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donald trump says he misspoke during a joint news conference with lattimer put and which had outreach to the u.s. media and politicians the most disgraceful performances by an american president who showed cowardice on the world stage the second should have been i don't see any reason why i would or why it wouldn't be rushed from media storm to say ran several months russia's defense ministry says it's ready to implement all agreements reached by trump and putin and helsinki on how to bring peace to syria. and facebook admits classifying fouls ownself russians as interested entries for advertising purposes and raising concerns over who wants to target.
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live from the russian capital this is our national welcome to the program. one day after holding talks with president putin in hell thinking donald trump has met with u.s. congress members telling them he misspoke on russian meddling touring the summit i have president putin he just said it's not russian i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be in a key sentence in my remarks i said the word would instead of what the sentence should have been i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia. sort of a double negative. so you could put that in and i think that probably clarifies things pretty good bias it's not just politicians from both sides going absolutely nuts over the trumpet and summit it's the media as well and it's mostly just
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criticism of trump's willingness to talk to putin let's take a look at what they said there's a reason there is a big national freakout happening right now over what the president just did in public what i do with putin pitch to shout trump got beat up in a locker room what worries me about you mr president is you seem to say only good things about your enemies was shocking it was appalling there was a real sense of defeat and a deep breath you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president he showed cowardice on that world stage where the president looked like a week. we negotiated from a position of weakness yesterday and a lot of our putin walked away from helsinki with the when he had a chance to show loyalty to the men and women in uniform and instead he betrayed them it's a disaster now it's force trying to backtrack saying he misspoke which allowed him to reiterate claims made by the u.s. intel community despite its not so credible record but they're still not convinced
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instead of standing up for our democracy and democratic principles president trump cowered in the presence of putin it was a betrayal. of the values and interests of this country there is nothing more heartbreaking to me than a president who refuses to stand up for our democracy president sided with the enemy with the perpetrator of the election interference disgraceful performance of the president treacherous act ignorant and woefully disrespectful president trump continues to take his word of russians to z.f. simply embracing their excuses he is unable to confront russia point anything the highly controversial meeting has prompted calls to release transcripts apparently they want to know exactly what happened and what was said behind closed doors were worried about what the president said publicly were even more worried about what
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happened in those two hours when the president was alone with mr putin i believe the senate foreign relations committee should hold a hearing with the american translator who was present during president tramp's and president putin's private meeting to determine what was specifically discussed and agreed to on the united states behalf now this all comes a despite agreement reached upon so we're just going to have to see if divestiture backlash hinders russia u.s. relations. or there was spoke to former pentagon security policy analyst michael maloof and he told us that trump had been thinking long term in talking to moscow. regardless of what he just said about the translation. and interpretation he did underscore his support for the u.s. intelligence community and in fact the information goes way back even during the
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obama administration that there was alleged meddling which amounted to no more than social social networking in the bye-bye whether it was russian chinese or anybody else in the world and but but he's but he's trying to get above that i think and move on because we've and we not only meddle in the elections we've actually help overthrow governments so i think that if if if he can get beyond this most democrats and deep state types cannot and so and or and and and the neo conservatives they cannot get a but get beyond that they need russia as a demon and but he wants to get beyond that because he has a. longer range geo strategic outlook i think any needs russia for a lot of things and we need to be cooperating with moscow and he's made that very
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clear and as much as he dislikes nato he says we also need nato but what is what has happened there is has happened so i think that he's ready to move on even though his opposition is not they still haven't accepted the fact that he's the president meanwhile trump was commenting on the u.s. intelligence services the lights in the room went off when the president had his own explanation. full faith in our intelligence agencies which they just turned over a lot of us to do intelligence very. very so k. is ok. and to some a lot of important offered u.s. investigators the opportunity to question the twelve russian intelligence officers implicated for allegedly hacking democratic party servers however he said moscow will only do so if the u.s. grants russian prosecutors similar access to accused u.s.
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nationals in particular them he mentioned businessman bill browder colleagues who are accused by put enough funneling four hundred million dollars a legally earned in russia to hillary clinton's presidential campaign on tuesday the russian prosecutor's office published a list of people it would like to question the biggest surprise was perhaps michael mcfaul who is a former u.s. ambassador to moscow while there are also several either state department officials as well as u.s. intelligence officers on that list former british am i think christopher steele who was behind the infamous trump file as also wanted for questioning by russia. we needed to do two years that would nicky and us that unless we are talking about foreign intelligence officers in particular from the us who shape the false testimony against the russian national in the case of the us against the present company they also provided assistance in the criminal activities of william browder a businessman convicted by russian court we are ready to send yet another request
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to the relevant authorities in the us to question the intelligence offices and also other u.s. officials and businessmen so as to indict them for complicity in brough these crimes we can support everything with evidence and if us colleagues turn to us to get that information well of course ready to provide it within the framework of international legal corporation but i want to underline that it should be done on the basis of clarity not unilaterally which has often been the case before you soldier t.v. host and political commentator steve malzberg fears that the offer of an exchange well never happen. there's absolutely no way on either end that this is feasible first of all browder just believe is giving up his u.s. citizenship and he's a british citizen so i think any requests for him would have to go through through the prime minister of the people of great britain but i mean to think that first of all u.s. president would grant you know access to u.s.
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intelligence agents to any country let alone an adversarial country i just think is is is just not within the realm of possibility at all and furthermore i think that the offer from from vladimir putin i believe was more like you could call muller could come and his staff could come and watch the russian people interview the the indicted people the people that the that muller has indicted not that mother and his team would be able to question them and have access to them just an ill conceived idea and it was an ill conceived response so on both points i hold them equal trump and put in bad bad. behind the media speculation of whether trumpets and put in his pocket the house think the senate did in fact see some diplomacy one of the issues where the leader is superior to have common ground less syria and russia's defense ministry says it is ready to
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implement any deals agreed early on my colleague aaron spoke to our mary international. i'm afraid there is no to much to discuss because there are no details on exactly what has been a great in health and from what we hear from russian defense minister right now it's also not clear what steps we may expect from both sides in syria but what is clear is that both russia and us are not interested in making this strategic information public but what is clear that that the dialogue that mr trump and mr putin had in london helps in the key and these claims by russia's military is definitely a positive sign for syria both sides also stress that they are interested in. ending the humanitarian crisis in syria and they said that they are going to focus their efforts on how pain people in syria that you but i would i think there is
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plenty to work on a crucial thing is there are many refugees in states bordering syria in turkey lebanon jordan if we move back to their homes this will ease the migration pressure on european countries i think that is extremely important if we can do something to help the people of syria get back into some form of shelter. a humanitarian basis and that's what the world was really a humanitarian basis is that they both of us would be very interested in doing that and we are we will do the right and what is the current situation in syria right now so as for the military situation the focus the main focus right now on theory is on the region bordering israel and the confrontation between syria and israel has been very severe recently and has actually been quite always between the two countries but it's interesting that both putin mentioned the security. of
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israel in that speech is following the a long meeting behind closed doors just shortly after the meeting. we heard reports that the syrian government managed to regain control of a strategic point in that region so it's not a secret that the u.s. has an influence. we may say that that could be. a reaction to what the two presidents have agreed but again like it's really hard to speculate right now executive others have twenty first century wired dot com patrick henningsen believes if the u.s. and russia manage to cooperate over syria a meaningful cease fire might be possible the situation is drastically improved hundreds of thousands of people have returned to east aleppo formerly. terrorist held east aleppo they've returned they're coming back they are returning from
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europe in some cases this is been documented so this is already this trend is already happening the fact that the united states and russia are going to cooperate in this way means that we could actually see a meaningful cease fire hold what you have to look out for is in the past when this was threatening to take place we had all the sudden some incident on the ground and also in the white helmets would arrive with their cameras to film i'm talking about the u.n. aid convoy in the fall of twenty seventeen that's or twenty sixteen those are the sort of incidents that you can be aware of that would sort of sculptor any international multilateral cease fire effort that's been getting in the way in the past i'm hoping many people are hoping that this is something that will be resolved by the united states and russia cooperating in this way. right now the media's reaction to news he that the us authorities have charged a russian woman with spying all that another news right after
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a short break. with . tradition sentenced to public will. when the ruling closest project. with the flame of. the roots to. dilute. the i think this catastrophe of folding in britain for the past fifteen years or so was its connection to the e.u. and the ability to have its own currency and yet passport rights into the e.u. take those away and you have essentially greece on steroids and all those banks in
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the e.u. in america are going to attack the u.k. plate and drive into bankruptcy. welcome back the u.s. department of justice has expanded its charges against of the gun activist and russian citizen money if we can no she is now directly accused of being an agent of a foreign government but the story has seen some media outlets jumping to radical conclusions scallop and explains. well according to the affidavit published by the f.b.i. they allege that essentially she was working as a lobbyist she was essentially trying to create a back channel of communication between the russian government allegedly and the
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republican party and the national rifle association now she appears to be a gun enthusiast there are a lot of photos on social media of her carrying a firearm and it is essentially alleged that she you know was communicating with a government bank in russia she was communicating with government officials in russia all while she was do lobbying and trying to you know work in the interests of russia and work with the national rifle association and other interests that's what's essentially alleged now from there we've seen a lot of international media jump to making allegations about spying and engaging in some kind of asked me in objectivity but if you read the affidavit that's not what's alleged what's alleged is essentially that she engaged in a lobbying this is actually what we heard from senator chris murphy regarding the arrest but no the russian operative was rolled up in what appears to be. a coordinated attack against the united states elections by the n.r.a. and the russian government that's not actually what the affidavit says it says that
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she was developing relations with u.s. persons and infiltrating organizations having influence in american politics for the purpose of advancing the interest of the russian federation the algae geishas that she was lobbying not that she was doing any spying or anything to that effect now it's also interesting is the affidavit mentions that an exchange she allegedly had with a russian government official was titled posner two point zero and this is of course a reference to latimer posner now the f.b.i. goes on to describe a lot of your posner the russian american t.v. personality as quote a propagandist who worked in the dissin from ation department of the soviet k.g.b. now lattimer posner has spoken up and said he never had any contact with the k.g.b. and did not work with the k.g.b. it's. also interesting to note that according to the f.b.i. affidavit she was communicating with government officials in russia over twitter which is not exactly a secure private communication mechanism not the kind of thing one would use of
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they were engaging in some kind of high tech intense espionage activities so a lot of questions are being asked but at this moment she is facing those charges and she was a rang on monday her attorney made a statement denying she's an agent heals the said that the woman offered to be interviewed by the special counsel's office but the office showed no interest in speaking to her but put the issue to legal and media analyst and leinil. 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
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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. facebook google and twitter have once again faced u.s. lawmakers and this time defending how they filter content well they have drastic ization so of bias claiming their platforms do not discriminate for political reasons when it comes as facebook admits automated systems have labeled thousands of russian users as interest and treason supposedly for advertising purposes but it's raising concerns over a who might really want to target these users and here's more outcasts. it's simple facebook exists to serve advertisers not users not you
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and i said a rerun of its. advertisers pay money they want direct access to the right uses the target audience you might fall into the interested in islam category or interested in homosexuality group it depends on the things you click on line which facebook tracks and then advertisers or governments can tag you but one of those categories was treason interested in treason officially russian people who facebook deemed as anti government to the russian and facebook confirmed it to us treason was included as a category given its historical significance given it is an illegal activity we have removed it as an interest category that is their official statement they added
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that the key word was hardly ever used by advertisers which means that it was used there were people out there searching for treason inclined russians and serving them with presumably propaganda encouraging them to commit treason against russia months it was found out facebook removed the category but the pundits managed to twist even vat this isn't about sixty five thousand russians being targeted with foreign propaganda meddling in internal russian politics let's see they say the real control over see is that these people could be targeted by russian authorities imagine if ace book categorize americans as potential traitors fact advertisers that blog zuckerberg op have expressed how upset i am that the russians tried to use our tool to sow distrust what they did is room and we're not
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going to stand for it. and that's the meat of it when it's russians being targeted by propaganda to sow distrust in russia abs five until you get caught r.t.s. send a request to a number of human rights and to unload groups asking whether it's such a practice constitutes madlang in a country's internal affairs four of them including human rights watch and transparency international have free spondee it saying that they are not in a position to comment journalist john gowned believes that facebook's power and influence has become overwhelming if this was americans who were being too obvious there would be absolute age in congress and across the whole of the american media and clearly it was looks like it was being used to spread dissenting russia and that's wrong with this also to be given to government spot so that governments
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could enforce their will against the people we already know the algorithms against anybody who's got a slightly roy said to view we know about shadow of a shadow account i just think we've all been rather foolish it came along facebook and twitter facebook in particular that we gave all our information all our history all our pictures all our significant events and they have literally got too much power and that's scary on every level whether you're living in russia america or indeed in western europe well that's it from our team for now but we'll be back with more right at the top of the hour.
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about a lawsuit welcome to sophie until i'm so sweet shevardnadze said today we're got lots to talk about in our program and our guest is. good luck little. seventy four design submissions. seven thousand pilings. to china judges. and eight hundred sixty nonstop days of. a russian w.b. a champion. and a russian mob stuff. show you how. long the crimean bridge was built. witnessed the construction of
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a unique transport doughtery that will help the cause of crimea. most of those you know while google more familiar with it a bit but it's clear. the very idea of a trumpet he summit was controversial from the start they met in helsinki and essentially agreed the u.s. and russia should at least think agent dialogue to start a process of mending a very damaged relationship much of the media in the foreign policy swamp reacted with an apocalyptic meltdown has the establishment its mind. it's hard to imagine the decades after the war a nazi don't there was still active bridge in the nineteen seventies kryten tell had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery at auschwitz a german company develops and admired a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy. it turned out to
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i'm. ok. this is boom bust broadcasting around the homework world from washington d.c. i'm part short and thank you for joining us and appreciate it coming up today amid new data details about increased consumer spending last month which has some economists suggesting a much more optimistic gross domestic product for the u.s.
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this year we talked retail with the c.e.o. of this dr bush melissa arma and israel has closed the only kirsch will point of entry into the gaza strip some say it's economic warfare archies alex pilotage gives us the details plus we take a look at the twenty eight team computer hacks and cyber security with russ rusty see the senior director of intelligence services at cyber reason all that ahead but first we have some headlines researchers at the international monetary fund or i.m.f. have said that continuing international trade tensions could reduce global economic output by half a percent by twenty twenty at a loss of an estimated four hundred thirty billion dollars the i.m.f. latest update to the world economic outlook warns the loss could be that significant if quote current trade policy threats are realize and business confidence falls as a result.
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