he s now welcoming russia back in the g8. maybe there was no collusion, it just he s raising all these conspiracy theories again by doing this, and p i just, frankly, don t understand it. it is baffling, but jill, you know, might there be some kind of potential long view here? the president might see on the eve of his summit scheduled for tuesday with north korea that by complimenting russia in some kind of way that perhaps russia might in some way be influential on the potential outcome of north korea? you know, that s interesting, because in a way you could be right, you know, complimenting. but i ll tell you, the interesting reaction that came from the kremlin, which wasn t reported a lot right after donald trump did say, hey, maybe they are to get back in the g8 or g7, the spokesperson for president putin said, you know what, we are concentrating on
choosing the right drill bit. as long as evil villains reveal their plans, you can count on geico saving folks money. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. all right, welcome back. president trump is pointing the finger directly at his predecessor for russia s annexation of the crimean peninsula, an act that caused russia a seat at the g7. now it s g7. it was then the g8 summit. this was the president s parting shot before he left the g7 earlier today from khan ka. canada. you have to ask president obama, because he was the one that let crimea get away.
that was during his administration, and he was the one that let russia go and spend a lot of money on crimea, because they spent a lot on rebuilding it. but crimea was during the obama administration and, you know, obama can say all he wants, but he allowed russia to take crimea. i may have had a much different attitude, but you really have to ask that question to president obama. you know, why did he do that? joining me right now, cnn contributor and former cnn moscow bureau chief jill dougherty and analyst and online contributor to the new yorker, david rohde. jill, you first, before the president went to canada, he said russia should be welcomed back into the g8 and then today, you know, he s blaming his predecessor for having kicked out russia. so how does this impact the
that s the principle. remember, donald trump is the disruptor, so ideas like that, like principles, are not the primary thing, it s right now transactional, what do you do, i want russia back in the g8. i tell you, i was looking, fred, at the russian media, and they are, as you can imagine, very happy about this. in fact, one headline said, you know, russia has been kind of isolated from the international community and vladimir putin may not be at the g7 physically, but he is there in the, let s see, the guise of the tweets by donald trump. so russia feels that they are getting back on the world stage in this guise, you know, in the g7, g8, whatever, thanks to donald trump. so, david, you know, what is to be made of all of this? i mean, for a moment the president even said, you know,
these these are riots. these are violent acts. people are intending to not make a statement but to disrupt the peaceful assembly of other people. we saw this in 1999. since then, every time the g8, g20 or g whatever, every time there s a gathering of this, especially as it relates to trade or commerce, economic freedom between nations, police and political tear military have to do full deployment. europe is the perfect spot for these. they know that they have a network across the continent of like minded individuals. easy public transportation. it s sort of like how protest in washington d.c. and new york and fair better than the heartland of the united states. it s easy to get people to come from other places and be disruptive in large european