Ben Cardin: It Makes No Sense at All for Trump to Invite Russia Back to the G-8

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CAMEROTA: "But, senator, on the larger picture, just explain how Peter Navarro, who we just heard there, can say that there is a, quote, special place in hell for Canada's prime minister, Trudeau, but not have any harsh words for Dictator Kim Jong-un, who starves his own people, murders his own cabinet. And the president is saying that he wants Russia to be reinstated and part of the G-8. Explain this sort of cognitive dissidence to -- for Democrats?" 
CARDIN: "I can't explain it because to invite Russia into the G-7, to make it G-8, when Russia is the country that attacked our democratic system, rewarding Mr. Putin for his conduct is just -- you just can't explain that. It makes no sense at all. Kim Jong-un is a dictator. Kim Jong-un is a person who has created horrible human rights violations against his own people. We're going into diplomacy. We want the president to succeed in Singapore. Succeeding means that North Korea -- that North Korea gives up its nuclear weapons program. The Korean peninsula becomes denuclearized. That's what our objective is. And we want to work that through diplomacy. So we want the president to succeed, but recognize you are dealing with Kim Jong-un. You're dealing with a dictator. You're dealing with a person who has killed a lot of people. His human rights record is the worst in the world."