plus the cia director mike pompei o has come under fire for meeting with the n.s.a. whistleblower william binney who believes the d.n.c. hacks could not have been carried out from abroad here on the program that we speak to many. well i don't buy into mindless dribble with any factual evidence and that's basically what they're what their situation zero evidence. prosecutors revealed the true extent of a us navy scandal with hundreds of officers and admirals accused of trading military secrets for sex money and alcohol they're being charged though not with espionage but with corruption. a warm welcome you're watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital i'm lucky aaron. a significant day for syria as the last islamic state stronghold in the country the city of abu kemal is liberated it was confirmed by the syrian army we'll show you in just a moment pictures from the vicinity of the city where syrian and iraqi backed militias joined forces to surround kemal which is situated very close to the border between the two countries. p.p.p. . t

plus the cia director mike pompei o has come under fire.

the cia director mike pompei o has issued a statement saying he still believes russia interfered with last year's us presidential election this comes as president donald trump said he believed my putin's new reassurance the allegations are not true well let's go live to mike hanna in washington d.c. my what sort of reaction is this is this brought with the president trying yet again putting his weight behind president trump saying yes it's all very fair. well president trump has consistently argued talks of collusion with russia by his campaign that russian interference in the us electoral process were all made up fantasies some kind of concept there is c. he's argued that it was created by the democrat party and supporters of hillary clinton but this isn't the his most spirited defense of the russian president to date speaking to journalists on air force one on his way to that summit in vietnam president trump saying that he believed that emir putin when he was told that there was no russian meddling in the u.s. electoral process now this is something that is the subject to not only

cia director mike pompei o has come under fire for meeting a former intelligence official over the alleged hacking of the democratic party and twenty sixteen u.s. intelligence community has been laying the blame all along for a while for the on moscow. met with william binney a former national security agency official turned whistleblower binney believes the alleged hack of the democratic national committee was in fact an inside leak carried out by a d.n.c. employee he also coauthored a memo straight to the president on this issue back in july and let us remind you about the d.n.c. hack announced by a cyber security working for the d.n.c. in june twenty sixth seen it was blamed on two russian linked groups the next day in the nano. to point to claim responsibility for the attack something unconfirmed by the d.n.c. later he also took credit for a breach in july the end of that month we can leaks released thousands of the democratic party's e-mails my colleague neil harvey spoke to william binney who believes a broad could not have been involved. i didn't believe the intelligence agencies we

and cia chief mike pompei all comes under fire for meeting a former intelligence official who says last year's hack of the democratic party was an inside job rather than a russian directed cyber attack we speak to the man behind the claim. all right broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our team for national armstrong thomas glad to have you with us. now the syrian army and its allies including the lebanese militia has blas a that they have liberated the last major eisel stronghold in syria the town of all it will come all the townies on the border with iraq and was the terrorists last major bastion after they were driven from the city of the areas or the recapture of kemal gives damascus its first border crossing with iraq since the region fell under control of eisel back in two thousand and twelve russia's dimmock fence ministry recently noted islamic state controlled less than five percent of territory in syria and that was before these last two major victories joshua landis director of middle east studies at the university of oklahoma told us about the possible proble

places our national security at risk the cia also responded with a statement on behalf of director mike pompei the director stands by and has always stood by the january two thousand and seventeen intelligence community assessment entitled assessing russian activities and intentions and recent u.s. elections intelligence assessment with regard to russian election meddling has not changed so a lot to talk about and joining us to do so from moscow alexy klebnikov international relations analyst at the russian international affairs council from birmingham scott lucas professor of international american studies at the university of birmingham and via skype from london is lisa a soft europe and milly's chair of exeter and the former deputy general counsel for the f.b.i. great to have your with us thanks for joining us on inside story scott we've got trump believing putin and he believes his intelligence agencies what do we believe . well what we believe is that between his saturday statement where he said he believed putin and when he called the three former heads of u.s. intelligence agencies poli

plus the cia director mike pompei out comes under fire for meeting an intelligence expert who believes the democratic party hat why do you blame don russia was in fact an inside job we speak to the experts at the center of the story. i do believe the intelligence agencies were telling him or the president the truth all of the technical data that we had available and could look at the analyze and from there it was very clear that it was a local download. and prosecutors revealed the true extent of a u.s. navy scandal with hundreds of officers and admirals accused of trading military secrets sex money and alcohol and they're being charged though not with espionage but with corruption. a warm welcome you're watching our c international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital with me. the syrian army stays together with allies it's liberated the last islamic state stronghold in the country abu kemal the town's a key crossing point on the country's border with iraq. is that. kemal is the liberation forces from four states participate in the joint operation and the small pockets of

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to president trump's comments a spokesperson stating categorically that the director of the cia mike pompei or stands by that intelligence report back in january thereby contradicting a man who is seen as particularly close with so certainly this is a major step in a way that the cia is seen to be having to publicly stand by an intelligence report that nobody apart from president trump had disputed in the past one must remember too that robert melissa investigation is now well under way number of subpoenas have been served we've got charges have been laid against a former campaign manager of donald trump and importantly to a foreign policy advisor to the trunk campaign who has turned state witness it would appear providing allegations of collusion between the trunk campaign and russian interests so president trumps comments are interpreted by some on the hill certainly the key democrat leader that i'm sure of as reeking of desperation saying that president knows that what he is saying is not strictly true in fact it is nothing but a false hold your thoughts there mike. thousands of polish n

cia chief mike pompei a comes under fire for me to get foreign intelligence official who says. the democratic party was an inside job the number of cyber attack we speak to the man behind the claim. underestimated us and do not try. to send a stark warning to north korea only store of asia he's now in china where he's pushing beijing to take a tougher stance against pyongyang. for the first time since the cold war nato increases its no roof quarters in europe to speed up truth move troop movements across the continent.

and cia chief mike pompei all comes under fire for meeting a former intelligence official who says the last year of the democratic party was an inside job rather than a russian directed cyber attack we speak to the man behind the claim.

central intelligence agency the cia director mike pompey is reaffirming a report that russia did run a campaign to influence the election outcome a cia spokesperson said that the director stands by and has always stood by the january twenty seventh teen intelligence community assessment and that the intelligence assessment with regard to russian election meddling has not changed well bill schneider is a political analyst and professor of public policy at george mason university he says trump's comments will have little impact on the investigation into russian meddling all the finding so far which point to moscow's involvement. it's accepted by as acar by congress by members of the trumpet ministration by his own chief of staff they said with high confidence that russia meddled in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election on behalf of donald trump what president trump is doing here when he says that he believes. he says they had nothing to do with the election what he's saying is there's nothing there that's the message trump wants to communicate it's a way of saying all the inves

a last couple of hours we've been hearing that the cia director mike pompei o has reaffirmed his claim that russia interfered with the u.s. presidential election this comes after president jiang said he believed my putin's we knew just surance and the allegations are not true let's go trying to gallagher in washington d.c. for the latest and not surprising really that the cia director is pushing back when he hears his president saying he almost trusts the former f.s.b. chief that is vladimir putin rather than his own intelligence service. pretty remarkable situation to have happening but this is after all donald trump he said before that he knows more than these generals he said before that he knows more than those people that work in the intelligence community but what we have here is the president of the united states saying that he categorically believes that blood amir putin did not interfere in the u.s. election and then within a couple of hours the director of the see the cia someone who's fairly loyal to president trump saying look we're standing by our original report from janu

was counter to everything the intelligence community here is saying in fact the head of the cia mike pompei o issued a statement shortly after president trump said that saying no this is what we found and we stand by this then you fast forward to twenty four hours later a president trump is actually saying i stand with my intelligence community so extremely mixed messages you've got people like arizona senator mccain saying that the president trump is siding with a former k.g.b. colonel over his own intelligence community and he certainly isn't putting america first so basically don't trump is giving lots of fodder to his enemies and his critics here remember the background to all this is an ongoing investigation into possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia so really didn't do himself any good backing up like amir putin over his own intelligence community but he seems to be determined to get a good relationship going with russia and certainly seems to be someone who admires vitamin a pollutant and a gallagher there live from washington d.c. andy thanks. the syrian province

replace the rex tillerson the secretary of state by the end of the year with the current cia director mike pompei oh but i can tell you when the president was asked very directly about this in the oval office he would only say very vaguely he's here rex's here and that has been echoed by sarah huckabee sanders the white house press secretary who says in fact there will be no personnel changes at this time but of course there are going to be a lot of questions about all of these stories the white house briefing is coming up in the next hour or so and so of course we will try to press her for further clarification thank you very much will be a stink that very closely can really help it at the white house. a tuck issue rein in gold trader who's pleaded guilty to money laundering and helping iran of a u.s. sanctions has told a new york court that turkey's president. it was prime minister at that time approved the transaction christians to me is following developments for us in new york what are we been learning about potential role in this. well some very interesting details coming out in the courtho

reports suggesting that todd tillerson is on his way out and that the current chief of the cia mike pompei a would be taking his place. that chief of staff kelly called our department this morning and said that the rumors are not true that those reports are not true the white house statement confirmed that there will be no personnel changes it is a fact that secretary tellers and serves at the pleasure of the president as we all do as does every political appointee and cabinet member secretary tellers and enjoys this job he has a lot of work to do. chief of staff kelly there of course is a john kelly who was the chief of staff at the white house and as such would be the point person for discussing any personnel changes within the trumpet ministration now it is worth pointing out that in the next couple of days secretary teller's and will be traveling to europe for a number of meetings with his foreign ministry counterparts whether at nato whether at the o. a c. or in other parts of the continent and so the question came up mari i'm wooed these foreign ministers actually believe that rex ti

times and the washington post are reporting that trump intends to replace to listen with cia chief mike pompei oh in the coming weeks in jordan as the latest now from washington. after yet another round of news reports suggesting that the secretary of state rex tillerson is about to be fired and replaced by the current head of the cia mike pale robust pushback here at the u.s. state department on thursday the spokes person heather nauert told reporters that there was unequivocal reassurance coming from the white house indicating that mr tillerson who apparently enjoys his work is going to be staying on in the position that chief of staff kelly called our department this morning and said that the rumors are not true that those reports are not true the white house statement confirmed that there will be no personnel changes it is a fact that secretary tellers and serves at the pleasure of the president as we all do as does every political appointee and cabinet member secretary tellers and enjoys this job he has a lot of work to do the question also came up whether secretary rex tillerson would be

to have the secretary of state leave by the end of the year replaced by the current cia director mike pompei o but when asked about this directly by reporters in the oval office the president was relatively vague he just said he's here rex's here that was echoed by the white house press secretary in the last hour cyrus huckabee sanders in fact saying that the president's statement speaks for itself and there are no personnel announcements expected at this time many things can really help him out with the latest from the workhouse. staying in america. traitor to guilty to money laundering and helping iran to evade u.s. sanctions sold in new york or the president who on it was prime minister at the time approved the transaction well question salome is following developments for us and what was coming out in court today about this case chris and. some really sensational information here soon let me back up and start by reminding our viewers that reza zahra because turkish. the iranian gold trader is one of nine people that u.s. prosecutors have charged in the scheme to violate sanctions against