for all the efforts at banter there was a seriousness when sergey there was a seriousness when sergei off british allegations of russia meddling in foreign elections. translation: my neighbour borisjohnson recently stated he had no evidence that russia meddled in the referendum on the withdrawal of britain from the european union. not successfully, not successfully i think is the word. not successfully is the word that i think you need to introduce. translation: you see, he's scared if he doesn't disagree with me, his reputation will be ruined in the media at home. sergei, it's your reputation i'm worried about. so how did relations with russia go from bad to worse? russia's use of radioactive poison to murder alexander litvinenko in the middle of london started the slide. three years ago russia's annexation of crimea and interference in ukraine provoked tough eu sanctions, strongly backed by britain. then last month, theresa may accused russia of cyber espionage and meddling in elections. britain says it has cyber weaponry to retaliate if attacks get worse. it is a sad truth that our

he mentioned that in sergei lavrov‘s presents.y laid flowers at the spot where opposition leader boris nemtsov was assassinated under the kremlin walls two years ago. so, some very strong messaging from both sides, no breakthrough, i think. the former leader of catalonia who was sacked for declaring independence from spain has called for talks with the national government after separatists won a majority in new regional elections. ca rles majority in new regional elections. carles puigdemont, who was in belgium to avoid prosecution on sedition charges, set only dialogue could end the political crisis. mariano rajoy said he would talk to whoever led the blue catalonian government, but only if they obeyed the law. —— the new catalonian government. catalonia's pro—independence voters enjoyed their victory. and now they want their power back. starting with the return from exile of their deposed leader, carles puigdemont. but he can'tjust fly back from belgium. he faces arrest in spain on the charge of rebellion. so, from brussels this

as you rightly say, sergei, things are not easy between us at the moment.ired the grievances on both sides and examined space for a limited cooperation, by supporting the iran nuclear deal together, and opposing the nuclear threat from north korea. but deep disagreements remain. at theirjoint news conference, that was stark. for all the attempts at banter, there was a seriousness when sergei lavrov tried to brush off british allegations of russian meddling in foreign elections. translation: my neighbour, boris johnson, recently stated he had no evidence that russia medal in the referendum on the withdrawal of britain from the european union. not successfully. not successfully, i think is the word. not successfully is the word that i think you need to introduce. translation: you see? he is scared if he doesn't disagree with me, his reputation will be ruined in the media at home. sergei, it's your reputation i'm worried about. but this was dark, serious humour. when borisjohnson was asked if he trusted russia's foreign minister, he tried to make light of that

as you rightly say, sergei, things are not easy between us at the moment. grievances on both sides and examined space for a limited cooperation, by supporting the iran nuclear deal together, and opposing the nuclear threat from north korea. but deep disagreements remain. at theirjoint news conference, that was stark. for all the attempts at banter, there was a seriousness when sergei lavrov tried to brush off british allegations of russian meddling in foreign elections. translation: my neighbour, boris johnson, recently stated he had no evidence that russia meddled in the referendum on the withdrawal of britain from the european union. not successfully. not successfully, i think is the word. not successfully is the word that i think you need to introduce. translation: you see? he is scared if he doesn't disagree with me, his reputation will be ruined in the media at home. sergei, it's your reputation i'm worried about. but this was dark, serious humour. when borisjohnson was asked if he trusted russia's foreign minister, he tried to make light of that. you

sergei, it's your reputation i'm worried about. russia go from bad to worse? russia's use of radioactive poison to murder alexander litvinenko in the middle of london started the slide. three years ago russia's annexation of crimea and interference in ukraine provoked tough eu sanctions, strongly backed by britain. then last month, theresa may accused russia of cyber espionage and meddling in elections. britain says it has cyber weaponry to retaliate if attacks get worse. it is a sad truth that our relations, having gone through a good patch in the 1990s and the early 2000s, are now going through a very difficult patch. there is no question of that at all. but one of the reasons for coming here is that there is no point in simply sitting on the sidelines and complaining about each other. we have to engage. but when boris johnson was asked if he trusted russia's foreign minister, to avoid a direct answer he tried to make light of it. you know, it's a measure of my trust that as soon as i got into this excellent foreign ministry i im

as you rightly say, sergei, things are not easy between us at the moment.examined space for a limited cooperation, by supporting the iran nuclear deal together, and opposing the nuclear threat from north korea. but deep disagreements remain. at theirjoint news conference, that was stark. for all the attempts at banter, there was a seriousness when sergei lavrov tried to brush off british allegations of russian meddling in foreign elections. translation: my neighbour, boris johnson, recently stated he had no evidence that russia meddled in the referendum on the withdrawal of britain from the european union. not successfully. not successfully, i think is the word. not successfully is the word that i think you need to introduce. translation: you see? he is scared if he doesn't disagree with me, his reputation will be ruined in the media at home. sergei, it's your reputation i'm worried about. but this was dark, serious humour. when borisjohnson was asked if he trusted russia's foreign minister, he tried to make light of that. you know, it's a measure of my tru

he went to meet sergey lavrov.t is the first official visit from different secretary for five years. they warned that they are read willing to retaliate on cyber attacks, but want to cooperate on international track challenges. in the last hour, the two men appeared in a news conference. they said that the two countries showed why together despite their difference. the recent form the length of my absence, is of course that this is a difficult time in the relations between the uk and russia, and sergey lavrov himself has just russia, and sergey lavrov himself hasjust said. we russia, and sergey lavrov himself has just said. we can't ignore those difficulties. we can't pretend that they do not exist, and we don't share a common perspective on events in ukraine, orthe share a common perspective on events in ukraine, or the western balkans, oi’ in ukraine, or the western balkans, or the prime minister theresa may has said, all russian activities in cyberspace. but, we speak up, for the lgbt community in chechnya, and

he met sergey kislyak, this is the riggs ambassador to the u.s.veloped a relationship which was throughout the transition. and, by the way, he spoke to kislyak on the very day that president obama issued sanctions against russia. and we also know he attended a gala dinner for rt, the russian television network. he paid more than $30,000 for going to that event. while there, seated at the very tame table as russian president vladimir putin. so if the white house wants to say this is all just contacts with russians but not the russian government, that becomes complicated, too, for several reasons. one, sergey kislyak over here, he works for the department of foreign affairs. rt is tied to telecom, and mass communications. again tied to the kremlin and linked directly to vladimir putin. the airline up here has done some business deals over time with the russian government. and while the cyber security lab says that it really has nothing to do with the russian government, there are intelligence officers in the u.s. government that have told the senate

sergei lavrov said he trusted boris johnson moments.lavrov said he trusted borisjohnson so much, he used his russian name, boris. boris! but there were frosty touches, as well. translation: i cannot recall any action by russia that was aggressive in relation to the uk, but we have heard accusations, even insultingly, that we support a criminal regime in syria, that we are aggressors that we are occupiers week annex of the territories. those are all claims russia denies, even now. relations with moscow have been bad, verging on hostile. boris johnson with moscow have been bad, verging on hostile. borisjohnson came here to address the reasons for that directly. there were no breakthroughs, none were expected, but the first steps towards storing the chill has now been taken. sarah ra i nsfo rd , the chill has now been taken. sarah rainsford, bbc news, moscow. our diplomatic correspondent james landale is here. given some of the test and as we saw there, what can be achieved by a trip like this? very simply, dialogue. when you have relation

sergey lavrov has been foreign minister for 13 sergey lavrov has been foreign ministerfor 13 years.as been foreign minister for 13 years. before that he was the ambassador to the un. borisjohnson has he was the ambassador to the un. boris johnson has been he was the ambassador to the un. borisjohnson has been foreign secretary for 18 months, he's a spring chicken. that relationship is a little bit better, which means that if for example the americans decided to pull out of the iran nuclear deal, the uk and russia are two of the nations outside iran that have to help pick up the pieces, could they do something to protect some of that deal to keep the iranians onside. that kind of discussion needs a relationship. if you just shouting at each other from the sidelines it's hard to do that. asa the sidelines it's hard to do that. as a result of these visits, it's a little less ha rd as a result of these visits, it's a little less hard to have that kind of conversation in the future. thank you. theresa may has denied she knew about claims that the former first secretary of state damian gr

false, fictitious and fraudulent statements to agents about his conversations with russian ambassador sergey kislyak in january. flynn was forced out of the trump administration in february for misleading vice president pence about those conversations. >> mueller getting discharged sort of gets a lot cler the question of potential russian inference. >>reporter: flynn is just the latest associate of president trump's to be charged in the fbi's investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 campaign, but he is the first one who has ever worked inside the trump white house. back in october prosecutors charged trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort, his deputy rick gates and campaign adviser george papadopoulos as part of the probe. the white house downplayed their indictment. >> what papadopoulos did was lie and that's on him, not on the campaign. >>reporter: just this week flynn's legal team had stopped cooperating with the white house about the investigation. weijia jiang, cbs news, washington. >> white house lawyer ty cobb says, quote, nothing about flynn's guilty plea implicates an

sergei lavrov said he trusted borisjohnson so much, he'd used his russian name, boris. boris!e frosty touches, as well. translation: i cannot recall any action by russia that was aggressive in relation to the uk, but we have heard accusations, even insultingly, that we support a criminal regime in syria, that we are aggressors, that we are occupiers, we annex other territories. those are all claims russia denies, even now. relations with moscow have been bad, verging on hostile. borisjohnson came here to address the reasons for that directly. there were no breakthroughs. none were expected, but the first steps towards thawing the chill have now been taken. sarah rainsford, bbc news, moscow. with me in the studio is peter conradi, foreign editor of the sunday times and author of several books on russia. a first visit by a british run secretary to russia by five years, how significant is it?” secretary to russia by five years, how significant is it? i think the fa ct how significant is it? i think the fact that as it has taken place after such a long period is significant. in te

the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says kim jong un wants direct talks with the white house to discuss north korea security guarantees from the united states labrum said he passed on the young guns desire for direct talks to secretary of state rex tillerson when they met on the sidelines of a conference in vienna on thursday meanwhile the u.s. and south korea continued to carry out combat drills despite pyongyang is warning the exercises make the outbreak of war and establish fact that is something that foreign minister lavrov said took place as a part of a conversation i don't have anything on that particular part of the conversation and i cannot confirm if that came up in the secretary's conversation with mr lavrov i will say though as a general matter the issue of direct talks with north korea is not on the table in till they're willing to denuclearize it is something that russia has said it agrees with it is something that china has that it is it agrees with and many other nations around the world as well the d.p. r. k. is not showing any interest in sitting down and having

we heard from sergey lavrov today.anded those words a blood thirsty tirade adding that the u.s. was playing with fire and making a big mistake to talk in this way. he said russia would be happy to solve this peacefully. i think we all world. back to you. >> thanks, greg. we'll be right back. trillions of dollars going back to taxpayers. who could possibly be against that? well, the national debt is $20 trillion. as we keep adding to it, guess who pays the bill? him. and her. and her. congress, we should grow the economy. not the debt. ♪ >> today is world aids day. the president's emergency plan for aids relief is working to combat the disease around the world. so far the programs have brought a 25 to 40% decline in new hiv diagnoses among young women and girls. adding 2.24 million babies were born hiv-free to mothers and 13.3 men, women and children are taking anti-retroviral treatments and providing 6.4 million orphans with care and support. i'm dana perino. here's shep. >> shepard: it's 3:00 in washington where it's

the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says kim jong un wants direct talks with the white house to discuss north korea security guarantees from the u.s. said he passed on pyongyang desire for direct talks to sect of state rex tillerson they met on the sidelines of a conference in vienna on thursday. and while france and the u.s. state of california forced more than two hundred thousand people to flee the has the largest blaze in ventura county where more than thirty six thousand hectares has burned schools and highways have been closed. more now on our top story the aftermath of president donald trump's announcement regarding jerusalem while white house correspondent kimberly get spoke with the deputy assistant to the u.s. president about his decision one day after donald trump's announcement that the united states would be recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel al jazeera spoke exclusively to ross shot deputy assistant to president trump and we asked him whether or not the status of jerusalem could still be a part of any american sponsored peace process borders sovereignty

but sergey lavrov and rex tillerson there's an r.t. for you in that on the sidelines of a security conference in austria from their r.t.s. peter oliver reports. we've been hearing from russian foreign minister sergey lavrov he held a meeting with u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson on thursday here in vienna it only lasted for around thirty minutes but they certainly motored through an awful lot of topics the big news of the day really being that the decision by the united states to move the embassy to jerusalem said again a lot of said that he asked rex tillerson why the pursuit of assistance we asked them to clarify the points of the decision to move the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem we asked them about the consequences from this move but mediating efforts on the part of the un we have a lot of questions and drew their attention to the concerns from both the arab and muslim countries that could undermine or even bury negotiations on a two state solution also on the agenda was the future of syria with sergey lavr

obama era official and making a plan that president obama authorized michael flynn's contact with sergei kislyak during the campaign. it is surprising o f a series of denials gotten closer to the white house. as you said ana, it raises questions to why the trump administration did not add sooner if the president had the information specifically when the assistant general soon left the white house. we want to show you a tweet of adam schiff says the president consistently had been less and forthcoming with the investigators and the american public. quote. "if that's true mr. president, why did you wait so long to fire flynn, why did you feel after his lies were exposed and why did you pressure director james comey to let this go." the white house do not want to be talking about this. they want to be talking about the legislative victory. we should know the president is headed back to the white house and he will be shouted questions from reporters. this maybe the closest that we get to an explanation from the president until then but it is certainly does raise eye brows. nothing from the p

well we've been hearing from russian foreign minister sergei lavrov he held a meeting with u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson on thursday here in vienna it only lasted for around thirty minutes but they certainly motored through an awful lot of topics the big news of the day really being there the decision by the united states to move their embassy to jerusalem so again a lot of said to be asked rex tillerson why the decision to do this had been made now and what exactly the united states expected to be results of this. of course it was when i asked them to clarify the points of the decision to move the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem where i asked them about what consequences they saw from this move for peace efforts on the part of the u.s. we have a lot of questions and drew their attention to the concerns from both arab and muslim countries that it could undermine or even destroy any goshi asians on a two state solution. also on the agenda was the future of syria with sergey lavrov saying that the sovereignty of the country must be protected in the in. th

sergei lavrov said that he trusted insomuch that he used his russian name.sian name. but there were frosty touches, too. translation: i cannot recall any action by russia that was aggressive in relation to the uk, but we have heard accusations, even insults, that we support a criminal regime in syria. but we are aggressive. that we are occupiers. that we annex territories. these are all claims russia denied, even now. relations with moscow have been barred, verging on hostile. borisjohnson came here to address the reasons for that directly. there were no breakthroughs, none were expected, but the first steps towards thawing the chill have now been taken. a 44—year—old man is being questioned on suspicion of murder after a woman was stabbed to death while at work in a supermarket in skipton, north yorkshire. the victim — who has been named locally asjodie willsher — was attacked in the aldi store in front of shoppers yesterday afternoon. friends and customers have been paying tribute to the 30—year—old mother, who has worked at the shot for two years. —— shop

through washington's military maneuvers both on the korean peninsula and in the surrounding area sergey lavrov also urging a diplomatic solution saying that international cooperation was needed on not to bring about a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue regarding north korea on ukraine sergey lavrov reiterating that kiev must stick to the points it signed up to in the minsk agreement and then there was another issue that was something that first came to our attention on wednesday when the foreign ministry spokesperson marias the cutover said that there had been some unwanted attention from u.s. security services towards russian journalist based in the united states. said that it was unacceptable that washington would look to put pressure on russian diplomats or journalists that were based in the u.s. and said that that if it had happened certainly how to stop that's how it looks here in vienna after day one of the oas the conference that we're back on day two on friday with plenty more i'll be here to bring you all the latest on r.t. great ok thanks for that was artie's pacer over th

he asked mike pence about potential contacts that mike flynn and they had had with sergey kislyak about the explosion of russian diplomats. let's listen here. >> didn't mike flynn ever discussed lifting sanctions in any of those conversations? do you know? >> i talked to general flynn yesterday. and the conversations took place at that time were not in any way related to the sanctions. against russia or the expulsion of diplomats. >> we found out a short time later that they conversations that he was having with sergey kislyak did both of those things. flynn was asking sergey kislyak if the russians could moderate their response to the position of sanctions and to the explosion of diplomats, and sergey kislyak apparently said yes, we do that, but he neglected to tell the president about that, and that is when he made the false statements. it now, in terms of how this fits in with the overall russian investigation, we don't know yet. and when all of the information comes out, we will know more about it. but on the surface at the very least, it looks very similar to what happened during t

trump transition and within the administration were briefed on michael flynn's conversations with sergey kislyak before and after their meeting and so this investigation likely will explore where that goes. and as more information continues to leak out during this investigation, it really hangs a cloud over this white house as they continue moving forward with their legislative agenda. boris sanchez, cnn, in new york. >> boris, thank you. >>> the white house says journalists are reading too much into the president's tweet on flynn. john dowd, an attorney with mr. trump's private legal team, tells cnn the following, quote, the tweet was a paraphrase of ty cob's statement yesterday, i refer you to testimony before congress about fbi view of flynn's answers. end quote. ty cob is special council for the white house. in his statement on friday, after flynn pleaded guilty, did not mention lying to the fbi as a factor in flynn's firing. joining me to talk more about this is cnn legal analyst reeva martin. good to have you with us this hour. let's talk about the president's latest tweet. what do

sergei lavrov also told rex tillerson that aggressive rhetoric from washington is not helpful.nwhile, the united states is slapping more sanctions on north korea by targeting two key figures of the country's missile program. the u.s. says the official on the left has been crucial in developing intercontinental missiles and the rocket scientist on the right was behind the fuel technology used to launch the missiles faster. >>> the international red cross has evacuated four critically ill patients from a rebel-held suburb of syria's capital damascus. another 25 people will be moved out of eastern gota over the coming days. a syrian medical group says more than 600 other people are very sick and also need to be evacuated and soon. >>> president trump's twitter pledge to get back to work after the christmas day apparently meant go golfing. he also found time to tweet his disapproval of the russia investigation. he called the fbi tainted and said the now famous russia dossier is in his words a pile of garbage. >>> former u.s. president barack obama is warning that irresponsible use

terms of the sort of growing report that there seem to be at that meeting between boris johnson and sergei lavrov but i also think that anything that is anything positive that's going to come out of that meeting seriously positive will only emerge in time i think boris johnson is going to come back to london he's going to say you know i really put it to the russians i didn't give an inch. and then be with time that we'll see maybe they'll be some other visit maybe we'll have a reciprocal visit and maybe just maybe things will start to unfreeze but then you know i'm an optimist and we're coming up to new year so here's hoping. pro independence parties in the spanish region of catalonia secured a majority end first they snap election that's dealt a serious blow to the central government in madrid which had hoped to defuse the independence crisis having denounced october's referendum and sacked local leaders now the deposed former catalan president is hailing another win. i want to congratulate the catalan people because they sent a message to the world catalan republic has beaten the monarch

flynn got off of that phone call, made the phone call to sergey kislyak, and then what had been said it during that conversation? now, we know, if we are to take the president at his word, from a press conference, that it was not the president who told flynn to contact the russians because the president said no, it was not me who told them to do that, but he was doing his job, and had i thought about it, i would have told him to do it. now again, we are taking him at his word, but who was it from the transition, if not the president, that flynn was talking to? and that would mean that someone else knew exactly what flynn had a talk to to sergey kislyak about before he alighted to the vice president. so to me, what we have seen so far in this plea agreement, that is a very key issue that we need to get more clarity on. and we will be asking the president, who has got an oval office meeting with one of the leaders from libya coming up. obviously we will be in contact with white house officials throughout the day. but, that to me is the key part of this plea agreements that opens up a w

the revelation that it was clear that the trump administration knew michael flynn was talking to sergeydocuments and e-mails we're seeing the unraveling of the lies by the trump campaign. they denied any communications with the russians and now we know there's been several communications and some detailed asking for dirt on hillary clinton with donald trump jr., paul manafort and jared kushner in that meeting and this e-mail from k.t. mcfarland and what flynn has done. it's possible every single trump campaign official had mass am nearia or something very bad happened last year. >> one final question. has anyone on the house judiciary committee reached out to talk to katedy mcfarland. >> not yet but you can bet we're going to do that this week when we go back into session. >> we have to end the conversation there. thank you so much for the time congressman. >> thank you. >>> coming up, as republicans look to past a tax overhaul. the proposed changes would quote, change the world. we'll ask him what he means next. things come in twos. right now when you buy any of this season's hot new s

and a quick spot of breaking news for you coming to us out of moscow the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov is calling on the united states and north korea to start negotiations and he also says russia is ready to make them happy if you've been following the relationship between north korea and washington you'll know of course that that relationship is almost wholly negative with the u.s. president donald trump referring to kim jong il and the leader in pyongyang as a little rocket man and also the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley folding together various nuclear aspects to do with that relationship but the top line on that story is that the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov is saying they should negotiate and the kremlin in effect is ready to make those talks take place more on that for you as soon as we can turkey says it's hiring more than one hundred thousand new public servants next year it comes a day after almost three thousand state employees and soldiers were sacked by decree over alleged links to so-called terror organizations in total one hundred fifty thousand

sergey kislyak in december of last year. court documents show that others on the trump team knew of flynn's efforts. on december 29th, flynn called former deputy national security adviser k.t. mcfarland along with other transition officials at mar-a-lago, they discussed what to say to kislyak about the new sanctions being posed on russia by the frb president obama frb the obama administration. flynn immediately called kislyak asking russia not to overreact to those sanctions. shortly after that call, flynn briefed mcfarland that he did, indeed, discussions sanctions with the ambassador. according to two people familiar with the matter. but in january then-vice president-elect mike pence told the nation flynn assured him he did not talk about sanctions with kislyak. >> they did not discuss anything having to do with the united states' decision to expel diplomats or impose a censure against russia. >> reporter: then on december 31st, three days after their conversation about sanctions, kislyak confirmed to flynn that russia ha

of who else in the trump inner circle and did trump himself know what michael flynn was saying to sergeihe context suggests other people were thinking in the same lines. >> thanks for laying that out for us, ken. mike, what is your reaction to the new pieces of information within the last 24 hours, it is not just michael flynn, right? it could be more. reince priebus is in the discussion according to "new york times" reporting. as ken is saying, did the president know, did the president-elect know. what point was what known. your reaction? >> well, i want to be clear some of us, including ken and i for months have been suspicious of this idea that general flynn was some kind of rogue actor making up foreign policy on his own. think about the context. they're in the transition. they're trying to figure out who is who on the team. this is a major piece of diplomacy he is going to do. i always found it inconceivable he would do that without some coordination with the people he is about to join in the white house. i worked on the transition in 2008 with president-elect obama and you were alw

the russian foreign minister says north korea wants direct talks with the united states sergey lavrov passed on the message to the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson in vienna on thursday now it follows the north's latest launch of a missile which it says can hit anywhere in the u.s. and threats of nuclear retaliation from donald trump the u.s. and south korea are wrapping up a week of military exercises despite warnings from pyongyang. that is something that foreign minister lavrov said took place as a part of a conversation i don't have anything on that particular part of the conversation and i cannot confirm if that came up in the secretary's conversation with mr lavrov i will say though as a general matter the issue of direct talks with north korea is not on the table in till they're willing to denuclearize it is something that russia has said it agrees with it is something that china has that it is agrees with and many other nations around the world as well the d.p. r. k. is not showing any interest in sitting down and having any kind of serious conversations when they continu

secretary of state rex tillerson and the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov that said no or told reporters on thursday that basically direct talks between washington and pyongyang or between pyongyang and anyone else right now is essentially a nonstarter and that's because she argues that north korea has not been serious about trying to stop its nuclear weapons program she said if anything the repeated testing of nuclear warheads as well as the test firing of ballistic missiles shows that north korea is more committed to be developing a robust military program centered around nuclear weapons rather than dismantling it she said until there is a real change of behavior on north korea's part the u.s. and its allies are basically going to continue looking for ways of punishing north korea for its behavior that said the secretary of state recently said that even though there seems to be some concern that perhaps the only way of stopping north korea is with military action rex tillerson view is still that diplomacy is really the only way to resolve this crisis catherine france have sig

she was asked exactly about conversations that she may have had with michael flynn related to sergey kislyak. i'll read you exactly what was sent in a written question from senator cory booker. he said did you ever discuss any of general flynn's contacts with russian ambassador sergey kislyak directly with general flynn? in response, mcfarland wrote back, i am not aware of any of the issues or events as described above, according to her july response. what we learned on friday from the court documents that were unsealed in the flynn case in which he pleaded guilty, it says that there was a senior transition official who discussed with flynn how to approach the idea of these new sanctions that have been imposed by the obama administration in late december with kislyak. now, we have learned separately that a senior transition official who is named in those court documents was in fact k.t. mcfarland. so her testimony before a committee in part of her confirmation hearings appears to contradict what bob mueller and the special counsel released on friday as part of their court documents t

this month marks the fifth year anniversary of the 2012 sergei m itniski act, today with the five new sanctions designations, many of those who strive for a future governed by the rule of law can claim a small victory over oppression. a hope that today's news will provide justice for the family of sergei and those who continue to fight against corruption and human rights abuses across the country. the mcniski list includes 49 names, it shows the accountability that human rights should play in american foreign policy. most know about his death. he was a young lawyer in russia representing a company, discovered corruption, did what any lawyer should do, reported it to the authorities, as a result he was arrest. he was tortured, denied medical care and died in prison. as a result of that legislation was introduced. i was proud to sponsor it with my good friend senator mccain. it was enacted into law, as i said, five years ago. it holds those that perpetrate these violations of human rights accountable by denying them the right to visit our country, visa applications and using our banking

an urgent appointment to bereave don mcgann about what she knew of flynn's kwakt certifyingia are sergei kizlyak. she spoke about it exclusively with me though declined to give specifics. >> when were you first made aware that general flynn was lying aboutis had interactions with the russian ambassador? >> well, first let me say i know that this may seem artificial to folks. i can't really talk about what general flynn's underlying contact was because that's wasted on classified infection. >> can you say when you were made aware about an issue with his underlying conduct. >> it was in the early part of january where we first got some indication about what he had been involved in and then sort of the middle part of january when there were false statements started coming out of the white house based on misrepresentations he had made to people there. >> so two weeks went by after yates poke to the white house before flynn was forced out for lying toe the vice president about his contacts with the russians. that's the reason the white house said they fired flynn. now a source familiar with t

instead of arresting the people who committed fraud against the russian government, and they arrested sergey mcnasty himself, tortured and then killed him in and horrific beating in 2009 at 37 years old. i got the news the next day and endedel about to his memory come into his family and myself that i was going to go after the people killed in an make sure you do it justice. for the last eight years that i've been doing. the major tool to get justice in this case was created in a law. it was introduced by benjamin cardin a democrat from maryland, john mccain been introduced in 2010. it passed the senate 92 to four novemberer 2012, passed the houe with 89% and was signed into law vladimir putin reacted unbelievablyev angrily. he banned the adoption of russian orphans by american families. many of you remember that. having stated repealing the act was the single largest foreign priority. we've seen numerous efforts bowling in all sorts of crazy stuff begin up to a major initiative launched by an agent of vladimir putin coming vladimir putin, woman many americans who know now is that talia bess

this is, again, sergey kislyak, the guy at the center of so much of the investigation back again sortf causing more problems for this campaign still seems to be a key figure in this investigation. >> you know, one other key historical point here. it's the michael flynn investigation that james comey, the fired fbi director said that donald trump asked him to back off from. an investigation that has now led, apparently, to a guilt yy plea. donald trump asked comey to back off the investigation that flynn lied about russia. you are reporting overnight different but related -- you reported overnight the president has been pushing key members of the senate to back off the russia investigation. >> yeah, so we have a story today in the paper, "the times," about how this president has been consumed by the russia investigation, and this summer, he was particularly incents over the cloud hanging over his head on russia, and he had multiple conversations with senate republicans, including the chairman of the intelligence committee, richard burr and roy blunt of missouri, who is also on the comm

sergey kislyak.learned in court documents today that flynn first talked to his senior transition official about new sanctions against russia, sanctions put in place by the obama administration. according to flynn, the transition officials did not want russia to escalate the situation to flynn immediately called kislyak back, asking russia not to overreact to the sanctions. keep in mind, this is happening on december 29th when barack obama is still president. then flynn calls the transition team back and reports on what kislyak said about the sanctions. that is noteworthy because vice president pence, as you'll recall, stated on national television in january sanctions were not discussed with kislyak. so either he didn't know about it and other members of the transition knew and the administration and didn't tell pence and just allowed him to go on television and lie to the american public or pence did know and he lied. but pence has claimed he didn't know flynn discussed sanctions until february arou

kislyak and then lied about said conversations with sergey kislyak about sanctions. can you put the picture together with the president's tweet and the president's public statements, included in what you see? >> yeah, it's clear now, nicolle that when the russians interfered in the election and the obama administration sanctioned them for it, what mike flynn did was he got on the phone with ambassador kislyak and said, hang in there. a couple days from now we'll be in office and you don't have to react to the sanctions. basically we're going to watch your back. in the quid pro quo, this was the pro quo. this was the thing that the incoming trump team was giving the russians in exchange for their support during the election. and it's clear that the president, president trump, then the president-elect trump, knew what the russian government had supported him during the election. that was stated in an e-mail explicitly to don jr. it's clear that jared kushner knew about that. in the meeting with don jr. and now was payback time. the russians were coming to the newly ele

everything that was in my pocket secret or otherwise to sergey lavrov in the knowledge that he would look after it and come to no harm more than just a few times boris johnson reminded of the differences in the views that london and moscow have on various international issues it seemed that he really felt it was essential to keep talking about this every time he said something positive about russia but at the end of the day the common message was from both top diplomats that dialogue needs to prevail. conference with foreign minister. also tried that russian. a russian foreign and a committee process but. a diplomatic relationship that is one hundred fifty years old and dates from the time when queen elizabeth sent an envoy to the terrible right in the front. i'm certain that i'm the first foreign secretary in the history of my office to be cool boris. russian customers as i said earlier on of buying ludes produce things from cattle crisps to please. somebody has just given me a pass from the for the only solution. beautiful. i guess that's the fs. so when it comes to trust i trust p

guest: sergei was my lawyer in russia. he uncovered a massive $230 governmentsian corruption scheme. he exposed it. instead of arresting the people who committed the fraud, they arrested sergei himself and put him in pretrial detention and killed him in a horrific beating on november 16, 2009. he was 37 years old. i got the news the next day and i made a bow in his memory to his family and to myself that i would go after the people who killed him. for the last eight years, that's what i've been doing. the major tool to get justice in this case was creating a law named after sergei called the magnitsky act. it was introduced by benjamin .ardin and john mccain then there's the maintenance act in 2010. it passed in 2012. passed the house by 80%. it was signed into law in 2014 by president obama. president putin acted unbelievably angry. adoption of russian orphans i american families and stated that repealing the act was the single largest foreign-policy priority. ,e have seen numerous efforts bullying, all sorts of crazy stu

terms of the sort of growing report that there seem to be at that meeting between boris johnson and sergei lavrov but i also think that anything that is anything positive that's going to come out of that seriously positive will only emerge in time i think boris johnson is going to come back to london he's going to say you know i really put it to the russians i didn't give an inch. and then be with time that we'll see maybe they'll use another maybe we'll have a reciprocal visit and maybe just maybe things will start to unfreeze but then you know i'm an optimist and we're coming up to new year so here's hoping. still to come in the weekly reporting on iraq the research that says the liberation of mosul killed more civilians than previously admitted and also the bereaved families of british troops make a tough decision their stories on the way. our . russian athletes take. remains controversial. more important what awaits them after they get. welcome back the weekly now the u.s. led operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul from iceland may have killed ten times more civilians than previ

handed my coat my hat my gloves and indeed everything that was in my pocket secret or otherwise to sergei lavrov in the knowledge that he would look after it. would come to to no harm more than just a few times boris johnson reminded of the differences in the views that london and moscow have on various international issues it seemed that he really felt it was essential to keep talking about this every time he said something positive about russia but at the end of the day the common message was from both top diplomats that dialogue needs to prevail and here's what the top diplomats were served at lunch the menu included several exotic russian dishes and desserts together with tea and coffee but in case that to satisfy everyone wine and want co were also on the table the lunch was followed by the joint news conference where boris johnson even demonstrated some of his impressive russian skills. i am in a rush to find. a date committed russett college. that's the diplomatic relationship that is right for one hundred fifty years old dates from the time when the queen elizabeth sent an envoy t