there was a risk of the total collapse of the humanitarian system that he anticipated a complete breakdown of public order. and he laid out in stark terms the desperate situation in gaza, that there was no protective protection of civilians, there. that they were running out of food, at risk of starvation, that the health system was collapsing, most of the population displaced and more than 17,000 palestinians have been killed. so here we saw the majority of the council supporting that call by the secretary general, but despite that, the united states again cutting an extremely lonely figure in the council, raised its hand to block this draft resolution to veto it. live now to steven simon, former united states national security council senior director for the middle east and north africaa vote for a ceasefire would have what is your reaction? i what is your reaction? i am not surprised what is your reaction? i am not surprised by what is your reaction? i am not surpr
that seems to get to the issue of whether or not they meddled in the 2016 election. what you hear a lot of people raising the question up on capitol hill and around washington is whether or not vladimir putin will meddle in the midterm elections, meddle in the 2020 elections. that obviously has people worried. it would be another direct attack on our democracy. so i thought i better ask him will you tell vladimir putin to butt out of u.s. elections and he did turn after he went after us during that press conference, he did turn a as he was saying yes. so unless that was his version of fake news, we do expect the president to now tlaz with the russian president vladimir putin when they meet in helsinki. but obviously during that press conference and i think you guys were touching on this, perhaps the most striking thing during that news conference is this issue of immigration and the president saying very candidly that he feels that the immigration issue is a powerful tool for him and h
and he sort of bent over backwards and was praising the prime minister when standing next to her. so this is a pattern that we do see from the president where he goes after miss opponents shise is not right next to them, but he doesn t often go after that to his face except i suppose when it is us and the press. but he declined that opportunity with theresa may, that s right. jim, thank you for trying to get that question in. you are looking at live pictures with the president walking with his chief of staff and sarah sanders approaching marine one there to leave. susan, your take on the points the president tried to push on russia. well, it remains quite a mystery what exactly is on the agenda when vladimir putin meets with president trump on monday in helsinki. it is interesting this question are you going to raise russian meddling in the 2016 election,
christiane, did the president just blink and theresa may win? you know, you could put it that way if you want to say the president said something that was published in the sun overnight and something completely different in the press conference today. it s very trumpian. he wasn t going to stand next to theresa may and utter the things he did when she was not in the room to a third party. you can see president trump has fungible views on these big issues whether it s nato which today he fully defended and kept saying we re strong, we re unified, i go to vladimir putin with that message. the only thing he kept with his core belief is immigration. he cannot get over immigration and the constant refrain that it s changing the shape of culture here. he did say he believes he was