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Movement starting. important to reach out to people that are probably like i was years ago frustrated at the democratic party looking for a different way forward. honestly, yeah, it probably is more than politics. i found my faith later in life with my wife. i became pro-life as i saw the birth of my children and i saw innocent life thrown away in combat in iraq and afghanistan. those are serious differences with my parents. but that said, my wife and i never tried to split our family up. our go...

Deals vladimir putin russia, which creates a dangerous dependency in russia and energy, which is the lifeblood of their economy. after all, if the west is so worried about russia,il why would they be willing to give him billions and billions of dollars to make russia rich again? inside, the president is now, really pushing germany to kill its oil and gas deals with russia and get their energy from us in that the united states, which would also mean millions of high-paying career jobs for america...

Russia is not our peer. while president trump says, vladimir putin isnt my enemy, hes my competitor, no, mr. preside president, he wishes he was your competitor. the russian economy is the size of new york state. they have been in a recession since 2014. in part, because of the sanctions the powerful united states and the eu imposed on russia after the annexation of crimea. couple that with russias dep d dependency on commodities and falling crude prices. every dollar the crude prices drop, the ...

Cohen. professor, pleasure. >> thank you. >> been looking forward to getting your insight for a while. >> thank you. >> lets dive right into what the real considerations are. forget about style, forget about what was said. what it will mean. where do you see us heading with our president, nato, and russia? >> give me one second, though. when trumps going on about the 66% dependency on russia, you know thats about gas. >> 100%. >> its gas. >> natural gas. >> i mean, the european union gets close ...

And the bigger question is why knock nato right before meeting with the man who needs to respect its resolve the most, vladimir putin? many are arguing trump is just off on his own when it comes to nato. but sometimes a picture tells the story better. specifically this one. todays nato family photo. you see our president in there? he is literally looking away from everyone else in the picture. im joined now by professor emeritus of russian studies at both nyu and princeton, steven cohen. profess...

Pipeline comes to germany, the ukraine. i thought nato was so concerned about ukraine because now it goes right through germany. and ukraine who is being, i guess, somewhat pressured because they were shutting off the gas, the oil, the energy in the ukrainian winter, now he had are thoroughly bypassed if germany goes ahead with this. steve: the "wall street journal" on their op-ed page today talks about this nord stream project which has been promoted by a former chancellor over in germany who s...

Of what you think about democracy in china. >> they have three times the dependency on exports that we have, three times. >> you cant compare china to germany -- >> they are leveraged to the hit and those bills are getting paid by massive trade surpluses. they cannot afford to jeopardize. >> turning now to the russia investigation. in a little under one hour, former fbi agent peter strzok is set to testify before congress over anti-trump text messages he exchanged with fbi attorney lisa page. hi...

Is that the fbi putting too many clamps around him if he was put in this situation? >> thats a fair question, chuck. he was hamstrung. that wasnt his doing, that was the doing of folks at the general counsels office at the fbi and his superiors. again, thats why you dont want line folks testifying. you particularly dont want them testifying when theres an ongoing criminal investigation. theres lots and lots of reasons we dont talk publicly about ongoing criminal investigations. pete knows the an...

Hasnt to be worried that theres any kind of dependency. on the contrary, if there is one person who has been dealing all the time with president putin very hard on the issues of ukraine and the hybrid war in the ukraine, it was chancellor merkel. >> so there shes addressing both issues. chancellor merkel has been the european leader who stood up very, very firmly to vladimir putin and all of this nondependency on russian natural gas. germans apparently take about 35% or so of their natural gas f...

Dependency on russian oil and gas and sounds as if hes saying hes not the one with a russia problem. >> good morning, everybody. good morning. legitimate media and fake news media. >> reporter: it was an unsettling scene in brussels as president trump picked a fight with nato. accusing longstanding allies in the partnership of taking advantage of u.s. military might. >> many countries owe us a tremendous amount of money for many years back for their delinquent. >> reporter: in harsh language tha...