Trump Asked Point Blank If He Sees Putin As An Enemy Before Leaving NATO Summit

At a press briefing at the NATO Summit, President Trump was asked about Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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00:00I'm picking the beauties today. Go ahead.

00:03Mr. President, Secretary General Ruta has described President Putin as an adversary, a threat, an enemy.

00:11Do you view him the same way? And in addition to that, you mentioned General Cain, your chief of staff,

00:17the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

00:21General Cain.

00:22Yes. He has said that Mr. Putin has territorial ambitions beyond Ukraine.

00:28Do you view that in the same way?

00:30It's possible. I mean, it's possible. I know one thing. He'd like to settle.

00:34He'd like to get out of this thing. It's a mess for him.

00:37He called the other day. He said, can I help you with Iran?

00:40I said, no, you can help me with Russia.

00:43Because, you know, in the last few weeks, we took care of India and Pakistan, Kosovo, Serbia.

00:51I think on Friday we have coming in.

00:54The Congo is coming in and Rwanda is coming in.

00:57That was a vicious war that went on, a machete war, heads chopped off all over Africa.

01:03They're coming in.

01:05We did two others.

01:08In addition to that, nobody's ever done anything like this.

01:11No, I consider him a person that's, I think, been misguided.

01:18I'm very surprised, actually.

01:19I thought we would have had that settled.

01:21Easy. I've settled four of them in the meantime.

01:24But he did call up and he said, you know, he's close to Iran.

01:28He'd like to help us get a settlement.

01:30I said, no, no.

01:31You help me get a settlement with you, with Russia.

01:33And I think we're going to be doing that, too.

01:35Yeah, please.

01:37Go ahead, please.

01:38Go ahead, please.