and all leaders were saying something no one believed a single wart and actually people who said it also didn't believe what they were saying but not how you see that half of the country believe it or just. people who see those things they don't believe it so it's not exactly a ceasar but there's some resemblance well it's not exactly the year ceasar but i think the villa hall of ideological influence on the policies is chai king and i think what is absolutely shocking to me for example is that the fact that people would use so much time so much added you so much resources on deliberating something that has very little bearing on the lives of ordinary americans do you feel that do you feel that frustration among the ordinary people in the united states because within the u.s.s.r. people definitely were very much annoyed by the fact that most of the ideological debates had very very little bearing on how they leave well the good thing is.

that half of the country or you probably even a little more because according to the recent polls for just 7 percent or believes that. good u.s. russia relations are good for america and they have what are people who are pushing the preachment their goal of course is no to overthrow president trump and to use russia as an instrument but more than half of the country don't believe them and this is something that makes me feel much better and not through. be so set like. we were in u.s.s.r. when their 100 percent didn't believe what our leaders were saying to us now going back to the impeachment proceedings i'm sure you have a chance to read the transcript of that fateful july 25th phone call between president trump and he's. ukrainian counterpart president selenski and i think

psychologically it was a fascinating and very revealing conversation but in terms of inappropriately using the office of the us presidency the charge that the democrats a leveling against trump did you find anything of substance. maybe. if you're talk about psychology. then maybe there's something but nothing. to cry high crimes and misdemeanors of course trump wanted to get some what we call compromise on bargain but the same time he had legitimate reasons for that. united states spend billions of dollars and there most of this money was stolen and everyone simply understand so and the greatest of them so present has the right to put on hold some but because $8.00 until right or ukrainian springs

are hardest in order so i would say maybe 10 percent or 14 during this conversation may be a little bit suspicious but 90 percent it's pretty legitimate if you know one of the most jarring things for me in that whole conversation was the absolutely shameless forming off president lansky him saying that trump is not 100 but 1000 percent thrive and achieve getting zilinskas all presidential victory on things that he has learned from trump i mean it was clear in that conversation that he would say anything to get into chum's good graces and yet throughout these impeachment hearings ukraine was presented as these poor little made them that trump is trying to abuse if anything shouldn't be the presidency lansky who ought to be if not impeached then at least questioned about how he carries the office of of the president. well her presence around sphere of course all of us were disappointed we were extremely happy when he won because of her was that

in country and to the world in the war. to a corrupt. and 73 percent of people most of them of course voted not for their own script but just for their greed or for. and that's why tensions were very hard but as usual you are temperance that expert dish and then become disappointing i wrote one of my articles that there was a famous novel by stephan sweig her sense of history sometimes give you a chance and if you really know something someone has guts you use this chance you can even change the history but in this case history gave sagansky a chance and he basically blew it and then no one knows what's going on what's going to happen so to me he's not on the way of fulfill the promises that he gave

to ukrainian people well to some extent the history is being rewritten it within the united states itself and by that i mean the way god american presidents from now and we'll be able of carrying out their duties because i think you know any president. would let alone a u.s. president would have major difficulties conducting a policy or simply even engaging with he's counterparts or her counterparts knowing that everything everything that he or she sat could most likely would be used against them can you actually be a president in such an environment let alone a president of one of the most. important countries in the world i think look at this more optimistic larry i think that this is. america going through some difficult period. which sucker unique now don't say consumers this happened before and hopefully it will not going to happen again so sometimes this organism's sick

but then you know overcomes a sickness and maybe the next time i ever see will be ok for at least which is what i'm hoping. but i don't think that this is now continues history run conversation between 2 leaders will be mutually expose it's just a temporary situation and i believe in america america is a great country and i think that if we were able to overcome this tragic period you know we we have the saying in russia and in some other languages of as well that offense is the bast defense do you think the democrats are acting offensively because perhaps they genuinely smell impropriety or criminality in trump's behavior or ave trying to defend one of their own and prevent the trumpet mistreating from even asking questions about the bidens added them conflict of interests. again as

they say they don't believe it wards is saying what happened that trump selection was a shock truck and they still in the same state of shock despite all the failing over for murder and all those impeachment hearings are just circus. there not to overcome. the shock it takes time. i think it will continue until the next election in november 2022 and a lot will depend. on what american people will say. at this point if elections for today i think pretty sure the term for it when many things can happen during a year next year. this sickness will continue and the only hope for recovery will be off her november 2020 now while the democrats

need a lot of things to defeat at the ballot box come 2021 of those thinks would be the support of the independent voters as well as of their own representatives in the congressional districts which voted for trump in 2016 but down supported the democrats in 2018 ave any indication so far how these very specific groups and very vital groups of voters are relating to the beach meant proceedings do they see them as a worthwhile. use of worth while allocation of time and energy you wrote 1st of all recall 2 democratic members of congress know. even in the beginning they didn't vote for to proceed now always we can't run a congresswoman she said that maybe it's better to stop because it hurts our party

and even shift said that. under question so i'm going to know proceeds was finishing this process he said i have to go back and talk to my constituency so there's some hesitation. but still the party apparatus probably would not that this stop they just had stockard throwing around the word train bashir will continue until full collapse but it shows in some hesitation and now we're going to see the next round of the circus next week up to 10 is giving prestigious school moved to. a committee of research center and. expect the same thing the same story nothing their magic can happen because already all information is on the table. measuring interest and sam is a trump now welcomes that vote for impeachment becomes i think will move to the senate and then republican party to its majority will be able to. in the right to

testify anyway they want including biden sure if. anyone else well this is actually an interesting prospect because the republicans as you just sat promised that if the impeachment proceedings indeed moved to the senate they're going to roll out the old we haveour tillery they would insist on the tacit monies from both biden the father and by them the son how big of a risk do you think politically it could be for the democratic party because i assume bad beats this could ultimately end up playing very handsomely into donald trump's hands on the eve of the elections. of course because. of the democrats who just don't have the facts only some and i'm guessing that republicans do have more over and some documents john saw a month from from the hill is doing the great work he's using through information

act and he is producing the documents phone calls between biden and state department and there are also those lawyers. for bruce my saw he has a huge shoe and pack of those documents and several be produced he's holding them from now ghosts he's waiting for for the for all right moment and then when people see the real facts i think it will be not 57 percent but maybe. 70 or 75 who will say that enough is enough we want congress to go back to war. i checked the recent ratings of congress it's 18 percent approval only 18 percent of american people believe the congress is doing right war woodward and 80 percent disapprove so this shows that the american people are on the right site and as i said in the beginning it's

a good and this is some sort of that you know eventually well truth will come out and america will recover and we'll be happy again. well you do sound like presidential level bit and i hope you don't mind me saying that sometimes you also look like he as well but for the time being am mr let's give you have to take advantage should break we'll be back in just a few moments states. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you that.

much in a pile for full strength. then you have to recall and what we have done is to try and identify something coming in the brain where the extension of the ripples call spams to the depths of your consciousness. welcome back to worlds apart without a worthless obscure president of the world russia forum ad the frequent commentator on the u.s. russia relations mr goes on in the american media your sometimes credited with introducing the american republican party's conservative movement to russia

do you think there is add a thing in common between the. american conservatives and the russian ones i'm if so what is a. well it's just historically what happened is that when. it came to power. i received unexpectedly invitation from his science advisor to come to moscow from users pretty shocking because soviet press didn't like me at all and receiving the stations to come to moscow was pretty high i would say it's not shocking but strange nevertheless you know i thought it's with a year was my dream to go back home some time and my wife and i have a rant in the mets to a new generation and people around bored me and then the round yeltsin and most of the people who were talking about. the time they wanted to.

improve not on just improve relations was united states they wanted to be america l.-i this is a very strong war ally because sometimes these partnerships something like that and i helped them to build ties for his american conservatives especially poli rick who unfortunately he's now are no passed on but best of but paul was very influential and paul helped to link. russian. pro-west armed forces with to say oh by the way all russia was progressed from in one to one even starting with 99 to russia was progress to i think some people have paid a very savvy price for trying to establish a dialogue bits been these 2 groups that you're talking about boots in there who just recently spent 9 months in behind bars for essentially trying to you.

guys that dialogue for for a friend and former boss senator alexander torsion is now on did they use sanctions i wonder if you have faced any pressure if you. afeared any legal action over the last couple of years as the russia gate was gathering steam for everything that you have tried to do have reaches to bring a russia the united states is not closer together to these better understanding of one another the only pressure i see some time as an intern unfortunately i don't see any pressure from various sort of yours and they know very well so are you i'm doing this since 89 this is the 1st time round i went back to moscow and i became like a messenger between russian. political and business community education cultural and american so i'm doing this now for oh it's 30 years

and song. they can blame me that's putting who actually. is asking me or you know paying me to do it they know this is my life this is what i do and they're true to. you mentioned 2 hours of old russia for him it's annual event on capitol hill and the song well i i don't want to there are be too optimistic and something happened but so far fortunately i didn't have any pressure from from the a sort of hers but i walked off kind of a bet awards on the rap but then the internet people can do anything they want and yet you know that other people have been called to testify for essentially doing what you're doing and i know that you have a very interesting life story you're a nuclear scientist your a dissident who fled the soviet union back in the ninety's and i know that both

role know the reagan abduct time vice president george h.w. bush played a role in your own life how do you bring your family over i wonder if it's actually dad legacy of those 2 former presidents dad's been shielding you from the after knocking on your door as it did on the door of many other people who were trying to do so essentially the same kind of worry that you're doing right now. maybe you and maybe you mention to our own reagan and george w. bush who indeed played a very important role but there are 2 or more people at the temperance concert conservative republicans sent to dole and congressman jack kemp who actually became member our family because when i was kicked out of thrones a service union my wife was behind we had at some point decided to have a. no marriage american marriage ceremony because our russian soviet

marriage was a newt so we had a ceremony on the capitol hill and. bob dole and her camp are my best man in business in washington d.c. you can do marriage by proxy saw dole and joe can raise their hands and they testify that they know that tiana was a time in moscow really wants to marry me so maybe as always for people who do a lot more of her some democrats are part of this campaign like to ted kennedy center morning and so i had a great bipartisan group of people who are more likely to i'm doing and so i don't know again i don't want to be too optimistic but so far it's it's ok so what do you talk to these people these days when your campaigning or advocating for a more progressive a pragmatic or even and the an adversarial relationship between the united states

russia do you can they really support here in this advocacy i mean i think it's tantamount to treason and the betrayal of the american interest if you voice and all been support for a dialogue between these 2 countries i mean this is one of the charges against president trump till this day the fact that he is he's saying that you know the good relationship between russia and the united states would be a good thing i mean daddy's. as he being a puppet of the kremlin i can't believe that you have encountered any difficulties again as i said i do on the web but i mentioned already that polls sometimes they say 57 some polls even close to 60 year old american feel the same way they don't see that ukraine come all those businesses some democratic side to say and is why it'll so american interests resume today my article is in the washington

times own explains that this is just the opposite and it shows that huge portion of americans believe trumper and the belief. me but maybe i don't want to compare myself with trump but then i'm trying to prove in my writings that good u.s. russia relations are good for america. and it's interesting that there are now i mentioned past that i always are closer to the right but now we have people in the left like you know steve cohen who became like a leader some time we call him others are harder for. for modern times who believe the same thing and so he had no union then or emergence of right and left of people who believe that trump is right and he's saying that she thought we had steve going on the show several times but i have to say that i like you he has faced some very serious repercussions for the position that he has taken now

speaking broadly about the u.s. russian relationship i know that you believe that when the soviet union collapsed back in 1901 america had the he's toric up it's you need to transform its top anime into an ally a repeating what had happened previously with joe many add to patch but could that template really have. war with russia because i think as weak as russia was back in the early ninety's it would never give up on the idea of its own army like to pan it would never sees part of its sovereignty to the united states like west germany so was that ever a realistic scenario. no what we're talking about it's not russia becoming like a junior partner we were talking about equal partnership so as i sat here i was carrying a lot of messages from russian leadership and. white or who have

x. as their excess to the white house he was delivering them to president bush. and there was a message that russia is ready to become american ally now in terms of course should be negotiated and again i don't think that russia would agree to be a junior partner but you can be allies equal partners and 6 it would be good for russia it would be good for america said george bush but it's really. inclined to accept this idea but he. lost elections in $92.00 and assume he lost elections new team clinton and then george bush jr and obama went on the pass of each actually was devastating to the united states has sent and then in the world recent study by brown university have

a special center and several prominent scholars they came up with exact numbers specific numbers what those mil is to adventurous or whatever you can use another word caused this region and also united states trump was elected just to change the course but the establishment doesn't want to do it and now they're said to have plenty of friends from capitol hill who believe the same thing but i think we are talking more about the u.s. image of itself and they are we would your a couple of parallels with the soviet union before and one thing that happened to rush off to become laps of the soviet union was that russia had to change the way. it projects itself both domestically and to round the world do you think a similar transformation will happen to d. united states once these polarization hopefully settles down. if we have to. make sure that this happens because otherwise some to none who

no one can accuse center number of being put in storage whatever he said that we are now sleepwalking and to nuclear disaster and not on the someone even. former. u.s. ambassador jon huntsman who over oh some time said many thanks for the truly good for diplomats when he said that their best american diplomacy is 100000 tons of force to go in the u.s. missile. carriers but then when he came back he said that we have to do dialogue because it's a very dangerous situation is very dangerous but unless those those people realize that to be sleepwalking this nuclear disaster then then this is this really can happen so. that's we have to do we have to continue what we're doing i think still believes that there are good going along with russia is a good thing not

a bad think. you know i want to simply an optimistic note that. close to 2 thirds of americans saying the same so it's so america still democracy and in democracy final work is for the people well mr lesson ski on this note we have to leave it thank you very much for sharing your insights and for our viewers can keep this conversation going in our social media pages as well me and the team we hope to syria again same place same time and well supplied. by.

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nato military alliance is a relic from the cold war back then it was relevant and even necessary today it is an alliance in search of a mission that search as almost we impale eastern expansion towards russia but the lingering question remains is the average american and western european interested in a war over the solvent be the stone yet in montenegro. this is a story about what happens austria stray bullets kills a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family and daughters i'm sorry. long. other daughter is buried in a cemetery it really messes with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police needed a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with

a criminal record who better to pin this on than him and what happens in court. be . shocked shocked as far as i feel. we don't know she'll share this truthful. end of this trial unfortunately you truly will still love no chill just. let. the.

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