white house and regardless which way the political winds are blowing i have consistently treated russia like the threat that it is. even under a republican administration i spoke out when i was in for the u.s. wasn t doing enough to stop the erosion of democracy in russia. i coauthored in december 2003, the managers remain bravely concerned with the deterioration and systematic dismantling of democracy in russia, we push president bush s administration air public administration to do more. of course, i helped lead the charge against the obama administration completely feckless, russia politics. president obama marked his 2012 opponent for taking them too seriously. his administration saw a naive reset with the kremlin and for eight years i helped lead the
they insist they can do everything at once that so far we haven t seen legislation on paying for a wall. we re not seeing legislation on obama care coming out of the white house. we are not exactly sure what they want to put in a tax plan. it s still early. there is still time. donald trump is meeting with his lej affairs team today, but a gaping hole so far. o a lot of eyes on the japanese leaders visit in a couple of days, but there s another important meeting that s being planned for and that s israeli leader benjamin netanyahu. there s a huge profile that iran will take really eclipsing the middle east peace debate that s g gone on and some questions about how russia politics, syria politics plays into that. i think there will be a lot of planning for that coming up. no question. donald trump said, and i quote, if you look at what certain countries are doing to this country, i mean they ve totally taken advantage of this country. could be mexico. could be china. nope, tha
i think in context what putin is doing is he s playing to the ego of donald trump. certainly, mr. putin himself has a sense of himself. they are both strong people. also he s kind of subtling inserting himself into the american campaign and at the same time saying we don t get involved in american politics all ththough they get involved russia politics. the narrative here is obama is weak. if mr. putin can say donald trump is strong, you know, interesting guy, that is a little bit of a dig at president obama. i think we got a lot of things going on. don t forget, he headed the kgb. he was an agent for years. he knows how to work with images. classic vladimir putin.