Trump tower meeting took place, whether or not he knew there was going to be a change at the ukraine platform at the gop convention, whether or not the biggest question of all, whether or not george papadopoulos told him about this information he got from the russians. that they had clinton s e-mails. there s so much here he should be worried about and it s also very telling he doesn t want to answer questions about the transition period which is when michael flynn was talking to sergey kislyak and saying please don t do anything, we re going to lift the sanctions, don t retaliate. and somehow in all of this we are expected to believe with all these questions that the president is writing these answers himself and no one is helping. absolutely not. and he s saying he s doing it very easily. thank you guys so much. appreciate it. coming up, the recount in florida has come to an end. after the break, a live report on the closely watched senate race. senate
Doing was essentially saying, hold on. don t retaliate. we ll take care of this once we come into office. now, the question is, why would he lie about this? and why would you actually make promises to a foreign government before you are in office? the right answer would have been, we hear your concerns, mr. ambassador, and we re happy to take it up with you at 12:30 p.m. on january 20th, but we can t until that time. and so now the question is, who else knows, and as we reported in the times today, my colleagues reported that, in fact, there were many others who were consulted about these interactions with ambassador kislyak. and as you said, you know, why does everybody keep lying about this if it s all very harmless. julia, again, big picture. remind us, why is it that the trump administration seems to have been trying to be nice to the russians? isn t that sort of the question is, all these moves
Seems to be though we don t know the details of that discussion yet, that what he was doing was essentially saying, hold on. don t retaliate. we ll take care of this once we come into office. now, the question is, why would he lie about this? and why would you actually make promises to a foreign government before you are in office? the right answer would have been, we hear your concerns, mr. ambassador, and we re happy to take it up with you at 12:30 p.m. on january 20th, but we can t until that time. and so now the question is, who else knows, and as we reported in the times today, my colleagues reported that, in fact, there were many others who were consulted about these interactions with ambassador kislyak. and as you said, you know, why does everybody keep lying about this if it s all very harmless. julia, again, big picture. remind us, why is it that the trump administration seems to have been trying to be nice to the russians? isn t that sort of the question is, all these
Burner, but he has deemphasized them because he is using them as leverage to get them to take serious action on north korea. this is another thing he is not just targeting kim jong un when he says these things. he is also targeting the leadership in beijing because i don t think they believe he s willing to take military action. i think he needs to reset their expectations in beijing on this trip. yes, he really is willing to take out a north korean missile, and is willing to stop to take out a north korean nuclear test site, and it will be limited to that, because of the north koreans don t retaliate, just like the syrians didn t retaliate, then that will be at. martha: this is a president who prides himself on his ability to negotiate, and the conversation that he has about to have in about two hours from now with this president is, as you say, just hugely consequential and fascinating, we would like to be a fly on the wall. thank you very much, good to see you. thanks. marth
And comments by russian officials and diplomats. the russians are really running out of patience. they re very angry. they wanted those diplomatic compounds backing that president obama took. and they are really upset about these sanctions. congress has passed. there s a lot of talk now about retaliatory steps. we could see the russians for instance kicking out u.s. diplomats, maybe closing american diplomatic compounds. i ll just point out as you recall when barack obama imposed sanctions at the end of last year on the russians as punishment for their interference in the election, mike flynn allegedly told the russian ambassador, don t retaliate. when trump comes into office, we ll make this right. clearly that s not going to happen now. the bottom line is time is running out on this attempted reset that donald trump wants to do. the relationship may be about to get much worse. donald trump may be about to