not just part of russian strategy and syria or you train but as a global and of russian power. in russian strategy in syria or ukraine but as a global arm of russian power. >> i want to talk about emcs in how thate region and is connected to russia's pmc push today. there are three different models you find in the middle east and the gulf. this has occurred over time. with then to start transfer of equipment and other materials from the iraq the a church or the afghan theater -- you rock theater to the -- iraq theater to the afghan theater. vehicles renting out to move equipment via the you a to afghanistan. includingan companies an airline was hired id os -- -- dos. tos there are dozens of kinds of these companies. example of how these types of companies got started in the region. findond type of pmc you are those that were involved in campaign to counter the off the coast of somalia. thesed hundreds of pms coming in. businessmen who heads they interest behind them. they wanted to get a piece of that pmc high. -- pmc pie. thend around the port -- horn of africa. lanesw those m

we always differentiate between the russian people and the russian state and oligarchy. i think the russian people have suffered enormously. we look for every way possible to engage the russian people, that's often difficult. i recently attended the commemoration in front of the russian embassy. i think is incredibly important keep up that engagement. i think your broader question is, there's a certain calculus on vladimir putin's part that he and those around him can weather to some extent, sanctions, because of the regime. we've gone more deeply into the territory of going after those individuals than previous administration. we've gone after his son-in-law, my own view of this is when you see his popularity ratings falling by 15, 20% since he was elected, that of the main change comes immediately, but i think it does understand score that the pain is starting to have an effect i think this ministration has been clear that we are prepared to take additional steps. there is an escort tori ladder and will aware of what those additional steps would be needed to make an ev

by the russian federation. continuing occupation of crimea, current military operations in ukraine, malicious cyber attacks, illicit regiment of -- illicit procurement of restricted u.s. technologies, violation of crucial arms treaties, support to the assad regime's barbarism, the assassination of dissidents, and the unconscionable use of a nerve agent in the u.k., and ongoing efforts to interfere in our election process are some of the unacceptable behaviors of the putin regime. countering russian aggression is a top priority for the treasury department. the net effect of our actions is an unprecedented level. of financial pressure mounted against the kremlin, oligarch proxies, and key sectors of the russian economy. to date, this administration has applied sanctions on 223 russia related entities and individuals ranging from social media troll farms to cyber actors to russia's state owned defense conglomerate which has been supplying billions of dollars worth of weaponry to the assad regime. additionally, tre

we had russians -- >> one question. >> we had russians cyber attack, meddling. is it possible by their private contractors? >> i see no evidence that russian private military companies are engaged in cyber activities, although they probably have some cyber capabilities. not clear what that might be but the probably have some. what you have to understand is the russian approach to war, temporary war, is a whole of state operation using all instruments of the time and creating or innovating new ones are asking the ones that has specific rows and regulations that are adapted from russian military use. so they operate under a completely different paradigm. >> okay. let me be the first to apologize because i had to draw to a close here. we're getting the hook because i am tasked with leading the trains run on time. i know there are lots of other questions. i know the speakers will be around sort of in the cracks at the end of the conference so i hope you can reserve your question for them there. please join me in thanking the panelists. this has been a remarkably inf

task force you know to fight against russian disinformation r.t. for example yet there's been such a backlash against this why do you think the research got people so wind up so angry if the experts underlined their aim was not to root out so-called russian bots. well this little n.-g. o. is very interesting and i suppose journalist real journalists will look into its links with the european commission the european union and especially a s for the people it's maybe not not clear for people what it is but it is the diplomatic service of europe in two thousand and eleven the european to decided to create s. high commissioner for the moment it's missis for that he cannot get any in within diplomatic department which is very serious and respectable that is there are people or unit called e.u. forces this in full i'm sure these people have links with the end shield there they have links also with george soros they have links with all their finances to support them in their fight in that challenge of the russian disinformation and it's you could call it

whate end, with russians, is old is new. best when hed it said, russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery. place that is a hard to figure out. it describes a country that has one foot in europe and one foot in asia, and that struggle they have had along the way is reflected in the views of their leadership, whether it is a czar or a communist marxist leninist, or if they consider president putin today but in the end it they do in my view have an eye europe.your best peter the great, in the 1600s, his aim was to sever all the people from their former asiatic customs and instruct them how old christian peoples in europe comports themselves. that's an interesting view. that was reinforced 100 years later with catherine the great who said, russia is a european state. and that state is declining by a proclivity to go there a cycle that kissinger described as a rental -- rhythm. that is consistent and i think it is what is happening today and it defines the way that president putin operates and his view on the abroad. and that view

if you don't think that the russian e ququivalent of the st department and russian agencies don't know everything about rand paul including his social security number, they do. i don't know what happened to diplomatic pouches and i don't know what happened, frankly, to the traditional practice of working these things through the state department. the president just doesn't die fie norms. he that ert normshatters norms. here we go again. >> there's also the new sanctions against russia over the nerve agent poisoning of a former russian spy in the uk. do you think trump would have done this if it wasn't required by law? >> absolutely not. he didn't do some things that were required by law as it turns out, don. look, after the skripal attack, it took the united kingdom approximately 12 days to evict a bunch of russian diplomats. it took some of the rest of the european union countries just about three weeks to levy sanctions and evict diplomats. here we are nearly six months later, and the president is finally getting around to acting on the basis of that incident? that attempted assassin

the american citizens were reaching out to the russians, as well. to see if they could get any dirt on hillary clinton. so my radar was going because i knew the russians were engaged in this effort and i was aware of contracts with american citizens that may have been totally innocent on the american citizens part and maybe they weren't abetting at all. >> was it clear to you that those contacts were part of the operation? that it was part of the way that russia was trying to accomplish its objectives? >> i was very concerned and aware that the russians were trying to leverage u.s. citizens in order to achieve their objectives in the presidential election. >> while you were in office as cia director before you left on inauguration day, did you conclude that u.s. persons were successfully leveraged in that effort? >> no. no. and that's why i said in open testimony that i was concerned about these contacts because people will go down a treasonous path sometimes very unknowingly and get into very hot and deep water and they cannot extricate themselves

the problem is you also saw a russian intelligence, specifically russian intelligence established russian research agency do what we calledmarion adding . marion adding is like a marionette. you put in these russians who would pretend to be real american citizens and would actually try to create rallies, protests and riots by saying i'm going to be at such and such a shopping mall at 6 am to protest hillary clinton or to protest fried chicken, whatever it's going to be. you should all join me out there and 20 or 30 people show up, there's no leadership so they self protest and i had a situation like that last year as well. another targeted one and this is where i realized the russians are dedicating resources to watching. i had a bot, this threat bot for 90 days was putting out, we didn't even realize it, putting out a wanted poster with a crosshair on it which i was very offended by because the crosshair was a wrong reticle. anybody who shoots knows you're not going to hit that radical and even more amazing it came from a rocky and bullwinkle poster. this watch section at this picture up

to know that those are perhaps russians spies and russian vacation homes. much money did the u.s. government get from those two services. >> i'm not aware of assets that were blocked. >> is that because russian intelligence services do not keep money in the u.s. banking system? >> again that's not something i would discuss but we have had far and wide ranging impacts in a variety of ways. >> to say nothing of nonfiction activities, for instance like encouraging, spending more money on the defenses, the congress is also learning that there was a serious interagency discussion about imposing tougher sanctions on russia. in fact the treasury department worked up a whole host of sanctions and specific sanctions against russian companies like persky labs. yet those are strongly opposed by jack lew, susan rice and april haynes. can you explain why the secretary opposed taking action after the election? >> senator, i wasn't in the administration. >> there you are representative. >> what i can tell you is that as of already made clear today, we have gone after very

and for what those russians supposedly have. actually there is quite a bit to make with that string when finances. but most people will wonder how you get all of these quotes with strong russian connections coming into the trump campaign? and then to learn his way. and then once they become members of and they try to entice them into better relations. not just better relations with russia but what george papadopoulos cause that communication channel. and then eventually manafort says that continuing with that context to create the back door shin. that this 29-year-old guy. so when they begin the investigation in july and up 2016 with that counterintelligence investigation. they have seen all this. so what are they up to? and then they seem to be cultivating those relationships. and what a foreign government is insinuating. and with those political campaigns and then after the democratic convention and with that realization that basically put together a swat team trying to figure out what's going on. and then the counterintellige

he was investigating the russian mafia there. when she was thrown off the mueller probe, i saw that in a very different way that, i mean, it raised a lot of questions. were they going to pursue trump's ties to the russian mafia or not. >> and when the special prosecutor is looking at paul manafort and presumably if he gets a guilty in one of these trials basically offering paul manafort some opportunity to testify to get a lower prison sentence, is there something you believe paul manafort would be able to reveal about donald trump's relationship to russians? >> absolutely. manafort is an absolutely key figure in all of this. if you look at what he was doing in ukraine, it was a dry run for the 2016 operation in our election. and he was hired by the -- he was representing president -- a putin puppet. he has been declared a traitor to ukraine and fled to moscow. and manafort put him in power, essentially to sustain relationships that allowed the russian mafia to skim lots of money from the ukraine energy trade. >> thank you very m

for working for the russians. this is a major concern that has been ongoing for the fbi for quite sometime. certainly people inside the fbi feel given what happened in 2016 there is certain escalation that is almost touching or perhaps touching every fbi office in this country. the fbi director explaining how each of these offices is handling these investigations. >> you know there is a whole school of thought that says the only thing the russians will understand if they are doing this to the united states the united states has to do something to russia. a lot of e-mails, russian e-mails involving putin's money, that is something they might understand. >> of course. you talk to people, there is concern they are in our grid systems and some people say we are in their systems. we heard the presidents hint that we do this to other people, as well. that is an action that the intelligence community for all we know may have taken. it is not something that they will ever talk about publically. i think the concern by the

meddling over and over are certain that the russians are carrying on with their attempts to undermine us democracy and they're saying now they have a new target the midterm elections in america in twenty eight and we're also hearing that moscow is not only using the traditional ways through facebook or twitter but also all kinds of other platforms the likes of reddit or pinterest where they post more and more russian made names. cyber attacks remain remain a core part of moscow's personal content it's created tested and posted on top form such as you tube reddit and rest its push to twitter and facebook with their standing audiences in the hundreds of millions and it's targeted at the most receptive this is a problem of the entire information to ecosystem this is awesome platform read it came from hundreds of ira created accounts tumblr did it. a lot of pride related content less news more isn't just a couple of forms this is music taps this is video games this is me share it it's much broader than twitter and google more conclusions from the experts they are saying that russia is ins

citizens, who the russians were targeting? i am well aware. intensive effort, as i said in my op-ed. myself, jim comey, and we talk about the importance of making sure that our collection radar was up, so we had early indications to be able to uncover any effort on the part of the russians to work with american citizens, who are reaching out to russians to see what they could get. to get dirt on hillary clinton. my radar was going, the knew the russians were engaged in this effort. i was aware of contacts with american citizens that may have been totally innocent on the american citizens part. >> was it clear to you that is part of the wayerishia was trying to accomplish objectives? >> i was concerned and aware that russians were trying to leverage u.s. citizens in order to achieve their objectives in the presidential election. >> while you were in office before you left on inauguration day, did you conclude that u.s. persons were successfully leveraged in that effort? >> no. that is why i said in open testimony, i was concerned about the cont

and more russian trade news the russian aluminum giant roussel also american subsidiary that we've talked about before was granted an exemption from trump administration tariffs well now that exemption has been revoked sol america has granted a request exemption on their twentieth attempt in july the exemption process allows for other companies to challenge such requests and the congress department says they noted no objection at the time of the approval but that changed the new york times now reports that after democrat suggested the exemption was granted due to a personal request to mr trump from russian president vladimir putin commerce officials reviewed the record and dust covered that a u.s. aluminum company had intended to object but failed to properly note it on paper the exemption process.

just said it's not russian back in the united states president trump is now waging an all out twitter campaign against a special council appointed to investigate russian collusion in recent months he's used the words witch hunt on more than four hundred occasions but the type special counsel robert miller has not responded to the constant attack from the chief executive not yet imparting any knowledge he may have that a comes from the apparent division between the executive and legislative branches of government as to russian intentions in the united states mike hanna al-jazeera new york plenty more ahead for you this news are it is not business as usual as u.s. sanctions hit their brands industry and its workforce a look at that also venezuelans racing to reach parity for new entry restrictions kick in as their government takes action against skyrocketing inflation and sport china sets a new world record in the poll the asian games details coming up at about ten to the. russia has dismissed claims from microsoft that it's been targeting u.s. political political groups through cyber a

-russian policy. while the committee deals with foreign policy, this committee jurisdiction over economic tools to promote our foreign policy is included for so i today soon. let me just ask you all, clearly that notwithstanding what the congress has passed into law, what the administration has forced through your own testimony, elements of that law, that it's fair to say, isn't it, that russia has not deterred, it's been deterred in its actions and maligned activities? is that a fair statement? >> i think, senator, we're seeing a number of consequences as a result of an impasse as a result of the actions that we've taken. there's no question we continue to see russian maligned activity and -- >> microsoft announced there are attacks on the united states senate, and from conservative institutions. that's a continuing action. as far as i know russian is still annexing crimea and engage with regular forces in eastern ukraine. as far as i know russia is propping up the side in syria and i could go down t

if you look at russian reaction on the decimation of the linergroup, many russians are saying they had coming . then you were in syria and they have mercenaries. mister bradshaw said during the first grozny when he said about russian soldiers, those are mercenaries. we don't know them. and secondly, the never ending pool of redgroup , troy young between the quality, quantity and the prize. is here, is there. wives of russian mercenaries are cheaper than those from other countries. the quality is quite high. and the quantity. there is a lot of mutilated men in russia with enough military background or able and most importantly willing to die for the russian interests. or for their particular interestand there is a never-ending pool of resources . and finally, final point, the duality of function. you will see that the russian military theory envisioned something not quite more sophisticated or something more far-reaching. the russian military received by private military companies in two main fronts. one in a form of irregular forces , something in the form of territorial defense unit t

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the russian foreign minister said that he wanted. should the syrians that they would. wish to leave go into government to be treated in a discriminatory route to. these people because they don't trust the syrian government regardless of what. exactly the question that the people of alaska is whether or not these humanitarian corridors will be monitored by an international party like nations because like you said they don't trust the syrian government they don't even trust the russian government many of these people are wanted by the state or are considered terrorists simply because they engaged in opposition activities being a medic according to the syrian government is terrorism so the people are afraid they are trapped in yes part of the province borders turkey but turkey has made clear that it has no intention of opening the border to allow hundreds of thousands of people to enter turkey so that's why we've been hearing so many statements from united nations officials the latest being they found the mystery of the u.n. special envoy really expressing concern about t

uy russian you talked about this russian role of mediating between opec partners. opec had this problem long before this cooperation has begun with russia. they must have other mechanisms. my question is, has the saudi russian cooperation on oil prices replaced opec? an analogy i would like to inc. of is in the 1950's when the u.s. or texas controlled the oil market. louisiana and oklahoma automatically set the same so the cartel was enforced. we have always seen something similar. saudi arabia and russia set the price and the rest takes it the same way that louisiana and oklahoma did back then. >> let me start with the second one. saudi arabia and russia are the leaders of the cartel. they state the conditions. --the first deal, iran was russia played as intermediary three saudi arabia and iran. in the last deal in june come saudi arabia energy minister said -- negotiated himself. arabia and russia are dominant in opec, which diminishes the importance of the cartel itself. it becomes redundant. they do the dictating. the question was, why would you run with the sa

the russian foreign ministry has confirmed three russian journalists have died in the central african republic and my colleague you know nail discuss the news withouten is maria finisher. if an option is with me now on the shooter for more on this. talking in the previous hours confirmation. not confirm we are awaiting for some kind of conclusion on this we seem to have got it yet it is now confirmed that three russian journalists were killed in an attack while on assignment in central african republic their dead bodies were discovered by un peacekeeping personnel on the ground some twenty to thirty kilometers north of central c.t. siebold on the road and abandoned car also was discovered at the scene as stressed with multiple gunshots so it looks like the team was attacked by a large group of gunmen known reasons what exactly happened unclear there. i guess the investigation needs to go on the ground buddies of the three journalists were first taken to un facility. and then later transferred to one of the hospitals in the capital city. and this is where the bodies are currently and w

anything like that must be a russian agent you must be a russian but if you don't you go into. the elections and the senate rather is that the american elections. and it's much like other countries in the world. where people are sick that's why it's not because of the russians it's not because of you know donald trump. i mean it's because of all these. people are sick of it and they see through it and we're seeing. as it relates to russia. monday greece finally exits the financial bailout program a sustained it through an almost decade long debt crisis over the course of the bailout put together by the e.u. an international monetary fund greece received over three hundred billion euros but it's affected the country's economy dramatically over four hundred thousand people have simply left the country pensions have been drastically cut taxes have been raised athens is expected to be repaying those bailout loans until twenty sixty the crisis has provoked serious tensions between greece and the e.u. along the way it reached its peak in twenty fifteen when brussels demanded a stereo

most of the russian agent you must be a russian but if you don't you go into. the elections and the fact rather is that the american are actually. much like other countries in the world. where people are sick of that's why. it's not because the russians it's not because you know donald trump. because of all the you or your. as it relates to russia. however somewhat while the returns to showcase alleged russian influence may cost dearly a democratic staff is now in hot water for helping to smuggle a controversial piece of art into the colorado state capital. couples being refused swiss citizenship after they refused to shake hands with members of the opposite sex they did not shake hands with people of the opposite sex religious practice does not fall outside the law the constitution in equality between men and women prevails over bigotry the couple is said to have shown a lack of respect towards gender equality laws and failed to provide their readiness to integrate into society therefore however they do of thirty days to appeal the decision made time a similar

russian vacation homes and imposed sanctions on two russian intelligence services. mandelker, how much money did the united states government et from those two intelligence services? >> senator, i'm not aware of as a that were blocked result of those. >> is that because russian intelligence services do not eep money in the united states banking system? >> again, senator, that's not something i would discuss assured the rest designation that is we've had in far administration have had wide-ranging impacts in a variety of different ways. of o say nothing nonsanctions activities, for instance, like encouraging our mate active partners to spend money on their fence, expanding our nuclear arsenal, spending more money on ballistic defenses, providing the anti-tank javelin missiles that kraine's government begged for so long to receive. congress has also learned over months that there was a serious interagency onversation in november and december of 2016, about imposing ougher sanctions on withat i can tell you, have arctic gone after people in connection with the cyber at

these revelations eventually resulted in the indictments of 13 russian individuals and three russian companies by the special counsel's office in february of this year. social media oversight has not typically been a function of our committee or for that matter any committee. i have no problem acknowledging that the terminology this world, spam, click make, ati, trolls does not always come naturally to all of us. but thanks bipartisan determination to understand what happened in 2016 and a commitment to stop it from happening again, we have been able to accomplish a lot. we've helped reveal the russian playbook. we have raised public awareness regarding the threat. and we succeeded however incrementally in pressuring each of these companies to take steps to address the problems on their platforms. that's the good news. the bad news is we have a lot more work to do. 21 21 months after the 2016 election and only three months before the 2018 elections russian backed operatives continue to infiltrate and manipulate social media to hijack the national conversation and set americans agains

bruce ohr and a russian oligarch. jeff sessions pay attention. cnn lanee davis was feeding the a bag of lice. -- lies. i have a message for fake news cnn. they watch this show because it's more interesting. maybe they need to watch their own network. a strong new economic indicator. more evidence that the economy is blowing it through the roof. plus tracking primary races. moments ago fox news projects that trump ally ron desantis will win the republican primary for florida governor and fox news is projecting that governor rick scott will win the gop senate primary and will be going up against bill nels. the results as we have them. sit tight and buckle up.on. the results as we have them. sit tight and buckle up. our opening monologue. bruce ohr and fisa abuse. i have been on the sources all day and all night people in the room during ohr's testimony. ohr said he understood the steele dossier would have never been accepted in a court of law. 65 pages of notes and texts and meetings between him and christopher steele.

ambassador to the russian imperial court. he sent word back to washington as these protests were gaining strength, assuring the people in washington that nothing was going to come of it. no need to be alarmed, no need to be concerned, it was all going to die down. the authorities were going to be able to handle it. on march 8, the international women's day in 1917, a group of in petrograd to complain about the food shortages and then they started complaining as well about the war that was continuing. that banner says glory to women. who are fighting for freedom. and hundreds at first gathered and there were speeches and then more joined them and more joined them and a streetcar came around the bend and protesters blocked the streetcar and took out the handle that enabled it to run in that blocks more streetcars and it was a festive, giddy moment in russian history. spread in theto northern part of the city. that night, the bolsheviks, the extreme read marxist joined them as her francis in their estimation of what was going to

secretary it and this is absolutely unacceptable says the russian foreign minister the russian foreign ministry has already been touch with the secretary general they sent a former complaint about the alleged behind the scenes than the secretary of to take part in this syria restoration program then there was also a question by our correspondent who asked sergey lavrov what he makes of the u.s. involvement or rather lack of involvement when it comes to restoring syria says it's too early to talk about reconstruction efforts until a political settlement is agreed on what do you make of that. some countries are trying to hinder the return of refugees or refusing to help reconstruction efforts it's counterproductive to set sufficient conditions for the syrian people to return to the why so much concern from moscow about this well first of all russia has been a key player in syria and moscow is proud of its role of being in charge of the many reconciliation first that we have seen and also moscow's really been helping with rebuilding the economy and the refugees will not come back if the e

the article says moscow is ready to give its money to russian friendly americans russian businessmen will likely attempt to fund think tanks working on u.s. russia relations to push a narrative favoring cooperation with russia and opposition to sanctions cooperation with russia oh the horror regardless the article doesn't actually provide any evidence as to who or when some russian businessmen will begin giving away free money but it's ok for western businessmen and nato to throw money at anti russian think tanks the articles author evelyn farkas is a senior fellow at one called the atlantic council and it's received millions of dollars from a long list of corporations and governments internationally who are apparently also very concerned about potential russian election hacking. while there is no way that it is that russia has done so to date at minimum it will likely use its ability to access voter registration databases and election related sites to undermine america's confidence in its own electoral integrity so no evidence the kremlin has done it as the article says but the atla

eight a war planes to fight russian submarine activity. how do how do you view these remarks then which get wide currency here in the british political establishment that well i'll tell you it's just. it's it's certain military strategy as i said if the six billion dollars will be spent and we see the british airplanes you know in the black sea which is quite far from britain and from my point to you is the wrong policy or wrong military doctrine instead of developing relations britain is going to spend more and more money on so-called deterrence of russia so this is the wrong way of doing things were you surprised by . the attempt unsuccessful attempt by the british government to get a un resolution about the fact that the o.p.c. w. should now find who committed chemical warfare. convention contraventions well first of all i want to see the opposing posted because we believe that it doesn't reflect the substance of the convention and it's not only russia it's almost half of the countries of the. signatories of the convention is it not fai

you won't find any of that russian mean an athlete. affiliation or it may mean a national affiliation so most of the different nationalities who will love to have in this city would also identify as russian i wonder if you given that so much maybe multiculturalism is not such a bad thing after all no because i don't buy you a definite.

now the russian embassy in the u.s. has accused the local authorities of subjecting jailed russian gun activists marie abuse in a cruel and inhumane treatment including strip searches is in or is under arrest on charges of being a russian agent which was quickly interpreted by much of the western media as her being a spy russia's compared the situation to the witch trials in the seventeenth century well after russian diplomats visited maria in prison on thursday they discovered her health had deteriorated there demanding the u.s. state department stop psychologically pressuring and humiliating her and she still a suspect and not a convict miraca is more. maria was taken into custody about a month ago accused of acting as a russian agent and quote developing relationships with u.s. persons and infiltrating organizations having influence in american politics now if she's convicted she could face up to fifteen years in prison and now the russian embassy has issued a statement comparing it to the salem witch trials and accu

the russian approach to war. it is adapted from russian military years. they operate under a completely different paradigm. let me be the first to apologize because i have to drive to a close here. i know there's a lot of other questions. i hope you can reserve your questions for them there. please join me and thinking the painless. this is been a remarkably informative session. today philadelphia mayor takes part in a discussion on education and community development at the center for american progress. that is live at 10:00 a.m. eastern. they talk about the rulings in philosophy. we are live on c-span starting at noon eastern. we will hear from jeff -- judge cavanaugh himself. judge cavanaugh himself. his confirmation hearing before the scented judiciary committee. we will have it live on c-span three. starting september 4. you can also watch online or listen on the c-span radio app. tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. at 1968. america and turmoil. we look at the cold war and will discuss vietnam the presidential campaign and the apollo eight mission. it sent

everybody loves a spy drama mystery suspense and a russian firm photog. the name of the agent is stabling saul my name is evelyn so then you are a russian spy. this guardian story had every ingredient for a thriller recipe the u.s. secret service as quite clearly stems from the very name is one of the most enigmatic agencies of the u.s. government its main function is to protect the lives of u.s. presidents ministers the top political brass and that is where the russians according to the guardian planted a mall the russian spy had been working under texted in the heart of the american embassy in moscow for more than a decade she had plenty of time together intelligence without supervision bissell said the guardian's head of investigations claims she was operational for a whole decade in that time through the agency's internet in e-mail systems she had access to all kinds of highly classified stuff including the shared jewels of the president and vice president all of that according to the guardian the woman fed to the physic be russia's key security agenc

a russian ball. also ahead in the program this hour the reels from the shock suicide of an ultima gratian party politician who claimed she had been raped by a muslim last year. on the streaming video from yemen leaves humanitarian groups on the public's with this week's coalition or a strike on a school bus in yemen the raid claimed the lives of twenty nine children dozens more were injured. in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow and to r.t. international my names you know neil welcome to the program their top story french opposition leader former presidential candidate luke mellon shown. at suggestions that he is part of a russian online. campaign hey stupid spook i'm not a russian it's just me who tweets against you although not directly accused of being a russian. appeared in a list of a cow and showing increased twitter traffic in the wake of the assault scandal surrounding president former bodyguard the inference being moscow is pulling the strings also not least is our part

on charges of acting as a russian agent in addition to allegedly working on behalf of the kremlin to interfere in u.s. politics it's also been claimed she was trying to lure american money to russia or to america has spoken to bush in this lawyer about the case the full interview will be appearing soon on its you tube channel. well i think if you read the indictment of the case she's alleged to be an agent over russia who failed to register with the attorney general and so essentially that means is they haven't charged with espionage and if you read the ganster know the allegations or have anything spy like about it the sense of the government is conceding that even under their own theory if she had followed the piece of paper with the attorney general's office at the beginning of her trip to america everything she did was legal and so my point is this is more a registration type crime than a crime and yet the media and the government some extent are treating it like an espionage crime. well i mean i think that allegation was particularly damaging to maria because it makes it more li

even if it is the russians. what becomes the crime is where they solicit or conspire to violate a federal election laws and/or did you ask the russians if they would go ahead and release stolen information? that is a violation, a felony, of the computer fraud and abuse act and where they could be going. i think the president got exercised about this for the fact that he has now cohen raising his hand saying i know something about the meeting. gates cooperating with the mueller investigation saying i know something about the meeting. they're zeroing in on roger stone and met with another russian through the campaign about information that might be -- that's where i think they're starting to get nervous. really wasn't a legal problem. >> take a listen to president trump's lawyer jay sekulow talking to abc news over the weekend. he had originally said that president trump had nothing to do with that misleading statement that donald trump jr. gave in which they claimed that the meeting was about adoptions but about

apparently russian lawmakers asking him whether or not he could ask for maria butina, the russian gun lobbyist accused of being a spy in the u.s. for the russia and released and sent back and help with that. it's unclear if any sort of arrangements are being made there. senator paul's visit continues tomorrow, as well. he says so far it's going fairly successfully, wolf. >> there were two u.s. senators that voted against legislation to increase sanctions against russia. i think the vote 96-2 or 97-2. and rand paul one of the two. bernie sanders voted against increasing sanctions against russia. thank you very much. >>> coming up, with r the deaths of three journalists the result of a fight with robbers? there's hints of a link of a close ally of vladimir putin. c. - learning from him is great... when i can keep up! - anncr: thankfully, prevagen helps your brain and improves memory. - dad's got all the answers. - anncr: prevagen is now the number-one-selling brain health supplement in drug stores nationwide. - she outsmarts me every single time. - checkmate! you wanna play again? - ann

stupid spook i'm not a russian it's just me who tweets against you. although not directly accused of being a russian bolt mellen show has appeared in a list of a con showing increased twitter traffic in the wake of the assault scandal surrounding president former bodyguard the inference being moscow's pulling the strings also on the list is are porous correspondent charlotte dubinsky who gave us more details earlier. well a huge outcry here in france so many people on twitter who thought that they had been labeled russian boats that's because they were named in a twitter list which looked at the number of people who had tweeted about the but now a skate scandal here in france some of them even decided to use it as a badge of honor and actually added they. bought their russian numbers to their twitter accounts now this came out after the banana scandal which was a former security aide to president mike brown who was filmed actually assaulting protesters doing it may day now because of that many people were tweeting about it and an engineer based in bel

the russians know what we did, just like we're watching the russians, they're watching our activities. so it is going to be interesting to see how this continues. i do think it needs to start with a consistent message from the white house and the government and we do need to help these states. >> speaking of a consistent message, we know that in may, the white house actually eliminated the position of cybersecurity coordinator at the national security council. there also have been some major departures of cybersecurity officials at the fbi. so is that sending the right message? do the fbi -- does the fbi, does the national security council have the capability to do what it needs to do? >> so i think that's a fair question. there have been some departures. i do know the white house eliminated that position. i do think that position is important at the white house. coordinating the inner agency cybersecurity efforts is a difficult job and does require senior leadership in the white house. i was disappointed to see them dissolve that position. but i do know that team is working extremely

to finding his name on a list of suspicious twitter accounts forcing him to think there are certain russian. feels from the show. the immigration party politician claimed she was raped by a muslim gang. also coming up on the program. but. two palestinians are killed more than two hundred injured in the latest flare up on the israel gaza border soldiers opened fire after rioters hurled explosives and broke through the fences. are international news center this is art scene my names you know good to have your company our top story french opposition leader and former presidential candidate. has hit back at suggestions he's part of a russian online disinform ation campaign hey stupid spook i'm not a russian but it's just me who tweets against you well known shown appeared on this a list of a kind showing increased twitter traffic in the wake of the assault scandal surrounding president mccollum's former bodyguard. explains why some people drew the link to russia. well a huge outcry here in france so many people on twitter who thought that they had been labeled russian boats that's because they

operations to counter disinformation warfare from the russians. they're not giving too many specifics. but cyber security experts tell us they're trying their hardest to expose the most active russian trolls who are working against the u.s. and trying to shut them down. lot of that work going unnoticed, but they believe the u.s. intelligence is very active in this. >> the bots are out there. i see them myself. >>> coming up apprentice star omarosa reveals she secretly recorded her white house firing as well as a phone call from the president himself. does she have more secret recordings? >>> and the president gloats over the firing of fbi agent peter struck. the president using the firing to once again attack the entire russia investigation as a hoax. so, how's it going? well... we had a vacation early in our marriage that kinda put us in a hole. go someplace exotic? yeah, bermuda. a hospital in bermuda. a hospital in bermuda. what? what happened? i got a little over-confident on a moped. even with insurance, we had to dip into our 401(k) so it se

this has nothing to do with russian collusion. this started as russian collusion, this has absolutely nothing to do — this is a witch—hunt and it's a disgrace. this has nothing to do what they started out — looking for russians involved in our campaign, there were none. i feel very badly for paul manafort. again, he worked for bob dole, he worked for ronald reagan, he worked for many, many people. and look at the way it ends up, and it was not the original mission, believe me. it was something very much different. so, i had nothing to do with russian collusion, we continue the witch—hunt. thank you very much. our washington correspondent chris buckler told me more about the multiple fraud charges paul manafort had been found guilty of. paul manafort has been found guilty of eight charges. five counts of tax fraud, one count of failing to disclose a foreign bank accounts, and two counts of bank accounts, and two counts of bank fraud. this all relates to his time working in the ukraine for pro— russian politicians there, w