Compared hitler to Bashar Al Assad. Is that enough to stop calls for him being fired . In the drivers seat. My one on one sit down with fords ceo mark fields. His message to the president and his vision for the future of the auto industry. Good morning, everybody. Im ali velshi at Msnbc Headquarters in new york. Rex tillerson and Sergey Lavrov have ended a high stakes meeting in moscow. The two are scheduled to emerge at the top of the next hour and hold a News Conference. We know that there has been tense talk over syria. Todays meeting comes on the heels of a newly declassified white house Intelligence Report that accuses russia of helping cover up that chemical attack in syria last week. President Vladimir Putin saying in an interview today, quote, wheres the proof of Syrian Forces using Chemical Weapons . There is none. End quote. Putin also says relations with the u. S. Have, quote, degraded since President Trump took office. President trump had his own criticisms of Vladimir Puti
reporter: putin on syria do you believe the chemical weapons attacks in syria are fake news? of course. first of all, the syrian government long ago destroyed their chemical weapons. we re not even interested in it. i just feel like saying simply boring. the bodies of dead children thanks to sarin gas attacks, that s boring? reporter: and will america be attacked again? so what does that mean for our elections in 2018, in 2020? we can expect more of the same? i didn t say that we don t have the goal of putting an end to it. you just said that. no. no, i did not say that. this is the most significant incursion into american society since pearl harbor. good evening. i m megyn kelly in moscow. the seat of government, for a man who many american officials believe has launched a cyber war on american democracy. his name, of course, is vladimir putin.
we are back with our panel. elliott abrams, what did you think of the summit? you ve prepared presidents for many different kinds of summits, how do you think this one was? the real work is done in the bilateral meetings. there were a lot of good bilaterals. trump obviously trying to work with xi jinping on north korea. it may work, it may not. trying to work with putin on syria. and today we get a sericease fi that maybe will save some lives. on other things where you can t work with other people, what does he do after the summit? he immediately sends tillerson to kiev and sends a known envoy. i think this summit is pretty standard except for one thing.
anne marie, let s go to the russia part of this, the putin meeting, how do you think it went? what do you make of trump going to europe and, you know, getting on well with putin? and he got on far better with putin than he did with our allies at nato and the g20. but i think the most important thing to me about his meeting with putin, is that the russians are celebrating. it was deemed a triumph for putin in russia. and he gave putin the two things that putin wants most. one, twob treated as an equal on the world stage with syria, with cyber security. you talk about the fox guarding the hen house, i can t imagine better. this is trump saying that we might have a joint task force. on cyber security. yes. we ll hand over some more of the keys to our cyber kingdom. but the other is that putin wants to be treated as an equal on the world stage and to have
then he goes to g-20 and meets with vladimir putin, to go in and try and delegitimize the rush if you air putin who wants a more multipolish system where everybody has influence in their backyard. russia doesn t get bothered by the americans, china s their biggest problem. but look at trump s tweet this morning where he says until we have movement on ukraine and syria, i can t move on sanctions. look at what he had to say to the russians, had to at least say, look i actually did push them on the hacks. we know he doesn t care about the hacks, we know there are no consequences, but the reality of these investigations which are only going to pick up steam constrains putin to only have a