we put sanctions on the russians, we kicked out all their diplomats when they poisoned someone in london. there s been a pretty harsh policy agenda to push back on russia, it s not the same as the rhetoric we hear. a lot of that has come from the defense department. it would be interesting to see how much you have a strong anti-russia person put in you re just you dropped the sanctions. he dropped the sanctions yesterday, he was forced to do the sanctions by congress, he didn t want to. he complained about it, privately and publicly. and he will not say a negative word about vladimir putin, when the guy insults everybody else on the face of the planet? i ve been on the air and said i disagree with the tone and the rhetoric of the helsinki conference, but i focus on the policy. the policy has been much more anti-russian than barack obama s policy not leaving syria. how is leaving syria being tough
willing to give democrat as chance to step into the space to offset what they see as a growing problem with this administration. regardless what donald trump says, regardless what his supporters say, regardless of what his sycophants on cable news say and online say, there is no doubt that he hit a high-water mark and then you had the child separation policy that s just been a humanitarian nightmare. whether you re a republican or a liberal or independent. and then you had the helsinki conference where donald trump attacked our nato allies and kowtowed to an ex kgb agent and all the chaos that s continued throughout here. it has had a definite impact on his approval ratings. coming up, jim vandehei is standing by with a look at the big headlines axios is covering
actualactually we have tremendous fate for making things happen. you re building a great culture in the state department, bringing open people that are exemplary. we field the same way about secretary mattis. we have abilities in what he does. much of what you re hearing today has nothing whatsoever to do with you. i would agree with you the policies that we re putting in place in many cases are stronger than have ever been put in place. i agree with you. it s the president that causes people to have concerns. i d love to have some insights to you as to, for instance, at the helsinki conference create an equivalence between our intelligence agency and what putin is saying that shocks
inquirer was anything but terrible politically for an administration. and yet this is a president who there were john brennen was out there the other day saying this president is guilty of treason. and now comes a story of something more on the salacious side. is this part of the trump formula, that something happens that gets the world crizzy and something else happens and it moves aside? he s also tweeting out today about the nfl and players kneeling during the national anthem. we don t know why this came out now. it s certainly theorized it was to cover up the helsinki conference as you say. michael cohen is finally deciding he s going to cooperate with the prosecution woo we don t know how this material was obtained, whether it came out of that raid of his apartment and he didn t want it to surface and there was some push back on
number three, donald trump was supposed to say russia meddled in the election. when he was trying to fix that problem, after the helsinki conference, he said, could have been other people also. he cannot, cannot, bring himself to say those words. a lol of hand wringing and privatewards from congressional republicans. they didn t do that much when it came to countering trump. they didn t say donald trump needs to apologize. a few did here and there. they were john mccain, jeff flake, people retiring. last one, mentioned it earlier. there s a second summit. the intelligence community didn t know about this. this came in a tweet from sarah sanders. that s in the fall in the heart of the 2018 midterms. home for the holidays.