good evening. i m kate your tour in new york in for chuck todd and welcome to mtp daily. we begin with what sounds on paper like a chapter out of the cold war. but instead of a president loudly saying tear down that wall, mr. gorbachev, we have a president saying don t agitate mr. putin. would any of this sound out of place against a strategic adversary. the u.s. imposed sanctions on russian entities as punishment for 2016 meddling in the election. then the government expels 60 russian diplomats and demands the russian consoulate in seatte but shut down but notice who announced these moves. the white house. the trump administration. not the president himself. for a president who isn t shy about breaking news on his twitter feed, there remarkably
yeah. it is fascinating, we heard throughout the 2016 campaign that trump would establish a great relationship with russia and wouldn t it be nice if we could sit down with putin and he could help in syria and all of these places. and in fact we have the most tense relationship since the cold war. and so i think it is less about go cop and bad cop and more about despite the bluster that we ve heard from the president is actually having a hard time having that play out in policy wise and he s been influenced by forces within his administration that say the best thing to do is to expel the diplomats. he just didn t say anything about it. there are serious warnings that we could be entering a cold war. and mr. mcfall said we are not ready. and this is amounting for essentially a second cold war. the obama administration engaged in a re-set after the invasion of georgia which is annexation of territory. two years after the assination of litvinenko.
someone like kim jong-un. vice president cheney once told me on the air he looked into mr. putin s eyes and he saw a kgb colonel and i agree with vice president cheney on that matter. we are dealing with a kgb colonel and a seasoned intelligence operator and the gru agent who was murdered by a chemical weapon with 130 other casualties in great britain, you have a ruthless government that attacked our election and dispatched a war head called saton 2 this week. and if president trump said if you want to have a arms race, i will win. that is a good message to send on the television than on twitter. it is better to say that offline rather than online. i think you would agree. so i don t think there is much hope of doing anything with vladimir putin until we rebuild the military decimated over the last decade by sequester and until we get our allies lined up
marry, raise two young girls, and put down roots in his hometown. but there were signs of trouble. numerous arguments with neighbors. a police charge of disorderly conduct. someone yesterday asked me if i hated my husband. i hate the things he s done. but him, no. in this 1985 nbc interview, a year after his rampage, his wife aetna talks about james huberty s generally volatile state of mind. i told the kids i kept them away from him as much as possible. told them not to talk back, not to act up. try to keep him calm, don t agitate your father. in october 1982 the power generating plant where huberty works as a welder shuts down. he cannot find work. he moves his family to mexico, but their stay in tijuana lasts only three months. from there the hubertys move to san ysidro, california, the site of the mcdonald s massacre. he was not adapting down here, and there was nothing to
but there were signs of trouble. numerous arguments with neighbors. a police charge of disorderly conduct. someone yesterday asked me if i hated my husband. i hate the things he s done. but him, no. reporter: in this 1985 nbc interview, a year after his rampage, his wife, aetna, talks about james huberty s generally volatile state of mind. i told the kids that i kept them away from him as much as possible, told them not to talk back, not to act up. try to keep him calm, don t agitate your father. reporter: in october 1982, the power generating plant where huberty works as a welder shuts down. he cannot find work. he moves his family to mexico, but their stay in tijuana lasts only three months. from there, the hubertys move to san ysidro, california, the site of the mcdonald s massacre. he was not adapting down here, and there was nothing to go back to.