vladimir putin is not that funny. donald trump is more funny than vladimir putin. >> we have two more questions and then we will wrap it up. >> a very quick question. you mentioned the english version of medusa. can you tell us more about why you decided to start the english language and what audience you are hoping to reach and what kind of audience you are actually reaching with the english language version? >> we have the head of our english version here. give her your you melody you want a subscription information from russia. recognizablebe media for western people. want foreign journalists to consider medusa a reliable sub -- source as to what is happening in russia. if you want to work for these people, you need to speak english. russian.e people speak world, not as much as a if you want to reach these people, you have to make something in english. a great idea is to produce something for that part of western society who have special interest in what is happening in russia. >> scientists, andcientists, authorit

vladimir putin touching down in france to me president emmanuel macron.hey will get to it exhibition at versailles to celebrate the 300 anniversary of peter the great's trip to paris. international issues will not be a salt that salt without the russians. -- will not be solved without the russians. reporter: it is here, part of the palace of versailles that emmanuel macron will receive vladimir putin. it is a symbolic menu. it was here in 1717 when peter the great forged a detente with france. this comes seven months after the russian president canceled a trip to paris following based that with francois hollande. >> opening up a new page. maybe to try to let others not having a successful event. reporter: this is a reference to the kremlin's support for macron 's far right rival in the french election. there were also allegations of russia hacking his campaign. the french leader wants to keep good ties with moscow. this despite long-standing distances over ukrainian syria. >> i will have a challenging discussion with russia, claiming discussion despite ev

at a rather tense press co nfe re nce , vladimir putin. conference, he insisted he had been fried with vladimir putin over syria, human rights and ukraine and he dismissed some russian media as propaganda. from paris, lucy williamson has more. despite the sweltering weather, this meeting held a touch of frost from the start. at the entrance to fans, they greeted each other with handshakes. two hours later after their first meeting, their mood was if anything even cooler. france and russia have backed a different groups in the syrian conflict, emmanuel macron said that while france did not want to destabilise the syrian state, there were red line that must not be crossed. translation: i stressed again in my meeting with vladimir putin are objective. there is a clear red line that exists on our part and that is the use of chemical weapons by he by p. the use of chemical weapons will be the object of retaliation on the pa rt be the object of retaliation on the part of the french. the leaders are divided over the situation in ukraine with the

snth vladimir putin certainly no friend offering a helping hand. i want to you break down for us how significant putin offering up a transcript and i want to put into perspective, lavrov who was there last week. john mccain said that guy is a thug kgb guy who has been hanging around putin for 30 years who never should have been in the oval office to begin with. >> i think it is very important to point out that vladimir putin is not making a good faith offer here. the truth is the trump administration has exposed to this mockery which in large part was one of the big motivating factors in the intervention in 2016. one reason was to help trump. the other was to make our democracy essentially lose its credibility. on that score, they seem to have accomplished what they set out to do. since we won't get this information directly from the russians, i wouldn't recommend that. i think it is important to say that these facts need on come out. what we have are ironically both republicans in congress is that the administration saying they want the facts to b

maybe he doesn't want vladimir putin to say anything. maybe he's sending a message. >> i don't think he is sending a message. i think this is pretty straightforward. they see themselves as partners and putin is looking for an opportunity to defend the president. i hope that plays 180 difference in the united states. let's offer a moment of perspective here. the national security advisor loses his job because of an inappropriate conversation with the russians. the man investigating that, by all accounts, regardless of what you think of his actions, an honorable man, gets fired for investigating that and the president of russia says he's the one who is going to defend the president against inappropriate charges. i mean, i don't know what you say. i think we have to step back for a moment and acknowledge two things, that congress needs to proceed with an investigation so that we can take a deep breath out of partisan politics and let's not forget the forgotten story. the fbi needs to proceed with a criminal investigation because some time i

within vladimir putin's office.herefore, it had to have been introduced into the media at some point, and it was introduced by a russian source four months before donald trump made that statement. brian: in the report you have in your book, rt spends about $200 million a year. here is a promo that has americans in it that work for rt. i want to ask you, why do you think these folks work for this propaganda network of the russians? [video clip] >> for decades, the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big-money corporate interests have drowned out voices. that is how it is in the news culture. that is where i come in. >> most people think to stand out in this business, you need to be first or have the loudest voice and biggest ratings. in truth, to stand out in the news business, you just need to ask the right questions and demand the right answers. >> sometimes you see a story and is seem so whole, you think you understand it. then you glimpse something else, you hear or see some other pa

vladimir putin coming to trump's rescue? come on now. >> yeah, this is a pretty stunning intervention by the president of russia in effectively u.s. domestic politics. unusual for him. oftentimes he will avoid a question that asks him to comment directlyn what's happening in the states, but here, at a news conference alongside the italian prime minister in russia in the black sea resort of sochi, vladimir putin talking about that meeting president trump had with foreign minister lavrov and saying that they do not believe, the russians, that they were passed any sensitive intelligence in that meeting. president putin saying, i spoke to lavrov, his foreign minister, today. and joking in kind of a deadpan way that president putin does, i'll be forced to issue him with a reprimand because he did not share those secrets with us, not with me, nor with russia's intelligence services. it was very bad of him. but then president putin goes on to criticize the criticism of president trump unfolding there in the u.s. president putin say

that is why vladimir putin was hoping that it wouldn't be a emmanuel macron.ukraine and syria being the most important, and the sanctions regime over ukraine. he will not budge from those. emmanuel macron is a man sending out signals that france will not be a pushover. he wants to send the signal to vladimir putin today that these are points of principle which france holds to be very important. looking ahead, he will be trying to see if there is some kind of meeting of minds possible down the road. i think he is hoping to have some kind of gesture from vladimir putin that might signify that russia realises it made some kind of mistake in the run—up to the election. russia seems to have banked on a populist wave causing mayhem in europe, but that didn't happen. in france there an invigorated regime under manuel iimacroi. they want to approach russia with what he sees as a position of strength saying, look, can be addressed these issues of syria and ukraine again in the hope that vladimir putin himself once a way out. he doesn't necessarily want this crisis to e

he issued some stern words about that, having a go at vladimir putin.d direct talks, it says. it sounds like a road. vladimir putin arrived looking very sombre and at the end he had the severe look on his face. it

president trump had with vladimir putin. one thing he has been consistent about is obviously the soft spot he has for vladimir putin and other so-called dictators around the world. >> ambassador on that very point i know you have spoken and written about this. the thing for total tearians. let our audience in on your theory. >> let's be clear, there have been times in history that democrat and republican presidents have had to cooperate with autocratic leaders. that's part of doing business in a difficult world. but almost every single -- i think every single -- not almost. every single president since world war ii has also talked about democracy, human rights, and being the leader of the free world. president trump doesn't seem to care about that mission statement for the president of the united states. he rarely talks about democracy. almost never talks about human rights. that is unusual. that is unprecedented. that is a departure from both the republican party and the democratic party. and i think it's dangerous. i think

france's emmanuel macron met vladimir putin of russia.a press conference which was strained at times, putin insisted that any implication of russian meddling was nonsense. from paris, lucy williamson reports. despite these well during weather, this meeting held a touch of frost from the start. at the entrance to france's versailles palace, the two leaders greeted each other with brief handshakes and small, grim smile is. two hours later after their first meeting, the smile is. two hours later after theirfirst meeting, the mood smile is. two hours later after their first meeting, the mood was smile is. two hours later after theirfirst meeting, the mood was if anything even cooler. france and russia have backed different groups in the syrian conflict. mr macron said while france didn't want to destabilise the syrian state, there are red lines that must not be crossed. translation: are red lines that must not be crossed. translationzli are red lines that must not be crossed. translation: i stressed again in my meeting with president putin ou

president trump talks to vladimir putin for the first time since u.s. relations with moscow took a dramatic turn for the worse. we're getting new details about their conversation and whether they are seeing eye to eye. >>> blaming comey. hillary clinton talks at length about her election loss, including fbi director's role and her own responsibility. tonight she is billing herself as leading member of the anti-trump resistance. and defending the deal. republicans launch a full-court press to portray a new budget compromise as a gop win. as democrats claim victory. the president throws another curveball by declaring a government shut down might be a good thing. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> breaking news this hour. we're learning about pivotal testimony in the trump/russia investigation. cnn former acting attorney general sally yates saying she gave a forceful warning to the white house about michael flynn nearly three weeks before he was fired as national se

that's good for vladimir putin. there's no doubt about that. on the initial score, this is a win for the kremlin. >> michael shear, do you think that any part of the small group of people that we're starting to understand was aware of this decisionmaking warned donald trump of what this would look like? hey, mr. president, if you fire the director while the bureau is investigating russia connections, this is going to look terrible for you? >> well, yes, think that there was that kind of debate -- >> who would have -- just -- i'm not asking you to -- who -- what kind of person would have given him that kind of feedback? >> well, look, you've had -- you've actually had two camps inside the white house, we've talked about this endlessly, right, they call them the nationalist, the globalists, whatever. one of the divisions inside the white house are the people that are willing to blow things up and they don't care what they look like. that's the sort of steve bannon -- >> the bannon wing. right. >> steve miller kind of wing. right. you've got the i

vladimir putin saying that will be investigated. the reaction here has been we have an authoritative leader in macron, some of that russia is going to have to take careful consideration of as weak move into the future when it comes -- as we move into the future when it comes to europe. >> tropical storm moore has made landfall in bangladesh. hundreds of poorly built homes have been destroyed. maximum sustained winds of 89 miles an hour, and got up to 117. of these were immediately reported, partly because 300,000 people were evacuated monday, and more than 1000 shelters were set up in several districts. meanwhile, tens of thousands of volunteers were also on hand. one indonesian, one via minis, appeared in a malaysian court, accuse of assassinating the half-brother of the north korean leader. they do in our charges, but could face the death penalty if found guilty. they are accused of smearing a inve agent on kim's phase february. south korea accused north korea of orchestrating this. it is an allegation in young than us. rebels lin

france's emmanuel macron met vladimir putin of russia, and standing right next to him at a press conference, criticised the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government, which russia backs, and attacked the output of two russian media outlets as propaganda, not journalism. he's already accused moscow of interfering with the french election. mr putin insisted any claim of russian meddling was nonsense. from paris, lucy williamson. despite the sweltering weather, this meeting held a touch of frost from the start. at the entrance to france's versailles palace, the two leaders greeted each other with brief handshakes and small, grim smiles. two hours later after their first meeting, the mood was, if anything, even cooler. france and russia have backed different groups in the syrian conflict. mr macron said while france didn't want to destabilise the syrian state, there are red lines that must not be crossed. translation: i stressed again in my meeting with president putin ourfirm objection. there's a very clear line that exists on our part and that's the use of chemical weapons by whoever i

yes vladimir putin is no angel but nor are we. to hear president say some of those things are nightmarish. for personal reasons i have a loathing for this mixture of cynicism because i am a product of the iranian revolution. the mistake that my parents generation made has taught me that every attempt too. [inaudible] that is my basic conservative instincts. i find myself compelled to repeat the first principle under attack. liberal order is good. human freedom is good. a society that gives people the opportunity to follow their own conscious is good. trade is attractive. it is equally clear to me that liberals, and i think it's important to -underscore i don't mean the progressives, they need to redo some aspects of the program to make sure it survives the 21st century. i've began hinting at some of us in the first half. now i will put seven broad proposals for how too redo the program. first, i think liberal has to stop. i'm on a college campus and i'm thinking of an incident at middleberry. this inability to name things by their

still to come, vladimir caamano.r, an olympic gold medalist, and here in los angeles we would really like him to become a laker too. from the indiana pacers, please welcome pg-13, paul george. [ cheers and applause ] i appreciate you -- i know you'd rather be probably still playing, still in the playoffs. >> of course. >> jimmy: but what are you going to do? >> of course. this is a great option b to come here. >> jimmy: how does it work when you're eliminated from the playoffs? do you continue to watch them on television or are you like i just want to get that out of my head? >> no, i do. i'm a big fan of the game. i love the nba. i love watching basketball. i love watching good basketball. so it's kind of a motivation. >> jimmy: as far as who you root for, do you like -- do you root against lebron and the cavaliers? >> i root for who beats me. >> jimmy: see, that makes sense. >> they've done a good job. >> reporte >> jimmy: and you want them to sweep everyone else. because it's like yeah, they swept everybody. >> in

|j october to cancel a previous visit by vladimir putin to paris. something the russian ambassador to paris said ahead of the meeting. he seems to suggest he got emmanuel macron would be more flexible on the issue of syria. you heard emmanuel macron say there were red lines that chemical weapons and france wouldn't hesitate to intervene if syria crossed them will stop what did the russian ambassador mean by that? what is president macron prepared to give on to russia on syria that he wouldn't have done? both sides are trying to create opportunities for negotiation and flexibility. the red line seems to be on chemical weapons. the shock and disgust that even change donald trump's opinions for the current regime but prior to the french presidential elections, emmanuel macron seemed presidential elections, emmanuel macron seemed more presidential elections, emmanuel macron seemed more open to the idea of new routes towards easing sanctions against russia for example. it's not quite clear what his stance is on continuing to cooperate with assad or if th

always positive about vladimir putin. i don't know what the substance of this conversation tomorrow but i'm afraid russian propaganda will use it again to demonstrate putin is still very much working with other powers and he could even defy the free world and president of the united states. >> how would you describe it? is it insulting? is it mind-boggling? >> no, it's a problem that this president doesn't understand that regimes like vladimir putin or north korea or few others, confrontation with the free world is the core element of domestic propaganda and anything you do by legitimizing the leaders, giving them an opportunity to go back to their people, selling them as equals to the president of the united states hurts our cause and allows them to step up with more confrontations. the free world and also more oppressions in our country. >> what do you think the conversation's going to be tomorrow? >> i don't know. the propaganda machine will use it as a demonstration that putin is still a big world player. >> president

translation: i stressed again in my meeting with vladimir putin our objective.that exists on our part and that is the use of chemical weapons. the use of chemical weapons will be the object of retaliation on the part of the french. the leaders are divided over the situation in ukraine with the russian president condemning the sanctions imposed on his country as a result of the crisis. translation: the sanctions against russia are not helping to find a solution to the crisis in ukraine. we must fight to lift these restrictions. this is the only way we could be more free and be able to restore peace in the region. vladimir putin also appeared to deny any russian interference in france's recent presidential race, despite allegations by emmanuel macron‘s team that russian agents had tried to hack into their accounts. emmanuel macron defended the banning of two russian media outlets from covering his campaign, describing them as agents of propaganda. this choice of venue, and this exhibition was meant to highlight the long relationship between the two countries. more

headline is mysterious rash of russian deaths casts suspicion on vladimir putin.s back to the beginning of 2014. it's the last three years-plus. the risk of being on the wrong side of vladimir putin is not a new risk that we have just become aware of in this country. for example, vladimir karamurza on this show on friday night was first poisoned in russia in 2015 but what is different now for us americans, what is different now about this trail of dead russians, as one senate intelligence committee witness recently put it is now vladimir putin's government is accused by u.s. intelligence agencies of attacking our election last year to hurt hillary clinton's chances and to swing the election to donald trump, and now an open counterintelligence investigation at the fbi as to whether the trump campaign cooperated in that russian attack. now, because of that, now putin's trail of dead russians isn't just a story about him and his governance. it's a backdrop to what we're trying to learn about us and our governance. it was the last open hearing on the russian attack wh

trump is due to speak with vladimir putin later today. the civil war in syria and kim jong-un are strong topics. >> people tried to take his power away. he was able to do it. so, obviously, he's a pretty smart cookie. >> reporter: mr. trump says his biggest foreign policy concern is the rogue nation and his nuclear program. >> he has nuclear weapons. he has 28,000 troops on the line. they are right there. i'll act if i have to act. >> reporter: overnight south korea said two u.s. bombers were deployed over the korean peninsula in a joint drill. and a spokesperson confirmed thaad is operational and has the ability to intercept north korean missiles and defend south korea. president trump is also taking heat for telling bloomberg news he would be honored to meet kim jong-un. >> what you do, you legitimatize a bad vote on wednesday with a senate vote ahead of friday's midnight deadline. >>> thank you. survivors of the deadliest incident in the battle for the iraqi city of mosul are disputing american suing begs that isis is to blame for the

top russian officials have been keeping an eye on all of this, including vladimir putin.oday our elizabeth palmer went one on one with putin rinkside in sochi, russia. >> reporter: all suited up for ti amateur hockey match, president vladimir putin took the time to weigh in on washington's latest scandal. how will the firing of james comey affect u.s.-russia relations? >> ( translated ): there will be no effect. in fact, don't be insulted, but your question strikes me as funny. we have nothing to do with it. president trump is acting within his authority, according to the law and the constitution. and as for us, well, you see i'm of to play hockey. >> reporter: officially putin denies russia even has an opinion, but he's as skilled a player on the world stage as he is on the ice. as the president scored in sochi, his foreign minister, sergei lavrov was chalking up a win in washington, meeting president trump in the oval rufice. american reporters were shut out, so it was up to the russians to tweet this picture, and this one with russia's controversial ambassador sergey k

he brought in vladimir putin.s that i talked to said they prepared a very special book that day. one of them called ate work of arrest. in that case you go through the process before talking about the sensitive information with the foreign leader. this reporting suggests that that process did not happen, that this was just done on a whim by the president. that makes this quite different. >> let me just underscore what you just said. in the past, for example, they brought him in, let him sit on a pdb, didn't tell him it was a special one, but the intelligence community was advised we need a specialty one because we're going to have a foreign leader, prepare something that is safe, and he can safely hear. the intelligence carefully did that and it was presented in that context as we will that context as a well-thoughtout package. that's what you're saying: you have that right. there was a no kidding classified intelligence briefing, but they scrambled to get information that would be appropriate to have in a session

also coming up, french president emmanuel macron tells a vladimir putin that he is open to approvingconomic ties with moscow. he also warns his russian counterpart that he will not overlook human rights abuses or the use of chemical weapons in syria. and british police released new pictures of the manchester bomber one week after he killed 22 people in the city. that, as intelligence services launched an internal investigation into whether they could have prevented the attack. ♪ sarah: i am sarah kelly. thank you for joining us. german chancellor angela merkel has reiterated her warning that europe can no longer rely on some of its closest allies. although she did not explicitly mention donald trump, other members of her government did. her foreign minister chastised trump for weakening the west with shortsighted policies. this sea change in transatlantic relations comes after an eye-opening g-7 summit in which trump refused to endorse the paratransit a court, would not sign a free statement in helping refugees. reporter: the german chancellor let off some steam after voicing her dis

but first, today the new french president emmanuel macron will meet with his russian counterpart, vladimirthe kremlin was hoping that the meeting would take place under rather different circumstances — in the recent french election campaign, mr putin had voiced his support for the eurosceptic candidate marine le pen, who lost to mr macron. nonetheless, the relationship between france and russia remains important to both countries. france is russia's biggest foreign investor — in the first quarter of this year, french businesses injected 797 million dollars into the russian economy. this compares to germany with $350 million and the united states at $130 million. significant tension still exists between russia and the west following the country's ongoing dispute with ukraine. and sanctions are still in place. with me is lilit gevorgyan, senior economist at ihs global insight british airways is facing questions over the catastrophic failure of its computer system and how it's handled the fallout. vladimir putin wants to meet the man who managed to secure victory, despite the odds but secondl

the question is, what is it that vladimir putin asked of them and what is it that vladimir putin knows is it that he dwoonts, if any, here vis-a-vis our election system. >> and, eely, about that plaps you cover no one who i've spoken to in contemporary history has seen any place leak as much, there's never been as many inside sources, people, as the "times" reporter said tonight, willing to raise their hand and say this isn't right. >> right. i mean, i think donald trump has yet to really come to grips with the fact that there are checks and balances on his power here and he's really sort of facing something of a soft coup. he's never managed anything nearly as large as the federal government and within that government there are a lot of whistle blowers and people coming forward and revealing information to reporters about what's been going on. this has been true since he took the office. we've seen a number of leaks but we're now seeing them in a matter that pertains to national security and perhaps the longevity of this administration. and i think it's frustrating insidehehite house

president that praises vladimir putin. >> donald trump is not a republican. you and your fellow republicans going to defend this american nightmare? >> that was a town hall meeting in new jersey with republican congressman tom mcarthur. it was already difficult for a lot of republican house members to go home for this 11-day break and talk with the customers, their bosses because of the health care vote they cast which also came up at the meeting tonight. now they are being asked to answer for the comey firing and some cautionary numbers are out for the man at the top of the ticket. new poll has president trump badly under water. 36path approval rating versus 58% disapprove. joining our conversation tonight dana lash, syndicated conservative radio talk show host and two former members of congress. dana, we are happy to have you on tonight and i will begin here. mike hayden who used to run cia wrote an article saying that considering the president in 111 das has fired national security adviser, acting attorney general and head of the fbi says we are beginning

the question is what is it that vladimir putin asks of them and what does vladimir putin knows and what is it he want to do vis-a-vis our election system. >> eli, no one i have spoken to in contemporary history has seen any place leak as much. never been as many inside source people as the times reporter said tonight, willing to raise their hands and say this isn't right. >> right. i think donald trump has yet to really come to grips with the fact there are checks and balances on his power here and is really facing something of a soft coup. within the government there are whistle blowers and people coming forward and revealing to reporters what is actually going on. this has been true since the president took the oath of office. we have seen a number of leaks but we are now seeing them in a manner that pertains to national security and perhaps the long jeft of this administration. i think it's really frustrating inside the white house over the last week, the president has been felt, you know, sort of penned in, doesn't know what to do. is frustrated, and has blamed his communications te

she also brought up vladimir putin as well and why vladimir putin has such dislike of her. joining me now to talk about that appearance is jonathan allen, as well as amy parnes, co-author s of the "new york times" best seller, "shattered." amy, what do you make of her assessment of how the election went? >> well, it's something she has said earlier that russia and comey actually played a part. i think her campaign officials have also said the media played a huge role. now she's dipping into misogyny and i think that was a part, too. but as john and i have laid out in our book, it was so much more than that. she talked a little bit about message and how her message could have been better. she actually admitted that it wasn't a perfect campaign and that she does take responsibility because she is the candidate. these are things that we laid out in great detail in our book and things that when you lose by under 80,000 votes, all these things matter. >> the clinton team pushed back pretty hard on your book and said that a lot of the controversy in it, a lot of the distrust, the

vladimir owns a transport company in serbia.ut when he went to work one morning, his company buildings had vanished. overnight, masked, unidentified men had turned up with bulldozers and demolished them, as well as other properties of other businesses, all to make way for a new government-backed building project. it's all part of the serbian government's attempts to redevelop the center of the capital, belgrade. reporter: another cold morning in belgrade, especially up on this wind-swept building site. many days there are three shifts working around the clock. serbia is pouring all its resources into the project, which aims to give the capital a new, modern face. >> at first i thought it was a joke. but now, we can see it's going to provide a lot of work for many years to come. so, i'm happy. it enables us to feed our families. and our belgrade of the future is going to look amazing. reporter: this is what that future is supposed to look like, according to the abu dhabi investors, and aleksander vucic. president-elect vucic: the

if you're vladimir putin, you're running for e election in march of 2018. it's not going to be a free and fair election. he's got to produce turnout. and one way of doing that is the narative that americans are out to get us. if he can have his cake and eat it to, he can have meetings at a high level, with merkel, trump, breaking the isolation that was imposed on him by the previous administration and its allies internationally. but he can continue this caretive that the west is out to get us. we're the ones that are supporting the stability in syria. the west is trying to do regime change again. then hshgs e can sus sftain tha through the election. and then, deal with the problems that we have to work on together. and syria is a part of that. it's good we're talking about syria. >> are russians still excited about the prospect of this relationship between the united states and russia or putin and trump? >> i think matthew is right in his characterization of russians thinking on this. what i will add to that is that, russians are trying to be uncti understa

putin, vladimir putin offering to help. that is right paired lawmakers at home are staying away. >> defended the president in these denials which could very well be true when you have seen what happened to republicans who stepped out and denials onto other cases and were left on an isa flow off of norway. ♪ the sun'll come out tomorrow... ♪ for people with heart failure, tomorrow is not a given. but entresto is a medicine that helps make more tomorrows possible. ♪ tomorrow, tomorrow... ♪ i love ya, tomorrow in the largest heart failure study ever, entresto helped more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading heart failure medicine. women who are pregnant must not take entresto. it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren. if you've had angioedema while taking an ace or arb medicine, don't take entresto. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure... ...kidney problems, or high potassium in your blood. ♪ tomorrow, tomorrow i love ya

>> vladimir putin is just upset that we got a good deal of hundred 50 years ago when we bought alaska. >> some of us question that. [laughter] i want to thank the witnesses for their willingness to serve, for their past service and we will move forward as quickly as possible so that you can get to work. i thank you for your service to the country and your willingness to serve. this hearing is adjourned. >> live to capitol hill for a house hearing on the way to

he is the one who relays everything to vladimir putin.information that he hears back home. so why would you need to establish a back channel? he spent decades in the u.s. and according to the reports even he was stunned by this proposal. i think it raises a lot of other questions and new york times reported also that apparently administration officials in the first week in office were considering lifting sanctions against russia. so a lot more questions to be answered. >> go ahead, jeffrey. you wanted to weigh? ? >> it goes back it what wto wha jared kushner thinking? why was he talking to this person? why was he talking to that person? why not talk to jared kushner. >> do you think it is coincidence we haven't heard from him? >> i'm curious, john kirby, you worked at the state department, pentagon, diplomatic back channels have been going on forever. when the obama administration wanted to have a nuclear deal with iran there was a very secret back channel. talks with iranians, world's number one leading state sponsor of terrorism that ob

it seemed like yesterday was his love note to vladimir putin. it really did by, first of all, attacking the allies and then by not moving forward and saying they were going to do what we've always done and defend any country that was attacked. >> that was the stunning part, too, to your point, saying we've got to even the score dollarswise, but not go to article five, not send that signal to our allies, you strategically go why, what is the logic? sometimes you can look at trump and go, he's sinister, but there's this kind of twisted machiavellian logic. there's no there there. >> you'd probably agree with me. so many times donald is shooting his mouth off, and shoots his mouth off in complete and total ignorance. he's never been interested in the history, in our history, in our constitution, our heritage, our civil -- the civil order. but i will tell you, this is a motivator of him. he is an isolationist. he doesn't believe the united states should defend our allies if they are attacked by russia. >> i actually think it's a larger issue with hi

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vladimir putin and donald trump. i'm joined by mercedes schlapp and jose aristimuno, that are back with me. look, one of the challenges here is that vladimir putin has gotten to effectively, mercedes, do whatever the heck he's wanted to do. going into ukraine, putting bashar al-assad there. now he's got donald trump and think kind of liked him, okay, that's not acceptable. and does he now, vladimir putin come to the table? does he work with us as we deal with very, very big threats like isis and north korea? he's giving the indication he will. >> you know, i think this is a fascinating development because of the fact you've seen so much tension rise between putin and president trump on the issue of syria, especially after the president launched the missile in syria following the chemical attack. i think when it comes to north korea, the mere mention of the two words nuclear war raises serious concerns. the fact that you're dealing with what you would consider someone who is not mentally stable as a dictator of north