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McFAUL: "Well, I agree. If you’re looking for some good news amongst a lot of bad news with respect to this horrific invasion and attacking of civilians today, and it just escalated since we’ve been in the last couple of hours here, that’s it. But then what does he do with that? Okay, he now has diagnosed the problem. Putin’s not listening to him. Putin’s not even — this amazing thing that Mr. Ushakov said, somebody I used to deal with closely, that, 'We don’t want you to be involved in any negotiations now,' well, that is that is just saying, 'You are weak, President Trump. We don’t care what you want to do.' So now what is the president going to do about it? Because we look weak. This incredibly poor decision by the Department of Defense to not deliver these Patriot systems, like you said, already paid for, approved by the U.S. Congress, that is a signal of weakness. And what I don’t understand about a guy that seems so obsessed with looking tough, with looking strong, is, why does President Trump allow Putin to make him look so weak?"