Challenge? it s a very challenging job i can say. i was there in the early putin days when it was a little easier but some of the negative trends that we see today were already under way. i think it s maintaining yourself as a krabl person but being able to speak truth to power. view to often present a very unpleasant message to the russian leadership because we have so many things across the world where we re working across purposes. you have to be faithful to american values. you have to stay connected with russian civil society which is under tremendous siege, nongovernmental organizations have been shut down, the press has been muzzled, america has to stand up for these people as well. do you think that was a good choice? what do you think of the choice i should ask you? he s a smart guy, good ambassador to china. he knows nothing about russia but that s not a disqualification. many of the best ambassadors have been people who school
Stop his return to power. remember, there s a period when he was prime minister, trying to come back as president. and hillary came out in favor of russian demonstrations at the time. 30 seconds left here. what can we expect monday night with the putin special? unbelievable program that everyone should watch. we try to explain who is putin and what is he after? we spent the time talking about putin/trump. but what is putin trying to get at? what is his goal? what s interesting is that trump should be the most powerful man in the world. because of his actions towards putin, he made putin the most powerful man in the world. i think that s true. and it probably i imagine the title of this documentary will give him no pleasure. but of course, he doesn t watch cnn. he will be watching monday night. you can see fareed zacaria 10:00 a.m., and 1:00 eastern. and also, the relationship between donald trump and
You have to be faithful to american values. you have to stay connected with russian civil society which is under tremendous siege, nongovernmental organizations have been shut down, the press has been muzzled, america has to stand up for these people as well. do you think that was a good choice? what do you think of the choice i should ask you? he s a smart guy, good ambassador to china. he knows nothing about russia but that s not a disqualification. many of the best ambassadors have been people who school themselves. the crucial question to being a great ambassadors whether you have a relationship with the president. i don t sense that ambassador huntsman has a soon to be ambassador huntsman has a relationship with trump. as far as i can tell, this is partly a way of further humiliating mitt romney by choosing the other prominent mormon politician in the
you know, you re exactly right. so far it s smoke e mostly smoke but no fire. but we begin with the kind of intellectual puzzle, had which is dump s view on foreign poll has been consistent his whole life. the rest of the world is skrooeg screwing america. as a real estate developer he took out ads saying the europe ians never pay their fair share, the japanese are screwing us, the rested of the world humiliates us, every book he s written that s exactly the position he s taken except with one country, russia. he thinks that germany brr britains and france are countries that screw us and we should be tough on them but poor russia is misunderstood. so there s in puzzle, it s really about one country. then you have the series of contacts with this one country. yeah. you do not have an equivalent
During her campaign, you would probably see that he had lots of meetings of that kind. but there were no meetings about election electoral process. there was in no way it should be perceived as electoral process. do you believe him when he says there was no interference in te lech tomorrow process? i can tell you there are 17 american intelligence agencies. they rarely agree on everything. they did not agree on whether iraq had weapons of mass destruction. they did not agree on the size of the soviet economy. 17 american intelligence agencies all agree, with high confidence, that russia tried to affect the outcome of the american election. and they issued a joint document that said, putin ordered it and he did it because of the reason you mentioned in the last segment, that he believed that hillary clinton had tried to