he was hoping for a christmas miracle and trump wouldn t follow through on his threats to shut down the government. but it sets a change in republican behavior that i can defect coming out of the midterm elections. you heard the press avail with schumer and pelosi trump still bragging about holding on to the senate and expanding republican margins there. i think the reaction from republicans by and large flows from the trump. they are mimicking donald trump and decided collectively they will not change their behavior despite having been more or less wiped out, at least in the house and governor s races on november 6th. but they get cover because in the sentencing memo it says that this is what michael cohen claims, so they are able to paint him a liar. but as you have pointed out, as many people have pointed out, no doubt prosecutors have more. if that other corroborating evidence would come forward, who knows if republicans have to change their tune. not likely.
has an inability to criticize russia. every day there is him needing to walk it back because of is coddling vladimir putin, and then something else happened. yesterday there was a press avail where they asked the president a direct question and she believes he looked right at here and gave her a direct answer, and that he is denying this also. can you tell us more about what she asked. it was something to the affect of vladimir putin? he said no. and then they had to walk that one back too, april? right, the president directly looked at cecilia, and said no, twice. he did not say anything about go
we saw foreign minister lavrov here. that will be the big moment. then there will be a press avail later in the day. will give you different shots as we get them. the president now traveling through an area they didn t want direct eyes to be on him. so this is the moment that we re waiting for. over our shoulder is the presidential palace. there is a makeshift tent set up so that when the president and the first lady arrive it will be closed off. thank you for that scene setter. chris, give me a sense of how this whole meeting is being received in finland. as you know, helsinki has been
we are told and why they wanted he wanted it that way included not being interrupted by his more hard line advisers when talking to vladimir putin. they are behind closed doors. each has a translator and that s it. we won t know what was said until we hear the reckonings of both men. before the meeting started, there was a little bit of a press avail. president trump spoke second and brought up a list of topics he wanted to discuss. no mention of the following, no mention of syria, which was surprising. crimea, ukraine, the russian election, the american election rather, take a listen. most importantly we have a lot of good things to talk about and things to talk about. we have discussions on everything from trade to military to missiles to nuclear to china. we ll talk a little bit about china, mutual friend, president
all right, so president trump and president vladimir putin just had their first press avail at the beginning of this meeting here in helsinki. president trump let putin start the meeting and he ended it. just to give you a quick talk through on it, president putin was very brief. he said it s good to meet and talk about all of the problems and difficulties we have to discuss. president trump first congratulated putin on the world cup. that he said he heard it was one of the best. he did not mention the just election in those issues 37 he said that the united states and russia have not been getting along, but they would have an extraordinary relationship and the world wants the countries to get along because they have 09% of the nuclear capabilities and