Former US ambassador: Trump seeks international popularity

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00:00Okay, I mean, do you think President Trump is right to be trying to build ties with the

00:06Kremlin and with specifically the Russian president?

00:10He seems to believe that this will be important to bring about a peace settlement.

00:18He does seem to be generally impressed by the idea that a peace settlement can redound

00:25to his popularity and advantage internationally, something that in the first hundred days since

00:33the election has been under, if I can be carefully diplomatic, under serious strain.

00:41There has not been a large garnering of international support, some dropping away and some criticism

00:49and some uncertainty, particularly as our European friends and allies will know.

00:56And so the ability to recover, if we could put it this way, some of the directing leadership

01:04for international activities of significance would be important for him, even if that ended

01:12up in getting the half of the loaf that he has sought to gain at the beginning.

01:19The 24 hours I'll solve the problem of Ukraine is obviously well gone, 100 days is not 24 hours.