the country. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. tonight more mixed messages as the trump administration struggles on communicate clear foreign policy goals. just moments ago, president trump and nato secretary general jens stoltenberg stepped in front of the cameras together for the first time. during the ely presidency, presidt trum openly questions nato's relevance. tend alliance was, quote, objection least. since taking office the president has softened those sxomts today they had to say. >> i said it was obsolete. it is no longer obsolete. in facing our common challenges, we must ensure nato members meet their financial obligations and pay what they owe. many have not been doing that. secretary general, i am honored to have you here today and to reaffirm our commitment to this alliance, and to enduring values that we proudly, and i mean very proudly share. >> next week house speaker paul ryan will be traving to europe with a bynum delegation with the goal of what they call strengthening ties with our nato partners. meanwhile, secretary of state rex tillerson met the with vladimir putin. just ahead, we'll cover much more of that trip and speak with a poisoned critic of putin. and during another meeting with putin and other officials, they described as rhetoric used by the united states as quote, primitive and loudish. folks, just 17 days of the first 100 days of president trump's presidency. and big components of his foreign policy are still unclear. administration officials have sent mixed messages on syria, and a large number of top jobs remain unfilled at the state department. all of this is happening as tensions have been escalating among top aides in the white house over a slew of policy questions including foreign affairs and america's place in the world. on the one hand, you have the chief strategist, steve bannon whose car with jared kushner has spilled out into the public. last week, banner was removed from his spot on the national security council while kushner traveled to wrak the joint chiefs of staff. and headlines like this, calling at this time latest sign of steve bannon's waning influence. bannon has nicknamed kushner and hissal ties west wing democrats. he sees himself as a guard of the campaign promises and a check inside the white house against any inclinations. not to be underplayed, in an interview where the president didn't exactly give bannon a endorsement. >> i like steve. he was not involved in my campaign until very late. i had already beaten all the senators and all the governors and i didn't know steve. wasn't like i was going to change strategies. he ended by saying, steve a good guy but i told them to straighten it out or i will. these yomcomments were a warnin shot and they weren't made in haste. does bannon have any allies left in the white house? if bannon's influence in the white house is diminishing, what does that mean for american foreign policy going forward? joining me now, you served under reagan and bush and a current senior fellow. we talk about how much happens in washington. you have these two huge meetings on two continents here. >> it is normal to have a press conference with a head of state, a head of government. merkel, cameron, it is not normal, you don't he to have one with the head of nato. so that's a decision on the president's part to do show and tell. i'm really for nato. i the want to have a press conference with this guy. >> so what do you think strategy is? >> i think there's a trend. going back to what i call a normal republican foreign policy. you look at the cabinet picks. the main national security people. they could be in most republican administrations and i think that's what you're seeing. endorsing nate in a big way is going back to more traditional policy. >> meantime you have this drama built up of he would or won't he? they have a long relationship when he was the ceo. finally he did see that, he kept john kerry waiting in the past. this time, he didn't even know if he would have a meeting and towed stay an extra day. >> okay. you are a mere foreign minister but i will see you. it is a good thing that he did see him. if he hadn't, everybody would be saying, wow, ice between moscow and washington. they do know each other so you have to assume they were able to have what might be a better meeting, a better conversation than two people who had never met before. so i'm glad that happened of will. >> but do you have a situation where anything can get accomplished? because we had a campaign where the campaign said, look, i think it is a good thing if we have a better relationship with russia. he said he was the guy to do it. rex tillerson is saying, the president is saying, we may be at our lowest point since the cold war. >> their president was way off, let's call it republican foreign poli policy. i think the president was very unhappy with what he saw about putin supporting using chemical weapons. they didn't bat an eyelash. you have the russians all alone. the chinese abstained today to resolution. you have russia all alone. i think the opinion of putin is getting a little icier in the white house. ? >> it is fascinating today of all days when this meeting is taking place, you have montenegro brought into the place where absolutely putin did not want to see an expansion. >> i think the timing is very interesting. we knew this was the day he would see, this is day montenegro zbeets nato. you could have put that off. this is day stoltenberg is here. when xi jinping is here, the president decides to strike syria. boom. so i think he is not delaying things. he is really using the calendar to be a more forceful president. >> do you think it is that strategic that he has made these conscience decisions, they've had conversations, should we move them? no. i am going to make a direct message. it seemed to be what was happening with xi. >> somebody said, do you want to do this while xi jinping is here? we can wait a day or two. it is obvious they're happening the same day. >> so you have all the critics saying, what's going on? you don't have hundreds and hundreds of jobs of people who need to be filled. you only have one ambassador in place. they have this thing that they call charm school. where all the new ambassadors come in, the spouses come in. they get training on what it is like to be an ambassador. they get tips. they can't even hold it. it should be sometime this next week, i think, and they can't even hold it. is this a problem or is everything running just fine without them? >> servieverything is running t slowly. i was confirmed first time in the reagan administration, april 25th. that was considered normal fix nominate you to be an assistant secretary today, you'll be confirmed in july. now, will this happen before the august recess? this is bad. it can't really run the kind of policies you have if you don't have the younger secretaries or the stat secretaries. and you can't blame the democrats. people haven't been nominated. >> thank you. last hour, president trump was asked whether he thought it was possible russian president vladimir putin could have known about the make the syria ahead of time and if he has been disappointed by putin's reaction. >> i think it is certainly possible. i think it is unlikely and i know they're doing investigations into that right now. i would like to think they didn't know. but certainly, they could have. they were there. so we'll find out. general mattis is looking into with it the entire pentagon group that does that kind of work. so it was very disappointing to see. it is disappointing no mat here does it. when you get to the gases, especially that form, it is vicious and violent and everybody in this room saw it all too many times toe last three or four days. young children dying, babies dying, fathers holding children in their arms, dead, dead children. there can't an worst sight. that's a butcher. >> the "washington post" columnist and republican strategist. so it is clear that the president was moved by these pictures that he saw. he's talked about it multiple times. he has said dead babies, vicious, violent, the words he used. assad, calling him a butcher. what does this mean in terms of a cleer foreign policy there though? what does it tell us? >> there's been a lot of conversation about how the trump doctrine is flexibility, which ruth, who used to be my editor. >> i made him everything he used. >> will tell you is a way of saying, we don't know. if he doesn't know, we can't know. that's what we're seeing. we're seeing the president responding to both internal and external conditions. so today, an astonishing moment. talking about how important it is. this is president responding to what will give him good response. the president wants to, rather than ideological, he wants approval and we're seeing that internally. we talk about operation normal. and operation normal is the effort of jared and ivanka to get the president -- >> the brangelina of washington, d.c. >> to get president more in the sort of centrist way and day by day, we're seeing operation normal winning. >> is it becoming clearer and clearer and we've talked about the comments the president made, not exactly affirmative of steve bannon. are we getting more clarity on who has influence and how it will play out? >> not quite. but that was a pretty extraordinary nonendorsement. you wouldn't feel so good if that was your boss talking about you. >> the word from his camp is he's not worried at all. >> and would you expect him to say what? i think this normalization, we've been talking about normalization in a different aspect this washington is quite fascinating. we have seen this with previous presidents, right? you say something during the campaign. then it turns out it is a lot more complicated once you take office. president clinton threatened to cut off trade relations with china. it turns out that's hard to do. we're seeing surprising normalization with president trump. how far it goes, whether it will continue, more dots to be connected. >> and will it make people feel like he at least is thinking things through? or is it we don't know where it will go. you talk about chinese currency ma anymore lags. which is a very strong part of the conversation that we had big parts of america. >> everything is fine. >> guess what? there is to currency manipulation. nato is obsolete, not really d i'm going to stand side by side with the nato secretary general. by the way, this the vladimir putin that i was going to have a better relationship with, we're not so sure that he is not in cahoots with the butcher. >> i think it depends who they are. if you're the freedom caucus, you're egging it on a little bit. if you're speaker ryan and the leadership, you're still trying to figure it out. this president is not an i had loving. as he very instinct you'll person. he is learning on the job. that's not a bad thing. the bad things when you deal with missiles and nuclear weapons, you have to make sure he is thinking this through pretty thoughtfully and whether or not he has the right people around him to think this through. angelina -- excuse me, jared and ivanka, they are family. but are they the most experiencexperience ed people in the sfloom. >> but if known is out of room any time soon -- >> never bet against family when it is family versus outside advisers. >> would you bet on steve bannon at this point? >> we'll see. the president said they can solve it or i will. and he delivered the message privately. i can tell that you allies of steve bannon were completely taken by surprise by the president's shot across the bow and they're very worried. and they definitely over he. >> this is the heart and soul of the party. these are true idealogues. th belve he can be the keeper of the reagan flame. you have to be careful when you mit hornet's nest. they can come back and bite you. >> what would be the impact of that if steve bannon is gone? there is a political part but also a very real policy part of that's gone. >> if steve bannon is gone depends on what the donald trump foreign policy ask donald trump domestic policy evolves into. i think you're talking about the freedom talks being happy. i think the republican foreign policy establishment is feeling a lot calmer these days about, the trump, mattis, tillerson, mcmaster situation than they were at the start when it looked like things would be run by general nine and steve bannon. the other thing that's real interesting, this governing by video. he is not the real president to be moved by a horrible video. that can't be the totality of your policy and he does need to let us know, figure out for himself, when you will sfonresp to videos and the when won't you respond. >> another fascinating input we learned about from one. from eric trump giving an interview to the daily telegraph in london. he said a big input for that decision was ivanka who was troubled by the video comfortable we maybe say the trump doctrine is situational? 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>> it was an unexpectedly close result. if the energy there was anything like the energy here in georgia right now, then i'm not surprised. here we have thousands of voers. . folks who have never been engaged in politics right now. it is an inspiring thing to be a part of. >> a lot of people on your side of the aisle, democrats think this is a reference do you mean donald trump and disaffection with that. how much of this do you think is about being a referendum on trump? >> there are certainly peeln th comnity who have serious concerns about the direction of things washington and the administration. i share those concerns. floimt my he will campaign is a positive one that a vision for our local economic development and about values that bring people in the community together. instead of division and fearful. >> the republican chairman in your state has been pushing the point, you don't live in your congressional district. and the enormous $18.3 has come from out of state donors. >> well, i grew up in this district, in this community. i've never seen political excitement at the local level like we're seeing right now. more than 10,000 georgians have made contributions to the campaign. there are thousands of volunteers. many of whom are getting involved for the first time. >> but there are city more from outside the state than inside the state and many are fails. judy collins, chelsea handler, rosie o'donnell, they want to paint you as east coast/west coast will he be ral people supporting you. having nothing to do with where you live, where you came from. you don't think that's a problem for you? >> well, the average contribution to the campaign is $42. nearly 200,000 people have made contributions. >> more than from out of state than in state of. >> and more georgians have made droikss my campaign than any other candidate in the race's campaign of when you're talking about millions of unaccountable super pac money, attack, change in washington, it is necessary to raise significant resources and i'm proud of the fact it has been grassroots, small dollar fundraising. that means i'm accountable or the oad range lks whose interests have much more in common. >> you are taking a lot of shots from the other side. to be fair, they're spending money against you as well. so let's go to the issues people care about. we don't have all the time we would like and i would like sentence or two from you if we could. for example, a big one now. do you support the air strikes launched by the u.s. against syrians? and did the president need congressional approval. >> a swift limited punitive strike was a reasonable response 9/11 further action should require congressional prove and i would to your knowledge administration to avoid getting into an intractable civil war that can't be resolved by u.s. military power. >> number one support of the supreme court. all democrats voted to confirm president trump's supreme court pick, neil gorsuch. do you think they should be primary? >> that's up to the voters in those states. there's understandable frustration. >> the primary is groming progressive democratic groups who say if you can't stick with something as important as the supreme court, then we need to put somebody in there who will. >> i'm not going to comment on senate elections in other states. what i will say is that i understand frustration. had garland was held up for months. it is perfectly reasonable for folks to be asking, whether or not we shouldn't be giving it back as good as we got. >> who do you think is the leader of the democratic party right now? that's a good question. what i know is that folks in the community here are stepping up to lead in a way the 97 have before. perhaps the leaders of the democratic party are the grassroots organizers who are getting it together and win campaigns. >> that's not suggesting there isn't a clear leader on the democratic side. if the democrats would, for example, take back the house in 2018, would you want to see nancy pelosi as speaker of the house or somebody else? is it time for new blood? >> let's see how it shakes out when the time comes. we need to be focused on taking back the house. it starts right near georgia's sixth district. we're building a coalition that is broader than just a party that includes republicans and independent who's are excited with the prospect for fresh leadership of excited about a positive campaign based on local economic issues. there will be plenty of time for democrats who are now newly in the opposition to get things that order at the national level. we need to be focused on winning the local races. >> jon ossoff, thank you for your time. >> thank you for having me. still ahead, rex tillerson meets with vladimir putin. wee have details of the secretary of state's meeting the moscow. stay tuned. think again. this is the new new york. we are building new airports all across the state. new roads and bridges. new mass transit. new business friendly environment. new lower taxes. and new university partnerships to grow the businesses of tomorrow today. learn more at esd.ny.gov i use what's already inside me to reach my goals. so i liked when my doctor told me i may reach my blood sugar and a1c goals by activating what's within me with once-weekly trulicity. trulicity is not insulin. it helps activate my body to do what it's supposed to do release its own insulin. trulicity responds when my blood sugar rises. i take it once a week, and it works 24/7. it comes in an easy-to-use pen and i may even lose a little weight. trulicity is a once-weekly injectable prescription medicine to improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. trulicity is not insulin. it should not be the first medicine to treat diabetes or for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. do not take trulicity if you or a family member has had medullary thyroid cancer, if you've had multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if you are allergic to trulicity. stop trulicity and call your doctor right away if you have symptoms such as itching, rash, or trouble breathing; a lump or swelling in your neck; or severe pain in your stomach area. serious side effects may include pancreatitis, which can be fatal. taking trulicity with a sulfonylurea or insulin increases your risk for low blood sugar. common side effects include nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, decreased appetite and indigestion. some side effects can lead to dehydration, which may make existing kidney problems worse. with trulicity, i click to activate what's within me. if you want help improving your a1c and blood sugar numbers with a non-insulin option, click to activate your within. ask your doctor about once-weekly trulicity. next, new insight into the growing tension between the u.s. and russia. but first, kate rogers has the cnbc market wrap. >> the dow down almost 60 points. the s&p down by 8. the nasdaq following 30 points. president trump may want to lower interest rates but another said they're going up. the central bank is planning to sh shed. president trump said the currency is quote, getting too strong. that's it in business worldwide. t their baby to sleep. so when their windshield got cracked... customer: we can't drive this car. tech: ...they wanted it fixed right. so they schedud with safelite. our exclusive trueseal chnology means a strong, reliable bond, every time. at safelite, we stand behind our work. bye, bye. because the ones you love, sit behind it. 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>> there is nothing particularly new about. this everyone last three administrations have begun by declaring improved relations with vladimir putin's regime and it hasn't continued for the previous two. the terminology is important. what do you consider to be the relations between the u.s. and russia? well, it is not confined just to the putin regime. there are many different opinions in russia's society and it is also important to understand that vladimir putin's regime is not democratically elected. and we are living in the 21st century. the only legitimate -- >> so you're suggesting the russian people may have a fonder view of the american people than the people who run the country. >> it is important for the new administration to send a signal that they're willing to engage in a dialogue with russia and not just vladimir putin. there has been a lot of talk about whether or not the meeting with mr. putin will happen for secretary putin. there was another meeting didn't happen in moscow and i would say this is regrettable. last week, several members of the u.s. senate, both sides, republicans and democrats, there was a letter urging him to meet with russian members of civil society. this has been a long tradition of u.s. secretary of state in the past. unfortunately he hasn't found time for this meeting. this is the first meeting for secretary tillerson. many people are watching for it. >> do you think it will be taken as deliberate? >> it remains to be seen. this trip has been complete i overshadowed by the attack in syria, and mr. putin coming to syria's defense. so of course there will be explanations. i think it is a very important signal that in my view, i am an outside, a russian citizen, it is nothing for me to say to the u.s. administration but i would say it is very important for us as citizens of russia to see that the and u.s. the u.s. administration is willing to engage in dialogue with russian society as well as vladimir putin's regime. and if the u.s. administration really wants to build a long term relationship with russia, based on trust, as we've just heard in those remarks few minutes ago. the only relationship based on santorum can be with the united states and russian society. not just with mr. putin's regime. and i think there should be more contact and more engagement between leaders of western democracies, including the united states, and russian democratic groups and organizations. >> on capitol hill, they decided to have these investigations and i want to play for you what was said about russian interference. >> we have not seen any facts. we have not seen any evidence. we do understand that there are ma people w want to undermine our relations. >> he said russia will respond when they get proof. what do you take away if anything from what lavrov had to say? >> of course mr. lavrov has denied many things before. interfering in the ukrainian elections, and other countries of the so-called former soviet republic. we know the putin regime has intervened in those elections sxhinlt be surprising that they tried interfere in the u.s. election process. because russia has back domestic political issue in the united states, it seems that way in the last few months, many people are beginning to pay attention to what is napping russia to what has been happening for years. to what we have lived in russia for years. and have begun discovering that vladimir putin's regime is not a democratic one. the russian people today have no opportunity to freely elect or determine their leaders. first with the elections in russia, we haven't had a free next our own country for 17 years. don't take my word. just look at the osc observers, for the election after 2000. and there have been cases in interference by mr. putin's regime in other countries for a long time now and it did you have come as a surprise that it tried interfere in u.s. elections. and generally, it has been a longstanding feature of russian history that domestic oppression, and aggressive behavior abroad and foreign policy go hand in hand. >> you say there were two poisoning attempts on and you yet you'll go back. >> i am definitely planning to go back. yes. the latest poisoning attempt was a couple mths nag february. so i'm still recovering from that. in 20 fin15, it took me more th year so i'm not expecting this to be a quick process. so yes. i do want to go back. the work we do, the opposition work we do in russia, it is important. there are many people this russia who reject many putin's regime. the authoritarianism, the aggression, its aggressive stance toward the outside world and who want to see russia become a normal modern democratic country. there are many, many people in russia like that. and i think it is important to continue to move in that direction. >> thank you very much for coming in. we'll be back with the lid. you might not ever just stand there, looking at it. you may never even sit in the back seat. yeah, but maybe you should. ♪ (laughter) ♪ if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, isn't it time to let the real you shine through? 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and there are an awful lot of people, particularly on the left, who think that there is no moral leadership that is possible from donald trump. talk to me, mike, a little bit about this in that context and how it could -- could it change things if the united states decided to take the lead on something like this? >> well, first of all, people around the world are looking at that clip and saying, oh, that's rex tillerson. we finally see him in a leadership role and delivering a clearly important message. when we saw the president, the news conference on msnbc saying he's going to talk very shortly with rex tillerson. but your point about global leadership is something that is a big part of the evolution that we saw today on msnbc shortly before you took the air. there was some conversation about the president here showing himself as the leader of the atlantic alliance. this administration shied away from that deliberately. that's why i always like to ask them, when you talk about america first when you' you're abroad, how do they respond to that? because it may play well with a lot of places here, but there's very few other places around the world that want to hear america first. so, here we're seeing a much more layered, textured, contoured message. >> is it a message that more people around the world want to hear, that it's a more direct message, it seems to be a more forceful message? >> i think it's a message that leaders around the world want to hear because they want a strong america standing up -- leaders, when i say leaders around the world, allies, traditional allies of the united states around the world. becae if you don't have american leadership speaking up for democracy and human rights, you're missing a big voice there. the thing that's going to be interesting is to see how the trump voters respond to this. i had a conversation over the weekend with folks in the administration about the meaning of america first. and i started to hear a different definition of america first, which might include america's leadership role in the world. whoa, that's like a three -- 180 from where we have been this this conversation. we'll see -- i'm not positive that we're in a linear state in the trump administration. i think we could be going in one direction, then head back and, you know, and then zig -- zigzag our way along. >> he talked about being vicious, violent. yet there seem to be people who want to lead this country -- maybe i'm jumping ahead. marti martin o'malley is going to new hampshire. >> why? >> amy klobuchar is going to iowa. these are interesting incidents. what do you make of it? >> they're testing the waters. this president is clearly vulnerable. >> it's not 100 days yet. >> it feels like 100 years for some people, given the chaotic knee jerk reaction of some of the policies coming out. as i said before, this president is barely breaking 40%, if that. you would think -- i hate to say this, but you would think after the syria incident his numbers would have risen a little bit. they haven't. if i'm a democrat out there and we're leaderless on the democratic side, i'm thinking to myself, maybe i should go up to new england. maybe i should go over to iowa and have some fried pork chops. >> mike is going to sign assign campaign reporters to klobuchar to martin o'malley. >> o'malley juggernaut. >> this will make what you should know about the trips, very little. who will be the first republican to go to one of those states? >> as a primary. >> of course. >> that's a good question. don't count that out. i do think that if, in fact -- again, the president is not an ideologue. if republicans think he is not a true standard bearer, if the polling looks the same, there very well could be someone. ted cruz maybe. >> are you going to be in new hampshire, iowa the next couple months? 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secretary of state tillerson today saying this. >> to an end, and they have again brought this on themselves. >> and nbc news reporting president trump has issued a warning shot to chief strategist steve bannon warning him, cut the brawling with trump's son-in-law jared kushner, or he, trump, is getting involved. more on that ahead. we begin with president trump holding nothing back, talking about the state of relations with russia. >> it would be wonderful as we were discussing just a little while ago if nato and

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