take is in response to something egregious and often illegal that the russian government did in the first place, right? first invading crimea, then eastern ukraine, interfered in our election. now they re killing people on the streets of england. so, sure, we can have this sort of diplomatic detante for a while. john bolton, incoming national security adviser, said a couple of weeks ago that really the only way to really stop putin from continuing his aggression is to have a disproportionate response. he wants to do a lot more, right? if russians want to do a lot more in response, fine, we ll see where their breaking point is. as long as we have a piece meme response and we have a piecemeal response. speaking of john bolton, incoming national security adviser meeting the defense secretary mattis for the first
lying about that and lying about invading crimea. he says i believe the liar, not my american intelligence services. kimberly: i don t know that we want to applaud putin for being a good liar. jesse: that s what he does. kimberly: he is former kgb. this is someone who is trained to be duplicitous and was very good at doing that. but president trump, i think he s going to be just fine. he knows who he s dealing with. greg: trump s transparency makes every vulnerability observable. there is nothing hidden. we are cognizant that this could be a problem. our eyes are on this. whereas a lot of the vulnerabilities that had to do with president obama were not observable. backroom deals with iran. dealing with cuba, not observable. he was played by number of
vladimir putin was really going to be an adversary to the point where he would do a high risk operations against the united states elections. once that became public, once we knew that i mean, i continue to be shocked that the president can maintain this position that somehow the intelligence community is wrong. you know, the only people who know what russia did are the russian intelligence agents and our intelligence agents. so it s apaling to me that they try to dismiss it. the russians, of course their mow ddus operandi is just keep going, pretend nothing happened. they re in violation of a nuclear treaty with us right now. they lied about invading crimea and ukraine and then later admitted it. they lied about what they were doing in the rest of the crew cran ukraine. putin lies time and time again. should the obama administration have been more aggressive about telling the
high-risk operation against the united states elections. we didn t get that. once that became public, once we knew that, i mean, i continue to be shocked that the president can maintain this position that somehow the intelligence community is wrong you know? the only people who know what russia did are the russian intelligence agents and our intelligence agents. and so it s appalling to me that they try to dismiss it. the russians, of course, their modus operandi, keep going, pretend nothing happened but think lie about everything. in violation of a nuclear treaty with us right now. lied about invading crimea and ukraine and later admitted it and lied about the rest of what they re doing in eastern ukraine. putin lies time and time again. there s no reason to believe him. the obama administration had been more aggressive telling the public about what they knew was going on in terms of russian
trying a little too hard. he says he is a great negotiator. but, to this day, he has not criticized russia for anything. and his links of his campaign and the russian hacking to the american system, it is concerning to people is he going too far reaching out to vladimir putin and there may be something to it. he has got to calm those fear he is. ed: to that point why is the default position he should be criticizing russia? the president has made this point in the transition and back in the campaign that maybe we should have warmer relations with russia. doesn t mean endorse every bad thing they do. got their help in syria, that would be a big deal, wouldn t it? his position, president trump during the campaign didn t criticize vladimir putin for invading crimea. he said that was not a big deal. he talked about not supporting nato if they didn t pay into it. and the more importantly the fat that he has so many russian ties into his campaign makes the world very nervous about