somebody. your thoughts about meeting him. first of all, i like your name for our special better than our name, confronting putin. i would say what was surprising about him this time in st. petersburg than what i saw in june was how he was when the cameras weren t rolling. he can appear extremely polite, thoughtful. he offered us a tour of the grand kremlin, and the audience will see that tonight. and so, you know, a charmer is how he wishes to project. what you see in putin is what he wants you to see. and then you get him in front of the cameras and he s this fiery combative leader we ve seen so many times. maybe that s what he was talking about, the charm, the attempted charm. absolutely not. and you see in putin what he wants you to see.
one of the big unanswered questions tlut this investigation has always been why president trump continues to sew such niceness towards vladimir putin who s not a nice guy. megyn kelly put that question to putin as part of a prime time special on nbc tonight, by the way, called confronting putin. let s watch. lets me and you about president trump. anytime he says anything about you it is supremely deferential, never a harsh word for you. but if you look at the way he speaks to members of his own party and staff and never mind political leaders he frequently insults them. why do you think he s so nice to you. translator: i don t believe he treats me personally with reverence. he s a businessman with vast experience, and he understands if you need to, if it is necessary to establish a cooperative relationship with someone, then you have to treat your current or potential
investigators for special counsel robert s. mueller iii have asked witnesses questions about the miss universe pageant and trump s interest in having putin attend the event according to people particular with the inquiry. as president donald trump has been nothing less than complimentary to mr. putin, in fact, has bent backward time after time to give putin the benefit of the doubt at very minimum. in fact, megyn kelly asked the russian leader part about that as part of her primetime special on nbc tonight called confronting putin. let me ask you about president trump. any time he says anything about you it is supremely deferential, never a harsh word for you, although if you look at the way he speaks about members of his own party, members of his staff, nevermind other leaders, he personally insults them. why do you think he s so nice to you? translator: i don t believe he treats me personally with reference. i believe he s an experienced person, he s a businessman with
one of the big unanswered questions through the investigation has been why president trump continues to show such niceness toe putin? megyn kelly put that question to vladimir putin. she put it to him himself as part of a primetime special on nbc tonight called confronting putin. let s watch. let me ask you about president trump. anytime he says anything about you, it is supremely differential. never a harsh word for you. if you look at the way he speaks about members of his own party and his own staff, never mind other leaders he frequently personally insults them. why do you think he s so nice to you? transi don t believe he treats me personally with reservence. he s an experienced person, a businessman within vast experience and he understands if it is necessary to establish a cooperative relationship with someone, then you have to treat
vladimir putin who said that line and donald trump who has said that he believes what vladimir putin has told him. look, we the obama administration released a statement in october of 2016 attributing these attacks to highest levels of the russian government. in january of 2017, the intelligence community came out and named vladimir putin personally as directing these attacks. this was a high confidence assessment on the part of the intelligence community. any denials on the part of vladimir putin is just that. it s pure russian propaganda. we ve heard it before and i m sure we ll continue to hear it. ned price, thank you. tune in to megyn s full interview with vladimir putin. it s a one-hour special. it s called confronting putin. tonight, 10:00 eastern only on nbc. the man accused of killing students at marjory stoneman douglas high school back before a judge. we ll go live to florida for the latest on that case.