in just hours rex tiller is on will meet with his russian counter part at the g-20 summit. this comes amid a series of military provocations and questions about the ties to the kremlin. nick robinson is live with more. what s the latest, nick. the stakes of the meeting just went up in the first hour or so we heard from the kremlin that the defense minister pushed back on what u.s. defense secretary mattis told nato leaders yesterday that they need to negotiate from a leader of strength. that will be fruitless because that s the tone that the united states top diplomat is going into the room with. they re expected to discuss
for purposes of my judgment trying to get a clearer picture for what s doing on. the president seemed to play down this reporting that he s considering the appointment of this new york billionaire, stephen feinberg, that ran a hedge fund and has no experience in the intelligence community to do a very view of the 16 agencies as well as the executive branch. feinberg was talented and offered his help but he felt his new director of national intelligence, dan coates should be in place soon. what i should emphasize, there s a dare in the wall street journal story but may be more nuances with flynn because he s doing things because they don t play out that way in washington. shepard: thanks, catherine herridge. you re welcome. shepard: president trump refused to say what he would do about russia s military provocations. there s no reresponse to these provocations? i m not doing to tell you
information damaging to hillary clinton and helpful to donald trump. former obama adviser ben rhodes tweeting today, when campaign chairman and national security adviser resign over russia ties there is more. manafort and flynn had nothing in common except russia and trump. president trump for his part continues to make public statements seemingly defending vladimir putin, telling fox news he respects the russian leader earlier this month. putin s a killer. a lot of killers. a lot of killers. what, you think our country is so innocent? reporter: today the white house said the president is in fact tough on russia, even if the statements are coming from staff other than himself. his ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley, stood before the u.n. security council on her first day and strongly denounced the russian occupation of crimea. jim sciutto joins me now. there was another in a string of military provocations by russia today weeks into the administration. what s happe
$10 trillion they will not give them up. economic incentives won t work. he also said that north korea intends to continue with its nuclear tests and military provocations until and when it becomes a nuclear state. when is the plan to do that? by the end of 2017, this isn t just an impulsive date plucked from the air. jim jong-un is calculating very carefully this is when we will president donald trump in the white house in washington, d.c. and a new president in seoul. he believes that the hands the new administrations hands will be tied. they won t be able to take any action or provocation or afford any military action to stop north korea s weapons ambitions. therefore, he s going to forge
maintained there was only one china and that taiwan was part of it and china claimed this is a core interest, meaning they re willing to fight if taiwan makes moves towards independence. so our policy, our non-provocation of beijing along these lines has been essential to stability across the taiwan straits that has benefitted the people of taiwan. you know better than anyone how this threatens to have an impact on the world, the global economy in addition to these two big economies that we face, ours and china. with that said, military provocations, a number of analysts who noted yesterday with something like this that could potentially escalate, would the united states be prepared to use its military if this goes beyond where it is now which is a form of complaint and is it always a possibility? it s a possibility but a great many steps away.