(NewsNation) — President Trump is acceptable to meet with Vladimir Putin successful Alaska astatine the extremity of this week successful an effort to extremity Russia's warfare with Ukraine.
Trump has already expressed optimism up of the meeting, which Bill O'Reilly attributes to the president yet having a wide imaginativeness astir the caput games Putin has utilized against him for truthful long.
"I deliberation so," O'Reilly told "On Balance." "You can't work anybody's mind."
"I had an absorbing back-and-forth with Mick Mulvaney today, the erstwhile main of unit of Trump. And helium inactive believes that Trump doesn't truly get Putin. But I disagree with that due to the fact that Putin has humiliated Trump successful Trump's ain eyes by fundamentally lying to him and saying we're going to negociate successful bully faith, and past helium doesn't. It's a lie.
"And unless the Russian system is battered, which is possible, I deliberation Putin would spell connected sidesplitting people."
O'Reilly feels Trump winning successful specified a analyzable concern volition travel down to 2 things: Ukraine gives up immoderate territory, and China turns against Putin.
"Zelensky and Ukraine are going to person to springiness up immoderate territory," helium explained. "Trump knows that. That's not right. It's not fair. OK? But the lone mode to halt the madness, due to the fact that lone 1 antheral tin halt it, Putin. No 1 other tin halt it. Just him.
"The paper that isn't being shown is China, which is coming up adjacent for President Trump." Chinese power "could person a precise affirmative effect connected Putin. If China turns against Putin, Putin's done."
To talk Putin's language, which is mostly unit and action, O'Reilly believes Trump needs to spell astir however he's dealt with different planetary issues — acceptable a timeline and don't backmost off.
"You can't enactment a clip connected it, but helium has to. The president has to fundamentally accidental what helium says rather often, you've got 90 days, oregon you've got this, oregon you've got that, which the lines tin move. I deliberation he's tamping down expectations, Donald Trump is, and that's a astute happening to do."
Trump's squad indispensable besides spell successful to marque it wide to Putin that "no slope connected world volition bash concern with you," O'Reilly said.