sanctions on russia. you know mr secretary. with all due respect i don't appreciate you characterizing my questions my pompei of face some tough questioning in the senate foreign relations committee he was essentially forced into revealing a secret deal made between trump and putin just last week in the house thinking but in general comes haile held his ground occasionally snapping back once or twice to assure everyone that trump did not show any weakness or approach has been the same to steadily raise the cost of aggression with aggression until vladimir putin chooses a less confrontational foreign policy otherwise the administration will continue imposing tough actions against russia in response to its malign activities and i personally make clear to the russians that will be severe consequences for interference in our democratic processes in helsinki we sought to explore whether russia was interesting in reproving our relationship but made clear that the ball is in russia's court pompei also reiterated that trump does agree

putin summit has been postponed until after the russia which is over. claims that russia will interfere in the upcoming midterm elections for how his rivals the democrats meddling remains divisive an issue as ever as we'll hear later . meddling in the way that osama bin ladin meddled with the world trade center. our. annual brics summit of emerging economies underway in south africa with america's trade. agenda and also to come this hour. i. i over six hundred migrants forced their way into spain after storming through a border fence between the countries. and morocco dozens have been left in. giving thanks for joining us this is our. u.s. national security advisor john bolton has confirmed a second meeting between donald trump and putin will only take place after the end of what he called the russia which comes after the secretary of state was grilled in the senate of the recent meeting in helsinki between the two leaders. has the president told you what he and president putin discuss in their two hour closed door meeting and did you did he tell you wh

this president took the side of the russia's president and russia's government which is our adversary. >> at the summit that the president put together that he did not need to. unforced era. in front of the world's stage, the president says i am going with putin and not them. >> president trump taking on democrats. he's taking on his own apai appointees and with dan coates he's saying the lights are blinking red as if they were before 9/11 about russia's cyber in the united states and chris wray and his own deputy attorney general, rosenstein and robert mueller. these are not democrats that the president is disagreeing with. he's disagreeing with his own republican appointees. it is people working for him in an awkward position. john bolton was there. when i was based in moscow, john bolton came through all the time for george w. bush, deeply skeptical of putin and russia. i can't imagine what he's thinking right now. all these people who are working for the president right now does not share his believes and he throws them under the bus leaves them in an awkward position. before we g

from russia. i think it's something that nato has to look at. i think it's very inappropriate. you and i agree that it's inappropriate. i don't know what you can do about it now, but it certainly doesn't seem to make sense that they pay billions of dollars to russia and now we have to defend them against russia. >> nato is the largest 20 nations and there are sometimes differences and different views and sometimes agreements. it's an issue where nato disagreed. but despite these differences, we have always been able to unite around our costs to protect and defend each other. because we understand that we are stronger together than apart. i think that two world wars and the cold war taught us that we are stronger together than apart. >> but how can you be together when a country is getting its energy from the person you want protection against or from the group that you want protection? >> because we understand that when we stand together, also in dealing with russia, we are stronger. i think what

>> he has delivered to russia what russia wants. he's trying to break up nato, he said he might hold out of nato. he is doing everything to undermine the interest of the united states and the interests of being a global leader. instead, he's pursued his own agenda of trying to get a photo op with the president. >> rob: i wanted you to answer that question, do you think the president hasn't been topper then the obama administration? >> the president has not been taught on vladimir putin. look at his tweets.he has not criticized vladimir putin. these criticize everyone in the world but he has never had a harsh word for vladimir putin.it makes him look like a puppet and american presidents should not look weak standing next to vladimir putin who is a dictator and a dog . >> chris, last word real quick. >> this guy defeated against all odds and entire republican establishment, took down dynasties and democrats are being negative, it's disappointing but i'm optimistic, rob. >> rob: it's accepted that this administration has been tougher

russia well done to russia for the. russian people and we saw the ice. so i've been in there for a stop near me some papers board luzhniki spartak stadium i'm talk with my mom every day you know house food house hotel you know money's all of the best for your son and of course i'm so glad and thank you and of course we will enjoy. if somebody asked three years ago russia he will beat spain think attack at the best players in the world in spain are winning a lot of throw for us everyone say no but football is it's the best sports in the world and that's why we like not always winning the favorites and that's why he's nice to be in the world cup in russia and that's football on fish can eat big fish once but not every day troll the world playing for my country that's the best feeling in the world and that's why kids please dream dream come through play for a national team play hard and give all. yes russia will be hoping that they are going to be eating the big fish today now the fans support to make the difference in any game and they're making themselves

/russia relations. it wasn't the president's repeated denial of election interference that drew condemnation but the fact at putin's side. >> it was a clean campaign. i beat hillary clinton easily and, frankly, we beat her and i'm not even saying from the standpoint, we won that race. and it's a shame that there could be a little bit of a cloud over it. >> reporter: going into the summit 'em so summ summit trump offered a bigger gift suggesting the slate to be wiped clean. he blasted the special counsel's investigation. >> i feel that we have both made some mistakes. i think that the probe is a disaster for our country. i think it's kept us apart. it's kept us separated. there was no collusion. at all. everybody knows it. >> reporter: the president repeated that point again and again. >> zero collusion. i say it all the time. there was no collusion. there was no collusion with the campaign. >> reporter: putin echoed those words. >> translator: we should be guided by facts. can you name a single fact to

relations with russia. do you hold russia at all accountable for anything in particular and if so what would you what would you consider them that they are responsible for yes i do i hold both countries responsible i think that the united states has been foolish i think we've all been foolish we should have had this dialogue a long time ago a long time frankly before i got to office and i think we're all to blame i think that the united states now is step forward along with russia and we're getting together and we have a chance to do some great things whether it's nuclear proliferation in terms of stopping to have to do it ultimately that's probably the most important thing that we can be working on but i do feel that we have both made some mistakes i think that the the probe is a disaster for our country i think it's kept us apart it's kept us separated there was no collusion at all everybody knows that people are being brought out to the fore so far that i know virtually none of it related to the campaign

and sanctuary was engaging in diplomacy with russia on multiple levels russia the chose to. invade ukraine and chose to invade american democracy and what that did was that in addition to human rights violations at home that created these tensions and so when president trump has come in and sort of pushed to the side of the argument that in the past somehow everything was done wrong by the united states and that's completely misreading the recent history of american russian relations so i think right now where we are as president trump is trying to rewrite the history and not really stand up for any of the american policy positions that we have over years and decades been pursuing and advancing towards russia we did this in the cold war with the soviet union where there were tensions and conflicts that we had negotiations with the soviet union on multiple issues while also criticizing them but that's no longer the case apparently apparently dealing with russia means only agreeing with russia no longer being able to criticize and deal with them and that's problematic for amer

defense minister to still continue to drag russia into the story the simple reality is russia has committed an attack on british soil which is seeing the dead sea so there is something because i think the world will unite with this in actually. getting williamson's claim that russia has something to do with the death of dawn sturges is just the same old mantra russians did it could you perhaps come up with something new and proper in careful investigation for instance well if you keep in mind gavin williamson was british politician who really raised eyebrows not just in russia but also here in the u.k. when it came to this whole scandal when he said that russia should shut up and go away so in this particular case what could be seen as a somewhat premature reaction seems to be followed by some british politicians as well as journalists here in westminster time to send a clear message to putin about chemical weapons relegate the remaining games of the world cup to elsewhere in europe and also indifference to collateral damage is one of the whole blocks of the putin regime and its extraterrit

russia didear, metal, not only did russia meddle in our elections. they are doing it around the world. they're doing it to the baltics. russia is trying to undermine democracy, delegitimize democracy. they can look good by comparison. making is weare know they interfere with our elections and we have passed sanctions on russia to hold them accountable. what we intend to do is to make sure they do not get away with it again and also, to help our whoes, to help democracies are going to be facing this kind of russian aggression again. we need to make sure we can equip them with tools to stop this from happening. some of your colleagues have called the comments yesterday embarrassing, disgraceful, damaging to the united states relationship with allies. have you talked to the president, do you think you need to clarify, retract exactly what he was trying to accomplish? >> i put out a statement yesterday within minutes after the press conference and i think the statement itself. president trump tried to clarify some of the statements he made in helsinki re

might let russia question a former u.s. ambassador to russia as well as another american citizen because they have questions about these guys and it wasn't simply flatly rejected immediately. >> well, i mean, again, this is all this solicitude for putin. over at the state department they gave a briefing and the -- michael mcfaul the former ambassador that putin hates and the state department quite properly said this is an absurd idea but over at the putin fan club at the white house, it is like, well, we'll think about it. i don't know. i mean, it is just -- every time they have an opportunity to disassociate themselves from vladimir putin they don't. >> yeah. >> and the question is, what's going to happen when the republicans in congress really start to move on a new sanctions bill? because they will and what the president will do on round two of the sanctions. round one, reluctantly signed it. didn't implement it for a long time. >> all right, guys. everybody stand by. there's more news. is president trump really committe

against russia, and germany pays billions of dollars a year to russia. we are protecting germany, we are protecting france, all of these countries. they go out and make a pipeline deal with russia, where they are paying billions of dollars into the conference of russia. we're supposed to protect you against russia, but they are paying billions of dollars to russia. i think that is an appropriate. the former -- inappropriate. the former chancellor of germany is applying it. germany will have almost every -- 70% of their country of their country controlled by russia with natural gas. is that appropriate? i have been complaining about this from the time i got in here. germany is totally controlled by russia because they will get 60% to 70% from energy from russia. you tell me if that is appropriate. i think it is not. i think it is bad for nato. i don't think it should have happened. i think we have to talk to germany about it. on top of that, germany is paying a little bit over 1%. the u.s. is paying 4.2% of a much larger gdp. i think that is inappropriate

trump: you are just making russia richer. you are not dealing with russia. you are making russia richer. >> during the cold war, nato allies were dealing with russia. pres. trump: energy is a much different story than normal trade. you have a country like poland that will not accept the gas. some countries want accepted because they don't want to be captive to russia. germany is captive to russia. it is getting so much of its energy from russia. we are supposed to protect germany, but they are getting their energy from russia. explain that. it can't be explained. >> thank you. [inaudible] pres. trump: i have great confidence that they will fix it. >> [inaudible] pres. trump: i have great confidence that they will be spending more money, as they should be. >> [inaudible] >> later, the president met with angela merkel. they spoke briefly with the press about their meeting and u.s.-german relations. pres. trump:

to use foreign policy disaster the main foreign policy disaster was that he managed to make russia and china elyse you know when russia became basically for the united states because of the ukrainian adventure of mr obama and mrs new one trait. push and pull and they meet into china and what did obama do he visited all of those competitors philippians he reassured that will against china and the chinese gave us the gas prices that we have been asking from them for ten years maybe more so china became you know unwittingly probably russia's a way and it's not going to change in the near future because mr obama may have may have to change but the point here is that this is an ongoing worship is interests are i've been arguing for the last fifteen years that russia's interests were to turn towards china but that does not mean that it was to be totally beholden to china have learnt. his best interests to be able to balance the world is going to break up into two competing poles you've got the western pole and you've got the greater china pole and russia would be very well to be able to move

does ma make russia morley that wil-- russia lethal? >> does not cost much to meddle in an election, just takes a few people pressing buttons on a screen, and key words. japan was a poor country when japan bombed pearl harbor and germany was advanced industrial company, by fought incredibly brutal difficult campaigns against each other and the free world. russia is a poor country does not mean they will not be belligerent. but what is in it for them. liz: that is a great point they could become more belligerent. they really want is to have santions taken off and be able to tried with u.s. >> to expert minerals, they are a mineral-rich country, they want to go as close as they can as they can to chinese model, they have some government control but basically a free market economy. if they can do that with native intelligence of the russian people and their pock pil stocke of minerals they could be a health power house. liz: russia economy is growing at just 1.8%. the sanctions are squeezing russia. 700 companies and individuals starting w

not france or germany, but russia. russia, russia, russia. donald trump is a total embarrassment for this country, for everybody in it. he has no morals. he has no standards. he has no ethics. i think if we cannot get him impeached, we need to try to get the pope to exercise him from the white house, because he is a demon. host: congresswoman? guest: well, as i said in the beginning of our session, i believe the president has been in denial about russia's interference in our election. , thea few days ago department of justice indicted 12 russians. who interfered in our election. military operatives who were working in their official capacity. i do not know how much more evidence you need to show that, clearly, russia was involved. i really thought the president would have canceled his summit, which was scheduled just a couple of days later. he did not. i watched the president of the united states standing next to the russian dictator and almost reding their, -- standing the in what looked to be a position of weakness and not a position of str

and russia. mike pompeo during his confirmation hearing, he was asked do you feel that that why relations are bad? and he said definitively, no, that's not why. it's because of russia's bad behavior. but after this as he's traveling with the president, he chooses to have absolutely no reaction. nothing to say. nothing from the state department. i think it's also striking that hillary clinton that probably without knowing it had almost a p prebu prebuttal for this when she tweeted yesterday, president trump, do you know whose team you're playing for? today president trump himself did not seem to know the answer to that question. >> yeah, they're certainly sharing the ball and they did on that stage. let's go to manu raju for congressional reaction as we continue to monitor what, if anything, republicans are saying from capitol hill. manu? >> reporter: we haven't heard a whole lot from republicans yet, anderson. one reason why is because this is monday and members are just starting to trickle in. w

of dollars a year to russia. so we're protecting germany, we're protecting france, we're protecting all of these countries. and then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with russia, where they're paying billions of dollars into the coffers of russia. so we're supposed to protect you against russia, but they're paying billions of dollars to russia. and i think that's very inappropriate. and the former chancellor of germany is the head of the pipeline company that's supplying the gas. ultimately, germany will have almost 70% of their country controlled by russia with natural gas. so you tell me, is that appropriate? i mean, i've been complaining about this from the time i got in. it should have never been allowed to have happened. but germany is totally controlled by russia, because they were getting from 60 to 70% of their energy from russia and a new pipeline. you tell me if that's appropriate. because i think it's not. and i think it's a very bad thing for nato and i don't think it should h

this seems like it's a nice ingredient to the russia russia russia mantra go ahead joe. you know i think it's more than that peter i've read the criminal complaint and the f.b.i. agents affidavit in the case and i think it's pretty clear that they're setting this up to be this so-called evidence for collusion as you were everyone knows them earlier in the last mile or indictment of the the alleged twelve russian g.r.u. agents did not have anything to do with anyone on the trump team this crime that she's being accused of is trying to build better u.s. russian relations with informal dialogue dinners maybe that was one of the ones ray was that they're setting achievement would person merican u.s. person want a u.s. person to i predict i suspect that this of one and two will be somehow linked to the campaign because she met with a political party won the complaint says and that was a part of it used to be hostile to russia or in the past you have to think that's the republicans so this is all being set up and all she may have violated as you pointed out peter at the beginn

russia interfered in our elections and russia needed to be called out on it. you saw a statement from someone who doesn't normally weigh in on this from richard burr, the chairman of the senate intel committee who has tried very hard to stay away from the politics of this as he's been running that investigation. he said, look, we know russia interfered, and vladimir putin is not our friend and should not be treated that way. even though that statement wasn't especially strong in its language, it was notable how it was delivered. i think the other thing that we're seeing start to come together here today which will be very interesting is the answer to this question of what should congress do. >> right. >> reporter: or what can congress do. we heard chuck schumer a little while ago who laid out a couple of things republicans can do. first, don't water down the existing russia sanctions. let's find a way to ratchet them up. second, let's get some of these national security officials who briefed the president or who were there in that bilateral meeting in front of

to russia? now, if you look at it it, germany is a kamntive of russia. because they're getting so much of the oil and gas from ruthsau. i think it's something that nato has to look at. i think it's very inappropriate. it it doesn't seem to make sense that they paid billions to russia and now we have to defend them against russia. >> there are are sometimes dufferant views and disagreements and gas pipeline from russia is one area where allies disagree but despite these differences we've always been able to unite around our dear protect and defend each other because we're stronger together than apart. we ehad two world wars and cold war that we're stronger together than apart. >> but how can you be together when the person is getting energy from the group you want protection against? >> because we understand especially when dealing with russia that we're stronger -- >> no, you're not just making russia richer. you're not dealing with russia. >> even in cold war there were nato allies dealing with

just a few weeks later, rebellion arrived in russia. tens of thousand rallied in the streets of moscow. the biggest protest there since the fall of the soviet union. >> people were hanging off lamp posts. people were in the streets. it was really shocking. >> putin was now living the same nightmare he had endured as the kgb officer in east germany in 1989. this time in his own backyard. and he wasn't even president at the time. he was prime minister. having handed the presidency over to his associate, dmitry medvedev. >> as the winter went longer and longer and got colder and colder the protests got bigger and bigger. as putin saw people turning against him, hillary clinton weighed in. >> the russian people, like people everywhere, deserve the right to have their voices heard and their votes counted. >> when putin hears something that, i imagine he hears bush talking about saddam hussein. he hears that as they are coming for me. they are trying to dry me from -- drive me from power, and what the hello health do you know about me and whe

what what russia was. you know a few weeks ago which is a hardline authoritarian state where critics are dealt with dissidents scourged i think the issues that russia faces haven't gone away the canonic issues are very big and troubling for many russians i think that yeah they've had this opportunity to enjoy this world cup and good on em it's been a fantastic few weeks but i do think that those problems i thought they haven't disappeared they're still there they're real and mr putin regardless of what he accomplishes with donald trump is still going to have to deal with and it's a question of how he deals them i suspect he will deal with them as he has done in the past which is to attempt to silence all criticism and when it comes to the economy has there been much of a boost seen why would we russians because of this world cup well i think yes i'm sure that the economy has taken a bounce up but again that that's that's a short term fix clearly there was a lot of beer and alcohol that vendors who benefite

and making baseless accusations of improper contact with russia or being influenced by russia against the president is extremely inappropriate. the president contends the fact that people with security clearances are making these baseless charges provides inappropriate legitimacy to accusations with zero evidence. when we have further updates on that front i'll let you know. reporter: they have free speech he does not like antaeus punishing them for it. -- and he is punishing them for it. ms. sanders: no, i think you're making up your own story there. the president doesn't like that they are politicizing departments that are not meant to be political. reporter: isn't the president doing exactly what you said the president doesn't want people doing, politicizing these by going after people? ms. sanders: no, when you're the person who holds the nation's deepest, most sacred secrets and you go out and make false accusations against the president of the united states , he thinks that is a -- something to be very concerned with and we're exploring what those options are and what that looks

it's obviously not far from russia. it borders russia. pretty wpresident trump was on european tour. it is a quick hop from scotland. it has been said to be neutral ground. remember, finland is a member of the european union. it is not a member of nato. as you mentioned, it has been the scene of previous summits. most importantly possibly helsinki is remembered for arms control talks in the 1970s. these were absolutely important in ensuring, if you like, a peaceful end to the cold war. certainly the cold war could continue under more balanced terms. so people are hoping that this summit might be a success in that sense. what they're hoping it won't be is what some people in moscow are calling yalta two. the end of world war ii between roosevelt and stalin was a chance for -- well, began, if you like, the soviet domination of eastern europe. there are some in moscow who are hoping this summit might reestablish a russian sphere of influence over eastern europe, might lead to president trump possibly recognizing the annexation of crimea, a l

i've been very impressed by russia i've been very impressed by. having had no support absolutely no support when i travel around in. russia to do stories all the eleven cities all the host cities i had very little. optimism about the russian team and i think the thing with with the team is they have. they didn't have to qualify so there's no competitive matches for native two year olds. and because of your fee for ranking. you drop and i think top of my head sixty fifth russia came in a sixty fifth in the future and that's a long way down we only got thirty two teams and we don't know if you might say many spoke here but you know you you know it's it's time to take that for anything but then you know that the way the whole tournament has progressed for the mind and i think the chance of the way he's tech to be. changed things he had so many experiments in all these preparations he won three of them back then he went for the back then he went five at the back and everything seemed not to wooden once he got to the tournament and he had all the issue

new rock bands in russia you know i left russia in one thousand nine hundred six and back then there really wasn't the internet so i came here i had my my daughter and i really was just connected pretty much by russian all the music and it only came back a few years ago when i decided to make this archive website with all my photos and basically it started that i just had thousands of photos i had made from my russia days all over my house and in boxes and i thought you know i'm going to scan them so that i can throw them away and have them all digitally and when i started to scan them i thought wow maybe i should make a website maybe russians might like this so i did make my website site joanna sting ray dot com and when the website came out within the first two or three weeks there were one hundred million i have. a million people that went on the web site looking at all the old photos and then i saw how everybody was for that time and it was interesting but you know everything in the arts sometimes in life is cyclical and so i think it's just natural that it's about twenty five ye

good good food russia sharing goodness. the u.s. president's national security adviser confirms the second trumpington summit has been postponed until quote after the russian which is over. the mall donald trump kinds russia will interfere in the upcoming midterm elections to help his wife and the democrats russian meddling remains a divisive and she was ever as we hear later. meddling in the way that osama bin ladin meddled with the world trade center oh. oh. and the tenth annual break summits of emerging economies is underway in south africa with america's trade war on the agenda. are you watching all of this the saving which just come seven pm here in moscow. now the u.s. national security advisor john bolton has confirmed a second meeting between donald trump and fatima putin will only take place after the end of what he called the russia which shunned it comes after the secretary of state was grilled in the senate over the recent meeting in helsinki between the. has the president told you what he and president putin discussed t

siding with russia over election meddling. president trump wraps up his meeting with vladimir putin, saying he believes no cterference took place. pres. trump: all ian do is ask the question. president putin, he said it is not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. laura:utting the ball in mr. trump's court, russia's president offers to help in the mueller investigation, and says yes, trump was his preferred ndidate. plus, a fine day for a parade in paris. the world cup champions take a victory lap down the champs elysees. laura: welcome to ouicviewers on puelevision in the u.s. and also around the world. president trump called his summit with president putin in helsinki today productive. but afterwards, the u.s. president refused to back the conclusion of american intelligence agencies that russia interfered in the 2016 election. donald trump said vladimir putin gave him a strong and powerful denial. in a statement rushed out dsafterwthe director of national intelligence, dan coats, stood by the asse

/russia relations. others include russia's illegal occupation of crimea and its backing of a syrian regime that used chemical weapons. but this morning, president trump blaming tensions on the u.s. and the mueller investigation tweeting, our relationship with russia has never been worse thanks to many years of u.s. foolishness and stupidity. and now the rigged witch hunt. today asked does he think putin bears any responsibility? >> yes, i do. i hold both countries responsible. i think that the united states has been foolish. i think that the probe isasr for our country. i think it's kept us apart. it's kept us separated. there was no collusion at all. everybody knows it. people are being brought out to the fore. so far that i know, virtually none of it related to the campaign. they're going to have to try really hard to find somebody that did relate to the campaign. that was a clean campaign. i beat hillary clinton easily, and frankly, we beat her. >> reporter: putin revealing for the first time who he

perception of russia as an anime. this is outright slander. that is being committed by an employee of m s n b c which is to push this frame of anything connected to russia being a form of treason if you look at malcolm nance's own record of wild statements including that the united states as a constitutional republic is about to be destroyed by a lot of mere putin it's pretty clear that he's to intelligence what harvey weinstein is to feminism this is all about geopolitics and people like glenn greenwald. have been become collateral damage in the revival of mccarthyism. into the world cup now there are just four countries lapped in the race for cup glory later on tuesday france will clash with valid and they semifinals while those teams turning out the two favorites to lift the trophy and then on wednesday mainland played croatia here in moscow. meanwhile a charity footy match involving stars of the game has been held in red square participating with the captain of western mini's nine hundred ninety world cup winning side an x. russia midfield

what what russia was. you know a few weeks ago which is a hardline authoritarian state where critics are dealt with dissidents scourged i think the issues that russia faces haven't gone away the economic issues are very big and troubling for many russians i think that yeah they've had this opportunity to enjoy this world cup and good on em it's been a fantastic few weeks but i do think that those problems i thought they haven't disappeared they're still there they're real and mr putin regardless of what he accomplishes with donald trump is still going to have to deal with and it's a question of how he deals them i suspect he will deal with them as he has done in the past which is to attempt to silence all criticism and when it comes to the economy has there been much of a boost seen why would we russians because of this world cup well i think yes i'm sure that the economy has taken a bounce up but again that that's that's a short term fix clearly there was a lot of beer and alcohol that vendors who benefit

, russia meddled. there are probably other countries that meddled. the united states exerts its influence arndt world whound th. >> you are -- hold on. just to be clear, i want clarity. you are comfortable with russia interfering in our election and attacking our democracy? that sits okay with you? >> i'm not comfortable with their influence campaign. what we can also say is that it's been unanimously determined that no votes were changed. the outcome of the election wouldn't have been changed. >> isn't that essentially -- isn't that and the president saying something similar giving russia a green light to do it again in 2018 and 2020? >> absolutely not. when you look at the sanctions levelled by the trump administration, diplomats expelled, consulates closed, they are taking strong action. we're working with the intelligence community and our cyber security teams to make sure that we have hardened up the systems to make sure they can't influence any future elections. >> thank you for your time this mo

russia russia has interests are been arguing for the last fifteen years that russia's interests were to turn towards china but that does not mean that it was to be totally beholden to china russia's best interests are to be able to balance the world is going to break up into two competing poles you've got the western pole and you've got the greater china pole and russia would be very well to be able to move back and forth between them play them off against each other where possible and i don't want to sound. stolen this from one thousand nine hundred three didn't bring blatter what i mean just tore also had it had a point basically in this triangle the soviet union now russia china the united states because always been like that every paul wanted the other two poles to quarrel. but everyone's been the main really diplomacy cold relations with both of them to met you next is it a yes in that science i'll know was and they need nixon went to be gin and managed to have good relations with china have normal relations with britain there and china and the soviet union of our mortal fall sa

we have sanctioned russia for what they've done to other countries, it's time to sanction russia for what they've done to us and to make it plain what will happen if they interfere in the 2018 election. >> harris: that's really interesting, what should we do, what should the sanctions look like? the president is getting ready to meet with the russian president on monday. we are told he was briefed about all of this, the president was briefed earlier this week, he knew what will be happening today as well. what does a sanction look like against russia? that's appropriate with meddling in a u.s. presidential election. >> i am most concerned in preventing future meddling. russia has sputnik radio, bbc broadcast in one category, if they want to editorialize openly that's one thing but if they are going to be tampering with vote tabulation, stealing files, which was the very crime committed in watergate and again in 2016, we have to cut russia off from our banking system. we have to draw a line in the sand. if they start using criminal activity to interfere with our vote tabulation or ste

national interest to have a relationship with russia. understanding putin is abauthoritarian figure, understanding that some of us don't necessarily give legisl e legitimacy to leaders and also understanding that the -- gorbachev is a part owner, it's where the journalists so many have been killed. russians also seek some relationship with the united states and many journalists i know, david, will speak to this too, because we both worked in moscow off and on for many years, russian journalists are looking at america and wondering if we're losing our head and doing more to contribute to putin to the view of infallible, who is a strong man and should not be poked at and not treated in this hyper way. but i think it's a very dangerous perilous moment, fareed. >> let me bring in david remnick. >> the problem is this, the problem is not the idea of having good relations with russia. who would not want that? you have the two big nuclear -- the two greatest nuclear powers in history on the face of the earth. of course you want at least a modic

russia. but they have yet to produce clear evidence of a link to russia's security services. translation: the role of the russian security services in preparing the assassination of a russian citizen and journalist, babchenko, will be proved by us in court, i am sure of that. russia crossed a red line a while ago. russia is using illegal methods. russia is trying to kill its opponents on foreign soil, to intimidate those opponents who are still in russia. this is ridiculous, this is absolutely absurd. the russian state has nothing to do with arkady babchenko. he is a free man in the free world, he can do what he wants. and actually before that case nobody even... i mean the international community on a high level, nobody has no idea who is arkady babchenko. honestly. if there is a russian link, as ukraine claims, it leads through the only man who has so far been arrested. the middleman. this is a court hearing for borys herman, the man allegedly at the centre of this plot. it is a chance for

so russia is a real threat. nato is one of those alliances that stands against russia. and we need to be very clear that we support nato. that we want to make sure that resources are there and i appreciate what president trump has done to remind the nato countries that they need to comply with their 2% requirement. they're working on that. they need to continue to work on that. >> he said they should be paying up immediately is how they put it. not wait until 2024. do you think he's right for hammering home on this? >> well, again, there was an agreement that was reached among the nato countries. everybody agreed to that. they are continuing to ramp up their defense spending, and i think that's appropriate. they are continuing to provide troops, as we're looking at our joint defenses across the baltics and eastern europe in poland. so i think we need to continue those efforts and support them and applaud what's been done and continue to urge them to keep increasing their defense spending because the threat from russia is very real. and i hope the president, when he sees

russia hanes vaded parts of eastern ukraine. russia has taken over crimea. if russia has another new pipeline to help export its natural gas, it can just shut off the revenue from four countries like -- poor countries like ukraine. it can shut off their energy completely. one of the things that president trump has done that i think has been helpful and i have been calling for during the obama administration is providing lethal weapons to ukraine to deal with the incursions coming from russia to eastern ukraine. vladimir putin actually cut off natural gas supplies to ukraine in 2006 and in 2009 and in 2014. he invaded ukraine. he annexed crimea, in part, to cut off access to the natural gas and oil resources. this pattern that vladimir putin has of using energy as a weapon, and the best defense against this weapon is for these countries in europe to have the kind of energy diversity and energy security that i've recommended. so in march i wrote a letter to the treasury and state departments encouraging the trump administration to look at ways to stop the cons

relations with russia. do you hold russia at all accountable for anything in particular? if so, what would you consider them that they are responsible for? >> i do. i hold both countries responsibility. i think the united states has been foolish. i think we have all been foolish. we should have had this dialogue a long time ago, a long time frankly before i got to office. i think we're all to blame. i think that the united states now has stepped forward along with russia. we're getting together and we have a chance to do some great things, whether it's nuclear proliferation in terms of stopping, have to do it. ultimately, that's probably the most important thing that we can be working on. i do feel that we have both made some mistakes. i think that the probe is a disaster for our country. i think it's kept us apart. it's kept us separated. there was no collusion at all. everybody knows it. people are being brought out to the fore. virtually, none of it related to the campaign. they will have to try really hard to find something that did relate to the campaign. that was a

in the session dealing by the mainstream media russia russia russia russia they want to stick here but americans real americans don't care the regular old americans the road so to speak they are not buying this they have their every day concerns about their well being they don't believe the stuff about russia and frankly i think it's counterproductive and i think the more they try to force us to believe something we simply do not believe they become the object of this trust i think it's counterproductive the more they tell us to care about russia the more ordinary americans say those people are a bunch of liars that's all take notice. and undercover probe by britain's channel four t.v. has revealed that tech giant facebook doesn't always remove content even if it violates the company's guidelines our reporter attended a training session on facebook's content in moderation. you know so it's amazing. to see the city of utah. undercover reporter he goes in and one of the things that he's instructed to do in his training is not to delete for example certain racist means or certain images a

and russia. here's president trump's take. >> the main thing and we discussed this also is zero collusion. it has had a negative impact upon the relationship of the two largest nuclear powers in the world. we have 90% of nuclear power. it's ridiculous. it's ridiculous what's going on with the probe. >> a strange turn to the mueller probe and oblique reference to u.s. and russian nuclear weapons. top officials have accused russia of violating the inf treaty in europe. that arms control agreement stated neither side could deploy short or intermediate range ground-based nuclear or conventional missiles like the one you see there. the vice chairman of the joint chiefs here testified in march of last year that russian was threatening all u.s. forces in europe with these land-based cruise missiles that they have deployed. they're posing a direct threat to nato no mention by the president today. >> dana: thanks, dana. we'll learn more from behind the scenes. amazing moments at today's news conference. v

he's like the bob dylan of russia i didn't believe there was any rock in russia but i thought ok i'll go. and meet him because how cool he think it will be to meet me that i'm an american rocker and i met him and we sat we were at seven goggles apartment and i played them a couple of songs off an e.p. album i had released here in the states and morris thought it was very cool and it was a little bit punk and he liked it and i i felt very proud and then i said oh can i hear something of yours and we put in a cassette and i put my headphones on and i started to hear one of his songs that was called tonight and it was so hunting and and just brilliant and powerful that i started to slink in my chair because i realized i was in the presence of somebody very important and that i was just the silly girl from los angeles very naive. and that he was the real rocker so that that moment changed my whole life and correct me if i'm wrong but i think you were twenty four years old at the time cali girl in drab. reach was a feeling in oxymoron the source but and even bigger paradox was how this dol

to counter russia. an expansionist russia. and it's one of the things where i agree with the president when i say when he said he's been very tough on them. >> chris stewart from utah, thanks for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >>> still ahead -- the president calls the people of montenegro strong and aggressive, though the proom minister of that country might say the same thing about mr. trump. we'll explain. we have a live report. >>> also, controversial comments from the president calling the u.s. commitment to defending nato allies into some sort of question. we're going to talk to the former u.s. ambassador to russia to get a sense of how much these words may be damaging u.s. relations. but in very differents f f does your business internet provider promise a lot? let's see who delivers more. comcast business gives you gig-speed in more places. the others don't. we offer up to 6 hours of 4g wireless network backup. everyone else, no way. we let calls from any of your devices come from your business number. them, not so mu

and russia alone. he says it could have been other people. let's run this sound from afternoon. >> i accept our intelligence community's conclusion that russia's meddling in the 2016 election took place. could be other people, also. a lot of people out there. >> could be other people, also. there's a lot of people out there. isn't he contradicting the intelligence community in this statement in which he's asserting he believes the intelligence community? >> well, no. i think both things could be true and he's alluded that, look, china, clearly hits us every day with cyber attacks and iran and north korea and a bunch of other countries but the focus in 2016 is on russia. russia was the country. vladimir putin was the leader who said we want to go in and mess with their elections. jake, i was in moscow in the august before the election. i came home. this was well before other people were talking about this. i said they're going to mess with our elections. didn't take a genius to see that. they'd done it

and russia the hostages all of you internal political struggles. we want to be given some documents on this issue at least some material but as you see no one is saying anything specific that it's like in the case of the accusations against us over the meddling in the us a political process to be had not given. and now we see that people became the victims of the so-called but i love you have the names of these people before you are these people they suffer and i was. picked up the bottle that was used to attack scribbled i can't may i ask you one last question sir. but let us handle this you first. who picks it up and from where and what is its chemical film is us . you know whether there are different reasons for which the people have suffered and maybe these reasons are inside the u.k. . but no one wants to investigate this properly just through empty accusations and for what sake why worsen the relations between our countries from russia wants to build them with the u.k. properly. used. as a calling and by effort of the effort by the west in re

when you think about a dialogue with russia or dialogue with other countries but dialogue with russia in this case what we've had such queer relationships for so many years dialogue is a very important thing and it's a very good thing so that we get along with great you know get along with them get along with them but i think we have a very good chance of having some very positive things i thought that the meeting that i had with president putin was really strong i think that they were willing to do that frankly i was unsure whether or not they would be willing to do. and we'll be having future meetings and we'll see whether or not that comes to fruition but we had a very very good so i just wanted to clear up i have the strongest respect for our intelligence agencies headed by my people we have great people whether it's. dan coats or any of them i mean we have we have tremendous people tremendous talent within the agencies i think they're being guided properly and we all want the same thing we want success for our country so with that we're going to start a meeting now on tax reducti

intelligence agency that is russia interfered in our election. it was held just three days of robert mueller indicted a dozen russian agents. the "washington post" reports tonight that trump, quote, spent much of the weekend growling over his own justice department's indictments over 12 russian intelligence official interfering in the 2016 election. he fretted that it was intended to injure him politically. he also made clear that he was more excited to sit down with the russian president than he had been to visit with nato allies earlier in the week in brussels. the meeting came after the director dan coates issued a chilling warning about cyberattacks from russia and other countries friday. he said all the lights are flashing the way they did prior to 9/11 and our country's infrastructure is constantly under attack. president trump was asked about coates' warning. >> dan coates said america's dej tall infrastructure is susceptible to a large scale attack. do you agree with that? >> i don't know if i agree whatw that. i have to look. i have resp

as the russia investigation deepens. thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> i say this is the most important profile of scott schools because it was the only one. >> the only one. >> what is your reaction to him leaving? and has anything evolved since you, since you wrote this last year? last summer? >> has anything happened since then? >> in terms of his role. >> i would assume he came into this job thinking he would stay in it many, many years. his predecessor was in the job over 20 years. i speck scott schools who is being grouped for replacing him thought he had a good future. he didn't know president trump would be elected. mabel he took a different job. there are no instigating disputes, no duress that went to his exit. it seems like he just got another opportunity. pain it just looks like an opportunity when you hate your job. i don't know. >> he was an associate deputy attorney general. there are a number of people who have that job. he is describe as the senior career official at the justice department and be