honestly, we don t know who to believe. who would imagine a situation, andrea, where people around the world our allies and foes alike don t know whether they can believe the word of the president of the united states. this is what he s brought on himself. and senator mccain s tweet about all of in this weekend was that there s nothing america first about taking the word of kgb colonel putin over u.s. intelligence community. there is no principled realism in many cooperating with russia to prop up murderous assad regime. to do so places national security at risk. then you had the president at a news conference in vietnam trying to sort of correct the record saying well, let s take a look at this. i m surprised that there s any conflict on this. what i said there is that i believe he believes that. that s very important for somebody to believe. i believe that he feels that he and russia did not meddle in the election. as to whether i believe it or not, i m with our agencies
it. i would say, i would like to disabuse people of the notion that the president is either gullible or naive. this is a conscious strategy. is he bending over backwards to try and placate putin and engender some form of too ration. we saw with a statement released on syria by trump and putin, this is laying the groundwork for some sort of ill conceived common collaboration in the syrian theater which would be a disaster. you have to remember russia partnered with hezbollah and the iranian cuds force. this is a very conscious messaging strategy by the president to try to get the united states slowly to engage in some form of collaboration or closer relations with putin. he s doing it for reasons that only he knows. but this is not gullibility or naivete. just to play devils advocate to all of you, we had the reset button with hillary clinton. we had john kerry trying are lavrov to get negotiations going for the future of syria acknowledging that assad is going to play some role if
remove pro-russian agitators from eastern ukraine. after annexing crimea. russian president putin seems to want to do the same thing with this territory. yesterday president obama and president putin talking on the phone russia denying it has anything to do with thage agitation. if you were president, what would you do right now to stop putin from invading ukraine? well, first of all, i would rush them with defensive weapons and armor, body armor, night vision, intelligence capabilities. jet fuel. give them the means to defend themselves. their country has just been partially dismembered, despite a solemn treaty that
russia, where would those troops come from? i think they would do joint exercises. when i say station, i don t mean station. a permanent base. i mean joint operations. nato force are or would they be american forces. nato and u.s. nato and u.s. what if nato wouldn t go along with it though. that s the problem here that america is facing that we don t have, even great britain doesn t really back us up here. and so we re almost going it alone. we may have to but other nations will follow if we lead. this president of the united states won t even give them defensive weapons to which with which to defend themselves. what do you expect the europeans to do? this is another total failure and lack of leadership and a fundamental misreading of vladimir putin. colonel putin is the guy that said, he said we need a reset button. colonel putin was the guy that was going to be. remember when obama talked to medvedev and tell
was entered into by russia. and they are about to do the same thing in eastern crew crane. and they may do the same thing in southern ukraine. land locking ukraine and going all over to moldova, which is vladimir putin s next target. and. how do you know that? i know you are on your way to moldova after you get through with the baltic states. yep. how do you know that putin has science on yet another country? because he has on many occasions stated the worst thing breakup of the soviet union. he has made no bones about his attempts to restore the quote near abroad. he has 14 hundred russian troops stationed there in violation of previous agreements. and it s it everything what he is about. and i have been here in the baltic countries, and i can tell you they very nervous. even though they are members of nato, which, according to