today with international foreign policy including the ongoing syria. the crisis that is happening and the reason. here s president trump. if we can do something to help the people of syria get back into some form of shelter or on a humanitarian basis, and that is what the word was, a humanitarian basis that both of us would be very interested in doing. absent from today s conversation, russia s invasion of ukraine. she is live at the pentagon with details. jennifer. no mention of that malaysian airliner that russia shot down over ukraine. they killed 300 people. as he mentioned, most striking about this 40 minute press conference, president trump made no mention of russia s invasion of ukraine and invasion of crimea. invasion of us are sovereign en
arsenal, they would be a country that would be wielding far less influence on the world stage. if they made progress there, i think that is the number one reason why you would want to engage with russia and perhaps to do it. but you have to do that from a position of strength and make putin know that there will be consequences if they continue to behave that the way that they did when obama was president. what did russia get out of this high-stakes meeting? i don t know what they got out of it. i think putin, if you look at the opera duration that they did with the spearfishing and the hacking, that was really a third-rate operation. it was not investigated. i think the meal or indictment that. but what mileage have they gotten out of that? a lot of that has been driven by the president s political opponents both in the democratic party and the press. that s what bugs him about the issue. it is used to try to delegitimize his election victory. i personally think that the intel repo
but when you re standing in a foreign country with a summit next to a leader who has clearly attacked the u.s. using cyber, and it was across the board, house, senate, intel agencies, saying that we are both to blame, it is going to throw up a lot of players. real quickly in all of your experience, two hours with the leader of russia. that seems like an awfully long time to spend with somebody that you don t know all that well. how does that stand in comparison? is that unusual? or is that how it goes. and other meetings, he had a long meeting with vladimir putin early in his term. but putin does a lot of the talking, we are told behind the scenes. do not know the back-and-forth here. clearly president trump likes getting on the world stage and meeting one-on-one with leaders. most presidents do. a different approach to it as far as dealing from afar or actually sitting in a room and that is what the trump administration will say is the biggest benefit. the communication line i
trump cannot swim. she will criticize him no matter what he does. i will say that it was a different type of meeting compared to the north korea summit. they are you have a concrete issue that you are trying to achieve a denuclearization of the korean peninsula. obviously, that is a work in progress. with putin, it is not clear to me the areas of agreement that we have. it seems like our country just have divergent interests when you look at places like crimea, when you look at their incursions in the ukraine, when you look at their activity in syria and their support for iran. i think the meeting was long between the two of them in private. we will probably get some more details about that as things go on. i do not say really a path while this will be a big breakthrough. it is interesting that the criticism has been in two different lands. yet senator lindsey graham accusing the president of missing an opportunity with regard of holding putin to the fire on russian meddling. and the
are credible in terms of assigning blame and culpability to russia. at the same time, i don t think that had anything to do with the fact that he equipped hillary clinton. i also don t think that there was any trump-russia collusion. there are all these issues that are intermingled by a lot of the people that want to damage him as president. that is very interesting. tigress me, always great to have you on the program here thank you very much. you set us up for our next journalist was going to join us. thank you. thank you. fox news chief political anchor and news anchor of political report bret baier. to pick up on the congressman s last point, i m curious to know what the country got out of this and did one country benefit more than the other? good afternoon. i think the question i capitol hill for republicans including democrats will become a how were america s interests improved after this meeting? i think that is really a serious