support russia s alignment with iran awith syria. i think ambassador haley was right when she shaaid the russis are up to. they used chemical weapons every time during this war. i actually supported president trump s air strikes on that syrian air base in response to the use of chemical weapons as something we ve got to keep an eye on. the bigger issue here is that u.s. military forces and russian military forces are both operating in syria. we are conducting strikes against the islamic state. the russians are bombing mainly civilian targets tragically. we ve got to keep our troops, our air forces away from each other and deconflict that there s no accident. ambassador burns, good to have you this morning. thank you very much. this is the final day of the g20. protests already under way. we re live at hamburg with the latest on so many arrests. many injuries. the police officers as well as
i will call them from now on losers, because that s what they are. they re losers. this is mtp daily and it starts right now. good evening and welcome to mtp daily. i m chuck todd here in washington. good to be back. and since the last time i saw you, it s been revelation after revelation for the trump white house, on multiple fronts, surrounding multiple angles into the russia probe. all of these stories, the firing of james comey, president trump s meeting with russian officials, his disclosing of classified information during that meet, the drip, drip, drip of michael flynn who s now pleading the fifth, the possibility that someone inside the white house is now a significant person of interest in the russia investigation, oh, and i think at one point, calling james comey a nut job in front of russis by the president, that allegation out there, on any one of these stories would be huge on its own
no imminent threat, and it is the type of thing that the president should have, in not formally, at least informally talked to congress about. there was no rush to did this. could have taken a day or two later. with donald trump, it seems that, since it was aim, fire, ready, something, whatever. fire, now. do it, go. and without having a larger policy, we see rex tillerson and nikki haley in the last 24 hours saying things diametrically opposed about what the policy is. talking to congress may have been a way to make sure they kind of had an idea of where they were going forward, whether it was constitutionally required or not. but david professor, speak to go ahead, karen. well, i was saying, though, david, isn t this by definition almost contingent on what the rians do gng forward, what the russis do going forward? yeah. i think at this point it really is hard to sort of come up with a long-term strategy
recognize that in the next election cycle, this could be aimed at us. this is about a foreign power, a hostile foreign power having their thumb on the scales of american elections. they wanted to show a how bad democracy can be and i am quoting here, to split off key american allies by creating an image that other countries can depend on the u.s., do you believer of this that putin accomplished any of those things? what s clear is the russis have a phd in this information. you can oftentimes tell what is true by just taking the condition of what s coming out of the press shop. i think we need to be concerned
russia. no. reporter: not russia. wow. the koreans. are we getting close? reporter: very, very good. who won the cold war? i m not the best historian. the russis won. no one. can t we agree to disagree. america and russia came out together, frienimies. i feel bad. i m blaming everything on the french. i ll say we won because our golfs to stop communism to spread. reporter: who did we fight against. usr. reporter: ussr. yeah, ussr. reporter: why did they call it the cold war? it was cold in russia. because no one was making advances, right? wasn t really fighting. reporter: which is the top