created serious mistrust, and we simply have to find some way to deal with that. joining me nose elise labott, and chance is here with me. elise, tell me more about this meeting? well, it s the first time that the two leaders have met since that sanctioning bill was passed by congress and signed by president trump. also the russians have that have to leave the country and stop working at the u.s. embassy. clearly that was the elephant in the room. i think there s an effortly senior tillerson to work on some of the other issues, like syria, like ukraine. he said there could be some foreign movement on that, but clearly it was a tense meeting, it was a tough discussion, and i think the russians don t have a hell of a lot incentive to make
to get along with each other. go to the next question. go ahead. it s just that contextually that s why i brought it up. it s not that we have some untoward fascination with an investigation. we do it because it threatens the foundation of the democracy. you know that. you know it matters. i know it matters. the president should know kellyanne conway has said it. i ll say it. the president has said it. it s an odd strategy for the president. if there s smoking gun proof, he ll take action. he s looking at the sanctions right now. he may decide to veto the sanctions and be tougher on the russians than congress. you think if he vo toes it, it s because he wants something tougher than what they want in the sanctioning bill? he may sign the sanctions exactly the way they are, or he may veto the sanctions and negotiate an even tougher deal against the russians. it is a counterintuitive, counterpunching personality.
at traditional communications director or the role that gets him in the door and things shift around agen little? jeff is right. getting his feet and now all day as we speak. we may expect to see him traveling, but i would be i think president trump has very little room not to go along with the sanctioning bill, if that s what passes. his veto would presumably be overwritten. enormous support in the house and senate. the question i would be looking for is, are there any strings attached for the support or tacit support. i was surprised by the conflicting mergesw got from the two officials. you would think you would have a meeting, you know you re going to be asked about this issue, yet you sort of come up with the same answer presumably. did not happen this time. jim, let s talk about the intelligence community. we were at the aspen institute forum, the russian meddling in
throughout the world, invading the ukraine. i want to punish them through sanctions. i hope we get a chance in the senate to vote on a sanctioning bill for enter fearing in our elections. the russians did it, no one else did it, the russians did it. if the obama administration politicized intelligence, and susan rice unmasked people, i want to know that, too. do you think the president understands i can only tell you what lindsey graham understands. it was a russian effort. they re trying to do the same thing from france, germany, throughout the world. you are from south carolina. that s the least of the breaking news today. i do need to ask you because of that. when you heard the president say why was there a civil war and later he tweeted about it, saying andrew jackson said it would never happened, what did you think? i think there was a collision
keystone to the president s desk? what s in your view success? i want to put as many bills as we can on the president s desk. some of those areas, again we can work together. i d like to see us work together on trade. i d like to see us work together on the syrian authorization. if we re going to expend force there that we actually have legal authority to do so. i think we need to get the normally appropriations bill moving but there s going to be some areas where we confront. clearly we ll disagree with the president s approach. we re going to disagree very strongly with him on obamacare and we ll probably try to make at least some piecemeal changes there, and we re probably going to look at a sanctioning bill that will be very bipartisan and i think present quite a problem. it will be a mixture of confrontation and compromise. you mentioned syria s do you think assist a deadline at this point a lack of congressional authorization will make the current isis operation illegal,