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Al-assad's use of chemical weapons on his own people. the attack killed dozens. russia denied syria was behind it. after that president trump said u.s. relations with syria made be at an all-time low. another issue, the investigations into russia meddling in last year's election and potential collusion with members of team trump. today mr. putin said russian has never interfered in other countries politics. now back to john roberts with more on this. >> jon, a lot of questions since that missile strike as to the state of the u.s.-russian relations was. it would appear from the read-outs on the...

Sides were sort of like the read-outs you would have seen from an obama/putin phone call or medvedev phone call in his first term or busch/putin phone call. it's like none of the issues that have inflamed passions and raised all these questions. >> what would you expect on a phone call? >> well, i mean, look, assuming the phone call had a purpose, it was, you know -- it may have achieved that purpose, which is to try to move back to some sort of new normal of u.s./russia relations for everything that everybody's been all excited about. we still have to deal with them. they still have to deal w...

Syrians right now. so, i think this is a difficult, delicate line for the administration to walk. >> all right, michael, you have met with assad, for instance. the president has made the comment about kim jong-un of north korea and duterte of the philippines. people gasp at that. he made a phone call to errdoga after he wanted to get expanded powers in turkey. in history, we've got f.d.r. working with staal inand president obama meeting with castro, raul castro. >> assad may be feeling left out as the only authoritarian dictator who is not -- who trump isn't warming to. look, there is a bit of...

That's the read-out. and this is a regular thing they do now. who knew that this could even be a problem in our government. refusing to get read-outs of contacts between our president and foreign leaders? i didn't even know to are about that before it stopped happening. but they are inventing new problems all the time. today president trump spoke with the canadian prime minister about trade tensions between our two countries, specifically the trump administration's decision to slap a tariff on timber entering the united states. there's a canadian read of the call. also a little color from the ...

Very interesting. long, very informative. take it with a grain of salt. it's the chinese government account of the call. but then there's the american government account of the same call. which you may not want to take with a grain of salt because it's our own government but you have to take it with a magnifying glass because the white house account of that call is 28 words long. the most we can bleed from that stone is that it was, quote, a very productive call. it was a very productive call. that's it. that's the read-out. and this is a regular thing they do now. who knew that thisou even be...