find areas where we can agree and make progress together. the russian president told bolton he would like to restore full fledged relations between the u.s. and russia and that russia has never been seeking confrontation. thanks for joining me. of course. i want to get your reaction to the fact that john bolton and possibly president trump will be meeting with president putin. i spoke with an administration official who said we need to improi improve relations with russia. does the administration have a point? no. it would be nice if we started improving relations with our traditional allies. i d like to see john bolton go and repair the mess that the president had made with teresa may, angela merkle, justin
the germans released this photo of angela merkle looming over president trump with the allies surrounding her and he with his arms folded staring back at her in was a it showed a hostility. the white house released more than a dozen photographers showing the various g7 leaders surrounding president trump. there was this rival interpretation of the atmospherics at the g7. what has this spat in terms of messaging what is the message that s been sent to kim jong-un as he prepares to sit down with president trump? he s trying to show he s the tough guy and the one that will get his demands met. you ll know within the first minute whether he will get
absolutely to make major changes in the policy and direction of the country. is he engaged internationally and interested in policy as president obama was or does he have the depth of experience across the board as the bush administration did, the answer is no but i think he s interested in making changes. he talked to angela merkle and le pen. do you think president obama liked the job? i think president obama liked it. he saw it as a great historical framework and challenge and time to make his imprint on history and rally the country for big causes, legacy of obamacare and his other signature developments. the interesting question is whether trump will after six months still like this job, i can see where he hands the keys to mike pence and say, give me a call to mar-a-lago.
he s doing this whole thing of we have to let the president-elect find his way and he wants to be supportive and not hypercritical, but at the same time, he just went on a trip. every foreign leader, not just angela merkle, were just stunned, bummed out, terrified. mm-hm. this is not a normal passage of power. and we shouldn t treat it as such, not that you do. something is off here. you know, trump met with media executives today, television executives and anchors. i heard that. i did not go. i heard my boss went. nor did i, but i did some reporting on it from the other side, and they were stunned. it began with a 20-minute rant about coverage. him criticizing the coverage. making fun of martha raddatz for crying on the air, which never happened. going on and on. this is not ordinary behavior. it was thought they were coming in for a so-called re-set, that
that guy who s a road scholar and gay mayor of south bend, indiana. name didn t quite come to him. and then that was you know, you could see mayor of south be indiana. the name just didn t come to him. this is a party as they say in baseball, a reconstruction here. he s got a big role to play as a critic, but he can t do it yet. he s doing this whole thing of we have to let the president-elect find his way and he wants to be supportive and not hypercritical, but at the same time, he just went on a trip. every single leader, not just angela merkle, were just stunned, bummed out, terrified. mm-hm. this is not a normal passage of power. and we shouldn t treat it as such, not that you do. something is off here. you know, trump met with media executives today, television