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Obviously not proportional. 35 versus 755. >> i was surprised back at the tail end of the obama administration when the u.s. expelled 35 russian diplomats accusing them of espionage, shut down two russian compounds in suburban maryland outside of washington as well as in long island, that they didn't retaliate right way. sergey lavrov said they would right away and president putin overruled him and said not so fast and now are retaliatinreta. what was the delay? normally one state does this, the other state responds immediately. >> if you remember, not only did putin overrule his foreign minis...

Do. i love the way he invites american diplomatic kids to the kremlin. what kid doesn't dream of a new year's party at the kremlin? what american kid doesn't? trump i think has sort of played into it. by congratulating putin. it's a smart move on the part of the russians. you put no pressure on trump. you give him the option to drop the sanctions. this is a complete distraction. the sanctions are meaningless. the only ones that matter -- even those sanctions are not that severe, are the ones that were imposed on russia because of ukraine. the two leading candidates for the french presidency ne...

I love the way he invites american diplomatic kids to the kremlin. what kid doesn't dream of a new year's party at the kremlin? what american kid doesn't? trump i think has sort of played into it. by congratulating putin. it's a smart move on the part of the russians. you put no pressure on trump. you give him the option to drop the sanctions. this is a complete distraction. the sanctions are meaningless. the only ones that matter -- even those sanctions are not that severe, are the ones that were imposed on russia because of ukraine. the two leading candidates for the french presidency next y...

>> i'm not sure why the president felt like he needed to kale and congratulate vladimir putin on what was a fake election. i think most of us don't see that as necessary. >> i wouldn't have done it. it's -- it would be like me calling fidel castro saying good job, you really took 99%. i mean, those elections don't mean very much and i think we shouldn't lend any more credence to them. >> i don't agree with congratulating putin. i don't think you congratulate someone for a fake election. >> so as you walked the halls of the capitol did you sense something different among the women and men of co...

Into the press. but that being said, i'm not entirely surprised -- i'm a little surprised i should say that this is a surprise to a lot of people. he spent the last year and a half basically trying to be friends with putin, trying to put up a friendly front with russia. nothing that he did in congratulating putin was a total surprise to me. i assumed he was going to do it. this is the way he has approached the geo political relationship with russia. >> it's also his personality. if you interact with president trump, the first thing he'll say when you walk into a room if you haven't seen him fo...