and weirdly pro-putin. that to the point where it's been investigated to death to figure out is there some kind of financial relationship. what is going on? it's been this mystery for years now. and he has no self-awareness that is something that seems a little suspicious. goes into the meeting. it's not on the agenda. russia is not asking to get in. none of the countries want him in. they set down the criteria to meet to get in. and they haven't met it obviously. and trump all he talks about his big priority is putin should be here. >> one question. why? >> i don't know. i don't know. we have not that mystery hasn't been solved. the mueller report didn't solve it. it's the question that hangs over the presidency. it might be a simple adds putin didn't like hilary and wanted me to win. he helped trump win. and that's good enough for trump. there were not a lot of world leaders who wanted trump to win. putin was the by far the most important. and it maybe as simple as that. i don't know. that clip you played

these years and these time for putin was very important because putin managed in a very short time to bring back his colleagues from the f.a.a. from the k.g.b. into the higher ranks of presidential presidential administrations we talked briefly about what's actually 66 years old he can go on for ever is there any sign of a successor being groomed. i think there is no direct sign of a new successor i think there is one person who is very influential that is the minister of defense mr scheuer who. also can play a strong leader i think he has also the trust of putin he was very successful in in strengthening the defense of our ottawa's the defense system in russia but i think the main the main question will be whole putin by himself can protect his influence behind the scenes i think it would be not i cannot exclude that the kremlin will find some way to make putin maybe or fish really a representative of some security council but which is more informal power then he is just a visible so at some stage he will go but not completely yes good talking to thank you so much for joining. us fro

is heading with putin right now? specifically inviting putin to come to the next g-7 and once again, rebranding it as a g-8? >> i mean, clearly trump was shooting from the hip here, right? i think it's too early to say if the white house is really serious about this. a lot of aides behind the scenes questioning what the heck is going on, right? but what we can say from this is that trump clearly feels like these investigations that have sort of haunted him for his first two years of his presidency, that they've cleared. and that he doesn't need to worry about them anymore. that's one of the reasons why he's up there saying, i'm going to bring russia. this politically might not be good for him, but i'm going to talk about bringing russia to the u.s. when i host the g-7. and not only that, in this press conference, he was giving, you know, he was talking about his own business and talking about bringing the g-7 to his own company in miami, one of his own resorts. and that is 100% against the constitution's emoluments c

i'm interested in what it was about putin that boris yeltsin saw because putin was was his 4th prime minister i think in less than 18 months so what was yeltsin looking for yes he was looking for a faceless technocrat bureaucrat who can protect him from a political demise and a political decline so what he needed in the time of crisis after the fine and crisis you should remember the finance crisis 998. needed someone who is loyal who is young but who is faceless and who is who was seen by not to be a rival to him yes and what is a very important that putin. these years and this time for putin was very important because putin managed in a very short time to bring back his colleagues from the effort from the k.g.b. into the higher ranks of presidential presidential administrations we talked briefly about what's next the 66 years old he can go on for ever is there any sign of a successor being groomed. i think there is still no direct sign of a new successor i think there is one person who is very influential that is the minister of defense mr scheuer who. also can play a strong leader

that vladimir putin. yep. vladimir putin. that guy. the president of the united states insisting putin should be welcomed back into the group. even though russia has done absolutely nothing to deserve it. that according to two diplomatic officials and a senior u.s. official who tells cnn things got especially heated when angela merkel, boris johnson, and justin trudeau insisted that as long as russia still holds crimea readmitting putin is a non-starter. those sources say the president took every opportunity to try to make the case for putin, even interrupting discussions about fires in the amazon and about iran to insist that russia should be part of the conversation. they say the president got more and more combative as the dinner wore on. but of course, he wasn't taking putin's side behind closed doors. he did in front of live cameras too. >> a lot of people say having russia, which is a power, having them inside the room is better than having them outside the room. by the way, there were numerous people during the g7 that felt that

using to suggest that, as you said, putin hasn't congratulate zelensky. you also seem to suggest zelensky is made a couple of overtures that putin really hasn't responded to. i at least know they have had two conversations and have also heard through let's say well informed american sources that zelensky has at least indicated that he's prepared to take a different approach to these ossified minsk agreements, and actually look hard at the idea of holding elections in the east. if he were to take that step, if you were to say, begin to actually implement the ukrainian requirements under minsk, what would be in your judgment the russian reaction there? or would they just pocket back in session and stand back? >> so far we've seen no russian movement under the minsk agreement. we've seen some, although not a great deal of ukrainian movement. the key point is the way the two sides interpret the most controversial provisions of the minsk two agreement, which relates not just to the elections but the influence, or lack of influence, that local authorities in th

and putin who loves to have the last word, he loves those colorful phrases, putin has been silent. zelensky had won that battle. because that's zelensky's strength. ukraine class comic. that's actually unfair. i'll roski near class comic. [inaudible] >> he's not going to be so easy for the kremlin to manage. and let me make it one more point. this can't , by attention big t. actually two weeks ago. that the ukraine sees the russian tanker involved in the kremlin attacking ships. that was a gutsy move. that was a gutsy move. but gutsy but not stupid. because he kept the tanker. he released the sailors, and i think the kremlin doesn't know what to make of this guy. and my own interactions with russia on various tv programs i think underscore that. and, in fact, the criminal reaction to the ship seized has been pretty mild, pretty mild. okay now, so that's zelensky. what happens with the war, right? for me to address this i knew to explain to you my own peculiarities. so you can read what i say in context. i think that ukraine has the upper hand in donbass. the reason for that is the

from political and known to rush us all for experiencing ruler blood in your putin marks 2 decades in office we'll ask our moscow correspondent what's behind this staying in power. plus and the footsteps of the bad new reports from abbey road 50 years after the beatles created one of the most recognized album covers and music history. on the welcome to the program. italy has been plunged into a political crisis after the far right league party said it would go ahead with a no confidence motion against its own government that's after the party leader deputy prime minister matteo salvini announced that his coalition with a populist 5 star movement had collapsed over policy differences the prime minister accuses salvini of fabricating a potentially destabilizing crisis. this is not an election rally but it looks like material salvini is already gearing up for a vote your thought should i do my job with my heart with with pride if i can do it freely until the end if i realize that someone is trying to stop me then the decision must go back to the italian people with no ifs and buts. you d

police custody every judge on the court including the russian one in agreement that while the mere putin state was in the wrong tonight we ask will this ruling change anything is anyone listening in the world that's run by vladimir putin i broke off in berlin this is the day. subsequent visits where he was completely illegal to put him interesting and that was no evidence that justified keeping him past this so long as. they moved him from south or sour. as soon as he started to complain about the conditions i think immediately moved him into a cell with even worse conditions. with mr magnitsky died in prison it's a tragedy and we regret it but so what the americans don't have people is dying in their presence. which what happened to my son if he was comfy and why did he die if i did then why didn't they treat. also coming up he is a green politician and he could become germany's next chancellor tonight's we ask him about how he plans to win and has he found the new center of german politics because it's nearly certainly hold positions of the policies used to hold the forests and that ha

well putin's image really here in russia and putin's popularity has been based on this idea of stability of restoring order of restoring national pride but we've seen that recent economic stagnation does seem to be de king a bite out of his popularity there have been protests across the country in recent months and kind of in the past year after the unpopular pensions reform as well and also against planned garbage dumps for example in it in the north of the country and there have been these recent protests for the last month or so in moscow for the registration of independent candidates to the moscow duma elections there does seem to be a growing sense of dissatisfaction here in russia especially with the economic situation and putin in the last few months and even since the beginning of his last term has kind of been trying to shift his focus away from the international stage to really get to grips with those domestic issues the buffalo's moscow correspondent and really showing with the assessment of his 20 years in power tinning now to india where the government has eased a few destru

susan, what do you make of this announcement from putin? >> reporter: you know, i think it's really not a surprise in the sense that vladimir putin has shown since the beginning of his time in power that actions be i the us or others he deems provocative will be met with countermeasures. if the u.s. makes a missile test, i think we can absolutely expect that russia will do so as well. and this is exactly, i think, the concern brought about by the unraveling of the arms control regime that started with the u.s. withdrawal just a few weeks ago from the inf treaty from 1987. they did so saying russia was already violating it. but this would be a classic thing where putin ignores that and sees this and portrays this as a provocative action on the u.s. part. >> susan, what you're concerned about is that it becomes an escalation. what's peculiar about it is it comes a few days after president trump basically unilaterally opened up the idea of inviting russia back into the g7. that seems to not have been taken into account because he did it withou

all of that is a gift to vladimir putin. all this disunity just makes it that much easier for him to pursue his own interests in europe. >> and what he does want to talk about is the global economy because he's worried about the domestic economy, and what he's likely to do, although far be it from me to predict donald trump, but what he is most likely to do, i think, is to say to our allies why aren't you doing more? you're ruining us. you're hurting us. this is your problem. you're making a problem for me. an i think they're worried about that as well, because he is the bull in the china shop. and they're afraid of it. and they're not going to come out with any kind of communique. they're not even going to think about any kind of communique. they just want to keep peace in the family to a degree and get through it. >> thank you so much to both of you. >>> as the president's two former press secretaries get tv jobs, his current press secretary and her unorthodox rise to the position. >>> plus the amazon burns at a record rat

he was outsmarted by putin. >> our next guest put it this way, trump went to the mat for putin at the g-7 summit. jonathan is with me now. pleasure to have you on. you tell me, what was the most bizarre example to make your point. >> there were many examples. notice the way he used the passive voice in that statement, that ukraine was invaded it was taken. he didn't say who took it, he couldn't even assign responsibleability for russia's invasion with the ukraine. it was just something that happened. and it happened to president obama, it didn't happen to the ukraine, it didn't happen to the world. i think even stranger than that, is the fact that obama put in a pretty robust response. how do we know it was a robust response? russia is trying to un due it, it's getting it's ally to undo it for it. so it request get away with with the invasion without any long term consequences. trump is turning the entire logic upside down by blaming obama who responded to the agreement for the invasion itself. >> who he mentions 18 times. why do you think trump would do this over and over and over bl

why so aligned with putin? when russia actually needs an intervention not an invitation to the g8 to join a g8 but rather some kind of admonishment, not encouragement. putin will view this as i need to continue having that in the oval office. what do i need to do to do that? what have we just come out of? the special counsel report and hearings where we learned that russia interfered with our election. what are we coming up on again, brian? but yet another presidential election. is this a quid pro quo playing out in the public arena? you do this for me. i do this for you. >> shannon, you are hardly new to this. it is so tempting to hear discussion about this to remind younger viewers especially how highly unusual all of this is. aside from burn ishing the prestige of putin are white house aides out with any particulars or takeaways or deliverables they actually hope to achieve at this weekend's meeting of what is still as of air time the g7? >> well, i mean, they do have a number of them. they need help with ch

putin is silent. his zelensky won the battle. that's zelensky strength, ukraine class actually that's actually unfair. he is not going to be so easy for the kremlin to manage. let me make it one more point this coming attention big time, two weeks ago the ukrainian sees the russian tanker Ãb that was a gutsy move. that was a gutsy move. gutsy but not stupid. he kept the tanker he released the sailors. i think the kremlin doesn't know what to make of this guy. my interactions with russians on various tv programs i think óthat. in fact, the kremlin reaction to the ships are pretty mild. that's zielinski. what happens with the war pee dee war? you can read what i say in context. i think ukraine has the upper war in Ãbupper hand in dunbar's. the reason for that is the following, this is a war of the kremlin against the ukrainian people. i put it that way because ukrainian people by a large majority understand moscow is conducting the war in and support the country's policy the government's policy of resisting kremlin aggression. w

putin? he has always represented stability. he was very much in contrast to boris yeltsin as president who was known as a bit of a drunk. putin represented a fresh face. he represented stability. he came to power just after the 90's, which was a decade of huge social upheaval. a decade than many here in russia still see as traumatic. vladimir putin was aided by rising oil prices which brought economic upswing of sorts. still, that sense that he has raised russia from its knees as many people say about him, that is still at the core of his popularity today. phil: like many european cities, berlin's local government is struggling with skyrocketing rent and shortage of housing. many tenants are still worried about being priced out of their neighborhoods. dw has met with tenants facing an uncertain future. reporter: this is east berlin. alexander likes this historic area where hisis grandmother lived. >> this is my home. i grew up here. this is where i went to school. about a kilometer away is where i graduated high school. this is

all the streets could this give us any indication about putin's putin future particularly post 2024. well the entire russian political system since the year 2000 has been both around putin he's an essential part of it he is the arbiter general he busy balances different groups different interests he does an enormous amount of actual personal work in running russia if something happens to bush and he's not a very young man he's 66 approaching a neck tolbert 67 and he is will not be able to run away his role in the political system the political system is going to melt down it can't function without and that's a very serious problem for the future of russia the law hinges on the workability on the intellectual and physical conditions of one person actually the host ability of the whole country and i think our fortune is going to is there at the helm i think he's going to prevail but he can't stay there forever the mattel or the path to democratic transition in russia which has been debated for is this something that could still take place in the future do you see it as a wishful thinki

president and mr putin last year when putin said we'll give you the 12 indicted military intelligence officers indicted by a special counsel robert mueller but what we want in return is you bill browder how did that make you feel well again i was i was actually in america at the time and it and donald trump's reaction to that was i think it's a brilliant idea so i of course i couldn't feel anything other than. a little uncomfortable but 2 things that made me feel 1st was that in america donald trump doesn't have his own personal rendition squad this has to go through the department of justice and the courts and the united states the rule of law wouldn't have handed me over to the russians whatever donald trump reaction was but again the fact that i'm living rent free in putin's head shows just how how effective the magnitsky act has been that i would be the one thing he brings up at the summit and so from my perspective it only emboldened me to carry on and to push harder to get other countries do magnitsky and it was an extraordinary example was it of the state of modern politics and

president and mr putin last year when putin said we'll give you the 12 indicted military intelligence officers indicted by special counsel robert mueller but what we want in return is you bill browder how did that make you feel well again i was i was actually in america at the time and it and donald trump's reaction to that was i think it's a brilliant idea so i of course i couldn't feel anything other than. a little uncomfortable but 2 things that made me feel 1st was that in america donald trump doesn't have his own personal rendition squad this that's to go through the department of justice in the courts and the united states the rule of law wouldn't have handed me over to the russians whatever donald trump's reaction was but again the fact that i'm living rent free in putin's head shows just how how effective the magnitsky act has been that i would be the one thing he brings up at the summit and so from my perspective it only emboldened me to carry on and to push harder to get other countries do magnitsky and it was an extraordinary example was it of the state of modern politics a

all the stress could this give us any indication about putin's putin future particularly post 2024. well the entire russian political system since the year 2000 has been both around putin he's an essential part of it he is the arbiter general he busy balances different groups different interests he does an enormous amount of actual personal work and running russia if something happens to bush and he's not a very young man he's 66 approaching a neck tobar 67 and he is will not be able to run away his role in the political system the political system is going to melt down it can't function without and that's a very serious problem for the future of russia the law hinges on the workability on the intellectual and physical conditions of one person actually the host ability of the whole country and i think our fortune is going to is there at the helm i think he's going to prevail but he can't stay there forever the mattel or the path to democratic transition in russia which has been debated for is this something that could still take place in the future do you see it as a wishful thinkin

president and mr putin last year when putin said we'll give you the 12 indicted military intelligence officers indicted by special counsel robert mueller but what we want in return is you bill browder how did that make you feel well again i was i was actually in america at the time and it and donald trump's reaction to that was i think it's a brilliant idea so i of course i couldn't feel anything other than. a little uncomfortable but 2 things that made me feel 1st was that in america donald trump doesn't have his own personal rendition squad this that's to go through the department of justice in the courts and the united states the rule of law wouldn't have handed me over to the russians whatever donald trump's reaction was but again the fact that i'm living rent free in putin's head shows just how how effective the magnitsky act has been that i would be the one thing he brings up at the summit and so from my perspective it only emboldened me to carry on and to push harder to get other countries do magnitsky and it was an extraordinary example was it of the state of modern politics a

yet here he's going out on a limb in favor of vladmir putin at the very time when putin has perhaps covered up a nuclear accident. when there have been according to the "wall street journal" when four monitoring, radiation monitoring sites went dark in siberia for a number of days. >> not the mention the u.s. pulled out of the inf treaty because of what this administration said were brazen russian violations. so much going on there with those comments with the g7 and g8. first of all, the president saying that we should bring russia back in, they belong in there, adding no conditionality to this. bring them back in. this was not a day after french president emmanuel macron said publicly maybe russia could come back but they have to resolve the situation in eastern ukraine. president trump attaching no such conditions. then kind of bizarrely spinning the narrative that russia was kicked out of the g8 because of barack obama's wounded pride. >> he's repeating that as we speak according to people who are e-mailing us. >> as he's want to do, yeah. so that's not the reason. he cast it as a matte

diplomats described derapaska's favorable relationship with president putin. they described him as a more or less permanent fixture, for example, on putin's trips abroad. the same year as that u.s. diplomatic cable about deripaska, in 2006, the associated press reports ntered strange contract with an american, the american man who would ultimately become donald trump's campaign chairman, paul manafort. according to a memo written by manafort proposing this arrangement to deripaska in 2005-2006, manafort proposed for the low, low price of $10 million a year, he would run a campaign to influence politics, business, and news coverage in the united states to benefit the putin government. "we are now of the belief that this model can greatly benefit the putin government if echl pl employed at the correct levels with the appropriate commitment to success" and in manafort's view, the appropriate commitment was reportedly $10 million a year as specifspecified. the a.p. says they saw transfers of millions and millions of dollars to paul manafort in conjunction with tha

from political unknown to authoritarian ruler russia's vladimir putin marks 2 decades in office we'll ask our moscow correspondent what's behind this staying in power. and the cough really welcome to the show italy has been plunged into political crisis after the far right league party said it would go ahead with a no confidence motion against its own government that's after the party leader deputy prime minister matteo savini and nouns that his coalition with a populist 5 star movement had collapse over policy differences the prime minister accuses salvini of fabricating a potentially destabilizing crisis. this is not an election rally but it looks like mintier salvini is already gearing up for a vote. i do my job with my heart with with pride if i can do it freely and until the end i mean if i realize that someone is trying to stop me then the decision must go back to the italian people with no ifs and buts. you decide that you and no one else is not a people that you. will. sell feeney is leader of the far right league party currently in coalition with the n.t. establishment 5 star

putin. armor is on a low quit and i'll be back here with more news headlines from around the world in about * half an hour's time see that. seemed wrong but old rules just don't all. i mean you get to shape out these days it comes to education and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. in this community there are people who believe that it's ok to sell fractional food on my table it's really hard there are no jobs and you see that i've got kids that ask and as a parent. i can come up with lots of arguments and there's a lot of conflict within the game between the close of the conflict i would say over balls around money and most of their money is made. close one on each of those he know each other is good business the state of california alone makes $6000000000.00 a year of to prison complex just to get some point in your life where. you don't care and one of my hair is a monster so your hair might anything. you know w

. >>> and putin's private army. cnn investigates a secret fighting force doing the strong man's bidding. tonight, the kremlin so rattled that a key putin ally is falsely accusing our courageous correspondent of being a spy. we want to welcome viewers in the united states and around the world. i am wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> we are following breaking news on the dayton shooting massacre. a friend of the gunman has been arrested on federal weapons charges. authorities say he admitted to buying items used in the attack, that includes the high capacity 100 round magazine that allowed the shooter to kill nine people, wound 27 others, in less than 30 seconds. also tonight, president trump is lashing out after his response to the dayton and el paso shootings cost him support of a once loyal aide. former white house communications director anthony scaramucci tells cnn he no longer supports mr. trump's re-election, and thinks republicans should consider replacing him at the top of the 20 2020 ticket. i

putin gear up for talks the french leader summer residence with. syria are all expected to be. propaganda machine donald trump launches a blistering attack on the new york times. its editors are seeking new ways of covering the president after 2 years of fixating on russia. and the u.k. . for its move to strip citizenship from the former islamic state known. international news center in moscow this is r t pleasure to have your company i mean and o'neill our top story french president is meeting russia's vladimir putin his summer residence on the mediterranean coast today ahead of the summit in the weekend. on the french riviera too where the 2 leaders are i believe soon to start talks. said i can see perhaps not entirely though a holiday out what's expected. you know and you really can't help feeling like you are on vacation here called who are in france but this is a very special moment because right when i began talking to you the. helicopter of the russian president i hope you can see it behind my shoulder i just want to ask my cameraman to try and zoom in it's right there.

new friend and putin who are here as you heard just before is from hospitality afforded to us all might be helpful and all be healthy like my early geisha. valued members of the press. first of all. let's talk about the significance of this visit to the. max 2900. relating to aerospace. systems. and industries. we are here in russia. as a result of this. event. the purpose of this it was to see. the stage is a cheat by the by russia in every asian and aerospace technologies. and we would like to host our russian friends in the. aerospace festival later this year. ministers have. cleated the joint meeting gathering we are running to near. the number of russian tourists we've welcomed in our country has reached 2700000 already. and. bilateral cultural and tourism activities take place all the time. many positive steps have been taken by countries including the delivery of s 400 missiles. and indeed today we discussed what we can do together about steps we can take together in addition to the defense industries valued members of the press there is one topic that i must talk about today and

traveled to russia on tuesday for talks with russian president vladimir putin and relations between the 2 countries have been strained in recent years with. opposing sides of the syrian conflict but during a visit to an airshow near moscow the 2 leaders seemed keen to stress the relaxed nature of their relationship. celebrating cooperation by eating ice cream together russian president vladimir putin paid for his turkish counterpart wretch of type street offering up a sweetener before talks. about the directions cooperation can go as well as some delicate issues in the region that's are on the agenda. the venue and aviation show reflects increasing military cooperation between russia and turkey which is a nato country turkey has bought russian anti-missile systems irritating nato and is now looking at purchasing russian fighter jets as well co-operation has limits russian and turkish troops are both in syria on opposite sides russia backs the syrian government while turkey supports the remaining rebel forces in province. recently russian backed syrian forces have stepped up their campai

hands off approach which was the russian system putin has been comfortable in in taking credit for. and he stamped further to d.s. the escalation but when it comes to escalation in the escalation usually comes from the separatists the so-called separate few side effects often say well you know these us have prevent it's used up there of course in the line of command. of the russian army so he is in a comfortable position he sort of can be the peacemaker at the same time he's the escalator on the here and the responsibilities need to be clear addressed ok well it certainly is rare that western powers invited like to meet putin for a visit and in a way as you said these there were tones expressing perhaps and bringing russia in from the cold i want to play you something that we heard from him on one knuckle little bit earlier let's listen to that. i look at this one as you need to devote his regina's issue depends on the ukrainian crisis in a very simple way to do it on the other hand could only by also hold out hope without as part of his recomposition of an architecture of security

moscow correspondent and we show him on how putin has held on to power for so long . well letting your putin was largely unknown when he became prime minister 20 years ago today in fact so much so that when he became president just a few months later one famous one journalist american journalist famously asked who is mr putin now he has always represented though stability he was very much in contrast to boris yeltsin his predecessor as president who was kind of known as a bit of a drunk putin represented a fresh face he didn't drink he represented stability particularly because he came to power just after the ninety's which was a decade of huge social upheaval and economic chaos here in russia just after the fall of the soviet union it's a decade that many here in russia still see as traumatic and vladimir putin was aided kind of in his 1st few years in office by rising oil prices which brought a broad economic an economic up upswing of sorts but that really still that sense that he has raised russia from his knees as many people say here in russia repeatedly about hi

putin said russian forces in syria were under threat. of terrorists continue to show for positions of syrian government forces trying to attack russian military installations in the deescalation zone should not serve as a refuge for militants let alone as a rich head for new attacks. both countries see a huge stake in syria and are trying to do without the west as they settle their differences putin and marijuana are due to meet with officials from another key player in the syrian conflict iran next month. well our almost no correspondent really sure when she's been covering the meeting force and she told us more about putin and other ones should we view that the 2 leaders do have had close relations for a while now and they were it seemed key to stress that came to stressed out today they seem very at ease with each other they have met very frequently in the last few years aired on always calls putin his dear friend and today they kind of presented a picture of friendship with putin even buying aired on an ice cream on the sidelines of

glad you made putin and emmanuelle mccrum discuss the ukraine conflict and the iran crisis in a friendly encounter on the french riviera. u.s. conducts its 1st test launch of the mid range cruise missile since pulling out of an arms treaty with russia. a british social media network aimed at young british muslims is revealed to be part of a government plan to tackle radicalization. hello you're watching international i'm rosana lockwood welcome to the program the leaders of france and russia have held a meeting ahead of this weekend's g. 7 summit emmanuelle mccaughan i'm glad i'm a putin spoke for about 3 and a half hours in a patrol car reports from the french riviera. well i guess you don't really give personal invitations to an international leader to these kind of places and this kind of format even if it's the president of a very important geopolitical player unless they are your friends so clearly in the past 2 years mr mack on mr putin developed a close relationship we heard emmanuel macron call his counterpart dear vladimir a few times in death of lot of our putin just when he ar

putin future particularly post 2024. well the entire russian political system since the year 2000 has been both around putin he's an essential part of it he is the arbiter general he busy balances different groups different interests he does an enormous amount of actual personal work in running russia if something happens to bush and he's not a very young man he's 66 approaching a neck tobar 67 and he is will not be able to run away his role in the political system the political system is going to melt down it can't function without and that's a very serious problem for the future of russia the law hinges on the workability on the intellectual and physical conditions of one person actually the host ability of the whole country and i think our fortune is going to is there at the helm i think he's going to prevail but he can't stay there forever do mattel or the path to democratic transition in russia which has been debated for is this something that could still take place in the future do you see it as a wishful thinking

and, of course, he said i would plan to include putin, invite putin to next year's g7 summit which he plans to host at his golf course in florida. but it's a noteworthy move for an american president to be advocating on behalf of the russian autocrat and not be the forceful defender of democracy in that setting given long history of the g7 as a group and previously g8. >> chris, you just expressed a bit of a pessimistic view, but the role of the g7 or lack there of. the united states is due to host it next year. the question of where it will be. we'll get into that later. also this issue of the president going out of his way to say he would like russia back in this group and would like putin to come to the united states next year for this session. how will that go with the other members? >> they don't want it. they said no already. they support democracy, and trump has a real serious case of dictator envy. i mean, he loves to talk about his friendship with kim jong-un, who's probably the worst tyrant alive on the planet right now. he loves vladimir putin for reasons we've never really

>> well, the president is frankly a puppet for vladimir putin. we see it over and over again, whether it was during the campaign or since he was elected president. he can say nothing wrong about president putin, he can say everything wrong and criticizes our allies repeatedly. so we have a president who is frankly decompensating in frochfront of our eyes. >> we're also follow ting this storm, as you know, that's bearing down on puerto rico, could hit sometime tomorrow afternoon, the island. many of the island residents still haven't recovered from hurricane maria two years ago. they have received only about $14 billion in disaster aid so far, that's nowhere near what the president tweeted this morning, claiming $92 billion in aid. how do you ensure congresswoman that puerto rico gets the federal support it needs? >> well, even when we appropriate the funds it appears the administration is acting very slowly to getting those funds to puerto rico where we have american citizens. we sometimes forget that. but they're all american citizens and i don'