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This week, Trump gave Putin exactly what he's wanted.
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Ever since the Russians popped up in our elections last summer,
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people have been asking:
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what is it Putin wants from Trump?
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Well, take a look at the last two weeks
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and you have your answer.
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It's not just that President Trump is nice to the Russians.
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It's that we have Captain Chaos in the White House.
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He fires the man investigating him,
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changes his story several times,
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his aides are trying to keep their story straight,
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sending all of Washington into a tailspin.
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Closed hearings, leaks, memos, special prosecutors
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even talk of the "i" word.
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What does Putin want?
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This.
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Here's why.
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The largest trauma of Putin's life
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was the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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The Cold War ended and the verdict was decisive:
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Soviet Communism doesn't work.
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But American liberal democracy does.
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America is strong.
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Russia is weak.
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And so, many Russians wanted to live like Americans.
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And many Russians still do.
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They're the ones who keep protest Putin,
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saying he's corrupt,
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he doesn't follow his own laws, that he
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he rigs elections,
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he controls the media,
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and that he's been in power for too long, 17 years,
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and nobody else stands a chance.
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Basically, what they are saying is
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he is bad by Western standards,
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and Western standards are good standards.
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But in the last year, and especially the last week,
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Putin has shown his own people
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that maybe the West isn't that great.
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It's chaotic, it's unpredictable,
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it's unstable.
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Maybe the Russian way isn't that bad.
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Maybe it's even better than the American way.
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In America, every four years, a whole new set of people come into power,
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and a lot of them don't know what they're doing.
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In Russia, on the other hand,
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they've been ruled by pros for nearly two decades.
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Slow and steady.
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No leaks, no memos,
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no special prosecutors,
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and certainly no talk of the "i" word.
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Where we see strength,
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checks and balances, independent institutions, rule of law.
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Putin sees weakness.
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And that's what he's been wanting to show, not just to us, but to his own people.
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You thought America was strong?
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Look at it now.