nations. rob: griff jenkins has reaction from both world leaders. reporter: the president departed helsinki reacting to bipartisan criticism, not only for standing behind the assessment on russian meddling but as i said today many times before i have great confidence in my intelligence people but i recognize to build a brighter future we can t exclusively focus on the largest nuclear powers. we must get along then. in an interview with sean hannity, focusing on a single issue. there was no collusion whatsoever. i guess he said it as strongly as you can say it. talking about nuclear proliferation, talking syria and humanitarian aid and all these things and we get questions on the witchhunt. reporter: in an exclusive
grasp with that. i think sometimes when the president is speaking about russia saying look there are things we need to work with russia on talking syria, nuclear arsenals things like that. there are things we do need. we do want to move them from influence and sphere of a rising china. 100%. that is not to say that you shouldn t, shouldn t address the issues of crimea, excuse me, syria, and meddling in elections, you should. you should. we don t know he is not going to. we ll see what happens. we will see what happens. i m going to helsinki. you need to have eyes on it. you are too important here. congressman taylor, make me this promise after we see what happens in nato. come back. new voices nurks j, we need you perspective. thank you for having me. be well. don lemon and preview of cnn tonight min aults wautes away. how do we make america humane? you know what i am talking about. covered it well.
he s saying he would have a good relationship with him. he s saying that he s not that bad. when confronted with the bad things that you know vladimir putin has spearheaded, he said, like they re not so bad. i think the context the president was saying about putin is was how everybody is saying he s kgb and going to tie the president in knots and the president disagrees with that. obviously. i think you brought up legitimate points when you re talking about meddling in the election and ukraine, of course, and syria, those are points that have to be discussed with putin. again, this president has a different style on how he approaches before and during and after the meetings. so i just think that as a nation, we have to give him space to see if he s successful, just like we did president obama and president bush. i hear you on that. but, again, we re dealing with things that are so different than what we re used to that i don t i understand. i don t see it as being just st
we call in the law, a red what s that? that s a fish, bob. a red herring, okay? what is nato about? it was made in the 40s to deal with what eventually became the cold war. russia. russia has always been what it was about, okay? and nato became the main shield against russia during the cold war. so imagine the fear of heading into the brussels summit tomorrow and thursday and hear trump dismissing the meeting with putin as easy and hearing him say this. you know, president putin is kgb and this and that. you know what? putin s fine. he s fine. we re all fine. we re people. he s not fine. not fine. annexing crimea. mh-17. they shot down a civilian plane. i was there. i saw the disrespect for the dead. i saw men in russian military uniforms not letting them be collected. what s happening in syria is not
but the effort of the obama administration to train those people and find those people and vet those people who might do the job has been a complete failure as e we reported several times in the last week. we have to turn somewhere if you want to get rid of isis first. where we re turning is toward russia, which now has many more planes operating out of syria and syria air space than we do. chris, thank you very much. i appreciate it. coming up next, donald trump gets specific. the billionaire releasing his highly anticipated tax plan today. he says it s going to make the wealthy very angry. plus as trump s lead is shrinking in the polls, one candidate calls the whole thing a freak show. and breaking news, new proof there s flowing water on mars. what this means, coming up. you re watching cnn.