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this agreement led to the establishment of groups that called themselves helsinki watch , not only in the west but in eastern europe as well. it gave them a foundation to stand upon. i would argue that the movement that got this great boost from the agreement of 1975 led to the downfall of communism in eastern europe eventually even the soviet union in the decades that followed. both of these things, the marshall plan and the helsinki clerks were examples of america promoting democracy without using military as a means of doing so. if i've learned anything in my career as a journalist. once you solve a problem, it tends not to stay solve so let's get to the next picture. russia today is not a democracy. it is not a place recognized for human rights. americans have a tendency when places like russia have a regime change to say russia is a democracy, we did it in 1917 and we did it in 1991 with the soviet union and i will bet you anything that when he leaves office there will be people in this country who say that god almighty russia cannot become a democracy. the lesson here is that a

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they would sit down and continue to engage on the topics like security that had come up in helsinki. remember, there is one other piece of it too is that the president hinted earlier in the week that maybe he would cancel this meeting. i don't think a lot of folks took that too seriously. the meeting was still on the schedule. the all things seemed to be green lit. he did lightly scold putin for the ukrainian aggression indicating that perhaps he might end up pulling the plug. clearly that's what happened. it's another dimension to what is going to be a whirlwind 48 hours once the president touches down here later tonight. >> rain in argentina, always better than rain in new york city, though. our chief white house correspondent hallie jackson traveling with the president for the g20. michael youly joins me now, senior foreign affairs correspondent for "politico." the timing of the special counsel's announcement a bit curious to some because if you'll recall, the special counsel several months ago did the same thing announcing an indictment right before the president of the united st

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experience the russian leader seemed to use to his advantage when the two met in helsinki in july 2018. >> putin is disciplined. he doesn't do anything he isn't prepared for. he's taken his measure of donald trump. he's going to walk into a room with donald trump, he's going to know exactly what he wants and he's going to know exactly how to get it. trump by contrast is famously undisciplined and is the opposite of a trained intelligence agent. >> vladimir putin is somebody who has operated on the world stage for decades. he knows international issues very well. he has seen presidents come and go. and i think he has been very, very skillful in terms of using his political acumen to his benefit. >> vladimir vladimirovich putin, former kgb colonel and current president of the russian federation. first elected in 2000, he's the longest serving russian leader since josef stalin. >> he's corrupted by power because just imagine 18 years you're the czar. >> putin's former prime minister, mikhail kazianov, has been outspoken in his criticism of the russian leader. >> russia is not a democratic

i don't want to see another helsinki performance. this was his opportunity to redeem himself, stand up for american values and international law and our own national security interests and he had that opportunity and instead he's abdicating it. >> do you think, though, if he had met there would be anything different than helsinki, because what has changed since then, right? >> well, that's a good test, kate. we needed to see just avoiding the meeting doesn't speak to all the issues that are out there, it doesn't speak to the recent violations of ukrainian sovereignty, violations on the high sea, it doesn't speak to the continuous cyberattacks against the united states, doesn't speak to this latest revelation of economic interests in russia and so, he avoids that by not having a meeting instead of confronting putin. and it is ironic that this president cannot find his spine to confront vladimir putin but can challenge the closest allies of the united states has across the globe. >> i do want to ask you about the other news regarding r

i remember talking to people at the white house around that helsinki summit. he came out and had the friendly press conference and people in the white house said it was a moment where they hadn't felt that much undersiege since charlottesville. different circumstance now. obviously this indictment deals much more directly with the president an his inner circle. it names the president. well it doesn't name him but it names individual one who we are referring to then candidate trump. it's much closer to the president many this case. we're not talking about russian trolls hacking hillary clinton's e-mails. we're talking about the president's adviser, fixer, lawyer being in direct communication with russian officials work on a business deal in the heart of the 2020 campaign. that's a key difference here. >> let's talk about the president's children. in that filing we read today that michael cohen filing, he admits he talked to the president about trump tower moscow but he talked to president trump's children who were involved in the business about trump tower mosc

a coal mine is a photographer of what's known as the helsinki school while studying in the finnish capital in the one nine hundred ninety s. he began to specialize in images of spaces and facades. he made his name which have strict photos of architecture he came to it somewhat by accident. as a student at university of art and design he found portrait photography too difficult . it was very difficult to work in a studio i did not the equipment and how to direct the people. there were so many things to do at the same time so when we went through this. meant i started to build small spaces and then i could spend whatever time in the studio and then. develop that i want to photograph real spaces. he compiled his sacred spaces from two thousand and fourteen to twenty seventeen years during which tensions between the world religions were growing in europe and elsewhere. did his photo project have a political message. i'm not doing political art but i think all of the team and how it's handled bring something the. board what i'm thinking about it. all and color mine and images reveal that when s

fashion design only blossomed in finland a few years ago graduates of helsinki's university of art and design a so we'll trained and qualified that most of them go on to work for famous labels all over the world but labels born and bred in finland have yet to make their breakthrough internationally that's set to change finnish fashion is on the up and up. it is definitely the time for fact finnish fashion design we have many labels which you can also witness in this new gallery. and they all have their very specific and unique styles the designer geo behind halo also used to work for international labels but now they're going their own way finland's nature isn't their only source of inspiration another is the work of finished painter write us a astronomy. they turn up in the motif. of a collection not timely in garments but even on scarves in their original size. for every item salt a small donation goes to the sea astronomy museum in quito in the far north of the country it's the designers way of supporting their homeland than they can afford to the label is doing well. at the moment

lauria told us that there have been efforts to stop from meeting his friends in a sense that summit in helsinki in the summer. time very well timed to release of kohen having lied about want not about collusion to change the election results but about a business deal that have been going on and maybe was still going on and he lied about it because he was afraid that it could be construed that way i don't really know exactly the details of that business deal but there's still no collusion but trump you will see how russia gate even without proof of collusion is having its effect on relations between the united states and russia you had to cancel this meeting and this is a very serious matter it's just it is internal politics that's having an international effect at the edgier you indictments were far more serious and and this summit was far more important terms of its build up thank you very much and trump went to the summit in helsinki of course and the reaction here in the u.s. was beyond belief this time i think maybe trump got the message was for the g. twenty itself negotiations on where th

there was so much pressure on the president to have a very different summit than the one he had in helsinki when he seem ed to the take putin's word over his community he got back to the u.s. he corrected that. he said that based on the fact that the ships and the sailors have not been returned to ukraine from rush sharsia, it i for all parties to cancel my meeting with russia's president vladimir putin, but andrea, to your point, you cannot ess cape the broader backdrop, and the fact that there are development s in the russian investigation and almost every day of this week, and we are seeing this president increasingly seem embattled and lash out at the special counsel, and lash out at michael cohen and he called him weak in na q&a with the reports on the south lawn before he departed. this is what he tweeted about the special counsel this morning, andrea, calling it an illegal joseph mccarthy-style witch hunt, and he said, did you ever see an investigation in search of a crime. his own attorney rudy giuliani put out a statement of these cohen developments saying that there is a similar d

i think it'll be a continue ration of their discussion in helsinki. >> what about ukraine? >> thank you so much, ambassador. he's going to meet with the new incoming president from brazil. for the past few year, brazil had a trade surplus with brazil -- >> united states had a trade surplus with brazil. >> because of that president trump complains about brazil protectionism, why should we accept related to trade relationship with brazil, thu the new brazil government, should we expect more cooperation or more tariffs like those on steel and aluminum? and another one on venezuela that i know is another priority of e meeting what kind -- the meeting, what kind of cooperation are you expecting with the new government? john: the meeting with president-elect b; lsonaro came as a result of president elect trump's call on election night o congratulate president elect bolsonaro. they had an jut standing phone call, developed a personal relationship even remotely. president trump was the first foreign leader to call the president-elect so following up on this, we thought it would be

of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall, i made the point that the european so-called helsinki progress was bring anyand naive to results. the only real help from outside that accelerated the final corpse of communism came from ronald reagan and margaret thatcher. they understood that words alone were not enough to bring the end of this evil empire. they understood more than anyone soviet system and the soviet expansionism had to be resisted. not just considered wrong. the role of these three exceptional individuals can't be denied. it again andember again, in spite of this i always keep stressing that communist collapse. the main cause behind its collapse where the internal problems of the regime itself. at the end of the 1980's, communism was already weak, soft, old, and emptied of all meaning and that there was almost no one seriously defending it. reagan, margaret thatcher, and john paul ii's solution would have taken much longer. he said it would have lasted decades longer. i disagree. i would think in terms of years, not just decades. he said these three individuals did n

let's remember back in helsinki, donald trump and vladimir putin side by side. donald trump says, well, you know, i know our intelligence community says it was russia that interfered in the election and helped me and hurt hillary clinton but vladimir putin said it wasn't. we are both to blame. there was a huge uproar stateside. if he's not in a great place mentally dealing with cohen and what looks like bob mueller's investigation picking up momentum and the vice tightening, it might not be the best idea for him to sit down with donald trump or any other hostile world leader. i don't think the ukrainian issue is the reason for that, wolf. i think it can be cited for a reason but put me in bianna's camp in that it would shine even more light on what he would not do and if donald trump sat down with vladimir putin, he's not going to all of a sudden confront vladimir putin over russian interference. he hasn't done it before. it won't do it now. >> optics didn't have much of an effect going into the helsinki meeting as well. there was a lot of anticipation from both

. >> reporter: marta pardavi is co-chair of the non-profit watchdog organization, hungarian helsinki committee >> look at pictures from the transit zones that we got. r orter: she says the government recently changed the laws to make it virtually impossible for refugees to get asylum and accuses it of human rights abuses. earlier this year she took the government to court afr it stopped food distribution to rejected asylum seekers in the couny's transit zones. >> so we had to take emergencyme ures and turn to the european court of human rights to get an emergency or the court saying hungarian government you have to give these people food. >> reporter: but refugees aren' the only peounwelcome by viktor orban, who wathre-elected foird term in a landslide last april. orban has singled out one particular man as an enemy,an amerillionaire philanthropist george soros.-y the r old soros, who was born in budapest, supports democracy and human rights causes around the world. atban considers him a foreign influence and thso much so that this summer he enacted a package of laws called "stop sor

. >> all of that preceding the meeting that took place in helsinki. this weekend they have plans to meet, also at the g20 as well. >> it's central for president trump to have a warm meeting with president putin. he wants to be his friend. last year at the g20 sumsummit, they had the long impromptu dinner meeting that could happen again. the president just wants to get along with putin. it's in conflict with decades of american foreign policy and with the intelligence communities con clug clusions about the russian interference in the election. >> what do you make of this? >> it's interesting the relationship with macron. it was off to a great start. >> last spring. >> yeah. i thought, gosh, he has a solid i'l ally. its topsy-turvy. he throws him under the bus. the putin relationship is interesting to watch. it's like there's something about putin that he likes. maybe it's his personality or the air around putin, not so much his governing or the russian meddling. but it's something with putin as a man. >> something he likes. i saw your eyebrow go up. >

occasion of the anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall are -- wall, i made the point the waspean helsinki process ande to bring any results the only real help from outside that accelerated the final collapse of communism came from ronald reagan and margaret wordser, who understood alone were not enough to bring an end to the evil empire. they understood more than anyone system and the soviet expansionism has to be resisted, not just considered wrong. the role of these three exceptional individuals cannot be denied. we should remember it again and again. in spite of that, i always keep stressing communism collapsed. the main cause behind its collapse or the internal ,roblems of the regime itself but at the end of the 1980's communism was a way -- already soft and emptied of all meaning and there was no one seriously defending it. of ronaldhe result reagan, margaret thatcher and , solutionthe second would've taken much longer. he would have mentioned the same point, it would have lasted decades longer. i disagree. terms of years, not just decades. these three individuals did not just help u

remember the last summit in helsinki he stood next to putin and because putin spoke strongly, i think i'm quoting the president, he said i believe putin over our intelligence community. i don't want him to do that again. stand next to putin and say, well, it was a provocation by the ukrainians. that would not be in america's national interest. just better not to have the meeting. >> i remember speaking to you that day and i remember in hindsight was it a good meeting or bad meeting. there's a part of me in helsinki trump standing next to putin was a good thing because everybody got to see the emperor had no clothe. you actually got to see what donald trump is like when he's around vladimir putin. there's a real sense of the number of people who believe when he's there he'll be tougher. this is all talk for a different audience. he does not seem to be able to take a reasonable stance on anything when it comes to confronting putin. in fact, he blames president obama and you as the ambassador at the time about crimea. >> yes, well, it's an interesting point you make about exposing presid

what four months ago kind of could be something similar happened remember that trump putin summit in helsinki just before the much vaunted meeting though there was twelve russians were indicted for interfering in u.s. politics is there a partner merging here or is it just simply coincidental. how could i forget that oh probably there's a pattern here but that g.r.u. indictments were far more serious and this summit was far more important terms of its build up and trump went to the summit house thank you of course and you could play those clips the reaction here in the us was well has beyond belief. brennan from syria director john brennan called him a traitor. you heard anderson cooper of c.n.n. saying he'd never seen a more outrageous between an american president and other leader i mean it was just over the top so this time i think maybe trump got the message i'm not i'm not going to meet them after this. this time very well timed release of kohen having lied about what not about collusion to shame the election results but about a business deal or have been going on and maybe was still goin

now, if what he was going to do was another helsinki performance, yes, then he was better off cancelling it. i think he cancelled it because he's trying to avoid appearances in the aftermath of the recent cohen latest confessions. and not because, you know, of his feigned interests over expressing displeasure over ukraine. that could have been done far more forcefully, directly to vladimir putin. >> the president called his pursuit of a real estate deal at trump tower deal in moscow during the first half of 2016 during the presidential campaign. he said it's very legal and very cool. how do you see it? >> well, this is the problem with this presidency. the intertwinedness of his personal business interests with the national advocacy of the nation. especially even as during a candidate, you would think during that time you would have frozen those activities. obviously, as a president, these interests are still being pursued. you see them being pursued in china, with trademarks. at the same time that we no longer -- the president said he's not going to move forward on his denying the one c

the helsinki accords, which recognized the boundaries as they had been set after world war ii. many people thought ford had handed the associated a big victory. but the courts also committed the signatories, the united states, soviet union, most of the other countries of europe, including the communist countries, to recognize human rights. that human rights existed. to recognize freedom of conscious and it sounded to many like so much hot air, but in fact out of this event in 1975, dissident groups began banding together, often in the face of tremendous harassment in the soviet union, in poland, throughout eastern europe, often calling themselves helsinki watch and standing up for the rights of individual humans. standing up for the rights woodrow wilson had first enunciated back in 1917. i would argue that this event in 1975 had more to do with the downfall of communism in 1989 in eastern europe than any other single event. this was a triumph of the wilsonianism. as a journalist, i should pass on to you the understanding that once a problem is solved, it usually doesn't stay s

the president was excoriated for that moment in helsinki for being obsequious to the russian president. does he risk the same here with the saudi crown prince? >> he really does, jim. the language is so stunningly similar. and it's so easy to conclude, to sort of take away from this that he's basically saying, american values are for sale. you know, if the money is good enough, if we're making enough money from the saudis, if we're getting the kind of oil deals that president trump wants, then you can turn somehow a blind eye. it's extraordinary that he doesn't seem to express any interest in actually knowing whether the crown prince did order this murder. and he sort of dismisses again sort of the cia, the high confidence assessment. you know, maybe he did, maybe he didn't. and the reality is, though, that he feels like with his treatment of putin, that he has not paid a political price for that. you know, in his view. and that in the same way, if he's able to somehow sort of focus american attention on the financial benefits that he sees the country getting from saudi arabia, that th

democrats but also from within the republican party himself itself after the summit with president putin in helsinki and there were a lot of concerns over what exactly trumps posture towards president putin meant that he was maybe a little bit too for a little bit too conciliatory and that is possibly just one of the many reasons swirling around as to why this was so abruptly canceled our correspondent in washington my us waiter on the story for us tonight my thank you. or ukraine's president petro poroshenko has called will need to intervene if russia invades but nato has rebuffed him saying it already has a strong patrolling present in the region ukraine's prime minister was in berlin today seeking support from german chancellor angela merkel but not military support . a warning for europe ukraine's prime minister visits berlin calling for support in the escalating conflict with russia his country wants nato to send ships to the sea of our resolve to provide security. to should be abolished the should the recent russian aggression in the sea of as of could happen anyway the world should realize th

elections overshadowed the agenda the president's haven't met one on one since their july summit in helsinki where trump's behavior toward putin was bizarrely submissive leaving huge questions looming over between asides european leaders and his advisors back home all wants to show a united front and that's really our objective it doesn't really matter so much what's the practical steps are as long as we can show united front because remember putin's objective is to sow discord in disunity in the western alliance europe's geography dooms it to being caught in the middle of moscow and washington politically when tensions flare in those capitals brussels feels the burn it will be difficult for the europeans to see their concerns on global trade addressed while navigating other diplomatic danger zones the receive many things go home could. cause problems i mean. she jinping will be there so it's possible that if there is language on trades that. says something very negative. about china or that others will want to say something very negative about protectionism and trump will insist that protec

wants for europe it lines was part of that if you ones for europe but we also heard here in helsinki today some speakers who in rather fiery terms said we need to stand up and fight for european values we need to stand up and fight for a liberal democracy that was for instance the president of the european council the poll done to screw spoke here so yes the e p p is divided on that and if you look at ces way you're going to push the direction of the party more towards the right because who currently holds the office of the e.u. commission is sort of on the left side the very liberal side of the christian conservatives and labor is going to change that so it debate about identity and he talked about this too when he spoke here at the congress about churches that we see it every european village and that we need to protect and people feeling at home that is a definitely a different outlook on what the future is supposed to look like all right now tell us a little bit more about mr of aber who is he and how did he manage to get this top job. because he is such a clever pull of strings

also from within the republican party himself itself after the first summit with president putin in helsinki and there were a lot of concerns over what exactly trumps posture towards president putin meant that he was maybe a little bit too friendly a little bit too conciliatory that is possibly just one of the many reasons swirling around as to why this was so abruptly canceled or in our correspondent in washington minus wager on the story for us tonight my thank you. german chancellor angela merkel's says that the russian president mr putin is completely to blame for the crisis the escalating tensions with ukraine and she's called for a diplomatic solution you know what comes after ukrainian president petro poroshenko call the nato countries to intervene to ensure the free passage of ukrainian ships in the as all see the alliance nato says that it is or it already has a strong patrol presence in the region or russia denies kiev's accusations that it's blocking vehicles from entering or leaving ukrainian ports where tensions between russia and ukraine have risen since sunday's naval clash of

it's little odd and this could have been a chance to do something stronger than came out of helsinki. >> we saw the two leaders they shared a very warm greeting today. they were high fiving each other with a lot of smiles. what do you make of that? >> i think it was clearly for the benefit of rest of the world and it was a bit disgusting to watch. these are two leaders who have brutalized their leaders. the cia said that crown prince mohammed bin salman ordered the execution of jamal khashoggi. because the president of the united states has extended him cover by signing with on a autocratic regime that allows the crown prince >> this appears to be getting a lot of negative pushback. even though the president has this sort of fondness ultimately it is the american people who decide what american values are and what americans stand for and not the president. i think some of the strong negative pushback is a remind their collect ifrly, you flow, we are disgusted by this. >> all eyes tomorrow on the president's dinner tomorrow with president xi of china. we have questions on whether they