barbara so important. it is so important because the president of the european commission he is like the c.e.o. of europe this is the top executive job he not only sort of leads the day to day business the watching about rules and regulations and that countries for instance stick to the budget rules and so on and so forth but he also is a strong force in law making and he s a strong force in sort of showing and pushing the whole the whole caravan into the european caravan into the political direction that he thinks fit and so it is a very strong job it is in fact really the top job within the european union lots at stake above are ways of reporting from how sinky finland thank you. now what would you do if fascists took power what if your neighbor was being
i m jake tapper live from held sinky finland and the ripples of the event that took place behind me are cascading around the world. as you know, president trump met one on one with russian president vladimir putin for two hours. before the event president trump blamed the united states for the state of bad relations between the two nations. after their meeting the president stood next to putin and drew a moral equivalence between the united states and russia and told the world that he cannot be sure who to believe, the united states intelligence community or the russian president, on the subject of russian election interference in the 2016 u.s. presidential election. president trump stood next to putin and said he didn t see any reasons why russia would have done it. of his own justice department s announcement of 12 indictments of russian military intelligence officials just on friday president trump said the probe was quote, a disaster for our country. it was a stunning moment. repub