from the nuclear treaty. why an expert on us u.s.-russia relations says this might actually be a gift to russia. the new capital one savor card. earn 4% cash back on dining and 4% on entertainment. now when you go out, you cash in. what s in your wallet?
might be opened to a multi-lateral agreement, instead of the kirpt inf treaty, which was a u.s.-russian agreement. putin said it would not be the russians originating those, it would have to be someone else. thank you so much for that update. the maxim is, trust by verify. in a famous line from president reagan came before he signed the historic agreement. it was aimed at eliminating an entire category of nuclear weapons from europe to lower the threat of annilation. well now as both russia and the u.s. are walking away from the inf treaty, there are fears it could jump start a new arms race. the next guest argues far from being tough with russia, withdrawing from the treaty is a
competing with the chinese as if that has anything to do with russia and the int treaty. the ally versus to smile bravely and sayoc, i guess this is a good move. the russians baited us into getting out of a treaty that they didn t like and to walk away from europe and to started walk u ta talking about china. this is a win for russians to get us out of something we should have stayed with or kept them in a bit longer and compacted a price for leaving, but we didn t. so what do you think this administration did not work with its nato allies, put a collective pressure on russia to try to change their efforts here instead of just saying, all right, we re out? because there administration doesn t like working with allies and it certainly doesn t have any particular affection for nato. now, there is a lot of blame to go around here. i think you could argue the obama administration had kicked
saying through his foreign minister this was a tit for tat. he did say about an arms race. this is the major concern of analysts here, there should not and will not be an arms race. that being said, he followed that up by saying that russia would further develop what is known as its caliber missile. in its current form it is a sea-based medium-range hypersonic civil. that does not violate the treaty. vladimir putin said they would create a ground-based, that is an outright violation of this treat treaty. putin did also say they wouldn t deploy any of these missiles unless the u.s. did so first when it comes to europe. for europe, that is, nato backing the u.s. saying nato violated the treaty in the past and this is the right move. they don t seem too optimistic about anyway forward. russia has said in the past it
immediately took a turn. we don t know if they got out of the way, but it is something. all right. breaking news now, this morning, vladimir putin is suspending the inf nuclear missile treaty. he says russia will start conducting a new medium-range supersonic missile. this comes of course after the u.s. announced it will knic incomes / nix the treaty. cnn s oren liebermann is live from moscow now. oren, what do you make of this swift action or reaction i should say from russia? reporter: well, it seems russia was very much expecting russia to make this move or a similar move, either a suspension or withdrawal from the treaty. russia s response was lined up. sld sld saying through his foreign fin vladimir putin