found this to be peculiar between president trump and president putin. the new york times said the dinner conversation caught the attention of other leaders around the room and they remarked privately on the odd spectacle of an american presidential seemingly to single out the russian leader of a special attention at a summit meeting that included some of the united states staunchest, oldest allies what is the bigger picture in terms of where this relationship, transparency and russian threads are. i think this is another example of president trump taking a different tact than predecessors. you have a lot of allies concerned about it. there s a lot of geopolitical things happening now. the u.s. will need other foreign leaders on its side. if they think donald trump is buddying up to putin, that s not a good thing for those relationships to move forward. look, just look at the
invade ukraine, annex crimea, the u.s. response has been isolation. that included no summit meetings between the leaders but it also included down the line no contacts between russian officials and american officials. for the russians especially in the run up to putin s reelection effort in march of 2018, they want to demonstrate, hey, we re a world power, the americans have no choice but to talk to us. so, show and tell? it s a little bit of that. it s i think a signal that they are not willing to give ground in exchange for a meeting. for example, on syria, right? they want to bring the united states into a process in kazakhstan which they ve been running several months. their new offer is they ll do safe zones in syria. look, that would be good, right? if we can establish some humanitarian safe zones, corridors, whatever you want to call them. on the other hand this is clearly a russian-led process. a lot of syrians have very little trust for russia given they are bombing and ki
i think it s very dangerous to defend assad is a butcher. he is a murderer. he may not be murdering on the scale that hitler did, but he is a murderer and he s murdered hundreds of thousands of his own people. there s no question that he used gas. he s used gas for a long time. he s been using chlorine gas and barrel bombs for a long time. for any member of congress to question that puts them in the same league of donald trump cozying up to putin. it s frightening to have somebody of what her status used to be doing something lik that. it s clear you can t get away with that in the democrati party. good to talk ywith you guys. president president trump s policy and the effect on the environment. the new attack by democrats accusing the president of breaking political promises in
europe, the most important player in europe. they re actively out there courting and playing with people who are upset and destabilize europe. it s not surprising that europe is people are very upset. they re astannished, they understood it was campaign rhetoric at one point. they thought it was campaign rhetoric. it s becoming possible. for the transatlantic relationship, which is our single biggest relationship. i just can t tell you how upsetting this is to so many people. it is interesting, because when he makes these comments people feel he s cozying up to putin, and he puts putin and angela merkel in the same how is that possible in anyone s mind? i don t think it s practical. i don t think it will help him.
its tradition of supporting nato. he doesn t give a damn if the european union goes away. he s banning the meeting with these populous movements that are seeking to undermind merkel in germany. she s our closest friend in europe, the most important player in europe. they re actively out there courting and playing with people who are upset and destabilize europe. it s not surprising that europe is people are very upset. they re astannished, they understood it was campaign rhetoric at one point. they thought it was campaign rhetoric. it s becoming possible. for the transatlantic relationship, which is our single biggest relationship. i just can t tell you how upsetting this is to so many people. it is interesting, because when he makes these comments people feel he s cozying up to putin, and he puts putin and