stabs up to thuggery as opposed to sucking up to putin. never losing an opportunity to cow tow. what joe biden is trying to do, the reason they re not having a press conference to avoid some of the mano y mano stuff. to focus on the grate substance of great power relations. that requires self-discipline. biden will have to lay down a hard line when it comes to expansionist ambitions. cyber attacks. he s taken a hard line on money laundering and corruption. but also, the national security adviser made it clear. russia is not a trusted ally. they cannot be trusted right now. they need to earn back that trust. and biden is under no illusions. putin isn t going to change. he is who he is. max, he kind of hedged on that. he didn t say he was a killer.
laura: shadow government needs to form to apparently undo the presidential election? your reaction? where s the obama former cia director calling when treason when you need it, because that is what that would be. i think we have really, really run the limits are on absolute trump-derangement-syndrome across the board on how people react to this kind of thing.al i think the president was trying to do two hard things at one time today. it might have been what tripped up some of the communication. i agree completely on the strategy side of it, that you got in the angle. he s restoring realism, trying to get great power relations back on track, balancing one power against another, to try to solve real problems. the proof of this is in results, not in instantaneous sound bites. he s also the dealmaker. he wants something now. he is jumping in there and i think the dealmaker in him used some traits there in the presser that complicated what i think
the government, when there is a cabinet or the senate? that s the big question. laura: shadow government needs to form two apparently under the presidential election? your reaction? where s the obama former cia director calling trees when you needed, because that is what that would be. i think we have really, really round the limits are an absolute derangement syndrome across the board on how people react to this kind of thing. i think the president was trying to do two hard things at one time today. it might have been what tripped up some of the communication. i agree completely on the strategy side of it, that you got in the angle. he s restoring realism, trying to get great power relations back on track, balancing one power against another, to try to solve real problems. the proof of this is in results, not an instantaneous sound bite bites. he s also the dealmaker. he wants something now. he is jumping in there and i think the dealmaker and him used some traits there in in th
east. that s for sure. there s some open hesitation to say whether or not trump s strategy is succeeding or not. it s very clear what his strategy is regarding great power relations. he s going to say nice things about putin, going to say nice things about president xi in hopes that will bring them along to achieve our objectives. if it works, i ll be the first to applaud him. if they get together and help us stop the nuclear weapons program in north korea, i ll be the first to applaud. so far i don t see any evidence that this is achieving american national security objectives. peter baker, by all evidence we are under a rolling and constant electronic attack by the russians. you wouldn t know it in our public utterings, but we are, i think, by dent of what all the experts have been saying. do you think this president thinks it s always a good thing to have a 90-minute phone call
ago. we re pulling back and others are filling the void, president xi in asia, putin in the middle east. that s for sure. there s some open hesitation to say whether or not trump s strategy is succeeding or not. it s very clear what his strategy is regarding great power relations. he s going to say nice things about putin, going to say nice things about president xi in hopes that will bring them along to achieve our objectives. if it works, i ll be the first to applaud him. if they get together and help us stop the nuclear weapons program in north korea, i ll be the first to applaud. so far i don t see any evidence that this is achieving american national security objectives. peter baker, by all evidence we are under a rolling and constant electronic attack by the russians. you wouldn t know it in our public utterings, but we are, i