it is what russia does. remember, russia is a country that now has a gdp of barely less than 10% of american gdp. it's smaller than the size of california, texas, new york, smaller than italy. two thirds the size of italy. it's smaller than the combined nordicthe five countries. they have to find ways to achieve strategic advantage that is not going to depend on marshaling vast resources. it's what they call active measure campaigns are what we call covert influence is one of the ways russia long attempted to achieve that advantage by molding western opinion and dividing nato countries between themselves. >> while we open it up to the floor. we will start with andrew to get us started. for other folks, just wait for the microphone and identify yourself and keep it in the form of a question. >> thank you for those remarks. you obviously illustrated in your speech and made reference to army leadership comments about the army being out ranged, and outgunned in europe and increasingly so. the senate armed servic

and russia destined to be enemies. talking russia u.s. relations i'm joined by my guest peter cosmic in washington he's a professor of history and director at american university as well as co-author with all over stone the untold history of the united states in pittsburgh we. he is an adjunct professor of law at university of pittsburgh as well as author of the plot to scapegoat russia and here in moscow we crossed alexander me curious he is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate alexander but before i think go to you first ok we can talk about russia gate we can we can talk about collusion you know i want to stay away from what i essentially believe is a fake story here but one thing that is never mentioned in the mainstream media that i'm aware of anyway is is what does russia want in its relationship with the united states we always are told what the u.s. demands of everyone else but what

is russia actually our ally? russia considers us to be the main enemy. >> the g20 summit has another day to go, another day of demonstrations on the streets and high-level meetings in well-guarded rooms. but everyone here knows that the main event is now over. so that does it for us from hamburg tonight. rachel will be back on monday, and i will see you again next friday live from iraq where we will take you to the front lines for the final push to drive isis out of the city of mosul. now it's time for "the last >> good evening, richard. thank you for all that reporting. but you go, i do want to ask you given everything, do you think putin got what he wanted out of president trump today? >> i think he absolutely got what he wanted. i think he came in with this intention to have a long meeting. i think he wanted to overwhelm the president, presenting him lots of options, lots of things they could discuss, put some meat on the table for them to start digging right into it and hoping this will lead to more discussio

sometimes the ideological russia do in the work hand in glove and by ideological russia i mean the project to essentially make russia a great again to bring it back up off of its means to restore it to what it believes to be its rightful place as a world power. sometimes corruption and ideology go hand in hand but at other times they are in tension with each other and operate at cross purposes. closely related is the weaponization of the russia organized crime which is also used as a tool of statecraft. but just as it is incorrect to classify russia, it's also incorrect to classify it as a mafia state as many do. more accurately, as my friend and colleague wrote in a recent report on the council for foreign relations, russia is a state with a nationalized mafia. the securities upgrade closely with organized crime and often precipitating their activities as the result of security services they are able to establish the so-called black account which has untraceable cash that can be used for all sorts of off the books operations and influence operations abroad and i could go into a little mor

russia relationship is very important. and we need to make it better there's no question about it we need to cooperate on so many issues on nuclear weapons from syria on iran on energy on trade. and he's still exist. ricos treated as one. point three cool. and i knew a lot of. the island is controlled by the us government and some puerto rican screwed even dependence. the there was. still many do wish to join the us. hundreds more leave every day we went to sleep thinking families i mean you. beings that want to live with the country at a crossroads angora the island is on the rise. welcome back to worlds apart with yana tom and as tony a member of the european parliament. mr i mentioned serial radio and i know that your recent visit to this country and your meeting with president assad was have only criticized in both estonian and european media i wonder though if privately in your private conversations. experts and politicians express the same kind of attitude because from my own interviews with the europeans i get a sen

agree with you because russia is not responsible for iraq russia is no the sponsible for libya russia is not responsible for syria how can you claim that the world is a better place because of the united states when you have three brutal conflicts that have killed hundreds of thousands of people displaced millions and you can still say that the united states made the world a better place how come i can say it without reservation the united states has also turned europe from a place that had multiple great power wars into a place where you have democracies aligned nato aligned with the united states you have peace. stability freedom economic prosperity and russia's trying to undermine that you know ask countries on russia's border ukraine georgia do they want to be part of russia or do they want to be part of the west and the answer's clear russia has to go to war to prevent those countries from making sovereign decisions about where they'll be aligned but they would prefer to be part of the west part of the e.u. and part of nato because because of what the united states represents and

it's russia russia russia and we just as a point about russia that it's a very influential country on the world stage and people notice what russia does it's a powerful country there's no denying that and the mood music politically in russia is homophobic there is no two ways about but you have you ever been to russia i don't need to go to iraq and i certainly have musical ideas i look at how ok there is a there is not. we who are relying on mainstream media reports but also. for giving a country that has introduced a new piece of legislation saying you cannot talk about being gay because it will turn out ok this is what it's about exactly this policy that it's going to section twenty eight margaret thatcher brought in the same kind of similar law where you couldn't promote a homosexual lifestyle situ order it was in law until two thousand and three and people seem to forget only did few years ago we had exactly the same law which was a backward step to move forward. and say that we have actually pictures of the march against section twenty eight there. which is what was put in quick

against russia, against iran. i want to thank the ranking member of the foreign affairs committee from new york for his determined and excellent work on this legislation. regimes in dit parts of the world are threatening vital u.s. interests, and they are destabilizing their neighbors. it is well past time that we force fully respond -- forcefully respond. under putin, russia has invaded its neighbor, ukraine, seizing its territory and destabilizing its government. it poses a threat to our nato allies in europe as moscow works to undermine democratic values with determination and sophistication. as u.s. intelligence agencies have made clear, this former kgb colonel attempted toint fear with our own election. left unchecked, russia is sure o continue its aggression. putin's forces continue to prop up the murderous assad regime in syria, prolonging a deadly, deadly conflict that has driven tens of millions of people from their homes while enabling the chemical s shall -- weapons and other systematic human rights abu

russia russia world let's hear a shift to r.t. reporting from washington d.c. . a russian cyber security firm is the latest target of us clinton protocol tensions between the united states and russia the u.s. general services administration reportedly deleted russia's kaz pearcey lab from two lists of government contractors side a need to quote ensure integrity and security the company's press service says quote by all appearances the lab happened to be dragged into a geo political fights were each side is trying to use the company as a pawn in its game well that's according to the news agency a spokeswoman from the g.s.a. says the company was banished quote after careful consideration to preserve the integrity and security of u.s. government system networks and to discuss these things further i'm joined now by daniel cole of a lesser of international human rights at the university of pittsburgh school of law and author of the plot to scapegoat russia how the cia and the deep state have conspired to vilify. we're so glad you could

the energy sector of russia's economy the bill penalizes any company that cooperates with russia's pipeline projects it's about sending a message to russia to hold mr putin accountable for his actions we will take tough action against russia the bill is targeting the construction of a key natural gas pipeline into europe citing what it calls detrimental impact on european energy security furthermore in the same paragraph the bill talks about exporting more of america's resources in order to create american jobs strengthen u.s. allies and strengthen u.s. foreign policy now that all agrees with a key component of u.s. energy strategy america's global dominance in energy policy. is not just a vital element of u.s. economic policy but it's also a viable element of u.s. foreign policy and one of the most important actions we can take is to use our massive shale gas resources to begin shipping liquefied natural gas overseas so there you have it what does selling gas to europe have to do with protecting the sanctity of america's voting machines the point is it hasn't got to do anything with the ge

it's simply what russia does. remember, russia is a country that has a gdp less than 10% of american gdp. gdp is smaller than texas, new york, two-thirds the size of italy. smaller than the combined gdp of the combined in orderic countries. they have to find ways to obtain strategic advantage that doesn't depend on marshaling vast resources and what they call active measure campaigns. it's one of the ways that russia, whether in the soviet ra or the putin era has attempted to achieve the opinion by molding western opinion. >> why don't we open it up to the floor. since this is about modernization, i'll throw it to andrew to get us started. >> you obviously illustrated in your speech and made reference also to army leadership comments about the army being outranged j outgunned in europe, and increasingly so. your senate armed services committee mark and airland piece went after this, did increased modernization for the army. my question is, because there's so many things that you can increase or seek to accelerate

that cooperates with russia's pipeline projects it's about sending a message to russia to hold mr putin accountable for his actions we will take tough action against russia the bill is targeting the construction of a key natural gas pipeline into europe citing what it calls detrimental impact on european energy security furthermore in the same paragraph the bill talks about exporting more of america's resources in order to create american jobs strengthen u.s. allies and strengthen u.s. foreign policy now that all agrees with a key component of u.s. energy strategy america's global dominance in energy policy. is not just a vital element of u.s. economic policy but it's also a vital element of u.s. foreign policy and one of the most important actions we can take is to use our massive shale gas resources to begin shipping liquefied natural gas overseas so there you have it but what does selling gas to europe have to do with protecting the sanctity of america's voting machines the point is it hasn't got to do anything with the geo political sphere with the frozen conflict in the ukraine tho

sb >> kennedy: what does russia get out of this? >> pete: thumbing their nose and americans which they love to do. they've got this unholy alliance with iran and north korea. they feed each other and support each other with an adversary. >> kennedy: china will never do exactly what the united states wants to do because it's got a vested interest and propping up the korean regime for financial reasons. something like 75% of north korea's food is imported from china. without that business -- >> melissa: we are waiting for a briefing from officials. as soon as we get it, we'll be right back. ♪ if you have bad breath and your mouth lacks moisture, you may suffer from dry mouth. try biotène®, the #1 dentist recommended dry mouth brand. it's the only leading brand clinically proven to soothe, moisturize, and freshen breath. try biotène®. >> it has been quite an hour, we saw both vladimir putin and president trump together for our meeting that took over two hours. we will have senior officials talking about what went on behind closed

russia is not backing off. russia wants to stay in syria. they want that toe hold in the middle east and iran also. influencing the militia movements there. again, you know, the whole question of whether you can defeat isis in syria, you can defeat them where they stand on the ground. you can kill them off. exactly where they stand. do you defeat the movement? and do you actually have raqqah come back under civilian control for the ben put tefit of the pe who live there. how soon until russia continues to exert its influence? if russia comes back with assad, into areas like raqqah, into the euphrates river valley, if they expand their sphere of influence, how long before the u.s.-backed forces. the syrian democratic forces, the kurds, the arabs, that the u.s. has been trying to train to fought and have been making progress against isis. how long before those forces are pushed to the background or even worse? >> we're watching mosul even closer, given that it is believe that a retake in mosul is imminent. you reported a lot bout, barbara, is

the subject line of both e-mails read, "russia-clinton confidential." kushner said he left the meeting when he realize tit was a waste of time, e-mailing his assistant, can you please call me on my cell? need excuse to leave the meeting. president trump was tweeting. so why aren't the committees and investigators and our be leage leagueerred a.g. it came in the wake of a "washington post" report that intelligence intercepts of conversations between russians indicate that sessions discussed the campaign with russian ambassador to the u.s., sergei kislyak, at least twice during the election. kushner refused to disclose his contacts with kislyak and then said they were unrelated. senators' decision to recuse himself in march from the russia investigation. the president and attorney general have not spoken since the interview. and the president rolled his eyes when asked about sessions during a photo op with interns in the east room. >> cnn caught up with cformer nw york mayor rudy giuliani and said he believed sessions made the right decision. and attorney

the perceptive reception is that we should put sanctions we should punish russia for all the russia's transgressions and bad dealings in the world did you ever hear anybody on the mainstream media calling for the world to have sanctions against the united states when the united states invades iraq to everybody the maze free media call for the world to have sanctions against the united states to punish the united states for its overthrow of the government of libya and the creation of chaos throughout the world we suffer from what we call american exceptionalism we apply a very different standard to the united states when the united states screws up around the world our motives are always pure but somehow we made a mistake but we're innocent but we have a very very different standard and that's that corrosive environment that we live in in the united states where we judge ourselves by completely different stand then we judge everybody else and unless we begin to get past that we can understand how the world looks to anybody else from the standpoint of the rest of the world russia might

improve relations with other countries including russia. my objection is that the white houses and president seems to not have taken the russia interference in u.s. elections last year seriously. that was a really big deal. we don't want that to happen again. but on other issues, we absolutely need russia to cooperate with the u.s. more in syria, on iran and also in north korea. >> all right. congressman, thanks for being with us. >>> and we will be talking with a republican lawmaker later this hour, so stay tuned for that. and in the meantime, i want to talk with former u.s. ambassador to russia thomas pickering. he served this both democrat and republican administrations. ambassador, thanks again for spending time with us. vladimir putin is now claiming during this meeting between him and president trump that president trump agreed russia did not interfere in last year's election. three separate times today, white house officials declined to refute this. you can think of a reason why they would do that? >> i think one can only conjecture

welcome to russia, stephen! >> stephen: this is suicide. >> i'd like to drink, i'd like to toast the wonderful country america, the united states, to which we can influence the outcome of the presidential elections in the u.s. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: by the way-- oh, you just smelled it? >> yes, yes, yes. >> stephen: okay, smells wonderful. can i announce something? >> please. >> stephen: i am here in russia... this is not showing in the united states? >> well, it depends-- they show it at trump tower. ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> stephen: okay. but he doesn't remember. ( laughter ) and i am here to announce that i am considering a run for president in 2020. ( cheers and applause ) >> stop, stop, stop. >> stephen: and i thought it would just be better to cut out the middle man and just tell the russians myself. if anyone would like to work on my campaign in an unofficial capacity, please just let me know. >> stephen, stephen, you have just ended the game. since you've announced it yourself-- we were

, how damaging is that to policy with russia? >> i think what would correct that particular position would be taking a hard stance with president putin himself. and like everybody else has said this morning, i think it's imperative that the election be a part of the equation. he's got a whole laundry list of folks that he needs to talk to the russian president about, from elections to syria to the interference with our aircraft flying or our ships sailing. there are any number of things that this president of russia has done to really test the previous administration, as well as this administration. but without question, he needs to look putin in the eye and say, look, you know, i know what you did, i know what the facts are, and it's time for this to be brought out into the open and for you to put a stop to it. >> but how do you think that conversation goes given the space that the american president has given putin on this issue? couldn't he easily say, well, i don't have to tell you, mr. president, but you guys have this wrong

russia meddled in the american election russia hack the american election there are investigations going on now we have the public hasn't been given any kind of proof but the u.s. government in congress has already made its drawn its conclusions when we have no conclusions whatsoever i mean that this is the folly of all of this here you again act before you know what the what the facts are on the ground and they're not interested in facts because none of them have really been produced the socks out from under my bed. but the bottom line is all of these accusations there is no evidence presented there can't even be any evidence because neither the f.b.i. the n.s.a. the cia the office the office of the director of national intelligence no one actually looked at the purported scene of the crime that democratic national committee servers where e-mails were supposedly hacked by russia. wiki leaks says they got them from a whistleblower and then these emails exposed to the d.n.c. and the hillary can come main colluded to. break their own primary to have hillary clinton elected and that is what

>> i think it was russia. it could have been other people and other countries. >> set for 45 minutes from now the two are finally face-to-face. >> i respect putin. he's a strong leader, i can tell you that. i think i'd get along very well with vladimir putin. >> kind words turn into tough talk while outside the summit, protesters are ramping up for another day of chaos. the first lady trapped in her residence. our reporter right there in the middle of it all. >> there are now clashings between protesters and police. >> president trump meeting with world leaders right thousand were a closed session at the g-20 summit with members taking this photo a short time ago in hamburg. but it is the meeting between president trump and vladimir putin that all of us are waiting for. we have the best team in the business on what to expect and really what's at stake. nbc's norah o'donnell is live at the g-20 in germany now. kelly, there is certainly a lot going on. got the handshake between president trump and vladimir putin

russia. a bit of a character. a bit of a fixer on these types of issues. not this back room, shady character who doesn't have a profile. if you work in these circles he's probably someone that you have run in to, he's been on capitol hill before. despite that, it is certainly unique that he would end up in a conference room at trump tower in the middle of a presidential campaign. >> woodruff: i heard the word "fixer" associated with his name. why is ha his his name surfacing now? we learned a bout this meeting days ago. >> that is the perfect question on this, why now. why sit that we have had so many explanations about the purpose of this meeting and the participants of this meet meeting. it's kind of baffling if you're thinking about this from a political strategy, this is politics 101 that if you are in a crisis, something controversial that's happened it's best to get all of the information out. take the hit in one lump as opposed to dripping that out. in this case, over the course of a w

intelligence has concluded that russia meddled. trump is under pressure from lawmakers to bring this up in the meeting with putin. it's unclear whether he's going to do that. today trump is offering up harsher words for some of his democratic opponents than he is for russia. he took to twitter to say everyone here is talking about why john podesta, a clinton campaign staffer, refused to give the dnc server to the fbi and the cia. disgraceful. that is where the president's head is at today. of course all of this is playing out in germany against the backdrop. a pretty incense protest too the -- intense protest to the g20. there were thousands of protests yesterday. 111 police officers were injured, and a number of arrests. we're expecting protests to continue today. back to you. >> sara murray for us in hamburg, thank you very much. >>> as president trump prepares to face off with vladimir putin, cnn has learned that russian spies are very active here in the united states, especially since the election. u.s. intelligence officials s

if we can work with russia nuclear arms treaties if we can work with russia. peace treaties in syria we can certainly work with them on technological issues the president is absolutely committed to work with president putin and to work with the russians and many levels and many areas and the deep state in this country hates it will continue to scream about it and that's too bad but it's going to happen it's going to be a bumpy ride for everybody but we cannot continue to have a permanent implacable enemy in russia in all things and whatever they do is going to be wrong and we have to continue to act from that need your place it's it's wrong it's silly it's foolish and it's counterproductive to world peace. spain has seen a sharp rise in migrants arriving from africa this year of between january and june up to six thousand five hundred landed in the country that is compared with eight thousand arrivals in all of twenty sixteen now just for a brief moment here on the program on r.t. international let's have a quick look at what route migrants saw travelling now

without russia russia does not work with russia and sanctions cannot improve relations we spoke to former diplomats and a political analyst for their views it's not the most logical thing to say we want to improve relations therefore we are imposing sanctions next to listen to his statement was trying to be diplomatic and less from the impact and be less insulting to russia than the he might otherwise have been for that i think that's why you have a logical statement explaining these sanctions to which was not really any sensible justification at all we think about american foreign policy from like one nine hundred forty five forward it's tough to find many great examples of what we've accomplished so what the american force and foreign policy it's stablish meant expected what they're trying to do you know i think it's time for a total and complete overhaul of how we conduct our international business. journalist working with r.t. is arabic channel has been killed by islamic state in syria and i'll cut out was covering a syrian army operation in homs province when his convoy came under mo

russia russia until the midterm elections you know these are the people the benefit from all of this and then we have the deep state has been. mentioned before they will drip out all of these leaks here to make sure that any kind of move to better relations will be impossible in the legislation is it remarkably is that if trump actually wants to do some kind of improvement with russia he has to go to specific congressional committees for permission to move forward he's handcuffed and everybody in the elite is quite satisfied with that go ahead midge. a big part of the problem is neither the. republican old guard or the entire democratic party wanted the apple cart to be toppled by donald trump coming in and trying to drain the swamp. which is really important for democracy in america so what's the alternative now they're looking for an alternative i mean you've got a weaponized media all targeting donald trump every channel if you click between the different cable programs everybody has. now the american people poll from one of the major pollsters in america came out saying less than

russia, we should point out, has similar rules in place for u.s. diplomats in russia. another ongoing issue we learned, don, with the state department, the frustration between the state department, intelligence agencies over the fact that these people who were suspected of being russian intelligence officers are still being granted temporary visas to come to the u.s. a state department official would not comment specifically on the visas, don. >> pamela, i want you to stick around. i want to discuss this with a few other people. cnn politics editor at large, chris cillizza. chief national security correspondent, jim sciutto. good evening to both of you. welcome to the panel. jim, you first, earlier today at a press conference in poland, the president answered a question about the russians meddling in our elections by saying, "nobody really knows, nobody really knows for sure." but you asked the former director of national intelligence james clapper about that. let's listen then we'll discuss. >> in your position as director of national intelligence oversaw the entire u

last month there was a kind of more pragmatic attitude towards russia. this from side of the german and who is different the decision maker in your opinion. and maybe maybe you are right partly that now. why didn't you tell was russia slightly change what you know we're kind of split. in this russian terms for we have baltic states with poland with of. the countries who are kind of more recent phobic let me say and there is no common position still was speaking about this only just before a meeting with putin trump is expected to make a stop in poland who's relations with brussels and the old europe are far from smooth even those tensions continue to grow and it looks like they will continue to grow who do you think the baltic states will find themselves closer to is a burden in brussels or warsaw. really. i cannot answer this question i hope that we are able to be more constructive. to the previous experience i would say that we will be closer to to washoe unfortunately i personally i am i'm the first that i'm russian speaker doesn't matter but we were

, also former top national security council official on russia and the deputy director on the russia desk at the state department. mr. carpenter, thank you very much for coming back tonight. i really appreciate all this time. thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> we've got more to come tonight. stay with us. per roll bounty is more absorbent, so the roll can last 50% longer than the leading ordinary brd. so you get more "life" per roll. boune quicker picker upper finding the best hotel price is now a safe bet. because tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites - so you save up to 30% on the hotel you want. lock it in. tripadvisor. you get to do the dishes.ed... bring 'em on. dawn ultra has 3 times more grease-cleaning power. a drop of dawn and grease is gone. the roles you play in life are parlet's dance grandma! you. and you're not going to let anything keep you sidelined. co on! that's why you drink ensure. with nritious calories 9 grams of protein, and 26 vitamins and minerals. that was the best one ever! giving you the strength and energy, to get back to doing what you love. an

russia and the u.s.? >> reporter: it's important. russia and the u.s. hasn't had a sit down since 2015, president obama and vladimir putin at that time. relations can he zero level now, a meeting now would be good to just help international stability. if you look at the world's flashpoints and places where the russian military's involved, where lives are being lost, where the u.s. military is involved, as well, of course it would be good to get two leaders to talk about them. one area where they might be able to find common ground is syria and the awful civil war there. the u.s. secretary of state, rex tillerson, he floated the idea that perhaps both sides could talk about no-fly zones in the upcoming meeting. the russian top diplomat responded saying that would be a good first step forward. of course we're going to be looking at the body language. you've got two leaders with vastly different experience in government. president trump is brand new to the job essentially. putin is very experienced. this wi

interest against russia. second, the myth that nato deterrence is at risk because of the united states, not europe. talk is cheap. deterrence is about the military balance of power not magic words. national leaders can call article five any pretty word they want, but europe's collective failure to meet the 2% goal of defense spending has under invested in our common defense by something on the magnitude of 100 - $120 billion per year. vladimir putin can see the reality of what national leaders in europe think about the defense the matter what years they use. it is well-known that russia's is within the range of the treaty and european leaders continue to resist the efforts to bring russia into compliance with those treaties. doctor, as you noted the german foreign minister has protested that pass the senate 97 to two because germany does business with russian communities. which they shouldn't be building in the first place if there that worried about russia want to determine deter them in your. and the 2% goa

one major joint project with russia nor in stream to pipeline is aimed to bring russia gas from russia to europe to the baltic sea firms from germany austria france and the netherlands agreed to pay half of the cost of the pipeline and invest almost five billion euros into the project the list of companies that fear being affected include some of the world's biggest players in the industry here's some of them including england at shell french company n g the u.k.'s b p n germany's that winter shall and head of winter shell has declared that these sanctions shouldn't be used to push someone's economic interests referring to the us promoting it liquid natural gas r.t.s. peter oliver has more from the european reaction well it's the potential of the sun sions could have both the the business and energy sectors here in europe that has e.u. officials hostile to the cola there are potentially huge fines for businesses that would enter into energy projects with russia many of those blue chip european companies of course all heavily involved that we've heard from the german forward ministry is

and iran you know the sunni arab states against iran and russia russia was accused by all the local liberals of peak in the sides between the sunnis and shias and jews in the shiites now that qatar which is by some strange twist of fortune and their. key and they were on their system is collapsing well it's russia never going to do me good or is it only you know that you made a choice between their literally when they went to the russians started to appear after being invited it's important to underline by sir the obama told to get instant all the. body bags. and there is a completely different war but it's really interesting is that again this is another major setback for the israelis and their partner in the middle east the saudis this is something where and you know the israelis are absolutely furious when we go back to out of here they're very they're furious that iran's may have military bases in syria again another backfired. that we've seen coming out of town and riyadh. this is a turning into a full scale catastrophe for them and it was of their own making go ahead out of we

has brought relative stability to russia. anybody old enough to remember the '90s will remember the political and economic chaos of that, so that is the first step. the second step is re-creating russian traditions like the orthodox church, pre-soviet traditions like the kosics into a level of pride in shared religion and traditions, and that's tapped into a collective identity that russia's long had, and that means that the pride that russians feel, the patriotism that russians feel today, yes, there is some manipulation, there is some propaganda, there is a lot of repression, but it is also a genuine perception that putin has made the country more stable. >> glor: we continue with steven cook of the council of foreign relations and talk about the recent saudi arabian-led block aid of qatar and what it means for the middle east and the u.s. >> the qatarys are going to be isolated from the region. there is too much mistrust now among the leaders of these countries for them to repair the relationship in a way where there is co

for one, russia's influencing the 2016 presidential election. there were a lot of questions as to whether or not president trump would, in fact, go there. the indication from administration officials was that he would not. but you just heard secretary tillerson says the president opened his meeting confronting president putin about it and putin went on to deny it. the two also made some moves on syria, reaching an agreement on a cease-fire in the country's southwest. they talked north korea. they talked china, and as we just heard at one point, they went on for so long, they tried to deploy the first lady to get these two men to wrap it up and that didn't work. they went on for another hour. jim acosta, let's begin with you. our cnn correspondent live in hamburg. surprise, surprise, they opened with what many people assumed they would not. is this the white house, perhaps, listening to critics? >> reporter: you know, i think we're going to have to be careful, brooke, and gauge this as we move forward over the next couple days when we get a fulle

, russia, russia. maybe it was. it could be russia. but it could be china. could be sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds. i notice any time anything wrong happens they like to see the russian. they she doesn't know it's the russian. maybe there is no hacking. you can talk all you want about russia which was all a fake news abry indicated deals to make up for the loss of the democrats and press plays into it. if you don't catch a hacker, okay in the act, it's very hard to say who did the hacking. with that being said i'll go along with russia. could have been china. >> this russia thing with trump and russia is a madeup story, an excuse by the democrats for having lost. >> several of the times preand post-election that donald trump had difficulty saying that russia meddled in the u.s. election. today in poland is happen against. multiple warnings from the intelligence community but trump said nobody knows for sure. all eyes turn to the meeting with putin tomorrow. and of course it will be the sma

-russia relationship and the future of the u.s.-russia relationship. they discussed important progress that was made in syria, and i think all of you have seen some of the news that just broke regarding a de-escalation agreement and memorandum which was agreed between the united ,tates, russia, and jordan important area in southwest syria that affects jordan's security, but also a very complicated part of the syrian battlefield. this de-escalation area was agreed and well-defined. the cease-fire has been entered into, and i think this is our andt indication of the u.s. russia being able to work together with syria, and as a result of that, we had a very lengthy discussion regarding other areas in syria we can continue to work together on to the area and to work together towards a political process that will secure the future of the syrian people. ofa result, at the request president putin, the united states has appointed, and i think you have seen the especiallyt, ambassador to ukraine, ambassador full, who will draw on his decades of experience as a r

of humiliating russia by expanding nato to russia's borders and supporting revolutions in former soviet states and satellites. dugin advocates fighting back by attacking the west with asymmetric war. you talk about introducing geopolitical disorder, actively supporting dissident movements, extremism, racist, sectarian groups. this seems much more than just-- >> it's exactly what you do. you are supporting separatist group, you're supporting any kind of nationalism, including russian nationalism which is against putin. my words, are the mirror what you are doing. it is mirror and you are frightened so much because you are doing the same thing against us. >> reporter: in ukraine, that philosophy was weaponized. in eastern ukraine, russia helps local separatists who fight against a ukrainian government that's pro-western. and in 2014 in crimea, russia helped install separatist leaders who rushed through a referendum that led to crimea's annexation. the day of annexation, putin gave a speech combining religion, patriotism, and imperial history. he said the west had been subjugating russia,

who immigrated to russia i'm the. new energy surge and we're going to be any cold war since probably since august of two thousand and eight possibly as early as back as two thousand and three two thousand and five with the color revolutions that failed in ukraine and georgia but i prefer to think of it not as an ideological struggle left. to democracy capitalism but as a great power conflict hold on one that we're going to go to a short break and after our short break we'll continue our discussion on new sanctions stay with r.t. . make it is that he's if a seed or a seed you'll see. so if you have this is just going to come. and this is not going to be but. it's a big. economic development is all about numbers really pleased to report this quarter we are one hundred six points. but what do we know about the other figures. well. think about the fact that our c.e.o. mike du made over twenty million dollars last year more than one thousand times the average wal-mart a says c.n.n. with all due respect i have to say i don'

russia russia russia to such an extent that maybe by virtue of this repetition there's been some kind of a cerebral connection made where people impute to guilt whenever that word is met and i'm not kidding you it's almost like a brainwashing there is absolutely nothing to this story no matter how you look at it from anybody's point of view there is nothing there. and the kremlin has denied having any links to the russian lawyer who participated in the meeting spokes person to me for skulls and at that allegations of trying russian collusion have turned into a t.v. series which is trying to own for too long. we've never been in touch with this lawyer we have nothing to comment on that she has no ties to us this is all part of a long drawn out c.v. series which can compete with the most popular shows in america but there's no need to drag us into this we don't take part in such series. civilians are starting to return to the iraqi city of mosul after the government declared victory over islamic state there on monday however one of the most difficult tasks could still lie ahead as most

by russia's tonight media reports claiming that. the u.n. security council has blocked a statement on north korea's latest launch of a ballistic missile. joins us now from new york with the details could even can it so that what's what's being said exactly. well the russian mission is adamant that this statement that was released by reuters this news article that was released by reuters claiming that russia was blocking a u.n. security council measure was just in accurate the statement from the russian mission says the information doesn't correspond to reality based on some data russia suggested that the united states is the author of the draft statement make some changes but they went on to say we want to emphasize it was the regular process of negotiating a draft statement and now the united states is in the process of drafting a resolution in response to north korea's recent missile launch and russia is in the process of negotiating with the united states about that statement now yesterday at the u.n. security council we saw the united st

the other thing is the existing sanctions already in place on russia as a result of russia meddling in ukraine, which are sanctions that are the prerogative of the white house to lift if they want to. the problem for trump congress is about to pass a bell that would require congressional approval to lift those sanctions. >> the white house is working overtime to make sure the white house wants sanctions to get lifted. what kind of power does the white house have to get that done? >> i think it's very difficult. look, the gop accepted trump's excesses on a number of thing. russia looks like one thing they are not willing to go so far. you saw sanctions will pass 98-2 in the senate. looks like it's headed for veto proof majority in the house which will tie trump's hands on concessions. the interesting thing is what that looks like from putin's perspective. he will see trump is too weak to coral his own party, gop, not a problem putin has at home. >> putin doesn't have a media party, he doesn't have a lawmaker's problem, he runs the show. >> interesting to see how it affects the dynamic b