Trump’s team talks tough after call with Putin

As Trump pursues warmer relations with Russian Federation, members of Congress are planning early moves to hold the line on relations with Moscow – and the administration in check.

Mirror.co.UK President-elect Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin have vowed to tackle ISIS together after holding breakthrough talks on the telephone.

According to the Kremlin, Trump and Putin “discussed issues related to solving the crisis in Syria”, but again, no specifics were given about how they would do that. “So I think it’s great”. “I will consult with my colleagues what there is appetite for”. That reality was hammered home Tuesday when former Rep. Mike Rogers of MI, who served as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, abruptly quit the Trump transition team. On the morning of November 9, the Kremlin announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin had sent a message to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump expressing “his hope they can work together toward the end of the crisis in Russian-American relations, as well as address the pressing issues of the worldwide agenda and the search for effective responses to global security challenges”. That is an unacceptable price for a great nation. Whether or not Moscow’s intervention helped Republican Donald Trump win the White House remains unclear. So they are preparing a battery of legislative measures to hold the line against Russian Federation, regardless of what the president-elect tries to do.

The statement said Trump told Putin “that he is very much looking forward to having a strong and enduring relationship with Russian Federation and the people of Russian Federation”.

Mr. Duterte had become increasingly critical of the U.S. and its outgoing president, Barack H. Obama, Jr., who had also expressed the same human rights concerns in the Philippine government’s war on illegal drugs.

Trump has done the opposite, of course, reinforcing the mythologizing of Putin with his praise of the former KGB officer as a strong leader.

Trump’s views put him at odds with many Republican defense hawks, including McCain, whose chairmanship of SASC will put him in charge of hearings on Trump’s nominations for defense secretary and other top posts. Sen.

Local students and their supporters march during a walkout protest against USA president-elect Donald Trump in Seattle.

The legislation isn’t likely to pass the Senate before the end of the year.

Putin and Trump’s phone call also comes as US internet companies including Facebook Inc and Amazon Inc have sent the president-elect a detailed list of their policy priorities.

Yet Trump’s unexpected victory has put Obama in the unwelcome position of having to reassure foreign leaders that Trump won’t follow through on alarming positions he staked out in his campaign, such as the notion the USA might not defend its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies.

Among the areas he wants to examine is whether Russian Federation had a role in the hacking of Democratic Party organizations before the election. “If there are things we can sell them or export sa kanila, eh di mas maganda“, said Duterte.