and putin said 50%. 50% to vladimir putin. at that point he became the silent business partner of all the oligarchs. >> putin was re-elected in a landslide in march 2004. winning 71% of the vote. six months later in september, tragedy struck the russian city of beslov when russian militants occupied a school for three days, taking 1100 people hostage. including almost 800 children. army troops stormed the school to end the siege. by the time it was over, 334 people were dead, half of them children. it was a turning point for putin and for russia. >> this was used by putin's surrounding start new political. which in fact moved to us strong consolidation of political power in one hand. and putin in fact started to be more dictator than elected president. >> in the wake of beslan, putin eliminated elections for governors across russia, he would now appoint them. and those who crossed him, were punished. in november 2005, american-born investor bill broader, who had made billions in the russian stock market was deported from russi

my question now is what vladimir putin's response will be. up until now the kremlin has staked their claim on the idea they would have this face-to-face. 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 c

he seems to have no backbone to confront vladimir putin. someone who only understands strength. >> whatever the facts may be, senator, the russian government presumably knows exactly who was involved and to what extent in those various trump organization business efforts with the russians. does that give vladimir putin -- do you believe, does that give him leverage over president trump? >> well, look. if putin wanted to use it and say, no, there were meetings, and here's a level of the meetings we had and here's the extent, and here's the depth of the conversations, and here are the people involved, all which would create a problem for president trump if those meetings took place, and, in fact, the depth of those meetings were serious enough, yeah, that's a potential leverage. it's a potential leverage of oligarchs -- russian oligarchs invested in the trump organization at a time it was having difficult issues years ago. these are all questions that the lack of the financial disclosure and the lack of transparency with this administration a

then the president decided he was not going to have that bilateral meeting with vladimir putin, sarah sanders the reason was russia was refusing to return ukrainian sailors that it detained after the confrontation earlier in the week. the president is under a lot of pressure not to have a bilateral meeting with vladimir putin, even just sitting down with him could be seen as rewarding him for that aggression against the ukraine are turning a blind eye to it. the timing with the cohen story as well didn't plan for very good optics for the president to decide all that taken together he will cancel the meeting with vladimir putin and have it at a later date but it wouldn't happen until sometime in the new year and likely not early in the near early, could be a while between these two leaders sit down together and it is important to continue the dialogue. >> they have plenty to talk about. the other big story michael cohen's central guilty plea, any coattails for the president from this? >> according to rudy giuliani they are not because it was information handed over by the trump organiz

be in business with vladimir putin while vladimir putin is waging this war on the american electoral process. >> i think, you know, you've hit on a very central issue here which is the crinology on all of this. trump previously has said they stopped negotiating to deal with this in 2016. michael cohen as said it continued into june of 2016. that infamous trump tower meeting where don junior met with russians that had compromising information on hillary clinton took place on june 9, 2016. this deal trump tower moskow fell apart on or around june 14th. so within days the russians have sent envoys into trump tower to try to give the trump camp information they can use to undermine hillary clinton's candidacy. and they decide then to stop pursuing this deal. why is that? i think it suggests that they decided to tradeoff the idea of doing business with president trump or at that time candidate trump in order to do politics with him. and trump today tried to say that michael cohen is a liar, but the entire fact pattern, it's documentable around this is that the trump organization has been

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 republicans and democrats and the worlds to really address russian interference in the u.s. election and to be firm with put puel. he seemed to go into this meeting knowing all of this and at the same time he's still sitting down in a one-on-one private meeting with vladimir putin and coming out and seemingly taking his side so optics isn't something that the president puts at the forefront of his decision meeting and here we are. >> we'll see what happens in argentina in bristol-myers at the g-20 summit. everybody stand by. much more on the breaking news. michael cohen's plea agreement and special counsel robert mueller's investigation and we'll get reaction to donald trump's abrupt decision to cancel his meeting with vladimir putin. >>> breaking news, a source now sells cnn that white house officials are preparing fo

en route to ar jgentina, the president canceling the saturday summit with vladimir putin because of the new aggression against ukraine. and first, the president's reak sh reaction today slamming michael cohen before leaving the white house. >> he was given a fairly long jail sentence, and he is a weak person. and being weak unlike the other people that you watch, and he is a weak person and what he is trying to do is to get a reduced sentence. >> the leaders of the senate intelligence committee reacting to cohen admitting that he lied to them. >> this is one more example of the president's closest allies lying a about their ties to russia and russians. >> i am -- i have not seen the specific indictment, but this is why people should not lie when they are in front of a congressional investigation. >> i'm and continuing the latest coverage of the legal blow to the president's russian investigation. michael cohen is now cooperating with the special counsel robert mueller and naming the president in court today after pleading guilty to a single count of lying to congress in the fall of 2017

here is cohen, on behalf of donald trump, seeking the help of vladimir putin's office, vladimir putin himself, to make this deal happen. that's in treaty by the presidential candidate of the united states to the president of russia, i want your help to get money to do this deal. stunning in the full context of everything we've learned since about the president's efforts to do business in russia. the whole questions of what, the contacts between his campaign and russia. it really puts an entirely new cast on everything we've learned up until now about trump and russia and the mueller investigation. >> here's what president trump says about this. he sees it obviously in a very different light. here's how he explained this deal that never happened yesterday. >> i was running my business while i was campaigning. there was a good chance that i wouldn't have won, in which case i would have gotten back into the business and why should i lose 0 lots of opportunities? even if he was right, it doesn't matter, because i was allowed to do whatever i wanted during the campaign. >> there you go, mi

vladimir putin is not off the hook. angela merkel has taken on the task of meeting with him to raise the issue of tensions in ukraine. there is a possibility of more russia sanctions, plenty going on in the world and that is what donald trump is reacting to. we've seen an increase of nato military forces or nato air policing over the black sea and i don't think this domestic issue has much to do with donald trump's international response. jillian: based on the fact that ships and sailors have not been returned from russia i have decided it would be best for all parties to cancel my previously scheduled meeting and in another tweet in argentina with vladimir putin i look forward to a meaningful summit as soon as the situation is resolved. most agree this meeting will have to happen at some point but when? >> there is an invitation to visit the us at some point. he will need to talk again about nuclear arms control and syria but now ukraine has come to the top of the list and vladimir putin is pushing ukraine closer to na

one of which would be the meeting with vladimir putin scheduled for saturday morning. that was supposed to be two hours long. now it has been scrapped. that could be because of the controversy in ukraine as the president said, but also an effort by the president to change the subject from controversy back home which has threatened to overshadow the visit. the president and white house announcing he has made some of his meetings with foreign leaders public rather than former sit-downs. he has really important things still on the agenda. with china, he has a major meeting on trade scheduled. dinner and bilateral meeting in an effort to settle the brewing trade dispute with china. the president has truncated the visit to south america. we know he is not looking forward to the visit with the g20. there are tensions not only with leaders like russian president vladimir putin and european allies who he has plans to meet with on the ground. the meetings with g20 leaders with trump can be controversial. i think, christine, over the next couple days, we will see exactly how don

a penthouse apartment for slo p vladimir putin on top of trump tower in moskow. a deal that they were pursuing well into the 2016 campaign. the information comes from one of president trump's partners. did mr. trump know about the $50 hillian gift idea? we don't know the answer to that. but others involved in the attempt to build in moscow did. it's been quite a day for president trump. he arrives just minutes from now in argentina for the g20 summit. just before he left for the airport as crow know michael cohen, his former trusted advisor and lawyer stood up and admitted to lying about trump business dealings with russia. he admitted the dealings continued far into the campaign up to and including when candidate trump was the republican nominee. the charging document lays out conversations mr. cohen had with russians, including a close adviser to vladamir putin about the potential trump tower project in moscow. they went on, according to the document, until mid june of 2016, "on or about june 14th," according to the charging document. why is that date important

important for the president to tell vladimir putin this is outlandish behavior but he expects action not words. we need to move ships and the black sea and quickly and and to russia as well. >> you know, my view. the president will not fire robert mueller nor do i think he should or nor do i think he should not be allowed to finish. and that they are completely irrelevant. >>. >> i probably would. . >> do you believe saudi arabia should be punished in any way for its role? . >> obviously what happened that is completely a bore and to what the united states holds dear. so some kind of response to that and we were discussing that appropriate response. it is always that pragmatic relationship we value their opposition almost nobody believes we should completely or totally fracture the relationship with the saudi's but some kind of response is appropriate and we will continue to talk about this. >> the president is determined to get $5 billion what will it get them to agree to that figure? . >> were trying to get the president the money he would like for the wall as the year-end funding

vladimir putin. here's what he said. >> ukraine. we don't like what happened. we're not happy about it. nobody is. hopefully they'll be able to settle it out soon because we look forward to meeting with president putin. on the respect of what took place, that was the sole reason. >> and speaking of putin, it's been a day full of photo opportunities. look at this extraordinary video. earlier the russian president shaking hands with saudi prince mohammed bin salman. and look at the -- i mean, that is like a -- i wouldn't say a bro hug but a secret hand shake and just to remind you, who these men are. it's not like they're frat brothers. putin, a former kgb agent. he's one of if not the richest and most powerful men in the world with an estimated net worth of up to $200 billion. and the crown prince of saudi arabia, bin salman is currently under fire across the globe for accusations about his involvement in the brutal murder of "washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi. hours ago president trump held

and the government in this case is vladimir putin. so clearly there was an ongoing relationship and a desire to do that deal going into the middle of the presidential election. at least as far as june of 2016. so insofar as did the president want something for russia during that period, i think the answer is clearly yes. he wanted to build the trump tower in moscow. >> cohen says he misled congress, your committee, the house intelligence committee, as well, to protect the president. do you think president trump actually directed him to do that? >> i have no idea. i have no information or any way to evaluate that question. i think -- i'm sure that's something the special counsel is -- is looking into. whether there was some kind of instruction or coordination between the white house and michael cohen during that period, i don't have any evidence on that and really can't speculate, wolf. >> the president says that michael cohen is lying to get a reduced prison sentence. but he also says that if he had gone through with the trump tower m

he summited with vladimir putin several months ago in helsinki when vladimir putin was actively attacking our sovereignty. so attacking u.s. sovereignty wasn't a red line for canceling a meeting and the president has a consistency problem if he's now claiming russia's violation of the territorial integrity is why he's not meeting putin. plus, he to date has pursued a strategy that love and the answer. he's embraced despots and said talking at a summit level is better than not talking at all. >> this is contrary to that. >> he's undermining whatever semblance of a national security strategy he had before by saying my executive time is actually a reward for good behavior and now i'm not going to give it to you because of ukraine. >> there's been a combo or quite a range of reaction, if you will, max, to the president canceling this meeting with putin. let me play the reaction that came from democratic senator bob menendez when i spoke with him yesterday. >> just avoiding a meeting doesn't speak to all the issues that are out there. so he avoids that by not having a meeting. instead of confr

that president trump has treated vladimir putin, and so the sudden cancellation of this summit by the white house without any prior notice to the kremlin, the kremlin claimed is the so different from the way the president has dealt with so many relationships, and so if they were talking and if there is a summit, and this is the first time that the kremlin was caught off guard. >> but andrea, an important point here is do the words of the president and the spokespeople have any credibility whatsoever? because if you are going to lay down a marker about an issue like ukraine, you have to make the world believe that you believe what you are talking about, and i don't believe that anybody at that summit believes for one second that the reason that dr. canceled this meeting is out of some principled stand. and it is believed obviously that he gave putin a pass, and also that putin has had compromising information on trump for the last two years, because he would have been aware of the trump tower relationship in moscow, and which he denied and so i don't believe that nobody believes donald

it's going to be an interesting weekend as he meets with president xi and vladimir putin. good night from new york. trish: breaking right now. president trump slamming the mueller investigation saying we are living in the joseph mccarthy era. he says the presidential pardon for paul manafort is not off the table. the mueller team says manafort whried about his dis -- lied about his business dealing. stormy daniels said anti-trump lawyer avenatti filed a defamation suit against trump against her wishes. the president gearing up for the g20 summit. i'm setting the record straight. with so many academics, one north carolina university is taking it to a whole new level. turning it into a sanctuary campus. tonight, president trump in an interview with the "new york post" not ruling out the possibility of a presidential pardon for mr. man for the. he's facing an extend the jail time. the president saying tonight that a pardon and i quote here was never discussed. but i wouldn't take it off the table. that was a bad situation for the country. but this is where we are and it's a t

he still spent the day also explaining why he's not meeting with one of them, vladimir putin. president trump on the world stage today at the g20 summit in argentina. but still furious and fixated on the russia investigation. the president insisting again today it's not why he cancelled a meeting here with vladimir putin. still blaming that on russia's aggression against ukraine. >> ukraine. we don't like what happened. we're not happy about it. nobody is. and hopefully they'll be able to settle it out soon, because we look forward to meeting with president putin. >> reporter: but the optics and timing of a one-on-one putin meeting not ideal for the white house. as trump becomes the central figure into whether his campaign conspired with the russian government in the 2016 campaign. the president started his day here in buenos aires, defending his business dealings with russia on twitter as very legal and very cool. later, the white house released a statement, again, calling it a russian witch hunt coax but acknowledging, it does undermine our relationship with russia. as world

in fact, according to a new buzz feed report the trump organization even offered vladimir putin, or planned to offer him the $50 million penthouse as a gift. much more on that story with one of the reporters who wrote it coming up. >>> but first, to michael cohen, the long-time trump lawyer and fixer who today went to federal court and pled guilty again, this time to lying to congress about the trump tower moscow project. "i had asserted that all efforts concerning the project had ceased in january of 2016 when, in fact, they continued through june of 2016." cohen also said he lied when he downplayed his conversations with trump and others about the project. and when he denied ever planning to visit russia in connection with the project. he did, in fact, plan to do just that. so why did he do it? "i made these misstatements to be consistent with individual -- political messages and out of loyally to individual one." i don't have to tell you who individual one is, donald trump, the president of the united states is individual one in the criminal information that was presented today in a fede

president trump canceled a meeting with vladimir putin. the escalating tensions between russia and ukraine are alive and kicking. doug mcelway picks up our coverage live in washington good morning. >> our younger viewers may not remember the name ross perot who ran for president in 1992 criticizing nafta. he proved correct about nafta and president trump said it needed to be renegotiated. it paid off. the three presidents stood at the g20 summit to sign the new u.s., mexico, canada agreement. >> president trump: the uscma is the most balanced trade agreement in history. all of our countries will benefit greatly. as pasht of our agreement, the united states will be able to lock in our market access to canada and mexico and greatly expand our agricultural exports. something we've been wanting to do for many years. >> as i discussed with president trump a few days ago, the recent plant closures by general motors, which affects thousands of canadian and american workers and their families, are a heavy blow. make no mistake, we will stand up fo

in front of vladimir putin that we want stand. go forward with the meeting to take a tough line. make it clear to putin that we want stand for his attacks on ukraine sovereignty and make it clear that we stand behind ukraine and will do all that we can to support them, i think that's important. >> ed: some tough decisions ahead for this administration, appreciate your insight. breaking tonight as well, the chair of the california democratic party -- this comes after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. a live report coming up. plus, paris is burning, literally. violent protests over the rising costs of fuel. back at home, increasing concerns over climate change that the president is simply not buying. that's coming up. >> i don't believe it. no. i don't believe it. right now we are at the cleanest we've ever been and it's very important but if we are clean but every other place on earth is dirty, that's not so good. ♪ [ doorbell rings ] janice, mom told me you bought a house. okay. [ buttons clicking ] [ camera shutter cli

no longer meeting with president vladimir putin in the coming days. let's get back over to the white house. kaitlan collins is there for us. what are we learning now? >> reporter: just when the president was leaving the white house, he said that meeting with putin was probably still on but now on twitter he has canceled it writing that based on the fact that the ships and sailors have not been returned to ukraine from russia, i have decided it would be best for all parties concerned to cancel my previously scheduled meeting in argentina with president vladimir putin. he adds, i look forward to a meaningful summit again as soon as the situation is resolved. of course, the president was still scheduled to meet with him until this happened but right when he was leaving the white house, he told reporters that he had received a final report essentially briefing him on the situation happening since the russians seized those three ukrainian vessels and he was going to be reading that while he was on marine one and air force one and then make a decision from

vladimir putin detests barack obama. he hates hillary clinton. he was incentivized for donald trump to win the election. donald trump over here has donald trump enterprises that would like a big old project in moscow if he doesn't win. he needs russia's help. i just want to share a statement put out by the attorney lanny davis. cohen reaffirmed what he said last july and told me many times since, that he decided to put his wife, daughter and country first. today he again told the truth and nothing but the truth. the real donald trump called him a liar. who do you believe? i am proud that mueller himself confirmed michael cohen has told the truth and the truth is relevant and significant. michael will continue to work with the sc and others until the full truth is told. we're going to keep asking and keep digging. we have a lot more to cover. just after the news broke of michael cohen's guilty plea, president trump canceled his meeting with vladimir putin at the g-20. the optics completely different. he didn't say that yesterday or the day before.

let's start with vladimir putin. donald tmp called off a planned meeting with him over the issue of ukraine. how effective wi that be in terms of applying pressure? p.j.: certainly on the heels of helsinki, the white house recognized it could not afford another public relations disaster, given what happened in ukraine in recent days.wh her the president got it through the right logic, it wash the decision. rajini: a lot of focus on theth interactiopresident would have with the crown prince. he said they didn't meet and had no discussions but exchange pleasantries. how significant was that? p.j.: it remains to be seen. the crown prince has been damaged by this. how saudi arabia responds is going to be significant. as president macron said, they have to be far more transparent about what hpened. the crown prince will have to own this in some fashion if he is going to be credibly seen as a reformer going forward. rajini: we talk about the etgs that did not happen, but president trump has a crucial meeting with the presi

cohen now says he e-mailed dmitry peskov, one of vladimir putin's closest aides, trying to get the russian government's help with the project and talked on the phone with one of peskov's aides for 20 minutes. cohen said today he did talk with the trump campaign officials about going to russia and even suggested that mr. trump could go there to pursue the project after becoming the republican party's nominee for preds in mid-july. cohen said today the deal was abandoned june 14th, which is the same day the "washington post" reported that russians hacked into democratic computers. in court, cohen said he made these misstatements to be consistent with mr. trump's political messaging and out of loyalty to donald trump. in a court filing, special counsel robert mueller said cohen also lied to congress, "in hopes of limiting the ongoing russia investigations." >> but obviously, this is a very significant plea and statement. it means that when the president was representing during the campaign that he had no business interests in russia, that that wasn't true. >> reporter: other than cohen's lies

i'm standing up and vladimir putin does not care. he's fine with killing journalists and use them himself or his regime has been accused of that. we've got here is that a few years ago we were talking about the axis of evil. now you have the bullies on the playground gathering together actually forming alliances and the bad people he would really rather not and to have and saudi arabia and donald trump and saudi arabia and donald trump and everyone else is going oh no, when will the teachers come a and straighten them out? that is what is happening. and they always have to have something to do. where does this leave a summit that is supposedly about international coordination? it's worth pointing out that of course are good this of what is publicly seen between vladimir putin and the crown prince was perhaps more significant is the relationship with dump trump since he became president. donald trump of saudi arabia at the centre of a regional alliance against iran and bring it closer to israel. there was also some hope that made this

president, not being able to have a meeting with vladimir putin. these summits don't happen all that often. only a couple a year or so, so this now the president canceling that meeting with vladimir putin on saturday, it was supposed to be one of the high points of this summit here. now that means all of that will go away. the optics, the white house knew, were not good. the president sitting alongside with vladimir putin, but erin, there are real consequences for all of this, but they will still likely cross paths with each other on the sidelines of this summit. we'll see what comes of that. >> jeff zeleny, thank you. >>> and obviously, our group is back with us. gloria, you know, the timing here, it's not something -- what i find interesting is ostensibly, they found out last night, team trump found out last night that michael cohen was going to do this, but the president in some sort of, it would appear, once it broke, the reaction to it, it appears to be emotional, his canceling of the putin meeting. >> it does. we saw his tweets, which he said

putin at the g. twenty later this week putin says that ukraine workers traded a naval clash in the baltic sea ukraine meanwhile says that it is worried that russia is ready to invade. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program german prosecutors have raided the offices of the country's biggest lender deutsche bank one hundred seventy police officers descended on six of the banks premises in and around frankfurt the raids are part of a probe into money laundering. claims implicating deutsche bank stuff that were in a large data leak in twenty sixteen known as the pattern of papers the leaks suggested that deutsche bank staff helped to funnel money belonging to criminals into offshore tax havens today's raid was separate to an ongoing investigation into another money laundering scandal involving deutsche bank and denmark's downs go back. let's get more now on this breaking news we're joined by gary hart first here in the studio early bartz is also joining us from frankfurt and their heart i'd like to begin

president donald trump has threatened to cancel a planned meeting with russian president vladimir putin at this week's g. twenty summit but russia says the meeting will occur as it's too important for both sides. let's get more now we are joined by correspondents from moscow and kiev yuri was shadow and david stern welcome to you both first david i'd like to begin with you you're standing by in ukraine we understand that there is now martial law there russian troops on the border new russian missile systems for crimea any idea of where this is headed. good day sarah no idea where this is headed at the moment obviously as we heard from the reports both sides are sticking to their positions and it should be said that the diplomatic efforts are for the moment going nowhere at the same time it is a very worrying situation this is the first direct confrontation between russia and ukraine sense russia's annexation of the crimean peninsula remember that president vladimir putin admitted later that those were in fact russian troops in crimea and of course the two sides have been. have been in c

trump's who was working with cohen tells cnn that one idea was to give vladimir putin the $50 million penthouse as a ha marketing employ. rudy guiliani said the president never heard of the idea and insists there was no contradiction of what was told to mueller and answers last week to written questions. even before president trump left this morning for his first meetings he was tweeting about the special counsel investigation defending his business dealings in the 2016 election and calling it all a witch hunt. this is happening as president trump is going into some of these meetings with world leaders this weekend and clearly it's on his mind, detracting him from what is happening him, and we will see if he gets any questions about all of this swirling around him, alisyn and john. >> abby, thank you so much. there's so much to talk about this morning. let's bring informer counsel, carry cordero, and joel lockhart and john avlon. let's start with the legality of all of this. let's say that all of this is true. let's say that president trump, then donald trump, was interested in buildi

the outsiders, vladimir putin owned mohammed bin salman of saudi arabia. i will also bring in the front page of the times which has the two men in this now famous moment high—fiving each other. reflections on the g20. moment high—fiving each other. reflections on the 620. the world is seizing upon this image of vladimir putin greeting the crown prince and one can take away from that whatever one can take away from that whatever one wishes but the world powers with which saudi arabia has the closest relationship, surely britain and america. there are some video out there of them shaking hands, an awkward looking meeting, and she has a p pa re ntly awkward looking meeting, and she has apparently raised the issue of the murder of thejournalist apparently raised the issue of the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggie and the war in yemen so people are drawing a comparison between the visceral awkwardness between the visceral awkwardness between western leaders and vladimir putin with saudi arabia. the west is supplying saudi arabia with arms, not that i

putin the russians seem to have a different take. yeah they they have been sending out a couple of different press releases if you will from some of the sideline meetings that have been happening trying to make more of just casual passing and this is kind of what's going on with regard to the meeting between donald trump and lattimer putin which was counseled by the president donald trump that is on the way to a sorry he did it aboard air force one on twitter the reason he says this because russia has still not returned those three vessels that were seized over the weekend in that naval clash in ukraine and as well those twenty four sailors still detained and so as a result donald trump says there will be no meeting no rush on the other hand is saying that there could be some sort of casual polish side well that would happen with almost any leader in the room so really trying to make more of what is nothing more than just a casual occurrence in fact the white house sent out a statement to the pool reporters here when it's horace tryi

this is exactly what all dictators do. >> bret: so what is vladimir putin's desire now? for more analysis we turn to two of my fox news colleagues joining me here at the defense foreman, chris wallace, anchor of ""fox news sunday"" gorgeous setting, right? >> for the second year in a row, having covered reagan for six years whenever i come here, i think of his sunny disposition in a sense that he is the sun is rising not setting on american. >> bret: what about the stunning ukraine, what about the tense moment there as russia is clearly doing something? >> absolutely, they have issued the provocation by basically claiming control over the street. on the one hand you can argue that donald trump has been a lot more proactive than barack obama when it comes to russia and ukraine, he has sent to lethal weapons and advanced artillery to the ukrainians, president obama refused to do that. on the other hand he has made it very clear that he understands russia has much more direct interest then in crimea, i would be curious to hear what jennifer has to say, but i do not think th

the president calling off his meeting with vladimir putin. and stormy daniels said she never wanted to sue president trump but her lawyer did it anyway. reporting begins now. our reporting begins with president trump's normer attorney and fixer michael cohen admitting he lied to congress about contacts he had with the kremlin, about building a trump tower in moscow and he misled the lawmakers about how much president trump was involved. michael cohen pleaded guilty this morning federal court in manhattan. the plea was part of a deal with the special counsel robert mueller in exchange for cohen's cooperation in the russian investigation. according to new records, cohen now admits that he was in talks with the russia president vladimir putin's right-hand man and spokesman to get the trump tower project approved and got an invitation to st. petersburg. this was going on while candidate trump was running for president. the kremlin interfered with our democracy as russian hackers stole e-mails from the dnc and hillary clinton's campaign chairman.

there are meetings and we think he'll still meet with vladimir putin. the president gave and interview with "the washington post" in which he said he could cancel that meeting. he said he wants to get a report with relation to russia's latest actions against cry me ra. the defense secretary james mattis had these strong words for moscow. >> if you think there a treaty. russia cannot be counts on to keep its word. reporter: president trump will have a dinner saturday nightn with argentina. president trump actually has an unusual ally in this one as it relates to the top democrat in the senate, chuck schumer. schumer saying he agrees with president trump's position. and he says he agrees more with stwrum's position than he did with obama. schumer said trump should strike a deal with china just to generate a headline. >> now that we are musting the screws to china, we can't give in for a photo-op. yes our actions will cause them pain. but in the look-run there is more gain than pain. reporter: he says he was hopeful there could be. >> breakthrough. but he

there is vladimir putin and gives him the thumbs up. we all scratched our head to understand this strange and weird relationship with the president of the united states and the russian federation , the one guy trump seems to be so fond of and protective of and friendly with to trdenounce justin trudeau the great threat to american sovereignty me go into a lot of that trump and putin relationship but it is behavior like that with that spontaneous smile at the site of vladimir putin that raises so many questions. and i will just cap it with the other day after trump had to sit through hours of preparations to answer robert mueller's questions that clearly enrages him and causes him to go on this tweet storm with those angry democrats and right in the middle of that the fbi and the dnc server. if you follow this closely there was only one reason to throw that in there to somehow raise doubt if the russians did this atom all. not just the unanimous findings of the intelligence community that the russians gave the e-mails to wikileaks or the

he's cancelled several planned meetings, including one with vladimir putin. the official reason given is that russia has still not released ukrainian ships and sailors it seized last sunday near crimea. i asked our correspondent peter bowes if there was a suspicion that mr trump might also have other things on his mind with the michael cohen revelations. yeah. a lot of suspicion because of the timing of that tweeter. just really a few moments earlier, a few minutes earlier, before, as he was leaving the white house to make that long journey to argentina, he said that the meeting was still on with president putin. something seems to have changed in a short space of time, leading up to that tweeter, saying he wouldn't be meeting the russian president. certainly nothing has significantly changed regarding the situation from last sunday and those ukrainian ships. what has changed a lot in the last 12 hours 01’ changed a lot in the last 12 hours orso, of changed a lot in the last 12 hours or so, of course, the russia investigation and his former lawyer admitting

and president trump us canceled a meeting with the russian president vladimir putin over the crimea crisis german chancellor angela merkel has called for calm but ukraine's president petro poroshenko has warned the nation to grieve prepared for any possible russian invasion. you're watching the news coming to a live from berlin don't forget you can get all the latest news information around the clock on our website that's steve dot com and after a short break brant will be back to take you through his day stay with us and. quadriga international talk show before journalists discuss the topic of the week everybody suddenly talking about the united nations pact this aims to provide a framework for a safe alternate and a bridge to the global migration critics though say a bull only lead to more mass migration who's right join the discussion here on talk radio show. quadriga in sixty minutes on. closely. listen carefully to. the soon. to be can. discover who. subscribe to documentary on you tube. state by state. the most colorful. earliest. the most traditional. find any time. check in with a

putin. i know i'm maryam namazie in london you know with al-jazeera also coming up ukraine bars russian men aged sixteen to sixty from entering fearing a land invasion off the moscow sees three of its ships. anger and frustration in zimbabwe where fuel shortages of left drivers queuing for hours. and regret why many in wales a case of change their mind about the u.k. leaving the european union. the g twenty summit of the world's top economies is underway in argentina it's supposed to be about trade and climate change but the awkward presence of saudi crown prince mohammed bin sell none has overshadowed the events of the killing of jamal khashoggi he remained on the sidelines of the family photo before being warmly greeted in front of the cameras by russia's president vladimir putin he's already held talks with the french president who reportedly berated him for not listening to him also overshadowing the summit is the conflict between russia and ukraine g. seven foreign ministers of criticiz

he canceled his big meeting with vladimir putin. but he's still meeting with the big honcho from china. so we'll see what happens with xi. we have new reaction tonight. the president making headline after headline. there he is. you see the president exiting the plane alongside his wife, melania. there is much talk and hope he'll be able to get something done with china. china is a problem no president has been killing to take on until this president, at least in such a public way. the $600 billion a year the chinese are stealing in intellectual property from us, he intends to try to make some progress on that. but nonetheless, a pretty tough row ahead. check in challenges are very, very real with china. their economy is struggling. let's not forget house in the driver's seat. we are china's biggest customer. so we have some leverage. in china they don't have to vote their people in and out of office. they can put in place a plan that might be difficult for their people. so they have leverage on that front. but we'll see how he addre

if that's vladimir putin's friend, who is his enemy? >> harris: there is a theme i picked up on. it is that reach back. it happened with paul manafort, and with michael flynn. he reached back, you see what people were doing before the campaign. >> kennedy: can i make one point? alan dershowitz pointed out that the police and the charges and the indictments that have all come from the mueller investigation have all happened after robert mueller became involved. these aren't things -- these aren't necessarily indictments because of activities that took place during the campaign. they are procedural indictments, and that -- again, i think the president could be, as there she pointed out, in political deep yogurt. there is a lot to be learned. >> harris: the political -- we are looking at 2020 already. that's all that matters. we will move on. we were waiting, of course, hearing, as attorneys for the former fbi director james comey are seeking to dismiss a house subpoena. to have him talk behind closed doors. lawmakers want answers on the doj's actions in the run-up to the 2016 elect

there was another conference call with the spokesperson for vladimir putin. he reiterated angaagain, the meg is still very much on. he believes there will be a one-on-one meeting with president trump and vladimir putin and afterwards, the two delegations will discuss for about one hour, a variety of iss issues. the russians say they believe president trump is still very much positively inclined toward improving relations between the u.s. and russia. of course, those relations facing another test once again because of what happened right here near where i'm standing near the sea of azov. the russians saying they believe this was a provocation by the ukrainians. the ukrainians saying the russians are violating international law. the u.s. on the ukrainian side. it will be a test for president trump when he meets vladimir putin in a couple of days. >> fred in russia, thanks. >>> president trump striking a note of togetherness and unity. he and the first lady lit the national christmas tree in washington. the president praising americans who helped their fellow ci

and that is vladimir putin. just after the news broke about michael cohen and the proposed trump tower project in moscow the president announced on twitter the putin meeting was off, it was canceled. but he gave a different reason, saying it was because of the conflict in the ukraine. let's discuss. juliette kayyem is here. bob baer as well. juliette, they may not have their trump-putin meeting. but you say the russians are very happy tonight. why is that? >> well, i think because they wafrp cnn as well. and they know what is happening to this president. i think you have to look at sort of the totality of what we have found out today, which is essentially how much leverage the russians had over trump as a candidate and over trump as the president. as a candidate he clear will i wanted the financial dealings for his real estate to go through in russia. that meant that the russians had something on him. then he lies about it, which means that the russians had something on him. and they wanted changes in policy whi

putin over the crisis with ukraine the german chancellor merkel she's calling for calm the president of ukraine is urging nato to intervene nato says that will probably not happen. also in the show german prosecutors raiding the nation's biggest bank investigators want to know whether staff at deutsche bank helped criminals a longer money by funneling it into offshore tax havens. i'm good to have you with us u.s. president donald trump's former personal lawyer and confidant michael cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to congress about a trump real estate deal in russia cohen told a court in new york today that he had made false statements to a u.s. intelligence committee about a plan to build a trump tower in moscow he's already pleaded guilty to other charges and is cooperating with special prosecutor robert momos investigation into possible russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election. oh president trump has denied working on that real estate play and he says that michael cohen is live trying to get a lighter sentence. it was convicted of various things unrelated

but received a high—five from russia's vladimir putin. meanwhile, mrs may called once again on mps back home to vote in favour of her brexit plans on december 11th "in the national interest." this is the deal that's on the table, this is the deal. it's a good dealfor the uk. it delivers on the vote of the referendum, but it protects people's jobs and security. we'll be live in buenos aires with the very latest. also on the programme... more misery for millions of rail passengers. this time, it's fares going up again from january. holy smoke. a powerful earthquake rips up roads and rocks buildings in alaska's biggest city. the scandal of thousands of houses reserved for military families left e m pty, costing the taxpayer millions. and fighting fit — the british boxer tyson fury weighs in for his world title clash against deontay wilder in los angeles. and coming up on sportsday on bbc news: a win for cardiff would be a happy 70th birthday present for neil warnock, but wolves could spoil the party. good evening. theresa may has joined wo

the spokesman for vladimir putin says despite the recent standoff, the meeting with trump and putin at the g20 summit is very much on. russia's president vladimir putin came out and he said that he still believes that president trump is positively inclined to bettering relations with the united states and russia despite the incident that took place right near where i'm standing now. fred pleitgen, cnn, tehman, russia. >> thank you, fred. the focus reflected in a newspaper interview on wednesday where president trump returned to the robert mueller's probe again and again. refusing to rule out a possible pardon for paul manafort. also defending his retweet attacking the russia probe and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein in particular. we have pamela brown with more from the white house. >> reporter: good morning, dave and christine. in a stunning interview, president trump defended a picture of his opponents behind bars calling for them to face trial for treason. they include robert mueller and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. when asked about that, rosenstein was seen behind