Former US security officials: We did 'everything possible' to bring Russia into international systems

Condoleeza Rice claimed that former Soviet states raised concerns that Russia would seek to resurrect the Russian nation and pursued NATO membership to protect themselves.

Peter Aitken is a Fox News Digital reporter with a focus on national and global news. 

"The idea that somehow we tried to humiliate Russia, we tried to impose the kind of Versailles-like -- it just isn't true."

Former President Bill Clinton in April insisted he couldn’t have done anything to prevent Russian President Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine and denied his administration went out of its way to "isolate, humiliate or ignore" the Russian leader.