the chief economic advisor to vladimir putin, from 2000 to 2005, and was vladimir putin's personal representative to the g8 and is a senior fellow at the cato institute. i have to start with the trump comments. what is vladimir putin trying to do, injecting himself into the presidential race? >> i don't think it's a real intervention into the race. it hay come later. clearly he expresses support from mr trump, and is referring to positive comments that trump made about vladimir putin. it could be, using the wards of trump. a productive relationship. >> now, regarding the trump comments, a russian american journalist who is no friend of vladimir putin is quoted as saying vladimir putin respects fighters, aggression and not calm and deliberation. he wants a manly adversary. in that way do you think the trump comment were a non-too subtle dig at president obama? >> mr president obama is not participating in the presidential election next year. it's a hards interpretant in this way. definitely among the candidates for presidency, mr trump looks like the best possible choice for vladimir putin, it is

i was, at one point, a big ally of vladimir putin. and after this whole thing happens, and as i continue to do exposes of corruption, i'm no longer exposing his enemies. i'm exposing his own personal financial interests. and-- and on november-- 13th, 2005, as i was flying back to russia, having lived there for ten years, become the largest foreign investor in their country-- i was stopped at the vip lounge of sheremetyevo airport. i was locked up overnight. and then i was deported the next day and declared a threat to national security, never to be allowed back into russia again. at that point it became obvious to me that putin's interests had diverged. >> then things get-- go horribly wrong. the-- the-- the russian government goes after you. and they start going after some of your aides and all that. and you slowly manage to divest your interests-- your-- your investors' interests. you get your money out, which is great. and you get your staff out, in most cases. and you leave a few key people in russia who are not your employees, bu

caspkasparov, what's your history with vladimir putin? >> i never met vladimir putin. this man has been steadily destroying my country. he's a dictator who is quite desperate for staying in power. now he's been searching for enemies outside of russia since he ran out of enemies inside the country. that's what's happened to dictators before. probably it's inevitable. history is a vicious circle. he have been saying that vladimir putin, who was for a long time our problem, russian problem, would eventually be everyone's problem. and we can see now that he has expansionist plans, spreading way beyond former soviet union borders. >> you call him a dictator, but he's been elected in democratic elections and has a high approval rating as well, right? >> okay, let's not mix two things. let's go back to the year 2000. you could probably argue that the elections from 2000 to 2004, they had some elements of free elections, although it was not fair at all. now, what happened in 2012 when he returned, quote unquote, returned to power, because i believe he never left power, having

for calling vladimir putin highly respected. now that putin has seen how easy it is, so easy, to trick donald trump into complimenting him, he must be all the more eager to start negotiating with such a simple mind over the removal of sanctions that president obama has imposed on russia. at the same time, trump was calling vladimir putin highly respected, he was calling glenn beck a dog. >> if they put donald trump in -- try to put him in office, if that's what the people want, you're going to see an end to the republican party. it will just be over. there will just be nothing left. >> after that, donald trump tweeted, glenn beck got fired like a dog by fox. the blaze is failing and he wanted to have me on his show. i said no because he was irrelevant. for the record, no one has ever fired a dog. and secondly, all business reports indicate that glenn beck's media empire e, including "the blaze" are making him way, way richer than anyone who has ever worked at fox news. today glenn beck said this. >> i won't vote for trump. if it

putin's loyal supporters with weapons that vladimir putin had supplied them with. putin's imperialist campaign in europe forced a recognition for anyone not yet convinced that we're confront ago challenge that many had assumed was resigned to the history books. the strong militarily capable russian government that is hostile to our interests and values and seeks to challenge the international order that american leaders of both parties have sought to maintain since the end of world war ii. that's why the congress imposed tough sanctions against russia, especially against putin's cronies and their enormous -- and enormously corrupt business empires. as part of that effort, congress passepassed the fiscal year 2015 national defense authorization act which restricted the air force from using russian-made rd-180 rocket engines for national security space launches, engines that are manufactured by a russian company controlled by some of putin's top cronies. we did so not only because our nation should not rely on russia to access space but because it's simply immoral to

we are getting tough talk from vladimir putin that seems to escalate. the turkish side is backing down. what is this all about. >> the turkish side is not backing down. it is not escalating. they slapped a bunch of sanctions. but ankara did not reciprocate that. the turks are trying to downplay - they are trig to don't play. the turks are not interested in russia escalating the situation in syria against turkey, the russians have started to move in support of the kurdish forces in northern syria, that turkey is quite worried about. there's a number of things that turkey is not interested in escalating in russia. having said that, vladimir putin is not exactly the parr knew i can madmen that some characterise him, or the sort of subtle statesman that you expect of a world leader. this speech was a cornerstone speech. as i mentioned earlier, this was a george w. bush moment for vladimir putin, he portrayed the world as a world of insecurity and terrorism with russia and russian values needing to lead. basically saying to turkey and others, you are with us

russian president vladimir putin's strong words for the u.s. and turkey. >> ankara will regret what it did. the russian president vladimir putin vows to impose more sanctions on turkey over the shooting down of the russian jet. >> hello, welcome, my name is peter doby. i'm in doha. u.k. war planes attack isil targets in syria hitting their ole folds. plus. >>> why would he do that? why would he do something like this? >> shock and disbelief after a mass shooting in california. the couple suspected of murdering 14 people have now been identified. >>> fifa's corruption scandal continues. swiss police arrest two more officials. >> we begin in moscow where the anti turkish rhetoric continues to catcher chet up. the russian president vladimir putin said ankara will regret the shooting down of a russian jet near the syria turkish border. he accuses turkey of supporting terrorism and promised a tougher response. he was speaking at his annual state of the nation address. >> we are not planning to engage in military saber rattling but if anyone think th

vladimir putin helps russia to achieve that. vladimir putin is talking. he is key to any toll sues we'll keep an eye on this. if anything come comes out of it we'll let you know >>> tens of thousands of syria has been put forward. human rights said is verified the pictures smuggled out. they document the death of some 6,700 people. over several years they died in custody, and in two military hospitals around damascus. this is one of the case makers. custody, an anti-bashar al-assad song was on the cell phone. his picture was amongst the photos. we blurred his face out of respect for the family. >> translation: it was him, akmed with a number. akmed was a sole. he was a number. people were beaten and tortured. bashar al-assad spoke about the photos. he dismissed them as allegations without evidence and said they could have come from anywhere. the deputy director of human rights joins us. we know, confirmed by you, that these come from syria. tell us what you know about the pictures, and what they tell us? >> indeed, this report answers the fact that the al

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and vladimir putin was very, very open, and really threatened turkey. he said basically we have moved the air defense system into syria. and that is the most advanced air defense system in the world, picking up aircraft 400km away. it is fully operational speaking to the turkish president. do not attempt to fly into syrian air space, as russia's position as the power broker, everyone wonders the impact that this is likely to have on ukraine. he was saying that it's an economic drain still. >> that's right. once again, vladimir putin cut to the chase and answered the question that everyone would put to them, are there russian troops in eastern ukraine. we never said that there are no people dealing with military issues there. this does not mean the presence of regular russian troops. feel the difference, he's calling on kiev, and on the militia in don bass to try to reach a political effort in line with the minsk two agreement signed earlier in the year. >> all right, thanks for that. vladimir putin is still talking, we are keeping an eye and ear out to

let's move on to vladimir putin, you got that praise from vladimir putin this week. called it a great honor. you said you always felt fine about putin. how can you say you felt fine about vladimir putin when he backs our adversaries like bashar al assad and backs iran and he invades ukraine. >> i have been an extremely successful dealmaker. that's what i've done over years and i know people because deals are people. and i think i'll get along very well for the good of our country, for the good of our country, this is what i want, make america great again. i believe i'll get along fine with putin and i believe i'll get along fine with other leaders. obama doesn't get along with putin. putin can't stand our president, and it's causing us difficulty, and, frankly, and i said it a long time ago, if russia wants to bomb the hell out of isis and join us in that effort, i'm fine with that absolutely. i think that's an asset not a liability. so, if putin respects me and if putin wants me to call me brilliant and other things that he said which were, frankly, very nice, i'll

vladimir putin holds his annual press conference. he says the move into syria will continue until a political conference starts. a mistrial is cleared -- is oflared in a baltimore trial the police officer accused of killing freddie gray. also coming up, janet yellen's gift to the markets and investors rejoice as america raises interest rates for the first time in a decade. a look at the latest on that without business editor, stephen carroll. -- with our business editor, stephen carroll. molly: those are the top stories this hour. thanks for joining us. russian president vladimir putin is holding his annual end of the year press conference. he has been addressing a range of issues from the russian economy to ukraine, even the world of sports. speaking earlier from moscow, he spoke on the syrian conflict, saying russia will continue its military operations in the country until the syrian people begin the political profits -- the political process. he also touched on operations with turkey, saying that he sees no possibility overcoming

>> i don't respect vladimir putin. he is the leader of an important country, certainly not a regional power as barack obama called him but to get praise from vladimir putin is not going to help donald trump. he is not a serious candidate and he would bring chaos to the presidency. it's entertaining but we are at war right now with islamic terrorism and he has not offered one compelling, specific thing to do to keep us safe. it's high volume, a lot of talk but nothing specific. he hasn't taken the time to learn the issues. i think we need someone with a steady hand in the presidency. we're never going to beat hillary clinton without something to back it up. >> you to say he is the candidate of chaos. but what are you going to do about it? you are doing due diligence looking into whether you could pull out of the pledge you signed to pull out of the pledge to support the nominee whoever it is. >> because donald trump had threatened to go become a third-party candidate. i didn't know that they were doing this. but it's a

respect vladimir putin. he is a leader of a country. to get praise from putin is not going to help donald trump. he is not a serious candidate. he would bring chaos to the presidency. we are at war right now with islamic terrorism and he has not offered one compelling thing to do to keep us safe. it is all high volume, lots of talk. nothing specific. he hasn't taken the time to learn the issues. i think we need someone with a steady hand in the presidency. we will never beat hillary clinton with grandiocity. >> trump continuing to hit back on jeb bush on fox news last night. >> i think he is a nice man. he is doing poorly. he was down to three or four. i came out with numbers at 41%. he has not been doing well. his pollster said here's what you do. memorize it and say it to trump. when they let that clip run, he doesn't look so good. you know, he came out a couple of times during the debate in the middle of nowhere. i said is that another attack? it is not necessary. >> and while bush was taking on donald tr

if vladimir putin has this endorsement, so be it. when trump says he gives him an "a" for leadership, that's exactly what he said about putin, that should concern me and it should concern every voter out there. look, ronald reagan got along you could say with gorbachev pretty well but he never gave him a grade "a" on leadership. he confronted him on communism. different than what this relationship seems to be. >> mark, trump just talked about this today in iowa. and he said, well, don't see why we can't just get along with russia and russia and the u.s. come together and fight our enemies together so it all doesn't fall on the united states. that resonated with the crowd. >> of course it resonates with the crowd. so does cotton candy. so does kumbaya, so does holding hands. >> come on. >> it's a lack of sophisticated geopolitical knowledge. the question isn't can the u.s. and russia partner on projects. they do that all the time. but at the very same moment, you have a proxy war being fought in syria. a strategic battle between unite

this after vladimir putin threatened more sanctions saying turkey will regret its actions. >> hello, i'm maryam nemazee, you're watching al jazeera live from london. the u.s. president talks of better gun control after another mass shooting rampage. on the front line the u.s. military will open up all combat roles of female soldiers. >> guilty of murder with the accused having criminal intent. >> oscar pre-torous is found guilty. >>> and europe piano space agency launches a new research mission to find out how gravity works. >> hello, russia and turkey's top diplomats have met for the first time since turkey shot down a russian warplane last month. sergei lavrov held talks on the side line security meetings in belgrade. afterwards they said it is unrealistic to expect the problems with russia to be resolved after one meeting, but it is important to keep communication channels open. lavrov said he heard nothing new from his turkish counterpart. >>> well, hours earlier russian president vladimir putin warned turkey leaders that they'll live to regret shooting down the jet. president vl

vladimir putin has stepped up. including americans who may not like vladimir putin but they like the fact that he's stepping up and taking action against isis. >> katrina -- >> whereas, the american government are not doing that. >> katrina, with all due respect -- with all due respect, let's be intellectually honest here. maybe the trump campaign believes this -- that somehow he's a saviour in the middle east and donald trump is somehow in line with vladimir putin on foreign policy is kind of embarrassing if you actually think that's what the foreign policy of the united states is, if propping assad up -- >> the united states has invaded in the middle east, creating vacuums, making isis grow stronger. is that what you're saying? >> are you saying that donald trump's foreign policy would be not to go into afghanistan specifically and not go after al qaeda after 9/11? you said we had wars in the middle east. the first war that we're talking about is afghanistan. >> actually, iraq is the first war. actually, iraq. >>

i know vladimir putin, he respects strength. now is not the time to talk with him. >> i would talk to vladimir putin a lot. i would say listen, mr. president, there fly zone in syria. you fly in, applies to you. yes, we would shoot down the planes of russian pilots. >> we need to confront russia from a position of strength. but we don't need to confront russia from a point of recklessness that would lead to war. >> frankly, it's time that we punched the russians in the nose. they have gotten away with too much in this world and we need toh stand up against them. >> the "on the record" political panel is here from the "washington times" steven dine than and from "u.s. news and world report" david catanese. david, it's like so odd we are back to having vladimir putin of russia. it's almost like the cold war days big enemy. >> who would have ever known that vladimir putin would have issued an endorsement in the republican primary saying trump is the best guy out there. in your sound bites that you have played, you have showed sort

president obama taking time to meet with vladimir putin on a serious strategy. lathe this morning president obama will hold a news conference which we will carry live for you right here on the fox business network. all set up 8:45 live. that brings the total number of emails that have classified information to nearly 1,000. republican front runner donald trump wasted no time on attacking clinton following the release. >> we can't pick a woman who is totally embroiled in scandal for her whole life. white water. think of it. white water was no different. everybody that studied it, they did a book on it, she should have been indicted. >> maria: more coming up on the impolitic cases this could have on the 2016 race. police officer out of jail after posting bond. jason left jail last night after being locked up since last week, we have more on the story as well. let's turn to markets as well. futures are indicating higher opening. we've been seeing pretty good rally last half an hour or so. dow jones industrial, preponderated to open up about 71 points. s&p also high

putin's loyal supporters with weapons that vladimir putin had supplied them with. putin's imperialist campaign in europe forced a recognition for anyone not yet convinced that we're confront ago challenge that many had assumed was resigned to the history books. the strong militarily capable russian government that is hostile to our interests and values and seeks to challenge the international order that american leaders of both parties have sought to maintain since the end of world war ii. that's why the congress imposed tough sanctions against russia, especially against putin's cronies and their enormous -- and enormously corrupt business empires. as part of that effort, congress passepassed the fiscal year 2015 national defense authorization act which restricted the air force from using russian-made rd-180 rocket engines for national security space launches, engines that are manufactured by a russian company controlled by some of putin's top cronies. we did so not only because our nation should not rely on russia to access space but because it's simply immoral to

the idea of trump cozying to vladimir putin. that is different. i think that may be a bit more interesting. i'm not sure how much americans will like that. you do see putin and trump with the macho personality, big into bravado. you can understand where they would get along. >> you know, zach, you look at what bush is doing these days. he is trying to make headlines of his own now and come off stronger, less low energy. i want to let you listen to an exchange between bush and our own john berman who hosted anderson cooper last night. >> i don't think hillary clinton will be president of the united states. she is not trust worthy. >> you did not answer my question. >> i learned not to answer questions. that's one of the things you do now in political discourse. you answer what you want to say. >> it is like we are in slow motion watching jeb bush how to run for president 101. well, i'll talk out loud what my associated told me to do. you are running for president. why not answer questions? >> he said a lot about not answering questions. the questio

trump said he respects vladimir putin. he thinks the two will get along famously. >> i think in terms of leadership, he's getting an a. they did not look good together. >> i think i would probably get along with him very well and i don't think we'd be having the kind of problems we're having now. >> i believe we will have a good relationship with russia. i believe i will have a very good relationship with putin. >> trump has also said if elected he would expand u.s. relations with russia. putin and trump have not met yet in person. let's turn to two candidates who have been gaining on trump in the polls. . ted cruz and marco rubio, in tuesday night's debate the senators brawled more than anyone else over immigration, for one. definitely didn't stop on the stage in las vegas. >> i think their campaign understands they deent have a path to victory. their only hope is to try to launch false attacks and, unfortunately, that's something they have been doing more and more. >> everyone on that stage talks tough. i'd like to say w

vladimir putin says the economic outterm peaked. what does that say about the evocation of western sanctions. >> because vladimir putin says it has peaked doesn't mean it has. western sanctions are effective. you could argue that that is not enough. and evidence suggests that it hasn't been enough. one thing we have not talked about was ukraine, it was touched upon, they mentioned the presence of military advisors, and we know that russia has gone and grabbed crimea, destabilized southern and eastern ukraine, and would not have happened without russia, the sanctions have not reversed that. have they had an impacts on the russian economy? >> the answer is yes. they have not done enough >>> lincoln mitchell. thank you for your insights >>> this morning, that u.n.-backed plan to form a unity government in libya is in jeopardy. the pact would unite the self-declared parliament in tripoli and the internationally recognised one in tobruk. the president of tripoli's government says he has not authorized his representatives to mover forward

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putin, the positive thing about vladimir putin, talk to president obama what it's really like to wage war against isis. you're seeing it in syria, parts of iraq, mostly in syria with the russians. but at least president obama is opening his eyes. 2,000, 3,000 sortis in a week versus a couple of hundred. >> well, you know, the real story about isis, eric, if you want to win against isis, you have to actually defeat them. that means putting in army forces and marines on the ground to go in and destroy the enemy. not this pinpoint bombing nonsense. not a lot of photo-ops at the counterterrorism center. go in and fight them. >> do you think donald trump will do that? i think he said he wants to bomb the "s" out of them. >> what's he going to want to do tomorrow, eric? he's totally inconsistent. >> i think he's been pretty consistent, kurt. he's been consistent on his position with isis. >> katrina, go ahead. >> is it too much that he knows what the nuclear triad is? katrina, the point of the nuclear triad is to be afraid to use the damn thing. you want to scare the hell out of the other s

this is in three words vladimir putin's bush moment. the russian president was taking a page out of the former american president is the playbook. >> how so? >> either with us or the terrorists. basically accusing turkey of in some ways supporting terrorism. invoking the words allah, talking about harmony. the chechen's would disagree. this was the bravado that we saw from george w. bush. it was the kind of speeches we heard after 9/11. that does not back down, speaks of why they hate us and need to do what we need to do. these are russian values, these are attacks on russian valuation, we have heard it before. again, it seems like the former american president we have the sort of not backing out, not backing down, but rather continuing with the war of words, but backing it with military escalations in the life of syria. >> to what end. why? >> certainly vladimir putin is taking a sort of insecure approach to foreign policy. he says that we - he called them they. they are trying to destabilize us. they have destabilized the middle east.

strong words from vladimir putin on turkey. the russian president says turkey will regret it's downing of a russian warplanes and the killing of its pilot. at least 14 people are shot dead in a gun massacre at a holiday party in california. the two main suspects were also killed in a shootout with police. thiscoming up for you hour, as the euro gets closer to parity with the dollar, we will look at the winners and losers from the week -- from the weaker currency. first, our top stories. genie: the supreme court in south africa has just bumped up the conviction of track star oscar pistorius to murder come overturning the manslaughter conviction already against him three last year a judge gave the story us a five-year jail sentence for killing involuntarily his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. here is more now on the new ruling from the supreme court judge, eric leach. >> i have no doubt that in firing the fatal shots, the accused must have foreseen that whoever was behind the door would reconcile his -- reconcile himself to that and

right now, vladimir putin is riding high in the polls. not at his peak, but high because he is a robust performance against isis and against terrorists as he describes them inside syria. but it is the economy that he took the first question on today and unusually for putin, he did not start off with a big anti-western tirade that the united states and others are the root of the problems for russia right now. he did not give his analysis. the first was a question. the same address that the economy could be in trouble for a couple of years. this time he was asked the position. he said russia's based budget predictions on oil last year at $100 a barrel. this year, it is now based at oil on $50 a barrel. he said we have to make changes. we are doing better on agriculture. he said production in some of the factories has gone up in recent months. the economy is the key to vladimir putin's popularity in a large part. vladimir putin's popularity is key to him staying in power. that is what makes him happy. this is why he's addressing this issue h

do you like vladimir putin's comments about you? >> sure. when people call you brilliant it's good. especially when the person heads up russia. >> yeah. >> bell, i mean, also a person that kills journalists, political opponents and invades countries. obviously that would be a concern, would it not? >> he's running his country and at least he's a leader, unlike what we have in this country. >> but, again, he kills journalists that don't agree with him. >> well, i think our country does plenty of killing also, joe, so, you know -- >> what do you mean by that? >> there's a lot of stupidity going on in the world, joe, a lot of killing, a lot of stupidity and that's the way it is but you didn't ask me the question, you asked me a different question, so that's fine. >> i -- i'm -- i'm confused. you obviously condemn vladimir putin killing journalists and political opponent, right? >> oh, sure, absolutely. >> christian, what's your reaction to that? >> i'm glad donald trump is on record he's against killing journalists. it's very untoward

operations, this is something that vladimir putin said two or three times most recently at the paris summit at the press conference saying it is from turkey and strong words from erdogan today quoting sources and if russia can prove that is the case i can step down as president of turkey and if russia cannot prove it perhaps vladimir putin can consider stepping down with russia and the war of words is escalating and not the military and shooting were and turkey is a nato ally and president obama saying he stands behind turkey and defenses even in president obama's meeting on the meetings of the summit yesterday telling vladimir putin he regrets the loss of the russian pilot's life and shot down on the syrian border and taken inside the syrian border by ethnic turkmen fighting the assad regime and regrets the loss of life and backing turkey all the way and calling for deescalation between the conflict. >> is there a sense that vladimir putin is trying to fan the flames? >> i think vladimir putin has domestic political considerations and he has been worned by tough leaders here in wash

why vladimir putin says he's prepared to use more military force. and a most uncertain election in decades. spain hopes to elect a new government, but experts say the results could be messy. from cnn world headquarters here in atlanta, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i'm george howell, "cnn newsroom" starts right now. very good day to you. we start this hour with the democrats running for president taking center stage for the third debate. the last debate of the year. hillary clinton on stage alongside rivals bernie sanders and martin o'malley. they squared off on a wide range of issues from gun control, terrorism and they also talked about wall street and big business. listen. >> should corporate america love hillary clinton? >> everybody should. >> will corporate america love a president sanders? >> no, i think they won't. >> hillary and i have a difference. >> that debate featured something rarely seen at a presidential debate. it was an apology. the issue, whether bernie sanders' staff exploited a computer glitc

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first of all, vladimir putin does only things that are in russia's national interest. so for him to be endorsing mr. trump, that's because he think it's in russia's national interest for mr. trump to be the leader in the united states. second, the part -- you didn't play in the your clip. the part i found most reprehensible when responding to that question on "morning joe" was the moral equivalency between what the united states does abroad in terms of our armed forces and what putin does domestically. trump basically said that what soldiers in afghanistan are doing and pilots in syria are doing is the same thing as those that kill journalists in russia. that is not in america's national interest. >> both of you have served in this administration, wendy sherman, you served in the prior one as well. chuck hagel, the former defense secretary, had some sharp criticism in "foreign policy" magazine of this administration. saying in a piece headline "the white house tried to destroy me. whether it was the right decision or not --" he's referring to the decision not to go aga

talk to us more about what vladimir putin had to say when it comes to turkey. we'll talk about that in a moment, first, let's talk about syria and what he had to say there. >> well, he really answered the question, unspoken question hanging around for a long time, what about president assad, what about his future. he made it very clear that he saw assad staying on, at least for the present. he said that as far as russia was concerned, there should be no attempt by any other country to dictate about who should be running syria. that will be left to the people of syria. left to the people of syria if the collection can be brought around, but assad stays on and that was an important, possibly one of the most important notes of this long news conference. >> when it came to turkey, seems that the frosty relations still very much exist between the two countries. >> yeah, they really do. i mean, president pot warned that he was planning, well, he warned turkey don't even think about violating the border. he ruled out any chance of making any sort of recompense or gett

putin, his new best friend, vladimir putin, praising him, putin praising trump. what is going on there? >> i wish i knew. here's a guy who is praising the leader of a country that annexed crimea, that allegedly has made journalists an endangered species in his own country, continues to threaten ukraine. this is somebody because of russia, because of very interests and because of our historic tensions, the leader of russia is somebody historically american leaders have looked on with curcumspection at best. the idea that donald trump would wholly embrace somebody with a checkered record and as problematic as putin, i would think under normal circumstances would make him somewhat not illegitimate but certainly he has been talking about putin this way for months now and it's done nothing to his standing and it should. >> here's a little bit of donald trump calling in to "morning joe" today. >> when people call you brilliant it's always good, especially when the person heads up russia. i can also see russia being a big asset to our country and i really think that's t

speak directly with putin. >> i think i'd get along very well with vladimir putin. i just think so. people would say what do you mean? i think i'd get along well with him. obama and him -- he hates obama. >> reporter: but analysts have a warning for donald trump, reminding him putin once managed kgb agents. >> he reads trump and he says this is a his ego, i want to make him feel like he actually can achieve the unrealistically big things he says he can achieve and then i want to use him in doing that. >> reporter: experts say by praising trump putin probably was taking a jab at president obama. but they say putin and trump also have similar perspectives on leadership. >> they're both focused on this image of action and strength and the individual's ability to bend global forces that you really need the great man atop of the apex of the nation to defend it against these shadowy forces at home and abroad. >> reporter: but there's one shadowy force who vladimir putin who happens to respect, a man like donald trump is an antagonist, iran's top commander in syria. u.s. f

but to get praise from vladimir putin is not going to help donald trump. he's not a serious candidate. and he would bring chaos to the presidency just as he's done to this campaign. it's entertaining, but the simple fact is, we're -- we're at war right now with islamic terrorism and he's not offered one compelling specific thing to do to keep us safe. it's all high volume, lots of talk, but nothing specific because he hasn't taken the time to learn the issues. and i think we need someone with a steady hand in the presidency. we're never going to beat hillary clinton with grandiosity, with big language, without something to back it up. >> you say he's not a serious candidate. you say he's the candidate of chaos. the question is, what are you going to do about it? your campaign, tim miller said, you're doing due diligence, looking to whether you can pull out of that pledge you signed to support the republican nominee, whoever it is, including donald trump. why? why are you doing that due diligence? >> because donald trump had threatened to go, once again, to

turkey, russia, recep tayyip erdogan and vladimir putin, and the media kat fight over what led to the downing of the russian war plane. unapologetic, the british tabloid that karnt bring itself to say -- can't bring itself to say sorry that a sister paper backed down on. beijing is on an anticorruption drive. chinese media is not immune. if you are chinese, political and online, you'll need to to be creative before getting shut down, shot down, by the cyber police. >>> when a plane was brought down on the syrian boarder. the media outlets presented different versions of the fact. ankara said the plane violates turkish air space and warned the pilot um teen times to change course. moscow refuted that saying turkey shot down the war plane over syrian territory, and was a stab in the back by the accomplices of terrorists. the warring nar tifrs were outlined in the media. the two journalists at the turkish daily, jim hooul yacht accused of aiding a terrorist organization. they backed up video evidence that m.i.t. tried to send a convoy of the weapons to syria the conflict in syria is a ge

and it was just that simple. >> fair enough, but he is vladimir putin is a bad guy. he's not a good guy, by any means. so maybe you would want to push back on someone like vladimir putin endorsing you. >> well, he didn't endorse -- the american people to choose their president. but i think it's clear with regards to isis, specifically isis, we do have to work with other world leaders who are willing to take on isis, unlike the current administration and others, even b.b. netanyahu said that it's not a wide thing to take out assad right now because we need to get control of terrorists. >> kurt? well, eric, you know, the problem is, that barack obama is so incompetent, so feckless, so utterly useless that he makes almost anybody look good by comparison. so you can actually look at how putin's handling isis and go, well, he is killing some of them, so i've got to give him that. but, look, donald trump palling around with dictators in a mutual admiration society, it's unbecoming and disgraceful. i was actually in germany in uniform, waiting for the guys in the army vladi

donald trump said throughout his campaign that he would get along very well with vladimir putin. and the feeling is apparently mutual. mr. putin took time out of his news conference to call in trump a bright, flamboyant person. joining me now is former bush state department senior advisor christian wiseman and richard goodstein. what did you make of this? >> it's the beginning of a beautiful bromance. trump has been fawning of vladimir putin before saying he welcomes with open arms with his intervention in syria and giving putin an "a." it's hard to take because this is the president of an adversarial nation who power through repressing insernl dissent. -- internal dissent. liz: is this not a great thing for president obama? russia and the white house and prior administrations, russia was a pariah state for basically invading crimea, now russia is considered a credible power broker with what's going on in syria. it seems to me this could be seen as a betback for the white house. >> my guess is vladimir putin is entertained by donald trump like so many other people pane would love