he said it was going to happen in the fall. now the white house curiously revising and saying it will be pushed to sometime next year, and this is where it gets a little hinky. trump officials say it will come when the russia witch hunt is over. meanwhile, donald trump s secretary of state mike pompeo facing tough questions today about trump s meeting with putin. we really need a clear understanding as to what is going on, what our president is agreeing to, and what our strategy is on a number of issues. we saw an american president who appeared submissive and deferential. did he tell you what transpired in the two-hour meeting. i ve had a number of conversations with him about what took place in the meeting. did you speak to the translator who was at that meeting? no, i haven t. did the president tell you he discussed relaxing russia sanctions or not, yes or no? presidents are entitled to have private meetings.
beautiful when it s raining. trump is trying really hard to be that figure, and the question is, do the rest of the republicans around him fall in line and allow that to happen? that speaks to a political point that can get lost here, which is if you don t care about the ethics and the rules of all this, and donald trump just wanted to do domestic poll t politicking and put this all in the rear view, didn t have some reason, ego or debt, or nefarious reasons in the dossier and elsewhere, for placating russia, he wouldn t have to go act like that with putin, then suck up to him, and then say he s got a white house invite. at a certain point. it doesn t look like a debate that happened over 2016 that people are roar sharking, it looks like a thing that s happening in slow motion before our eyes. absolutely. it stretches the imagination that donald trump came in with a very sophisticated foreign
secretary pompeo, riding the wave of the points you re educating us on, many people inside the kremlin know more than our secretary of state. significantly. that s chilling. absolutely. you see the defense ministry in russia saying we re thrilled to agree to the terms the president and putin decided. at this point pompeo can either say, yeah, they had a meeting, went really well, agreeing with what donald trump says in public, or try to pretend that that s not what he said. he s stuck in this untenable position where he has to say, actually, the president s been really hard on russia when we all know it s the opposite. it s not something that he can keep up. it s not a sustainable thing. we re going to see these cabinet members come forward and self-immilate quickly. that s what you do when you re working with someone that s a congenital liar. i find jess s analysis
joining me is jess mcintosh. congress is supposed to do its oversight job, put aside the rhetoric and the drama of the putin meeting and actually say does congress want a different russia policy? yes. trump s cabinet is put in a horrific position by having to answer questions that involve facts because they don t know them because the president hasn t been forthcoming at all with what happened with the one-on-one meeting with putin. you re making a point in fairness to secretary pompeo, he s not a liar, but he may work for a liar who hides things from him. it comes back on his character that he works for a liar. i have sympathy, he doesn t know what putin and trump said, nobody knows but putin and the cabinet. we re in the dark.