Izibility of security. And in every document that nato puts out, we talk about this again and again about indivisibleity of security. Saying all that, the Alliance Still goes at Great Lengths to endorse and support and embrace arms control. And the reciprocity aspect of that. Even the most die hard official within any government in the alliance that believes that we should eliminate all Nuclear Weapon weapons they do it only in the official context of reciprocity and quid pro quo that we would not eliminate our Nuclear Weapons, would not reduce our Nuclear Posture except in a process of discussion and negotiation with russia. In the last summit the alliance again stated that they looked forward to developing various transparency and confidencebuilding ideas with russia and the federation in the context of a nato council with the goal of developing detailed proposals and increasing mutual understanding. They continue to believe that this partnership between nato and russia, based on the
System combat for wmd. They sponsor strategic dialogues. And the grant was awarded for the fiscal year 2014, right. So in about october 2013 things were a lot different than they are today in terms of the u. S. Russia relationship. The objectives initially were to explore really verification modalities. If you were actually able to sit down, officially with the russians and negotiate an armed control agreement to limit Nonstrategic Nuclear weapons, how would you go about it and what verification would you think about. Of course, this changed over time. And initially the First Agreement was to sort of set the groundwork and the second meeting was supposed to look at very hardcore issues of an agreement. Instead, what we had was russias annexation of crimea, the u. S. State Department Verification Compliance Report where the First Official alleviations of russian violations of the treaty and we had sanctions as well know and implementation was moving along. Maybe a little bit more slowly
His comments drew a sharp response from the candidates campaign. Correspondent Kristin Fisher starts us out tonight from the white house. Good evening. Good evening, john. President trump is finishing up a full day in battleground florida with a fundraiser tonight, earlier in the day he held a roundtable meeting with a group of venezuelan americans, that i vote for joe biden would be like voting for Nicolas Maduo socialist regime back in venezuela. Joe biden and the radical left are trying to impose the same system, socialism plus, biden is a puppet of Bernie Sanders, aoc, the militant left. Trying to tie his 2020 opponent to the far left wing of his party. Sounded very similar to President Trumps America First agenda. We can use it to buy American Products and support american drops. My administration will support two simple rules. Buy american and higher americ american. Buy american and hire american. He accused biden of stealing his message. He plagiarized from me, but he can never
He says, with russian prostitutes or girls of low social responsibility, as he put it, even though he added to some amusement in the crowd, they are clearly the best in the world. It was quite a frank and quite astonishing series of remarks by Vladimir Putin, the russian president. Putin saying he doesnt know trump. Hes never met him. Hes got no reason to attack him or to defend him. But he chose this moment obviously just a few days before the inauguration of donald trump to speak out in this way. I just want to go back to, you used the word astonishing. As youre listening to Vladimir Putin saying these things, youve covered russia for a long time, whats going through your mind, matthew . Its just a really unprecedented situation. Weve got very used to the idea of an american president and a russian president at loggerheads over a whole range of issues in the modern context about nato expansion, the conflict in syria, the situation in ukraine. Were on the cusp of what could be a Pivot