together at the kremlin, macron this morning with putin on the phone for an hour and 40 minutes. what is it about those two being able to connect? i m sorry? i just got off the phone after an hour briefing with one of macron s top aides. he said that ma kron told putin a sincere dialogue is incompatible with escalation. putin responded saying i have no offensive intentions. and macron s aide said military maneuvers don t necessarily foreshadow an invasion. the point is macron does not want to wind up like neville chamberlain in munich, you know, suggesting that piece is possible and then a week or month later there s an invasion and war breaks out. but he does say one interesting thing that came out of this this morning that i found very important with respect to nato and what our military colleague just said. on ukraine joining nato marx kron said, look, this is choice of the people of ukraine and of
don t consider american. thank you. thank you for coming over. we continue ba to watch the north port coconfident white house. this is royal anyway to await the arrival of french president ma kron and his wife for the first state state dinner trump and the french president differ on the iran deal. macron s for it, trump s not sure. in fact,ive think he s against it. wouldn t trump s best case for scenarios be much like the deal that obama struck? containment may be the best deal we re going to get. plus, the big question for trump as the investigation closes in around him. will he pardon his fixer michael cohen? today he called that a stupid thing to ask. the democrats have a real shot to the win control of congress for next year only if they can resist too much talk about impeachment. it may not be smart to talk impeachment before the november election.
ambassador s op ed. ma kron. ma kroon, not mook roon. i want a mack roon now. guys, thank you very much. coming up next, we are going to have one more thing for you right after the break, a snap of massive proportions at the bottom of the world. but first, we just heard from texas senator ted cruz for the first time since today s debut of the revised healthcare plan it includes an amendment that he crafted and here is what he told msnbc moments ago. the bill today reflect the input from senators across the spectrum. it s not the ideal bill i d like to pass. i suspect there may not be a single senator for whom it s the ideal bill they d like to pass, but it does reflect a bill that reflects the concerns expressed across the conference. i think that s how we actually come together and honor our promise to repeal obamacare. flsh
putin. we ve had really great meetings with a lot of people. reporter: we also heard today from nikki haley, the u.n. ambassador for the united states. she was speaking on cnn and she said, for an interview that will air tomorrow, in fact, that everybody knows that russia meddled in the u.s. election. of course, president trump asked about this on this trip, when he was in poland, says, nobody knows for sure. nikki haley, druuring that interview, said you ll have to ask the president himself why he won t answer that question more declarityively. it s notable as they wrap up this g20 summit, as the president heads home, jacob, that it s tradition that these heads of state, presidents, prime ministers, will hold news conferences in the last several hours. we heard from vladimir putin, angela merkel, ma kron of france, trudeau in canada, but president trump himself left without holding a news conference so that question couldn t be posed to him today. i don t think anybody s surprised
seemed far apart on the iran nuclear deal. ma kron is for it, trump isn t so sure. what we have to work on obviously with iran and the different, the p5 and our allies is to find a fair deal where we can fix the overall situation. there is a chance and nobody knows what i m going to do on the 12th although mr. president, you have a pretty good idea, but we ll see. but we ll see also if i do what some people expect whether or not it will be possible to do a new deal with solid foundations because this is a deal with decayed foundations. we begin with the latest turmoil in the administration. the president today seemed to offer an off-ramp or a plank to walk on top admiral ronnie jackson, his nominee for secretary for veterans affairs. i said to dr. jackson, what