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I think what the president was irritated by, and rightfully so, was this argument that somehow we haven't talked to Ukraine,
Rubio said Wednesday on "Fox & Friends." The only thing that puts NATO in jeopardy is the fact that we have NATO allies who barely have militaries, or whose militaries are not very capable because they've spent 40 years not spending any money on it,
We're not saying do your own thing. We're saying do more. It's their continent, right?"
I was there for both calls,
He's been at the meetings for three years and nothing got done,
Trump recently downplayed Ukraine’s role in negotiations, telling Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade ... the president said, referring to Zelenskyy We told them [Russia] – do you guys want to end the war? Do you want to continue?"
A lot of people lost a whole lot of money over there in Russia. I think they’re going to be very reticent to want to go back. Once in a while, peace breaks out over there, but not very often,
oilman and Trump ally Harold Hamm recently told the Financial Times I can’t sell our state.”
I'm not sure what kind of deal he's making, where he's giving everything that his opponent wants, nothing in return,
he added, according to Mediaite They may or may not have dirt on him, but they don't have to use it,
I think this president, unfortunately, perhaps either doesn’t understand geopolitics and doesn’t understand the importance of having allies and the importance of our allyship or perhaps there is a reason why, to your point, Joy, that he is so enthralled with Russia,
I think the other thing that maybe Donald Trump needs to realize is, when you depend on the - and I'm going oversimplify this - the bad guy, they’re there for themselves. Allies and friends are not. They actually stick with you in the tough times, so there’s a transactional thing happening right here. I can’t quite predict why Donald Trump is siding with Russia specifically right now,
I just think back to many of our fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers who fought these wars to make sure that we were not chummy and didn’t chum up and, you know, as we’re disappearing American history, what else are we disappearing? Are we forgetting who these guys are? And, it is all transactional. It is all transactional,
There's no equivocation of Netanyahu and Hamas, Hamas needs to be destroyed, ... Who are the bad guys?"
Griffin pushed back ... as Hostin insisted Goldberg was asking I look at where we’re putting our energy, I think, well, aren’t these - where, who are the bad guys now?"
The discussion prompted Goldberg to say You mentioned Macron and how he spoke to the fact that Europe knows it needs to get involved more and I don’t know if this pivot is because Donald Trump always called for that, or they now realize they can’t rely on the United States,
co-host Sara Haines said, reacting to the Macron-Trump press conference [Israeli President Benjamin] Netanyahu does have an international criminal court warrant against him."
What does he owe Putin? Maybe he owes something to Putin,
Hamas is the bad guy, but what about Russia?"
I wouldn’t put it in terms of sucking up to Putin,