Lawrence: Why Is Donald Trump So Afraid Of Vladimir Putin? | The Last Word

>>> DONALD TRUMP CAMPAIGNED FOR PRESIDENT AT THE TOUGH GUY, THE
ONLY TOUGH GUY, THE TOUGH GUY RUNNING AGAINST LOW-ENERGY JEB
BUSH, LITTLE MARCO, LYIN' TED. NOW DONALD TRUMP TURNS OUT TO BE
THE WEAKEST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN
PRESIDENCY AND ONE OF THE WEAKEST PRESIDENTS IN THE WORLD
TODAY. HE TOLD HIS VOTERS THAT HE WOULD
PUSH OTHER PRESIDENTS AROUND, AROUND THE WORLD.
HE WOULD TELL THE CHINESE PRESIDENT TO IMMEDIATELY SEND US
BACK ALL THOSE JOBS THAT CHINA STOLE.
HE WOULD ORDER THE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO TO PAY FOR A TRUMP WALL
ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER. WHEN WE WOULD POINT OUT BACK IN
THE CAMPAIGN TO TRUMP VOTERS THAT THAT WAS IMPOSSIBLE, DONALD
TRUMP WOULD NOT GET THE MEXICAN PRESIDENT TO PAY FOR THAT WALL,
DONALD TRUMP WOULD FAIL AT THAT, THE TRUMP VOTERS THOUGHT, WE
JUST DIDN'T UNDERSTAND HOW TOUGH DONALD TRUMP IS.
AND THE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO WAS GOING TO FIND OUT JUST HOW TOUGH
DONALD TRUMP IS, AND LEADERS WERE GOING TO FIND OUT HOW TOUGH
DONALD TRUMP WAS AND AMERICA WOULD BE RESPECTED AROUND THE
WORLD BECAUSE OF HOW TOUGH DONALD TRUMP IS, AND NOW
VLADIMIR PUTIN EXPELS 755 AMERICANS WORKING IN THE
AMERICAN EMBASSY IN MOSCOW, AND TOUGH GUY DONALD TRUMP IS AFRAID
TO UTTER A SINGLE WORD ABOUT IT. CAN IT BE ANYTHING ELSE?
IS THERE ANY OTHER EXPLANATION OTHER THAN FEAR?
DONALD TRUMP IS JUST TERRIFIED OF VLADIMIR PUTIN.
NO ONE CAN SERIOUSLY DISPUTE THAT NOW.
DONALD TRUMP HAS PERSONALLY LAVISHED PRAISE ON VLADIMIR
PUTIN MORE THAN HE HAS ON ANY OTHER FOREIGN HEAD OF STATE.
DONALD TRUMP PAID SLAVISH ATTENTION TO VLADIMIR PUTIN,
MORE ATTENTION THAN HE PAID TO ANYONE ELSE THERE, INCLUDING ALL
THE OTHER COUNTRIES WITH BIGGER ECONOMIES THAN RUSSIA.
AND WHEN VLADIMIR PUTIN EXPELS 755 AMERICANS FROM OUR EMBASSY
IN MOSCOW, DONALD TRUMP IS NOW AFRAID TO SAY A WORD ABOUT IT.
NO UNITED STATES PRESIDENT IN HISTORY WOULD REMAIN SILENT IN
THE FACE OF EXPULSION OF AMERICAN DIPLOMATS FROM ANY
COUNTRY, LEAST OF ALL RUSSIA. WHAT WOULD DONALD TRUMP SAY IF
MEXICO EXPELLED ONE PERSON FROM THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY --
ONE? HOW MANY TWEETS WOULD DONALD
TRUMP FIRE OFF FOR THAT? THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES FIRED OFF ANGRY TWEETS WHEN HE GOT THE FEELING THAT
MERYL STREEP DOESN'T LIKE HIM. AND NOT ONE WORD WHEN VLADIMIR
PUTIN EXPELS 755 AMERICANS FROM OUR EMBASSY.
NOTHING EXPLAINS THIS TRUMP BEHAVIOR OTHER THAN FEAR, AND
THE QUESTION IS WHAT IS HE AFRAID OF?
WHAT IS DONALD TRUMP AFRAID OF? WHAT DOES VLADIMIR PUTIN HAVE
THAT CREATES SO MUCH FEAR IN DONALD TRUMP?
IT CAN'T BE NUCLEAR WEAPONS BECAUSE NO PREVIOUS AMERICAN
PRESIDENT HAS BEEN AFRAID OF VLADIMIR PUTIN.
AND VLADIMIR PUTIN HAD NUCLEAR WEAPONS THEN.
THE REASON DONALD TRUMP IS AFRAID OF VLADIMIR PUTIN IS THE
CENTRAL INVESTIGATIVE QUESTION THAT THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR IS
STUDYING TONIGHT IN THE INVESTIGATION OF THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN'S RELATIONSHIP TO RUSSIA.
IS IT SOMETHING VLADIMIR PUTIN KNOWS ABOUT DONALD TRUMP, AND
DONALD TRUMP KNOWS THAT VLADIMIR PUTIN KNOWS IT?
IS THAT WHY DONALD TRUMP IS SO OBVIOUSLY AND PUBLICLY TERRIFIED
OF VLADIMIR PUTIN? SO AFRAID THAT WHEN HE HAD THE
FIRST MAJOR BILL-SIGNING OF HIS PRESIDENCY TODAY, PRESIDENT
TRUMP DID IT IN SECRET. NO CAMERAS ALLOWED.
NO SENATORS, NO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ALLOWED.
NO SENATORS HANDED PENS FROM THE BILL-SIGNING CEREMONY BECAUSE
THE BILL PROVIDED MORE SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA.
AND DONALD TRUMP WAS AFRAID OF LETTING VLADIMIR PUTIN SEE HIM
SIGN THAT ON TELEVISION. THIS IS THE SAME PRESIDENT WHO
HAD NO PROBLEM LETTING THE WORLD SEE HIM SIGN UNCONSTITUTIONAL
EXECUTIVE ORDERS TRYING TO BAN MUSLIMS FROM ENTERING THE UNITED
STATES. THIS IS THE SAME PRESIDENT WHO
INVITED CAMERAS TO SHOW HIM SIGNING BASICALLY MEANINGLESS
MEMOS TO HIS OWN STAFF THAT HAVE NO FORCE OF LAW, THAT MEAN
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. THAT WAS WORTH THE CAMERAS.
IN THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE, THOSE MEANINGLESS, SO-CALLED SIGNING
CEREMONIES, WERE WORTHY OF BEING TELEVISED.
THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY HAS FAMOUSLY BEEN DEFEATED IN WHAT
IT INTENDED TO BE ITS FIRST MAJOR PIECE OF LEGISLATION, THE
HEALTH CARE BILL. DONALD TRUMP IS THE FIRST
PRESIDENT IN AS LONG AS WE CAN REMEMBER WHO FAILED TO PASS HIS
FIRST PRIORITY PIECE OF LEGISLATION.
AND SO THE FIRST MAJOR PIECE OF LEGISLATION THAT THE PRESIDENT
GOT TO SIGN TURNED OUT TO BE SOMETHING THAT HE DIDN'T WANT,
SOMETHING THAT HE WAS OPPOSED TO.
IT WAS SOMETHING FORCED ON HIM BY THE CONGRESS, PASSED BY
GIGANTIC MAJORITIES OF DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS IN BOTH BODIES,
THE KIND OF CONGRESSIONAL VOTE WE HAVEN'T SEEN IN A LONG TIME.
THE BILL DID SOMETHING THAT NO SANCTIONS BILL BEFORE IT FELT
THE NEED TO DO. IT INCLUDED PROVISIONS TO FORBID
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FROM SOFTENING OR
REMOVING THE SANCTIONS IF, IN THE PRESIDENT'S JUDGMENT, THOSE
SANCTIONS ARE NO LONGER NECESSARY.
IN THE PAST, CONGRESS ALWAYS GAVE THE PRESIDENT THE FREE HAND
TO NEGOTIATE THOSE SANCTIONS AWAY IF THE SANCTIONED COUNTRY
IS WILLING TO CHANGE THE BEHAVIOR THAT PROVOKED THE
SANCTIONS. THE BILL THAT THE CONGRESS
PASSED AND THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS FORCED TO SIGN TODAY WAS A
BILL THAT IN EFFECT SAYS WE DO NOT TRUST THAT THIS PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES HAS THE INTEREST OF THE UNITED STATES AS
A TOP PRIORITY OVER THE INTERESTS OF VLADIMIR PUTIN AND
RUSSIA. THIS SANCTIONS BILL IS, IN
EFFECT, A SANCTION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP, CONGRESS' WAY OF SAYING,
WE FEAR THAT DONALD TRUMP MAY BE MORE LOYAL TO VLADIMIR PUTIN
THAN HE IS TO THE UNITED STATES. PRESIDENT TRUMP IS NOW CLEARLY
BEING BOSSED AROUND BY THE NEW BOSS OF THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE,
FORMER MARINE CORPS GENERAL JOHN KELLY, WHO HAS SO FAR PREVENTED
THE PRESIDENT FROM DOING HIS CUSTOMARY SHARE OF UTTERLY
INSANE TWEETS. AND JOHN KELLY HAS OBVIOUSLY
ORDERED THE PRESIDENT TO STOP ATTACKING HIS OWN ATTORNEY
GENERAL. NOW, YOU MAY THINK IT A GOOD
THING THAT THE PRESIDENT IS NOW -- IS NOT ATTACKING HIS
ATTORNEY GENERAL, BUT WE KNOW THAT HE WANTS TO.
BUT NOW HE'S AFRAID TO BECAUSE HE'S WEAK AND BECAUSE GENERAL
KELLY ORDERED HIM NOT TO DO IT. AND SO IN THE PRESIDENT'S
OBEDIENCE TO HIS NEW WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF, WE ONCE AGAIN
SEE JUST HOW WEAK DONALD TRUMP IS.
THE PRESIDENT HAS A NEW BOSS TO WHOM HE WEAKLY SUBMITS.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS REPORTING TONIGHT THAT JOHN
KELLY IN ONE OF HIS FIRST ACTS IN HIS NEW POST CALLED ATTORNEY
GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS TO REASSURE HIM THAT HIS POSITION
WAS SAFE DESPITE THE RECENT ONSLAUGHT OF CRITICISM HE HAS
TAKEN FROM PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.
EVEN BEFORE JOHN KELLY WAS SWORN INTO HIS NEW JOB, HE CALLED JEFF
SESSIONS TO TELL HIM, YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT DONALD TRUMP
ANYMORE. I'M IN CHARGE.
THAT WAS THE MESSAGE. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS,
KELLY CALLED SESSIONS ON SATURDAY TO STRESS THAT THE
WHITE HOUSE WAS SUPPORTIVE OF HIS WORK AND WANTED HIM TO
CONTINUE HIS JOB ACCORDING TO TWO PEOPLE FAMILIAR WITH THE
CALL. KELLY, WHO WAS APPOINTED TO THE
POST THE DAY BEFORE, DESCRIBED THE PRESIDENT AS STILL MIFFED AT
SESSIONS BUT DID NOT PLAN TO FIRE HIM OR HOPE HE WOULD
RESIGN. SO THE PRESIDENT IS STILL
MIFFED, BUT THAT DOESN'T MATTER BECAUSE JOHN KELLY ISN'T MIFFED,
AND JOHN KELLY IS THE BOSS NOW, NOT THE PRESIDENT.
THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CALL FROM JOHN KELLY TO JEFF SESSIONS
WAS PROVIDED TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BY, QUOTE, TWO PEOPLE
FAMILIAR WITH THE CALL. THE PEOPLE DEMANDED ANONYMITY
BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT AUTHORIZED TO SPEAK PUBLICLY ABOUT A
PRIVATE CONVERSATION, AND THAT IS THE STANDARD DEFINITION OF
LEAKING.
SO TWO PEOPLE IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LEAKED A CALL
BETWEEN THE NEW WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF AND THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL. THOSE TWO PEOPLE COULD ACTUALLY
BE JOHN KELLY AND JEFF SESSIONS, OR THEY COULD BE TWO PEOPLE THAT
HEARD JEFF SESSIONS' END OF THE CALL OR ONE PERSON ON THE KELLY
END OF THE CALL, ANOTHER ONE ON THE SESSIONS END OF THE CALL.
THERE'S A BUNCH OF POSSIBILITIES AND COMBINATIONS THERE, BUT
THEY'RE ALL TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PEOPLE, AND THIS IS A LEAKED
STORY FROM THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ABOUT THE NEW
WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF WHO WAS BROUGHT IN TO END THE
LEAKING IN THE WHITE HOUSE. THE LEAKING WILL NEVER END.
THE UTTERLY INSANE TWEETING BY THE PRESIDENT HAS ENDED, AT
LEAST FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS. BUT EVEN GENERAL JOHN KELLY
CANNOT GET THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO BEHAVE LIKE A
PRESIDENT WHEN IT COMES TO VLADIMIR PUTIN AND RUSSIA.
EVEN GENERAL JOHN KELLY CANNOT GET A WORD OUT OF THE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES ABOUT THE EXPULSION OF 755 PEOPLE FROM THE
AMERICAN EMBASSY IN MOSCOW, AND EVEN GENERAL JOHN KELLY COULD
NOT GET THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO SIGN THE RUSSIA
SANCTIONS LEGISLATION TODAY WITH THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO
PASSED THAT LEGISLATION IN FULL VIEW OF THE VOTERS OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA, WHOSE LAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WAS HACKED
AND UNDERMINED BY VLADIMIR PUTIN, AND WHOSE NEW PRESIDENT,
FOR REASONS WE DO NOT YET KNOW, SEEMS TO

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