this fondling comes from? it s not out of the regular wing of the party where you and i come from. so, with the hell is going on with these people? i think the authoritarian movement that is taken over what the republican party is. they fan girl over any strongman figure. they fan girl over anyone who is like a strong daddy. and in a weird psychological level, it puts aside the good of the international world. they flock to the banner of anybody who is the anti-small d democratic played around the world. i mean, their obsession with loving on vladimir putin has reached the point where it s just embarrassing. it s like fan fiction now. you talk about how much the love russia, it s also not so subtle racial element to it.
i think there are two equally disturbing possibilities here. the first is he s doing this to protect his fiscal interest, his financial interest in turkey. the second is that he s a fan boy for authoritarians. right. theact of the matter this referendum rolled back the basic infrastructures of democracy in turkey quite a long way, making erdogan into one of the most powerful political leaders in the world in terms of the executive power he s taken by this referendum. it is a really touchy situation, i think, in terms of turkey being a participating matter in nato and in the european community, et cetera, because it has basically become now he s basically become a central asian strongman figure. i think maybe trump does love that a little bit, but i also think that he never takes his eye off the family business. and trump wants to monetize the oval office, and guarantee you the first thing he thought of was not has turkey lost most of
disturbing possibilities here. the first is he s doing this to protect his fiscal interest, his financial interest in turkey. the second is that he s a fan boy for authoritarians. right. the fact of the matter this referendum rolled back the basic infrastructures of democracy in turkey quite a long way, making erdogan into one of the most powerful political leaders in the world in terms of the executive power he s taken by this referendum. it is a really touchy situation, i think, in terms of turkey being a participating matter in nato and in the european community, et cetera, because it has basically become now he s basically become a central asian strongman figure. i think maybe trump does love that a little bit, but i also think that he never takes his eye off the family business. and trump wants to monetize the oval office, and guarantee you the first thing he thought of was not has turkey lost most of
lbgt network, a gay rights campaigning organization in the country. here is what she told me earlier. people that conduct, they basically reported they were tortured with electric current, and some people were heavily beaten and some people were beaten to death. reporter: beaten to death for being gay, is even by russian standards an appalling development, of course. chechniya is run essentially by a a kremlin-installed strongman figure. he has been accused repeatedly over many years of widespread human rights abuses, using his security forces to carry out abductions and rapes and beatings and even killings. as you mentioned, when his spokesperson was asked about this story, which was broke by a leading independent investigative newspaper here in russia, he said it was an
president held their joint news conference. i would say the bulk of that news conference was dominated by economic issues and the issue of north korean, possibly north korean missile test did not feature very highly in any of the questions that were asked to either president trump or the prime minister. so this has been somewhat of a reminder, really, of what s at stake in the u.s./japanese alliance beyond just the economic interests between the two countries. reporter: absolutely. economics often will play into national security issues and of course, china is the big player in that part of the world and donald trump has presented himself as a strongman figure wanting to take a very tough position against any aggression from nations like north korea, iran and this is a real test on the world stage. how much has he been briefed, what is he aware of tonight,