welcome back to dedicaatel armed a few tactics she learned from dateline. cindy would take on a dangerous mission. they came up with an awe dish dedication plan. i said what if i go under cover and befriend, karl, as you will as a promoter for your duck
zelenskiy was trying really hard not to get into a debate about crimea with trump in front of a bunch of focus. it could be. i mean, obviously he used the word russia in other statements that he made during the united nations. but he is, to your point, in this very vulnerable place. you know, president obama or even vice president pence or even secretary pompeo would say in meeting with a ukrainian it is absolutely outraging that president putin annexed crimea and is continuing this war . president trump never talks that way. he was trying to embrace and befriend president trump at the same time being firm about ukrainian sovereignty and the things that need to move forward. by the way, i think he s right, the war on corruption is also important right. as the war against russia. but the war on corruption has to be against all corruption. right. not just singling out an individual, let alone an american individual.
him, it boggles the mind they don t have someone else doing that job. what would you as a pr professional forget the fact you re a democrat for a second. what would you tell the family to do? what would you tell donald trump jr. to do? stop doing interviews, stop talking, stop tweeting. i think he clearly admires his dad or he s scared of him. i don t know what the family dynamics are. but he is echoing his style. i mean, the way he talked in that interview reminded me of like a mafia movie. where, like, i m not worried about it. it s going to be fine. we ll take it as it comes. what does that even mean? that s exactly what his dad does. and exactly what he has seen his dad be successful at in his eyes. so, you know, they re not going to listen to me. if i were telling them all, i would tell president trump stop tweeting about the book. you re selling more books for woodward, they re flying off the shelves. i would tell his family to stop talking. they should focus on the hurrica
our friends. he may walk out of there getting everything he wants. and so might vladimir putin. granted it may not be as visible with as the north korea meeting and they were both shaking hands. m wondering if they ll walk out and think they re both winners. i m sorry, this is what the president s director of national intelligence said on friday about russia. take a listen. we know you run the shop. we know you re making the decisions. you can t pass it off to oh, that s some hacker down somewhere where we don t know. we know what you do. presentation he said a blinking red light comparing it to right before 9/11. so the president is going to try to befriend somebody who director coats said is currently attacking the white house. framing it like this, one, putin is not going to admit it so why should i ask him, two, it happened under obama s watch. both of those things are true,
and so donald trump believes he can fix it, and he is going to be able to sit in a room with putin and come to another a new way of the u.s. interacting with russia. but, you know, malcolm, the president says things like putin s fine. he s just fine. journalists have died in russia. political opponents have died. political opponents have been jailed. you know, george will has written a column about this summit. he says a trump summit with kim cou couldfore te couldforetell cutrastrophy. it is remarkable the president continues to down-play not just the effect russia has had in interference in other elections but the idea vladimir putin is okay and he s a good guy to befriend.