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Sanctions were limited to blocking american trade and investment in the so-called donetsk and luhansk people s republics. so russia invades ukraine and the u.s. decides to sanction part of ukraine rather than russia. that display of weakness won t deter mr. putin. if the ukraine slaughter unfolds, american and european elites should reflect on how they have again made themselves hostages to a dictator. does the wall street journal , richard, have a point there and is this an invasion in your aspect? you will have the deputy national security advisor on the show and he can speak for the administration. i think it would be smart to introduce sanctions against russia as well as against these areas of ukraine now held by russia. i think, again, the german pipeline decision is much bigger, much sooner than virtually anybody expected. ....
Of republicans. that s the pipeline. that has caused ted cruz to block a lot of state department nominees votes. i m curious, is there movement on that issue now, with russians moving as aggressively as they have to the ukrainian border? do you see movement on that issue away from that pipeline? and more people actually moving toward ted cruz s position, that now is not the time to do this? i haven t seen. i don t know if you have. i saw your head shaking while you were asking the question. ted cruz is not really a leader that people tend to look to when it comes to especially foreign policy. i mean, just on the issue. the pipeline decision was controversial to begin with. right. and since then, of course, we ve had, really, a worsening ....
Time covers about president trump, he was he depicted as an orange blob. the headline is biden is taking on putin. as you were starting to talk about earlier, he hasn t done much to take on vladimir putin, despite the cyber hacking, despite the fact that the opposition leader has been jailed and yet he gets this sort of i m taking on putin cover. this is just ridiculous. the fact is that the very biggest decision that he s made thus far has been something that the russians wanted and that our european allies have been in real tension with us about regarding this pipeline decision. you ve had numerous events happen in russia domestically. you made reference to alexi novali and his group. it ought to have america standing by our interest in terms of making sure that there s more freedom within russia, making sure that there s more freedom around the world. and yet standing up to a dictator now just amounts to putting out preeses. ....
Stronger. you are just making russia richer. in an afternoon meeting with merkel president trump brought up the pipeline but insisted the discussion was cordial. we have a very, very good relationship with the chancellor. we have a tremendous relationship to germany. germany s foreign minister stood by the pipeline decision. we are not prisoners either of the united states or russia. we are one of the guarantors of the free world and that will remain the case. at a reception following the summit president trump and angela merkel appeared to have patched over their differences at least temporarily, smiling and chatting with each other. the other big issue with the brussels summit, nato members not pulling their weight financially. disproportionate and not fair to the taxpayers of the united states and we are going to make it fair. 24 of 29 nato nations are not living up to their commitment to spend 2% of gdp on share defense. the list includes germany, france, canada, spai ....
These children who are coming from war-torn zoneses, we re going to stop them from coming to this country? what does it say about us? and what does it say about our vigilance when it comes to keeping this country safe when we target children? chris: i want to take you back, switch subjects and take you back to a moment in the white house this week when president trump met with union leaders, and doug mccare on who s the president of the united brotherhood of carpenters said this. the address on friday was a great middle class address. i mean, it hit home for the people that have been hurting. it was a great, that was a great moment for working men and women of the united states. thank you. [applause] chris: now, senator, he endorsed hillary clinton during the campaign, and he now says, and a lot of the other union bosses say, it s president trump not the democrats who are looking out for workers. i can tell you this, the pipeline decision was popular with the building trades, ....