NATO Sec. General Mark Rutte Pressed About His Views On Trump’s ‘Friendly’ Relationship With Putin

During a press briefing on Wednesday, NATO Sec. Gen. Mark Rutte discussed Russia's President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump.

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00:00Yes, my name is Heike Aitogoske, I'm from the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.

00:05Did you exchange views on Vladimir Putin and their Mr. Trump seems to be in rather friendly terms with him?

00:12It would be interesting to hear what you talked about him.

00:15I've not changed my views on Vladimir Putin. I don't trust the guy.

00:18And of course, I had a lot of dealings with him personally when we had a terrible situation with flight MH17,

00:25the Malaysian airline flight MH17 being shot out of the air by Russia in July 2014.

00:33And Putin telling me that he was not present in the Donbass and that he had no dealings in Ukraine and this, that and the other.

00:42And this was, these were all lies. We know that.