union. that does not lead to any good. >> schifrin: and some more criticism from putin onab president trumt bringing ra european efforts to be sovereign and sem the u.s., not only attempts to create a military alliance in europe separate from nato, but also economic independence from the u.s. take a l pten to whtin said about that. ot>> ( translated ):ery long ago the president of france, i think he was speaking in new tly stated the need n'sbolster the european uni economic sovereignty and diminish its dependence on the united states. of cour, that's correct. >> schifrin: is this putin just stoking transatla?ic tensio >> certainly it's partially that. he doesn't have to stoke them too much. remember that it is the united states that chose to withdraw from the iran deal. the european countries, the e.u. didn't want that to happen. yi fact, the e.u. is still to figure out way to do business with iran by kind of skirting the u.s. sanctions that are going to be imposed by iran, by skirting the american financial sr.tem and the dolla this is great news for vladimir putin, because russia facing u.s. sanctions is trying to figure out a way to proc