fatah gullon and turkey wants them extradited because they say he s behind the failed military coup attempt last year. two very big demands. it s unclear whether the trump administration is willing to concede to either of them. but of course, the fallout also might be some of the intelligence information that was passed on to russia. look, we know that in syria and the fight against isis, russia and turkey are not fighting directly, but we know that they re backing opposite sides. russia backs syria s government, president bashar al assad, and turkey backs a lot of the rebel groups that are fighting bashar al assad, so we don t know what the nature of that intelligence was, but of course, if you re turkey, you ve got to be concerned that that intelligence might endanger some of your own operations and your own troops on the ground right now fighting isis. so, you ve got to imagine that s got to be a major concern for turkey, something president erdogan might raise directly with preside
president trump at the white house today. president recep erdogan is critical to nearly everything the u.s. hopes to accomplish in the middle east, but the meeting comes a week after erdogan was angered by the u.s. decision to arm kurdish fighters in syria. cnn s mohammad lila has a preview this morning of this incredibly important meeting. good morning. good morning, christine. on the surface of it, you d think these are two world leaders that would get along very well. they ve got a lot in common. for example, they re both populist leaders. neither of them shy away from controversy. both of them have what you would describe as icy relations with the media in their home countries, and they enjoy giving long speeches to their supporters. you d think it would be a partnership made in heaven, but there are a couple wedges right now in that relationship between the united states and turkey. the first, of course, is that turkey is insisting that the united states stop arming kurdish figh
putin. the white house scrapped an earlier meeting because of tensions between the two countries. russia of course strongly backs syria, and president putin blames the rebels for using the chemical weapones. the united states offered no proof to refute that. president putin said his meeting with president obama was substantial and constructive and made it clear russia is not about to budge. translator: everybody remains with his position. we understand each other. we hear, we listened to each other, we understand arguments, we do not agree with those arguments but still we can hear. shepard: so has president obama gained any support overseas? we have not seen anything. now now scheduled to have a briefing to lawmakes on monday, and then on tuesday, the president set to speak to all of us. as the polls indicate most americans are against any