What U.S. presidents have said about Putin

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Biden has called him a "killer" and an "aggressor." Trump said of him, "We get along." Obama described him as "a bored kid."  Here's what U.S. presidents have said about Russian President Vladimir Putin...

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00:00I'd like to congratulate President Putin for being the only person that caught a fish today.

00:04I like Putin, he likes me. You know, we get along.

00:15I looked the man in the eye. I found it to be very straightforward and trustworthy.

00:22We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul.

00:30A lot of people never really dreamt that an American president

00:47and a Russian president could have established the friendship that we had.

00:53We were enemies for a long period of time. When I was in high school, Russia was an enemy.

01:00Now the high school students can know Russia is a friend.

01:08He's got that kind of slouch, looking like the bored kid in the back of the classroom.

01:22I don't have a bad personal relation with Putin. When we have conversations,

01:26they're candid, they're blunt. I know the press likes to focus on body language,

01:30and he's got that kind of slouch, looking like the bored kid in the back of the classroom.

01:36But the truth is, is that when we're in conversations together, oftentimes it's very

01:41productive.

02:01President Putin called me up very nicely to congratulate me on the win of the election.

02:06I like Putin, he likes me. You know, we get along.

02:09Isn't it, wouldn't you say it's smart to get along? Okay, smart.

02:21Well, first of all, there's no guarantee you can change a person's behavior or the behavior

02:26of his country. Autocrats have enormous power, they don't have to answer to a public.

02:36He's Vladimir Putin.

02:38Putin is the aggressor. Putin chose this war,

02:56and now he and his country will bear the consequences.

03:08Yeah.

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