with our allies. an opportunity for the president to showcase russia cannot get away with the issues that sought to undermine the western alliance. can t get away with ukraine, can t get away with syria and has to showcase that he is willing to admit to meddling he committed in our elections but an opportunity for the president to stand up to vladimir putin and not reset the relationship with the russians, without real objections that secure american interests and showcase to the russians they don t get a pass. a lot of people watching, waiting and wondering whether vladimir putin will get a pass. we appreciate your insights, a lot on the table for donald trump, thanks for taking the time. you are looking at pictures from the official residence as you heard from. we will see the president a
speculation, it is game on for the president, stakes are high, the question is what happens when donald trump and vladimir putin are one on one for their one on one meeting? that is the question we went to see. ed: we have to be careful not to hype it up too much. the stakes are enormous and a lot of big issues for them to address from north korea, iran, syria. we are going through the list. what do you see as the most important issues for them to deal with? what are the two or three big issues? the president needs to stick to his policy guns. his policies have been quite strong on russia. he has been consistent through his administration, time for russia to leave ukraine. if the president communicates
world. something we will take a close look at. appreciate it, done a great job. as we knew, the president his meeting with vladimir putin, what can we expect? i senior fellow, good to have you today. everyone is wondering what we can expect, the president in an interview appearing to try to lower expectations before big events to deliver on something big, even bigger if you say i don t think much will happen. that is right. he is focused on statecraft at the highest levels, singapore summit reinforced to donald trump the value of the image of being a great peacemaker and he will speak on a number of issues from ukraine, north korea, syria, seen as a peacekeeper on the highest level and vladimir
i was live in finland, 22 hours of sunlight this time of year. a beautiful spectacular morning for the summit. four hours from now, the president the pres. and first lady will arrive in the wonderful yellow building behind me the site of today s meeting, donald trump and his russian counterpart will touch a range of subjects from nuclear arms control to syria, we are breaking that down early this morning. he is also trying to downplay expectation. let s have a meeting, i do believe in meetings, having a meeting with chairman kim was a good thing. having meetings with the president of china was a very good thing. so having meetings with russia, china, north korea, i believe in it, nothing bad will come out of it and some good will come out
the problem is russia has complicated an already complicated conflict in syria by interjecting itself into this fight. the civil war into a complex international crisis point. i agree with the analysis, the united states must remain in that part of the world in order to as i said uphold the pres. s existing red lines on american interests in the middle east, backing off no matter how flattering vladimir putin is would be bad for the united states and i hope that doesn t happen. ed: let s talk about something, the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, an important world leader on his own, a key ally of donald trump. they have been tight in the early days of the trump administration, he talked syria