a lot of killers. we have a lot of killers. you think our country is so innocent? nothing wrong with taking information from russians. is he trying to snuff out christianity. does he eat dogs? these are fair questions and the answer to all of them is no. vladimir putin didn t do any of that. so why does permanent washington hate him so much? russia continues to kill people who are trying to escape from ukraine. these are the ones who didn t escape the russian onslaught, and they re all civilians. putin ain t woke. he is anti-woke. the russian people still know which bathroom to use. a barrage of missiles hit kharkiv, ukraine says killing defenseless civilians. vladimir putin has been a stronger leader in his country than barack obama. refugees have fled their homes with scenes reminiscent of world war ii evacuations. we get like netanyahu, putin in. i want somebody to get in here and get it done right. apartment buildings in kyiv were targeted again overnight.
power, leadership and diplomacy but we have to wake up and smell the proverbial coffee. covid was the most world-altering event since the end of the second world war. it s intensified competition between great powers, reinforced nationalism instead of multilateralism. we re dealing with a changed world. in fact, great powers, china, middle sized powers, putin in putin s mind, china, and smaller powers like iran, for example, are determined to oppose, if they can, the notion of american leadership. i think much can be done, but i think if biden wants to put america back at the head of the table, the first order of business, and i think jake sullivan, tony blinken and the president understand this, the table has been unalterably changed, and we need to be extremely careful about the rhetoric we use and also our own
downtown moscow, was going to be the mother of all transactions. putin was going to get certainly a huge kickback, but it was also a mechanism to funnel cash and money to the trump organization, to donald trump, while he was the republican nominee. so here we have the two avenues by which the russians were going to have their individual, hopefully from their perspective in the white house. one was by funneling large amounts of cash, and the other was hacking and dumping e-mails, engaging in propaganda placing agents influence, all to effectuate american policy going forward and that s in fact exactly what has happened. so, frank, cancelling the meeting with putin in, was that just for optics? because nothing about the russia/ukraine situation changed today, but there was obviously a shift in the people around the president. it appears they might have prevailed upon him in mid-air. so, let s put this in perspective, this very principled decision by our president to not meet with pre
construction of a trump tower in downtown moscow, was going to be the mother of all transactions. putin was going to get certainly a huge kickback, but it it was also a mechanism to funnel cash and money to the trump organization, to donald trump, while he was the republican nominee. so here we have the two avenues by which the russians were going to have their individual, hopefully from their perspective and the white house, one was by funneling large amounts of cash and the other was by hacking and dumping e-mails, engaging in propaganda, placing agents of influence, all to effectuate american policy going forward and that s in fact exactly what has happened. so, frank, cancelling the meeting with putin in, was that just for optics? because nothing about the russia/ukraine situation changed today, but there was obviously a shift in the people around the president. it appears they might have prevailed upon him in mid-air. so, let s put this in perspective, this very principled dec
putin was going to get certainly a huge kickback, but it it was also a mechanism to funnel cash and money to the trump organization, to donald trump, while he was the republican nominee. so here we have the two avenues by which the russians were going to have their individual, hopefully from their perspective and the white house, one was by funneling large amounts of cash and the other was by hacking and dumping e-mails, engaging in propaganda, placing agents of influence, all to effectuate american policy going forward and that s in fact exactly what has happened. so, frank, cancelling the meeting with putin in, was that just for optics? because nothing about the russia/ukraine situation changed today, but there was obviously a shift in the people around the president. it appears they might have prevailed upon him in mid-air. so, let s put this in perspective, this very principled decision by our president to not meet with president putin. remember that we have just come off a dec