The heavy fighting, pretty much every car and every building has been wrecked. Travelling the route of the new silk road. We have a Special Report on the trillion Dollar Project linking china and europe. With no other Country Offering a big idea right now, this is the most ambitious bid to shape our century. Hello, i am katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. The Donald Trumps son, his Campaign Manager and his son in law, talked to a well connected russian in a meeting billed as a chance to get damaging information about hillary clinton. Thejune 2016 meeting is the first evidence that people in Donald Trumps inner circle did talk to russians with the intention of getting dirt on mrs clinton. Donald trump jr has now confirmed both the meeting and its agenda. So is this meeting evidence of collusion . Or was it simply a chance for some legitimate Opposition Research . And how damaging is it to the president . All questions for congress and the Special Prosecutor who are investigating ties between the Trump Campaign and moscow. It doesnt help the trump family that the meeting is only coming to light now because of press reporting, and that donald trump junior had to change his story about it over the weekend. Key initially said it was about an Adoption Meeting but then change the story to say it was about this information. He said, we had a meeting injune 2016 and the woman said she had information about mrs clinton. So far five people have information about mrs clinton. So farfive people have been information about mrs clinton. So far five people have been forced to change the statements who are connected to donald trump. Trump the right, his son, donald trump connected to donald trump. Trump the right, his son, Donald Trumer, the attorney generaljeff sessions, son in law attorney generaljeff sessions, son in lanared kushner, attorney generaljeff sessions, son in law jared kushner, for National Security and National Security adviser and then his former Campaign Manager paul manafort. At the g20 and in various tweets over the weekend the president continued to equivocate on whether russian hacking had even taken place. He even went so far as to suggest forming a joint cybersecurity unit with the russians, to defend against Election Hacking in the future. That idea brought this response from republican senator lindsay graham. When it comes to russia hes got a blind spot, and to forgive and forget when it comes to putin regarding Cyber Attacks is to empower putin and thats exactly what hes doing. I am dumbfounded, i am disappointed, and at the end of the day hes hurting his presidency by not embracing the fact that putins a bad guy who tried to undercut our democracy and hes doing it all over the world. Also voicing concern was us republican senator marco rubio, who tweeted joining us now is former National Security advisor to george w bush, stephen hadley. I will assume when you were National Security adviser to president george bush who and like this in the white house . We are an unprecedented space in so many respects. This is a president Who Ran As A Political And Surgeon president Who Ran As A Political And Surgeon to shake Up Washington and Thatis Surgeon to shake Up Washington and that is what he is doing. How damaging is this to National Security in america . We are an early daysin security in america . We are an early days in this administration and they have clearly put down some markers about trades, about climate, the Bush Administration in its opening day is pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol which had been reached by the Clinton Administration and we received a lot of criticism for that. I think we are early days and the question is on issues of trade and climate, what is the Trump Administration going to do in place of that. You were at the G20 Meetings In Warsaw and on this latest indication there were meetings between donald trump there were meetings between Donald Trumerand there were meetings between Donald Trump Jr and russians there were meetings between Donald Trumer and russians operatives that have not previously been disclosed, why do you think this white house has not said to its members, every single meeting with a russian operative must be disclosed 110w. Two reasons. One this is a up early on in the administration before has organised itself and secondly, the president s attitude is this is an unfair investigation and he will fight it at every step. An alternative approach is what president reagan dead in iran contra and seek this is a problem and i will get all the information out and get everyone to co operate. I think the latter would be the better approach. Donald trump spoke about the meeting with president putin in hamburg and said he pressed president putin about russian meddling in the election and said he denied it. You have lots of experience sitting opposite president putin. What did you make of the meeting and what we have seen since . I think that part was pretty predictable, its a good thing President Trump bracelets, it is not a surprise putin would deny it, he done so consistently. The rest of the meeting was positive. I do not think the president made any mistakes. They have a narrow focused agreement on syria which i think is agreement on syria which i think is a good thing, they apparently agreed to set up something of a Working Group to address other issues, including issues of them about ukraine. Now a special envoy to deal with ukraine. I think they are off to good start. Rex tillerson did a good job and i would say its a good start, incremental progress and no major mistakes. Well you are here, the other story of the day is the Iraqi Government declaring victory in mosul. You were National Security adviser and saw the demise of alqaeda in iraq which of course emerged again as isis. Are you worried it might happen again . The most important thing now is what comes in behind isis. Is there an effort to stabilise the situation and provide humanitarian assistance and provide humanitarian assistance and get good local government in place, get the economy going, jobs, if you do not do that, also addressed the sectarian tensions and get the differing groups talking. The risk if you do not do that is discontent continues and it will be a Recruiting Ground for isis 2. 0 which will be even more brutal than isis. Thank you forjoining us. We will have more later on on the victory in mosul the Iraqi Government is the clearing. 0n the donald trump government is the clearing. 0n the Donald Trumer story, it is not unusual for 0n the Donald Trumer story, it is not unusualfor digging 0n the Donald Trumer story, it is not unusual for digging an opposition politicians. 0bviously im the first person on a campaign to ever take a meeting to hear info about an opponent. Went nowhere but had to listen. How bad do you think this is for the white house . Does this leads from this story to impeachment . No, certainly not. Its the first time that somebody close to donald trump was prepared to talk to the russians about the campaign and information on hillary clinton. It does not look good for the president , Izzard Collusion . That will be the purview of the investigator. It is more ammunition for the investigations into the trump campion and their ties with the russians. The House Of Representatives and senate will not impeach at the moment. On sunday the statement said, i went along to try and get dirt and she did not supply and get dirt and she did not supply and therefore no story but in some measure it shows they were trying to potentially collude with the russians. It seems to show they were trying to get information and that is what Donald Trump Jr went to get information and that is what Donald Trumer went to that meeting for. The other question is how could he possibly have forgotten the meeting and why did it not, previously. The Trump Administration seems unable to escape this russian story. Yes, the next three weeks is supposed to be about the mad dash to get Health Care Legislation passed, and even move on to tax reform. But right now prospects are looking pretty bleak. Joining us now is republican political analyst ron christie. I was hearing a republican senator this morning sending we can get on the health care and tax reform and the health care and tax reform and the Russian Investigation is separate. What do you think . the Russian Investigation is separate. What do you think . I think they can but the Republican Caucus is an somewhat of a disarray. You would think after eight years of being a political wilderness and not having the white house or Congress Senate republicans would have a coherent message and legislation to what to do about health care and become less weak and they are in a rush, they go out again in a couple of weeks for a month so you think they would have something concrete. Lam they would have something concrete. I am cautiously optimistic me senate will put forward legislation but the question is whatever the senate does can pass the House Of Representatives which is much more conservative than the senate. How serious is this donald trump junior russian story is . Not so important. I worked on several campaigns and if someone told me we have dirt on opponents. Would you like to meet, of course i would say that meeting. If a russian said that to you . I think the interest here anything attached with russia plus donald trump is collusion or obstruction or is illegal. I think thatis obstruction or is illegal. I think that is a fallacy. We have had strong disagreements on this Programme Andl strong disagreements on this programme and i have been leading the charge about what the president is Doing Butjust by the fact donald trump is Doing Butjust by the fact Donald Trumer happy is Doing Butjust by the fact Donald Trump Jr happy meeting is Doing Butjust by the fact Donald Trumer happy meeting with someone he did not know and succeeded in cremation had information on the secretary of state, i dont think thatis secretary of state, i dont think that is a problem. If he knew he was meeting a russian, that is more problematic. It is not. Youre talking about someone who was not paid employee of the campaign and just because someone from a foreign country asked to meet does not make it illegal. I met with several officials from Foreign Governments who sought my opinion on a variety of issues and just because they are from a Foreign Government or a foreign citizen does not necessarily make them illegal or make this collusion or anything other than trying to have a business transaction, in my view. Let me take you back to the programme in congress because it seems to me donald trump is the one who keeps saying Health Care Reform will be coming and is putting pressure on himself and legislation like this does not take a long time to push through. It took Ronald Reagan 5 years and 9 months to pass his Tax Reform Act the more significant step in the creation of reagonomics. Bill clinton campaigned to change parts of that legislation it took him 203 days to raise taxes on high earners and cut some government spending. And the Affordable Care act took a26 days to pass. Which is perhaps the most relevant time scale this after all is the legislation donald trump wants to repeal and replace. We other currently 171. Why is he putting so much pressure on congress . I think he believes he needs a legislative victory. This is as much about optics as anything else. In the Bush Administration it took ayes over one year to get his signature no child left behind legislation done. If you will pass something to really revamp one sixth of the American Economy i say dont do it right and be very measured and lets make sure we get some bipartisanship to do this right. I say we do this right. I think to rush this through his misguided. They need to do it all right if they are going to get it done. Do it right. The Iraqi Government is declaring victory in mosul, the largest city under is control, after nine months of fighting. The Prime Minister, haider al abadi, visited the city to congratulate his troops. 0ur Victory Today is a victory against darkness, brutality and terrorism. I declare from this place, i declare to the whole world, the end and the failure and the colla pse the end and the failure and the collapse of the so called caliphate. 0ur Correspondentjonathan Beale is in the city where troops this morning were still dealing with the last few pockets of is militants. We are at the front line of one of the last pockets, we are told, of resistance. There are snipers up there, 200 to 300. But you can see the devastation around here from the heavy fighting. Every car and building wrecked. Even though the iraqi Prime Minister said they are on the verge of victory, in his words, there is still a battle ahead, there is still is fighters out there and the Battle For Mosul is not over. Lets speak to the head of american troops in iraq and syria. Thank you for joining troops in iraq and syria. Thank you forjoining us. There is a big delay on the line. Thank you. Actually i am the head of all coalition troops. There is a long delay on the line. You one mac the war but securing the peace will be much more difficult. Well, i think i take exception we have won the war. I would like to offer coalitions congratulations to the iraqi Prime Minister and the Iraqi Security forces on their historic victory. They also made some extraordinary efforts to safeguard civilian lakes. I would say the war is far from over, this is one major battle has concluded. There are a number of isis fighters still left in iraq that will have to be defeated before we have won the war. Lots of little towns where you will have to fight between mosul and baghdad but if and when the fighting is over, talking about that piece, i read today there are 25 million sunnis between baghdad and damascus whose governments have failed them. What do these governments have to do to make sunnis feel part of the country they live in . I think you hit on the essential issue which is the cause of isis in the first place. The government of iraq did not make the suny people feel as if their government represented the interests and fell prey to isis. And if we are to keep isis, the next isis, from emerging, we will have two, the Iraqi Government will have to do something significantly different and reach out and reconcile with the sunni population and make them feel like their government in baghdad represents them. You today said make no mistake, this victory alone does not eliminate isis and there is still a tough fight ahead. What have you learned from fighting, both the coalition and the iraqi forces, learn from Fighting Isis In Mosul that will be useful in this is a brutal, evil enemy. A very determined one. So one of the things i learned is this fight will take longer than we anticipated. All sort that fighting in cities, i already knew this as a professional soldier, how difficult it was to fight in urban areas, but i never saw fighting on this extend the duration and scale. We are applying all those lessons to the fight we are alread