intelligence on suspected balmer salman abedi. staying overseas russian president vladimir pugh it continue is trying to improve his country s ties with western europe with talks with emmanuel macron. joining me is msnbc contributor and world news he heditor for daily beast in paris for us. chris, good to see you. thanks for being with us. what did the two leaders discuss and was macron receptive to putin given he not only backed his opponent but the russians were accused of interfering in the election? well, at the press conference a lot of questions were asked about precisely that, and it was fascinate to go see how they reacted, both of them. putin basically looked like he wanted to crawl behind the curtain. i ve never seen him look so abashed, so uneasy in his own skin. macron was in complete control of the press conference, and i imagine that things went that way when they had lunch