there are concerns that in looking to improve relations with vladimir putin, the president might give away too much. for example, at that friday press conference, with theresa may, the president told me he did think it was possible for the united states and russia to improve relations, even if russia continues to occupy crimea. chris? chris: john roberts reporting here in helsinki. john, thank you. joining me now the u.s. ambassador to russia, jon huntsman. ambassador, welcome back to fox news sunday. thank you, chris, pleasure to be with you. chris: i want to start with president trump s comments coming in to the summit this week in helsinki. here he is. i have nato. i have the u.k. which is in somewhat turmoil and i have putin, frankly putin may be the easiest of them all, who would think. do you view the president s meeting with putin as the easiest he has this week?
now. trying to instill order and discipline in the west wing. retired marine corps general spoke to 200 white house staffers, giving them a sharp warning against leaks and making clear that serving the country and the president should come before their own needs and priorities. amid the crackdown, john kelly facing the challenge of the russia investigation, which continues to dog the white house. kristen fisher joins us from new jersey, where the president is vacationing. the attorney general is also vowing to crack down on leaks. how is the president reacting to the friday press conference. what a difference a week makes. it wasn t long ago that the president called his attorney general weak and beleaguered.
reaction from capitol hill on comey s testimony in the russia investigation is pouring in. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle calling for the got turn over the comey tapes if they exist. remember, the president is the one who brought up the potential of tapes in the first place, this as top senators on the intelligence committee are said to meet with special counsel robert mueller this week amid the russia investigations. suzanne malveaux live on capitol hill with more on this. they re buzzing even more and more after what the president said in his friday press conference, saying of course i would testify in front of congressional committees, 100%, if asked. what else are you hearing? it s hard to imagine that you could top last week all the anticipation and the attention around what s happening this is one of the weeks that could rival last week around the buzz and the riveting testimony of former fbi director james comey.
which is a bank which mnuchkin was involved in, some are planning to dom the hearings and hope to testify. that should take place before the inauguration. jonathan? bamako not have been more complimentary of tom perez his labor secretary at the friday press conference that the president had. he was effusive of the man who served in his cabinet. the question lots of folks are asking in the dnc is will president obama in january or perhaps out of office in february formally endorse secretary perez. why does this matter? yesterday speaking to a top democrat, i was told only about a quarter of the dnc voting committee which is about 440 people are now committed to a candidate. so this thing is wide-open and the endorsement of a current or former president could matter a great deal. also, by the way, a former
not sure we can turn it back. netanyahu was absolutely right. the iranian stock exchange for example in the last month has gone up 133%. we haven t even lifted those sanctions officially. just the mere suggestion we re going to lift them has met the companies and countries are lining up to do business with iran. so iran is on the verge of having a huge economic boom. so what does the united states do now? sure, congress should pass legislation to say if iran does not go along with what they promised to do, sanctions should be reimposed. it s going to be hard to reimpose those sanction. going to be really hard to get that toothpaste back in the tube. i was going to say, to your point, when you go back to the president s friday press conference, before going on his vacation to hawaii, he was talking about, hey, we haven t removed sanctions. they re still effective. that was his argument. how effective is that argument when you see that iran is kind