trump and russia before, during and after russia was attacking the presidential election. the other side of reporting on this scandal increasingly is documenting and keeping track of the number of proven known admitted contacts between trump and russia that they have tried to cover up. that they have lied about and that means members of trump's immediate family, members of his campaign, members of his transition, members of his administration and yes, the president himself. in watergate they said the coverup was worse than the crime. in this one, it feels like the coverup won't stop. feels like we're all still living it now. joining us now is my friend david. great to see you, thanks for being here tonight. >> thank you. thank you for the very genius introduction. >> you're going to get more embarrassed as this interview goes on because i want to talk to you about this book project with michael but first i want to talk about felix sater. donald trump has lied about knowing felix sater in the past or at least he has suggested that he's had no recollection of him and tried t

it's my firm opinion that russia all along has want to friendly relations has wanted the u.s. as a partner and there's no reason that we should reject that all of branch that i think russia has been holding out for some time on us entering that. pretty was a violation of the vienna conventions. and i don't know where it's going to end i do get the sense from russia that they do not want to escalate it is audience or national plenty of the weekly still coming your way and poor old school jeered booed pelted with tomatoes a campaign trail is getting rather messy with the. local blogs telling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that will. produce talks for the tell you that will be gossip and tabloid but. we. will watch. for a single. training very young. eight months of intensive school. raps. and they save lives. it's good to have you with us today for the weekly german chancellor angela merkel's been facing a rough week both in and out of parliament with just two weeks to go before the federal election she's be

and china could really help a russia sends refined. petroleum to. north korea. and china sends unrefined petroleum to the only refinery that north korea has you choke off the energy and then you then you work with china say look at it you've got to stop using your banks as a method of of cleansing the money that's going back to north korea through their trade that gives them the hard currency that gives them the ability to buy all these different parts of the weaponry that they that they presently have. i mean it's a plan but it will take every nation in the world especially china and russia to agree upon a play and to stop in the words of of of of president plume the planetary catastrophe of well mr months away again russia and china are extremely concerned about the problem but they're not there to do the american bidding refill all due respect speaking about this is not american bidding this is the world between trying to stop another nuclear power is not the united states alone and neither china nor russia as have been threatened w

russia and the u.s. are teaming up for a project to build a space station that orbits around the moon the station will serve as a launch pad to further space exploration including manned missions to mars we spoke to former i s.-s. come on that leroy chiao he thinks joint projects like this one help nations to improve their relations on earth. this deep space gateway is one of the key components of the new architecture that is more of a moon century now and it's basically a node a very small a human tended kind of a space station that will enable us to both explore the moon and also serve as a departure point to go farther into the universe including possibly or hopefully one day to mars we want to go to mars in my opinion i think it makes a lot of sense to go back to the moon first because we want to make sure that everything we sent to mars before we send the crew there is going to work so we want to make sure habitats work the power sources power generators the rovers spacesuits we want to train crews

than it will to russia on wednesday president putin suggested that russia could take the u.s. to court so even at this diplomatic properties it disputes is this an unprecedented move. well it's certainly something that russia is entitle to do but it's something that i would guess it probably would do on this list more escalation follows from the u.s. i think what really. president putin the russian elite are saying is we can escalate the stakes if you do as well we can also play hardball do you want us to really is a question being posed by all the americans and forty of the moment american seem to want to play hardball is endemic raso phobia as i say they're very good the system is being phased out through the liberal chattering classes to believe and swallow without any evidence or claims of being made at the expense of russia within america it's the bogey state to justify the military industrial complex getting its money in so i don't see that changing to sort of i feel like we've been saying so many times over the past year or so that how us from russia relations have hit

russia's new ambassador to the u.s. means president trump we look at the challenges the diplomat will face. and germany's foreign minister tells r t that sanctions against russia could be lifted if a truce in eastern ukraine is established. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our national sean thomas glad to have you with us all right the syrian army says it has broken islamic states blockade of an air base in the city of. the syrian army minister break the siege over the military airports here in de desert but let me fantasize something that civilians and syrians all over syria are so had be and they consider it as a moment of triumph on the way to defeat as a leader over this the this soil of the country if you are talking about the military operations state run media reported today that the military operations started by the forces into cemetery in the south was the don't result link with forces holding the air bases of the airports. it's or to mention that this is of course the fairest meeting betwe

to russia believes to be perfect and accusations of course don't even and there russia for years in this country has actively promoted the secession of texas rachel. those sentiments were quite similar to the rest of western media and one of the only pieces of evidence cited is that the group's means contained grammatical errors but that's not the only time russia was under rachel maddow spotlight she's been accusing trump of colluding with russia since the election you're not having a terrible terrible dream also you're not dead and you haven't gone to hell this is your life now this is our election now this is us this is our country we know of the russian attack on our election russian efforts to try to elect donald trump president it did not seem to be a super labor intensive process it was like an industrial process but you do need people to do the work and they're apparently still working now this summer it's still against us even though rachel maddow is enjoying these record high ratings it seems as if political discourse has been reduced to celebrity gossip which is quite unf

modern history visitors to russia to be hacked. to new smartphone to browse for information about the sochi olympics almost immediately we were hacked that was two years before the western world started blaming everything on the russian hacking menace so next year what a great idea bigg boss is go on our guys know what it takes to win elections abroad why not win or help when the football world cup now joining us here on ash and we're back in about half an hour with your wednesday. candidate donald trump ran on a campaign that not only question many foreign policy orthodoxies but also lashed out against new conservative views the world today the president is surrounded by men in uniform so this. that's praise for a single purpose. of a super moon. training very young. eight months of intensive schooling. rats. and very safe lives. time simone del rosario filling in for lindsey france you're launching boom are broadcasting to you over around the world from here in washington d.c. coming up on the show tax credit reporting company eq

targeting russia. the voice of i was very happy when two days ago the russian president vladimir putin oil and publicly announced plans to request a u.n. mission of course is the conditions proposed by russia and not the same as the ones we use ukrainians proposed that i consider it a good first step and what we need to do now is negotiate with the goal of the stablish in a cease fire and pulling back heavy weaponry and now we have an opportunity to do that and if we manage to implement its the troops at least the political process of reconstructing done bass may start then we can start lifting sanctions against russia and i was criticized yesterday for my position on ukraine but i still believe it's correct. yeah i want people to vote in germany's interests and in their own interests we want this country to prosper and that's possible only within the united europe that those who are turning against europe will weaken our country in the long run but it. wasn't always had i think russia is just as conce

keep trying why does russia keep trying to parlay an improvement with russia is simple russia is the weaker power russia is not the soviet union its geopolitical horizons are muchly reduced its ability to project power its economic its relative military strength are all much reduced. but where there is still the possibility of hope for russia is in alliance or at least partnership with other countries like jordan where you were destroyed to the russian federation is far more adroit in the soviet union was because it was driven by ideology is not driven fact to a fault it's not driven by ideology pragmatism and cynicism rule the kremlin now this is where the us is doing us a favor in the long run they are pushing russia china iran and other countries it but particularly those three together and in this attempt to isolate russia which is only isolating it from the west which is no longer the whole world and here in russia those of us who don't want to eventually be vassals of us western hegemony we see that's a positive development we want to decouple in from one penny. china and iran

the twenty four against russia caused russia to take retaliatory measures and include a ban on most fish meat vegetable fruit and there with products from you're creating a vacuum that's no more beloved ricci's are plenty on where on the russian menu so local farmers and the producers of the so-called slow food had to create those types of foods here in russia. this is a local cheese manufacturer a farmer company called luca and they have some of the most interesting jesus to my taste in our product is unique as this one hundred percent make sure all there is nothing besides me into nice to no chemicals. and now about to try the world famous loft to lock up the many or russian dumplings in other words the gentleman i seem ready tried for work colleagues let me go toward cuts. but. i was also raised by a boat you'll soon see its rights. actually i discover that though there may be a local great slogan or source of oil we also managed to catch up with the russian deputy prime minister of our cottage and get his take on the track. the background of that as of sanctions of being produced. ag

acuity service is planned to raid russia's san francisco consulates according to the foreign ministry in moscow the move could pose a direct threat to the safety of russian diplomats and their families. policy is searching for any relatives of two more children the suspected deisel fighters the youngest is a two disc to speak after what they've been through. the news no. one . has up to twenty five thousand radical islamists that's according to peace counter-terror coordinator more than any other country in the european. good afternoon welcome it's just turned two o'clock here in moscow you're watching international our top story this hour u.s. security services are reportedly planning to search the russian consulate in san francisco which was closed on washington's orders as part of the ongoing diplomatic route between the two countries russia's foreign ministry says such searches pose a threat to the safety of diplomats and their families the u.s. security service intends to raid the general consummating san francisco at some time by the second including the flats of staff members r

russia's new ambassador to the u.s. has taken office at a time of strained relations between the countries on the telly on the top of presented his credentials to president trump in the white house some reports now on the challenges the new ambassador will face. well a much anticipated meeting between russia's recently appointed ambassador to the u.s. and u.s. president donald trump has taken place antonov predecessor was constantly targeted by the western media portrayed in a negative light over a number of allegations given the controversy surrounding the previous diplomat there are now many speculations around the new figure and as with all u.s. russia meetings this one also attracted media attention especially amid rising diplomatic tensions antonov in particular expressed russia's eagerness to normalize relations with washington and russian. relations between the two countries to get the relations between the united states and russia. international peace and progress as well as a strategic stability according to th

that was a second reference to russia and it‘s a very important one. russia was not... not mentioned by name but it does not matter in any case. in any case, ukraine definitely was not the central, fosceal point of mr trump‘s speech to the united nations. —— the focal point. we had many other issues but not ukraine. again, stephen, the rhetoric that you are now using reminds me very much of the rhetoric that was used colin powell and other guys in the security council while preparing a military attack on iraq. it was actually the same wording, iraq does develop weapons of mass destruction we need to protect the national security of the united states of america, we need to protect the national security of our allies and this is why we will move ahead. we know how it all finalised and how it all continues to develop. vladimir putin has put on the table a proposal to introduce un peacekeepers, blue helmets into that disputed zone of east ukraine. the donbass and the luhansk regions. but it‘s interesting that nobody it seems in the west and certainly not petro poros

envoy to russia accused the u.s. of using the u.n. security council to isolate pyongyang after a new resolution on tougher measures against the state was adopted unanimously in new york earlier we got more details from our correspondents medina cochon of. speaking at a news conference said the north korea shan forty two russia accused the u.s. of using the security council as an instrument to isolate. the latest sanctions imposed by the u.n. security council a result of the heinous u.s. attempts to isolate and suffocating talk country. place in violation of our sovereignty that's why we totally reject and condemn these sanctions and he also added that washington is trying to shift the blame for instigating townshend's on the korean peninsula is sad that so the u.s. is wrong if it believes that its north korea would change its position after this new wave of sanctions. we've been under u.s. sanctions for ten years it was the u.s. that instigated the u.n. security council come up with more resolutions on sanctions against north korea so

although russia collusion fake news all the posturing against russia all positioning trumpets russia agent goes to show that now when it comes to anything related with the u.s. and russia relations trump is a no show the equations that the generals and the wall street bankers the military industrial complex is running the show and we see where this is leading to it's leading to like victor says another cold war and it's leading very quickly what is what is the west get out of this month i mean it looks like a big media show i mean they could actually find some compromising evidence this is we take it was this wish this is a mockery to show ok first we have to understand that this is primarily aimed at their own domestic audience. this is congress in the deep state because i don't agree that this is not coming from at least the person of trump i don't know if there's anyone left in his administration that isn't compromised at this point no one anywhere kelly maddow masters the generals are running it but they want the deep state wants to and the congress wants to worsen relations with

russia seems to be getting special attention. as the mayor pointed out the amendments part of the national defense authorization act but the bombshell plan is buried deep inside the multi-page document the part about russia's summarized in just a few lines between details on funding of the us military sector experts told us all this is no coincidence the defense bill often has thing stuck in it have nothing to do with the fence it's like that's how congress gets things done that they wouldn't be able to just do. as a freestanding bill because it would be too ridiculous or it would have too much opposition so they stick it in the defense bill figuring that the whole damn thing will get passed to members of congress don't read the bills and so. but it really could slip past most of the members completely. presumably they have staff people that read it better but they don't read it there's an obsession on capitol hill and in the mainstream media with with r t because argues it's active in our two years watched but also in this is ve

just a minute russia is our neighbor. turkey cannot make policies because some of these not like income american not this is our neighbor. ok neighbors to russia sweden is conducting is because military drill of more than twenty years on an island in the baltic sea is no go for why the neutral nation thinks it needs such a large scale exist there is a video out there on sweden that peaceful beautiful land full of green fields good food and very generous social programs. but actually this video turns into something hard and heavy right away turns out it's promoting the largest military exercise of the past two decades. of war. he added and on at you and at the same camp seventy times small what has the whole . economic at them nothing good books that he and. i. and not just any exercise but one designed to deal with a quote a larger sophisticated opponent the one that will approach from the east nineteen thousand participants just from sweden alone as well as military forces from eight other countries have joined these dri

he's going to meet with the russian president do you expect anything substantial to come out of his russia visit. i actually do i think the despite the obviously tense introduction that. secretary teller soon and lavrov had where there was no eye contact made on purpose by secretary lavrov the two of them said down and once the initial posturing for the cameras was all said and done the people that didn't really need to be in the meeting left and then the governments could sit down and start getting down to the real facts the real basis and start discussing what about the chemical attack one of the object is of each country both in syria and for the region and so i think that there was some very good discussions these had to take place following these strikes to not do them what i think a been more detrimental to both country's interests in the region while commander on the eve of this meeting the russian official said that dire expectational for a fairly modest they just want to simply understand where they trumpet ministration stands on a range of middle eastern issues and i wonder if yo

does or about to do an exercise in be able rouge russia. that's going to tail up to one hundred thousand russian troops moving into into that country the great concern is they're not going to leave and that's you know that's not paranoia on did you get that one hundred thousand troops that's just the russians not counting the forces and bella ruse i mean that's probably enough to storm europe and yes they are concerned what europe thinks russia does it is undisputed that we have seen a demonstration of the capabilities and power of the russians and one who does that has only to look at the high number of forces participation in the south but exercise more than one hundred south and it doesn't end there there are more fantastic predictions was that in neighbors think russia does well seriously worried the head of the zappa twenty seven thousand drills is numerous aggressive forces taking part in it and there is a demonstrative preparation for war with the west now russia and belarus are allowing three nato observers to monitor the exercise e

russia,... it does not have anything to do with real russia, . .. you it does not have anything to do with real russia,... you can't say that with a straight face. of course it has to do with the real russia. it has to do with the real russia. it has to do with the russia that meddled and interfered with the us presidential election which is now the subject of a host of different us investigations including a special counsel robert mallala. that is at the very heart of why russia is at the very heart of why russia is now toxic in the united states! —— mueller. is now toxic in the united states! -- mueller. this is the opinion of mrgraham and people -- mueller. this is the opinion of mr graham and people like him. funny, this is part of the domestic internal game between different political forces in the united states of america. the victory of mr trump has not been accepted via those who have been defeated —— accepted by. this is how they find different explanations to why and how they were defeated. russia was discovered as a very good expl

foreign policy if russia had. been such a bad country you know it would rejoice but i don't think so because russia does not want to defeat what damages the united states russia wants to defeat the i do all of your change and that ideology is the same in the united states in western europe in central europe i mean. after all this is the u.k. he basically keeping him cost with you know the situation you are absolutely right there's really no cost so there's no charges for the use of money mulayam all the e.u. in the former soviet union ukraine is now going to introduce legislation that would make it a criminal offense for the ukrainian officials to visit russia which is like make it a criminal offense for canadian stories at the united states you know or even worse so you have this i do all of which is the real enemy not the country this is your favorite card to play so gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on russia u.s. really. years ago i traveled a

it's my firm opinion that russia. will long his want of friendly relations has wanted the u.s. as a partner and there's no reason that we should reject that all of branch that i think russia's been holding out for some time from the outset of me looking in that so many resources so much has been put into trying to find a link between moscow and washington and legally speaking but nothing has been fined do you think that there is a way back after this will somebody actually offer an apology if nothing is find or will it just be a dulling a silent ending of that nothing has come to fruit in terms of a legal relationship. yes well if history teaches us anything in the u.s. these types of controversies do just tend to peter out over time though this so-called russia gate scandal has been going on as you know is had a lot of traction for many months but i do believe in the end nothing will be found you know wrote a book about that in fact the plot to scapegoat russia and but i think in the end it all just kind of evaporate

they did not make russia, russia, russia stick, they're trying to make racist, racist, racist stick. >> the center of these stories is that they're trying to -- trump and friends, that's a good name for it. fox and friends even subjected this is a conspiracy, whenever trump had a few good news cycles, "the washington post" finds some new russia surprise. >> every time he gets on a roll, they come up with some type of russia limerick that we have to digest. >> terrific point. >> those talking heads should ask real reporters how this works. this kind of investigative reporting takes a lot of times, it's going to take many more months, but when there are new developments and there basically are every day. but these pros on trump completely tune it out and ignore it. tommy laren gave us these scripts. >> how about when the main stream media stops covering russia day in and day out, maybe we can drop the hillary scandal but in the then , i'm going to stay on it. >> she's going to keep talking about clinton, as long as everybody else talks about russia. they just want the russia investigat

than it will to russia i think what really. president putin the russian that are saying is we can escalate the stakes if you do as well we can also play hardball do you want us to so really it's a question being posed all the americans and forty of the moment american seem to want to play hardball. with the german election a little over two weeks many say a victory for anglo merkel is a foregone conclusion but not the chancellor herself it seems to. me it is and gentlemen we hear a lot here that the german election has already been decided i'm telling you that this is simply not. true. the latest polls show angela merkel's party breaking away from her main rival last in shultz's social democratic party however the so-called third parties may also play a key role in if a majority can't be formed in government as peter all of explains. with most pundits already calling this election a win. there isn't a great deal of intrigue. as being the battle for third place and who will perhaps be the kingmaker in the next coalition governme

china and russia have a strategic plan to for example. economically in some respects liberalize north korea and to take advantage of resources in north korea and somehow if. of political science neo colonial lies that potential left that would take place in the short term it's difficult to see a way forward or a means of an opening that would allow that breakthrough to take place in washington again threatened sort of military action action in the sense that saying you know we are getting closer to this point what is what are the chances that they will actually do that considering the consequences that could happen. well absolutely i mean as you point out the consequences are pretty dire so again any military action would would only come i think either in response to an actual military attack by north korea we have to bear in mind that for all its testing of both nuclear and missile capabilities there has not been an attempt by north korea to strike japan to strike south korea or to strike previously threatened the waters around guava so

with emissaries from russia. they claim they didn't get any negative opposition research on hillary clinton out of the deal but they certainly tried. that is colluding by definition and say there was no collusion. my concern is that we have a lot of pieces, you know, but we look at this as a mosaic and often lose the big picture. because we look at one piece at a time. not you. you do a good job of pulling it together but media overall rush from one new tidbit or lie found out to the next one and you got to -- if you sit back and look at what he did in terms of not telling the public about dealing with russia, what they have done about colluding when they have colluded and, throughout the campaign, donald trump kept saying that the russians had nothing to do with it. his own campaign advisers knew they were told that russia wanted to help. that's a big importance of the june 9th meeting. you put that stuff together. it's not smoke. it's fire. this is a cover-up, they've been stone walling again and again. donald

ties with russia. as a trumpet of ministration been left isolated and powerless or does it still have cards . former reagan administration official author and political columnist. president russia and politicians doing the russian card to score points against. the white house is a. political force to work. problems the global reality over will. bring about a long awaited for the world. by the new cold war. former reagan administration official political connelly's to forbes and other media welcome to the show it's actually great to have you with us. the new low in u.s. russia relations in both countries expelling each other's diplomats and u.s. congress forcing president trump into a new round of sanctions on moscow do you feel that donald trump's compay to idea of and then this spat with russia is now a dad for good. absolutely not it's in america's interest and accords with america's values to achieve it to find a rapprochement with russia so why is it that trump who didn't want to pass new sanctions

the e.u. a much closer ally than russia i see russia as a as a very important. potential ally for the united states america's trying to reorient itself at the end of the cold war it ended up as the one hyper power in the world. but i hope your listeners will understand that america never saw the world had germany we kind of that heritage and the world is down moving toward sort of six regional dominant powers and donald trump instinctively gets this so the what's going on here is america's just kind of feeling its way into a post cold war era twenty five years after the fact simple with so much resistance from both the democrats and republicans can america's stance on russia ever change is that even realistic oh yes oh it's not just realistic. but particular i understand as you read from my column at forbes dot com you know russia's sense of vulnerability and i said in that column that you know the people all over the world prefer guns butter to guns people all over the world prefer butter to guns but if they feel threatened they'll choose guns and so the more a

russia relations meanwhile a u.s. state department spokesperson faced a barrage of russia related questions after she referred to the searches as a simple top of the facilities. are writing programs are so what's your name let's move on move on to something else if you still consider that sovereign russian property or were those property search because there was a concern that they were being used for intelligence purposes which would be like a different issue i'm just not going to get into that a lot of this so let's move on to something else here. or any other country u.s. missions that. has been searched by the. government you know what i don't know if you are working for today or what but i think. in the latest development in their ongoing diplomatic spat the u.s. ordered russia to close three diplomatic premises just forty eight hours notice immediately after the eviction u.s. officers searched the san francisco consulate and trade missions in new york and washington in response president vladimir putin asked the

opinion and russia's perspective has been and russia maintains that it is not acceptable for north korea to have nuclear weapons furthermore he went on to emphasize the double freeze proposal put forward by russia and china calling for a freeze in provocative military drills in the south and in exchange for a freeze on nuclear proliferation and provocative activities from the north this is the ambassador of the russian federation speaking before the u.n. security council. it's a big mistake to underestimate this russian chinese initiative it remains on the table at the security council and we will insist on it being considered now the resolution that was just passed emphasized a call for the six party talks to resume from day one russia and china have called for negotiations and a diplomatic solution to the crisis and an easing of tensions on the korean peninsula and it seems that that view put forward by russia and china from the beginning of this crisis has prevailed with the resolution being passed by the fifteen member body the u.n. security council. the experts we spoke to think tha

just a minute russia is our neighbor. turkey cannot make policies because some of these are not like income american not this is our neighbor. well staying with nato the u.s. is building up its presence in poland with more than a thousand military vehicles of them four hundred are tracked including nearly two hundred tanks and an entire infantry division as part of the existing nato forces in eastern europe well the u.s. general heading up the european deployment it's in response to drills which start today between russia and bella reuss adding that a deal is needed to a lot of the free movement of troops across europe similar to the e.u. use open border shain gandee agreement now that would allow u.s. units to the ploy on nato members territories without the country's permission but only five e.u. members are said to back the idea meanwhile american troops are also taking part in sweden's biggest military drills in more than twenty years our rora seventeen is taking place on an island in the middle of the baltic sea here

it's unclear what the future will hold moscow did however add today that russia reserves the right to react. u.s. diplomats we talked to believe the plan to search the consulate would be pointless . what are people going to do in your investors apartments or in the consulate and sentence just go look for illegal recipes for abortion and of course you're going to have to respond you're going to have to go into our crossing live in st petersburg looking for well perhaps too many copies of. the embassy a library this happens that happens usually at a lower level this time however it perhaps is more serious because it seems to be no. contest between mr putin and mr trump and there's not going to be anything left of interest to find quite frankly if there ever was anything other than confidential diplomatic materials which they're supposed to have there but the thing generally tends to be very tough finely tuned and balanced so that not too much offense is given because frankly things are already far too tense between the two countries already so there has to be great care taken when makin

russia is all for blowing it apart. supported that referendum as it donald trump's campaign manager paul manafort. whose latest consulting job since being warned by prosecutors he's about to be indicted, advising about the breakup iraq referendum. which happened this weekment there will be another referendum going to be another in spain, catalan region is voting if they want to break off from spain. russia is supporting that one too. what is the russian interest in catalonia? i don't know but it is part of a theme. and we've talked about this on the show in the past. russia for years in this country has actively promoted the secession of texas, the quirky texas secessionist movement to the point of inviting texas secessionists to russia. paying their way to help them promote the independent republic of texasstan or whatever. in the immediate wake of president trump's victory in the election, new flurry of enthusiasm in efforts to have california secede from the united states. until one of the best funded, slickest calif

spends about sixty five billion a year but russia has many more troops and russia has nuclear weapons which is extremely expensive russia's conventional weapons are not too cheap either in other words russia has much more weapons and troops than germany germany spends about as much as russia if we are to increase our defense spending from forty billion which is one point two percent to two percent by twenty twenty four and we adjusted for inflation in take into account g.d.p. growth let's say by one point five percent this gives us almost seventy billion euros which is almost twice as much of a drop long so defense spending will double yes we'll be spending twice as much on our military will be spending more than the british who has nuclear weapons more than the french also have nuclear weapons because i would be worried about germany arming itself too much with the fact we should take a closer look at the figures some people say we should build up our military because the russian military is getting stronger but that's not true russia has a program to modernize its military by twenty

cole now commander as you know the united states and russia have major differences on who was behind her wrist sick chemical event in the province and i understand there is no reason why you should give more credence to the russian version down to the american one and i'm not asking you to do that but i wonder if just in general if you find it a proper it to sound cruise missiles anywhere with a u.n. mandate or a proper investigation would it be if russia china iran no any other country did so relying only on its intelligence sources and refusing to provide that avid and to the rest of the world well i think the way you have to look at is that had we gone to the united nations security council you have countries that clearly support rogue regimes around the world if we had taken it to a united nations security council vote where we had requested to take action undoubtedly both russia and china would have vetoed it come monday that applies to every country that sits on the security council so next time china has some issue in the south china sea or russia has some issues in ukraine an

and russia could be so productive in europe as well. and you know i would have thought that that's what we want to spend our time doing for the common benefit of both of our peoples charles or tell political analyst and writer always a pleasure to have you on the program thank you thank you. so one of islamic states highest ranking commanders. is believed to be among forty extremist militants killed in a russian air strike near the syrian city of daraa resort that is according to russian defense ministry who was the group's so-called war minister moved to syria joined eisel in twenty fifteen prior to that he was a special forces commander in the former soviet republic of to take a stand and had been to the us numerous times for training including with the notorious private military contractor blackwater known as academy here he is in a propaganda video. this. focal. length what's up another member thought to have being killed in the strike was a blue mohamed challis who was of saudi arabian origin he was also finance chief he's suspecte

is extremely expensive russia's conventional weapons are not too cheap either in other words russia has much more weapons and troops than germany germany spends about as much as russia if we are to increase our defense spending from forty billion which is one point two percent to two percent by twenty twenty four and we adjusted for inflation in take into account g.d.p. growth let's say by one point five percent this gives us almost seventy billion euros which is almost twice as much of a drop long so defense spending will double yes we'll be spending twice as much on our military will be spending more than the british who has nuclear weapons more than the friendship will also have nuclear weapons because i would be worried about germany arming itself too much with a fact we should take a closer look at the figures some people say we should build up our military because the russian military is getting stronger but that's not true russia has a program to build noises military by twenty twenty six and russia plans to spend six hundred billion euros on it if i remember right the russia

same thing true with russia. we've been in unity with russia. we now believe we've got a ticket to the next plateau. the next possibility will be to maintain the unity. we need to build resiliency and democratic institutions across europe airbrushes aggression is not obviously named at the united states. principal targets in europe. we strengthen the resiliency and work with regional organizations such as beos p.e. another had a worse ranking democrat on the commission. many challenges in addition to russia. you've got rags, turkey and how we deal with turkey. the migration issues. you have unity against isis. you have concerns of erosion in the democratic process and some of our european countries were members of e.u. and nato. you have a full plate and we look forward to the discussion we thank you for your willingness to be here and take on this responsibility. >> governor, we thank you so much for being here and i want to join in the senator cardin and thanking him for many years of service both interstate and on behalf of us here in our cou

but not everyone here feels russia. less than three hours drive from talon is the old fortress town of navarre on the russian border. it's just two hours drive from here to russia's second city's pages but. ninety percent of novice residents big russian most like bloody major dark off feel russian that their risky quarter daily has not got a commercial growth could work better. look at the fortunate few tourists to new york of the more than a quarter of the stern has population hails from russia as in crimea many of their families moved across in soviet times when they were the same country now the us and its neighbor evander it were effectively the same town. but in the one nine hundred ninety one i was suddenly cut off people now need visas to visit family and friends across the heavily patrolled border. yes so some cool so use it was done through school so this was also used to get out and. who was doing it. despite find himself on the a stony inside blood a major dark golf remains proud of his heritage. a well. twic

said that we should be realistic about crimea and that the anik sation of crimea by russia should be seen as a quote permanent provisional arrangement so he was advocating reale politike so they certainly here in russia will be watching closely what happens with the coalition who she's pairing up with but basically people are focusing on america i mean let me just play devil's advocate here we know that the d. is going to be the major disrupter in german politics at least for the next four years is that exactly what russia wants to see. well ahead of the election you know german officials were saying that hacking could be likely that russia is trying to destabilize this election but then the interior minister said that there wasn't any hacking so that could show that actually russia really does want a stable germany russia russian german economic relations are very important so i think it's in russia's interest to actually have a stable germany to have stability here in the country but there is excitement here about the a.f.p. on state t.v. i just i just saw that they had a specific

meanwhile other regional players like russia and china. over north korea had an emergency un security council meeting that was on monday moscow and beijing proposed what's being called a double freeze initiative under the plan and north korea would stop its nuclear and ballistic missile tests and in return america and south korea would stop their joint military exercises however the u.s. dismissed the proposal calling it insulting and washington there was a correspondent who stands to gain from an escalating situation on. the north korean threat is something we hear on a daily basis from u.s. officials but the statements. and his nuclear threats show that he is begging for. they will be met with fire fury the stakes could not be higher the urgency is now this may not get away with what he's doing lately and the urgency is still strong the u.s. is rolling out a range of american made weapons to save the day on offer for remaining rocket launchers for the u.s. missile defense system korea also increased amounts of highly sophisticated milita

russia's government denied any. i was a stone an ambassador to russia so of course the question of attribution who was behind those attacks was racist some of the russian officials even officials were stupid enough. to say themselves that they were behind those attacks or they were part of those attacks or that took place in those attacks. nature the western defense alliance is the first cyber war. it's set up a cyber defense century talented counter future attacks every year it stages complex cyber war games to probe for weakness. the researches help dystonia develop one of the world's most secure digital networks if russia's intention was to scare us tonia it backfired because it was so. out of the blue i mean like so and. it didn't affect our everyday life. too much one bank was down for one of us. no how or again so that was the maximum damage place rather than retreating from cyberspace a stern you decided to double down and make digital development the core of its new economy. the government back doubled its s

russia will have to or we would hope russia would in its -- the degree of pluralism that has been part of the last 25 years that there will be a critical mass including in powerful circles as well as in the population to get back on the right path. >> i think we as a country will base our relationship on russia on values, on the sense of the rules of the road of the international system from which russia benefits anonymously and they benefit far more than we are now from their entry into the wto et cetera in fact that we use the security council for every major thing and we should come to iran because that's one place -- >> before we do, on europe, russia, the current russia is making inroads into what we hoped would be part of the political west and i'm thinking, in particular, turkey came up in the earlier conversation. turkey is now dinging us by buying or considering buying russian arms and hungry. do you have any thoughts on that? >> so, just continuing the previous thought on linking them together this notion of the standing on the side of those russians who want a more european,