possibility that putin does not move forward from where he is now and what does he get from that if he backs down from this position? well, i think that one of the big questions that we have to face right now is what does the off ramp look like for vladimir putin? is it acknowledgment of his takeover of crimea and the donbas region? is it some way the clawing back of the right of ukraine to potentially self-determine to joining of nato in the future? i think that unfortunately we are in a position now where having squandered so many of the opportunities that were there for us to deter this kind of effect, we are in a new reality where putin is, as mara said, bent on redrawing the lines according to the former soviet lines there. bret, i m very reluctant to in
security. he probably won t mention donald trump by name. instead i think you can expect him to call for tolerance of all people in this fight against isis. if you look at the polls, 60% according to a recent poll of americans say they disapprove of the president s handling of terrorism, so he s really trying to turn the page on that. and this is the first step in really a full court press that you are going to see this week. tomorrow, he will be swearing in 31 immigrants and then on friday, or on thursday, i should say, he s going to visit the national counterterrorism center where he will hold another briefing and then update reporters on the threat assessment. so this is the start of a full court press to really turn the page on some of the criticism the white house has been receiving. on that criticism front, is there any let s call it acknowledgment there at the white house that the president s sunday night speech over a week ago now did not go far enough? here he was in the ova
question, correctly, why did we place drugs on the agenda when there are other more important things for the summit or things that we should such as the progress we have achieved economically in strengthening our democracy. the question is well put, but the answer is in your accord. the media placed such a high level of attention on this one. many times in the interviews i conducted before the summit, i don t want the issue to be the summits issue. this is one of many issues that some countries want to put on the table. there were no issues that were left off the table and the this was one of the issues that we discussed. we heard from president obama and the united states. i think this was a positive step in that we can find paths that will provide more effective and cheaper meganisms to fight against drug trafficking and organized crime. let s work on that. but it was never our intention for this issue to be the issue of a summit. president obama, good afternoon. presiden