clinton on the other hand during the campaign promised a very hard line toward toward russia even going so far as to bomb syria where both were russian troops were operating that would have been an act of war against russia so i said to you on the air we can say what we want to bow trump but i have a priority because i see the danger and i want a president who wants to cooperate with russia not you and i remember that in the twentieth century this was called detente and we had episodes of detente so think back with me larry the three presidents of the twentieth century who pursued with soviet russia major episodes of detente were all republicans as is trump first eisenhower in the fifty's with khrushchev then nixon with brezhnev and then most successfully we thought ronald reagan with gorbachev so

detente with russia was a kind of republican tradition and i wasn't terribly surprised when trump advocated but then suddenly we're told no no no this is not legitimate this is somehow about trump's shadowy relationship with the kremlin and there we are trump has tried i don't like much else that he does he has tried to pursue a policy of detente with putin why he hasn't been able to why steven should we be friendly with a country that obviously interfered with though elections that goes into ukraine that is still a danger to nato. i understand for exhibits a good idea to taunt the fights with why why should we be why wasn't hillary right . so you and i are now going to argue and which is good because we need to have these issues explored in

a way that they're not being explored in the american mainstream media today so there are two issues that you are i have never advocated friendship with russia i advocate friendship with larry king with my friends i advocate partnership with russia that is essential and has been the case for decades because our of our capacity to destroy each other with nuclear weapons and the rest of the world with it that we have an x. a stench will need to partner with russia on national security matters and every american president in our lifetime laurie or just start with eisenhower has understood this the country has asked the president partner with russia so that there's not a war now or a new situation trump is not empowered to partner with putin but i

disagree with you it is much more complicated what russia under putin did or didn't do. personally and this is these are separate issues for debate what happened in ukraine was not provoked by russia but by the west the record is fairly clear secondly i don't know what it means to say that russia nettled or interfered in our presidential elections obviously really you know what let's ask what's obvious. was it obvious to you you remember this i think that in one thousand nine hundred ninety six the clinton administration who literally encamped in moscow to get its partner boris yeltsin who had almost no chance of being reelected to get him reelected and we were so proud of that interference in russia's presidential election that showtime made

a movie about it feature film called saving or spending morris and time magazine put it when he elson one on the cover with a picture of yankee doodle dandy or something yeltsin carrying an american flag and the cover read yanks to the rescue what i want to say that ever since the russian revolution of one nine hundred seventeen when we intervened in the russian civil war my uncle was sent there by wilson so he told me the story russia has meddled in our internal politics and we have meddled in there what was different in two sixteen social media world changed to my way of thinking that's the only difference it was just more of the same old game neither side should do it but we've been doing it for one hundred years i'll buy the ok now there gun is in office they like tomb i've been with putin a few times to him to on the phone seems like

a personal god probably been a successful american politician he likes trump helped elect him trump likes him why is it bad what haven't you still haven't told me why they're not getting along why are we better off with russia if trump than putin get planes. ok so i mean you've got a lot of hard and complicated questions that are out says one. well let me just step back a little it is being said today this was not said a year or two ago but it's now being said that putin and the kremlin actually got trouble lek did there is no evidence for that is alan nathan a the us or way that you know who nate silver's is this famous pollster so he tweeted yesterday and you could look it up as casey stengel used to say you could look it up he tweeted yesterday that in his judgment and he supposed to be the number one american pollster that if you listed that the one hundred factors that

got trump elected russian social media would not be one of them he doesn't see it played any role at all i'm not a pollster i can't do the statistics but this is nate silver saying this just wasn't a factor the real senecas should a couple days ago that showed all of the connections that they would do an interference in many ways nate silver could be wrong he could be wrong i could be wrong you're absolutely right but here is where i am worried we are living today in a world where everybody is churning out conflicting narratives conflicting facts conflicting stories about what is central. i am a scholar you're a journalist when i leave you today i have to go see a doctor what i expect of all three of us is that as professionals we base what we

do say and recommend on facts and the facts are getting harder and harder to ascertain but they're not all on our side russia does produce facts sometimes larry so how do we find out what the facts are today when we have this information war if you want to call it that on both sides and inside our own country you said to me for example trump a putin likes trump yes the russians favored trump wouldn't you given a choice between hillary and trump where one says she's going to bomb you and the other says he wants to cooperate with you there are rational people but today and i was in moscow to let me think november twenty fifth have to be my birthday and it happened to be the day of the naval conflict between russia and ukraine i was there for a week i have contacts then up i just put myself in prison contacts with russians are criminal now that's another bad thing that's going on but i have heard repeatedly not from putin himself but from people close to hit them that they have

all but given up on trump all but given up for one reason trump cannot deliver stop and think what happened trump went to helsinki in july for a summit something every president since eisenhower has done trump comes home he's accused of treason what does trump do he takes all sorts of russian actions to prove he's not putin's puppet what happened next he canceled to a meetings with putin that's embarrassing to putin who treats another world leader like that it's not diplomatic so the russians are fed up but they can't be fed up because of the nuclear weapons and that's where we are today. steven cohen is our guest the book is war with russia we'll be right back with more politicking right after this break.

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kind of financial survival job but it was all about money laundering first to visit this christmas into three different. goods is a good start well we have our three banks all set up here maybe something in your something in america something overseas in the cayman islands or do we do all these banks are complicit in the kleptocracy who decide to give my phone and say hey i'm ready to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did while we've got a nice luxury watch for max and for stacey beautiful jewelry and how about. luxury automobile again for max you know what money laundering is highly illegal thank you so much guys of course. welcome back to politicking on talk he was stephen cohen the russian scholar the new book is war with russia from putin and ukraine to trump and russia gate he's in

new york city all right my scholar friend. do you wish hillary were president. that's. stead of donald trump that's what you're asking me right because if i had my wish neither of them would be president we think of somebody else who only had two choices you only had two choices i can answer the question i was very worried about her but more about the people around her. you know my attitude toward trump today is. for all the ways he offends me that on the one issue that i think is vital to us our kids and our grandkids and i got for the grandkids now is that we can't have any kind of war with russia not this little book war with russia has a question mark at the end of the title and it's written for general readers is not written for my scholarly colleagues and to be fair ninety percent of them do not

agree with me you get another professor of russian studies up here and he'll tell you cohen's all wrong he doesn't understand anything maybe but this is my view based on forty or fifty years of study and i have never been as worried as i am today about war with russia trump is the president we have for now we don't have another president and this talk of impeaching him is a very bad idea if we want to get rid of him voting out into twenty but so long as he's president he is responsible for our national security order which today is threatened most by accidental or intentional war with russia so that's why i wrote the book that's the question i present to you today what is muller investigation proves disaster is for term. meaning give me an exact give me half a what would be to what would be disastrous that he colluding with russia on the election. well over the last service if we found out clearly

if mullah vines are clearly that trungpa and his adversaries colluded with russia over the election. it's. reason. actually it's not it's borderline treason well i mean first of all that's not going to happen we don't know how to investigate it well because we because we can look at the indictments that muller has gotten so far we can also look at this case against this russian woman they've locked up in in washington this bhutto woman who they accuse of being some kind of spy we could look at the charges brought against paul mann afford some of which he's pleaded guilty against what it is add up to russia larry i'll tell you what it adds up to it's russia gate without russia russia isn't there hardly at all it ends up to tax fraud and sex so we're now talking about i didn't pay my taxes gate and sex gate please larry how long have we

lived you know any other politicians who have tried to make sexual escapades go away and one instance it has to do with russia and that's when general flynn flynn flynn remember he was trump's national security advisor for about eighteen days i would he do he rang up the russian in basher. and he said don't do anything exciting when we get into office we're going to review our policy toward you know every american president elect since at least nixon has told his national security adviser to have such a back channel talk kissinger did it for nixon michael book fall did it for obama flynn then nothing wrong he did it on the orders of trump who was following the advice of henry kissinger perfectly normal why did flynn lie that the f.b.i. that's a different question what do you think of who. now i

step back i cease to be a very worried american a citizen and i become a historian of russia which has been my subject for forty or fifty years in history when we get away from all this when you and i have joined the majority as they say and historians write this era they will rank futile as one of the greatest leaders in russian history and certainly as of two thousand we're approaching two nineteen he's in power twenty years probably the preeminent statesman of the twentieth century we're not allowed to say that today because we have to demonizing the dentist oracle context he presided over the salvation of russia after it's a collapse in the one nine hundred ninety s. by so salvation i mean men were dying at fifty seven years nobody was getting their wages or their pensions factories were closing all that is mostly in the past he

didn't do it alone if he built a team that helped him but to this day you who go to russia and people who do not like putin today nonetheless gift banks that he came to power in two thousand they believe the save the nation secondly putin restored russia on the world stage larry let's be realistic the largest territorial country in the world russia with its trip. dishes with his population with his contributions to arts and science is not going to become a secondary player on the world stage putin has returned on the world stage but in a way that i think is entirely negotiable what we need is a president in this country who understands how to negotiate with russia we need a leader and that's where we're at today you know putin have not met him but i follow almost every word he writes and says i'd like to write about him at length i probably i'm not young enough because it's of i've written biography before but it

takes a lot of years but i follow him very very basic beliefs and everything you say he should fly you the private tomorrow entertain you for a month you. own is the mirror version and i know but i am not pro putin you're not pro and i've pro-american national security and i'm saying that our national debt the security requires that we stop demonizing a perfectly authentic russian leader that's all i'm saying steven to you agree that you are the most controversial american tunes soon in russia. well known american. i can say to you larry you've been on the air for a million years would you say during those million years you've probably been the most controversial. host show well all go out on a lot of you don't you have you personally i'm not i don't think i'm controversial

but i have been i very rarely will say oh there he should have him on that's not the way you operate no what does it mean to be conscious what does it mean to be controversial i don't know what i would say is this. that there are people who think exactly as i do sitting in the united states senate and there are people sitting of my veni jury slightly younger in my profession maybe people more eminent than me there are former ambassadors very imminent people who think more or less exactly as i do they do not speak out with one or two exceptions the only reason i'm controversial is nobody else speaks out stephen n your wildest dreams you envision a nuclear war yes alas yes a lot. by accident primarily stop and think and this is the theme of my book war with russia question mark during the last cold war we had

a lot of conflicts military with the soviet rule union soviet russia but they were never on russia's borders larry never on russia's borders today we have a massive nato military buildup on russia's borders near poland and the small baltic nations we have nato trespassing in ukraine which is historically part of slavic russian civilization at least the eastern and southern parts we are flying in this limited and this is why would trump did last week removing the troops are saying he's going to from syria we're we're conducting combat operations in syria when the russians in a very limited airspace. what happens when if a russian kills an american or american kills a russian what will the clamor be can we really trust all these fail safe radar systems when both sides now claim they have undetectable faster more lethal nuclear missiles we're walking on the edge of

a racer but as i'm that's the end we've got guys you've got two guys two guys for now who need to keep us away from danger that's putin and trump hate on him all you want but in this we have to encourage him so would trump does something wise in this regard we need to stop the noun singing and clap and when putin does something wise in this regard we need to do the same we don't have a choice larry we don't have any other leaders at the moment if there's an accident that's the end the oral law goes once one throws it the other throws its and what that interact so let me worry you a little more but i think you know that but that the people who follow you might not know radars are supposed to tell each side if there's an incoming missile they have made mistakes russia wants mistook a large sea gall for an incoming cruise missile from europe the mistake was caught

but in that time when the signal is given that there's an incoming missile the leader of the other country has fourteen minutes. to decide whether or not unleash the full retaliatory or nuclear power of that country against russia or the united states it would destroy both countries probably world civilization with the radiation the destruction to the atmosphere so this is not a debate about you know trade this is not a bait about racial relations this is a debate about life and death and that's why we need to stop shackling trump every time he says i want to cooperate with russia we need to stop we didn't stop until we got another president are you and all you see in the book cold war with russia was a question mark are you optimistic or you must be pessimistic why did you set me up

so what a russian would say to you larry is this follow me closely here. a pacifist is someone who thanks thanks can not get worse. and i opted missed knows that they can get worst so i guess at the moment i'm an optimist things are gonna get worse stevens book is war with russia from putin in ukraine to trump and russia gate it's out now in available everywhere including the download thank you so much always great talking with you stephen have a high i.q. larry you too and thank you lonnie inspired joining me on this edition of politic you will mumma you can say in the conversation on my facebook page or tweet me at kings things and don't forget to use the politicking hash tag and that's all for this edition of politicking.

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