alice, this falls squarely on the lap of president obama according to president trump. that president obama should not have allowed russia to take crimea. yes, that s a good story and a good point. unfortunately, it doesn t fall in line with the actual facts. what do you mean? it makes perfectly good sense to have and probably those that follow him. but the reality is in 2014 vladimir putin decided he wanted to invade crimea, annex crimea. this was in violation of international law. clearly once he annexed crimea, there was frustration across the world. the u.n. even was opposed to this. so naturally, the g-8 said we re not having this. at that time, he was suspended from the g-8. now becoming the g-7. so it was vladimir putin. it was russia. and russian troops that led to him being outed from the g-7. it wasn t barack obama. it was vladimir putin. and this is a situation where if this was going to be something
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going to do. he went out there, blunt policy, blame his predecessors, board a plane and got out of town. that s exactly what he did. once again, i agree with his policies. this is what he s always been saying, america first, not america alone, but it s the tone and tactic. and, again, suggesting that russia should be put back into the g-8. i think that is something he should have had in private conversations with the other members of the g-7 before rolling it out. without any conversations with them. although italy has already said they re in agreement on that. it was an interesting tactic. i agree. with conditions. there was one stipulation to me the g-7 should not be lecturing the united states of america on climate change. they should be listening to president trump on how did you turn your economy around and how is it now you have more jobs than workers and what can we to help in north korea. to me those are far more relevant than the usual european lecturing us on how we n
to consider, to bring them back into the g-7/g-8, i feel this is a conversation he should have had with the other members prior to throwing it out there for discussion. let them have this private conversation. but in the end, i don t think they should be brought back in. jack, why would the president say something like this with the backdrop being in quebec city, with the backdrop of the g-7, knowing what the opinion and thought process was for the entire g-8 as to why russia was penalized? what does this do to the president s credibility in front of his fellow g-7 members? you know, i think the venue wasn t the best one to bring this up. but i do want to say that if you remember when crimea was invaded by russia, there was a lot of criticism in congress, led by john mccain, by the way, that said the president was not doing enough you re saying if president trump said this, as he did on the white house lawn before he went to canada, that would be the more appropriate setting? b
completely false. i can say this, that as a member of congress during that time, there was a lot of criticism the president wasn t doing enough and he was being very soft on russia and suddenly now, you know, trump s the president and the party seemed to have reversed in some respects. except that he said the u.s., obama, allowed russia to take crimea. when he was on the white house lawn, he just said he thought it was time that russia should be part of the g-7 again, make it back to the g-8, but now he s actually placing square blame on his predecessor. you know, during the soviet years, the cold war, there was always the talk about, well who lost what country as soviet aggression annexed another country in south america, the far east to communism. there was this thought we didn t lose any countries during reagan, for example. that was, you know, a pride of both i don t want to be historically i m just saying i do remember those kinds of discussions.