so this day these russian personnel there and about 500 russian peace eepers in the this russian military personnel is not the main threat. transition army itself. army is equal if not higher in terms of personnel but better trained and equipped than moeld oafen army. with the help of the presence there would likely overpower the defense. major vulnerability. and there's a soviet military depot with tons of equipment which in the case of conflict could be used by the forces. military experts transeastern army and russian army as part of integrated military controlled from moscow. as i said russian presence in follow-up of the debacle and fact that ukraine has closed supply lines for russian presence, russians are forced to recruit from the local, making large-scale intervention less likely. and political perspective, it's not needed for russia. ussian political interference military intervention superfluous. largest party in moldova, party of socialists, strongly backed by moscow and the president elected end of 2016, has the dubious honor of having met with putin about seven times in las

but i think yes like this lady in theater saying at russians in a stone and also russian said a lot to me as they have rights if you'll want to travel the same sense you have read you can go on and have all these things about janet almost no saying what's kind of impossible to do for them now and then there's the question of why is there done that and don't do this and it's kind of this historical perspective why else a bit of a variable be my answer when i think it's kind of on the dissolvable issue about integration because fifty years a lot to be aware and also estonia that under occupation by russia it was called soviet union so a lot to me and to be alike no one point one million people still in families to me no family members who were deported. that still exists offenses sad feeling so if you feel like like a lot to be and feel like we are under strict and we still see as this russian people here as occupiers not so much as liberators meanwhile russian people who there are generations who have been who be in. warnin lottie and say feel legs they add a lot to us people and there

she announced the expulsion of 23 russian diplomats from the uk and the revoking of the russian foreign minister to the uk. from the british house of commons, this is 50 minutes. >> statements. the prime minister. >> with permission mr. speaker but like to make a statement on reforms of the russian government to thef incident and salisbury. first on the half of the whole house let me pay tribute once again to the bravery and professionalism of all the emergency services doctors nurses and investigation teams would lead the response to this appalling incident and also to the fortitude of the people of salisbury and let me reassure them the ongoing risk to public health is low and the government will continue to do everything possible to support this historic city to recover fully. mr. speaker mr. scribner and his daughter were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent developed by russia. based on this case combined with the record of conducting state-sponsored assassinations including against former intelligence officers who they regard as legitimate targets the uk government has concl

if the russian government stopped using chemical weapons to assassinate its enemies and if the russian government stopped helping it syrian ally to use chemical weapons to kill syrian children and if russia cooperated with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons by turning over all information related to this nerve agent we would stop talking about them we take no pleasure and having to constantly criticize russia but we need russia to stop giving us so many reasons to do so. russia must fully cooperate with the u.k.'s investigation and come clean about its own chemical weapons program. russia is a permanent member of the security council it isn't trusted in the united nations charter without poled ing international peace and security it must account for its actions if we don't take immediate concrete measures to address this now solsbury will not be the last place we see chemical weapons used. they could be used here in new york or in cities or of any country that sits on this council this is a defining moment in time and time again member states say they oppose the u

there is a lot of russian money, a lot of russian investment in london. it would be a good thing...says they would not because it's too essential to the british economy. yes, but then there are moments in which — take brexit, in which the national interest and the economy have come after other considerations. the moment there is an attack... i would have to say some people would disagree and that economic prospects under brexit will be fine, but go on. what ijust wanted to point out was if britain is under attack, a nerve agent used on british streets, is that more important or less important than economic interest? 0k, more for the uk to do, but what about the allies? that was the other point adam was making, everyone in europe needs to step up and support, everyone needs to step up and rally the wagons? there are views on the continent that actually what happened in salisbury is the continuation of a strategy from russia in dividing britain from its allies. the reactions have been very lukewarm, and this is for two reasons. one, that putin is on the rise in europe. there is a lot

this was a direct attack by the russian state against our country or conceivably the russian government could have lost control of a military grade nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others mr speaker it was right to offer russia the opportunity to provide an explanation but their response has demonstrated complete disdain for the gravity of these events. they have provided no credible explanation that they could suggest they don't control of then agent no explanation as to how this agent came to be used in the united kingdom no explanation as to why russia has an undeclared chemical weapons program in contravention of international law. instead they have treated the use of a military grade nerve agent in europe with sarcasm content and defiance. so mr speaker is. no alternative conclusion other than that the russian state was culpable for the attempted murder of mr script powell and his daughter and for threatening the lives of other british citizens in salzburg including detective sergeant nick bailey this represents an arm all full use of force by the russian state a

percentages of russian citizens or russian passport holders. russia has also pursued a policy since the mid to thousands of trying to hand out its passports in its neighboring states, to try to do it in specific regions. regions that border the russian federation. is a russian there speaking majority or a receptive population. the driver of russian military tactics. georgia, where russia would first hand out russian passports and then they would say, now we have to protect our citizens here. this is the one number that concerns me in estonia. narda.larly looking at we have 36% russian citizens in the city. this is a small city. i do not want to over dramatize it. we are referring to 23,000 people. nonetheless, given russia's history of how it has used passports in the past, this is one area where we have to be concerned. other risks in the economic sector. russia does not just export their natural resources or gas. the also export corruption. estonia has not been immune to that even though they do a lot of business with the european union. the

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it was russians. and it was hundreds of people, a monthly budget of $1.25 million all designed to attack the united states in a cyber warfare campaign. you're up for reelection right now. should the russian people be concerned that you had no idea this was going on in your own country, in your own hometown? >> listen, the world is very large. and very diverse. and there is a fairly complicated relationship between the united states and the russian federation. and some of our people have their own opinion about this relationship. you mentioned a number of names. some individuals. and you're telling me that they're russians. so what? >> do you condone these activities? >> no. we don't encourage them and we don't order them. but what i'm saying is that, individuals could have used certain tools in other countries. they could have sent relevant information from france, from germany, from -- from -- asia, from russia. what does it have to do with us? >> so it wasn't the russians. >> okay, fine, russians. b

the russian one gentleman raised. the right honorable gentleman raised a number of questions around the nerve agents that he had been used he asked if we we were putting together an international coalition to call on russia to reveal the details of its chemical weapons program to the o.p.c. w. that is indeed what we did we gave the russian government the opportunity through the day march that my russian befriend the foreign secretary delivered to the russian ambassador here in london earlier this week to do just that they have not done so. and it is he's raised a number of questions he asked about the corrupt elites and money going through london as i said in my statement led by the national crime agency we will continue to bring all the capabilities of u.k. law enforcement to bear against serious criminals and corrupt police there is no place for these people all their money in our country and that work is ongoing he talked about getting an international consensus to get out as as i have said i've spoken to chancello

you better russian state that they have the right to aim at russian full of former russians but i still consider traitors outside the russian territory so certainly disease part of a content and content that has been existing now full more than four years and i think this is the big question now is how do we respond to it because clearly this is what the shit event and its cannot be seen as just a small or a tent it's a very significant one using us i definitely feel there are agents in the middle of the biggest city and daylight so i think now the real question is how robust but also a collective response will be from preachin but also the british nato and you're like ok we'll come on to the response in a little more depth in just a few moments but. just before we move on behalf of you heard what both matthew and fabrice were saying that about this overwhelming body of evidence against russia britain's foreign secretary said that russia's smug soft casting response to this incident indicates its fundamental guilt that they want to similar taney asli deny it yet at the same time glory i

jacka said at the weekend you shouldn't tar anybody who lives in this country with russian of russian extraction with the same brush and secondly and secondly there are rules on party political donations and i can assure him that my party and i hope all parties follow those rules. he talked about the magnitsky powers this is an issue where being challenge previously before on this question where we do have already some of the powers that are being written proposed in relation to magnitsky law but we have already been talking with all parties about the amendment that has been has been down and we will work to others to ensure that we have the maximum possible consensus before the report stage he also raised the question of peace capabilities and resources not only our will to police involved in this but they have support from neighboring forces as would normally happen when an incident of this when an instant takes place which requires that extra capability but crucially at a very early stage it was decided that counterterrorism please to take over the responsibility for this because t

the russian embassy said, the russian embassy new...tion post—brexit, and that's why they said a probable assassination, was an m15 plot to distract us from brexit. all talking at once. ..we had the first statement by the quad, germany, france, the us and the uk for decades. there hasn't been any disintegration of the transatlantic alliance. all talking at once. again, it's about their track record. let's not forget the conservatives lobbied to dilute sanctions against russia in the past, on the basis it would damage the city of london, but if you look back to 2003 in iraq, libya in 2011, everybody said, ‘look how strong and commanded david cameron and tony blair are', and anybody dissenting from the government line was betrayed as traitors, cowards, stooges of the enemy. 400,000 people marched. i'm saying that the media and the new labour elite and the conservatives did that, especially with libya, where only about 13 mps voted against. we do have a foreign policy which is reckless and endangers the national security of everybody watch

leo tolstoy the patron saint of russian literature. the altar and the white fellow became a place to run devil for russian writers and intellectuals in crimea. in the winter of one thousand know one chekhov wrote to his future bride in moscow i'm absolutely fine apart from a petty little matter my health. in july nine hundred four check of died on a visit to the german spa town of biden viler. he was forty four years old. peace was to last for another ten years then war broke out and everything changed. developed focus coming to an end. to russia would soon be consigned to the annals of history. during the first world war stately homes in crimea were converted to military hospitals. then came the october revolution. lenin and the bolsheviks seized power in russia the revolution rolled across the country. crimean tatars proclaimed the people's republic of crimea. then the red army arrived in crimea became the town read a soviet republic. but the revolution had not yet triumphed. german troops occupied crimea followed by the british and

the eu and russian delegation to the eu and russian delegation to the eu and russian delegation to nato intriguing to see some of the countries that have not taken action explaining why, a tweet from the spokesman for the maltese prime minister basically saying their presence in russia is so saying their presence in russia is so small that if they expel russian diplomats from malta then russia could expel all of the maltese diplomats from moscow leaving them com pletely diplomats from moscow leaving them completely unrepresented there was no is to the ground at all other some might say it is more because of the influence of russian money on the influence of russian money on the maltese economy. the austrians do not want to expel anyone because they say they're about to take up they say they're about to take up the rotating presidency of the eu in the rotating presidency of the eu in the summer and they want to remain neutral. people will say it is more for political reasons and that is excuse. for political reasons and that is excuse. yes, a massive massive diplomatic effort we have see

states have signed up to kicking out russian diplomats austria notably has announced that the russian diplomats can remain and also garia has said that it won't be expelling any russian diplomats that are currently stationed there also at the e.u. summit last week that summit where to resume a so successfully argued for this collective european response. called younger the president of the european commission he advocated a rather different approach to moscow take a listen to what he had to say everyone was sure. you can do really. sure she's concerned. about the relationship we need to open to discuss you for sure all of them do not question. so not all e.u. states on the same page and not all figureheads agreed to the extent to which to punish moscow or to cooperate with it perhaps instead nevertheless what's happened today is being billed as the biggest collective expulsion of russian diplomats in history all this while the investigations about police investigation and also the independent o.p.c. w one they are still ongoing it seems that the old complete unity of voices in europe

he was a russian businessman who was found dead in 2013.v had insisted that he had been murdered and it was the russian state that could be behind this. so that was one of the connections that police are now seeking to explore. they have also issued a warning to russian exiles living in britain. they are one of them about their safety in the wake of this death and the two poisonings in salisbury. charlotte, thank you. that was charlotte gallagher and kathryn stanczyszyn and richard galpin in moscow. let's look at this from another angle. with me now is the blogger kostya pinaev, who came to london 12 years ago from russia and can provide some insight now into the russian community here. what do we know about the expat community of russians in this country? there is a sense that they are all monied oligarchs, but i am sure that is not the reality. absolutely not. 99% of the russian expat community is very boring middle—class. by definition, in order to get here, you need to be middle class or above. so it's very boring but we make a lot of h

and estonia has a significant russian speaking population and both ethic russians and russian speakers and i make that distinction, because i think it's important to note that we are not only talking about the ethnic minority but others that speak russian in their daily lives that also get targeted by the kremlin and whom the kremlin tries to co-opt in their various efforts. i will give you numbers here so you get a sense, but they are all in the book. ethnic russians in estonias 24% of the population. they make up 37% -- but if we look at one region, on the border of the russian federation, they make 73% here and 82% in the city of narva, it's a small city, again, with the russian federation border. these numbers are illustrateive and certainly the russian speakers and the russian minority in estonia is general ly very well integrated, especially the youth. they are happy to live in estonia which has the highest standard of living than any other country that was formerly a member of the soviet union. and in fact, you know, high standards of living in comparison to new eu member states

not the russians. if we want something done, it doesn't have to get done today or yesterday or tomorrow. they will wait 100 years. if you have something in mind, they wanted done. the chinese are the same way. they are very patient people. this is not out of the realm. this is something that is going on as far back as there has been the soviet. putin gave a quote, he still lives -- he looks like a modern man. he is a 1950's cruise ship. ruschev guy. guest: i think there is a sense of history and the russian leadership mind about where the trajectory of russia is. know that for putin in particular, he has had a longer rise than any person he has been given with. it does provide certain challenges. host: we welcome our c-span radio audience. edmonds ais jeffrey senior fellow at the wilson center. we will go next to chris joining us from kansas. caller: yes. the same want to take track as the last caller. except with a different point. the current russian government is not the soviet union. the soviet uni

either this was a direct attack by the russian state against our country, or conceivably the russian government would've lost control of the military grade nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others. mr. speaker, it was right to offer russia the opportunity to provide an explanation, but the response has demonstrated complete disdain for the gravity of these events. >> hear, hear. >> they are provided no credible explanation that could suggest they lost control of their nerve agent. no explanation as to how this agent came to be used in the united kingdom, no explanation as to why russia has an undeclared chemical weapons program in contravention of international law. >> hear, hear. >> instead, they have treated the use of military grade nerve agent in europe with sarcasm, content, and defiance. so, mr. speaker, there is no alternative conclusion other than that the russian state was culpable for the attempted murder of mr. skripal and his daughter, and for taking the lives of other british citizens in salisbury, including detective sergeant nick bailey. this represen

anglo russian really. are already pretty strained at the moment given the britain's already imposed sanctions of expelled diplomats what could the u.k. do to punish russia well this is where there's a big opportunity one of the things which the u.k. has a huge leverage in one area which is that the russian government officials and kremlin connected oligarchy come to london buy properties in large sizes all over the most expensive districts of london and they value those properties they covet those properties and the one thing that can be done and is now possible to do based on the law is for the u.k. government to seize those properties and believe me the government doesn't care the russian government doesn't care about a few diplomats being expelled they don't care about an on on exercisable extradition of their officials what they care about is if if their house on belgrave square gets confiscated and that's what the government should do and if they do that it will go immediately right up to putin and pu

the russians the russians will be pleased about it this is again part of the upside down world that we were talking about before you know in any way what do what does the government want i mean obviously russia has and given any kind of evidence about this case forensic evidence i mean what in the world would be expect the russians to do and what do you think the sanction will be afterwards because you know. she's at a political mess right now. she doesn't have a memorable time in office here she's found this one issue she's really pushing it here i mean coming to conclusions before facts are presented not ever to the public by the way here i mean you know what is you know is this an internal domestic issue for her i mean she's found this one issue the kind of booster a little bit because she needs a whole lot of boosting go ahead and. well i think as you say she's in a very weak political position. and she will be under pressure from l i six because bear in mind this guy worked as an agent to m i six for a decade and was handed back to them they had a duty of protection to their sourc

met with a russian lawyer. he was promised dirt on hillary clinton but maintains his father never knew about the meeting. the president said the same thing. nunberg disputes that, even though he was fired from the campaign nearly a year before the meeting. >> president trump says he knew nothing about the meeting. do you think that's true? >> no. >> you don't think that's true. >> no. >> reporter: nunberg says he won't cooperate with special counsel and questions the basis of the investigation. >> yes, mueller thinks trump is a manchurian candidate. gloria, we were a joke. everybody was laughing at us. the idea we were colluding with the russians? give me a break. >> reporter: also saying carter page is the real culprit when it comes to collusion. >> carter page was colluding with the russians? >> yes, i believe carter page was colluding with the russians. >> if that's true, sam, carter page was an adviser to the trump campaign. >> he wasn't really an adviser, jay. do you think he was an adviser? he was a name

for the russian of a gentleman is absolutely right it is the russian state that we are challenging in relation to this this particular act that has taken place on u.k. soil not the not the russian people. to join with to go. to greece really clear that we are engaged in a hybrid for which russia. clude stis information political and fear of cyber attacks are now very possibly this act of attempted murder in considering how to respond for him to also look at what additional hope we might give to the people of ukraine who operate from clawing and resisting russian aggression and to expansionism you i think i think my right arm befriended he's absolutely right we do need to look across the very diverse nature of the threat that we that we face and the actions that we are taking and we have already been taking a number of actions in support of the of the ukraine is also an important part of our deliberations an important part of of our response michael mcdonald as we call stein question was understood by only three people everybody understands what is happening here to date and there can

the prime minister said on monday this was a direct act by the russian state or the russian government must -- lost control of the potential catastrophically damaging nerve agent and allotted to get into the hands of others. our response must be both decisive and proportionate, and based on clear evidence. if the government believes that it is still a possibility that russia negligently lost control of the military grade nerve agent, what action has been taken to the opcw with our allies? i welcome the fact the police are working with the opcw and has the prime minister taken the necessary steps under the chemical weapons convention to make a formal request for evidence from the russian government under article 9.2? how has she responded to the russian governments request for a sample of the agent used in the salisbury attack to run its own test? [shouting] has high resolution trace analysis been run on a sample of the nerve agent, and has that revealed in evidence as to the location of its production or the identity of its perpetrator perpetrators? and can the prime minister update th

(epic russian music) - [narrator] russian president boris yeltsin faced the task of implementing an array of political and economic reforms. the seeds of which had been planted by the soviet union's last premier, mikhail gorbachev. - [sachs] almost everybody was facing extreme uncertainty and alarm at a collapsed economy, empty shelves, high inflation and tremendous political turmoil. - then under the advice and guidance of western economists, western business leaders and western politicians russian started to implement what has been known as shock therapy reform. (mournful music) - [news reader] a chicken costs nearly two weeks' pay. only those with hard currency are assured of getting something. - [narrator] tens of thousands of state-owned enterprises had to be privatized, reshaping the entire russian economy. - [buchanan] it was seen as really something like the period of the 1870s, 80s and 90s in the united states with robber barons doing exceedingly well, and the people not doing well, and their standard of living falling. - [polyakova] each state enterprise was assigned a certain n

the backing of russia has the backing of iran iran has sent troops that have russian air power and russian political support at the un security council if two thousand and fourteen they were not ready to share power with an opposition that they didn't even recognize they're not ready to do that again and now and we're hearing even the syrian president say time and time again we're going to recapture the whole country but the question is recapturing the whole country is not going to be that easy because especially in the north of the country have the issue of the kurds you have the issue of turkish back to troops you know controlling some parts but like you mentioned what else than a did and after that salty is no longer on the table is the question of political transition it is no longer on the table at least for the pro-government alliance they're not ready to negotiate any transition or sharing power for that matter with the opposition zain thanks very much correspondent live there in. thousands of civilians are also leaving their homes and three in turkey's military closes in there peop

the old notion of a russian-led communism-based philosophy with a whole new sense of 21st century russian nationalism. and, with that backing of the vast majority of his public, he began an ambitious program of reownerment. all with the aim, i believe, of challenging the united states and our allies. so while our gaze shifted away from russia, which we began to kind of write off and at a certain level dismiss as simply a regional power, russia really never lost its focus on us. its geostrategic aim remained squarely targeted on western -- on the western liberal order. and more specifically, on what is kgb trained leadership views as the main enemy, the united states. so roussia diligently honed and updated its tool kit for a different kind of power. it couldn't match us in the old paradigm. russia needed a strategy that would allow them to compete with us on a new emerging battlefield. russia's chief of general staff, general valerie garamosov, gave putin what he needed. he outlined a new strategy doctrine the kremlin was more suited to fight, and then -- and in this strategy doctrine, a

this is the largest collective expulsion of russian intelligence officers in history. i have found great solidarity from our friends and partners in the e.u. north america and nato and beyond over the past three weeks as we have confronted the aftermath of the salzburg incident and together we have sent a message that we will not tolerate russia's continued attempts to flounce international law and undermine our lives i think you're seeing an increasingly. move of bad judgment by russia and when we see these espionage tactics that are taking place right here at the heart of the u.n. we can't have that and this is really not just us but multiple countries saying all of these actions have to stop this is not what we do. in any other place and it can't be acceptable for you to do this unfortunately russia is now being held accountable for a lot of things and they have a decision to do what they are asking for one then two diplomats well let's bring apologies in to our ears to leave this or that country we know that this is the result of colossal pressure this colossal bla

day march that my russian befriend the phone secretary to the russian ambassador here in london earlier this week to do just that they have not done so if there is a consensus across the back bench is all this is how. i am really sorry that the consensus does not go as far as the right honorable gentleman. could have taken the opportunity as the u.k. government has done to condemn the culprits of the senior. russian embassy here in london has said that the steps taken by the british government are unjustified unacceptable and shortsighted also saying that they did deterioration of ties between russian and the u.k. lies on the british government and that ultimatums don't work with russia everything is what is. acceptable we perceive it to provoke each. we believe that the you know i do keep the full big international and none of them under this obligations to him. given the weapons they have to present their request to the organization and we're happy to consider this we didn't do the deed this is the international law and of course we're not ready to. to talk you know we will be ultimat

the target for killing russians in. the u.s. russian journalists. who are supposed to be protected the press is not supposed to be fired but she fired on them on purpose around the fire she was. clean that hero by ukraine has legal right to live here if she was a nationalist here and he wanted her back in ukraine she was exchanged by russia and became a deputy should we keep a member of the course and now she's moving to the west know she's going to their evil. their growth her because she's come out and publicly said she saw snipers enter with the speaker of the parliament and that fire marshal has given all of which have already said we want to destroy this man if you gentlemen we are talking about it because it's important people are talking about it in ukraine because it's important if anybody needs to any of us and i don't know if i want to be one talking about is that the ukraine just feet depends on what the west decides to do with it and what the west is going to look like in the next sixty years was going to change there it's obvious by the

rush rush rush in russian russian russia crushed russian russian russians and russian russian the russian the russian russia russia russia and the russians it was done for political purposes only and not as it can for civilians we spoke to an expert from damascus university who said civilians in kuta are living in dire conditions on vats what the un security council should be concerned about. we know that there is a question when we are defeating terrorism in the media before they will leave this is the same story with these two bottles. we know from our experience a lot of evidence is a lot of be able to look at what happened with them with these terrorists they where the hostage is nothing but let me quickly hear the other side where is these western campaign why they are not to have been these people who are docked more than one week in a complaint that they are interested in. a diplomatic row between russia and the u.k. over the poisoning of a form of double agent continues to escalate on saturday moscow announced it would expel twenty three british diplomats in response to a similar

one of three russian spies. >> and gorkov himself attended the training academy for russian intelligenceers. >> what did you really speak to jared kushner about when you met him in december? >> there have been questions whether kushner discussed his family's business with banker gorkov. kushner owns a fifth avenue building with a reported $1.2 billion mortgage coming due in 2019. kushner said his business dealings never came up with gorkov and all of his meetings with russians were nothing to worry about. >> i did not include with russia, nor do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. >> your bank says it was a business meetings. >> but gorkov's bank implied the meeting with kushner was about business. referring to kushner as the head of kushner's industry. >> robert mueller's team has expressed interest in kushner, including his role in the firing of james comey. >> can you say you're aware anyone who advised your campaign had contacts with russia. >> investigators still have questions for the president's men. >> how many times do i have to answer the question? >> the collusio

there is proof of russian involvement this is a russian defector who's been threatened by the president on several occasions this is a russian made weapons grade nerve agent made in a large tree in moscow which has now been confirmed by british intelligence and ratified by american and french this is a very clear pass and we know in germany for example of russian information operations and indeed espionage operations that have been extremely active in recent years we know the invasions of ukraine the destruction and murder of several hundred people in m.h. seventeen aircraft over ukraine yannick sation of crimea the occupation of georgia the attempted murder of the montenegrin from as i can go on this is part of a very long pattern of russian aggression and it's got to stop so it's not just about this one specific incident russia for its part it has actually just responded to this and i just want to bring and what sergei lavrov just had to say and he said the russian response will come very soon he promises us that he also said that your ak accusations are absolutely borish if british d

well different things have been done to motivate russians to go to war with other poles famous russian singers cold to their compatriots to vote russian cosmonauts from space spoke on television local authorities organize some prize draws where people could have a smartphone on another nice electric devise also there was an unspeakable homophobic and x. in a four b. commercial on state television its message was if people in russia don't go to the polls and don't vote for their rights president or the so-called right president then dark skinned soldiers would serve in the russian army and gays would infiltrate into private apartments as if that would be a big threat to russia ok so some scare tactics there but what does a low border turnout mean for president putin. well look at people in russia are traditionally very reluctant to vote the belief in democracy generally and in democracy election isn't decided by the people but by those up there which means by the authorities so many of them who like putin don't necessarily go to the polls to elect him again and again the popular myth of

--russians from russia. this has been the source of the financing of the quote trump empire as it were for years and years and where all this is leading is this question of whether or not there was influence over people in the campaign or in his, in trump's family or business organization by the russians and mueller is meth thodically methodically going through, we are seeing interaction between russians, ethno-russians, people close to trump high in his campaign organization and we have phone for a while the person named work for manafort and for rick gates was a russian operative. we have known that for a good while. this has been pointing in this direction for a long time and now we will see how the republicans react and will they continue to defend trump blindly in saying, oh, there is no evidence of collusion here. >> hey, john, i have to get to the brake. something that carl said before that keeping up, there is no way that trump's team can keep up with mueller and the number of people he has. do you a

russian federal stations they take. a tim lindsey graham's in the john mccain and everybody else that has something to say and they just let the russian viewer. absorb it themselves right there and it's not just instagram or drinking when you have the british prime minister he was in russia taking the u.k. audience hold soil or wage an came and go at that was something you know of course people react because these are some of the most powerful. people in the world didn't you that you are waging a war with no evidence you know when they're then america you know the most powerful americans say that they're sure russia meddled in the reactions when they see russia will pay a price when the british parliament openly discuss a cyber attack against russia or of course for important she plays a role here but it's really going to be with mark with one think you know i think it was an interesting complain because economic issues played a role but not in the way the west would like them to a lot of people consider the border or t

for the russian government. and in that context i hope the whole house will be able to come together with the public safety whether the national security council has asked for a review on the 14 other cases that i wrote to my secretary about to see whether any of those should be investigated. and also to press her on what further and what further actions they have taken in preparation that perhaps should be drafted in order to get the widest possible international support. she's absolutely right i think everybody in this house should be of no doubtbt of the nature of what has happened and i understand that they had responded to the right honorable ladies letter. and i think a places at the moment should be on ensuring that the resources are being put into this criminal investigation. so we ensure that the police are able to do their work with the maximum time and space. when they expel over 100 russian diplomats in the early 1970s. i gave a blow to russian intelligence operations from which he never recovered un