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But what that means we dont know. we also dont understand -- and you sit on the foreign relations committee and thats one of the reasons i was happy to have you on tonight. is hes heading into the meeting with putin. everybodys expecting him to be tough with putin because of crimea, shooting down mh-17, whats happening with syria, the acid attacks, and of course what happened with the u.s. election. and right before he goes into it he beats up the bulwark that putin needs to respect and fear mos...

They have a degree of respect for themselves and theyre not going to be forced to do this by mockery, by the president or the people he sends to berlin. >> later in the show were going to play for people how angela merkel responded, which really made a lot of peoples eyebrows pop. and i think it was a pretty good reflection of the current state of the relationship. but what that means we dont know. we also dont understand -- and you sit on the foreign relations committee and thats one of the rea...

Goes directly from russia to germany. so its clearly a concern. >> but let me ask you. is that driven by a desire for american profit? do these american gas companies want to furnish the energy that russias furnishing to europe? in other words, is trump flocking for american energy? >> well -- >> i dont know. im asking you. >> one of us read about it for four hours today and the other for 35 years. what do you think is motivating it? >> i dont know. he says america first. its a vast energy marke...

Zero with putin, having invited russia back into the g7 without any preconditions. but he just reduced his leverage even more by telegraphing to putin that nato is just getting weaker moving forward, not getting stronger. the one thing russia really fears is a strong nato. thats why they put so much effort into trying to stop nato from adding members. they tried to stop montenegro recently. theyre trying to stop macedonia. russia doesnt want a strong nato and thats what trump is delivering to th...

One thing to say young ladies please go out and walk but its the facilities arent there it makes it difficult the bathrooms the green spaces the shaded areas is. the princess has long been campaigning for womens rights in the workplace with so division twenty thirty she now has a lot more leverage. i think vision twenty thirty saying is this is not a suggestion this is a matter of fact and it makes the value of the woman as a matter of fact and that is something that i think is absolutely wonder...

We agree on that. the problem is were digressing from the subject, but its terribly expensive to send liquid gas, which is what it would have to be from fracking, from the united states to europe. >> thats right. >> which would make it too expensive for europe. so were not going to wean europe off of russian energy. nor is there any threat -- >> so he can raise a stink about it. maybe it will help him with some kind of leverage. the question is is he doing this the right way and what is your ove...

Admiring of vladimir putin? have you figured this out? you see the intelligence. >> is either his general fondness for dictatorial figures or it may be that the russians have something over his head. that the russians have been laundering money through his businesses or there is some other leverage the russians have. >> laura: i have heard of rank speculation before but that really does take the cake, victor. close it out. >> thats absolutely unhinged because germany just cut a deal with russia ...

Have you figured this out? you see the intelligence. >> its either his general fondness for dictatorial figures or it may be that the russians have something over his head. that the russians have been laundering money through his businesses or there is some other leverage the russians have. >> laura: i have heard of rank speculation before but that really does take the cake, victor. close it out. >> thats absolutely unhinged because germany just cut a deal with russia for $400 billion. we have b...

United states, good job. do you understand that might be a benefit to pushing germany to actually speaking, asking for defense, and also not going to bed with russia? >> on the energy deal between germany and russia come trumps right to criticize germany. others have criticized germany for that, also and that is not new. im not sure thats why he brought it up in such a provocative way today. its also important to note that jeremy doing that deal with russia does create some interdependence on th...

Do you understand that might be a benefit to pushing germany to actually speaking, asking for defense, and also not going to bed with russia? >> on the energy dealtu between germany and russia, trumpsge right to criticize germany. others have criticized germany for that, also and that is not new. im not sure thats why he brought it up in such a provocative way today. its also important to note that germany doing that deal with russia does create some interdependence on the part of russia as well...