think, very much parallels what we saw in his meetings with kim jong un in north korea and singapore a month ago. the presidential level, he is all about establishing a relationship. he is all about dialing down the temperature. he is all about the possibility of deals for the future. at the administered level, we see a much different posture with north korea. we see a very tight sanction on north korea. he sees the white house putting pressure on nations in the region around the world, to put the screws to north korea to bring them to the table. the same here with russia. use of the president and private and is expanded bilateral meetings with latimer pruden, talking about the possible, talking about the ways that the united states could get along. talking about shared interest that they can work together on. and at the administered level, you still have those sanctions on russia over the annexation of crimea. he saw the diplomat it s expelled on the nerve gas attack and salsberry ang
and russia could cooperate, and at the administered level, you still have all of the sanctions on russia. because of the invasion of crimea. you so have the diplomats of the united states because of the nerve gas poisoning, and salsberry england. it is operating on two different levels there. but there are a lot of parallels in this and what happened a month ago in singapore. in that briefing room where things concluded a few minutes ago, bill, back to you in helsinki. sandra, a remarkable and fascinating 40 minutes. we are waiting for this moment. we were building to this point. a reminder to our viewers at home and around the world, vladimir putin sits down with chris wallace within the hour. and then, later, president trump will talk to sean hannity and tucker carlson. we look at competing visions of what happened here today. with me in helsinki, daniel hoffman, as well as my colleague, bret baier in washington, d.c. gentlemen, let s start here, what d you think about we just he
on that question. both world leaders touting this as a success. when i stepped up from there, putin said we can call it a success. he went on to praise president trump for bringing an attitude of dialogue. trump reciprocated and said it went very well, our relationship has never been worse than it is now. and as he said as of four hours ago, that has changed. and now, john, a reaction in washington around the country, and around the world. yeah, and i think that there are some parallels between this and at the kim jong un summit in singapore a month ago. with the president, at his level, was trying to break open some dialogue. he was trying to make some advances. at the administrative level, all of the screws are still being tightened on north korea. they have not let that go at all. i think we are seeing the same thing here. at the presidential level, president trump tried to break open some avenues of dialogue, someways that the united states
president did this week is tell angela merkel stop creating dependencesy on putin and a hostile regime. stop. we have more natural resources and we could put more americans to work tomorrow and export all the energy they would need for all of western europe. there is a bit of irony about all of this. europe is under greater threat from russia today than at any time since collapse of the soviet union. yes, the united states takes the lead in countering and deterring russia. sean: 70 cents of every dollar we pay for nato. $700 billion a year. germany doesn t pay their fair share. even beyond the financial aspects of this. this is really our moral leadership and the intelligence leadership, the strategic leadership of the united states. people are not always grateful for that. but on the eve of the president s summit with vladimir putin, i find it ironic. sean: the president said everything is on the table with vladimir putin. just like the lead up to the kim jong un summit in
president did this week is tell angela merkel stop creating dependency on putin and a hostile regime. stop. we have more natural resources and we could put more americans to work tomorrow and export all the energy they would need for all of western europe. there is a bit of irony about all of this. europe is under greater threat from russia today than at any time since collapse of the soviet union. yes, the united states takes the lead in countering and deterring russia. sean: 70 cents of every dollar we pay for nato. $700 billion a year. germany doesn t pay their fair share. even beyond the financial aspects of this. this is really our moral leadership and the intelligence leadership, the strategic leadership of the united states. people are not always grateful for that. but on the eve of the president s summit with vladimir putin, i find it ironic. sean: the president said everything is on the table with vladimir putin. just like the lead up to the kim