kurdish allies in such a way think about this. with this small footprint we ve thwarted iran s expansion. we ve thwarted russia s expansion in the area. we ve thwarted syria s expansion. and we have continued to crush isis. and now donald trump is surrendering. yeah. he s appeasing he s appeasing putin, he s appeasing erdogan, and the consequences of this are going to be deadly. and i think it s worth looking at some of the republicans who have been protecting this president and schilling for him. especially just looking in the past three days that jim jordan or ron johnson or lindsey graham on the ukraine scandal, he doesn t mean it. to what he stowed george stephanopoulos about taking bitter on a rival, he doesn t
senator, a republican, who was at the president s side with his immigration proposal, which, by all accounts, he s not going anyplace. he was also on morning joe today, very critical of the posture on russia. he has no question about the intelligence concluding that russia was responsible for the election hacking. well, everything the president does just leads us to question why is he so intent on appeasing putin, why at all costs does he want to improve the relationship when the russian side is showing no intention of making any moves towards either withdraw ing from ukraine or doing anything else that would be in our interest. there is one person responsible for the state of the u.s./russia relationship and the one person that our president seems intent not to blame and that s vladimir putin. and by the way, secretary
as we ve said, president-elect trump says he does not believe the russian hack terse tried to sway the presidential election in his favor. he s called the idea ridiculous. pro-democracy advocate, it makes total sense. in his book, why winter is coming, he warned against the dangers of appeasing putin. and garry joins us now. you have no doubt russia is behind this. and do you believe you have no doubt about what their motive was? no, that s let s stick with the facts. vladimir putin, global propaganda machine, help trump to be elected. look at social media, the factors of trolls, they ve been actively promoting trump and trying to undermine hillary clinton, both in english and in
states. he didn t have to act because everybody knew that he would. you also write that all the nation many of the nations you talk about western europeened at united states that were essentially appeasing putin? absolutely. it was very convenient. everybody thought that, you know, the business was putin. and i think it s it was almost tragic that after putin s first act of aggression, when he invaded in 2008, at the time the republic of georgia president of the united states. barack obama and he is secretary of state hillary clinton. they offered a new sunshine policy. a re-set policy convince putin he could go anywhere without any opposition from the united states. garry, thank you very much. the new book is winter is coming. thank you, sir. thank you. 2016 g.o.p. campaign spitting mad over wednesday s cnbc debate. what are they going to do? that s next. i want to know what you think. do you think the rnc was
president of the united states. he didn t have to act because everybody knew that he would. you also write that all the nation many of the nations you talk about western europeened at united states that were essentially appeasing putin? absolutely. it was very convenient. everybody thought that, you know, the business was putin. and i think it s it was almost tragic that after putin s first act of aggression, when he invaded in 2008, at the time the republic of georgia president of the united states. barack obama and he is secretary of state hillary clinton. they offered a new sunshine policy. a re-set policy convince putin he could go anywhere without any opposition from the united states. garry, thank you very much. the new book is winter is coming. thank you, sir. thank you. 2016 g.o.p. campaign spitting mad over wednesday s cnbc debate. what are they going to do? that s next. i want to know what you think. do you think the rnc was