathe. so to breathe better, i go with anoro. go your own way copd tries to say, go this way. i say, i ll go my own way, with anoro. go your own way once-daily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators that work together to significantly improve lung function all day and all night. anoro is not for asthma. it contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. the risk is unknown in copd. anoro won t replace rescue inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than once a day. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition, high blood pressure, glaucoma, prostate, bladder, or urinary problems. these may worsen with anoro. call your doctor if you have worsened breathing, chest pain, mouth or tongue swelling, problems urinating, vision changes, or eye pain while taking anoro. ask your doctor about anoro. go your own way get your first prescription free at anoro.com. bed in america today. find your exclusive retailer at tempurpedic.com. tucker: welcome back to our special liberal sherpa edition of tucker carlson tonight. the liberal sherpa has always been grateful to come on our program and explain that everything is racist even if nobody knew until ten minutes ago. yoga is big o big on is bigoted. yoga is racist. how is that? according to this article, many white people who do yoga, many white people do yoga, few understand the culture, history and religion behind yoga. they are enjoying it for the physical aspects of it. they are not truly understanding yoga and what it goes back to. they need to if they want to appreciate it. if not, they are getting into this viewpoint of white supremacy. tucker: if yoga is racist, is hot yoga more racist or less? all western yoga is racist, according to this author, according to this professor. yoga practiced in india has nothing to do with the yoga practiced in the western world. tucker: what about pilates? it wasn t discussed. it s being practiced by white people, white upper class. not maineer minorities. this is a white sport. tucker: that s suspect. call the police. what about taekwondo? she has a problem with the yoga in industrial, i think it was yoga industrial complex. that s what she called it. the yoga industrial complex. falls under that. tucker: if it s wrong for people in the west to practice yoga, is it wrong for the rest of the people to use the internet? we understand the internet. it doesn t go back to what yoga did to introduce them to yoga and their culture was intelligent. that was part of the movement, when it came to the united states. so the internet would not. tucker: what about like democracy? that was invented by the greeks in the west, basis of western civilization. no, no, no. yoga was a way for the indians to show colonizers to show they were intelligent. tucker: it predates the british by quite a bit. i was interested, how many people who are into yoga in the united states do you think voted for donald trump? oh, well, the author didn t touch upon that. tucker: what s your guess. someone who is very familiar with non trump voters, would you say maybe 1% of people who practice yoga voted for trump or is that too high? according to the author, many upper and middle class white women practice yoga. so many of those people voted for trump. tucker: are you struck by the fact that that series of descriptors, upper middle class, white, like that s kind of the whole argument on the left. anything that has those words attached, it s bad just because, and anything that doesn t is superior to that? yeah, according to this article, those are the people who practice yoga and do not understand immigrants and minorities and what they are going through, perhaps have more privilege and able to experience yoga and other things that other groups cannot experience. tucker: last question. in a multicultural society, which we live in, i m for the basic principle, cool things with other cultures and you should enjoy them, when did the rules change? we live in a multicultural society, but you are not allowed to enjoy things from other cultures? don t stop doing yoga. but if you do it, understand you are understanding an 8th of it. understand what people went through to introduce this to from you their culture to your culture. so having appreciation, don t just take advantage, buy the yoga gear and take advantage of this. tucker: i suspect downward dog is less difficult if you are hating you yourself. i don t think they hate themselves. tucker: up next, the blast from the past. the time cathy areu said we shouldn t call breastfeeding natural. it could undermine feminism. that s next. you made a promise you agreed to never give up to be a decent neighbor to remember the good people who rise with every challenge to remember their strength when you feel tired to serve with grit and grace you made a promise we did too the all-new ram 1500 whenshe was pregnant,ter failed, in-laws were coming, a little bit of water, it really- it rocked our world. i had no idea the amount of damage that water could do. we called usaa. and they greeted me as they always do. sergeant baker, how are you? 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women are not the only ones who can feed the children. that s what they are trying to say. it s natural for others to feed the children. the whole burden is not on the mother. that s what they are trying to say. tucker: first of all, of course that s true. of course. the decision i don t think women are stupid. i interviewed a pediatrician that when a child starving for two weeks, she was not able to produce breast milk for two weeks. she refused to give the baby that formula for fear. tucker: that s a fair point. that s a shame when people feel like there is no alternativement perhaps there are some. that s not what s really going on here. this is gender politics intruding on the personal decisions that parents make. it s also blurring the lines, it s suggesting, by the way, that men can breast feed, which they can t. i don t think they can, can me? i don t know. tucker: i do now, the answer is they can t. i have four children. what they are saying is that men can feed children. they are putting a study that saying breast milk is not the only way to go. tucker: can you take three steps back? no. tucker: and acknowledge, there is something awful about inserting gender politics into something as beautiful and intimate as the first days of a child s life? maybe parents can say back off. breastfeeding is not beautiful t causes so many headaches. it doesn t come naturally for so many women. so this study is wonderful, women can step back and say, wow, it s okay to hand the bottle and the baby over to dad or my girlfriend or whatever the case may be. tucker: half of that sentence is correct. it s okay to do that. i m wondering, final question for you, because this is giving a little bit of headache. the whole subject is so crazy. if it s not natural to breast feed, how did the species get to where it is now? why didn t we die out several millennia to go? we found other ways like formula to feed the babies. tucker: in the medieval periods, where did you get it? it s been going on for the last ten years. our mothers weren t exactly into breast feeds, you have the fix r feminism, you had the revolution. it s not always been the answer. tucker: i m glad my kids are old enough to weigh into this stuff. a 30-year-old son refused to move out of his parents house. so they had to sue him. the liberal sherpa continues with that story, next. no matter who rides point, there are over 10,000 allstate agents riding sweep. call one today. are you in good hands? 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he loves his parents and he is normal. he is not ready to move on. you would think his parents would welcome him there. his mom would want to be a good mom. tucker: you think at age 30 you are not ready to leave your mom s basement where are you ready to drive car or drink alcohol or serve in uniform? we don t know if he does any of those things. he is not ready to leave his mom. it s not a basement. it s a bedroom. tucker: sorry! i didn t mean to impugn his character. right. what is wrong with loving your mother. maybe she would want to live in his bedroom in his house. maybe michael will have a mansion thanks to their support. if they didn t spend money on him and not on lawyers. tucker: if you love something, you get it for free. if i love a rolex watch, do i get it for free? if i really love it. this is a parent does a child. you are always a parent. she is always a mom. he is always a son. they should always love each other. they should not hire lawyers and go against each other in court as the mother did. tucker: but what i loved the watch and i need to know what time it is. okay? i love that watch. why would they call the cops on me if i take it? it s about responsibility. she gave birth to the child. you didn t give birth to the watch. tucker: that s true. this mother gave birth to the child. it s her responsibility. it s good for society for her to take care of this child. her child and make sure her child is ready to face the world. tucker: you can t age out of this arrangement. once you are born, you have a moral and legal right to sponge off your parents forever? i don t think it s sponging off. michael loves his mommy and wants to be with her until he is ready. tucker: are you concerned about the explosion of man-children in our society? is that good for women? women and men, 18 to 35 are living at home with their parents. a 3rd of millennials live at home with their parents. it s make america great again. tucker: it s a sad, brave new world. cathy, great to see you. thank you. that s all for tonight s special liberal sherpa edition of tucker carlson tonight.
windsor of course from all over the u.k. you have the super royal fans if you want to have been camping already for days and today there were joined by many others realigning up to secure the best places to see the royal couple when they re coming and when they re leaving the cost was hospital and wife and then you have many guests from all over the world when i came to windsor i expected the first two groups so the locals and the big friends but i didn t expect people from so many countries here were really enjoying the atmosphere and the electric atmosphere i have to say right i m going to talk a little bit later about that the global appeal of the royal family but charlotte first it s been a lot of family drama in the lead up to this talked about that there has indeed the big question has been will legan markel dad walk down the aisle we ve heard today very sadly from meghan that no he won t said it s going to be prince charles harry s dad he s going to get that on a he s going to take her up to harry at the top of the aisle there s been so much backwards and forwards though about this so much a scandal really the press hounded makers that he is said to have then suffered from heart problems have undergone heart surgery apparently just the pressure just got a little bit too much but it s not just about macon s dad it s also her brother and sister who was in trouble in the build up to this wedding you ve got her hospice to samantha who is apparently writing a tell all book about meghan markle that s meant to be quite fiery and then you ve got her health problems with the skinny and here in the build up to the wedding rush an open letter telling harry actually maybe meghan isn t the woman for you he later retracted those comments and said he he got a bit over emotional he was upset that he wasn t invited to the wedding but there is going to be a lot of a lot of attention tomorrow on exactly whether or not this drama is going to continue is just not michael s mom who s going to be at the ceremony but we know some of her. more strange relatives are in windsor and it s going to be very interesting to see whether or not they they read the heads during the day but let s focus on the positive for the for just a moment to georg or prince charles who will walk the bride down part of the aisle very elegant solution i have to say. it is indeed and that is what many people here told me it s a just a fabulous way of welcoming her to the royal family and helping her out of this a big dilemma that she now will have to walk herself basically. the into the church but then there s also a group of people who said look the fact that she did it is walking a quite a bit of a way by herself surrounded by page boys and bridesmaids all of them children is still a very positive sign it s something new that hasn t happened yet it may be a feminist statement but let s let s face it also there s a lot of room for interpretation of everything basically here so for instance the fact that harry may shave for the wedding day has already been debated up and down the local and international media all right well on that point charlotte why does everyone care so much for people like a fairy tale don t they this is the goal here is getting her prince and beyond that she s being seen as a modernizing fake and she s going to bring a refreshing new stance on the royal family she s american is going to be this transatlantic i mean americans don t need convincing a lot of the time to watch the royal wedding but the fact that she s one of the very end t.v. stars i think and a bit of something special for this pos you know she s a hollywood actress and of berry famous t.v. series seats no celebrities are exposed at the wedding in fact there s going to be no real politicians it s just going to be friends of harry and meg and that s not to say that they just because she s bringing something something more than and fresh to the royal family doesn t mean that people don t all say love the pomp and circumstance in the tradition where of course going to get a lot of thoughts mario as well but i wouldn t be doing my duty if i did point out that not everyone is very excited about this there are a lot of republicans in the u.k. who are quite thinking and we re going to talk to that four into with gay yorker because to charlotte s point you re not seeing it in windsor where you are but not everyone shares the love for the real family right. i have to say it s very hard to find people who are not into the state which is not surprising because you have called the fans flocking in the day before the big day i met one gentleman who pointed out that he things that he point even pro-choice means that look there just to be clear this is not how the whole country feels not everybody loves this pomp and it is concerned about the cost and in fact my colleague. big it must talk to one of the leading causes and in the republican movement and here s what he had to say. those with well candidate s ability we hear wins that everybody is happy everybody was celebrating what s not to like well i mean this is a celebration of the monarchy the morning here is part of our constitution so this is i mean this is politics really this is you know the. political convention if you like for the family and you know when i m happy for the couple they get a married but they ve decided to turn into a public parade which is going to cost the taxpayer millions of pounds and which is designed to shore up support for the royal family you know doesn t it is a little bit stingy to say it cost a lot of money i mean people are here people are celebrating and one argument of people who are for the royal family is also that it brings in two or isn t it brings in money i just got of applied back from visit britain yesterday that s the agency that promotes pain as a tourist destination i said you know give me all the evidence that the monarchy brings to us and they couldn t give me anything. now all i d say in terms of stingy i d say to any german taxpayer would you be happy to pay for the wedding of your president offering americal to a huge lavish party to the tune of you know millions a year as of german taxpayers money of course he wouldn t say why should we have to put up with it you know we need to stop taking it for granted that the we fund the private lives of the royal family but then again you do need to fund somebody who is the head of state which is here the queen said he didn t need to have you know somebody who represents the country countries it might as well be the queen right oh no i mean the point is we want to get rid of the monarchy so that we have as in germany as in. ireland as well we have a head of state whose account is in one of the country and we still have a prime minister but we have somebody accountable and also doesn t cost a fraction of the money to the war found the cost of the annual cost is about three hundred forty five million pounds every year i mean the cost isn t the issue really isn t it s a symptom of an institution that is not account. you how some of these count will be can be thrown out of office if they get it wrong they don t spend that much money because they know they ll get in trouble but people don t seem to care that much i mean there is a lot of support for the royal family and especially at the moment it s been rising one nomen hasn t been rising i mean we ve had seven years of major oil events in the polling is designed to say now as it was seven years ago ten years ago and twenty years ago the polling out this week two thirds of people in this country don t care about this wedding on interested the vast majority of people don t want their tanks is going to this wedding and i think what we are going off of we re not a nation of oil is the nomination of republicans yet but we re a nation of people to have a monarchy and most of us don t care do you have any message for the royal couple. say you know good luck enjoy your day but please pay back the six million pounds we re going to be spending on your wedding greg smith thank you very much. our ad so complains there about the cost of the where they are it will certainly one of the most expensive weddings of all time the wedding app bride book has done to break down the cost of the venue is an estimated four hundred thousand euros most of that going towards a luxury market it will cost them more than half a million to keep the guests out wined and dined and make an marco s dress could run to more than three hundred forty thousand euros but she s paying that and there are many more big bills to pay but then factor in security that s expected to cost the british taxpayers around thirty four million euro that makes a grand total of more than wait for it thirty six million euros i gave york i want to bring you back in how beefed up this security where you are and is the british taxpayer getting their money s worth. i d say at the moment the security is still very discreet i ve seen a couple of police officers i ve seen helicopters stooping over when some of what i haven t seen the kind of police operation which is supposed to be the biggest police operation this country has seen in recent history and that is to come tomorrow when basically the whole city of windsor will be sealed off like an airport where you only and a via security checks you have all your backs checked there s thirty thousand police officers deployed into into a winter in and around so it s a very tight security operation that is up to come all right now charlotte we don t have a royal family here in germany but you would be able to tell by all the royal fans that we ve got thousand a real family there are some descendants us on the king around there were occasion to make their way into the top of the press in the absence of the proper monica gentlemen that royal fans have to look out sweat many brits and i met one such woman tucked away in a in a small town in northern germany let s have a. yes i have the first one in germany. meets germany s biggest royal fan. if it has a royal face on it evans got it from cardboard cutouts to cushions come on come on we ll go to a diana shrine. bans a personalized stamps. evelyn s love the royal family began while visiting relatives in england as a child and has blossomed ever since she and members of her lady di fan club travel to london several times a year and like any self respecting super fan she s heard numerous really counters along the way there s also been some i know diana bravo and the last huge he gives the hand to me when i call all of them a view from germany i was so astonished as. prince charles. josh my irish are sure of charge i was sure and showed you she again only. to go by it was lovely to see this people and prince william he looks at my flyers and then he looks at me i love you aren t. now there s anyone special royal man left to meet dress in a wedding bestial be in windsor to watch harry get hitched and she ll be battling it out with other fans to localise with the happy couple to be such as a standing out she s enlisted the help of a few die hard members of the lady di club and they didn t disappoint. me tell me about this. as assigned to get the couple s attention hole they would she hid like this. and of course the lovingly prepared congratulations conative forty alice a smattering of gold leaf and a handful of we ll all winter into this walk about hopefully not inventing the whole thing going to go to school because we really hope harry will wear the red uniform will have a problem we ll have to fly to england and quickly read to it no wind. no box with all this fuss about the british royal family i m left with one big question. so you re such big fans of the british royal family do you really wish there was a rule family here in germany no. no. no no no no no no no we actually have a german royal family but how should i put it exactly the best. i could not imagine that i stored with the flag with the american on. that. sorry germany britain wins this time every year and then. great stuff show thank you for bringing us the sort i think they re now in windsor where you are gay or go one night to go before the big event do we know what title the queen has decided to give them as their wedding present. well meghan would get officially the title her royal highness princes henry of wales but you ll only have the title if she s standing next to a hosp and the title of the actual title as she would get is if the queen grounds her grandson the title of a jude and then she would become a duchess and carnley rates are high is that she could become the duchess of sussex but that will have to see how i did and windsor and with me in the studio charlotte s tell some phil thank you so very much and have fun tomorrow. right now to our other top story german chancellor angela merkel and russian president vladimir putin have tried to smooth over some of their differences today at talks in the russian resort town of sochi the two leaders who don t see eye to eye on many issues rekindled hopes of peace in eastern ukraine putin said that diplomats on both sides would look again at options for deploying a multinational peacekeeping force in the region the german leader has been left scrambling after u.s. president trump pulled out of the iran deal threatened to impose steel tariffs and pressured her to pull out of a lucrative gas pipeline project well at their post summit news conference merkel declared their germany had a strategic interest in getting on well with russia rather than the somewhat chilly relations of recent times. she speaks fluent russian. and he speaks fluent german. yet they still struggle to understand one another in the past few years now of all people donald trump is changing that the u.s. president s unashamedly anti european foreign policy is forcing germany s chancellor to look elsewhere for allies instead of relying on washington for example in moscow which hasn t exactly been her favorite hunting ground. we have a strategic interest in good relations with russia and even during the most difficult times i supported for example the continuation of the nato russia council and that the new to you remains in contact i believe talking to each other is about most importance but on the need for absolute fifty germany and in fact the e.u. as a whole are on the same side as russia on certain issues both sides want to save the iran nuclear deal even without the u.s. and both consider the u.s. moving its embassy to jerusalem a huge mistake but a few things stand in the way of getting too cozy the biggest stumbling blocks are russia s illegal an exception of crimea from ukraine a move that is not being recognized by most nations and russia s overall aggression towards ukraine. in the case of the former russian double agents sergei script who was poisoned in london has also triggered tensions russian president putin claims russia is innocent in the whole affair offering his own insight. you know the experience that. if a military great agent had really been used the man would have died on the spot trip but you ve been and. maybe because the last time the two leaders met things weren t so friendly this time at their meeting in sunny sochi on the black sea the russian leader wanted to leave a better impression by saying it with flowers. now let s find out if that is going to help with highness or autumn might see is a political analyst and expert on russia a very good evening so if you re happy here with us flowers smiles the optics of two leaders are trying to make up for less less warm times is president trying to reason behind this. book to some extent i think it is about i m more impressed by the the differences that we have seen surfacing at the summit conference really knocked and put in then the confluence of interests and. thought so just a big problem you know that we have these differences well let s talk about one of the big problems one of the thorns in the relating the bilateral ation between germany and russia of course eastern ukraine the ongoing conflict there they seem to be getting together and trying to find a solution there i don t see any evidence of that whatsoever as you mentioned in the uptake there is talk about the united nations a peacekeeping mission but of course this is nothing new this actually has been the proposal about ukrainians for several years and then use of temper of last year or put in the table this idea but ever since and really a nothing has happened because you cannot agree on the modalities of it so do you think this was just window dressing then today well i think this is just a restatement of position and of course is the same as with the commitment the commitment by both sides to the full and complete implementation of the minsk to an agreement there to has not been any progress whatsoever right ok so this might be confidence building measure but we ll have to see if that materializes into something concrete also high on the agenda of course is the iran nuclear deal both sides are signatories to the deal but support continued to support the deal so do you think that they will keep the nuclear. iran nuclear deal a life well that depends very much on the iranians a but there s a joint position as you just outlined the three european powers germany france and the u.k. as well as the russian of course china they want to maintain the agreement and it depends very much on whether or not the europeans and russia can persuade the iranians to stick to the agreement so the other thing that they don t see eye to eye on is of course syria do you see them reaching an agreement on that well there again though the differences are quite quite apparent to me because putin is the quite intent on keeping assad in power and of course that s the surface at the meeting in sochi that russia would like germany to take a substantial role in the. reconstruction of syria so in other words it s almost ironic that russia is responsible for the large scale destruction of cities in syria and germany is supposed to be paying for the restatement of it going but what you re saying. america listening very very difficult and i find because of course on the one hand she s dealing with this deteriorating transatlantic relationship with the trumpet ministration and is she trying to pivot towards russia and make up for some of that well i don t think so because this would be a very dangerous road to take very problematic because it would convey the notion that germany in cooperation with other european powers and russia is a trying to confront it out to the states and that would be a very big mistake to convey the impression and a certain it would be a bigger stick to the substance of the to do it she s going to have us on a mindset political analyst. expert on russia thank you sir for wayne thank you. the world health organization has raised the national threat level of an ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo to the very high all this after the health ministry there confirmed to eleven new cases of the virus along with the two new suspected that s all that brings the total number of reported cases to forty five well w h o s the headquarters is rushing to ship supplies of a vaccine to congo. hectic preparations in geneva how to get the vaccine to the democratic republic of congo the temperature has to stay at minus eighty degrees celsius or the doses might not work. two thousand units of the new experimental ebola vaccine are now ready to ship to can shots. in the past in most of the abode outbreaks in the sea it s been rural and fairly self limited but now we know that populations of more than a million are at risk the other major issue here is that this center of deca he s on the banks of the river congo it s around 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