controversial party there. quite certainly, in terms of ideology, shares kinship with the president. what i found interesting was from donald trump, the idea somehow that this is a threat that western civilization itself is under attack by islamic extremism by open borders. it s as though the u.s. president has taken his campaign themes to the international stage. again, speaking to polish fans, very, very friendly reception there from those who crowded into that square in warsaw. the big question is going to be, obviously, his meeting with angela merkel. there was some tension between the two when the jerman chancellor visited the white house a few months ago. also, that g-7 meeting, the summit that happened in brussels. it was very interesting to observe the body language between president trump and,
the first one with angela merkel. trade, climate trade and so forth. this is going to be a different environment than the president had in warsaw. a lot at stake and the meetings off the g-7 summit, a lot of people questioning how these relationships are going to evolve since then. thank you very much, nic robertson. joining us to further discuss, hala and jaime, he s an expert in asian-american relations with the atlantic council and daily beast columnist, gordon chang. we heard in some of the clips this morning, the president still questioning whether russia actually meddled in the u.s. election. why do you think he continues to question the intelligence? it s propostrouse and there s one reason. he knows, as the evidence comes out, russia played an important
polish people, encouraged nato members and declared the fundamental question of our time. called out russia for trying to destabilize poland and other parts of the world. that and russian meddling in the u.s. election should make the high stakes sit-down meeting with the russian president more interesting. nic robertson will have more on that. let s begin with atika. president trump is now on the ground being greeted by protesters. reporter: that s right. this is a very different reception than what he saw in warsaw. the protests, i don t know if you can see the stage behind me has a banner that says welcome to hell. that is what this protest is being called today. it s basically a show of demonstrators and how they reject the g-20 and leaders such as president trump. in fact, we believe president
the 2016 meddling. reporter: yeah. then he went on a well scripted speech that he gave in the big square in warsaw to the polish audience to tell russia to stop being a disrupter. stop disrupting in knew crane and other countries as well. it was a very, very clear message. when he goes to meet in the next 24 hours now with president putin, that much awaited one-on-one meeting, we can certainly anticipate that president putin will have heard both messages and know one was the well scripted, well crafted message and the other will get a sense that was president trump speaking from the heart, if you will, questioning, you know, the veracity and the accuracy of his own intelligence agencies. that will certainly be something that president trump, the former intelligence agent himself will want to exploit in that
role in the meddling. when he s in warsaw, he s saying russia is doing these bad things because that s what the audience wants to hear and needs to hear. on the other hand, the more he accepts what our intelligence agencies are saying is the united states was attacked by russia. we don t know the level of the influence that it had on the election outcome, but it was big. that undermines his credibility. he s trying to do two things at the same time. while he s doing that, he s undermining the creditability of the united states and the credibility of the united states. he s going to meet with president putin tomorrow. being a former kgb guy, when he hears the response from the president, what do you think is his read. he s going to say, we aggressively took on the united states political system. russia had a major win against the united states. the president of the united