Former Italian diplomat: Putin using Trump

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00:00We're leading with the story today that President Trump is very angry with President Putin.

00:05In fact, there was some vulgar language used to describe how he feels about President Putin

00:11at this particular moment.

00:13What's your understanding of why President Trump is so angry all of a sudden?

00:19This is a very good question.

00:21We all would like to know more about that.

00:24It is not an easy thing to do.

00:26What we can get, if you look at it in a professional way of things, you see a certain sympathy

00:34of the President of the United States towards Vladimir Putin.

00:39It is not a secret, he is saying that openly.

00:44But perhaps there is a simplistic view there.

00:49I suspect that President Trump is thinking too much, if you allow me to say, in American

00:56terms, which is not a bad thing to say this, that if you have an argument, you can convince

01:04the interlocutor that you are right and it's wrong or vice versa, and you can reach a deal.

01:09The Russian system doesn't work in that way.

01:12The Russian system is an old work, is a very sophisticated diplomacy in its own way.

01:20I don't like it, but it is like that.

01:24I think that what in fact is happening today, and your question is the central question,

01:30is more that Putin using President Trump rather than President Trump using Putin.