Schiff: We Can’t Let Trump Be Feted at the Kremlin, Come Back & Change U.S. Policy

‘I think what the president-elect needs to do is say, I would like improved relations but they have to be on terms that meet our national interests’

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SCHIFF: "I would like nothing better than for the mullas to re-sign and to have better relationships with Iran just as the Russian relationships are worse than ours. What we can’t do is to allow Donald Trump to go to the Kremlin and have a nice state dinner and have nice things said about him and then persuade him that he needs to change U.S. policy because he'd been flattered by the Kremlin. I think what the president-elect needs to do is say, I would like improved relations but they have to be on terms that meet our national interests. We need the Russians out of Ukraine. We need them to stop bombing modern opposition and civilians in Syria and stop trying to tear down democratic institutions around the world. We are going to push back on you hard in these areas. Where you want to work together on counter terrorism, we will work with you but only when it is in our national security interest."

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