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From Cafe and WNYC Studios, welcome to Stay Tuned. I'm Pete Barara.

I was in the room with Medvedev in his meetings with Obama. I was in the room with Putin in

his meetings with Obama. And there was a difference in the way that those two Russian leaders

saw the world. That's Michael McFall, who was in the room where it happened. He was the

US ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration. I speak to him this week about who holds

power in Russia, the tit for tat diplomatic expulsions, and what it's like to have breakfast

with Vladimir Putin. Turns out it involves a lot of caviar. That's coming up. But first,

let's get to your questions.

Hi, Pete. This is Patrick Kronin, calling from Springfield, Virginia. My question is,

today I saw the Donald Trump who's going after Jeff Bezos' business. He's using the

post office to try to cut off access to cheap delivery services because of a story that

appeared in the Washington Post. Is it this behavior of going at using the government to

go after somebody you perceive as an enemy? Very similar to what Nixon had done.

Thanks for your question, Patrick. I don't know if it's similar to what Nixon did, largely

what Nixon did, the biases he had, and the enemies he sought to punish, he did that quietly

behind closed doors. So I don't know if it's better or worse, the Donald Trump does it

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