hu hunkered down. he is meeting with nikki haley, the ambassador to the united nations. rex tillerson will be there as well as hr mcmaster. they are trying to take a lead on the diplomatic crisis. we heard a lot from trump on the military side of that. he s been more pessimistic about the odds of being successful. we will see if the tone changes after the meeting. right now, we are expecting it to be behind cloesed doors. president trump was game to talk to the press yesterday. we ll see if he adopts that today. great point. his choice of words, his tone is key coming out. great to see you, sara thank you so much. let s go to beijing with will ripley. russia and china are working on a plan to slow things down. what are you hearing? reporter: this isn t a new
committee. thanks for coming on. thank you. i think the president was being we need the diplomats there. russia is an important place. they are our adversary. for the president to make lightly on it tries to trivialize it. i don t think it s coming of him to act that way. i heard folks come to the president s defense saying he was jubeing sarcastic. he s president now. it s not a matter of a show on tv, a reality show where you are hired and fired. this is something, every word he says has meaning. this is what he doesn t seem to understand. what bothers you more, that he did not take an opportunity to criticize putin s retaliation? he did not take an opportunity to back up or speak out on behalf of u.s. employees or that
attorney, not manafort s attorney. what is he doing with this, do you think? well, this is one of the strange wrinkles of this case, sort of the we heard that earlier statement from the president where he was distancing himself from paul manafort saying he was only with the campaign a very short period of time, despite manafort was his campaign manager so very close to the campaign. then we see trump s attorney involved, making comments on legal matters not related or directly related to his individual client. this is another bizarre wrinkle in an already very, very strange case. yes. what message he s sending is a what message is john dowd trying to send, i wonder? on the legal team, from what we are hearing, they specialize in complex tax investigations. does this tell you the investigation is going the way of taxes or just for manafort?
adviser. this is the second one. there were some, like you said, internal conflict or tension there inside the white house. i think it was very good for the president to give that strong vote of confidence in his national security adviser, especially with the events taking place around the world, especially with what s going on with north korea. it was a great move by the president to do that. i give you both a vote of confidence. thank you both. thanks, kate. coming up, from mitch mcconnell to hillary clinton, president trump spent yesterday lashing out a host of characters, with one notable exception. that s coming up. for your heart.
and none of us understand that. he thinks vladimir putin is a good friend to him and friend to the united states when vladimir putin, we know interfered in our elections and shown time and time again, he s an adversary. i m sorry he s an adversary. i don t think it s things we did. he decided to become an adversary. you have to see this with your eyes wide open and the president can t do that. they put out a statement saying president trump is pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war. is president trump driving this or north korea? i think both. you would expect better from the united states. we are not north korea, thank god. i have been there twice. we wouldn t want to be north korea, believe me. the president has to act like the president of the united states. when you hear words come out of his mouth, it seems like they could come out of the mouth of kim jong-un. that s not what we want. what we need to do is try to tamper down this crisis. we need to use diplomacy, behind