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Punishing response. >> thats what republicans are left with, admiral? that they cant say anything else, even after he clearly on the international stage, in front of the world, sided with vladimir putin over intelligence agencies, admiral, but beyond closed doors he was tough on putin? >> yeah, thats in the secret room under the cone of silence, i guess. preposterous would be my reaction. and all i will take away from this press conference is that memory of vladimir putin flipping the soccer bal...

But leaders need to ask what they ned to do to protect this countrys liberties and freedom despite having mr. trump in the oval office. so, i think the outcry needs be strong. it needs to endure. and they need to then also take action whether its censure or decide this is not the republican party that they once knew, they need to step away it from like did you. this is not what ronald reagan said or meant when he said to mr. gorbachev bring down that wall. i heard the words that was just said in...

When it comes to vladimir putin. hes not willing to stand up to him. i wonder what on in that close to two-hour private meeting. remarkable. there were translator notes at least on a classified basis, we ought to take a look at those notes. if we look at this from a historical context, here with an american president kowtowing to russian president vladimir putin. if we thought about that historically, if john f. kennedy accepted nikita khrushchevses atation there were no missiles in cuba 50 year...

Many of my members of my party, the republican party didnt say anything about this. this is not an appropriate way to approach putin and let me say, i was there when ragen was negotiating with gorbachev, it was always -- they were the evil empire. remember that, the evil empire and that sent shuders through all of these people over in the soviet union. we didnt get any of that. we had attacks on the dnc and some of these other things, andser son, very concerning but maybe well be surprised and m...

Expressed. ive been involved in u. u.s./soviet, u.s./russian relations for years. i sat in on president bush with his first meeting with putin. many clinton/yeltsin meetings. we used to worry a lot about overpersonalization of the u.s./russia relationship that, bill and boris or reagan and gorbachev were too close and that we need to somehow broaden the relationship. i think we need, at this point, to look very, very seriously at broadening this relationship away from any more meetings between p...

Response to this awful trip? where are our republican colleagues? where are the republicans who record approval when reagan told gorbachev to tear down the wall. where are the republicans who demanded a strong response when putin annexed crimea. where are the republicans who know in their heart the president is giving away the store to vladimir putin? now is the time for our republican colleagues to join us, bipartisan, and stand up. if we wait much longer, our global alliances will fracture. th...

The world tone and not giving too much to the russian agenda. >> unclear what is going to happen and what we will hear. >> thug is the right word. america has tried to have very extraordinary relationships with people you can work with who are honorable and upstanding. we dont hate every russian. reagan thought well of gorbachev. so did margaret thatcher. clinton thought well of yeltsin. to try to get along and figure you want a real buddy friendship with this guy is a terrible idea. >> susan, t...

Bit of the 1985 meeting with reagan and gorbachev. that got on well. is there any way you see these two very like minded leaders seeing something in each other that will benefit these tensions and decrease tensions? or are we still in an era of maximum disruption? >> i think you can say some potential benefit. we are talking about the countries of the two largest nuclear arsenals of the world pointed at each other. there is some interest of mankind to have relationship there. with the reagan/gor...

George bush here with gorbachev, 1997 was a big one with clinton and yeltsin. and a lot of those countries when expanded from 14 to 29, they live in existent shal fear of putin. to hear the president of the united states not mention ukraine and crimea. i was on ukrainian soil and saw what happened when the plane hit the ground and 298 people were dead and russian backed whatever you want to call them but russian uniforms on wouldnt let people collect the dead. that is the image of fear that peop...

Overwhelmed or impressed with autocrats in general, but particularly vladimir putin, who seems to strike the image that our president unfortunately admires. but again, i just thought that was just an incredible, incredible performance. >> you know, there are probably a number of people who support the president who watch that press conference and may be watching and saying, look, you all are overreacting, whats the big deal. maybe some of the things he said, he wasnt ronald reagan telling gorbac...