there will be retributions. of course i don t think anybody on this panel today, i don t think anybody in our country actually believes the president is going to do that because in fact what we re seeing from the whole last week of diplomacy is in fact putin s return on investment. well, his return on investment and, again, let s just for people that haven t actually read the indictment or even red news stories on the indictments, maybe they ve just seen a stray tweet here or there and want to talk about a witch hunt, again, let me be clear, if you just go on google, if you use the google machine and just spend 60 seconds, you will find that the united states of america, our military, usa, remember that when we were for the american military and the american intel community rooting out russian subversion? remember when we all were for
statement. other meetings in helsinki, ford, bush, and mikhail gorbachev, i can t imagine a u.s. president going into this meeting this way. not that american presidents haven t tried to have friendly relations with russia and they have. there s a reason to think about how about the constructive with the other power on earth that has the capacity to strodestroy with nuclear weapons. but the context is so extraordinary, berating nato allies after saying the eu is the real enemy, after indictments of the 12 russian agents that the president seemed to dismiss as insignificant. it begs the question of why. what s at stake are really big things. what s on the table in the future of europe? the future of the middle east? and in allowing russia basically back on to the center stage of international community.
astonishing state of affairs. i think what s interesting as donald trump comes to london is there s a big question for theresa may and others. is donald trump s america an ally of the united kingdom or an enemy? it s extreme nervousness here as to what will happen and what the president will say next. i will tell you, what you just said the president would agree 100% with the first half. this is unprecedented. we have not seen this before. donald trump and his supporters would just say, yeah. and we re getting what we want out of this which was a greater commitment to defense spending from our nato allies, something past presidents haven t been able to do. but the shadow hanging over this trip is what happens on monday when trump meets with vladimir putin and i have to tell you that the kgb has spent decades trying to think up plans as to how to divide a america from europe, how to split or fracture nato and trump wanders into brussels, hosts an emergency press conference and
right? trump did jump into this. and this is there s a reason why past presidents haven t gotten anything done. we re going to solve world peace today. it s over. so president trump is scheduled to meet with russian president vladimir putin july 16 in finland. jon huntsman confirming today the two men will have a one-on-one. ahead of that meeting, republican lawmakers were in moscow to you talking to russian foreign minister sergey lavrov. the group of seven including richard shelby who said the meeting was arranged to improve the strained relationship between the u.s. and russia before the trump putin summit. john thune and jerry moran said ending the election meddling is crucial to better relations. if they want to demonstrate
will do the north koreans get unnerved pretty easily from your experience? i think, you know, they have taken advantage of the president s up predictability. the fact that he was willing to do what no other america president has been willing to do and that s to sit down with the north korean leader without any major concessions, that s something that past presidents haven t done because it legitimizes a leader who has carried out provocations, illicit testing, and the north koreans recognize that. from the time president trump was campaigning, he mentioned that he would sit down with the north koreans and they have taken advantage of that, but i imagine they are renervous and that s what president trump wants. i want to play this sound bide from former national security adviser susan rice. she issued a warning. at every turn the north koreans would make commitments and break them, and we need to be mindful that that is again what might happen in this conexit. i think the ques