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Trump’s Submission in Helsinki

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🗓️ 16 July 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to Anne Applebaum, a columnist at the Washington Post and the author of Red Famine, about the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki. How will we remember it? Why has President Trump refused to confront Putin for attacking our democracy? And how is Trump's foreign policy advancing Putin's worldview? Plus, John Di Domenico returns with more tweets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The first question for you, sir, is, who do you believe?

0:02.9

My second question is, would you now, with the whole world watching, tell President Putin,

0:08.4

would you denounce what happened in 2016, and would you warn him to never do it again?

0:12.6

So let me just say that we have two thoughts.

0:15.8

You have groups that are wondering why the FBI never took the serve.

0:20.3

This has got to be the most incredible thing I've ever witnessed.

0:23.2

I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today.

0:30.0

It's almost hard to put into words.

0:33.6

He offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators

0:39.6

with respect to the 12 people.

0:41.1

I think that's an incredible offer.

0:46.4

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man Vladimir Putin supported in our last

0:52.4

election, Donald Trump.

0:54.8

I'm Jacob Weisberg.

0:57.0

Historically important superpower meetings tend to get boiled down to a single term.

1:02.0

Neville Chamberlain's meeting with Hitler in 1938 is synonymous with the idea of appeasement.

1:07.8

The 1945 Roosevelt Stalin Churchill Summit in Yalta will always have the expression,

1:13.1

sell out of Eastern Europe attached to it.

1:16.5

So what single word might we use to explain what happened in Helsinki in 2018, when Donald

1:22.0

Trump took Putin's side against his own government's intelligence agencies on the question

1:27.5

of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

1:31.3

You can't call it Trump's surrender at Helsinki because that implies giving up on a cause

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