that anybody seemed to agree on whether it was allegations of interfering in the elections. syria thing was a setup. it doesn t seem like the meetings went well unless you like that there is a new level of discord between the two. well, look, i put it this way. i think the meeting yesterday was probably frostier than a siberian winter morning. at the same time this was an honest reflection of two countries who right now have a very different point of view. the big difference is that russia now understands they aren t dealing with a pushover country. they aren t dealing with an administration that looks the other way at whatever they do. and they are going to have to face up to realities. they won t just be able to march all over northern europe and put their foot feet down and expect no response. so sure, there is tension. but i also think in the long term it s a more healthy relationship. this is an honest relationship. we re letting them know we aren t tolerating aggression or yo
assist or look the other way when people are being murdered. we aren t going to do it. shannon: what do you make of the vote at the u.n., the eighth time russia refused to do something during the syria civil war as a denouncement what s going on there. we had the ab abstention from china. may the mar-a-lago summit did something. russia wouldn t denounce the chemical attack itself with the vote yesterday. it s another reason why the u.n. has become a worthless organization, rat hole that we re pouring millions of dollars down. we need to reformulate. if we have some type of international forum it has to be reformulated. the u.n. is worthless. yesterday s vote was one more good reason to remind us how worthless it really is. when you have one of the countries who can singularly veto a resolution that condemns
many much of the work we do here has government officials somewhat nearby. but there is so much to see and so much to hear and it has been five years since we have been here. a lot more to tell. stay tuned. bill: good to have you on the ground there, greg. he is live in the pyongyang. it s unclear to me if the north has the ability to send a missile to japan 800 to 1,000 miles which is what you would need to travel. ask jack keane about that next hour. shannon: is kim jong-un crazy or crazy like a fox. making him unpredictable and more dangerous and he knows what he is doing. bill: president trump on russia and north korea as well. on the north korea matter he said i have great confidence that china will properly deal with north korea. if they re unable to do so the u.s. and allies will. that was a moment ago from the white house. talk about them working out some sort of deal.
did nothing when russia invaded crimea. the trump administration when face evidence with chemical weapons they lit up the sky in syria and said we aren t going to tolerate it. who is it that russia is more afraid of? somebody who sends them a strongly worded letter or somebody who will send a tomahawk missile straight onto a runway? shannon: you saw the meetings yesterday with tillerson, secretary tillerson and his counterpart sergey lavrov. frosty. even the handshake. looks like these two couldn t wait to get away from each other. here is what sergey lavrov had to say. the russia card is being used in internal political fighting in the u.s. the white house makes statements and brings groundless statements to us. we know secretary tillerson met with president putin for a couple of hours and nothing
called the chemical attack a 100% fabrication and said his army had given up all its chemical weapons after their last chemical attack on civilians. this a quote from president assad. our impression is that the west mainly the united states is hand and glove with the terrorists. that s what assad calls anybody who doesn t like him. they meaning the united states fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack. of course unclear if anybody, including his russian protectors believe the statement. as we ve heard over the past few days the pentagon has a trove of evidence to prove it was the syrian regime and their army behind this. bill: he even referred to fake videos now because you can t verify the video. his words. do we know how president trump said russia may have known about this? made a lot of headlines yesterday during a press conference with the chief of nato. we still aren t sure why the president thinks the russians had prior knowledge of the