verses how president obama did. president obama s foreign policy was hiding under the cover while russia took ukraine. he told our cyber officials to stand down rather then stand-up. if you think that s how donald trump will approach putin as we say here in east texas, hide and watch. he will have a different massage for putin tomorrow. do you think crimea. we could bring it to it s knees. sell natural gas for a lot less
meeting. will president trump give that to him? the thing to know with putin is he will create problems. then he ll say i m come to you and solve the problem. i expect him to say hey, i ll solve the problem in syria in exchange recognize this other problem i created by invading crimea. he snuckerred two prior presidents. president trump needs to go in with his eyes wide open. reporter: we will hear about the pipeline between russia and europe. what s more important? i think the gas pipeline will come up. donald trump head flow secret he thinks that s a terrible deal. it is, quiet frankly in terms of putting europe at a disadvantage in terms of if they really are concerned about russia which
concerned. president trump is not being tough enough on vladimir putin. prime minister may among the leaders who wants the president to press putin on a range of topics from election meddling to invading crimea in 2014. he is prepared to raise the thorny issues, but no guarantees from the president himself when you have him making the positive public comments comparing a meet with putin easier than the meeting with prime minister may. this will be a meeting steeped in pomp and circumstance and he will meet him at lenin pallis, the birth place of winston churchill. they will have a dinner and then tea with the queen tomorrow and
murder on uk soil with a nerve agent, how is a statement like that, a position like that from the u.s. president likely to go over with nato allies? reporter: well, jim, it likely won t go over well. these are european leaders who are ready to call vladimir putin a foe for what he s done. consider the united states, meddling in the election, invading crimea, the poisoning of the former russian spy. there are so many things they could easily rule out that vladimir putin is not a friend, that he is a foe, but the president wouldn t even go as far as that there. once again, we are seeing how the president is praising his adversaries while battling his allies here, and we re expecting more of that in the coming days when the president does finally arrive here in brussels tonight. yeah, not seeing many republicans call him out for that either. thanks very much. for democrats back in the states, the battle is on as supreme court nominee brett
or a faux, a friend or a faux. a competitor. i think that getting along with russia, getting along with china, with others, is a good thing. reporter: so you see there that very friendly language from the president there from someone who is the leader of a country that has meddled in the united states election, is accused of poisoning a former russian spy who was living in the uk, invading crimea, among other things, of course. and you see the language there, not combative at all. now compare that to how he discussed nato. nato has not treated us fairly, but i think we ll work something out. we re being taken advantage of by the european union. we lost $151 billion last year on trade, and on top of that, we spend at least 70% for nato. and frankly it helps them a lot