but what that means we don t know. we also don t understand and you sit on the foreign relations committee and that s one of the reasons i was happy to have you on tonight. is he s heading into the meeting with putin. everybody s expecting him to be tough with putin because of crimea, shooting down mh-17, what s happening with syria, the acid attacks, and of course what happened with the u.s. election. and right before he goes into it he beats up the bulwark that putin needs to respect and fear most. how can that be helpful to trump? it s not helpful. his leverage was already almost zero with putin, having invited russia back into the g7 without any preconditions. but he just reduced his leverage even more by telegraphing to putin that nato is just getting weaker moving forward, not getting stronger. the one thing russia really fears is a strong nato. that s why they put so much effort into trying to stop nato from adding members. they tried to stop montenegro
they have a degree of respect for themselves and they re not going to be forced to do this by mockery, by the president or the people he sends to berlin. later in the show we re going to play for people how angela merkel responded, which really made a lot of people s eyebrows pop. and i think it was a pretty good reflection of the current state of the relationship. but what that means we don t know. we also don t understand and you sit on the foreign relations committee and that s one of the reasons i was happy to have you on tonight. is he s heading into the meeting with putin. everybody s expecting him to be tough with putin because of crimea, shooting down mh-17, what s happening with syria, the acid attacks, and of course what happened with the u.s. election. and right before he goes into it he beats up the bulwark that putin needs to respect and fear most. how can that be helpful to trump? it s not helpful. his leverage was already almost
going it s the number seven at the moment in the world they want to become the number three economy by twenty thirty two emerita and of course money here again because you mentioned just last night to their meeting with top indian companies and other business representatives and of course they also brought brought to india say let s say brand ambassador with them a major mover and shaker in the world of the film industry he got an award. shara khan got an award that s right chris award he s a bollywood star one of the biggest names of the past three decades in india and he s a real show man he was here to receive the award for his work and his leadership in championing children s and women s rights very important topic in india and the women s rights being a huge topic in twenty seventeen globally he has a nonprofit organization which supports female victims of acid attacks
investigators are looking into the strange possibility the clinic was specifically targeted. vicky address the the recent violence yesterday in an interview with miguel almaguer. there s a hate speech going on in our country right now that could be causing more violence than we might other eyes see. joining me now from washington is jess mcintosh, vice president of communications at emily s. thanks for joining us. according to mother jones since the videos released there have been at least four suspected arsons as well as at least according to what we ve seen five cases of vandalism targeting abortion clinics around the country. why are we seeing this? abortion clippics and women s health clinics in general have been under attack for quite some time. it s rare that we see an actual murder. it s been about six years since that s happened but we have seen dramatic uptick in arsons and vandalism and acid attacks in
violence going on, i think it s because more women are speaking out and there are networks of shelters around the country that women are running for other women, so you see women fighting against this rollback, but they are up against parliamentary and people in power fighting them. you have been on the ground over the last five years. you go back and you speak with these afghan women. what are they telling you, and what are their lives like? is it like mulla malala yousafz do they face that kind of danger? it depends where you are, but there s no question, you have never met tougher women committed to getting themselves and their daughters educated. i ve done a lot of stories on girls that risk their lives, acid attacks, risk night letters, risk family threats, just to be in a classroom. that you see all the time, and what you also see is the tenacity and real desire to make sure that they don t go backward, and i think right now, so many times this discussion