'This Week' Transcript 2-18-24: Nikki Haley, Gov. Josh Shapiro and Charlamagne tha God

A rush transcript of «This Week with George Stephanopoulos» airing on Sunday, February 18, 2024 on ABC News is below. This copy may not be in its final form, may be updated and may contain minor transcription errors. For previous show transcripts, visit the «This Week» transcript archive.

JONATHAN KARL, ABC «THIS WEEK» CO-ANCHOR: And that’s where we start this morning with Governor Nikki Haley.

Welcome back to THIS WEEK, Governor.

NIKKI HALEY, ® PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO U.N. & ® FORMER SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR: Good morning.

KARL: So, I want to get to the campaign in a moment.

First, I want to ask you about Navalny. I saw your very strong statement, like so many others, putting the blame squarely on President Putin.

What would you be doing if you were president right now? How would you make Putin pay for this?

HALEY: I think it’s important to stand with the Russian people who believe Navalny was really talking for them. I mean you look at this hero, he was fighting corruption, he was fighting what Putin does. And what did Putin do? He killed him. Just like he does all his political opponents. And I think that’s very telling.

But this goes back to the fact that we need to remind the American people that Vladimir Putin is not our friend. Vladimir Putin is not cool. This is not someone we want to associate with. This is not someone that we want to be friends with. This is not someone that we can trust.

And so when you hear Donald Trump say in South Carolina a week ago that he would encourage Putin to invade our allies if they weren’t pulling their weight. That’s bone-chilling, because all he did in that one moment was empower Putin. And all he did in that moment was, he sided with a guy that kills his