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>> i can tell you from last four years in the military in the intelligence community, we have known for a long time that the russians were cheating on this. i think that this is the right move by our president. i think that in the 31 years since this treaty was signed between gorbachev and our president reagan that america has gotten farther and farther behind in terms of these intermediate range missiles. that puts us in the vulnerable position and its not just russia we need to recognize that ...

Iranians having ballistic missiles that theyre developing. theyre doing that in response to the arming of the saudis. its a bilateral arms race that goes on and on. i dont think we need the saudis. they need us much more than we need them. we have incredible leverage. there ortheir air force is entirely american planes. we train their pilots. they are completely dependent on us. we need to tell them to behave and if theyre not going to behave, that includes cutting off funding to the schools tha...

Talks. the meetings coming after president trump announced the u.s. will pull out of a decades old nuclear arms treaty with russia. ronald reagan and gorbachev signed the treaty in 1987 forbidding both countries building cruise missiles. russia has denied building either of those missiles. brian: cheating on a deal. now we wanting to pull out of it, they are upset about it. steve: another negotiation. jillian, thank you very much. on this monday, president trumps approval rating hitting all-time...

Gorbachev at the time. thats gonna go. and theres a lot here in this. the russians have been cheating. the president is not the first ones saying the russians have been cheating. they have been tweeting. the question is if you take away the rules then you are not treating and ten he mentioned china. because of that sufficient because of this tweety the chimed are allowed to move some of their wreps where the united states cant because of this treaty. one russia and potential for arms race with r...

And russia both state that the other side is out of compliance. so lets resolve the issues. lets put russia to the test and sit down at the table and address this, also addressed by the way new s.t.a.r.t. which needs to be anewed. address the entire issue of u.s., nato and russian stability in the nuclear sphere. >> this is -- you know, people who are old enough to remember will remember that this was arms reduction. they -- between the two countries, they destroyed 2,692 missiles. it was really...

Theyre the same age. they like each other, i believe. jared has done a good job. president trump has withdrawn the united states from another international treaty. on saturday he announced hes pulling the u.s. out of the cold war era arms control treaty with russia that was signed by president reagan and gorbachev back in 1987. the trump administration is accusing russia of violating that agreement. the obama administration had also accused russia of dropping and testing a prohibited cruise mi...

It is a, quotes, very dangerous step. gorbachev calls the step very strange and not the work of a great mind. back in 2016 candidate trump reportedly questioned why the u.s. cant use nuclear weapons. and in the summer of 2017, he said he wanted to increase the u.s.s nuclear arsenal tenfold. if democrats win the majority in the house in november, they plan to reopen the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. democrats say the republicans ignored key facts and important wi...

Nuclear treaty reached during the late 80s cold war is still even appropriate for u.s. foreign policy today in the multitude of different enemies including china and what theyre now capable of, that maybe didnt exist in a time of two superpowers. >> thats right. the chinese were never involved in the negotiation and at the time didnt have weapons that would have concerned us. its interesting, this was one of the few arms control treaties that was really greeted by conservatives when it was signe...

Saying the russians have been violating this treaty a long time. john bolton the national security adviser is coming over here to russia playing on a plane as we speak to have these top-level talks with the russians and the russians believe one of the messages he is going to have is that this agreement, the u.s. is going to kill it very soon. >> frederik pleitgen in moscow, thanks so much. joining me now to you take about why president trump wants out of this treaty and what it means with an i...

Thoughts on president trumps announcement just this weekend that the u.s. is now going to pull out of this arms treaty with russia, the inf treaty. you were involved in the implementation of this treaty during the reagan years. do you think the president is making the right move on this? >> no, i think that president trump likes to trash whatever happened before him. this was a centerpiece of ronald reagans historical legacy, and it was a wonderful centerpiece. it was kind of funny when gorbache...