when he was on the plate right over he started the twitter war with city con and is eliciting a lot of reactions in the street we also have a lame. prime minister just days away from turning over her prime ministership so that s not going to play as big of a role the one thing to say is you know the u.k. is a very divided country it s very polarized but one thing that does unite the u.k. is its just dislike of president trump is will be interesting to see what kind of taste this leaves in their mouths as they head into a political transition i want to talk about that dislike in just a moment but i want to ask you 1st about intelligence sharing the u.s. has threatened to withhold intelligence information from the u.k. if britain moves forward with allowing the chinese firm who are to help build its 5 g. network i want you to take a listen to what the u.k. foreign secretary said about that earlier today. well we ve made it very clear that we would never take a decision that risked our ab
when he was on the plate right over he started the twitter war with city con and is eliciting a lot of reactions in the street we also have a lame. duck prime minister just days away from turning over her prime ministership so that s not going to play as big of a role the one thing to say is you know the u.k. is a very divided country it s very polarized but one thing that does unite the u.k. is its just dislike of president trumps will be interesting to see what kind of taste this leaves in their mouths as they head into a political transition i want to talk about the dislike in just a moment but i want to ask you 1st about intelligence sharing the u.s. has threatened to withhold intelligence information from the u.k. if britain moves forward with allowing the chinese firm who are to help build its 5 g. network i want you to take a listen to what the u.k. foreign secretary said about that earlier today. well we ve made it very clear that we would never take a decision that risked our
institute germany heels who served in the u.s. state department during the obama administration ties and it s good to see you again so we ve got an official state visit for trump in the u.k. how important is this for u.s. foreign policy is it important yes or no i mean state visits can be highly important and he s really doing this in his role not as head of government but of as head of state similar role too to the queen in in the u.k. it s a head of state it s largely ceremonial i mean honestly it s going to be content like you know he s beating with 70 with the royal family meeting with queen etc but of course trump brings his own flavor to these kind of things and obviously when he was on the plate right over he started a twitter war with city con and is eliciting a lot of reactions in the street we also have a lame duck prime minister just days away from turning over her prime ministership so that s not going to play as big of a role the one thing to say is you know the u.k.
recordings. roger stone was crucial to him for many years. so this may well get to the root of the problem. and they also asked him about roger stone, by the way, to which the point the president said dillen, he said, well, roger stone didn t have that major of a role. he s like stone, rolling stone, i don t know a stone. these two men, he didn t say no stone. he didn t have that big of a role in his campaign. how big of a role did he have in his campaign? roger was his main guy in the beginning. and it was as you ve seen by trump s world a very small world of people he trust and they cycle in and out. roger cycled out actually very quickly after the very first republican primary debate. and roger and him had a falling out where roger claimed he quit and trump said he fired him. so in that regard, they did split in direct contact working together in that same way. but then shortly after roger was integral in installing paul manafort the main person with the russia connections they
big of a role in his campaign. this is the world, according to donald j. trump. and he rearranges it everyday, according to whatever pressures he feels. roger stone has been an important factor in donald trump s life for decades. he was the person who was whispering in his ear that he should be president. he orchestrated the run in 2000 when trump tried to get the reform party nomination. patrick j. buchanan got it instead. so to say that he likes roger stone but he hasn t been an important figure in his life is a vast understatement. yeah, if you read many of the books, roger stone keyed in on donald trump back in the late 1980s and wanted him to run for office ever since then. our thanks to the panel. daniel dell, eleanor clift, thank you. later in the show, peter baker will be back to tell us about some of the unusual take aways from the 85 minutes he spent with trump in the last few days.