as far as nondisclosure, look, chaired kushner put in his pre-disclosure prematurely and has since amended it. it was a nothing meeting. what is developing if you look at the article that circa put out, set the individual who set up the meeting may have been involved with fusion gps ways which is an opposition research firm which is being subpoenaed and talk to by the senate judiciary committee about their role in putting together a phony dossier that people know about in regard to the president. it s a developing story. i don t know much except it seems to be on the end of the trump individual, big nothing burger but might spin out of control for the dance in democrats. chris: in terms of the dnc, are you suggesting that this was somehow a set up by democrats to link them or compromise them with the russians?
to some degree, do we want to hold the entire relationship hostage? just assume the worst that the russians meddled like crazy in the election, don t we still have to do business with them? there is moving forward and then there is doing sanctions. i want to hear what moving forward means. the fact is, the trump administration actually has been engaged in congress trying to loosen the sanctions. they re not happy with the bill that came out of the senate. i want to know what moving forward means. designing that we have to have a relationship at some level to deal with syria? yes. but our interest in syria very different from the trump administration in surrey. we are not going to prop up the assad regime. i think russia has that interest. it might i suggest that if the president had had a very tense meeting centered entirely on the alleged meddling in the election which appears to have
this was before there s any russian interference with the election. why would they have done that? why was in the gps and involved in putting together the dossier. i don t know. however what i can tell you is for my communication with our team on the subject, there was nothing to it, it was a 20 minute meeting. it ended after everybody was decidedly sitting there said there s nothing happening here. they moved on. in the end what will you will find in the story is that there are more questions on the democrat side than anywhere else. chris: one must question about the meeting. why would donald trump junior, jared kushner, and campaign chairman, paul manafort want to meet with the russian lawyer about russian adoption? i have no idea. you have to talk to them. talking about issues of foreign-policy issues relating to our place in the world,
say we don t want to trade war, we don t need that kind of static right now the economy seems to be going along well, we had good numbers this week why would you want to disrupt that? for many people this question extends to the leadership because your hearing my take on this is that when you talk about american leadership you need to understand that we have the biggest economy in the world and the biggest military in the world. we can set an example for other countries. at some point in might be were taking more aggressive steps that are being imposed another country so that s not fair but guess what, we are the big boy. i want to turn to the highlight of the summit which is the meeting between trump and president putin. here s the tony said at the beginning of the meeting. we look forward to positive things happening for russia, the
interrupt. this is an important issue for trade and national security. chris: but you re making the assumption that is going to make tough deals on trade for imports but then the europeans will impose tougher. maybe they will maybe they won t. many of these countries have been taken advantage of the united states. part of the reason trump is in the white house is because he told the american people the time is over for the rest of the world to take advantage of the united states. chris: what happens when they impose tougher restrictions? and that americans lose jobs. other than a few countries you can find a trade surplus going the opposite direction from the united states. that being said, this was a positive meeting. the president set the stage in europe. the leaders of the g20 came to the president.