putin's comments. >> they have to say those things. the president is taking a different tack. let's look at the bigger picture. we just have eight years of weakness in foreign policy from the obama administration. we had his secretary of state hit a reset button. and then what do we watch? we watched russia invade crimea and attack the ukraine. >> i understand that. that's not what president trump was talking about. president trump said, you know -- >> i'm getting to that. >> he said we're killers too. >> right. my point is he's trying to reset his relationship with a leader of another state, potentially to push them, potentially to get things from them, potentially to engage them so we can have a better relationship that benefits the united states. >> by basically saying it's okay to allegedly poison or help your political opponents be wiped off the face of the map? >> president trump did not say that. >> okay, but he's the president of the united states. he knows the background of vladimir putin and he knows all the controversy that comes with him. >> right, look. it's very difficult.