by the russian federation. continuing occupation of crimea, current military operations in ukraine, malicious cyber attacks, illicit regiment of restricted u.s. technologies, violation of crucial arms treaties, support to the assad regime's barbarism, the impossible use of the nerve agent in the u.k., and ongoing efforts to interfere in our election process are some of the unacceptable behaviors of the putin regime. countering russian aggression is the top priority for the treasury department. the net effect of our actions is an unprecedented level. of financial pressure mounted against the kremlin, oligarch proxies, and key sectors of the russian economy. to date, this administration has applied sanctions on 223 russia related entities and individuals ranging from social media troll farms to cyber actors to russia's state owned conglomerate which has been supplying billions of dollars worth of weaponry to the assad regime. additionally, treasury has issued findings pursuant to the patriot act against a major l

and for what those russians supposedly have. actually there is quite a bit to make with that string when finances. but most people will wonder how you get all of these quotes with strong russian connections coming into the trump campaign? and then to learn his way. and then once they become members of and they try to entice them into better relations. not just better relations with russia but what george papadopoulos cause that communication channel. and then eventually manafort says that continuing with that context to create the back door shin. that this 29-year-old guy. so when they begin the investigation in july and up 2016 with that counterintelligence investigation. they have seen all this. so what are they up to? and then they seem to be cultivating those relationships. and what a foreign government is insinuating. and with those political campaigns and then after the democratic convention and with that realization that basically put together a swat team trying to figure out what's going on. and then the counterintellige

to know that those are perhaps russians spies and russian vacation homes. much money did the u.s. government get from those two services. >> i'm not aware of assets that were blocked. >> is that because russian intelligence services do not keep money in the u.s. banking system? >> again that's not something i would discuss but we have had far and wide ranging impacts in a variety of ways. >> to say nothing of nonfiction activities, for instance like encouraging, spending more money on the defenses, the congress is also learning that there was a serious interagency discussion about imposing tougher sanctions on russia. in fact the treasury department worked up a whole host of sanctions and specific sanctions against russian companies like persky labs. yet those are strongly opposed by jack lew, susan rice and april haynes. can you explain why the secretary opposed taking action after the election? >> senator, i wasn't in the administration. >> there you are representative. >> what i can tell you is that as of already made clear today, we have gone after very

if you look at russian reaction on the decimation of the linergroup, many russians are saying they had coming . then you were in syria and they have mercenaries. mister bradshaw said during the first grozny when he said about russian soldiers, those are mercenaries. we don't know them. and secondly, the never ending pool of redgroup , troy young between the quality, quantity and the prize. is here, is there. wives of russian mercenaries are cheaper than those from other countries. the quality is quite high. and the quantity. there is a lot of mutilated men in russia with enough military background or able and most importantly willing to die for the russian interests. or for their particular interestand there is a never-ending pool of resources . and finally, final point, the duality of function. you will see that the russian military theory envisioned something not quite more sophisticated or something more far-reaching. the russian military received by private military companies in two main fronts. one in a form of irregular forces , something in the form of territorial defense unit t

citizens, who the russians were targeting? i am well aware. intensive effort, as i said in my op-ed. myself, jim comey, and we talk about the importance of making sure that our collection radar was up, so we had early indications to be able to uncover any effort on the part of the russians to work with american citizens, who are reaching out to russians to see what they could get. to get dirt on hillary clinton. my radar was going, the knew the russians were engaged in this effort. i was aware of contacts with american citizens that may have been totally innocent on the american citizens part. >> was it clear to you that is part of the wayerishia was trying to accomplish objectives? >> i was concerned and aware that russians were trying to leverage u.s. citizens in order to achieve their objectives in the presidential election. >> while you were in office before you left on inauguration day, did you conclude that u.s. persons were successfully leveraged in that effort? >> no. that is why i said in open testimony, i was concerned about the cont

we had russians -- >> one question. >> we had russians cyber attack, meddling. is it possible by their private contractors? >> i see no evidence that russian private military companies are engaged in cyber activities, although they probably have some cyber capabilities. not clear what that might be but the probably have some. what you have to understand is the russian approach to war, temporary war, is a whole of state operation using all instruments of the time and creating or innovating new ones are asking the ones that has specific rows and regulations that are adapted from russian military use. so they operate under a completely different paradigm. >> okay. let me be the first to apologize because i had to draw to a close here. we're getting the hook because i am tasked with leading the trains run on time. i know there are lots of other questions. i know the speakers will be around sort of in the cracks at the end of the conference so i hope you can reserve your question for them there. please join me in thanking the panelists. this has been a remarkably inf

the russian approach to war. it is adapted from russian military years. they operate under a completely different paradigm. let me be the first to apologize because i have to drive to a close here. i know there's a lot of other questions. i hope you can reserve your questions for them there. please join me and thinking the painless. this is been a remarkably informative session. today philadelphia mayor takes part in a discussion on education and community development at the center for american progress. that is live at 10:00 a.m. eastern. they talk about the rulings in philosophy. we are live on c-span starting at noon eastern. we will hear from jeff -- judge cavanaugh himself. judge cavanaugh himself. his confirmation hearing before the scented judiciary committee. we will have it live on c-span three. starting september 4. you can also watch online or listen on the c-span radio app. tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. at 1968. america and turmoil. we look at the cold war and will discuss vietnam the presidential campaign and the apollo eight mission. it sent

apparently russian lawmakers asking him whether or not he could ask for maria butina, the russian gun lobbyist accused of being a spy in the u.s. for the russia and released and sent back and help with that. it's unclear if any sort of arrangements are being made there. senator paul's visit continues tomorrow, as well. he says so far it's going fairly successfully, wolf. >> there were two u.s. senators that voted against legislation to increase sanctions against russia. i think the vote 96-2 or 97-2. and rand paul one of the two. bernie sanders voted against increasing sanctions against russia. thank you very much. >>> coming up, with r the deaths of three journalists the result of a fight with robbers? there's hints of a link of a close ally of vladimir putin. c. - learning from him is great... when i can keep up! - anncr: thankfully, prevagen helps your brain and improves memory. - dad's got all the answers. - anncr: prevagen is now the number-one-selling brain health supplement in drug stores nationwide. - she outsmarts me every single time. - checkmate! you wanna play again? - ann

eight a war planes to fight russian submarine activity. how do how do you view these remarks then which get wide currency here in the british political establishment that well i'll tell you it's just. it's it's certain military strategy as i said if the six billion dollars will be spent and we see the british airplanes you know in the black sea which is quite far from britain and from my point to you is the wrong policy or wrong military doctrine instead of developing relations britain is going to spend more and more money on so-called deterrence of russia so this is the wrong way of doing things were you surprised by . the attempt unsuccessful attempt by the british government to get a un resolution about the fact that the o.p.c. w. should now find who committed chemical warfare. convention contraventions well first of all i want to see the opposing posted because we believe that it doesn't reflect the substance of the convention and it's not only russia it's almost half of the countries of the. signatories of the convention is it not fai

for working for the russians. this is a major concern that has been ongoing for the fbi for quite sometime. certainly people inside the fbi feel given what happened in 2016 there is certain escalation that is almost touching or perhaps touching every fbi office in this country. the fbi director explaining how each of these offices is handling these investigations. >> you know there is a whole school of thought that says the only thing the russians will understand if they are doing this to the united states the united states has to do something to russia. a lot of e-mails, russian e-mails involving putin's money, that is something they might understand. >> of course. you talk to people, there is concern they are in our grid systems and some people say we are in their systems. we heard the presidents hint that we do this to other people, as well. that is an action that the intelligence community for all we know may have taken. it is not something that they will ever talk about publically. i think the concern by the

even if it is the russians. what becomes the crime is where they solicit or conspire to violate a federal election laws and/or did you ask the russians if they would go ahead and release stolen information? that is a violation, a felony, of the computer fraud and abuse act and where they could be going. i think the president got exercised about this for the fact that he has now cohen raising his hand saying i know something about the meeting. gates cooperating with the mueller investigation saying i know something about the meeting. they're zeroing in on roger stone and met with another russian through the campaign about information that might be -- that's where i think they're starting to get nervous. really wasn't a legal problem. >> take a listen to president trump's lawyer jay sekulow talking to abc news over the weekend. he had originally said that president trump had nothing to do with that misleading statement that donald trump jr. gave in which they claimed that the meeting was about adoptions but about

-russian policy. while the committee deals with foreign policy, this committee jurisdiction over economic tools to promote our foreign policy is included for so i today soon. let me just ask you all, clearly that notwithstanding what the congress has passed into law, what the administration has forced through your own testimony, elements of that law, that it's fair to say, isn't it, that russia has not deterred, it's been deterred in its actions and maligned activities? is that a fair statement? >> i think, senator, we're seeing a number of consequences as a result of an impasse as a result of the actions that we've taken. there's no question we continue to see russian maligned activity and -- >> microsoft announced there are attacks on the united states senate, and from conservative institutions. that's a continuing action. as far as i know russian is still annexing crimea and engage with regular forces in eastern ukraine. as far as i know russia is propping up the side in syria and i could go down t

operations to counter disinformation warfare from the russians. they're not giving too many specifics. but cyber security experts tell us they're trying their hardest to expose the most active russian trolls who are working against the u.s. and trying to shut them down. lot of that work going unnoticed, but they believe the u.s. intelligence is very active in this. >> the bots are out there. i see them myself. >>> coming up apprentice star omarosa reveals she secretly recorded her white house firing as well as a phone call from the president himself. does she have more secret recordings? >>> and the president gloats over the firing of fbi agent peter struck. the president using the firing to once again attack the entire russia investigation as a hoax. so, how's it going? well... we had a vacation early in our marriage that kinda put us in a hole. go someplace exotic? yeah, bermuda. a hospital in bermuda. a hospital in bermuda. what? what happened? i got a little over-confident on a moped. even with insurance, we had to dip into our 401(k) so it se

we learned that a russian national, a russian woman who worked at the u.s. embassy in moscow for more than a decade, works for the u.s. secret service there, was kicked out because she was a spy for the russian intelligence agency. how much damage potentially over the ten years could she have done to the united states? >> the most important thing is what information she had access to. there are policies to prevent foreign nationals to getting access to national security information. it is designed specifically to prevent damage in this kind of situation. >> we'll see what happens in that front. thank you very much. the breaking news continues here in the situation room. the giant wildfire burning in northern california is growing tonight. we're going out there for a live update. ♪ hawaii is in the middle of the pacific ocean. we're the most isolated population on the planet. ♪ hawaii is the first state in the u.s. to have 100% renewable energy goal. we're a very small electric utility. but, if we don't make this move we're going to have changes in our en

the article says moscow is ready to give its money to russian friendly americans russian businessmen will likely attempt to fund think tanks working on u.s. russia relations to push a narrative favoring cooperation with russia and opposition to sanctions cooperation with russia oh the horror regardless the article doesn't actually provide any evidence as to who or when some russian businessmen will begin giving away free money but it's ok for western businessmen and nato to throw money at anti russian think tanks the articles author evelyn farkas is a senior fellow at one called the atlantic council and it's received millions of dollars from a long list of corporations and governments internationally who are apparently also very concerned about potential russian election hacking. while there is no way that it is that russia has done so to date at a minimum it will likely use its ability to access voter registration databases and election related sites to undermine america's confidence in its own electoral integrity so no evidence the kremlin has done it as the article says but the at

russian vacation homes and imposed sanctions on two russian intelligence services. mandelker, how much money did the united states government et from those two intelligence services? >> senator, i'm not aware of as a that were blocked result of those. >> is that because russian intelligence services do not eep money in the united states banking system? >> again, senator, that's not something i would discuss assured the rest designation that is we've had in far administration have had wide-ranging impacts in a variety of different ways. of o say nothing nonsanctions activities, for instance, like encouraging our mate active partners to spend money on their fence, expanding our nuclear arsenal, spending more money on ballistic defenses, providing the anti-tank javelin missiles that kraine's government begged for so long to receive. congress has also learned over months that there was a serious interagency onversation in november and december of 2016, about imposing ougher sanctions on withat i can tell you, have arctic gone after people in connection with the cyber at

russians do have immense national pride. russia is, after all, the largest country on the planet. 48-times larger than germany. it encompasses 11 time zones. straddles europe and the middle east. it claims a prominent place on the world stage. after the strange summit in helsinki, putin has established that goal and perhaps much more. what did america get out of that meeting, though? donald trump gave perhaps the most embarrassing performance by an american president i have witnessed or read about. his preposterous efforts to talk his way out of his troubles even make this more absurd. >> the sentence should have been, i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia, sort of a double-negative. >> what has been obscured by this disastrous and humiliating performance, is the strain in his russia narrative. donald trump has always said that having better relations with russia would be a good thing. >> wouldn't that be a great thing? >> he's not alone, barack obama and hillary clinton both embraced the idea of a reset in russia

met with the russians in order to get opposition research from the russians on a hillary clinton, then that is a foreign government providing information, that is a crime. there are all sorts of crimes tied with what they are saying is happening. it may pull the wool over people's eyes just for a little bit until it comes out that there are lots of crimes tied into this meeting and what is now being uncovered about what happened in that meeting. so they can continue to say that, honestly they keep saying things they then have to go back and change later, the president's tweets, which i can't imagine any attorney that is actually -- has any influence over the president would have told them that was a good idea to tweet that. but we know this president doesn't listen to advisers or attorneys. >> based on what rudy giuliani is saying the president has control over the public relations part and attacking the lawyer. let me move on to this immigration issue. there are close to 500 parents who were separated from their children who still have not even been located. a federal journal sludge s

anything like that must be a russian agent you must be a russian but if you don't you go into. the elections and the senate rather is that the american elections. and it's much like other countries in the world. where people are sick that's why it's not because of the russians it's not because of you know donald trump. i mean it's because of all these. people are sick of it and they see through it and we're seeing. as it relates to russia. monday greece finally exits the financial bailout program a sustained it through an almost decade long debt crisis over the course of the bailout put together by the e.u. an international monetary fund greece received over three hundred billion euros but it's affected the country's economy dramatically over four hundred thousand people have simply left the country pensions have been drastically cut taxes have been raised athens is expected to be repaying those bailout loans until twenty sixty the crisis has provoked serious tensions between greece and the e.u. along the way it reached its peak in twenty fifteen when brussels demanded a stereo

most of the russian agent you must be a russian but if you don't you go into. the elections and the fact rather is that the american are actually. much like other countries in the world. where people are sick of that's why. it's not because the russians it's not because you know donald trump. because of all the you or your. as it relates to russia. however somewhat while the returns to showcase alleged russian influence may cost dearly a democratic staff is now in hot water for helping to smuggle a controversial piece of art into the colorado state capital. couples being refused swiss citizenship after they refused to shake hands with members of the opposite sex they did not shake hands with people of the opposite sex religious practice does not fall outside the law the constitution in equality between men and women prevails over bigotry the couple is said to have shown a lack of respect towards gender equality laws and failed to provide their readiness to integrate into society therefore however they do of thirty days to appeal the decision made time a similar

bruce ohr and a russian oligarch. jeff sessions pay attention. cnn lanee davis was feeding the a bag of lice. -- lies. i have a message for fake news cnn. they watch this show because it's more interesting. maybe they need to watch their own network. a strong new economic indicator. more evidence that the economy is blowing it through the roof. plus tracking primary races. moments ago fox news projects that trump ally ron desantis will win the republican primary for florida governor and fox news is projecting that governor rick scott will win the gop senate primary and will be going up against bill nels. the results as we have them. sit tight and buckle up.on. the results as we have them. sit tight and buckle up. our opening monologue. bruce ohr and fisa abuse. i have been on the sources all day and all night people in the room during ohr's testimony. ohr said he understood the steele dossier would have never been accepted in a court of law. 65 pages of notes and texts and meetings between him and christopher steele.

ambassador to the russian imperial court. he sent word back to washington as these protests were gaining strength, assuring the people in washington that nothing was going to come of it. no need to be alarmed, no need to be concerned, it was all going to die down. the authorities were going to be able to handle it. on march 8, the international women's day in 1917, a group of in petrograd to complain about the food shortages and then they started complaining as well about the war that was continuing. that banner says glory to women. who are fighting for freedom. and hundreds at first gathered and there were speeches and then more joined them and more joined them and a streetcar came around the bend and protesters blocked the streetcar and took out the handle that enabled it to run in that blocks more streetcars and it was a festive, giddy moment in russian history. spread in theto northern part of the city. that night, the bolsheviks, the extreme read marxist joined them as her francis in their estimation of what was going to

and russian intelligence officers. so, why is someone who is close to trump, who is involved in the campaign, who is a strategist, communicating with the russians? what's the link, if any? what's the inappropriate, untoward, or even illegal act, if any? so, in order to know that, you go to the associates who know roger stone to discuss his m.o., to discuss what he's doing, who he's communicating with, what you know him, you know, ultimately to do in terms of transacting with people, and then potentially you get that. remember, christi, final word is that, you know, generally people, if they do commit crimes, not suggesting he has, they don't just do it in the bright of day, right? they do it in the dark of night. so you have to look at all types of associations in order to determine whether there's something inappropriate. so, that's why they're looking at stone, because he could provide the critical link that would lead to the "c" question, collusion -- again, i'm sorry -- conspiracy, since this collusion, no collusio

the meeting with russians at trump tower during the campaign shows there are links between the russian government and the campaign. we already know that when the russian government offered to coordinate with donald trump jr. to provide dirt on hillary clinton donald trump jr. said "i love it." now, we have no idea what other links and coordination robert mueller has found between the russian government and the trump campaign. and we don't know whether any of those links and coordination constitute criminal conduct by anyone named trump. we've watched donald trump on the campaign stage publicly try to link with the russian government and coordinate with the russian government on hillary clinton's e-mails. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> robert mueller will have to decide whether that constitutes a criminal conspiracy to illegally coordinate with the russian government to the benefit of the trump campaign or whether it's a component of that in some way. the most dangerous part of robert mueller's authority for the preside

agent, she is russian. she is 21 years younger. but obviously, you deny that she was a russian agent. you do think he would have been a good target? >> i think in some ways, her conduct surrounding jd doesn't make any sense if, you know, if the argument that you see in the press that she is some kind of red sparrow kind of using her womanly wiles to get information. you know, there was no contact about jd gordon back with people in russia there was no follow-up. it have would have been a lot more aggressive situation if her goal was to come and get foreign policy influence in the u.s., jd gordon probably would have been a pretty good person. but they went out a couple of times, never followed up and had about six e-mails. again, the limited nature of it i think belies that there is anything sinister going on. i kind of agree with jd gordon that it really wasn't all that big a deal. >> you know, i'm just thinking, putting myself in a situation. it seems unusual for a guy 21 years older to invite me to a styx

you won't find any of that russian mean an athlete. affiliation or it may mean a national affiliation so most of the different nationalities who will love to have in this city would also identify as russian i wonder if you given that so much maybe multiculturalism is not such a bad thing after all no because i don't buy you a definite.

and who might have been working in support of russian objectives. and who might have committed a crime in that process. and that's why robert mueller is a real national treasure. he needs to continue with this investigation unimpeded. >> mueller's indictment about the russian military intelligence lays out in great detail an alleged criminal conspiracy to sway the u.s. election. it's named conspirators and names what they did. an agreement among multiple actors and they took actions in pursuit of that name. >> on the part of a foreign government, which you need. foreign government. yes, excellent. >> but because that conspiracy has been defined, what would an american have to do to be considered part of that conspiracy? all right, if you've got a foreign conspiracy orchestrated by a foreign government, what does it mean to have an american better. the word collusion is used by anybody for any reason. but what would amount in your mind, intelligence terms, to an american being a part of that conspiracy, the one that has been defined by robert mueller

and more russian trade news the russian aluminum giant roussel also american subsidiary that we've talked about before was granted an exemption from trump administration tariffs well now that exemption has been revoked sol america has granted a request exemption on their twentieth attempt in july the exemption process allows for other companies to challenge such requests and the congress department says they noted no objection at the time of the approval but that changed the new york times now reports that after democrat suggested the exemption was granted due to a personal request to mr trump from russian president vladimir putin commerce officials reviewed the record and dust covered that a u.s. aluminum company had intended to object but failed to properly note it on paper the exemption process.

russian hysteria after u.s. intelligence chiefs paint a grim picture of continuing russian interference at u.s. elections. moscow responds with ridicule, calling it case of hysteria. >>> cooking the books. prosecutors say paul manafort lied about stashing money offshore. accountants say the former trump campaign chairman was cooking the books, and the government's star witness still hasn't taken the stand. >>> and pompeo versus the president. even as president trump lavishes praise on kim jong-un, secretary of state mike pompeo now says the north korean leader is not living up to his commitment to denuclearize. are they on the same page? i'm wolf blitzer, and you're in "the situation room." >> this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news. special counsel robert mueller's team met this week with a woman named kristen davis, better known as the manhattan madam following a notorious new york prosecution scandal. davis is a friend of roger stone, a long-time donald trump confidante, and sources say investigators are

wall in russia in december twenty fifth thing she attended a russian propaganda t.v. i'm sad to say be with mike flynn and putin keep in mind there was absolutely no reason for her to be there except to become a russian pole they're not the only ones who've been accused of colluding or working with russia anyone who doesn't toe the bipartisan anti russia line is obviously on the kremlin's payroll now senator rand paul one of the strongest libertarian voices of the republican party is also under suspicion let's be honest minor parties are a nuisance to the two establishment parties that make up the two wobbly the fewer parties the better right no one old dialup votes but here's the question without minor parties who. i've been scapegoated maybe i should just be one party faithfully protected from russian involvement but there's only one surefire way and that's to have no elections at all samir khan r t washington d.c. . you're tuned into our two international is the atlantic ocean widening in terms of relations between washington and london in the age of trouble cross-

that's you know that's been true all along about those overall russian interference russian collusion all that stuff they want to get everybody together they want to scare the american people. are russia's alleged interference in american politics was also discussed by the us senate intelligence committee on wednesday and met for a hearing on the changing nature of online influence campaigns by foreign powers and one issue of particularly concerned seemed to be the spread of memes on social media that allegedly can be traced back to moscow we asked the russian foreign minister for his thoughts. when. it's just hilarious when i hear that funny pictures can undermine american democracy i think that it's just paranoia that goes off the scale it's not respectable for american lawmakers to make a sensation out of nothing we're not the ones who invented social media and when all the ones who insisted on making social media open to everybody so those who are sitting there and the sea talking russian meddling over and over are certain that the russians are carrying on with their attempts to u

now the russian embassy in the u.s. has accused the local authorities of subjecting jailed russian gun activists marie abuse in a cruel and inhumane treatment including strip searches is in or is under arrest on charges of being a russian agent which was quickly interpreted by much of the western media as her being a spy russia's compared the situation to the witch trials in the seventeenth century well after russian diplomats visited maria in prison on thursday they discovered her health had deteriorated there demanding the u.s. state department stop psychologically pressuring and humiliating her and she still a suspect and not a convict miraca is more. maria was taken into custody about a month ago accused of acting as a russian agent and quote developing relationships with u.s. persons and infiltrating organizations having influence in american politics now if she's convicted she could face up to fifteen years in prison and now the russian embassy has issued a statement comparing it to the salem witch trials and accu

twelve russian spies chargedp 13 russian nationals charged. rick gates convicted. a couple of other small fries for lying to the fbi. and again, i think bill is right. at the peak of that attack on the justice department, had mueller started tripping and falling, and frankly had they lost the manafort case, we'd be in a different position. but so far they are batting 1,000 and that's pretty good. >> so to that effect, francesca, what are you hearing in terms of the white house's sentiments with the president's approach, trump's approach. is this attack -- we've heard this from rudy giuliani, he's wanted to make this a public argument against the credibility of the mueller investigation. you can't look at it and think it's working when you have 3% of americans m's on this pole support the mueller probe. >> the white house has been letting him do the talking. we didn't have a white house broefg although the president has addressed reporters and taken questions in different settings. the white house distancing themselves from the mueller probe and from these cases inv

song my name is evident then you are a russian spy. this guardian story had every ingredient for a thriller recipe the u.s. secret service as quite clearly stems from the very name is one of the most enigmatic agencies of the u.s. government its main function is to protect the lives of u.s. presidents ministers the top political brass and that is where the russians according to the guardian planted a mall the russian spy had been working under texted in the heart of the american embassy in moscow for more than a decade she had plenty of time together intelligence without supervision said the guardian's head of investigations claims she was operational for a whole decade in that time through the agency's internet in e-mail systems she had access to all kinds of highly classified stuff including the shared jewels of the president and vice president all of that according to the guardian the woman fled to the office be russia's key security agency before being let go last year over security concerns they had lying the narrative the details

take any action against russian social media is critical to identify russian -- accounts. require continued analytic advancements so computers can distinguish against authentic social media chatter and information. it is important to highlight propaganda. the approach by international organizations involved for comely websites are email alerts the only fellow activists are members of a policy committee. instead, they argue that is important to highlight russian propaganda much faster and target at risk audiences. one example is google ads could contentand target embedded in google search results. educating people who search for russian board fake news. expand and improve access to local and original content. is challenge in the baltics that moscow controlled media, especially tv, is a dominant source of information. counter butd not displays it was more entertaining accurate content area the team argues for training journalist, increasing access to television programming, and highly in the authentic -- of influencers. nato and e.u. must do better job of telling a story. it

and that therefore the russian orthodox church and by implication therefore the russian state have hegemony or leadership in ukraine and that they are the church you should orient yourself towards area they have tried to play this game with readable bigger on under putin and particularly because this is a major issue in terms of people's cultural, national and political identification. so without getting excessively long about this, they like to have used the church as a political weapon and have militarized religion. in a sense or weapon eyes religion as an arm of the russian state policy and it's been going on for decades and particularly we now see it in the ukraine but we're also seeing it in serbia. serbia, you know, they claim we have to have this orthodox brotherhood and so forth so when the russians and the serbs want to be friendly towards each other you have all these pms orthodox lobby of brotherhood and when they're not so friendly to each other, the shoe is on the other foot. just remember tito ends colin, nobody was talking about the islamic brotherhood then, quite the opposit

he was investigating the russian mafia there. when she was thrown off the mueller probe, i saw that in a very different way that, i mean, it raised a lot of questions. were they going to pursue trump's ties to the russian mafia or not. >> and when the special prosecutor is looking at paul manafort and presumably if he gets a guilty in one of these trials basically offering paul manafort some opportunity to testify to get a lower prison sentence, is there something you believe paul manafort would be able to reveal about donald trump's relationship to russians? >> absolutely. manafort is an absolutely key figure in all of this. if you look at what he was doing in ukraine, it was a dry run for the 2016 operation in our election. and he was hired by the -- he was representing president -- a putin puppet. he has been declared a traitor to ukraine and fled to moscow. and manafort put him in power, essentially to sustain relationships that allowed the russian mafia to skim lots of money from the ukraine energy trade. >> thank you very m

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mafia russians but not the russian got to worry about the screwballs well yeah i mean that was the understanding and there's also been some reporting in europe of it that it's been pretty much wiped widespread there was a story but the same after the same thing that they were actually were doing work for the marriage for the british intelligence committee modoc to vs i mean there is a big russian mafia let's face it and but that is in the russian government all i would say is i think i mean tell me what i was told but i haven't done any reporting on it so i don't know firsthand i know secondhand i've been told by people in america because you ask about it is that is that most likely the most likely they they were known to have been talking to the six and five relevant six or five people that i am i five or six people about what they knew about russian corruption in and you're not in russia again you know the activities and so the only you from there you can draw your own conclusions of all who wanted to first of . all that's it for one of your favorite shows from this season will continue to sho

we meet a russian woman who faces imprisonment for terrorism after following her husband to syria where each joint. i told my husband that i want to go back that i couldn't believe that but the moment i started talking about it we had fights he told me if you want to leave leave but i will not let you take the kids away. with the top stories from the past seven days and right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on r.t. international unwelcome our top story america's most notorious far right groups are gathering in washington d.c. along with country demonstrators it comes on the anniversary of the tragic unite the right to rally last year in charlottesville in the state of virginia there exactly one year ago a woman was killed when a car plowed into protesters a warning you may find the video disturbing. terrorism is is the use of violence to incite terror and fear and of course it was terrorist this egregious display of hatred bigotry and violence on many sides on many sects. well the tragedy spurred numerous rallies in the southern states and enormous racial divisi

uy russian you talked about this russian role of mediating between opec partners. opec had this problem long before this cooperation has begun with russia. they must have other mechanisms. my question is, has the saudi russian cooperation on oil prices replaced opec? an analogy i would like to inc. of is in the 1950's when the u.s. or texas controlled the oil market. louisiana and oklahoma automatically set the same so the cartel was enforced. we have always seen something similar. saudi arabia and russia set the price and the rest takes it the same way that louisiana and oklahoma did back then. >> let me start with the second one. saudi arabia and russia are the leaders of the cartel. they state the conditions. --the first deal, iran was russia played as intermediary three saudi arabia and iran. in the last deal in june come saudi arabia energy minister said -- negotiated himself. arabia and russia are dominant in opec, which diminishes the importance of the cartel itself. it becomes redundant. they do the dictating. the question was, why would you run with the sa

stupid spook i'm not a russian it's just me who tweets against you. although not directly accused of being a russian bolt mellen show has appeared in a list of a con showing increased twitter traffic in the wake of the assault scandal surrounding president former bodyguard the inference being moscow's pulling the strings also on the list is are porous correspondent charlotte dubinsky who gave us more details earlier. well a huge outcry here in france so many people on twitter who thought that they had been labeled russian boats that's because they were named in a twitter list which looked at the number of people who had tweeted about the but now a skate scandal here in france some of them even decided to use it as a badge of honor and actually added they. bought their russian numbers to their twitter accounts now this came out after the banana scandal which was a former security aide to president mike brown who was filmed actually assaulting protesters doing it may day now because of that many people were tweeting about it and an engineer based in bel

hail mary passes, russian oligarchs given consideration, russian lies paid for by hillary. lies to the american people, literally, misinformation pushed out by a lot of these people. then you have got ohr and steele and fusion gps. they are all coordinating together here. then we've got these other examples of people really helping a russian oligarch, real tapes of collusion and conspiracy with schiff, all of this, these written evidence here, that they want to stop trump, they want to destroy him, they want to throw their hail mary, and then they want an insurance policy. >> yes, and it's very clear, that is a beautiful outline of the criminal case that means to be investigated by the department of justice against ad doj officials. >> sean: where are they, joe? why are they on trial for tax charges? wears a mueller? >> mueller doesn't want -- >> sean: know, does he want to take on the president? now ohr, interestingly, and steele are talking about getting their information, there lies, to mueller. >> this was, in fact, a plot to destroy donald trump with collusive evidence

saudi russian relations? as steve was talking last time, iran which doesn't have much choice. russia, saudi arabia does and it strikes me that if, in fact, we do see an arms relationship develop between russia and qatar, that the saudis and the uae object to come and, in fact, this is going to push them more toward the united states. but i like to hear what you think about this. >> thank you, mark, very much for your question. later this afternoon w we're gog to have another panel. there's still room here, that will talk more specifically about the s-400 issue. however, you brought up some very interesting points within the question, which is really about the qatar crisis and whether it presents an opportunity or a problem for russia. i think steve said earlier today that the qatar crisis provides an opportunity for russia because of the way moscow conflict multiple sides on the issue. and i have seen this crisis, if you will, from that particular perspective. when you start looking at how qatar has behaved w

sitting down with those russians. he's saying it's perfectly routine, but wolf, he does distance himself from it at the end saying that he had no knowledge of that meeting beforehand. >> kaitlan, thank you very much. kaitlan collins reporting from new jersey for us. this trump tower meeting story has evolved significantly over time. let's take a look back. july 8th, 2017, "the new york times" first reports on the meeting and donald junior responds with a statement saying it was, quote, about russian adoptions. "the new york times" reports the president's son was promised dirt on hillary clinton at that meeting. then donald junior issues a second statement saying clinton was mentioned, but the meeting was mainly focused on adoptions. two days later, donald junior releases his e-mail exchanges with the publicist discussing the possibility of dirt on hillary clinton before the meeting. also, president trump denies knowing about the meeting beforehand. turn to july 12th. multiple reports indicate that while on air force o

hush money but no russian collusion they could use the right here in which we got our big. where is the closure you know there's no looking for collusion where is the delusion finds a delusion it's a day of embarrassment for trump and bad timing too with midterm elections approaching and democrats looking for any i mean if they can find the president though will view this as a vindication a year and a half later after several investigations the russian leak story still seems dead in the water although who knows what else the ongoing investigation will find the fact that they haven't come up with anything and that the all they've managed to claw back with paul metaphor is mis filings and some bank fraud charges in the same with cohen in violation of campaign. regulations finance regulations that proves there is no russian collusion or they've wasted two years to find fairly pedestrian violations sure if you went into any of the campaigns including hillary clinton's and spent two years with an investigation team in the grand juries i'm sure you'd find a lot more than this fil

to finding his name on a list of suspicious twitter accounts forcing him to think there are certain russian. feels from the show. the immigration party politician claimed she was raped by a muslim gang. also coming up on the program. but. two palestinians are killed more than two hundred injured in the latest flare up on the israel gaza border soldiers opened fire after rioters hurled explosives and broke through the fences. are international news center this is art scene my names you know good to have your company our top story french opposition leader and former presidential candidate. has hit back at suggestions he's part of a russian online disinform ation campaign hey stupid spook i'm not a russian but it's just me who tweets against you well known shown appeared on this a list of a kind showing increased twitter traffic in the wake of the assault scandal surrounding president mccollum's former bodyguard. explains why some people drew the link to russia. well a huge outcry here in france so many people on twitter who thought that they had been labeled russian boats that's because they

if you don't think that the russian equivalent of the state department and russian agencies don't know everything about rand paul including his social security number, they do. i don't know what happened to diplomatic pouches and i don't know what happened, frankly, to the traditional practice of working these things through the state department. the president just doesn't defy norms. he shatters norms. here we go again. >> there's also the new sanctions against russia over the nerve agent poisoning of a former russian spy in the uk. do you think trump would have done this if it wasn't required by law? >> absolutely not. he didn't do some things that were required by law as it turns out, don. look, after the skripal attack, it took the united kingdom approximately 12 days to evict a bunch of russian diplomats. it took some of the rest of the european union countries just about three weeks to levy sanctions and evict diplomats. here we are nearly six months later, and the president is finally getting around to acting on the basis of that incident? that attempted assassination. what new