threat from russia, whether it was soviet russia before the cold war ended or the sort of chaotic kleptocracy crime family nation that russia represents today. we always recognize that the values of the best were superior, the values of the west were markedly different. you know, the president making a moral kwequivalency between the government of germany and the government of russia, last time i checked, the brits, the german, the french, the italians weren t killing journalists. they weren t imprisoning political opponents. that s what russia is and does, and the president thinks they re just fine that way. so let s talk about the meeting here, david. you wrote an article, the danger is that the putin meeting will implicitly condone putin s brutal tack takes in ukraine, searia, the european union and the united states and foster further discord within the nato alliance, a russian goal for nearly 70 years. here s actually what the president had to say about