Putin says Bill Clinton told him Russia could join NATO before pulling back hours later

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said President Clinton told him that he thought that Russia had a shot to be welcomed into NATO — but later told Putin that it wasn’t going to happen.

In a sit-down interview with Tucker Carlson at the Kremlin, Putin said that after he became president in 2000, he asked Clinton during a visit to Moscow if he thought Russia had a shot in joining the defense alliance after tensions settled at the end of the Yugoslav War.

“At a meeting here in the Kremlin with the outgoing President Bill Clinton, right here in the next room, I said to him, I asked him: ‘Bill, do you think if Russia asked to join NATO, do you think it would happen?’ Suddenly he said, ‘You know, it’s interesting. I think so,’” Putin told Carlson.

“But in the evening, when we met for dinner, he said: ‘You know, I’ve talked to my team, no, it’s not possible now.’ You can ask him. I think he will watch our interview, he’ll confirm it,” the Russian president said.