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But if you have the president being diplomatic and the state department putting on the pressure which is what happened in this case, is that not enough? >> no, so much has changed. what's gone in syria, what's gone on with threats to the baltic countries, our nato allies and obviously this nerve agent attack on british soil, i think the game has changed a lot and it's time for americans to step up and be a lot tougher with vladimir putin. >> we've all been talking about the issue of the deep state and the president referred to that and i find that to be chilling. i'm not sure exactly what his ...

Good morning. how are you today? >> great. thanks. >> you know, president obama congratulated putin on his victory in 2012. this time, there are some real -- against the wishes of republicans, i should point out. this time there's concern the president's not taking the advice of his national security advisers. >> yeah, he's either not paying attention to the advice, not reading the card that says "do not congratulate" in all caps, or he's ignoring it. either thing i think is disconcerting. then there's the other element to this which is his continued insistence on essentially letting vladimir ...

A nerve agent or nerve gas attack on an ally's soil, to not even bring these things up, i believe is malpractice and malfeasance. the american public deserves to know this. they can find the leak if they want to, but i'm more concerned about the president's acquiescence to vladimir putin's wishes. >> i will say this, a lot has happened since 2012. a lot has happened between crimea and russian election meddling and the nerve agent attack in the last few weeks. but barack obama when he was president did call vladimir putin in 2012 with a congratulations, it's not as if these types of calls don't...

Like a colander where information flows through every hole. >> bob baer, to the substance of it now, president obama in 2012 called vladimir putin to congratulate vladimir putin. is it a problem that trump did so without bringing up election meddling, without mentioning the nerve agent attack in the united kingdom. >> that's exactly it. i don't care so much about the leaks. i think about russia attacked our longest standing ally, great britain, with a weapon of mass destruction. the last thing you want to do is call the russian president up and congratulated him on everything. he should have c...

Transgression that's occurred and i'm glad people are leaking. >> you said you've never seen it. barack obama did call in 2012, there wasn't the election meddling issue there, not the nerve agent attack. russia wasn't exactly a squeaky clean actor in 2012 either, were they? >> crimea and the rest of it. this has been a case of slow accrual. everyone was hoping that vladimir putin would see reason. clearly with this attack in salisbury, he hasn't. this is going to embolden him to make more attacks. >> let me ask you, alex burns, about a new statement from president trump where he does name robe...