♪ >>> I’D LIKE TO THANK SENATOR
LINDSEY GRAHAM FOR LEADING THIS
DELEGATION.
DELEGATION. [ APPLAUSE ]
AND TODAY WITH ALL OF YOU, A
READING FROM THE GREAT CHAMP
FREEDOM AND THE STRONG NATIONAL
DEFENSE WHO HAS WORKED WITH
THESE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO
STRENGTHEN AMERICA’S MILITARY MI
MIGHT, I BRING BRING GREETINGS
FROM PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.
>> OH MY GOD.
>> OH MY GOD.
>> YIKES.
>> YIKES. >> SO THEY CLAPPED FOR LINDSEY
AND THEN LITERALLY HE WAITS, HE
ROLLS IT OUT LIKE THIS IS
SUPPOSED TO BE FOR A --
>> WELL, YOU KNOW WHY?
BECAUSE IN THE PROMPT ERER SO WH
DOES THIS THIS RELATIONSHIP LOOK
LIKE OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS,
ROCHESTER ARD HAAS?
>> WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, THE
EUROPEAN SYSTEM IS CONSUMED WITH
THEIR ON PROBLEMS, BREXIT TAKES
CARE OF THE BRITS.
THE GRERCH GOVERNMENT HAS TO
DEAL WITH PEOPLE WEARING YELLOW
JACKETS IN ITS STREET, GERMANY’S
IN A POLITICAL TRANSITION,
ITALY’S IN A MESS.
YOU IS EUROPE MORE PAROCHIAL
THAN EVER.
THAN EVER. >> SO WHO IS A WINNER OF THAT?
ARE CHINA AND RUSSIA OF WINNER
OF THAT?
OF THAT? >> ABSOLUTELY.
>> ABSOLUTELY. I THINK VLADIMIR PUTIN IS THE
GREAT STRATEGIC -- WHEN HISTORY
IS WRITTEN, HE HAS PLAYED A WEAK
HAND BETTER THAN ANYBODY ELSE.
HE’S GOTTEN MORE WITH LESS THAN
ANYBODY.
ANYBODY. I THINK THE REALLY CAUTION WHICH
SCARCE ME IS WHETHER HE’S NOT
SATISFIED WITH WHAT YOU’VE
ACCOMPLISHED.
ACCOMPLISHED. IF YOU’RE PUTIN, WHY WOULD YOU
DECIDE NATO RESPOND TO THE KIND
OF THINGS YOU’VE DONE IN UKRAINE
SOMEWHERE ELSE.
SOMEWHERE ELSE. HE CAN’T ASSUME THIS PRESIDENT
WOULD NECESSARILY INVOKE ART
CALL 5.
CALL 5. >> WHY SHOULD HE.
>> EXACTLY.
>> EXACTLY. >> HE’S BEEN RELUCTANT, KNOW YRK
PRN AND THEN YOU HAVE IN
VLADIMIR PUTIN A PRESIDENT WHO
INVADED GEORGIA WHEN GEORGE W.
BUSH WAS PRESIDENT, CRIMEA WHEN
BARACK OBAMA WAS PRESIDENT AND
IT LOOKS LIKE HE MAY BE LINING
UP TO INVADE ANOTHER COUNTRY NOW
THAT DONALD TRUMP’S PRESIDENT.
AND AS RICHARD SAID, WHY NOT?
NATO IS TORN TO SHREDS.
AS THE "NEW YORK TIMES" SAID,
USUALLY DOWER SERGEY LAVROV --
>> BOTH UKRAINE AND GEORGIA WERE
ON A CENTRUM TRACK.
THEY’VE USED TROOPS, RADAR
JAMMING AND SMOKE GRENADES TO
COP TUR AN INDIVIDUAL.
IF ASTONIA WERE TO INVOKE ART
CALL 35 AND THAT’S A TERRIBLE
PROSPECT BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW IF
PUTIN KNOWS EITHER.
AND IF THAT WERE INVOKED AND
NOBODY RESPONDED, THEN IT WOULD
COLLAPSE.
COLLAPSE. >> IN 2008 IT WAS SUCH A TIME IN
GEORGE W. BUSH’S PRESIDENCY THAT
THERE WAS EXHAUST YOB.
THERE WAS NO WAY THAT GEORGE W.
BUTCH WAS TO AGAIN, SAME WITH
BARACK OBAMA AND CRIMEA.
SO DONALD TRUMP, DOES ANYBODY
RAELG BELIEVE THAT DONALD TRUMP
WOULD DO ANYTHING IF VLADIMIR
PUTIN DECIDED TOIN VAD A NATO
COUNTRY?
COUNTRY? WAS WARNED TO US BY HILLARY
CLINTON DURING THE DEBATES AND
DURING THE CAMPAIGN.
SHE DID BRING THIS UP AS A BIG
CONCERN.
CONCERN. SUSAN PAGE, THERE WAS A LOT
GOING ON SPEAKING AT THE MUNICH
SECURITY CONFERENCE ON SATURDAY,
GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL
SAID MULTI-NATIONAL BODIES
CANNOT SIMPLY BY SMASHED UP.
MERKEL ALSO HAMMERED TRUMP FOR
CALLING GERMANY’S BMW A THREAT A
THREAT TO U.S. NATIONAL
SECURITY.
SECURITY. SHE POINTED OUT THE COMPANY’S
LARGEST PLANT IS NOT IN GERMANY
BUT ACTUALLY IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
AND TRUMP’S SENIOR ADVISER AND
DAUGHTER, IVANKA TRUMP, SHOWED
NO REACTION TO THOSE COMMENTS AS
THE CROWD AROUND HER APPLAUDED.
IT APPEARED THAT THE TRANSLATING
DEVICE WAS WORKING AND SHE
WASN’T PLEASED THAT.
>> AND, SUSAN PAGE, IT IS WHEN
YOU WALK DOWN PLANE STREET ON IN
SOUTH CAROLINA ON A FRIDAY OR
SATURDAY NIGHT, YOU HEAR
SPEAKING GERMANS.
SPEAKING GERMANS. >> ONE OF THE INTERESTING THINGS
WE SAW IN MUNICH WAS THE
BILLIANS OF THE PERSON AL THESE
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS GOING TO THE
UNION BE CONDITION I YOU IS A
TWEET THAT HAD A PHOTO GREETING
ONE ANOTHER WITH GREAT
FRIENDLINESS.
FRIENDLINESS. AND I THINK THAT IS ONE OF THE
THINGS WE SEE.
WE SEE SOME MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
STEPPING UP TO SAY WE HAVE A
DIFFERENT VIEW OF THIS, WE’RE
GOING TO STAND UP IN FAVOR OF
THE TRANSATLANTIC ALLIANCE AND
SOME OF THE TRADITIONAL
MULTI-LATERAL INSTITUTIONS.
MULTI-LATERAL INSTITUTIONS. MAYBE THAT’S COLD COMFORT TO
SOME OF OUR TRADITIONAL ALLIES
WHEN THEY SEE THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION HAVING LESS
REGARD FOR THESE INSTITUTIONS,
BUT IT IS SOMETHING.
>> RICHARD, WHAT IMPACT DOES
THAT HAVE?
THAT HAVE? WHAT FUTURE IMPACT DOES THAT
HAVE THAT AINGENGELA MERKEL DID
ALONG WITH LINDSEY GRAHAM AND 50
OTHER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS COMING
ACROSS AND SAYING, HEY, WE ARE
WITH YOU, WE PASSED A NEAR
UNANIMOUS RESOLUTION OF THE
SENATE TO SAY WE ARE WITH YOU
AND YOU ARE VITAL TO AMERICA’S
NATIONAL SECURITY INTEREST.
DOES THAT OLD US OVER FOR THE
NEXT TWO YEARS?
>> IT REASSURE THEMSELF.
I THINK THAT’S REREACTION, THAT
THIS IS AN ABERRATION, THAT THEY
CAN JUST AND THEN CAN AND IT’S
NOT CLEAR THAT ALL THE
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES REPRESENT
A REPUDIATION OF TRUMPISM.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AREN’T
NECESSARY HI THERE THE WAY THIS
YOU’RE ALSO BEGINNING TO SEE A
GREATER EUROPEAN DEBATE ABOUT
TAKING MATTERS INTO THEIR OWN
HANDS, NOT BEING AS DEPENDENTIN
THE UNITED STATES AND PARTICULAR
WILL TO CHINA LENGSLY SAYING WE
HAVE TO NAVIGATE WITHOUT SUCH A
CLOSE ATLANTIC RELATIONSHIP.
THAT’S THE SENSE OF HISTORY NOW,
THAT THE ATLANTIC ERA OF HISTORY
IS ESSENTIALLY CONSIGNED TO
HISTORY.
HISTORY. WE’RE NOT QUITE SURE WHAT COMES
NEXT BUT SOMETHING DIFFERENT IS
COMING.
COMING. >> AND, MIKA, OF COURSE THAT IS
THE WORST CASE SCENARIO.
IT IS REMARKABLE, THOUGH, HOW
MUCH YOU SEE CHANGE WHEN
ADMINISTRATIONS CHANGE.
ADMINISTRATIONS CHANGE. REMEMBER DURING THE GULF WAR AND
GERHARD SCHROEDER AND CHIRAC,
WERE ANTI-SEMITIC.
WERE ANTI-SEMITIC. WE CAN ONLY HOPE THAT THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA CAN RETURN THE
FAVOR AFTER DONALD TRUMP LEAVES
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON. >> COMING UP, SPECIAL COUNSEL
ROBERT MUELLER MAY HAVE HANDED
PAUL MANAFORT A LIFE SENTENCE