so what we heard from president trump today in helsinki, throwing u.s. intelligence under the bus while standing side by side with vladimir putin, it was shocking. and it could end up changing the global order as we know it. so what are the worldwide ramifications here? fareed zakaria the host of fareed zakaria gps. can we take a step back? why did trump want to have the summit in the first place especially considering what s come out of it? it mystery of donald trump and russia remains it s grown bigger every month than growing smaller. for those who thought, look, clearly the russians did something, embarrassed by it, but it ll blow over and he ll
president. he never mentioned his political ambitions. it sounds like utter nonsense. let s discuss now with cnn national security analyst steve hall, retired chief of cia russian operation. global affairs analyst, max booth, the author of the road not taken. and a coauthor of russian roulette, the inside story of putin s war on america and the election of donald trump. i m glad all of you are here, but also, michael, i ll get to you in a moment but michael has some interesting reporting that s in the book that sort of contradicts what happened today, what was said today. steven, you just heard from putin, but you say there s got to be something because nothing like this has ever happened. first of all, just as a matter of how the russians work, yes they absolutely must have kompromat on a guy like trump. they will follow any guy of any
was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. and what he did was an incredible offer. he offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators with respect to the 12 people. i think that s an incredible offer, okay? sorry. it s not funny. it s laughable. an incredible offer? is he serious? president trump thinks mueller should work with putin? obviously that will never happen, nor should it happen. we ve been asking all along why trump why is he refusing to condemn russia? and we might have gotten a clue today. yeah, i did heard this rumor that we allegedly collected compromising material on mr. trump when he was visiting moskow. distinguished colleague let me tell you this, when president trump was in moskow i didn t even know he was in moskow.
govern and putin becomes president and bush says i see into putin s sole and he s a good christian man. none of it works. the russians become adventurous in the neighborhood and bullies, whether you look at ukraine, georgia, all over the place you had to deal with russian aggression and russian interference in western democracies beginning with eastern europe, ukraine, eastern europe and the united states. it s not like the united states didn t try to have a good relationship with russia. it is russian actions that caused this. trump needs to listen to his intelligence briefings, the problem is not the united states. the problem is putin. the united states did enormous things for russia. the russians rejected them in a sense and instead sort of a thuggish bullying poster. that s the real story. for donald trump to say it s foolishness, when was the last
i think loyalty with trump runs one way. he loves the military and he loves there are all these people who will lay down their lives if necessary for the country and he thinks for him. he s not willing to do the same. he will do only the things that exonerate him, that make him look good, that are good for him. i don t think he sees, you know, this doesn t seem bad to him because he doesn t see russia as a foe. russia helped him. you know, it s why would he see them as a bad actor? putin has been very nice to him. he was everything as, you know, as trump said. he has been everything to him. he helped him win. why would he go with those of us who are questioning his legitimacy and the legitimacy of his electoral victory? here s the thing and, max, you mentioned this earlier and why would he? because he wants their help