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We've been talking about as far as donald trump, the people who have known him, he sees everything as a zero sum game, i have to win, everybody else has to lose in the room according to ru ru rudy giuliani in the past. this approach where you can move from one deal to the next deal and leave scorched earth behind you, that runs up against diplomatic rocks when you're trying to cobble together an international coalition to stop north korea from being able to deliver a nuclear device to alaska or seattle, doesn't it? >> right. national security is not a free market, and so when you're in a trans...

Crimes. it could be brought up in a way that is good for putin, because the president can say he raised the issue and putin can portray nothing happens and we're moving forward. and ambassador mcfall is right. the fact that they have a good meeting suggests that what happened is in the past and we're now moving forward. it's not an impediment. we have to be really careful about the language. >> coming up, two top leaders from capitol hill. the senate's number two democrat dick durbin, and michael mccall. we'll talk russia, north korea, and the ongoing fight over health care just ahead on "morn...

Critics say putin's russia is mostly a mafia state and president trump should treat it as one. an anti-putin opposition activist was poisoned twice. he blames the kremlin. >> reporter: do you think a closer relationship between president trump and putin puts activists like you in greater danger? >> the only thing we ask of our colleagues and of political leaders is that they don't help mr. putin. first of all, by treating him as a legitimate partner and as a respected partner on the world stage. >> reporter: and putin, the lifetime intelligence agent has never appeared to like an american pres...

Going to go in and have the talk for half an hour. my take is that russia has everything to win out of this one and it's going to be very difficult for donald trump to come away with something that looks like a victory for him. the scrutiny is on him. russia is playing an incredible hand with very poor cards on the international stage at the moment. and he -- the more he can meddle with american politics and the more he can get attention in american politics and the more he can have us talking about him, that's exactly what he wants out of this half hour meeting. i just find it very hard to se...

Wants to make a deal, putin can say, well, the united states, the u.s. president had to appeal to the kremlin for help. >> richard engel in skregermany thank you. we'll be watching his on assignment tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern time right here on nsnbs. ambassador, let's talk about what we heard in richard's piece. that's the personnel element how vladimir putin runs a meeting. he made president obama wait for almost an hour. he made john kerry wait for a couple hours. >> three. >> he brought in 2007, his dogging to a meeting with angela merkel knowing she feared dogs. what should be the mind ...