president, the witch hunt has produced 12 russian witches, at the highest level of the russian military. this is nothing to be waveded off. this is a very serious allegation. backed up by indictments and lengthy information, including some very classified documents and other sources that the fbi has used and the other intelligence agencies. it is time for this president to stand up for america. it's time for him to put on his big boy pants and push back against russia. russia is not a friend. russia is an enemy. russia has invaded crimea. russia has invaded the ukraine. russia has tried to disrupt the elections in europe. they shulurely disrupted the elections in the united states. it's time for the president of the united states to stand up for america. >> should the president demand the extradition of these 12 military officers? >> absolutely. and the 12 and 13 before. 25 of them in whole. and who knows what will come from this, from other areas. the indictment indicates that there's a whole lot more going on here. we know that the russian gru operatives committed a crime in the unite

first of all, on the question of the russian -- the indictment of the 12 russian military intelligence officers, he once again denied it was the russian state. i did something that i suspect president trump did not do. i took the indictment, i had it in my hands and i talked to him about what was in it, the specific units and the gru, the military intelligence unit of russia and that these were actors of the russian state and did he want to see it. he said no, he wouldn't touch it. put it down on the table. we then argued is too strong a word but went back and forth in an intense way. this is remarkable television for a good eight to ten minutes about the allegations. at one point the russian president said let's make it clear, whoever was and he denied it was the russian state that was involved, whoever did it even if it was russian individuals what they took from the clinton campaign computers was real information, true information, not made-up information. i suggest at one point you're saying if they stole real money from a bank, not counterfeit money it made it better? he didn't li

and russian president promised to improve ties after a long talks in helsinki a pair of discussed election meddling nuclear stocks in the mideast and much much more we'll get details from our correspondents around the world. on little rock thanks so much for your company everyone u.s. president donald trump has held his first ever summit with his russian counterpart vladimir putin at talks in the finnish capital helsinki the pair promised to improve relations between their two nations despite a number of thorny issues that includes allegations russia meddled in the twenty sixteen u.s. election although putin denied any russian interference while the pair also discussed nuclear stocks syria and all trump hailed the day's talks as a success and promised war dialogue would follow. this was a very constructive day this was a very constructive few hours that we spent together. it's in the interest of both of our countries to continue our conversation and we have agreed to do so i'm sure we'll be meeting again in the future often. and hopefully we will so every one of the problems that we discus

to extradite russian citizens. so i think for the president to demand something that isn't going to happen puts the president in a weak position, and i think the president has made it very clear he intends to approach this discussion from a position of strength. >> well, the nation's top intelligence officer is sounding the alarm on the growing rate of cyber threats and attacks against the united states. director of national intelligence dan coats calls the current level of technology threats similar to pre-9/11 concerns. his comments come on the heels of special counsel robert mueller's indictments of 12 russian agents for interfering in the 2016 election. here's what dan coats said on friday. >> these actions are persistent, they're pervasive, and they are meant to undermine america's democracy on a daily basis. the warning signs are there. the system is blinking. and it is why i believe we're at a critical point. >> all right. still ahead, everybody, much more on president trump's summit with russian president v

the russian nation of the russian sports. now the winner of that i will go on to play england who defeated sweden on in the day down and it was an interesting game in that quite comfortable outside you know it's been a case of england so far i think in all their games not really needing to get out of second or third gear not really using the full strength and depth of the bench of the squads a few changes here and there but last sticking to the same want to see the table lead to go all female sweden. it's not fair to send in top to the match but we certainly didn't see the sweden that we saw for example against germany where they very much pressure them pushed up to the last minute and nearly got out when we can see the hollers of the in sweden game now just to get an idea of what exactly happened. so so this is essentially the first goal that we're going to see now ashley young taking the corner from the left and hiram of wireless the sense about really rising above everyone else power at home and. most of the england goals

the russians have been the russians since stalin. they're the same people year in and year out and romney was right in 2012. i think the american media is trying to infuse donald trump with a sort of willful blindness he doesn't demonstrate. >> what the heck are you talking about the media? this is john mccain. this is actual -- this is mark warner. these are serious officials on both sides. this is not the media. that's such a cop-out. >> no. the commentary around -- >> i'm tired of that. >> it tries to make trump look unprepared for this when he has pompeo, bolton and -- >> it's not the media saying it. it's the people inside the white house saying it. >> the only preparation has been john bolton going over last week and pursuing a policy that's completely the opposite of what john bolton has espoused his entire career. >> it's one thing to do the spying and all the other things that russia has been dying. but again when it's turning americans against americans an that was their point, to americans not to trust not just the politic

we have known for a long time that the russians and specifically russian intelligence were behind the stealing of e-mails from the dnc and disseminating them from the media, but when we pull back, i think this is another really important chapter in a pretty serious set of events, and the life of this investigation, there have been 35 indictments now, including these. we have five people who plead guilty and one person in prison. we also learned from the document interesting timing that the day donald trump during the campaign called on the russians to take hillary clinton's e-mails and put them out, the russians went and tried to do exactly that. >> do you think the summit should be canceled? >> i do. i think it's totally inappropriate for the president of the united states to meet privately with the russian president when this overwhelming evidence has come out, specific people have been named as to how the russians were trying to meddle in the election. this was really hard for donald trump to do, but he needs to put his own interests aside. >> the white house says the summit is goi

it's time for him to stop hugging the russian bear. the russian bear is a very dangerous bear. it's time for him to stand back and, frankly, punch the bear in the nose. >> let me play for you what the president told my colleague kristen welker. this happened yesterday about werther his open criticism of nato, which we saw this week, is giving president putin the upper hand. here it is, everyone. >> let me explain something. we have left nato with more money, with more unity, with more spirit than nato probably has ever had. when you look at what we've done in terms of russia, i guarantee whoever it is in russia, they're saying, oh, gee, do we wish that trump was not the victer in that election. we have been far tougher on russia than anybody, anybody. >> the president maintain as certain stance against russia while at the same time tends to go after american allies. what do you make of that? and what about congress? can you do anything about that? >> in fact, congress did. 100% of the members of congress voted to make it absolutely clear that nato is critical. we passed a resol

the russians who denied involvement, denying it again. this is what their ambassador to the uk said today. >> this is the reports of the media. unfortunately we don't have official statements from the british. so i want to hear from the foreign office. a lot of versus in the newspaper are not supported by statements of the foreign office. >> reporter: so far no comment from the british government or metropolitan police leading the investigation here. clearly whatever they say can give important details away to the russians. >> nic robertson, thank you so much. >>> back here at home, coming up, 838 days and counting. the next presidential election may seem a tad far away, but the buzz around the democrats who could challenge trump is building. chris cillizza has your power rankings coming up. ♪ it is such a good time to kiss ♪ ♪ it is such a good time to dance ♪ ♪ it is such a good time to [ laughing ] ♪ scoobidoo doobidoo ♪ scoobidoo doobidoo [ goose honking ] ♪ [ laughing ] a bad day on the road still beats a good one off

and pilgrims in the russian city of. mark one hundred years since the killing of tsar nicholas the second and his family thousands marched into perception from the execution site to the location where the bodies were discarded bolshevik troops killed nicholas during the russians of a war eighteen months after he advocated power as russia's last emperor. world cup winners france arrived in paris to a hero's welcome following sunday's four two victory in the final over croatia hundreds of thousands of fans lined the shop early say to greet them and to top off celebrations it was revealed that they were to receive france's highest civilian award the legion of honor. the victorious france team touching down on home soil the world cup trophy in the secure hands of captain and goalkeeper hugo lloris on the famous song celie's a fence waited patiently for the heroes of the was. i'm so happy to be part of this celebration i was lucky enough to experience it already in one nine hundred ninety eight in two thousand and six when we

those are russian agents. this is not a question of having a bunch of oligarchs acting on their own. the last set of indictments were russian intelligence agents that clearly were given direction to do this. i think very strong actions against those individuals and against the russian government is in order. i think this is something that we should be looking at. the president feels like he can just go in and give vladimir putin a big hug and everything is going to be fine. that is not the way it works. >> you heard dan coats, director of national intelligence, issue a warning about current, not looking to 2016, but current threats of cyber attacks, including to the upcoming mid term and presidential elections. to our viewers, are those elections in danger of russian interference? >> well, they are, they are for two reasons. one, the president fails to address putin any kind of way at all aggressively as he should. he ought to be defending the united states of america. secondly, i think as one of my colleagues

the american and russian presidents side by side. now leading to a bipartisan backlash over president trump's comments. when asked whether he believed america's intelligence agencies or putin when it came to russian meddling in the 2016 election, trump appeared to side with putin. tonight the controversial comments, the global response, and we go inside putin's russia. it began with a handshake. a quick photo opportunity. president trump with a grin. president putin stone-faced. and then it was down to business. >> great to be with you. >> reporter: after the cameras left the room, it was just the two men and their translators. an unprecedented two-hour off the record meeting. they emerged together, the president of the united states standing side by side with the president of russia, addressing the world and pointed questions about russia's interference in america's election. >> do you hold russia at all accountable for anything in particular? >> yes, i do. i hold both countries responsible. i think that the united states has been f

russians didn't change the votes. now as far as we know that is true, but that does not mean that team trump didn't capitalize on and benefit from russian meddling. according to the indictment of 12 russian intel officers last week, the conspirators posing as guccifer 2.0 were in contact with senior members of the campaign. quote, thank you for writing back. do you find anything interesting in the docs i posted? that person was trump confidant roger stone. in 2016 stone appeared to have advanced notice of the wikileaks notices of john podesta's emails before they came out on october 7, 2016. john podesta was clinton's campaign chairman. roger stone doesn't deny the text exchange, but does deny any advance knowledge of the emails. june 9, 2016, donald trump jr., paul manafort met with a kremlin connected lawyer after donald trump jr. was told that the russian government had dirt on hillary clinton. if it is what you say, i love it, don jr. wrote back. july 2016 donald trump senior asked russia to find clinton's, quote,

of the old russian empire. i think what the president hasn't grasped is putin is an enemy of democracy. but i think president trump has a strategy, and it's going back to balance of power politics of the 18th century where he sees three big powers, the united states, russia and china, and he's one of the strong men, not go by rule of law but law of rule, that's something that's his goal, he's trying to dismantle wto, nato, eu, any kind of multi-lateral organization he sees this as little pugss trying to tie down the giant. >> we regarded the president of the united states as the leader of the free world since world war ii as the leader of those states and countries that were open to democracy and international rules and we've abdoe indicated this position. it's an extraordinary turn of events and one we need to pay a lot of attention to. >> it's pretty extraordinary. you've worked with the intelligence community, you were secretary of defense. if you read this indictment, the specific details, names, times, pla

it's the people who have learned from the russians. the main thing you learn from cyber attacks is that other countries are watching what everybody else is doing. they're aware that you and i are caught as the collateral damage in this war going on at 30,000 feet above us. and it's very easy for other actors to mimic somebody else. so in the 2018 elections, it might be the russians who come back but the heat is on them. the chinese have an awful lot at stake in this election because of the tariffs, our other concerns, other actors do as well. they're all studying what the russians did in 2016, and saying how can we improve upon that? >> would it be fair to say that because the president has been defensive and in denial, probably the u.s. government is not ramped up at full speed to deter something like this? >> that's a great understatement. we lost a huge opportunity, several of them. first, after the presidential election was over, the president, having received his briefings about the russians could have said i was legitimately elec

what you're going to hear regarding this this russian citizen is she is called a russian agent what is missed completely is that agent should be referred to as a lobbyist and agent in law in american law means a representative are when american media say agent they think secret agent. espionage agent you know something nefarious something involving behind the scenes something illegal or something that is other than an agent this particular person was charged with basically being a lobbyist and asons without having registered with the department of justice could more indictments happen absolutely will the media american media clarify what that means absolutely not. three giants of social media facebook google and twitter have once again faced u.s. lawmakers this time and an attempt to defend how they filter content their dress thank you very sions of bias claiming their platforms do not discriminate for political reasons it comes as facebook admits that its algorithm labeled thousands of russian uses as interested in treason perfectly for advertising purposes and that's raising concerns

this shows russian air defenses. the solid circles are where those units are located in peacetime and my children where they were on russian borders or in russian allied roots, they would become nato territory. but there's three things i want to say about this chart. first, those hair defense levels over over parts of nature and that's obviously potentially offers them some ability to cover those, they were going to do anything very near their borders, doesn't even cover in this case, doesn't even cover all or some of those states. you may have seen other versions of graphics like this. this is a relatively conservative version based on systems that are fielded. some of the systems russia is working on when extendable at most two 400 kilometers so those are two of the largest of those, about 500 kilometers across. second, russia is very large. there's a whole lot of russia to defend this is the densest part of their air defense network and there are still so there concentrated around moscow, st. petersburg which is n

it's important we let the russians know this. so yes, i think he ought to cut his losses with this disastrous trip to europe, not make it worse by a friendly meeting with vladimir putin on the heels of yet another indictment of russia. >> because the specifics in this indictment are enormous. they name names. the u.s. intelligence community hates to do that. they think it could compromise future intelligence operations. they go through point by point. it's one thing to say the russians interfered. it's another thing to bring it up with all this specific detail. >> exactly. what i've been looking at in these indictments, like the last indictment, is both what they include and what they don't include. here in the first indictment on the social media campaign, there was no mention of the hacking and dumping operation. so this indictment was foreseeable. we knew this was coming. but here, there's no mention, for example, of the russians communicating with papadopoulos. now, i'm going through this indictment in realtime, but i haven't

prosecutors indicted twelve russian spies for hacking cheering that election. will menace president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today there was no collusion at all everybody knows it but that contradicts mounting evidence against russia the intelligence community that has confirmed russian intervention you've got the social media companies facebook twitter you tube confirming russian interference you have all of our partner countries for around europe confirming russian intervention. in an interview off to his meeting with trump putin said u.s. politics was to blame it's absolutely an interest i'm not interested in this issue that it will end this single bid it's the internal political games of the united states you know you didn't mention you were talking of games and it was to football that the russian president turned telling trump the full was in his court but his growing number of critics believe that it is the u.s. president who has dropped the ball. more on this story now with our washington bureau chief alexander phenomena who'

two vintage russian sedans, a russian 4x4 and a trailer like this one. the document does not say how much putin has in the bank or in investments. top treasury official adam szubin talked to the bbc. >> i'm not prepared to give you figures, but what i can say he supposedly draws a state salary of something like $110,000 a year. that's not an accurate statement of the man's wealth. >> we may not know exactly how much putin is worth, but we do know this. vladimir putin is remarkably popular in russia. why? we will tell you when we come back. happy anniversary dinner, darlin'. can this much love be cleaned by a little bit of dawn ultra? oh yeah one bottle has the grease cleaning power of three bottles of this other liquid. a drop of dawn and grease is gone. my gums are irritated. i don't have to worry about that, do i? actually, you do. harmful bacteria lurk just below the gum line. crest gum detoxify works below the gum line to neutralize harmful plaque bacteria and help reverse early gum damage. and, now there's new crest gum & enamel repair. it gives you

and the russian government. now it's important to point out that the charges against buttin are related to lobbying and failing to register as a foreign agent as she carried out lobbying allegedly on behalf of the russian government at no point is anyone accusing her of espionage now what's also interesting is if you read this affidavit they refer to the fact that one of her communications with a russian government official was titled posner two point zero now this is a reference to the t.v. personality vladimir posner who then the f.b.i. agent refers to as a propagandist who works in the disinform ation department of the soviet k.g.b. often appeared on western television broadcasts during the cold war now this is rather interesting as posner is known as rather harshly critical of both the soviet union and the contemporary russian government so that doesn't exactly seem to line up the other point of information is that her communication with russian government officials allegedly took place on twitter which is n

officials and russian intelligence agent operating out of the russian agency in d.c. prosecutors say this, quote, due to international law and treaty restrictions, law enforcement would be prevented from stopping miss butina from entering the russian embassy. under such circumstances a passport would not be necessary for butina to depart the united states even with the most restricti restrictive measures, house arrest, monitoring or forfeiting property, even in confined with the most restrictive measures, she could leave the facility, and law enforcement could not stop her or have recourse of remedy in the event miss butina decided to seek safe harbor in a diplomatic facility. saying you let her out of here, judge, she will go to the embassy and we will never see her again. the prosecutors actually brought in a witness from the diplomatic security service, the part of the state department, to explain not only will miss butina seek refuge at the agency, she could get picked up by an accredited russian diplomat in this country in that diplomat's car. if she were in the

the russian w.b. a champion. and a russian all to. show you how that crimea bridge was. witnessed the construction of a unique transport doughtery that will help the hands of crimea. as to what all those you know what go for more familiar put a big but. u.s. president donald trump is repeatedly said he wants better relations with russia he did finally have his long sought summit with vladimir putin both presidents called it a success the american political class and corporate media describe the helsinki summit as a failure and worse. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics school business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. greetings and salutation. you know while opportunistic politicians lapdog journalists and intelligence community sheep continue to froth at the mouth the fall all over themselves and paranoia nationalism over trump and putin in the unbridled crazy that is russia gate there are actually real problems facing the citizens of the united states of america you know you do you do still remember t

everybody there speaks russian. rationality next nation of korea or sanctions, to bring russia back into the g7, or g8. >> i would like to make a correction. the joining of crimea to russia is not an annexation. in democratic governance, a manifestation of a person's will, people in crimea went to the referendum and voted for joining russia, if this is annexation what is democracy? secondly we are aware of donald trump, that crimea is a part of ukraine. i responded with the words similar to what i said to you. >> we are running out of time, let's move on. last year defense secretary mattis said russia is the greatest threat to the united states. he has since made it clear an even greater threat than terrorism. in march, you introduced a new generation of russian missiles including what you called an invisible missile that could even aid or defeat our missile defenses and even released a video that showed the supermissile flying over the united states and hitting florida very near where donald trump's the state is in

russians were announcing. donald trump's only administration doesn't yet know what was said in those meetings. apparently the russians do and they're starting to put it out there. now we learned according to defense one on wednesday after secret trump meeting, russia offers to resume military relations. russia set to warm up military e relations with the united states pursuant to the agreement reached monday between the presidents. that's what russian defense ministry said tuesday. surprising officials at the pentagon who were still waiting to hear what came out of the closed door meeting. in congress, which banned u.s. russian military congress tour years ago. your thoughts, malcolm. >> i'm not going to be hyperbolic when i say the russian state has co-opted the united states government's administration. the trump administration right now is a junior partner to vladimir putin's kremlin. and the only way that could happen is two factors had to happen. i wrote about this in my book. one the russians executed a

>> e-mails and texts from russian military officers. perhaps some of those same russian military officers who got indicted last week by robert mueller. >> if that reporting is true, then every single time the president since then has cast doubt on whether or not russia did it or whether or not vladimir putin should be believed when he -- when he denies responsibility for the attack, every single time, that's the president not just being unconvinced of something that other people believe or casting doubt or muddying the waters, that's the president activity covering up something that he knows to be true. >> that is the president lying. and that is an awful long videotape if we were to compile what you just described starting from january of 2017 right up to today, right up to today, which is the word no said a couple of times in response to this particular issue. it would be a very, very long piece of lying video of donald trump. >> and, i mean, lying is -- lying is a moral failing and lying is a bad thing for a politician, anybody in pu

and right here, the transfer to the russians, the russian air force, and russian parlance -- pilots took the planes from here to the eastern front. month.rplanes, 5300 per the airplanes were brought here by u.s. pilots. they were flown to the eastern front by russian pilots. there was a detachment of 350 russian soldiers in the hangar one behind me. they did a lot of things to their -- prepare those airplanes for shipment to the eastern front. primarily, they took off the u.s. insignia and painted the red star on it so it would stop being american airplane and become a russian airplane. those people that brought the airplanes up here were all part of the air transport command. when they got here, they got on a transport airplane and were taken right back to montana to pick up more airplanes because at 250-300 airplanes a month, they had to keep the flow going. when they got here, they were turned over to the russians. the russians serviced them with cold weather oil and hydraulic fluids. the airplanes to make sure they were airworthy, and then they left. how that helped to win world war

a thug turned russian despot. the choice here was between people who are risking their lives on behalf of our freedom and people who go around the world taking people's lives to limit freedom. the president of the united states, how did he answer? he answered, quote, that he didn't see any reasons, quote, quo why putin would have interfered in the u.s. election. make no mistake, putin has a reason. the reason is clear to all those who have been watching growing russian authoraranism in recent years. putin wants to weaken the u.s. government. putin wants to destroy nato which isn't just an alliance. it's arguably the most important military alliance in two millenia. undermine confidence in self-government not only in this country but around the world. that's why putin, a soviet-styled dictator who thinks more about american elections than his sham elections attacked us in 2016. it's why he's planning to attack america this fall in 2018. it's why there are ongoing information operations against the u.s. and against

the russians are right. why? >> if he acknowledges that it is ongoing, if he acknowledges that as dan coats says, this is a 9/11 type attack, then he has to acknowledge that what happened in 2016 was a big deal and every instinct in his body is to dismiss it. to push it away and say the investigation is a witch hunt. the donald trump you saw in helsinki is the real donald trump. that's what he believes. >> your country. he didn't win states like wisconsin. he ran in those states and did well by saying no more stupid wars. we're doing things for ourselves. we're looking out for ourselves and only us. now he's looking out for russians. why? what's the disconnect between the candidate and the president? >> there is not a disconnect between president and the candidate because donald trump has always been for donald trump first and foremost. and escapable of wrapping himself in the gauze of patriotism and america first and pretending to be the strong man. the reality is, that he was weak on russia. he's been weak and

from the russians. that meeting occurred. then donald trump, the president, tried to disguise it and deceive about it in his famous, now infamous air force one statement. so there are clearly links here to an ongoing criminal investigation that, unfortunately, colleagues in the house see as a threat to the presidency and rightly so. >> senator, we thank you. just interrupt right now. we're seeing images of the president of the united states and the first lady of the united states entering the presidential palace in helsinki, finland. he'll be meeting with the president of finland and then also meeting with vladimir putin. we believe -- we see the secretary of state there, mike pompeo as well. we thank senator richard blumenthal for being here. coming up at the top of the hour, and let's bring into our conversation peter baker. peter, as we see the president of the united states entering to meet with vladimir putin, a meeting, that, of course, many foreign policy analysts and experts suggested he not --

all over the place you have to deal with russian aggression and russian interference. in western democracy. beginning with eastern europe and ukraine. western yup and of course the united states. it's not like the united states didn't try to have a good relationship with russia. it's russian actions that caused this. again trump needs to listen to his intelligence briefings. the problem is not the united states. the problem is putin. the united states did enormous things for russia. the russians jekt rejected them and asserted a thuggish bully posture towards the world. that's the real story. for donald trump to say it's all foolishness on the part of the united states. again when was the last american president who was stood up in an international forum kp said it's all americas fault. if george mcgovern said that. the republican party would assailed him for treason. >> that's a problem. with if you don't read. a president that doesn't read. listen to his intelligence briefings. he could pick up a history book or russian dmoem si. >> he doesn't listen to the intellige

. >>> russian in filtration. we're learning new details about age alleged secret agent of moscow and steps she's accused of kreet ating back channels. how close did she get to the trumps? >>> pearl harbor moment. warning the kremlin attack was an act of war. howell they respond to fears the commander in chief has aided an enemy. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i am wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> we are following breaking news on president trump's attempt at summit damage control and the additional damage it may have actually caused. mr. trump under fire for his embarrassing public embrace of vladimir putin now says he believes that russia interfered in the election after all, but he undercut his own claim of support for the u.s. intelligence agencies by saying, and quoting him now, others, others might have been behind the attack as well. he also blamed the news media and slip of the tongue for the fire storm consuming his administration tonight. i talk

the russian state tv have a symbol, a hand with a russian flag and a hand with the u.s. flag joining hands and obviously saying, look, this is a stepp g steppingstone of better relations which they think is going on and then analysts and politicians in russia flat-out praising president trump for some of the things he's said. i want to listen to a senior lawmaker said shortly after the summit was over. listen. >> translator: trump, the whole time he's been around, never said that word that would be offensive to russia, president putin and the relations. i'm sure trump found common ground with putin and grateful to putin in many ways for the position he takes. >> grateful. that's a senior lawmaker in russia and president putin actually, wolf, he come out and given an interview with russian state tv, the first channel in russia saying good meetings with president trump, president trump is a very skilled individual and someone who's willing to listen so you can see the happiness in moscow right now. >> julie is with us, as well. what are you hearing from inside the trump ad

what we have seen now is in february of this year, we had 13 russians and three russian companies that were indicted. however, this recent indictment that just came out just had specificity, david, on a level we have not seen before. we have names, individuals, e-mail addresses. and we really had a speaking indictment that -- listen, these russians are not going to be extradited. would love to see president trump demand that were president putin. they're not going to be extradited. this indictment gave us this level of detail that we don't have, and it's great to know that mueller has this going on in terms of collection of evidence he's done. and i expect to see an american that's going to be indicted next in terms of direct involvement with the russians and the trump campaign. >> greg, i want your perspective on this, as well. i'm going to read from an article in the "washington post" about that 29-page indictment. special counsel robert mueller blaming specific officers of the russian government for the 2016 hacking of democrats, answering one of his investigation's central question

hillary paid a foreign spy to put together what turned out to be russian lies, russian propaganda about donald trump, disseminated that material now known as the dossier, throughout the federal government, throughout obama's justice department, into the fbi, the u.s. senate, and used by the obama administration to garner fisa warrants so they could spy on that campaign in the middle of a presidential election. there's the real story of russia collusion. that's what the media will not report. the biggest abuse of power corruption scandal in our history. the press is refusing to cover the ongoing deep state scandal surrounding lisa page and peter strzok. the bow years of high ranking fbi employees, they are the very center of the 2016 effort to literally clear their chosen candidate, hillary clinton, of all charges, all felonies she committed, all obstructions she is guilty of, while investigating a russia witch hunt to take down donald trump. here's what president trump had to say about the corrupt lovebirds strzok and page. >> you have to find out who did peter strzok report to. it was

russian government. and they were using those to influence the campaign. this is where social media and hacking had come together for this influence. this is where that indictment fits really well with that february one, which was also of great detail. it shoots down alternative theories about the dnc breach. if you remember, the conspiracies about seth rich. maybe this came from alternative locations. it pushes back on media personalities who have levered these conspiracies as well. it's important to note that putin has consistently used the answer, it was not of, you have no proof of it, show us. this is an indictment, and there's a whole lot of proof in here. and so when we look to monday, whenever president trump is going in with president putin, he cannot accept that answer anymore that it was patriotic russians. it was clearly putin's russians that were doing his business. >> matt miller, former chief spokesman for the justice department. as clint just pointed out, this was hard evidence, alleged.

there is nothing -- >> too many russians right now, we don't want the get any more russians? is that -- why -- why would you be concerned about the investigation going on? because as you say, it hasn't indicated anybody in the trump campaign, but it has netted -- it has named, you know, more than a dozen russians so far. isn't that a good thing? and shouldn't that continue so we get to the bottom of what happened in the attack on this country? how else will we get to the bottom of the attack on our country? >> but here's anderson, where i'm going to have to agree more with mayor giuliani and disagree with where you're maybe trying to go here is i think some on the political left and some of the president's detractors want this to keep going until they hopefully find something that maybe gets at president trump directly. >> i'm sure there are people on the left -- there is no doubt people on the left who want that, but what they want doesn't really matter. isn't it if it's bearing fruit and actually naming russians and there may be more russian, shouldn't somebody be investiga

have been russian agents themselves. now you've going to haiven them door into your computer. that's one of the systems rosenstein was talking about earlier today. the other thing he was talking about was the possibility that either this way or another way, because you can do it through a computer, that what was sent in was initially some version of malware. we hear this word a lot. in this case what malware with a do is sit on your computer and start automatically collecting all sorts of information. addresses that you were using all the time to send information to, your contact list, your passwords when you signed in. it could grab screen shots when you wrote things. then it could spread out through your network, imitating you and collecting even more information. in that case you would be talking about a version that would be some sort of an automatic system or doxing. all of this, again, would link back to the kremlin. these are the two key ways we heard about today, either tricking people into sending their informat

he has to have access to communications presumably among these russians and between these russians and people elsewhere, people running wikileaks and so forth and also presumably communication communicatio communications between russians and the united states. if you're on the fence about whether to flip and think gee, maybe i can get away with this. you look at this indictment and think maybe i better place a call to the special prosecutor's office or the southern district in new york or someone in the justice department and say maybe i will complete so i think for michael cohen, for paul manafort even though he's already indicted but he's in play in terms of someone who can flip, if more others we don't know much about at this point, this is a signal that mueller knows an awful lot and assuming there is some collusion with american which is i think is hard to doubt, i think this is his way of signaling those americans let's play ball here. >> let me go to evelyn and back to you, john. >> what strikes me, ari, is that there's no 400 pound guy in new jers jersey, there are 12 faces wit

he's twice charged individual russians by name with election meddling. 13 russians and 3 russian companies accused of a disinformation campaign on social media. a california man pleaded guilty to helping them get u.s. bank accounts. and in the latest charges, russian intelligence officers are accused ofleakkig stolen e-mails to embarrass the democrats. an operation prosecutors say has a clear connection to the russian government. >> the defendants worked for two units of the main intelligence directorate of the russian general staff known as the gru. >> reporter: still unanswered -- did unanswered -- did any americans help the russians meddle in the campaign? three former trump campaign officials and advisers pleaded guilty to other charges. michael flynn for lying to the fbi about his conversations with the russian ambassador during the transition. george papadopoulos. for lying about his contacts with russians during the campaign. and richard gates, former deputy trump campaign manager, for lying to federal agents about his lobbying work on behalf of the russian-backed government in ukra

it was carried out by the russians, these russian intelligence agencies. they identified the crime and the criminal. they didn't say the victim. he said, well, we can't really say there is a victim. even though there is a bloody body on the ground, it was the dnc that was hacked. he came out and said, well, we can't pass judgment who the victim is. i think that's very significant. it is pointing this as a crime perpetrated against the american people, a nebulous crime carried out by the russians in this manner but against whom and for whose benefit, we don't know. this was carried out, as he said himself, in consultation with president trump who is now headed to helsinki. president trump -- and i have heard this from my own reporting -- will bring it up with vladimir putin. he can say, how did you allow this to happen? you shouldn't attack the american people. they are going to talk about cyber security. as he always does, he can say he solved that problem which was really a victimless crime because we don't know who the victim was. >> interesting. the pre

we are up to our necks in russians and russian influence in this country right now. it was another one of those days and tonight, it just got more serious with a bold story in the past hour from "the new york times" which if true, makes suspect everything the president has said about the russians since being president. the times reporting it this way, quote, two weeks before his inauguration, donald j. trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating vladimir p. putin of russia ordered complex to sway the election and a top secret source close to mr. putin who decided how the kremlin decided to execute the hacking and disinformation. mr. trump sounded convince aid cording to several people who attended but ever since, mr. trump tried to cloud the clear findings. today the president was asked a question about the interference. he answered it and the white house said in effect we heard it wrong. before we hear his latest remark, here is the briefest thing he said followed by his attempt on a fix on tuesday. >> dan coats came to me and said they think it's russ

you don't see the kind of growth in the russian economy but i think the russian people would like and deserve. this related not have the same types of freedoms that i think the russian people got a taste of and it was taken away, the yearly gala a now of most ngos, the restrictions on the freedom of media. enjoyingainly aren't -- as an example of free travel, -free travel, which in the ukraine and are entering in the european union, because they met several -- over 400 conditions to get that free travel. so i think that when you look at theg ukrainians who were at core of the revolution, they were being given a choice whether or not to push at resident yanukovych, to continue down the path of the eu. those values, those opportunities, or they could look north to what was happening in russia, and they're calling their generation didn't have those opportunities. i think russia can't offer that with the current economic structure that the kremlin has put in place. i don't think that it was an absolute that that had to happen. but i do believe that is a system that's currently in place, a

there was 12 russian -- >> when specific questions were asked about the president and the russian interference. listen to h. >> president putin, did you want president trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do th th that. >> i did because he talked about bringing the russian relationship back to normal. >> is putin act nothinging that russia was engaged in specific efforts to try to help him? >> he's a real pro, the only time i heard him make a mistake that i can remember, he may not know how to acknowledge not only the russian interference in the election, but the further intelligence judgment that the russian interference was predicated on trying to influence the election in favor of donald trump. really embarrassing to the president. two republicans in congress will say never say again that this wasn't done in favor of donald trump, i just told you it was, what intelligence do you need? >> the russians would have preferred for hillary clinton to win, because she would have been a weaker person toward them. the president can no longer say that because

officials engaging with the russians at all, especially russian intelligence officers. they are trying to push in the senate today to protect the mueller investigation, underscore that russia did interfere in the 2016 election. >> also yesterday when you were in that spray, we call it a spray, that meeting where donald trump was asked by cecelia vega of abc whether he thinks vladimir putin is still meddling, she said that the president said no directly to her, that he was looking her in the eye. what did you see? >> well, i was standing right there just feet away from both of them, and i have talked to other people who were in the room when this happened and we all agree that what happened was relentlessly clear. the president of the united states looked at cecelia. she asked him a question. they were making eye contact. he was addressing her. not once, but twice. he said no to both the initial question and the follow-up question with regards to is russia still targeting the united states in its elections. and not only that. he followed up with an expanded answer about

what you're going to hear regarding this this russian citizen is she is called a russian agent what is missed completely is that agent should be referred to as a lobbyist and agent in law in american law means a representative. when american media say agent they think secret agent. espionage agent you know something nefarious something involving behind the scenes something illegal something that is other than an agent this particular person was charged with basically being a lobbyist and asons without having registered with the department of justice could more indictments happen absolutely will the media american media clarify what that means absolutely not. hundreds of thousands of people packed on to the seans it is a in paris to give a hero's welcome to the victorious world cup squad the winners were taken to the presidential residence where they were greeted by emanuel mccrum. of the were of the total. they seized the moment i was thinking. of the way i can see guys who hate seeing descending on anything street right right i saw was a lease a car i was going to see who are real was

people, nor to the russian government and the russian military, et cetera. the russians will only stop their meddling. remember, they're still meddling. they will only stop it today if our president is firm. >> evelyn farkas with the we will bury you reference. >> quickly. >> quickly and then i'll play something. >> this shows why the special counsel affects and releasing this indictment today was selective. i don't know why they had to do it. i love this indictment from the point of view that we're holding the russians accountable and i hope these people never enter the united states. this is our president of the united states. >> hold on. let me push you on that. there's nothing new. there's nothing new about the doj going after spies when they operate here. it goes through. the president was briefed in advance. you're not alleging anything wrong with that process. >> i don't think the president could have delayed this. what happened if the president or his white house said -- >> why would you want to delay this? why would you want to be tough when the fac