Editor’s Note: The following is a transcript of the April 2 CBS News program “Face the Nation.”
Below is a key excerpt with U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Nikki Haley:
HALEY: No one is talking to me about that.
What we have talked about is obviously Russia’s influence in Ukraine, and which we have been very loud against, talking about Crimea. We have also talked about how Russia needs to help move the Iranian influence out of Syria, how we need to be working on getting ISIS out. Those are the things that are being talked about at the United Nations.
DICKERSON: Vladimir Putin said that Russia did not interfere in the U.S. election. Did he lie?
HALEY: Well, I have always said we don’t trust Russia. And I think we’re all aware that Russia was involved in the elections.
And so I’m not going to talk about who is lying and who is not. I know that that’s a very real thing, and so we what we’re doing from here going forward is, we’re going to be strong. We’re going to be loud. We’re going to make sure that, when we can work with them, we can, but when they do something wrong, we are going to call them out and say it.
DICKERSON: You said the U.S. is going to confront Russia. How?
HALEY: Well, we did that with their — what they did with Crimea and what they have been doing in the Ukraine. We have called them out. We have been loud about it and we have said that we don’t agree with it.
