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And that is the danger here: that rather than bringing peace, it's going to bring more war.

The message that went out from this meeting to the world is that United States credibility in dealing with our allies has taken a real hit.

What Trump is trying to do in order to convince Putin to come to the table is not going to work if Putin senses weakness on the part of the United States.

It just -- it strikes me that what the chairman was trying to do perhaps was to try to send a wake-up call to both the Speaker and his Republican colleagues, that Russia still remains very much a threat to the United States.