CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield August 24, 2019 18:29:00
That, look, russia looms very large over most of europe. eu and particularly in terms of energy policy and certainly the threat to elections as we have seen in the past. so i get what the administration is saying. it is better to have that dialogue -- to have them play some role or to be invited in some capacity, not as a member now of an expanded g8 going back in time, but to do something. this idea of admitting ukraine, that is a show phoony. that won't happen. but i think that there is value in having russia in some capacity there. you have to deal with them pragmatically and in a rather ag...