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Confront him. and ill give the president credit. he talked tough as a candidate. and i think a lot of americans thought, okay, were going to get a strong president whos going to stand up for america. that may have been some of the appeal that he had. he had a chance to do that with slp sl vladimir putin and he didnt. and i think we can conclude he went in the future and thats why its on congress to stand up for the american people if our president is going to be so helpless. >> and lets be clear...

That, reverend, why couldnt he have shown the courage to look putin in the eye and tell him that? its so easy to fly back to the united states and say that because youre feeling the heat and youre worried that your poll numbers are in a free-fall. but he was on the stage with putin. he had an opportunity to confront him. ill give the president credit. he talked tough as a candidate. i think a lot of americans thought okay, well get, you know, a strong president whos going to stand up for america...

Welcome back. theres no word if a private meeting with president trump is in the cards if vladimir putin does visit the white house this fall. despite loud criticism from democrats and some republicans, the leaders met by themselves in helsinki. no advisers in the room, just two interpreters. i want to bring in a russian interpreter who has his own experience in high level meetings. he worked interpreting for ronald reagan during his summit with soviet leader gorbachev in iceland. good to see yo...

Myself and the soviet interpreter. in iceland by the time they had met in iceland, there were note takers there in addition to reagan, gorbachev, myself and the soviet interpreter. if you want to draw parallel, it would be the meeting in geneva rather than the iceland meeting. >> interesting. so are you put in a position where you are also taking notes, so besides listening and immediately translating you are also taking notes? >> yes. the way it works is that lets say reagan said something, he ...

85. this is different. why is there so much concern? >> the gorbachev-reagan meetings as i understand it came with established relationships. a president who already had interaction with gorbachev. more than that, it was clear president reigh hadnt a well articulated and die fi-- define understanding of the soviet union. what made it difficult to understand in this environment, a first real sit-down conversation between president putin and president trump. it wasnt building on an established rel...

Donald trumps obsession with the then soviet union back in the 80s when he object of his fixation was gorbachev and a nobel prize winner out of boston talks about the fact that donald trump summoned him to trump tower to talk about the fixation when he had a bigger vocabulary the -- ambassador to moscow and personally negotiate with gorbachev and got faked by what he thought came to the trump tower. but he is living out his 80s fantasy of interacting with russia. >> that is fascinating. it certa...

With vladamir putin. his entire intelligence community is in opposition to him and a struggle to watch to both support the president whom they serve as well as their conviction we need to confront the russians. if you look at the decade of history between the u.s. and russia and the cold war today i dont think theres ever been a period we could achieve progress in relations, except when weve been tough with one another. remember, when president ronald reagan confronted the russians, it was when ...

If you look at the decade of history between the u.s. and russia and the cold war today i dont think theres ever been a period we could achieve progress in relations, except when weve been tough with one another. remember, when president ronald reagan confronted the russians, in the beginning it was the evil empire. that was a necessary precondition for the progress that was made with president gorbachev and after that, the hard line faded into the relationship. i think if president trump believ...

Quite comfortable going to the degree would you are here because i worry about the precedence and what has been done in the past. will we start examining notes? not everything is volunteered in these summits. we didnt learn every single detail from gorbachev and reagan. so im wondering at what point do you say this is worthy of examination, this is not. >> i saw president putin stand up. hes had 20 years of experience on mr. trump. he presented a clear set of talking points and made a clear case...

Met with gorbachev. >> its been a while. youre right, president reagan met with gorbachev multiple times in a one-on-one setting. thats all fine. but i would hope our administration, the trump administration would get the message out earlier. this administration is facing a lot of criticism, very unfairly from some quarters, particularly john brennan who is partisan and hypocritical attacks would -- it belies the facts when you look at the obama administrations wildly naive reset policy. brennan...