it has engaged in massive mendacity on the basis fundamentally of political cowardice. whether he had a blink there, mark halperin, he is now doubling down on defiance at this point, vladimir putin. he s doubling down with an 85% approval rating. and in the short term within russia. yeah, within russia. secretary albright, there are a lot of tactical decisions in dealing with putin. you re a student of u.s./russian relations. in the medium term, the longer term, what is americans strategy for dealing with putin? can there ever be normal relations with russia again as long as putin is in power? well, i think there have to be normal relations. but the bottom line is the president made very clear russia s culpability. i think what is interesting is putin has been caught in the web of his own lies. he has made up the whole story from the very beginning, and now he is trying to figure out how to explain to his people that all the things he s been saying
assessments that we have about where this missile was fired, from when it was fired and, in fact, it was the surface-to-air missile that took down the plane? is it time to do that? well, i think we are, in fact, doing that. perhaps we ought to have some sort of a kprecomprehensive assessment, but we are doing it. and of course, a critical part of that is the boast by the person who actually shot that plane down. he went on the air. he put himself on some sort of equivalent, russian equivalent of twitter or something and boasted of it. and then a few minutes later when he realized what has happened, that it wasn t a ukrainian plane but a foreign plane, he immediately tried to eliminate that. and we have that evidence. it s striking. i think most russians now realize that putin is engaging in massive and disgraceful mendacity. secretary albright, critics of the obama administration have said these sanctions that came after crimea and in the intervening months were sort of nibbling ar
speaking fees which are said to command $200,000 per appearance. i m curious about these numbers. but all the fees go to the clinton foundation? some of them? they re not totally transparent, but a lot of them do. but some critics say they control the foundation. she s lost control of her public image. it s the worst thing that can happen to somebody thinking of running for president. and it s at a time when she should be in command. she had a book tour. she can control the message. her operation is playing defense on a lot of stories. and again, she can recover from it, but right now she s lost control of how people are thinking about her, how the media is covering her. can i ask mark a monday morning quarterback question? yeah, i have one, too. would it have been better in hindsight if hillary had not written this book? because look where she was when she was out of the fray. no one was talking about her in terms of politics. just in terms of how she had done as secretary of
high-ticket equipment. germany, of course, has even more business ties with russia. and is dependent on natural gas. i had a question for dr. brzezinski, though, which is that what if keeping ukraine in the russian orbit is just more important to putin than those economic ties, more important to putin than avoiding the sanctions? if that s the case, then what? well, it may be the case, but the problem is how is he going about doing it? he, in fact, is steadily alienating more than 40 million ukrainians. they are already in a state of outrage over crimea. they are now increasing in a state of outrage over the destabilization of the eastern parts of their country. they re now entangled in this horrible tragedy. i think the ukrainians are being turned against the russians by putin stupidity. and what strikes me from my
opinion will insist that this fighting stop on both sides. have you been satisfied with the collective response including the response of the united states to what happened last thursday afternoon, last friday over the ukraine, the shooting down, 297 cases of homicide? are you satisfied with the collective response to this? well, it s like we re on a path where we ll see how europe will weigh in because of the invasion or the aggressiveness of russia, of putin in ukraine, the eastern ukraine, the president has taken the lead on sanctions in the area just even a day before all of this, he increased the sanctions going into the sector sanctions in the hope that the europeans would enthusiastically follow suit.