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Footage from earlier this morning, we're waiting for donald trump to actually arrive in helsinki, just following up on what elise said. i got a call the week donald trump was inaugurated from somebody extremely close to donald trump saying that they were considering vladimir putin summit. this was in january of 2017 talking about trying to shock the world and have a summit with vladimir putin within a month of his being sworn in and they asked what i thought immediate response would be and i said you are idiots. i said are you kidding me? you've got a national security adviser who is already u...

Barack obama, the american president, off of his game. certainly you saw none of that here, and you can, again, look at those past meetings with american presidents and vladimir putin is a world leader who let's you know how he feels with his body language. this, again, based on their opening statements, though, certainly seems like it's going to be a friendly meeting, or as donald trump calls it a friendly summit. >> i'm sure it will be and the president used the phrase, there's nothing wrong with the united states and russia getting along. that misunderstands america's foreign policy. the pu...

Meeting with vladimir putin, that there will be further decoupling of the u.s. and europe. the president describes europe as our foe. he talks about an extraordinarily good relationship with putin. we're heading in to territory i think should really worry europeans and worries me as someone who has seen american security based on this strong nato alliance for so many decades. i think that's one of the puzzles that we'll be examining over the next few hours and days. has the nato alliance begun to fray and decouple. is trump trying to work with putin to solve problems? >> ambassador, you're a l...

Really complicated on the ground. is this a way of the u.s. backing out of syria, abandoning rebels, saying we're doing it because of iran, and somehow working with putin but not to undercut assad, to continue propping up his client, bashar al-assad? so, there's that. but primarily on the mueller front, every signal from everything the president has said in the last days, months, particularly since the indictment, is to blame the victim, blame the democrats for not defending themselves better, blame obama for saying it happened on his watch out of context and give putin and the kremlin a free ...

Vladimir putin very much wants to happen. for the last two decades he's been looking to drive a wedge into the core of the west, and donald trump has done this for him. something the soviet union couldn't accomplish, something putin couldn't accomplish. now trump is accomplishing it for him heading into helsinki. the british government is looking at this with trepidation and waiting to see what will come out of it and not too optimistic. >> on the eve of the president's meeting with vladimir putin, members of the trump administration and the president himself have sought to downplay expectatio...