as i have some time and time again, vladimir putin is not our friend and i do trust united states intelligence groups. i have said time and again that the russians have tried to involve themselves ended in the election of 2016. it did not impact the outcome. i thought there should have been a punishing response at that time. direct and decisive. it wasn t done. i don t know exactly what the president has said in this long four hour meeting but in all of those items that the president just talked about at the end, the united states has been very strong and president trump has been very strong against russia on about six or seven different items, whether it comes to syria, the cruise missiles, ukraine, arming them, sanctions against russia, more money in nato, nato putting them to defend against russia, more money in our own military. getting rid of the russians in the united states, sending them back, as well as putting our own defense missiles in poland. the president s actions have
anytime they re in the dog house, they re like, well, your president likes us. your president invited us, you know, there are so many things we have found out from the russian side about what our president has said to them, and not from the american side. and the russians know that, and they re doing it on purpose to highlight, again, to kind of highlight and attenuate these tensions in our society. evelyn, i want to ask you about the syria strikes and the fallout from that there. senator menendez said something to me the other night that struck me and i ve been puzzling over it. i want to play that and get your reaction. i don t know if this was carefully choreographed, because you have a strike against three facilities. the russians don t activate their defense missiles against us. the syrians shoot their missiles after our missiles land. and you wonder, wait a minute, was this a cough graphed kabuki show? sky news reports that russia says that they were told the u.s. where the
their defense missiles against us. the syrians shoot their missiles after our missiles land. and you wonder, wait a minute, was this a cough graphed kabuki show? sky news reports that russia says that they were told the u.s. where they could bomb in syria, which there s some level in which that seems like a natural way of avoiding some massive escalation, but what do you think of that? i think it s something a little short of that. so they have this joint coordination mechanism, the militaries do, where they talk to one another, so we re not inadvertently shooting at one another, although i should know, on the night of february 7th to the 8th, there was shooting between russians and americans, where russians died. but, you know, generally speaking, we try to avoid this. and you know, unless we re attacked, which is what happened with the russians. so i think that we gave enough information that the russians felt, you know, secure enough to decide not to use the air defenses. becaus
tensions in our society. evelyn, i want to ask you about the syria strikes and the fallout from that. senator menendez said something to me the other night that struck me and i ve been puzzling over it. i want to play that and get your reaction. i don t know if this was carefully choreographed, because you have a strike against three facilities. the russians don t activate their defense missiles against us. the syrians shoot their missiles after our missiles land. and you wonder, wait a minute, was this a choreographed kabuki show? sky news reports that russia says that they were told the u.s. where they could bomb in syria, which there s some level in which that seems like a natural way of avoiding some massive escalation, but what do you think of that? i think it s something a little short of that. so they have this joint coordination mechanism, the militaries do, where they talk to one another, so we re not inadvertently shooting at one another, although i should know, on th
throughout europe and in mexico as we speak and so many others. so it s just mind boggling to try to understand that what the president is all about whether he it comes to russia. finally, the president ordered strikes on three different facilities that allegedly were involved in the production of chemical weapons controlled by the regime in syria. did you support those? do you support them and are you clear what the legal rationale is for those strikes? i think any sustained engagement in syria outside of isil needs the authorization of congress, number one. number two, wlags assad did is barbaric. but we saw a strike a year ago, we see a strike now. at the end of the day, i don t know if this was carefully choreographed because you have a strike against three facilities. the russians don t activate their defense missiles against us. the syrians shoot their missiles after our missiles land. you wonder, wait a minute, was this a choreographed kabuki show?