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To zip vote yesterday declaring thundershower ambassadors should not be questioned by foreign government was the right thing to do. you know donald trump is now promotining by partisanship. >> a lot of your colleagues who are leaving. the fact that the president would say it was an incredible offer of vladimir putin to be able to have the russians interview people like mike mcfall and other diplomats that he would like. >> like david cramer and others served in positions or done thing that is he believes or the russians believe interfering in their internal affairs. this is a bright red line f...

About it. some of the names on that list i know well. david cramer a former assistant secretary to the bush administration. he was a vocal supporter of the act that president obama signed in 2012. bill browder was a champion for. that act says the united states has the right to deny travel to people suspected of human rights abuses, including the tragic death of a lawyer hired by bill browder to represent him, he died in pre-trial detention. so people like david who are affiliated with that. a few others. some congressional people. then a couple of others that i think may be affiliated with th...

So what's going to happen on monday's one-on-one meeting with president trump and vladimir putin with only translators in the room. people were worried if trump would be tough, since today he's mostly down played it and ignored advisers and relied on his gut instinct to forge a personal relationship. on friday, they announced a new indictment of a dozen nationals for the hack of the national committee. does this mean the tenor of the meeting now changes? joining me now is david cramer, former u.s. assistant secretary of state for russia, ukraine, belarus, moldova and a senior fellow for diplom...

Affairs. and i also fear that he will encourage president trump to look at institutions such as nato, the european union, recognize that the you european union was created to try to take advantage of the united states. the wto, the g7. basically say to trump we should start over, we should create a new foundation, forget these institutions. cold war era institutions. and i hope the president will recognize thoo these institutions somewhere largely kept the peace in the international world for the past seven plus decades. >> david cramer, thanks for coming in. interesting to get your take whate...

And you thofr back uthor of bac pmt davi pmt. david, thanks for coming in. what do you make of his approach to his meeting with putin? i mean specifically on the russian meddling thing, i'm firmly going to ask the question. is that what the president should be doing, firmly asking the question? >> he sounded like he's going to do it in a rather perfunctory manner. and the president needs to understand the intelligence community has made clear as congress has made clear that interference in our election is something that should be unacceptable and it should incur costs. there have been sanction...