we also have our chief foreign correspondent, nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel is standing by for us in buenos aires. this is where president trump is headed for that g20 summit, and again, we re told that the president is going to be having a conversation on the sideline at some point with the president of russia, vladimir putin. richard, provide some insight here, if you can, please, sir, on what that conversation could very well be like based on conversations that the two of them have had in the past? reporter: well, that s a good question because if you remember the last conversation they had was not here in buenos aires, but it was in helsinki, and effectively, trump and putin were bouncing off of each other using each other to back up their own arguments. we had president trump saying, look, putin says that i m telling the truth. putin is tell me that russia didn t interfere in the election, and putin telling the
talked about his relationship with the media, i think he saw the media not as his buddies, didn t look at it as his friends, but looked at it as part of a process that made america great. forgiveness. here s a man that could forgive his vietnamese captors, imagine the model that sets for there s not lot of forgiveness going on. you see what s called a loader, which will carry his casket down from the military jet, a military honor card representing all branches of the military. there are eight members there that once it comes from the plane there and the family waiting as well. there, we see them, an emotional moment for all involved. elaine, help us place there s been a lot of talk about this the last several days.
wasn t as intense or didn t exist at all. they could get their visit in for a day or two, meet their constituents, go home, speak on sunday morning talk shows, say how they had been to iraq. but not mccain. i tried to persuade my bosses at the time not to let him come to the north because we were in pretty tough combat in mosul, and i guess that word got back to him. first thing he said as he got off the c-130 as he landed at mosul airport, they said he is coming, you have to take him for a couple of days. first thing he said to me, i hadn t met him or seen him since 2004, probably didn t know who the hell i was either, he said so general, i understand you didn t want me to come to mosul. it puts you on your heels a bit. i am stumbling, saying no, sir, it is not that, i think i said it is a little sporty out there, an expression we used in the military. let me interrupt you a moment. the late senator s wife walking
wanted an insurance policy, perhaps in case pecker went away or no longer controlled the company, trump on tape says if he s hit by a truck, is that what they were looking to do because they trusted him but didn t trust what might follow. i think they wanted a clean slate. i think the president wanted peace of mind of being able to sleep at night and that there were no surprises awaiting him in archives of the national enquirer. for david pecker s purposes that was very appealing. at first blush it probably looked like a blank check. it would give him the money to continue acquiring additional titles in publishing. to be clear, the deal didn t happen. was that a matter of money or pecker didn t want to sell it? what do we know? i suspect that probably in the end someone from the board perhaps even cfo wisenburg sat
have only increased, basically she s arguing that we could be getting closer to a war with iran because of what you guys did today. once again it s exactly the opposite. this deal didn t stop the nuclear weapons program. that s part of the problem. laura: but they did get inspection. they did have some inspection of sites they got to choose. where their inspections before the deal of any type that were useful? their work, but they are certainly not adequate on the critical issue here of iran s military activities before now and continuing. we saw from what the israelis released, although the data went back some years, iran clearly had a weapons program. we don t know the full extent of it today. and by allowing this deal to continue we were simply giving iran more time to get closer to nuclear weapons. laura: the former u.s. ambassador to nato said it essentially today a month-long effort by the u.s. closest allies to persuade president trump to stick to the deal has failed. th