Upcoming President Trump and Vladimir Putin Summit
Fareed Zakaria GPS
CNN
4.2 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And we are back with John McElthwaite, Bernhard Oury-Lovie, Tannik Koch, and Ann Appelbaum. |
| 0:09.0 | Bernhard, let me ask you, when Trump talked about European immigration in these kind of dark |
| 0:16.0 | tones, he was essentially echoing the kind of arguments made by the national front, by some |
| 0:23.0 | right-wing groups in Germany and Northern Europe. And it seemed to me, it must be very unhelpful |
| 0:30.0 | to the mainstream political parties that have been trying to integrate Europe, because |
| 0:36.0 | Europe, after all, has as many foreign-born people now as the United States. It is already |
| 0:41.0 | an immigrant society, and this is not something that can be reversed at this point, can it? |
| 0:49.0 | Of course not. It's number one completely stupid and completely crazy. It does not work this way. |
| 0:56.0 | And any American citizen knows what immigration means and how a society can be if it is well |
| 1:05.0 | regulated and reached by immigration. And number two, these sort of speeches of national |
| 1:12.0 | front in France, of Orbán in Hungary, and so on, only increase the fire, the flame in the |
| 1:21.0 | brains. It does put more fire and insanity in the brains of the citizens. So Donald Trump |
| 1:31.0 | is playing with the matchbox in the scene of Europe. And this is another way to destabilize |
| 1:40.0 | and to Europe, as I said before, about Putin. |
| 1:45.0 | Tánek, this is it seemed even though he didn't this time mention Merkel by name. He has |
| 1:51.0 | previously described what Merkel did with regard to taking refugees in as a disaster, as a horrible |
| 1:58.0 | mistake. And the Merkel has still been paying for that decision. So again, this must not |
| 2:05.0 | have come as a welcome surprise to Angela Merkel or her party to have this assault on immigration |
| 2:14.0 | come from the American president. |
| 2:17.0 | No, but I think by now everybody is actually used to those assaults, the problem is, and it's |
| 2:22.0 | the same with Donald Trump talking about Germany not spending enough on its military budget, which is partly |
| 2:30.0 | that of course Germany is tackling a massive problem due to the refugee crisis. But even before |
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