Paul Ryan: Russia Is a Global Menace Led By a Man Who Is Menacing

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RYAN: "I agree with your basic assessment of Russia. Russia is a global menace led my a man who is menacing. Vladimir Putin does not share our interest. He frustrates our interests. He violates his neighbors. He does all those things you say on free speech. He's not democratic. I really think a lot of the things that he is doing is to try and delegitimize other democracies so he doesn't look as illegitimate. There is a lot that he's doing and not just here. He's doing this around the world. He's doing this in Europe. He's doing this in capitals around the world. I do see -- I call the Russia hawk. They call us  these days, I guess. I do share that concern. I think we have to step up our game in Russia and with respect to confronting Russia when they act like this, when they frustrate our interests. I think clearly and I do -- I do believe that they tried to affect our elections by meddling in our elections. If you meddle in the elections, you will try to affect it. There is no place for that. I think it had no bearing on the election. Donald Trump won it fair and square clearly and convincingly but the fact that a foreign government tried to medal in another government's elections is wrong. And so I do think sanctions are called for. I think frankly the current president put sanctions that I think were a little late. Should have done it earlier. So I do think we had a bad Russia policy in the last administration. I think the reset was too much benefits."