this the long main street in helsinki that leads up to the palace. one of these cars is going to pull into that tent. there it is. pug into the tent. that i assume is where the president is and the curtain will close, which you will see in a moment. and, of course, ainsley vladimir putin is already there. ainsley: walk us through what happened right after this. right after this i assume they will sit down. they were supposed to do that at 6:20. obviously falling behind. yesterday we were being told they were going to meet 30 minutes to an hour. on the schedule it said an hour and a half. 90 minutes. but now that we are running behind we are not sure if they will stick to the original plan and cut that meeting short so they can walk in that bilateral meeting at 7:50. in an hour bilateral meeting is supposed to start. brian: the world cup is over where else with r. they supposed to be? plane supposed to leave at 12 noon but that can leave
the news conference, after all of this, both the 90 minute meeting or so. we will see how it goes and the lunch that we expect to last roughly two hours. you would expect a more laundry list. by the way, i didn t hear syria. i said it was hard to hear. so maybe syria came up. i would just caution that just because he didn t mention meddling, there will be critics who will say he didn t mention meddling. he will talk about it in the 90 minutes. this was a quick. ainsley: he absolutely is going to be talking about it. ed: syria is important. retired general jack keane has been saying on our air a very important point. why talk about syria in terms of iran s influence there and one of the things that general keene and others have been really pressing the president is don t pull the u.s. out of there because we have made real gains against isis. something the mainstream media doesn t talk a lot about and doesn t give the president credit for. if you pull out now we might lose some of those
but what he said made perfect sense. why is the united states paying for the defense of germany when they re subsidizing russia for gas? brian: bring in jason chaffetz right now. jason, you think it s important for people to understand, too, what was going on with peter strzok and others. because it s not just about vladimir putin and meddling. it s about what was going on with the investigation and the push to label trump maybe illegitimate president by a guy who is leading investigation with impeachment on his mind. you think more is coming out there that will figure into this conversation. in what way? well, there is no doubt that, look, russia and some of the others, some of the nefarious characters out there on the world stage want to penetrate into the counter intelligence, the operations within the united states. that s been going on for decades. nothing unique to donald trump. what s concerning about what happened with the peter strzok testimony is, a lot of people serious ab
something like that and chuckle okay, so you want five or six hours from peter strzok and the dirty fbi agents and then you say let s move on. with robert mueller it s been going on over a year where is the move-on in terms of the president s side. the democrats say okay we got one day of testimony from strzok. let s forget about it that s not a big deal to us. saying look, this never ends. brian: can you imagine if george bush had to address the al gore and florida situation for the first two years of his presidency? we never talked about it again and al gore was kind never to go away unlike hillary clinton. meanwhile we have a great roster of guests to bring. abby: former campaign manager and co-author let trump be trump corey lewandowski. we all know him well on the show. corey, you know the president almost as well as anybody. the meeting is going on as we speak. this one-on-one with vladimir putin. what do you think is going through the president s mind and how do you think this b
brian: rebecca if past is prologue, if president obama decided without negotiation to take the missile defense out of european as a gesture of goodwill, how did vladimir putin interpret that? weakness. if we stop the perez exercises. if we acknowledge crimea. if we do anything that shows acquiescence, i wish it was a different world, but he will view it as weakness. don t you agree? what he does is that s exactly right. what putin does doesn t take these concessions okay great, we are going to have a better relationship. he takes that concession, he pockets it and then asks for more. this is why appeasing russia doesn t work. it s a failed policy. on the new start treaty a lot of people are talking about that. president trump has talked about possibly looking for ways to work on nuclear nonproliferation that threaty doesn t expire until 2021. president trump has dissatisfaction. instead of willing to extend that treaty. let s wait and see if you