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President was manipulated by vladimir putin, and then finally you have the top democrat on the house intel committee who said this. >> i certainly think hes acting light someone who is compromised. it may well be he is compromised or that he believes that hes compromised, that the russians have information on him. we were not permitted to look into one of the allegations that was most serious to me, and that is were the russians laundering money through the trump organization? republicans wouldn...

Been ambivalent about every single foreign leader with whom he has interacted. except putin. either he has a natural affection for authoritarians over allies. putin is not cranky. he basically deals with the president. doesnt have a whole lot to say. the president admires and respects his toughness, or you conclude that mr. putin has some form of leverage either financial transgressions, personal transgressions. im desperately seeking and searching for the empirical evidence that explains why th...

Whether or not they can serve in this administration. but the disconnect cannot continue. the evidence is overwhelming. and the president needs to say that and act like it. >> that from trey gowdy. now were also hearing the top democrat on the u.s. house intelligence committee who had this to say about mr. trumps behavior regarding russia. listen. >> well, i certainly think hes acting like someone whos compromised. and it may very well be that he is compromised or it may very well be that he bel...

Strong language when it comes to our allies, trying to work with people who are our adversaries. this is very similar to the lead-up to north korea that ended up with a summit. perhaps he thinks he can sit down with rue ha ahami and talk. we know the president has an affinity for strong men who are leaders of authoritarian governments. perhaps he thinks this is the same playbook that he can use here, that he used with kim jong-un. >> americas most prominent allies in western europe, in particula...

Katrina is right that most americans want good relations between the united states and russia. the issue is does the president have any idea about how to achieve that goal? what are the requirements of it? one requirement, as katrina suggested, is a debate although he makes it harder to have a debate because everybody has to gang up against him, and has to because he requires it. the requirements of better russian/american relations are to start with a certain kind of unity in the united states ...

Leverage. the incentives that we give russia to act responsibly. he wants a big deal in syria, for example, and yet his clear goal is to get out of syria. that isnt going to give putin much reason to think he has to take our views into account. on the basis of certain kind of unity, leverage, you can move russian/american relations forward. i think we often exaggerate how bad they are. in the past four years, after a major challenge from russia in the ukraine crisis weve had a coming together of...

See? [ laughter ] cant do it. cant make fun of them. its too sensitive. in fact, you cant even call them chicks with [ bleep ]s anymore. [ laughter ] no. no. you have to call them men who talk too much. >> theres been so many dirty jokes so you cant do cliched [ bleep ] joke that everybody has heard before, cliche big pussy joke. you better do something fresh and new that nobodys ever talked about before. >> most women wont let their husbands watch when theyre going through a miscarriage. i sat ...

He described as a foe. we have a 65-year friendship with the european union. so i think that there is a very packed bilateral agenda for this meeting. its really focused on trade and not on other key issues like brexit or counter-terrorism. we have a bilateral free trade agreement between the united states and eu. we have steel and aluminum tariffs that they instigated and they have a threat of tariffs against auto and vehicle parts. and i think that president is coming near a very different pos...

Second requirement is unity within the alliance. hes threatened that. a third requirement is some kind of leverage, the president seems to be interested in reducing our leverage. the incentives that we give russia to act responsibly. he wants to have a big deal in syria, for example, and yet he wants to -- his clear goal is to get out of syria. that isnt going to give putin much reason to think that he has to take our views into account. on the basis of certain kind of unity, leverage, you can m...

Hes being very caral in this case. yes, there is a lack of experience on the part of donald trump. lets assume hes a politician, hes not a foreign policy expert. but whats going on between mr. trump and mr. putin goes beyond lack of experience. you have a situation, possibly first in modern history of this country, where the president of the united states cannot define the american national interests untethered from his own interests, views, likes, dislikes, and in the case of his relationship w...