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What the president is saying during the reign of barack obama, russia invaded crimea. i think a lot of the reason was ukraine did not join nato. and if you look at the warsaw pact countries, the baltics, they all joined the eu, or they joined nato, and ukraine hesitated and when they did, russia, who felt like he gave away crimea, it's ours anyhow. it's putin acting like russia. >> okay, well, alice, will these g-7 allies believe that too? is that how they see it? that, you know, president trump's predecessor is to blame for this? >> clearly, they do. there's been pushback by them at the initi...

Into a hopelessly intractable syrian civil war with so many participants. and frankly, you know, great powers should only meddle in the affairs of small tribes if they really have the will and the skill to do so. and the truth is we really don't. we are not going to confront the russians on the ground or in the air. >> so what happens in syria? >> i think what we're trying to do is ensure there is no conflict with the russians. and we're probably going to wait. we'll continue our campaign to degrade isis to the extent we're succeeding, and we'll wait until putin decides. and i think this is th...

>> historically i'm sure, chris, there are examples. what's significant here is that there's no doubt these are russian troops. it allowed the international community and folks like us to sit here and scratch our chins and figure it out while putin accomplished what he was trying to do, that he continued to maintain control over sevastopol. >> one is that putin is flailing, he's separate. he wants a seat at the table. and the other one is crazy like a fox. every one of these moves, blocking the entrance, having these skirmishes, the mystery men, how do you see it? >> i see this as putin acting...

Think that he is acting in his own self interest and they say that this is a consistent pattern of behavior. we'll call it angela merckel said and quoted in "the new york times" saying putin is in another world and what the white house saying with the senior administration official is saying that, no, they believe that putin is really threatened by these forces that are sort of unraveling in ukraine, that any popular jup rizing against the government, that's aligned with him, he deems a threat. and if you go back to what happened in georgia, they feel like that this is just a consistent, you k...

>> i also understand the white house -- there was a white house official disputed the notion that vladimir putin was somehow unhinged. how would they describe putin, his state of mind? >> reporter: well, at this point, anderson, they really think that he is acting in his own self interest and they say that this is a consistent pattern of behavior. we'll call it angela merckel said and quoted in "the new york times" saying putin is in another world and what the white house saying with the senior administration official is saying that, no, they believe that putin is really threatened by these fo...