subject these two segments that we did, we just didn t have room pore it. thank you for that and by the way i want to say that kimberly has a piece ought on article called u.s. spies live in fear of trump s next tweet so make sure you check out that next article. thank you all. russia s ambassador talked with a lot of people on team trump. lots of smoke but no fire yet. what does it mean for the relationship between the kremlin and the white house? modern life deserves a modern way to pay. it s sold out. don t fret, my friend. i masterpassed it! you can use it online and on your phone i masterpassed it. playing the hero: priceless don t just buy it. masterpass it. .we believe your tax at srefund should last.ss. all.year. long. don t waste it on a pricey wireless plan. lose the contracts, mystery fees and overages. switch to straight talk. .to get coverage on america s largest and most dependable. .4g lte networks. for half the cost. that s right. half.
only good guy among all these horrible players in the world that are doing us in. and so i m more suspicious about where is the trump administration going with respect to its policy towards russia than about all these bizarre contacts and the computer server connections which we have to look into that, but i m not not convinced there s a lot there. but, you know, particularly the relationship has gone way downhill for one big reason, russia has started carrying direct military aggression against its neighbors. it s occupying parts of ukraine, promoting this kind of insurgency there and lying about it claims it doesn t have its troops there. how do you have a normal relationship with a country that s behafg like gnat so you have to tackle these types of problems and not vooep sweep them under the rugging. i have to ask you this early on in this interview. you know huntsman is being tapped to be the ambassador to russia. what s that going to be like. what s going to be his biggest
direct military aggression against its neighbors. it s occupying parts of ukraine, promoting this kind of insurgency there and lying about it claims it doesn t have its troops there. how do you have a normal relationship with a country that s behaving like gnat so you have to tackle these types of problems and not sweep them under the rug. i have to ask you this early on in this interview. you know huntsman is being tapped to be the ambassador to russia. what s that going to be like. what s going to be his biggest challenge? it s a ve challenging job 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 credible 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 maintain the credibility
republican party. maybe i m wrong. but i think the paint the ambassador is make is actually very important, which is that the real shift that we have to keep in mind is russia has changed under putin, it s foreign policy has changed. russia went om in e 90s and early 2000s, talking about wanting to be a member of nato, wanting putin talked about seeing himself as a european country. russia s destiny was in europe. right now i think it s fair to say that the actions that ambassador was talking about, russia is the major spoiler in the international system. so what s what happened? it s invading countries, it s, you know, interfering in democrat elections, it s setting up its alternative ideology as it were. what happened is an interesting question. i think putin realized there was more power in spoking russia, the price of oil tripled and russia became much more powerful. they did feel betrayed by the west in various ways. and all of these parts of the former soviet union starte
he s obsessed with regime change and despite his swagger he s feeling very insecure about his grip on power looking down the road. but you re right, we re facing a russia that s challenging the whole international order that we ve come to depend upon since the end of world war ii and it would be beautiful to cooperate with russia in fighting isis. but we shouldn t do that at th expense of our values and principles. i would measure a new policy towards russia as one that actually solves the problems that russia s created in ukraine, restores respect for ukraine s borders at least in the eastern ukraine. i have to ask you very bluntly, why do you think president trump has an affinity for vladimir putin and russia? it s still a mystery to me. i think there s a couple things that ring true. one the attraction to a strong man, decisive leader who can be so decisive because he has no checks and balances, no parliament to answer to.