what are their major concerns. a lot of that are concerns are the same ones that david laid out that other world leaders share, that russia has not done anything to back away from their invasion and annexation of cry meimea, russis been more aggressive. they have meddled in the u.s. elections, they have meddled in european elections. they have shown they want to do nothing to change their aggressive behavior and they have stepped it up, seeing inviting putin to something like this is a way of essentially legitima legitimizing him, leading lawmakers to wonder why the president is insistent on cozying up to vladimir putin in the face of this aggression. the russian government has rejected visas for republican senator ron johnson, democratic senator chris murphy, and we re seeing more russian missile tests, more military shows of force. with all of these rising tensions what message does that
commenting on this one, just in general, a lot of the leaks that you read in the press sometimes they re half true, sometimes they re 5% true. whoever these people are, they should be found and they should be prosecuted for this. this is doing no one any favors do you think the president is a russian agent? do you believe he s a russian agent? no. i believe that russia interfered in our elections. i believe they continue to be actively involved they re doing it in ukraine right now. they do it all over the world. but the senate intelligence committee we re doing our own work, our own report. it should be out this year. it will speak for itself. it will lay out all of the details. mueller has something totally different. let that play out. we deserve to know what happened. i m not going to opine on any of it. it isn t fair to nick. >anybody. it seems that russis continues to have an influence on american politics because
clear what its policy is. to say the signals have been mixed is to understate the confuse is led by the president s words. that is part of the problem. do we mean it when we say that russia is a threat? that was in the president s national security strategy. but he doesn t say it. so if your putin, who do you believe? the president or the people who work for the president? so that is a problem. the administration has done a credible job maintaining the existing sanctions and even introducing a few of its own. but if we are seriously mad at what the russia yanz ha russis have been doing, the aggression and the attempted murder in the u.k., the interference in our elections if we want to show we are going to oppose such aggression, we need to make them feel it. so when you talk about making them feel it, you say getting to their pocket book, the oligarchs and vladimir putin himself. not just the oligarchs but
information and the speaker of the house he chose sides. he chose sides. and yesterday will be a day that will be remembered for paul ryan deciding that a respected house intel committee and a bipartisan intel committee is a quaint notion of the past. history looks kindly on mitt romney in 2012 pointing out that russia was america s greatest geopolitical foe. the left, many democrats laughed at mitt romney for that paul ryan was on that ticket. the paul ryan of 2012 who stood proudly with mitt romney and said russia is our main political adversary, and said russis now behaving in this way. i ve known him since he s 22, it s despicable. i say that as a guy i like and i ve liked since he was 22 years old. his actions yesterday were