related to the family, investigators are also looking at lists of people who have brought trump branded real estate or lived in trump towers and business associates from the miss university pageant four years ago in 2013 when it was in mosc moscow. is it a concern that muller s investigation is valid? i wondered if it draw as red line. it s logical road to follow. i see all roads leading back to the miss universe contest in 2013. the trump empire, real estate empire established russian contacts in connection with that pageant, so you certainly would expect that any investigator would be looking at those people to see if that was a continuing intermediary between the russians and the trump administration. so, you know, i think we re going to see a lot more of this
doing, on behalf of the american public or on the behalf of his own wallet? another angle to this and it s been talked about a little bit but still needs to be addressed, things that have his name on it overseas. terrorist targets. and who is responsible for the security and who pays for the security? that is a whole other set of mess here that is not insignificant. i know. let s go to moscow, nbc news correspondent bill neely has been watching and listening there. more importantly, this news conference was carried on various news outlets live in mosc moscow, so many time zones away and bill, i m looking through my quotes. if putin likes donald trump, guess what, folks, i consider that an asset, not a liability. also trump said he respects the fact that putin released the statement they did today. we re talking to you because of this overarching news story that
tensions between washington and mosc moscow. what could this mean for the incoming trump administration. joining me now, john bolton. thank you for joining us on the program. obviously disturbing news and developments on the tail end of an administration. what do you think this means for president-elect donald trump? i don t think it boyfriends h binds him at all. i think the harder issue is determining whether we really understand the full extent of what the russian twbs chinese, the iranians and the koreans and others have been doing in the cyber world for eight years and beyond that that we have not responded to. i think what president obama announced today is incoherent. and if the reports about what russia did are in fact correct utterly inadequate. i think we need a much stronger response because we want to get into a position where russia and
but obviously in recent years russia has been bolstering its military and putting a lot of money into that. it s been made wealthy by oil resources and high prices commanded until recently, and it s taken steps over the past, perhaps, year or so, but particularly over the past two weeks in the intervention in syria to shore up its waning influence in the world. you know, the kremlin regards bashar al assad as its main ally in the middle east, and the main bulwark against the spread of islamic state that got military and islamic ties to syria. they re concerned about violence as well, and this is again, this personal meeting, underlining that russia stands squarely behind its syrian ally. matthew chance is live in mosc moscow for us.
mosc moscow. covering that with correspondents and guests including senator tom cotton member of intelligence and armed services committee. jim sciutto begins our coverage. jim is with me over here at the u.n. first of all, jim, what are you finding out about this meeting that s going on right now between president s putin and obama? the meeting underway. syria at the top of the agenda judging by the stiff handshake before the meeting, the less than enthusiastic toast earlier in the day but more importantly, the vastly different rhetoric we heard from the general assembly earlier today, competing speeches by president obama and president putin. you see very different views of the situation on the ground there. the question is can the two sides find common ground? a tense meeting between the u.s. and russian presidents with syria at the top of the agenda. earlier, president obama took to the u.n. stage to make an i m passioned defense hailing