from the trump campaign not surveilled at all to the trump campaign surveilled for its own benefit. until we get answers and the longer d.c. is kept in the today, it will feed collusion conspiracy theories on the left and right. the longer we debate this, we are playing in the hands of putin. what he wanted to do is undermine faith in the institutions, but the entire justice department. neither side is doing the institution a favor when they are trying to score political points. it starts at the top, does it not, phil? absolutely. it does start the top. i think this president hasn t done himself any favors. what is the precedent here for the american president coming up with the theory and ordering his justice department to prove him wrong? the precedent here is
i just want to say insofar, that s correct, the president has shown when he s give. speech and direction, he has been harder on russia. let s be clear here, if we think this is going to be a kruschev/kennedy meeting in 1961 where the president is going to walk out of there and have europe and the rest of the world wonder whether he lost at the hands of putin, let s not the body language get in the way of what essentially is reality here, and that is that the united states i just came back from europe last night. the united states has viewed in europe right now as a weaker player in terms of the cohesion and effectiveness of nato not the stronger partner that every european leader including the new president of france and angela merkel, the chancellor of germany want. let s go outside the summit where protesters are ramping up for another day of protests. the scene yesterday was one of complete chaos. and today protester even preventing the first lady from leaving from g-20 events
for him to have these chilly, obviously chilly relations with our allies in europe and chummy relationships with the saudi you know, the saudi royals or the entire sort of it is bizarre to me that the republican party that i grew up understanding, that my father adhered to, now finds all o this to be okay and will defend it. right. you think of ronald reagan and everything that he worked for and his entire stance on foreign policy during his eight years of presidents and how republicans have lifted him up as this prime example and now the foreign policy outlook is so incredibly different. you know, it was on the front page of der spiegel after donald trump said germans are very bad, very bad. just like you mentioned, the germans have a tendency to wander, a very delicate relationship, eight into the hands of putin, which they have many, many gas contracts as well. very powerful. sure. putin is influencing the tide of political philosophy in eastern europe.
now, right now it s been a more rocky relationship and trump advisers i have spoken to say sta stay tuned, it s not going to be all friendly. but we re trying to make overtures so that they see that we want to do business with them. while we re also increasing our military strength in the come coming years, and so we ll have a two-pronged approach. the hand of friendship, but also a signal that we will firmly stand against them if they try to treat us like a pushover, as some trump officials believe the obama administration has been treated at the hands of putin. buck lindsey graham, tweeting the following. quote, i m not challenging the outcome of the election, but am concerned about russian interference at home and throughout the world. don t have to be sherlock homes to figure out what russia is up to. they re trying to undermine democracies all around the world. is lindsay graham in part at least correct? i many, it s an exaggerated.