The State Department rejected the notion of Russia reclaiming Alaska centuries after the 1867 purchase amid reports Russian President Vladimir Putin was eyeing former "real estate."
the other concern is that they maintain bipartisan support for the rebels in the eastern country and the support for c e crimea. when the political debate is so completely divided. matthew chance in kiev for us this morning. and there s this, the white house stalking points of the ukraine scandal was e-mailed to nancy pelosi and other house democrats. the white house tried to recall the e-mail. it urged republican allies to argue there was no quid pro quo. and what the president talked about with ukraine s leader was entirely proper. joe biden spoke about all of this with jimmy kimmel. how does this rank as far as on the outlandish scale, watching this transpire?
party line of the administration is. so this just all contributes to a strategy that seems not to be very unified and that is dependent on one individual in a very unique method of messaging the strategies of the united states. it is striking that the president has reserved his strongest, most explosive rhetoric for allies, such as turkey, but also as you mentioned, he s gone after france and germany, not only for financial issues in nato, but other issues. in his language direct language and criticism that the president has not used regarding russia as russia has proceeded to increase its aggressive innocenness in e crimea, syria. when you target your allies as a u.s. president with that public criticism but not whatever u.s. intel official will describe as
the event instituted new sanctions against russia? yes, sir. this is a time where much of the world was united. russia invaded another country, and they illegally annexed its territory, and we all stood shoulder to shoulder with ukraine, one person who did not see it that way, however, that was president donald trump. on july 30th, and an interview with abc news, mr. trump said of putin, he is not going to go into ukraine, okay. just so you understand, he is not going into ukraine, all right. now admiral, had not putin already gone into ukraine two years before and had not left? e crimea influence on the ukraine generally, yes, sir. and he still has not left? correct? now we are getting intensive very technical questions if of them being in the ukraine, they outright invaded with armed
wanted. give us your take the on what happened in the meeting yesterday? well, the meeting was a step forward, but already an announcement from the same ultra-nationalist russian leader whose group was on the leader, and he said that he is not going to abide by the agreement in geneva, so you have the extremists on the ground saying that they don t care what was agreed to in ja knee vashgs and so s so it is geneva, and it is going to be a test for putin whether they abide by or it or not. and when you look at putin, he pulls out the surprise guest edward snowden and relaxed and joking at one point, and asked if there were any plans to annex alaska, and he said that he was aware of the joke na alaska is the ice crimea, and give us the take on this, nina, because what do we need to know about vladimir putin in the context of where we are in the ukrainian crisis? well, he got exactly what he wanted out of the agreement, and the agreement is more like a blueprint, because there is