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macron and angela merkel. they re taking steps to ensure a calm meeting. the new york times rorying that nato leaders are trying to keep president trump from disrupting this meeting as he did last summit meeting in july of 2018. with me now is michael mcfall. also the former ambassador, u.s. ambassador to russia. what will you be looking out for the most at this summit as it plays out, ambassador? well, i like a lot of the european leaders hope for no news. i hope a nonevent. we just celebrate this fan tas k alliance. maybe one of the greatest alliances in the history of the world. and reengage and recommit to upholing the alliance. what i worry about is that president trump might begin to challenge the assumptions of the alliance as he s done from time to time and i m especially worried about the meeting with the french president because lately, he s been saying some things about the nato alliance
doors open for actual discove y discovery. and he said what when you told him that? well, he started through the same line that he used in public statements that you have seen before judicialary unprecedented access, nobody can give you the deliberative process, we are willing to do it but it is unprecedented. and again, we are sorry to have to ask for this information but i he think the american people by now if they have been foll w following fast and furious know that we don t have answers relative to who was sponsible for brian terry as it went up the chain. we certainly don t have any information about how a document that was false remai remained out there for ten months. greta: what was his demeanor when you told him that no dice i m going forward and that is my word no dice obviously? it was a calm meeting. i think that the exchange of letters told us that unless positions changed we would end up where we are. he came in basically consistent
forward, but we would hold the doors open for actual discovery. he said what when you told him that? well, he started through the same line that he used in public statements that you have seen, in report to judiciary, unprecedented access, nobody can give you the deliberative process. we are willing to do it but it s unprecedented. and again, we are sorry to have to ask for this information, but i think the american people by now, if they have been following fast & furious know that we don t have answers relative to who was responsible for brian terry and it went up the chain. we certainly don t have any information about how a document that was false remained out there for 10 months. what was his demeanor when you told him no dice, i m going forward? that s my word, no dice, obviously. it was a calm meeting. i think the exchange of letters told us that unless positions changed we would end up where we are. he came in, basically consistent
but that we would hold the doors open for actual discove y discovery. and he said what when you told him that? well, he started through the same line that he used in public statements that you have seen before judicialary unprecedented access, nobody can give you the deliberative process, we are willing to do it but it is unprecedented. and again, we are sorry to have to ask for this information but i he think the american people by now if they have been foll w following fast and furious know that we don t have answers relative to who was sponsible for brian terry as it went up the chain. we certainly don t have any information about how a document that was false remai remained out there for ten months. greta: what was his demeanor when you told him that no dice i m going forward and that is my word no dice obviously? it was a calm meeting. i think that the exchange of letters told us that unless positions changed we would end up where we are.