Peter Welch: “Trump has made a decision that he wants to align with Putin…”

“Give us your assessment of what happened there in the Oval Office, Senator. Well, the reality is that it's much more about the fact that Trump has made a decision that he wants to align with Putin and not with Zelensky and Ukraine. That's really what happened. So trying to parse the manners and who said what, it really reflected the deeply internalized position on the part of President Trump that he's been making very clear for a long time.” (00:07–00:15)

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