Return Putin News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Ukraine intractable, syria, extend the new star treaty for five years thats going to expire in 2021 as a result of these two president s coming together . Yeah. Can they agree for no Nuclear Proliferation and put pressure on north korea and also put pressure on iran . Is that possible . I think so. Paul okay. Lets talk about the domestic politics here because you know to have an effective Foreign Policy, you need domestic support. And the way the president handled that Press Conference has really hurt him in terms of his ability, i think, to maneuver inside congress and have the support he nee...

Ideas. the washington post had a story saying we ought to move our troops from germany to poland. to me that would be an incredible step forward. paul: speaking of congress, 98 to nothing vote this week by the senate warning the president not to take up putin's request to have -- to come and have russian prosecutors interview american officials who might know something about bill browder who is one of the authors of the act, a sanctions bill that passed in 2012 and has sanctioned i think about 51 russians. >> yeah, putin is trying out the classic cold war tactics, paul, where he offers somethi...

That. paul: bill, what about this disagreements we're hearing about between some of the intelligence officials and the white house? particularly dan coats, the director of national intelligence. he was -- seemed in an interview to be stunned by the news that the president has issued an invitation for putin to come in the fall, and issued a statement after the summit defending the intelligence community. >> right, well, look, we all know that the russians meddled. everyone knows that. i think even president trump knows it because he walked back his remarks earlier. look, he's still the presiden...

Unfortunately. now -- paul: he stepped back from it. >> because of that backlash from congress, he stepped back. that's a good thing. that also shows that checks and balances in the american system work. but the very idea that the white house spokesperson sarah huckabee sanders didn't immediately shut that down, that putin request, when she was asked about it this week, to me shows a fundamental lack of communication within the administration and a lack of understanding of putin's method and his tactics. >> it also shows an inability of trump to distinguish two things here, which is russian me...

Columnist, editorial board member, and columnist and manhattan institute senior fellow. mary, i recall clearly last week you said the summit with putin was a bad idea. has the week made you change your mind about that? >> no, it hasn't at all. i think it is safe to say this was not a highlight of the trump presidency. now, as to what congress can do, they are a little limited of course because the executive branch is the one that sets foreign policy, but we have seen congress impose some pretty significant sanctions on russia, most notably after the invasion of ukraine and they could do so aga...