Richard N. Haass: “I have said, it is a flawed agreement. But the issue before the Congress is not whether the agreement is good or bad.”

He doesn't want Ukraine to be a thriving democracy that would set an example that some people in Russia might notice and say, why there, not here?

I think it's diminished respect for us. You see that most strongly in Europe, say, when the U.S. walked away from the Paris Climate Pact or they see things going on in this country that to them doesn't represent the America they thought…

The E.U. is an instrument on the trade issue. It is our largest trading partner and investor.

We ought to have a race to the top, not a race to the bottom.