About the Russian Investigation and of his former National Security adviser michael flynn. Then trump voters weigh in. What they have to say about the president s leadership. I do not support a country of the president isolating ourselves from the rest of the world. The world needs American Leadership right now. Hes a businessman. He surrounds himself with people who are smart and intelligent and know what theyre doing and hes going to let them do things. All that straight ahead in the newsroom. Im fredricka whitfield. We find cnns caitlyn collins. The president is gearing up for a significant week ahead overseas including a meeting with president putin, but this morning its the tweeting that seems to be kind of stealing the show for the president. Thats exactly right. Hes here at his golf club in new jersey and the president could be using the platform to tweet about policy or his upcoming foreign trip. His mind seems to be somewhere else. For the third day in a row today the president tweeted about a Television Host saying crazy Joe Scarborough and mika are not bad people but their show is dominated by nbc bosses. Too bad. Many republicans and democrats criticized the president after he personally insulted brzezinski and said he should be focused on his agenda and not insulting Television Hosts. Brzezinski and scarborough have alleged several white house staffers including Jared Kushner called him to say unless they called the president and begged him to spike it, the National Enquirer was going to publish a negative story about them. Although officials said they spoke, they denied that was the nature of the conversation. Caitlyn collins, thank you so much. Earlier this week, a chorus of republican lawmakers slammed the president over his previous tweets. Thats a tweet thats not even becoming of a city counc councilman. Im not going to defend his tweet. It was ugly. And i personally do hold the president of the United States to a higher standard. This is maddening. Its maddeningly frustrating because this is beneath the dignity of the president of the United States or at least it should be. Lets talk about all this with nan hayward, republican and former Congress Welcome from new york. Also with us, isaac wright, a democratic strategist and former executive director of the correct the record superpac. Good to see both of you. Nan, you first. Given the president s tweeting this morning, he clearly is not taking the advice of Republican Leadership and according to a recent poll the majority of American Voters think trump should stop tweeting. So whats your view as to why he feels compelled to tweet and continue . Well, the president definitely has as we all know, you know, a pugnacious style and thats had a certain resonance with people who felt angry and betrayed by a lot of federal government policy and officials over the course of the past administration. But nonetheless, its time and its something hes perfectly capable of doing. Its time for the president to concentrate on as he does very well and does is at his best when he does, concentrate on policy. Weve got some crucial policy issues, a whole raft of them that we talk about talk about just this morning. Is his tweeting getting in the way of that kind of policymaking as you put it . Weve heard from the president who says, you know, the democrats are the ones standing in the way, that they are being obstructionist or is part of the problem the president himself . I think its perfectly valid to consider the Senate Democratic minority, especially, as obstructionists in terms of passing crucial legislation that we need to put americans back to work, to revive our economy, to make sure americans are safe and secure here and around the world. Hes right about the obstructionism. Its also true that we need a minimum of distractions and he is right to communicate his policy thoughts directly. Sometimes thats only way he can really get them into the public doma domain, given all the coverage thats devoted to other things like russia that actually have not born out any substance. And it is time for all of us to concentrate on the agenda that we need to pass for the American People. Okay. Isaac, whats your response to all of that . I mean, is it everybody elses fault . Is it, you know, the president , this is the best way in which he can communicate with people and so thereby he needs to tweet or, you know, does he need to show some kind of selfconstraint . Is he assistanting in the way . All of that. First of all, the things coming out of the president s mouth on twitter are things that are beneath the office of the president. These are embarrassing. Theyre wrong. Theyre shameful and as i would say to one of my own kids if they tweeted Something Like our president is, shame on you. You should be ashamed. Thats one. Two, yes, this is a distraction from the agenda and it is actually letting the Republican Congress move even further than what donald trump proposes. We remembered during the campaign he promised no cuts to medicaid in health care reform. He promised that people would not lose their health care now over 20 million americans will lose their health care under the gop plan. And you see all of these policy problems that are developing that are major threats that could cost people their lives. Three, this is a bigger concern about the wellbeing of the president and what his state of mind is as he talks to foreign leaders on behalf of our country. This is the state of mind of the leader of the free world when he deals with adversary nations that have done things like the greatest cyberattack on our country in history when putin and his regime attacked and hacked our democracy. So a lot of people try to analyze and continue to try to analyze the president , his objective here, the method of his communication, and that includes longtime journalist and cnn political analyst carl bernstein, who had this to say about overall trumps presidency thus far. I think something much greater is happening, and that is that we are in the midst of a malignant presidency. And that malignancy is known to the military leaders of the country, its known to the Republican Leadership in congress who recognize it, and its known to the intelligence community. All right. So nan, pretty strong characterization there. Malignant presidency. Your thoughts on that. Fredricka, the president just completed a couple weeks ago an incredibly successful tour of the middle east including i believe it was Something Like some 57 nations who came together to support the president moving forward on crucial policy areas. Successful because it happened . What do you mean . These he was met with enormous respect. He was met with an element of relief in a lot of ways because in terms of Foreign Policy, this president will in fact stand with our allies and go against our enemies. And thats something that we havent seen in a long time. So the president has no trouble getting the respect of world leaders. And in fact we have, as we all know, we have executive orders that he assigned that have already made progress putting americans back to work, but we have a lot more to do. And as long as the minority in the senate will prevent legislation that we need to help the American People that will save lives like kate steinlys life. She was lost two years ago today to an Illegal Immigrants gunfire who should never have been allowed to stay in this country. Those are important protections that we need to have put into law. Okay. So i zab, ahead of the g20 summit that the president will be on his way to hamburg, germany, and is he i guess effectively, you know, being respected, will his agenda that he has on the world stage be embraced because of the way he has demonstrated his leadership skills p . No. We see foreign leaders from across the world who are poking fun at our president all of the time for this kind of stuff. But to respond to something specifically mentioned about President Trump and the ornate show of affection from foreign leaders when he arrived, lets remember, some of thats come out on the news that the Trump Administration was negotiating for his red carpet welcome for the theatrics of it with some foreign nations. This is a president whos stuck on the visuals of reality tv when he should be focusing on Foreign Policy and our place as a leader in the world. This is a dangerous new absurd di th ity that weve entered. Thats ridiculous. When does the white house not negotiate protocol for a president ial visit . Lets talk more about this. Short break from now, well pick it up from where we left it. Still ahead, President Trump and his russian counterpart are set to meet amid fresh allegations against the Trump Campaign and its ties to the kremlin. While congress is on recess, the Health Care Bill remains stalled. The issue is following members of congress to their home state. 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Now their first facetoface meeting is set for next weeks g20 summit. But as multiple investigations into russias meddling in the 2016 election ramp up, some advisers are worried about what President Trumps message will be to mr. Putin. Im joined now by cnn contributor and former cnn Moscow Bureau chiefer jill daugherty. What can be expected from this meeting . You know, if you talk to the russians here in moscow, theyre saying not much. And i think heres the problem. The optic, everything could backfire on donald trump. Its a sensitive thing. After all, a lot of people criticize him for being, quote, cozy with putin. You just heard all the quotes. Now hes going the meet him, and the russians feel that even if there is a meeting it can backfire or kind of boomerang on trump if he does something nice for Vladimir Putin, he will definitely backfire. So thats the way theyre looking at it. And i think, fred, that the main thing with the russians is you can bet that president putin will be prepared. He has an agenda, he knows what he wants, albeit he doesnt have Great Expectations about really anything at this summit. Theyre not going to come to or its not expected that they would come to any great decisions. But just the mere fact that theyre meeting is very important for president putin because he feels, you know, russia has been isolated and finally hes going to be meeting the american president and that even symbolically works well for Vladimir Putin. Right. So whos going to control the moment . Whos going to leverage the moment between a trump and a putin . Oh, wow. Well, you know, it depends on the format, because a you know, i dont think the latest way to play is they havent said exactly what the format would be. There are many Different Things they could do. They could meet each other in a hallway and kind of shake hands and say hi, how are you doing, or they can sit down on the sidelines which is expected and it could be oneonone. It could actually be both president s with interpreters. That i think for the white house would be very worrisome because then theres no predictability on what could be said or done. Because dont forget, donald trump is very much let me reach out, talk to this guy, i can convince him, that type of personal dynamic. Vladimir putin has a very different dynamic. He used to be a kgb agent. Hes very skilled at analyzing the person that hes talking to directly and then reacting and really kind of maneuvering with that person depending upon what that person wants to see. So he could be very amenable and friendly or it could be anything. So i think probably the best that they could the white house could have is some predictable meeting where there are staff and its kind of scripted, not much has said, and even think about it, even a big smile on Donald Trumps face meeting Vladimir Putin could be construed very badly for him. So its a very sensitive dynamic. All of it will be analyzed even down to the handshake. How long is that handshake . Is there going to be a handshake . All of that stuff. All right. Jill dougherty, thanks so much in moscow. Appreciate it. All right. Also we are learning the house panel is set to interview former trump adviser in russia in the russia probe, michael caputo, a former Trump Campaign communications adviser, has agreed to come before the committee next month. Caputo, who once worked in moscow and has connections to russia has strongly denied he was involved in any collusion with russian officials. All right. The gops todo list. Its a very long one. 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