two days ago, comparing the united nations. bill o reilly. united states to putin s russia. you look at putin and the regime he worked for, the 50 million, there s just no comparison. somebody has to tell him, he can t do that again. he cannot do that again. donald trump has taken away the ability to take our breath away. people that don t live in it like us, aren t political junkies, they went oh, my god. did he just say what i think he said. because of the point you made, we understand russia is bad, russia has flaws, putin kills journalists, et cetera, et cetera, but the reflection made on the country we live in with americans, you know what, we re like them. we re like russia, we kill people, too. for him to say it so glibly stunned a lot of people. all he had to say was, yes, he did. guess what, we were allies with stalin during second world war, for a bigger cause, to defeat
naziism. sometimes you have to deal with people that aren t the greatest characters in the world but we have to do that. he can say that without denigrating the united states of america. given a list of everything putin has done and what he stands for, the president can say i can t respect that. but i still have to work with him. i have to work with him. why is it so hard. what i don t understand president obama had this tick. he would go to another country, indonesia, malaysia, whatever, he would say, look, our record in america isn t perfect, now i going to lecture you about human rights and people would come down on hill like a ton of bricks. so moderate compared to, yeah, we re not so innocent. this is that hypocrisy i m wondering about on the part of many republicans. come on, guys. so let me ask you obama was self depracating to
deal. so there s a huge problem here. on the set here. the bigger problem is a lot of fights, mika loves iranians, epicenter of terrorist since 1979. you don t know what s going on in the actual room where the deal is being made. but go on. where the deal is being made you have somebody on at least there is a deal. let s go to war. better option. let s not do that. so the problem is, the president has got this wrong. it s not what he says about vladimir putin, it s what he says about our country. just like we said back in december 2015 when we were pressing him. but putin kills journalists, putin kills you re saying it s a bad thing, i want to make clear. what s interesting is, we had to push him. he said, well, we kill a lot of people here, too. i said, do you? actually criticized vladimir putin. yeah, sure. he did the same thing yesterday,
pope francis believes you attract more bees with honey than vinegar. he was influential in our own president starting relations with cuba again, he believes there are a lot of russian christians and mended rift with the orthodox russian church. if he s going to talk to putin and help christians in russia, he s going to do so. now, that does not mean he approves of everything putin does. but putin picks up the phone and calls him and sends wishes, pope francis is going to respond. he thinks you have to be engaged even with those you don t agree with if you re going to have any kind of advancement putin, whomever, this pope says open the door and see what happens and you see him doing that. pope francis has obviously made his mark as we alluded to as one of the most progressive popes ever. he continues to have his battles
rodham clinton. or how about invite both and have a great discussion. vladimir putin within the last hour concluded a news conference. he said what was going on in ukraine was an unconstitutional coup so russia has every right. it was a situation in which there was a legitimate exercise of popular will. it was obvious from what you saw with a man who has been a dictator. yurshenko has been everything putin has been in russia, maybe worse as a dictator. i think the president should stop playing hamlet and figure out what the heck he s going to do and do it. the longer you wait to do something, the less impact it has. first thing he should do is reset the reset. how about we that worked so great the first time. we gave up the nuclear defense of poland and the czech republic which i have been against, many people