Republican Senator Questions Trump’s Red Carpet Treatment of Putin: ‘Are We Being Too Conciliatory?’

Kathryn Wilkens Aug 15th, 2025, 6:46 pm

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) questioned the optics of President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin , saying, “Are we being too conciliatory?” in a Friday appearance on CNN’s .

Murkowski met briefly with Trump today on Air Force One ahead of his meeting with Putin, as the plane sat on the tarmac of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson to reinforce her view that there should be “no concessions about Alaska” in the ceasefire negotiations.

CNN’s Jake Tapper asked the senator how she felt about Trump “literally rolling out the red carpet” for Putin and welcoming him “with open arms”, to which she responded that she thin

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