conflicting the act of the wiretapping, which never happened in fact, it was a bungled effort, they went in to try to repair a bungled bug, and nixon had nothing to do with that, he s confusing that with the cover-up, which he seems to have a little more understanding of. and maybe he s projecting himself into that situation. hillary accused him of being a putin puppet, he accused her of being putin s puppet. he does this sort of thing with tagging the other, with whatever label seems to fit him. a couple things there, you mentioned the cover-up, you re saying he doesn t understand watergate, do you think he doesn t understand when he says the president wiretapped the former president wiretapped him, he doesn t understand how wiretaps work, and fisa warrant and that sort of thing? i m not sure he does. and nixon did authorize a number of wiretaps. they changed that in the
was after their own interest, who wins that debate ultimately? putin does because everyone is after their own interest except barack obama. it s a pleasant thought the world can come together and everybody will applaud it and do nothing about it. i think putin s approach is detrimental to american interests. if our president is advantage our interests, it moms wonder our adversaries see weakness and lack of attention and they will try to take advantage of it. bill: if he s able to succeed, what s the effect of that? i think in the short term if he can bowl certain assad regime and help consolidate iran s control over the baghdad government, they could work out
you can get a lot of tour from the barrel of oil more so than you can from the barrel of a gun. bill: if you tbleef general keane if you believe general keane and general petraeus that putin is going run out of money, how effective can he be giving russia a food hold back in the middle east? putin will continue to be aggressive. we know he uses his energy as a political weapon. we ought to be using our energy as an economic as well as political weapon and we dock that by exporting morley questionified natural gas, including crude oil. i think that that would hayesen the demise of putin. putin is spread out with his investments in syria and ukraine and crimea and all around the world. putin becoming more aggressive in the arctic.
forces. i think this will enhance his arguments with the united states about this. which is currently under review as we speak. i know there is a number of options on the table and certainly some of those options are to continue some or all of the u.s. force past the end of 2016. heather: so we ll move on to a second topic. just a matter of a couple hours you will be providing some congressional testimony on this, that being putin, president obama, and what exactly putin is doing in russia. what was your reaction when you heard all of the speeches yesterday and you watched what transpired? yeah. well, this is a game-changer, heather. what russia, what russia is doing, he is outmaneuvered and outbluffed our president once again. putin s russia, his economy is in the tank. its military is absolutely no match for the united states and nato whatsoever. but he has been able to move a very small military force into
he s leaving this huge problem for our next president, and there will be a lot at stake in terms of our own national security following the election in 2016 when necessity take office. bill: you wrote a piece about the power of american energy if unleashed. you called putin a bull think, he only understands force. if you were to harness it what s the relationship with russia and iran after that? general petraeus was here to testify and talk about the fact that putin is ultimately going to run out of money. themore we can do with u.s. exports of oil, russia uses oil as a political weapon. we have an abundance of oil in the united states but so much of that is being blocked by the president.