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When it comes to the trump/russia thing. the first is democrats who believe that this results in policy. republicans, im one of them, believe that this administrations policy towards russia is admirably hawkish, far more hawkish to his predecessors to a point that we think is appropriate. republicans need to be told that the presidents effort to undermine nato, to acclimate americans to the idea of a destabilized nato is precisely what vladimir putin wants and he will test that proposition. >> w...

Meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin. putin knows very well how to flatter donald trump, former spy master. trump has not been preparing for this as his predecessors will prepare for a putin summit. well see whether his ad hoc diplomacy works. already today weve seen that the german foreign minister said we can no longer rely on american. donald trump calling the european union a foe. we see the motorcade now. that does appear to be president trumps motorcade going to the presidential...

Vladimir putin whether he believes the u.s. intelligence community, his own appointees and their predecessors or vladimir putin. and this only days after 12 russian intelligence officials from their military intelligence were indicted by the u.s. justice department by the deputy attorney general announcing it also a trump appointee. heres a little bit of how that went. >> i think that the united states has been foolish. i think weve all been foolish. we should have had this dialogue a long time ...

Succinct and president trump was very nice, trying to talk about how they want to cooperate, that relationships should be good. thats a good thing, not a bad thing, between these two leaders. he already described as the worst in years between our two countries is the result of stupidity on the part of his predecessors and what he called the rigged witch hunt, the mueller probe. so he already gave the russians a propaganda gold mine which they seized. lavrov, foreign ministry, initially liked it,...

>> so he blames president obama, blames the dnc, blames his predecessors. we dont hear him directly condemning what the russians did. >> we sort of do. there is some basis for blaming president obama. they didnt do enough. i think thats mostly agreed to by obama people. nonetheless, this is a complete diversion, blaming the victim. its a distraction to make that argument. what were learning about what happened in london, in the streets of london and in the american elections makes it plain there...

That leave. i think in iran as well, for example, the iran nuclear deal, france wants to stay in and russia wants to stay in and donald trump has withdrawn. i think youll see a study of contrast on certain issues. a larger thing. europe has really become more independent in its foreign policy as a result of its tensions with the united states. emmanuel macron is at the lead of having a stronger european foreign policy and i think youll see that on display with his meeting today. >> a lot saying ...

Predecessors for taking the north koreans at their words, and he said that the past u.s. presidents had been suckered because they didnt know how the negotiate with the north koreans and in this historic meeting, he gave away everything that the north koreans had every intention of not realizing and if we said, wow they are going to be giving up the remains and not done it in as timely fashion as possible, and thatly give over the remain, because they will get kudos for doing it and it really co...

North korea, nato, nafta, russia, in every circumstance hes saying im the genius whos smarter than my predecessors. the new path i chart, whether its any of those circumstances from north korea to russia is smarter. he cannot sit there and acknowledge maybe i was wrong. >> youve been speaking, michelle, to a lot of your poeu allies. what do they think about this summit? >> they cant believe some of the things that have been coming out leading up to it, some of those statements made by the presid...

With our election. >> i think thats what most like a lot of people that the relationship has gone so sour, so quickly. how did that happen? >> putinto putin behavior. the degree that hes using cyber attack to undermine his opponents in europe and the night states is staggering. this aggressiveness and maligned behavior is very different than his predecessors. >> there are levels of cooperation some have suggested. as you analyze that, what could that possibly be? >> first of all, both of them do...

Terminology putin uses, he seems to mimic these authoritarian leaders he enjoys so much but in a concrete sense he could suggest that have sanctions be dropped against the russians after the invasion of crimea. he could suggest that there be a recognition of crimea. that was suggested by his comments at the nato meeting. all of this is unpredictable. thats one of the problems. most of his predecessors, presidents of both parties, have gone into meetings with russian leaders with a very, very wel...