a bilateral like this, you get the ambassador back from moscow, the ambassadors have a lot of talks at the foreign ministry. he knows precisely what they re interested in. normally, you d have your ambassador in a meeting, if for no other reason, to stress to the other side, this is my guy. this ambassador, he is my guy. when you talk to him, it is like you re talking to me. it s tough. ambassador, thank you for all of that. we needed your experience and your voice here. we re going to take one more break. when we come back, we ll be approaching the top of the hour. we hope this bilateral press opportunity between these two men, as we continue our coverage of this summit, this meeting, this gathering, in helsinki. to stay successful in business, you have to navigate a lot of moving parts. on your business, we have your back with expert advice on
ambassador to the united kingdom, and he was basically describing trump as someone who breaks eggs, but he s trying to make a great omelet. who does things differently. yes, he does upset people because he s breaking the status quo. and sometimes a wrecking ball can be a good thing. sometimes it can shake up the old norms. sometimes it can remove the dead wood. but sometimes a wrecking ball, when it starts to hit the very pillars holding up what we understood about the world community, pillars that have kept peace between great powers for the last several decades, since world war ii. the eu, nato. when you start taking a wrecking ball to them, then it is unthinkable and it does raid profound questions, not just about this summit, but what will happen in the years to come. it s also a wrecking ball for show. think about the sanctions. president trump had to have his hand forced by congress to put
at the games. crimea, the situation was in flux. ukraine was breaking away. now jump ahead, four years later. another sporting event. this time, the world cup. you have the president coming to this summit with evidence that he apparently doesn t think is very important. after having just moved through europe knocking down allies one after another. indeed, that was the point this morning s new york times made by attacking europe and by launching a trade war with our allies, they say trump has already advanced the agenda of putin and, richard, it s just a subhead on the front page of the new york times, unfathomable, unthinkable in our lifetime. well, some people have described president trump as a wrecking ball. i ve spoken to president trump s supporters. i just recently interviewed one of his close friends, the u.s.
on friday for the first time, the u.s. government accused president maduro of personally profiting from narco trafficking. the trump administration is still withholding the possibility of devastating oil sanctions against venezuela. it would further cripple an economy where inflation right now is 13000%. bret: we will follow this. phil keating in miami. up next, chaos among house republicans as the midterm elections inch closer. the reason i am here at the reagan library is for an event tonight about my new book three days in moscow. for an upcoming special looking at the final summit in moscow between president reagan and mikhail gorbachev, i sat down with reagan white house press secretary marlin fitzwater who reflected on president reagan s push to end the cold war. reagan said to gorbachev, you know you can win this cold war. and you ought to get out.
summit in moscow where they would toast each other and talk about the cooperation that they are going to do in places like syria or elsewhere. none of that is happening. ironically the plan that they ran in 2016 has not given them the results they hope to achieve. exactly the opposite. in our 30 remaining seconds you did this for the home team meaning you tried to get the u.s. message out using inexpensive methods if you could. have you ever seen a return on investment this robust? for putin i don t think he has seen that. what is so surprising about the bloomberg story is they say this is a predicate for what they can do in 18 and 2020. they are just beginning to see how things work and we are protected by how uncentralized our election system is. i want to thank you both. discussion goes on. we will have you both back. thank you to ambassador mike