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Heidi let me start with you. the president had the biggest so far of his presidency. he has china to worry about and north korea. and syria, and g20 and rts germany and angela merkel what was doing thing about john podesta someone most americans are not thinking about. >> i thought this through. we have two options what to believer the first is this was strategic and that it was a not so subtle way to ingratiate himself with putin. he knows he is going to have to raise this russian hacking issue. maybe he doesn't want to it's uncomfortable. he attacks the primary victim of russian hacking who ...

Putin that he can gain and obtain concessions from president trump moving forward. so you know he wanted a good meeting. putin wanted a good meeting they got the good meeting they want. but moving forward we have to focus on what's in america's national interest, not just what is god for having a good meeting. >> ambassador mike! wall peter baker kari cord roe peter has a new book it's called "obama, the call of history." the ambassador stick wg meem because we're looking at putin when we come back what it was like inside the room with the russian leader. "the 11th hour" is back after this. ni...

Now because of trump's decision to pull out of the paris climate agreement. there was actually a move -- an attempt to try and take melania on a climate change computer lab tour with the other spouses of the world leaders that she ended up getting blocked in her residence because of protests. but yes trying to get climate change back on the agenda. that's how they have to do it now. before it was like everyone was on the same page np now it's like maybe we can get the first lady to go to the climate change things and manipulate things behind the scene that is way. >> peter let me ask you about...

President. also maybe unite try to find a way to mention that to president putin. he ended with dude, get your head in the game. you're representing the u.s. at the g20. earlier this evening john podesta called into hard ball and spoke with chris matthews about his reaction to the president's tweets. >> it's just totally amazing. i mean i think my tweets kind of reflected my view which is how could you imagine sitting there preparing for one of the most important meetings you'll have on the world stage. both with the bilateral with putin and more particularly at the g20 summit and be staring a...

Podesta. you combine that with attacking the u.s. intelligence agencies and these are all things that would be quite pleasing to putin. or the other option is to choose that he had some kind of bizarre dream about john podesta just randomly decided to tweet this out. you choose. >> peter baker, for people who are a little confused about this story. i have to see to them if they're watching you're really right to be confused about this. john podesta never worked for the dnc. he had nothing to do with their server. the cia wasn't looking for it. what do you make of the fact that there was nothin...