To homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget. That your business is our business the United States postal service. Priority you welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live every sunday from washington from 7 00 to 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Tonight, trump putin, the sequel, the leadrs meet in helsinki. Things get tricky ahead of the summit. Later republican congressman Ryan Costello joins me live. He says his colleagues conclusions on the russia investigation should be taken with a grain of salt. But just hours from now, President Trump and President Putin are set to meet. Things were always going to be a little awkward to begin with. And then came the indictments of a dozen russians laid out in forensic detail. It leaves a lot of questions, like whether holding those accountable will come up in their conversation. The russians who were indicted, would you ask putin to send them here . Well, i might. I hadnt thought of that, but certainly ill be asking about it. Again, this
the sanctions that the international community has put in place over these last four years since the 2014 intervention inkwurgs in ukraine and crimea were meant to isolate russia, meant to say nobody who takes these kind of actions against a neighbor should drobd a member of the civilized world. and what president trump is doing here in effect is saying that you re welcomed back on the stage. david ignatius, you have the president of the united states doing what he did again after the disastrous g7 summit where he suggested russia become the eighth member again. he insulted america s closest allies to having a summit with one of america s, i would say most feared if you look at their capability of striking the continental united states with nurngs one of our most feared
direction. i m struck by the fact that trump s aides, jon huntsman, the ambassador, john bolton over the weekend said we don t know what s on the agenda of the summit. i m calling it the seinfeld summit. it s a summit about nothing. the american president doesn t know what he wants to achieve. the old quote goes, if you don t stand for something, you ll fall for anything. yeah. which is of course the fear of so many right now as we re waiting for donald trump to arrive and meet with vladimir putin for what he calls a summit. for what the united states ambassador to russia calls a meeting. let s bring in right now u.s. senator from the state of connecticut and also member of the judiciary committee, senator blumenthal. thanks for being with us. i m curious what your reaction is to the shocking amount of forensic evidence, the detail that actually places the
very unscripted summit that has no agenda. what you did not see is any kind of pose toture either in the bo language or verbal language that he ll take on vladimir putin in any way. he was as friendly and opening session in this one-on-one as can you imagine, talking about our relations have not been very good but it would be a good thing if it were improved, not a bad thing. the kind of rhetoric he s used in the run up to this summit and the fact thaet talks about everything but cyber attacks. he talks about nuclear missiles, he talks about trade and about china and their mutual friend president xi. he is talking about the world at large but not talking about europe, nato and the other things that are essential in europe and the rest of the world. so, it s not a very auspicious beginning that anybody would hope that the president would
and if you continue to in the words of the head of our intel community try to, quote, undermine american democracy on a daily basis, there will be consequences. was your in reading the mueller indictment on friday, was it your did you view that also as much of a statement to vladimir putin as it was an indictment against these individuals who tried to subvert american democracy? definitely. i think it was a big move by the intelligence community to declassify these details. it s a big diplomatic move to hold criminal liability over the heads of foreign government officials. there could be repercussions against american officials but it was manifested the right thing for bob muler to do. i just come back to this issue about trump goes into this summit today and he doesn t have any idea about what he wants to achieve. he s kind of a weather vain, willing to be blown in any