Deal needs pressure on Russia

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00:00Right, so you're saying that a brand new administration, it's not even been a month since they took

00:05office, some quite new negotiators at that table in Riyadh yesterday on the American

00:10side and yet veterans on the other side of the table.

00:14Just to get some clarity here, are you saying that perhaps they should have held off a little

00:18bit before getting started with those talks?

00:21No.

00:22What I'm saying is that they should have kept the focus simply on peace, on a Great

00:27Reaching Peace deal, because Russia would like to normalize relations with the United

00:32States.

00:33Russia is saying no to the two elements in Trump's own proposals, which could achieve

00:38a durable peace.

00:40So the way to get Russia to move towards accepting those proposals is not by widening the agenda,

00:46which is something Putin wants, it's by putting pressure on Moscow to negotiate.

00:50That's what I'm saying.