in russia and in past. what what could this device have been intended to achieve and how different is this to the modus operandi or why the suicide bombers or using quite large explosive device as you mentioned it was the size of a hand grenade. absolutely progress remember of course that terrorism keeps all options open to it i mean different perpetrators even if they're acting in the same cause and for example and i give you an example islamic states for example against which russia has been particularly effective in syria and elsewhere and of course therefore provides a motive for an attack such as this it could be to do. more restive regions within the russian federation we know there are problems for example from chechnya and dagestan and so on and elsewhere as indeed in in many countries around the world and so it's difficult to say what the motivation would be but it certainly terrorism as we've seen can evolve attacks that aren't even including explosives or farms such as knifes cars and so on and s

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in the russia probe. in a rare public statement, a mueller spokesman says not true. >> you really can't unring this bell. if they've already reviewed the e-mails and they know what's in them, then deleting them or giving them back doesn't really change anything. >> reporter: as for those trump/putin phone calls, the former director of national intelligence, james clapper, says that putin is manipulating president trump like a skilled intelligence operative saying he knows how to handle an asset and that's what he's doing with the president. lester? >> peter alexander at the white house, thank you. >>> still ahead tonight, risky remedies? the fda announcing a crackdown on certain homeopathic treatments warning they could pose a health danger to you and your family. we'll be back. >>> we're back now with the new crackdown on homeopathic products. the fda warning some of these unregulated alternative remedies could pose serious health risks. nbc's catie beck has more. >> repter: when blainealbot was teething

in the russia probe. in a rare public statement a mueller spokesman says not true. >> you really can't unring this bell. if they've already reviewed the e-mails and they know what's in them, then deleting them or giving them back doesn't really change anything. >> reporter: as for those trump/putin phone calls, the former director of national intelligence, james clapper, says that putin is manipulating president trump like a skilled intelligence operative saying he knows how to handle an asset and that's what he's doing with the president. lester? >> peter alexander at the white house, thank you. >>> still ahead tonight, risky remedies? the fda announcing a crackdown on certain homeopathic treatments warning they could ♪ a wealth of information. a wealth of perspective. ♪ a wealth of opportunities. that's the clarity you get from fidelity wealth management. straightforward advice, tailored recommendations, tax-efficient investing strategies, and a dedicated advisor to help you grow and protect your we

three hundred nuclear warheads fewer than the us in russia. but more than china and the united kingdom well the french tend to think that as long as from russia is a potential military threat to europe and as long as there are a number of threatening nuclear powers in the world is safer to keep nuclear weapons than to get rid of them especially since are we already have a well functioning arsenal its nuclear deterrent known as force to flap or strike force consists mainly of its triumphant submarines for carry nuclear warheads one is it see all the time at a cost of more than eight billion dollars they are the most expensive submarines ever built since one thousand nine hundred one france is almost hard it's nuclear stockpile but unlike many other countries there is little nuclear debate here all political parties except for the greens and most of the general public seem to be in agreement that nuclear weapons are a necessity france's nuclear weapons stockpile pales into insignificance compared to that of the united states and russia and it co

a new russia is very useful to keep this it's very very unfair in russia under doing this there is of course a political drive behind us the want to take i would question that i have my mind is ok so russia's bond and so long as it was completely beyond what next who else will go after like my my money would go nobody because they will want to keep beating or sick a piece of new drum say russia's bad russia is bad because it is the only bad one an order of things are clean and then as my athletes from our inner clean year at this new character it was so we can sleep well at night thinking oh we're ok the russians are the bad guys in the case you know enough of the case that there's a lot of bad guys everywhere. you know it's just it won't change and now with this it will change even for the. now to remind you the international olympic committee says russian athletes can only compete under a neutral flag and they will participate under the title olympic athlete from russia with the country's flag and the symbols banned from the games next tuesday russian sports officials are expected t

a new russia is very useful to keep this it's very very unfair in russia under doing this there is of course a political drive behind us the one of the thing i would question that i have my mind is ok so russia's bond and so long as it was completely banned what next who else would we go after like my my money would be on nobody because they want to keep beating or sick a piece a new drum say russia's bad russia's bad because if russia is the only bad one in order at least are clean and then as my athletes from are and are clean you're at this new character it was so we can sleep well at night thinking oh we're ok the russians are the bad guys in the case you know a lot of the cases that there's a lot of bad guys everywhere. you know it's just it won't change and now with this it will change even for the. now just to remind you the international olympic committee says russian athletes can only compete under a neutral flag they will participate under the title olympic athlete from russia with the country's flag and symbols banned from the games next tuesday russian sports officials are

meeting in switzerland and can tell us more about the measures being taken against him russia. i do know that it's been announced that russian officials from the sports ministry will not be credentialed for these upcoming games also the minister of sports at the time of the sochi olympics and twenty fourteen as well as his deputy will be excluded from any participation in all future olympic games the president of the russian olympic committee is going to be suspended as an i.o.c. member and all of these factors taken into account it has also been said that the i.o.c. may partially or fully lift this is spent on of the russian olympic committee from the commencement of the closing ceremony of these upcoming games provided these decisions decisions are fully respected and implemented by russia but let's hear what the president of the russian olympic committee had to say we still believe that all restrictions on russia will be canceled on the final day so that our athletes can march under a russian flag together with other teams from the rest of the world still this decision will

tampering this brings us to concerns here in russia over the transparency and also allowing the russian side access to these experiments and it has been said many times that the athletes in the first place but also the officials and the fans that are sympathetic they are also going through a lot of stress these people are eager to see some visual materials perhaps the investigators could have organized a press conference where they could show something that i guess sums up the concerns here in russia you were in south korea recently what do the people there make of the russian doping scandal and were they expecting to see. a russia i went to seoul which is in the capital of the winter olympics twenty eight but it is the capital of south korea and many people from there will go to chang and i heard that they're against doping and they want the rules to be enforced but fairly and people told me that they will miss team russia especially when there are sports like ice hockey or figure skating where competition especially during the olympics simply can. not be imagined without team washoe s

in russia, does that affect our ability to operate in space, and the answers absolutely not. we rely in each other's friends and colleagues and sometimes literally rely on each other for our lives. that supersedes any political discourse that's going on. we would talk about these things at times, but in an abstract w way. >> is pretty sensitive and people may think i'm being crude but you mention your marriage and the difficulty of the entire time. he finally decided that the right thing to do this and this, you had samantha and charlotte, what was the impact on them and how did you deal with that to help them work through? >> guest: is very hard. i struggled with even talking about it in the book because it is very personal not only with me but between my kids and ex-wife. i came to the conclusion that i have a 17 year marriage and two children. you cannot make believe that to not happen. i hope i handled it well, i'm not sure how leslie feels about it. i hope she thinks i was fair in this description. i talked about her in the credits and hopefully in a way she might apprec

tampering this brings us to concerns here in russia over the transparency and also allowing the russian side access to these experiments and it has been said many times that the athletes in the first place but also the officials and the fans that are sympathetic they are also going through a lot of stress these people are eager to see some visual materials perhaps the investigators could have organized a press conference where they could show something that i guess sums up the concerns here in russia you were in south korea recently what do the people there make of the russian doping scandal and were they expecting to see. a rush of i went to seoul which isn't the capital of the winter olympics twenty eight saying but it is the capital of south korea and many people from there will go to chang and i heard that they're against doping and they want the rules to be enforced but fairly and people told me that they will miss team russia especially when there are sports like ice hockey or figure skating where competition especially during the olympics simply cannot be imagined without team wa

in the russia probe. in a rare public statement, a mueller spokesman says, not true. >> you really can't unring this bell. if they have already reviewed the e-mails and they know what's in them, then deleting them or giving them back doesn't really change anything. >> reporter: as for those trump/putin phone calls, former national intelligence james clapper said putin, an ex-kgb agent is manipulating trump like a skilled operative saying he knows how to handle an asset and that's what he's doing with the president. frances? >> all right, peter, thank you. >> now to nbc meteorologist bill karins and, bill, a lot of people already starting the holiday travel. >> we have a storm moving coast to coast. the storm is moving into the northwest so seattle and portland could deal with rain. snow in the northern rockies. the central plains light snow, minneapolis airport delays and also denver on the backside of that getting colder and snowy. t we're going to see rain in areas like nashville, memphis and dallas for

the vest on war us it won't jump on you in but you go on trying to destroy russia on some level. and it's a bad thing because there's no way out so just escalating with every sanction against russia just as collating this conflict there between russia and the vest and mark is all i'm not sharing this opinion is this the mindset that you with the russian mindset that you were referring to the beginning of the show and your quote of the beginning that well i meant actually something else something or also mentioned. that it is pretty common for russian officials to chip to cheat on things i mean russia is a remarkably corrupt country if those people without blinking an eye steal so much money from the state budget by kind of they fake doping samples that's a good point. if they do not value any kind of fair play they just want a victory at any price because you know so you have no such rules like in the north so russians are quite a young country in terms of state structures because they have complete collapse under state ninety one so i don't think is new in the these rules fixati

called it for the long in the us russia is actively engaged in democratic liberal reforms and is a liberal economy so where does this pressure on russia come from. people putin has often said that if there are no ideological differences between capitalism and socialism why is nato expanding eastwards what you were not as preserving as i was . at the two thousand and seven munich security conference the conflict came into the open boat incognito's eastern enlarge meant a direct threat to russia at the studios now but what's the illusion for the future a ship would in plano with. putin's aim was to create a defensive ring around russia and he intended georgia and ukraine to be part of it . that would both and it is not in the kremlin's opinion that the west has to accept that this is in our national interest that ukraine should belong to the russian protectorate as well as belarus and probably moldova the whole of trans caucasian should be our protectorate as well from the. pub or paragon our from the newspaper novaya gazeta is known for is critical and often ironic take on russia's leadersh

is not just in russia, using to challenge the democracy is notjust in russia, but other places like mexico and catalonia, he pointed out as well. but i really had to pushing to get an answer on that. he is hugely influential, what impression did you leave of what this man wants to create? the sense that i got is that he is known to be a soldier and scholar, he is a strategist who thinks long—term. when i asked him if his life would be easier if donald trump stopped treating you said i can only control what i can control. he said his focus was on the national security of the american people and to present all the options for the president weather on russia, china 01’ president weather on russia, china or north korea. you really want to serve his country. that's the sense i got. if you'd like to see a full interview it will play out on friday. you will also find it online as well. in a few minutes we will go to the west coast on the latest investigation into that train derailment. it was going almost three times as fast as it should have been. a man has been sentenced to 20 years

national security strategy also says countries like china and russia are challenging us influence in the world to document strongly criticized as moscow and its international policies in particular it claims russia uses technology propaganda and coalition in an attempt to shape a world fundamentally opposed to america's interests. however donald trump did bring up a recent phone call with the russian president as an example of how things should work between moscow and washington during that call vladimir putin thanked trump and the cia for helping to foil a terror plot in russia. i compliment the both presidents for doing their us and it makes no sense on some of our policies because at the same time we have this same goal that we can't talk and work with each other and help each other at the same time we just had a budget that was passed where there was five billion dollars allotted to building up defenses a nice one europe to stop russian aggression there's something awfully weird about there at the same time if we can be civil and talking to each other why do we have and i speak f

one lawyer counsel robert mueller improperly obtained thousands of e-mails now being used in the russia probe. in a rare public statement, a mueller spokesman says not true. >> you can't unring this bell. if they've already reviewed the e-mails and know what's in them, then deleting them or giving them back doesn't really change anything. >> senior republicans on the house intel committee tell nbc news they expect to conclude they year long russia investigation in the coming weeks. top democrats are complaining they would like more witnesses to be interviewed and claiming republicans are trying to shutdown the probe prematurely. "washington post" reports that people with knowledge of the mueller investigation said it could last another year. with members of special counsel seam says that expect to be working through how much of 2018 at a minimum. >>> still ahead, ambassador nikki haley offering up harsh words at u.n. vote. >>> been three months since hurricane maria. puerto rico is still struggling. very latest on the recovery efforts there. >>> plus a check on the weather when we come

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the us has strongly oppose what it cools russian aggression in eastern ukraine blaming russia for violence that is claims more than ten thousand lives and displaced one point seven million people now it will provide weapons to help ukraine defend itself the state department announcing the united states has decided to provide ukraine in hunts defensive capabilities as possible if it to help ukraine build its long term defense capacity to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity and to deter further aggression. report suggests the support package if approved by congress would include a tank missing. u.s. secretary of state ricks to listen has said russia's occupation of crimea which the u.s. wants returned to ukraine is a major stumbling block in relations between moscow and washington the issue that stands in the way is ukraine. we can have differences in other arenas in syria we can have differences in other areas but when one country invades another that is a difference that is hard to look past. or to reconcile. and we've made this clear to russia for the very beginning that we m

i would expect that the risk of increasing tensions between russia and iran russia in turkey is increasing and it's way bigger than during the materia. phase of the conflict as for the. the prospects that would also depend on how russia would push him pressure us it's government so death that the russia is interested in quite fast political resume lucian's because it needs to demonstrate its successes ok because if it will fail if it fails to deliver on its promises it its image as a capable partner which can keep its allies in syria in damascus in check. would be damaged ok missed another lissac a little bit about one of the key players has been a little bit distancing itself from the syrian government which is the united states of america can the americans this time bring about a significant change to the course of this conflict. i mean definitely since the. administration came to power they invested more militarily in syria which is giving them today more leverage than they used to have before two thousand and sixteen. and but i think that the american approach towards syria or this yea

e-mails now being used in the russia probe. >> i can't imagine there's anything on them frankly. there's no collusion whatsoever, but a lot of lawyers thought that was pretty sad. >> election season, to inaugural, the trump transition worked in this government building, but under the law transition teams are not government agencies. most of their funding is private. a trump transition lawyer claiming career staff, unlawfully produced the transition team's private materials. white house officials say stayed out out of it. >> i'm no in touch with the transition lawyer. >> credibility is a target for trump allies who seized on mueller, a senior fbi agent who exchanged anti trump text messages. >> i do not at all believe that mr. mueller has been compromised or his investigation. >> some republicans sound an alarm. >> i think these conflicts of interest jeopardize the integrity of his vinvestigation. >> he has no plans to fire special counsel robert mueller. the kremlin had come out first talking about the call saying that vladimir putin wanted to thank president trump for intelligen

most of his players play in russia. we're spread all over europe so more or less we use the modern technology to watch as many games as we can during especially the weekend and we have today we have software that we can see every game everywhere in the world so it's easy to see the play especially if if we hear they have been doing well or badly we can we can look back to that game whenever we like so modern technology makes it makes it much much easier to be a national team coach today than it was before. hey mere say you know how it works which success usually comes with downfalls and now that the whole world is in iceland fan didn't there's a danger that your players maybe will lose that humility and with that the team spirit. not afraid of the we talk about did regularly about why we win football matches why we are we are good as a team so we remind ourselves what we are about and what we like to represent. as a national team and especially how we win football matches for so i think it's really dangerous to overesti

in 1990, russia left us alone and, uh, we got in trouble with the economy, so i had to change my job. >> anthony: so it looks like the embargo might end, you know, a lot of money gonna start coming to cuba. do you think it's gonna change? >> george: oh, i think that the american businessmen will invest in cuba and that will be good for everyone. >> anthony: how about, how about going back to engineering? >> george: uh, you know, that will depend how much they will pay. >> anthony: right. okay. ♪ what next for cuba? something is coming. it will come, from out there, but also from within cuba. it's already happening, but what is it? everybody knows. everybody can feel it. it smells like freedom, but will it be victory? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

well as you can imagine my of the reaction has been rather severe here in russia russia's deputy foreign minister today said gayety of course said that the us has gone too far and that they have crossed a line they also accused he also accused the us of fueling war rather than acting as an intermediary in peace and question in fact the u.s. is capability of acting as an intermediary in the future at all and ahead of the decision the kremlin also said that this kind of decisions would fuel bloodshed so as you can see the reaction has been really extreme and we can expect that now russia won't just be blaming the blaming ukraine for breaking the minsk agreement but that they may also be blaming the u.s. so this conflict in ukraine has been going on since twenty fourteen it's basically a frozen conflict as sort of become the status quo for a lot of the country a lot of people in the eastern part of ukraine there is there any fear is that this new move on the u.s. is part would lead to an escalation of sorts well obviously the reaction as i said has been really severe and of course the u.s.

right it was interesting that in his speech in his speech president trump did not use negative language especially about russia in fact he talked about the phone call he and president putin had thanking each other for recent cooperation and so that was a distinct contrast the speech was a distinct contrast to the written report ok gentlemen to jump in here we to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on trump's view of the world staying with them to. come to call russia no one's ever known one has ever had a country never even heard about most.

i think most people in russia see it differently. personal reaction to this, you talk about the doping scandal, the whole site of being painful. tell us about the pain. honest, like most people in russia, i did not expect the russian team to win the sochi olympics, so when russia won, it was a great surprise. i was actually really happy to witness it and cheered just like everybody else, so it was a great surprise, but afterwards when this whole doping scandal started, i realized it was fake. the feeling can be compared to someone living you a christmas present making you very happy and you realize that the gift was probably stolen from someone else. vladimir: i was not suppressed because it fits perfectly with the russian political goals. i thinink on some political levl of russia wanted to be first in the sochi olympics at any cost. it was a question of cost at so russia got this prize in the sochi olympics with the huge cost of doping. this is the problem with russia. they have huge ambitions on the and theional level ability is n

claiming prosecutors improperly obtained thousands of transition staff e-mails now being used in the russia probe. >> i can't imagine there is anything on them frankly because, as we said, there's no collusion. there's no collusion whatsoever. but a lot of lawyers thought that was pretty sad. >> reporter: election season, to the inaugural, the trump transition walked in this government-owned building using government-provided e-mail service. but under the law, transition teams are not government agencies. most of their funding is private. a trump transition lawyer protested to congress, claiming career staff at the federal government's general services administration unlawfully produced the transition team's private materials including e-mails bound by attorney/client privilege to the special counsel. white house officials stayed out of it. >> thankfully i'm not in communication with the transition lawyer for the trump team. >> reporter: a spokesman for robert mueller said when we have obtained e-mails, we have secured either the account owner's consent or appropriate criminal proces

the kremlin came out first saying putin called to thank the cia for providing intelligence russia used to stop a terror plot to bomb a cathedral in st. petersburg. and then later the white house did acknowledge the call and said president trump sees it as an example of good cooperation. kate. >> and kelly, big weeg this week, the tax cut's vote is to happen. senator john mccain is dealing with cancer treatment. is the white house worried about his absence? >> reporter: well, we talked to the president about this tonight, and he says, of course, he is concerned, of course looking back, the president and senator mccain have had a tense relationship at best, but note the different tone from the president. >> i did speak to senator mccain and i wish him well. i wish john well. they've headed back. but i understand he'll come if we ever needed his vote, which hopefully we won't. but the word is that john will come back if we need his vote. and, it's too bad. it's a tough one. >> reporter: the president was referring to the mccain's going back to arizona. tonight mccain's office has not disc

use the same tone in outlining how russia will move into two thousand and eighteen. the numbers and. i'm convinced that we must develop the mechanisms of democracy fully explore the potential of the civic activity that is laid down in our constitution and encourage competition competition of ideas and approaches to solve an issue to treat with respect constructive and responsible opposition and to be such an opposition means not only to argue with authorities and blame them for all moral center we know ourselves all the problems the country confronts but to be responsible means to have a clear program of constructive actions or trump hasn't shied away either announcing his new national security strategy he named china and russia as the primary threats to u.s. economic dominance we also face rival powers russia and china that seek to challenge american influence values and wealth we will attempt to build a great partnership with those and other countries but in a manner that always protects our national interest well as trump nears one full year in the white house rus

up their activity in the mediterranean and the north atlantic the alliance fears that moscow could use its navy to damage or tap into vital undersea data cables that run between europe and north america in an interview with a german newspaper nato secretary general yen stoltenberg said quote russia has invested massively and its marine capability especially in submarines he also pointed out that russia's submarine activity was now at its highest level since the cold war. more than one hundred people are dead in the philippines after a tropical storm brought devastation to the south of the country rescue operations are underway to find dozens who are still missing ten bin is the second deadly storm to hit the country this week it's wept over the southern island of mindanao leaving destruction in its wake. this man and child and lucky to be alive. the effects of mudslides and flooding have been devastating. entire villages under meters of water. others swept away. fallen tears have been digging through mud to try to recover bodies. houses will being flooded but people could no longer get

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that's part of the strategy of making russia great is to make us weak in the international system. >> there is this piece that talks about the dilemma that putin faces that essentially he has to exit strategy. are we looking at president donald trump being president for life? >> well, he definitely doesn't have a strategy or political party and hasn't named a successor. he's afraid of competition. as you said in the opening piece, he's running against nobody, there's been no competition forever. mr. navalny, he's just banned. and when you don't have competition, you're not as sharp. you don't have people that can replace you. so in the long run, not having competition, i think, is bad for the political system in russia. not good for that system. >> you think that the same cyber welfare -- warfare that was used against our election will be deployed by vladimir putin in case he gets traction? >> absolutely. of course. i mean, this information stretching the facts, distorting things is in the putin playbook whether it's in russia or the united states. and until he's deterred from doing t

and are doing a new russia is very useful to keep this terror and i mean just in i was speaking with a russian military official to see evening. his fear is that the hockey team themselves will object because the money of them who would not play the n.h.l. for a lot of what they would all look to see. government jobs and retire because they're very good leaders on and off the ice and so on that they would have to have your state jobs when they retire from ice hockey if they go to the olympics to compete many doors will close them so there will be a decision made tomorrow about that or not and so you know the players are boycott but they will address a very very seriously and this again is going back to they want to represent our nation you know under our. money athletes who don't dope who will drop but they're going to be punished for this as well just very quickly i mean looking at the people that we know have twenty five i mean i know it's a lot from so to the thousand if one thousand items before but they found twenty five people from start you competed he were guilty and you got