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Certainly moscow thought it got incredibly lucky with the election and they thought they presumed america functions the same way russia does, trump would say the word and sanctions would fall and of course, america still doesn't function quite the way russia does, and i think at this point putin wishes he were dealing with hillary because she would be consistent and predictable and trump hijacked his madman on the act. >> that's very interesting. you wrote a lot about your sort of worry about the american rhetoric around russia, which is a worry i partly share. you can sort of see shades of th...

Very pragmatic and this is a very easy decision in terms of which candidate to back. >> do you think at this point putin is disappointed in his pick? >> no, i don't think so he's disappointed at all. i often joke that the trump administration aseems to mirror kremlin strategy almost all the time. i once said that there's a kremlin political warfare management team somewhere in the oval office giving them hints. what he said with that tweet was exactly what the russians do. he construct reality. they create a level of doubt to where now from this point onward donald trump will say -- look, i al...

In his press conference on december 23, he sort of was blaming everything bad that has happened and might even happen in the future on the outgoing administration so in that sense he can stay consistent. but trump will be under a lot of pressure from his friends in russia to lift the sanctions. that may not be something the republicans in the senate and congress want to do so that -- when they see conflict playing out there. >> because the first question is, obamacare, the obama administration will retaliate, obama has less than a month in office, could trump just come in and sort ofover turn ...

Second term i'll be more flexible. the result of that flexibility and the invitation to aggression we have russia on the loose, scaring the hell out of the east europeans. >> yeah. >> it astonishes me that they would dismiss this as an existence threat. russia as an existential threat when they were wrong once before. if you look back at 2012 what romney was saying at this point putin had not overtly tried to recreate a soviet empire which is what he's trying to do now. however, he was tied to propping up assad in syria, and that's what romney was referring to and he was tied to being an enabl...

Second term i'll be more flexible. the result of that flexibility and the invitation to aggression we have russia on the loose, scaring the hell out of the east europeans. >> yeah. >> it astonishes me that they would dismiss this as an existence threat. russia as an existential threat when they were wrong once before. if you look back at 2012 what romney was saying at this point putin had not overtly tried to recreate a soviet empire which is what he's trying to do now. however, he was tied to propping up assad in syria, and that's what romney was referring to and he was tied to being an enabl...