Transcripts for CNN State of the Union With Jake Tapper 2019

CNN State of the Union With Jake Tapper August 25, 2019 16:42:00

help him get elected again. i'm sorry, senator, but could we go back -- i worked for bill clinton when he advocated to bring russia in. boris yeltsin was the president at the time. the idea was they were making some democratic reforms. economically, they were joining the union of nations. the idea was let's encourage that good behavior. what trump is proposing is a perversion of that idea because to your point, so russia is attacking us, they have done nothing to deserve coming back in, and he says let's just bring them back in because they're my friends. not for -- and again, diplomatic reason and the rationale they were admitted in the first place and then kicked out in the second place, he just wants to ignore all of that. >> i dowant you to respond to what the governor said, senator, because you were saying that the president would like to see putin re-elected. and i would like to say, consider -- trump would -- sorry. but consider what the image would be, because the summit will be in the u.s. next year. so if putin were to come, this

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