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Toni Waterman: US Correspondent on Trump's latest ultimatum for Russia · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: A new deadline for Russia. Trump's giving Pottin a deadline
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  Speaker 1: of ten or twelve days to make a deal with
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  Speaker 1: over Ukraine.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to make a new deadline of about ten,
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  Speaker 2: ten or twelve days from today. There's no reason in waiting.
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  Speaker 2: There's no reason in waiting. It's fifty days. I want
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  Speaker 2: to be generous, but we just don't see any progress
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  Speaker 2: being made.
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  Speaker 1: So he did give fifty days. You'll remember otherwise he
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  Speaker 1: said very severe terrorists will be coming to Russia and
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  Speaker 1: Russia's trading partners, which would of course include China. So
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  Speaker 1: what happens here? Tony Waterman, us correspondent, Feature story in
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  Speaker 1: News Tony, good morning, welcome to the program.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Thanks for having me, Tony.
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  Speaker 1: What is anyone taking this seriously? I mean, when you
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  Speaker 1: give a deadline of fifty days and then you come
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  Speaker 1: and say, no, we've got a new deadline. It could
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  Speaker 1: be teen, it could be twelve. We're not sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the President has been for months now giving
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  Speaker 3: a two week deadline to the Kremlins. So when the
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  Speaker 3: fifty day deadline was announced earlier this month, everybody said,
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  Speaker 3: that is an extremely long runway for Russia and everybody
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  Speaker 3: kind of shrugged it off. So whether or not we
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  Speaker 3: see anything in the next ten to twelve days is
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  Speaker 3: really up to Putin. At this point, we haven't heard
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  Speaker 3: anything any sort of response from the Kremlin to this
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  Speaker 3: latest move by Trump. But Dimitri Mendettev, who is the
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  Speaker 3: former Russian president, set on social media that Trump's playing
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  Speaker 3: the ultimatum game with Russia, but that Trump should remember
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  Speaker 3: Russia is an Israel, that it's not Iran, and that
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  Speaker 3: each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war,
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  Speaker 3: not between Russia and Ukraine, but a war with his
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  Speaker 3: own country. So he's implying, of course, that these types
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  Speaker 3: of games could lead to a war between the United
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  Speaker 3: States and Russia. But the President earlier today repeated what
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  Speaker 3: has now become sort of his common refrain, saying that
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  Speaker 3: he's disappointed in Putin for not ending this war. He
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  Speaker 3: feels as if he's been strung along, that the Russian
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  Speaker 3: president has signaled that he would take these peace negotiations seriously,
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  Speaker 3: and then is bombing the Smithereens out of you know,
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  Speaker 3: Ukraine the following day. So ten to twelve days, he
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  Speaker 3: left the door open for more negotiations. Saying that a
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  Speaker 3: deal could be reached. But you're right with the secondary
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  Speaker 3: tariffs that he's threatening if this deadline is not met,
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  Speaker 3: one hundred percent tariffs on any country that buys Russian energy.
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  Speaker 3: That is going to impact not just China but also Russia,
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  Speaker 3: who are huge consumers of Russian oil.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's just fascinating, isn't it, Because on the same
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  Speaker 1: day you've got him saying I'll move the deadline for
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  Speaker 1: China on tariffs and extend that this is the more
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  Speaker 1: substantive trade talk. She've also got him saying I'll reduce
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  Speaker 1: the deadline on Russia and that could potentially bring an
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  Speaker 1: even bigger tariffs for the lives of China.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, with this trade ward that the President kicked
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  Speaker 3: off in April and then paused and is now scrambling
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  Speaker 3: to make all of these trade negotiations, one of the
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  Speaker 3: countries that was not included almost the only that was
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  Speaker 3: not included was Russia itself. It somehow dodged the trade
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  Speaker 3: war bullet when he made the announcement on Liberation Day.
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  Speaker 3: But you're right, they could be now facing not just
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  Speaker 3: more sanctions, which the President talked about today didn't give
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  Speaker 3: details but said he would impose more sanctions but also
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  Speaker 3: a one hundred percent tariff on countries that trade with Russia.
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  Speaker 3: That's on goods coming into the United States. So it's
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  Speaker 3: American public again that will be paying the price for that,
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  Speaker 3: but they could be at the losing end of the stick.
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  Speaker 3: But again, for months and months and months now, Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump has given Russia two weeks to come to the
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  Speaker 3: negotiating table to take this seriously and its point, Russia
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  Speaker 3: just seems to be shrugging that thread off.
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  Speaker 1: Tony, you appreciate you, Tomas Morning, Tony Wooem and US
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  Speaker 1: correspondent Fiature Story and News.
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