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Held grievance that he can't stop himself from constantly expressing. even though it serves no real purpose. it doesn't help the united states. it doesn't help our strategy. it makes the west look divided. it invites people like putin to try to further divide it. i don't think he is thinking it through. i think this is emotional reflex more than foreign policy. >> ambassador, you tweeted about this this morning saying the president's anti-german rhetoric is short sighted mrit eed polid wrong he can no, ma economicall. >> it drives a wedge between united states and the europe. that may not be a...

It makes the west look divided. it invites people like putin to try to further divide it. i don't think he is thinking it through. i think this is emotional reflex more than foreign policy. >> ambassador haass, you actually tweeted about this this morning saying the president's anti-german rhetoric is short sighted politically and wrong economically. >> short-sighted politically, anderson, because it drives a wedge between the united states and europe where it encourages germany and the europeans to go off on their own. and that may not be all that much of a problem so long as you have people ...

Great to see you. the fact that vladimir putin this morning felt compelled to weigh in on this and deny it, what does that tell us? >> that he wants to stir the pot some more. you know, this is a leader who is trying to cultivate a different kind of relationship with america, but also stir the pot and create some more trouble at a time when the american political system is not in agreement on how they even want to pursue these allegations. it is mischief making and whenever he wants to weigh in on it, he wants to create more mischief. he is trying to signal that he wants to do business with th...

At least what the intelligence community is saying they did. i'm just also saying in some ways this shouldn't be particularly new. cyber is a new for of warfare and it has been and measure going to be dealing with this. it is a sophisticated instrument now of warfare, of intelligence gathering, of mischief making, and that's a reality. that doesn't discount it or excuse it, of course not. but we but we got to focus on how we deal with it and how we get ahead of it. >> was the hacking, the interference in the election by russia, an act of war, as some are suggesting? >> well, an act of war is a...

Days. trump will actually talk to a democratic lawmaker about a cabinet position. is that an olive branch? >> one man's olive branch is another man's mischief-making. sure, it's been the tradition to have, i guess, since george w. bush, maybe even before, to have a democrat in the cabinet. barack obama -- at least one. barack obama had ray lahood, the former congressman from illinois. george w. bush had. >> he had several. >> anyway. he was the transportation secretary, his name is escape me. regardless, it is the tradition we should see a did the in the trump administration. however, going af...