into the emoluments clause. when is enough too much? should you be focusing on the big challenge of getting the ukraine story right, at least as far as articles of impeachment are concerned, potentially? that has to be the focus, because it implicates national security. $390 million of taxpayer dollars and an upcoming election. as it relates to this doral booking for the g- summit, andrea, i would say this is something that russia would do except when i checked the last time putin hosted the g-8 summit in 2006, they actually hosted it at a state-owned palace. this is something that s more corrupt than what the russians would actually do. we should look into it, of course, we shouldn t authorize money from congress that would pay for that. but i think the focus right now has to be this impeachment inquiry. what is your timeline? to get it right, to give the president a fair process and to move expeditiously, when you have a confession from the president, you have the chief of
there are better solutions. there s something called camp david, for instance. fantastic setting, fantastic security. president obama hosted the g8 summit there in 2012. that would be an appropriate special place to hold the g8. not this kind of, you know, whatever locations, doral or other places, it s not appropriate for the president of the united states. ambassador, i m curious to get your thoughts this terms how russia has been front and center at the g7 summit and the president has been trying to reintate them part of this group without nothing in exchange, either to stop the cybermeddling, withdraw from crimea. how do you scare that? how do you explain what he is doing? i can t explain it. i m sorry. i m not going to try to explain it. it is not in america s national security interest for the president of the united states to be giving a gift to putin and getting nothing in return.
the g8 to the g7. what is your reaction to the president s proposal to bring in the russians and let them be part of the g7. it is astonishing. we kicked russia out of the g8 because they annexed crimea and worked with europe to put sanctions on russia. and what we re seeing is the unraveling of the post world war ii international border with the u.s. and allies at the center and that will have impact on the global security for the years to come and frankly it is exactly what putin would want. why would putin interfere in our election and help donald trump get elektss, a split between the alliance of the world s democrats would be the greatest return. so you think putin is winning right now. he s absolutely winning. that is what he wants. and who do you credit for that win? what is so astonishing, the atlantic alliance, the alliance of democrat with stood adversaries over the years and
the president saiz trade threats cringed again when he suggested welcoming russia back into what was once known as the g-8. i m russia s worst nightmare. and putin will say, man, i wish hillary won because you see what i do. but with that being said, russia should be in this meeting. why are we having a meeting without russia being in the meeting? reporter: that left other foreign leaders and members of congress to remind the president that russia was kicked out of the g-8 for the invasion of ukraine and the meddling in the 2016 election and the recent poison attack in the u.k. blamed on the kremlin. naturally they will change their mind at the same time we will not stop trying to convince our american friends and president trump that undermining this order makes no sense at
and the president said may not be politically correct to say that. but what does it say to you about his sort of vision for diplomacy? well he s reached out his hand to despots and dik and ds and stress testing the relationship with u.s. allies. we ve seen it over and over again. but sam and i were talking about this in the green room. it is also it is not politically incorrect, it is politically tone deaf because there is a bipartisan coalition in the house and the senate that favor russia sanctions and that favor what happens with the g8 when russia did leave. so the fact that he continues to be so accommodating to russia, it really is it is troubling for a lot of politicians here in the u.s. let me read to you, sabrina, john mccain s statement that he released today after the president said bring the russians back in. the president has inexplicably shown our adversaries the