later on i gave an interview in the remember it was crimea. gave the interview for the german media, and i was asked, how could you even go to this person? >> [speaking german] >> [speaking german] >> i said, it is good to talk to each other. i was committed to speaking, and it was crimea, and it was -- of course it matters. after what we have been through with the russian people in two world wars, this is kind of a temporary issue. what happened was, and you know this well, it was not about the wars, crimea is maybe not as material. obviously, you say what the hell is going on with that person? so that was a bit unfortunate, but i said i made a commitment to industrialize the country. that was the intent. the outcome was learning, with the broader respective responsibility. we believe talking to each other in any crisis is more important than talking about each other. francine: does making america great again necessarily mean the rest of the world becomes worse? ♪ >> thank you very much. such a great honor to get to know you, to be with you.

crimea is maybe not as material.bviously, you read that and say what the hell is going on with that person saying that? so that was a bit unfortunate, but i said i made a commitment to the people to industrialize the country. that was the intent. the outcome was learning, with the broader respective -- respect of responsibility. we believe talking to each other in any sort of crisis is more important than talking about each other. that has never helped anybody. francine: does making america great again necessarily mean the rest of the world becomes worse? pres. trump: chancellor, thank you very much. such a great honor to get to know you, to be with you. i want to thank all the business leaders who have joined us. francine: siemens chief executive joe kaeser was one of the business leaders at the pres. trump: chancellor, thank you very much. such a great honor to get to know you, to be with you. i want to thank all the business leaders who have joined us. francine: siemens chief executive joe kaeser was one of the bu

crimea is maybe not as material.usly, you read that and say what the hell is going on with that person saying that? so that was a bit unfortunate, but i said i made a commitment to the people to industrialize the country. that was the intent. the outcome was learning, with the broader respective this back -- respect of responsibility. we believe talking to each other in any sort of crisis is more important than talking about each other. that has never helped anybody. francine: does making america great again necessarily mean the rest of the world becomes worse? ♪ ♪ pres. trump: chancellor, thank you very much. such a great honor to get to know you, to be with you. i want to thank all the business leaders who have joined us. francine: siemens chief executive joe kaeser was one of the business leaders at the angela merkel delegation to the white house in march. siemens employs 50,000 people in america, and is one of its biggest foreign investors. but the visit came against the backdrop of uncertainty, after the new pre

on the question of crimea, i note the law used to annex crimea passed in 2001, long before got a codehich can to kovich came to power. russia was thinking about that long before the current of peoples in the capital of kiev . host: stewart for mechanical, virginia. good morning -- mechanicsburg, virginia. you are on with herman pirchner. caller: it must be a full moon. you have a lot of crazy people calling in this morning. look at this realistically. all presidents have met privately with foreign adversaries. it is one thing that needs to be said. when people are talking with one another and not shooting at one another. a lot of private meetings have gone on. the former president clinton meeting with the attorney general on the tarmac. they kicked everybody off the plane. was at a private meeting? i think it was. everybody just stay cool and let's see what happens. i think it is good we are talking to adversaries. we are not shooting at one another. guest: there is a russian proverb that roughly translates, a bad relationship is better than any war. i think any time you can talk it i

back. >> i think crimea is gone. we don't need to accept that overtly, but in our strategic thinking, we should simply recognize it. that means we continue to put pressure on russia, around the periphery of russia. we use our nato allies. we don't have to do this all ourselves in terms of russia. we keep the sanctions on until they modify their behavior in three places. one is ukraine. again, we're in the going to get crimea back, but we can save the rest of ukraine. number two, we need russia's assistance in syria, and long term they're going to have to fall away from assad. think milosevich and the balkans. three, cyber peace. they have to give us assurances they won't introod in our electoral process. we need to use the sanctions to compel their behavior. i think the white house is doing the correct thing in signing them. >> let's look at the military to fleet thing. up in the arctic, i was stunned by one thing in here more than anything else, you always get a facts that sticks, they have 30 ice breakers, 30 of th

what did he say about crimea, for instance?standing is that america is going to continue for nonrecognition policy of the illegal annexation by the russian federation of crimea. leave the sanctions? absolutely and we also heard this from the un... us ambassador at the united nations as well, nikki haley. sol united nations as well, nikki haley. so i think all the signals are pointing to the same direction. i hope that also with getting more and more information on what is really going on on the ground in ukraine, that also helps to formulate the position that would be for the benefit of ukraine and for the benefit of ukraine and for the benefit of ukraine and for the benefit of the free and democratic world. it remains to be seen... where the us is an actor as well. you say the us is the main actor. there is also additional concerns about, that the is retreating. your own former acting president of ukraine said earlier this year of us withdrawal from global leadership. he said, expert further destabilisation, especially in east

where is had our national security tied into who owns crimea? i think we're lining up all the nato states, we've got hungary, the czech republic. that's fine. the war saw pact that recruited mexico, we worried about cuba. i'm going to stick back to american interests. if you want to score all these questions. screwing with our elections, give it a ten. i would give it a two. everything else is a one. >> i think we care about us. >> we also care about western europe. >> western europe. that's not crimea. >> i know. if you're going to defend article 5 in terms of mutual defense. it is cyber warfare and all that kind of stuff. the europeans, not only the american public but the european public will be looking for, trump playing the tough cop with putin in part because they don't want to. >> if we get too offensive around the russia perimeter, we'll push putin into his nationals craziness. he fights for crimea, he has the home court advantage. >> putin doesn't have the muscles. he has a depleted sxhilt trump doesn't want to confront him there. we do

what did he say about crimea, for instance?e for a nonrecognition policy of the illegal annexation of crimea by the russian federation. and keep the sanctions? and keep the sanctions, yes. we also heard from the us ambassador at the united nations, nikki haley, as well. so i think all the signals are pointing to the same direction. i think that we getting more and more information on what is really going on on the ground in the ukraine, that also helps to formulate the position that would be for the benefit of ukraine, and for the benefit of the free and democratic world, where the us is the main actor. you're saying the us is the main actor. because you know there are additional concerns about the that the united states is retreating. your own former acting president said earlier this year, talking that us withdrawal from global leadership. he said he expected further destabilisation, particularly in eastern europe. he is not the only one who is saying that the us into istelf. we have the alliance russia and china, which presi

to accept crimea back to russia i mean is this sort of like a tit for tat then if the u.s. is doing these the encircling with the antiballistic missile systems then then crimea happens and then want to make gross happen i feel like we're kind of playing ping pong here. well months or do you grow as sort of like the twenty ninth right now if you want to be twelve when the berlin wall fell that twelve now they're twenty and they're all to the east of germany ok so that was a broken promise putin himself said just a couple days ago we got to write these things that i don't know really he said there's a major mistake they've got to show me right trusting the united states that's big because it's not going to buy better anything that's not put pen to paper put put the pen to paper and how does the current u.s. nato strategy of encirclement just undermine not only their relations but prospects for global security well it's very worrisome if i were poutine and i were seeing these well he said explicitly these a.b.m. sites that are going around poland remaining in the black sea in

. —— say about crimea.the us ambassador at the united nations, nikki haley, as well. so i think all the signals a point in the same direction. i think that we getting more and more information on what is really going on on the ground in the ukraine, that helps to formulate the position that would be formulate the position that would be for the benefit of the ukraine, and for the benefit of the ukraine, and for the benefit of the ukraine, and for the benefit of free and democratic world, where the us is the main actor. you say the us is the main actor. you say the us is the main actor. beretts additional concerns about the that the united states is retreating. your own former acting president said earlier this year, talking that us withdrawal from global leadership. he said he expected further destabilisation in eastern europe. he is not the only one who is saying that. we have russia and china, which president xijinping said will be the defining factor in the next ten yea rs be the defining factor in the ne

it strengthens existing sanctions for russia's illegal annexation of crimea. against russia's cyber crimes, including the hacking of our election to help , a story which congress and the special counsel are still time to get to the bottom up. as well as britain's support for the murderous assad regime it in syria. making sure these russian sanctions are not did prematurely. showndministration has over and over they are willing to cozy up to putin. here's the truth. ally. is not our they want to splinter our alliances and undermine western democracy. this commerce will not allow them to succeed so i'm glad to support this bipartisan bill. i think the chairman once again. we need to keep working to make sure this book is to the presidents desk. i reserve the balance of my time. >> the jim webb from california. >> in recognizing me to month from texas, want to thank him for his good work to strengthen the bill. as he will discuss and for his focus on pipelines that primarily carry oil and gas through russia, that compete with russian gas and dust on the price of

including the crimea. i vote easily and enthusiastically for this resolution today. but it must not be construed nsk use it references the mi agreements that that means we don't mean to continue sanctions on the crimea -- the crimean invasion. we do. and the chairman and ranking member of our committee, we'll continue to be vigilant on that until that illegal annexation is ended. i commend the leadership for bringing this resolution to the floor. and i am proud today to be a member of this body in speaking with one voice about russian behavior. and the need for sanctioning it. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. royce: i yield one 911 the gentleman from new jersey, mr. lance, a member of the committee on energy and commerce. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. mr. lance: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in strong support of this sanctions bill. the governments of iran, north korea, and russia do not share american values or interests. and are active threats to our national s

that's what crimean tatars have experienced ever since russia annexed crimea from ukraine three yearsgo. while many ethnic russians live there, this muslim minority group is native to the peninsula and fought against the takeover. now many tatars say that russian authorities are making their lives difficult. our reporter, juri rescheto met a tatar family and asked if they had any hope of their lives improving under moscow's control. >> eftade is a crimean tatar. she is the youngest in the osmanov family and papa aivaz's favorite. he is busy on the construction site in the yard. for several years now, aivaz has been trying to build a house for the family of six. aivaz: hey, eftade, did your sister make coffee? eftade: what? aivaz: did your sister made coffee? eftade: yeah. >> crimean tatars were allowed to return here in the 1990's after having been expelled by stalin during world war ii. and they began to cultivate old traditions once again. crimean tatars were not allowed to attend university during the soviet regime. many still live in rural areas as self-supporting farmers. eftade:

crimea.-- outcome was complicated.idn't know that president obama and the european leaders had the same time meting. have a press would conference. since the american president just didn't bother telling nice appointments. unfortunate timing. interview and that was .rimea i was asked how the hell could even go so this person. [speaking foreign language] >> i said it's good to talk to and not about each other. i was committing to all these people. crimea and this is territory. we have been through with the russian people in two world wars. this is kind of temporary issue. thishappened was, you know well, what was the news on the media? two world warst material.maybe not as that was big bit unfortunate. was, i said i made a theitment to industrialize country. that was the intent. learning.e was talking to each other in any sort of crisis, is more important than talking about each other. that never helped. >> does making america great again necessarily mean that the rest of the world becomes worse? >> thank you very much.

invasions occupations and in the case of crimea. russia has asserted that his annex this territory no one is going to accept that. at the same time we have this means process that is focused only on the dome boss. and we don't want to slow down the possibility of progress there if we can achieve it. so we do want to see progress there and we will continue to to keep the. . the focus on all of the territory that has been taken. nnova. in afghanistan more than thirty people have been killed in over forty injured in a suicide bomb attack in the capital kabul. the taliban have claimed responsibility for the blas. straight a bus carrying government officials. the bbc's justin right now reports. the suicide attack us struck at seven a. m.. exploding his palm right beside a bus carrying government workers. agreed to this shop keeper describes how one man staggered into his doorway. before collapsing and dying. this woman. must have. this is. attacks in kabul are common but the bombs are getting bigger. the trauma ward is quiet. but the ang

no russian troops in crimea. a few months later the brave people that fought how can you let them -- and then one year later it's the already full recollection, bragging about it. and then just so what. >> there is now ample evidence that russia through state actors tried to interfere in the american political process. how would that help him stay in power? >> challenging the free world especially the united states. he can go to syria and kick americans from here to there. he can challenge europe. he violates all the rules. he is still in the game. >> we'll hear more later in the show. a lot has changed in russia since soviet days but much has stayed the same. the might of the state once at the service of a political party now serves one man in a circle of very powerful and wealthy people around him. >> the russian mafia is the government of russia. it is running a sovereign state with nuclear weapons. >> we have spent months investigating a single case and multiple murders in russia and around the world. the sto

led to crimea's annexation. day of annexation, putin gave a speech combining religion, patriotism, and imperial history. he said the west had been subjugating russia, and russia was finally demanding respect. >> ( translated ): if you compress the spring all the way to its limit, it will snap back hard. russia is an independent, active participant in international affairs; like other countries, it has its own national interests that need to be taken into account and respected. >> reporter: it's impossible to overstate how transformative eastern ukraine and here, crimea, have been to recent russian memory. after the crimea annexation, putin's popularity spiked to nearly 90%. suddenly, russians told pollsters they considered themselves once again, a superpower. and russians all over the country mobilized. that's denis solomin in 2014, fighting in eastern ukraine. he's a former soldier who was working a mid-management retail job when he quit and crossed the border. >> ( translated ): now we hear that behind us, the

west mounted a coup in kiev that was what started it was he is dead wrong in saying it started with crimea it started with the coup so. my gann was never part of the conversation was no so yeah and there wasn't any actually there wasn't a scintilla of evidence that poutine of any of his associates had any idea of annexing crimea before the two in kiev so he's got his could ology wrong so twisted as to whether whether trump who has said some interesting things about crimea. and ukraine whether he will. follow through on this rapprochement was with russia and whether he would be allowed to frankly that's the question now given that that this is a nato. position. for for us at the seat at the table with nato shouldn't this position be a political why why select somebody as you said who has seemingly it in her years in the senate. gone in the other direction than what president trump is currently espousing and well you know it's really difficult to know how much control trump has over these things i mean he reached out and ukraine we want to just sort of get the. minsk record specked in order

crimea was from catherine the great and then 1954 dave crimea ukraine as a symbol of friendship but it didn't matter with the soviet union for my liberal russian friends say they should have given it back. that's not the way it works. it's a violation of international law and we can never recognize the annexation of crimea that we need to be aware that it's not an unpopular thing to have done and it added to the popularity. you just have to be pretty firm. you are fairly pessimistic for the institutions to thrive in charge of. what you want is an executive that isn't so strong because it is checked by other power centers. he was the first one to messed this up for russia. when ronald reagan said to tear down that wall i don't know if he thought it was going to happen. they are brittle. they are at a position to rule because there's no organized opposition and he's making sure of that. but a few weeks ago, people flooded into the streets. still, online bloggers are still protesting government actions, so there is something slightly alive underneath. and another thing is the russian peop

it is a joint venture partner and russia illegally redirected exports to crimea which is under sanctions. now siemens is suing. the debacle shows a significant breakdown in trust for industrial relations between germany and russia. >> these gas turbines can produce electricity. four of them were ordered by a subsidiary of a russian state owned company. they are allegedly destined for a power plant in russia. that is not where they were headed. >> they say they have received information from reliable sources for at least two of the four gas turbines -- they have been sent to crimea against their will. this procedure was a clear breach of contracts. >> they say they were lied to by their russian business partners. it is now pressing criminal charges against them. not everyone was to let them off the hook. there was critic -- prism of the turbine deal even before it took place. now there is a lack of trust on both sides. >> russia could have seriously damaged its prospects for attracting investments because breach of contract affect credibility, i think it is good to have consequences for t

in 2014 and the reason is subject to european union sections, preventing eu firms from providing crimeah energy technology. now for some pricey fruit, high integrates has set record prices -- high grapes have set record prices. ruby roman grapes, it took 14 years to develop this variety. producers plan to ship about 26,000 bunches of the gre before the season ends -- grapes before the season ends in late september. >> to german politics, 11 more weeks to go before people here in germany go to the polls. it is time to catch up with the latest leg of our election vote trip. we are taking a look at the big election issues ahead of september's vote. they are on a road trip visiting cities and towns across the country. this week they have been to the western city of cologne to find out how islam is changing the country. cologne situated in the state of north wind risk failure --north rhine-westphalia which is home to germany 3 million muslim. >> he says it is time to expand. the muslim community here is growing, in part because of the influx of muslim refugees and he wants his mosque to grow

oil company, it was blacklisted by the treasury department in the wake of russia's annexation of crimeasigned at less than a month after u.s. band companies from doing business with him. just hours after the fine was announced, exxon mobil hit back calling the action of the treasury department's office fundamentally unfair. retroactively -- he is inconsistent with explicit ambiguity guidance from the white house and treasury. >> he says sanctions targeted his personal access and not his role at rosfnet. since sanctions have been imposed, the american oil company said it has lost over $1 billion in revenue. >> a look at of the markets on the last dutch rating this week and are digesting yesterday's news that the central bank will not be change of monetary policy in europe, the. was flat. if you got -- it was flat. paris' cac and frankfurt dax is down. whileyear high, a short ago it was up against the dollar which is dropped amid turmoil in washington. analysts say it would break 120 by the end of the year. time to look at other business news we are following this hour. the federal trade

less than 20% of those polled could identify crimea on the map. the median person was off by nearly 2,000 miles, some placing it in south america. most polls, however, were willing to express a view on whether the united states' intervention in the dispute was a good idea. and support for intervention rose directly as one's ignorance of the location of crimea. rose. today marshalling a case to those who start in a different position is a lost art. honoring what's right and the other side's argument is considered foolish. it's hard to give into anyone of anything, he or she, doesn't already believe. we essentially live in a come see yum culture that reduces discord to combat. pin i pinning viewpoints against each o other in a battle of slow begans. slogans. nearly 50 years ago chief justice burger wrote, when men shout, shriek or call names, we end the irrational thought, if not the beginning of blows in combat, closed quote. we'v we've gone beyond his worst nightmare. not surprisingly, these developments have brought us to the point where large nu

pollder as an example a taken shortly after the russian invasion of crimea. polledan 20% of those holdted to find polled -- could identify -- polled could identify crimea on a map. most polls, however, were willing to express a view on whether united states intervention in the dispute was a good idea, and support for intervention rose directly as one's ignorance of the location of crimea rose. [laughter] today, persuading those who start from a different position is a lost art. honoring what is right in the other side's argument is considered foolish. it is hard to convince anyone of anything that he or she doesn't already believe. we essentially live in a coliseum culture that reduces discoursed to combat, pitting simplistic and bipolar viewpoints against each other in a battle of slogans. , chief50 years ago justice burger warned "when men shout and shriek or call names, we witness the end of rational thought, if not the beginning of blows and combat." we have gone beyond his worst nightmare. surprisingly, these developments have brought us to the point whe

upholding the minsk agreement and confront president putin certainly on the actions we have seen in crimea. vonnie: i want to bring in henry meyer in moscow, how much will putin be able to get out of donald trump when it comes to a strategy in syria or the potential for sanctions to be diminished? henry: i think that russians have been encouraged by the comments made by rex tillerson on his way to germany in which he said the u.s. was looking to work with russia in syria, in terms of the no-fly zones and patrol of the cease-fire. on the other hand, they are realistic in moscow and they understand how much pressure donald trump is under, so their expectations are modest i would say. warsaw,ven yesterday in henry, trump criticized russia's destabilizing behavior in the called to an end to the support of hostile regimes in syria and iran. how did that go down in moscow? henry: i think the russians understand the reason why donald trump says those things, at least that is their understanding, that he is trying to defend against the mystic critics. i do not think they would be too upset by his

woman would report that was even more important in my green to accept crimea back to russia i mean is this sort of like a tit for tat then if the u.s. is doing these the encircling with the anti-ballistic missile systems and then then crimea happens and then montenegro has happened i feel like we're kind of playing ping pong here. well months or do you grow as sort of like the twenty ninth right now is maybe twelve when the berlin wall fell they were twelve now they're twenty and they're all to the east of germany ok so that was a broken promise poutine himself said just a couple days ago we got to write these things down no really he said this is a major mistake to go to show me right trusting the united states that's big. and protests continue across the city of hamburg today dozens of police officers have now been injured since the protests started and dozens of protesters have been arrested or detained our very own correspondent peter oliver has the latest from the ground there in hamburg this is the way it looks here and how this evening on friday we're in a period of relative ca

were moved illegally to crimea simmons says it hasn't found prove it violated any sanctions because the turbines were moved against their well. next audi says it will be recalling up to eight hundred and fifty thousand diesel vehicles they will be fitted with new software to improve their missions for months. the german automaker says it believes the voluntary retrofitting program will counteract possible bands on vehicles with diesel engines. earlier this week daimler announced it would be cool three eight million mercedes benz cars with diesel engines in europe. to improve emission performance. next french banks decision hall has pledged one th of one thousand jobs in paris post break says i now bank of america has announced its picking at dublin as its base for european operation. this so they can continue to serve clients if their london operations lose the ability to operate across the block post breaks it. frankford and dublin has so far both emerged as the early winners to attract financial services firms from britain. citigroup and morgan sandy epic frank fed as e. u. hobbes wel

working alongside the romanian air force, the crimea.here. this really is nato showing, we are forced to be reckoned with. we are here to deter, thatis reckoned with. we are here to deter, that is ourjob. we are peaceful, but we are secure in the skies. i have will air force control working with remaining controllers in a bunker near bucharest. if they see something on the radar, they will tell skies to scramble and we will go on intercept and find out what i got this. this operation is taking place 24 hours a day, seven days a week. typhoons are flying every single day, as part of this policing operation. more than 140 m men and women from alexa communications are here in support. there is no npower without ground power. it is true, there is a lot that goes on behind there is a lot that goes on behind the scenes to make sure that the squadron can do what they need to do when they need to do it. you get a feeling inside that you've done something towards the wider world. normally when you are sat behind a desk you don't see much of the o

what we did was purely defensive, both in crimea and in ukraine. let us get on with each other.e. don't step on oui’ sphere of influence. don't step on our toes. in particular, they would have said let's implement this minsk two agreement, the ceasefire, peace agreement, signed on russia's terms when they defeated the army. putin will be pushing trump to help russia get what it wants in ukraine. but, how it is spun in washington could be very different, surely? we had donald trump in that speech in poland, saying look, there's a community of responsible nations, join us? yes, but he is saying it in terms of location, a symbolic speech which was written by one of steve bannon‘s people. it's about western civilisation saying, you know, on the western side of the line now, thatis the western side of the line now, that is where the line goes. what is implied effectively in that speech is that anything east of the line is not part of the west. this is something that putin would have hugely welcomed, saying we do not have any claim on poland, or on the former soviet bloc, that ukraine

a lot has changed. 20% of georgia is occupied, and crimea. is it possible to see nato extend in eastern europe? 'se you worried about russia attempts to destabilize the region and foster anti-american anti-western attitudes? cotton: at the moment it is not obvious the path that georgia and ukraine would take in nato while they have russian troops on their soil. the immediate objection would bring enough pressure to bear on russia that they leave those lands. that they give crimea to ukraine , and they leave georgia. coming out of the bilateral meeting in hamburg, secretary tillerson was clear the sanctions on russia, though they have been relatively ineffective, will be in place as long as there are russian-backed rebels on ukrainian soil. russia is trying to these stabilize and divide the west here that is what they have been trying to do for decades. not only in the soviet era that ra as well.n e they did it in 1983 when they funded the protests. today indoing it elections in western europe and our elections here. they're doing it with snap

sanctions lifted that have been imposed ever since russia invaded and occupied and annexed crimea outf the ukraine in 2014. just in the last couple of weeks, the trump administration slapped additional sanctions on dozens of russian entities much to moscow's chagrin. we don't know whether or not that is a possibility in this upcoming meeting. the one area that perhaps both sides could find some common ground on is the conflict in syria. earlier this week, secretary of state rex tillerson wrote that there had been some success there between the two militaries, russia and the u.s., which are operating in such close proximity there. there had been some success at establishing deconfliction zones. and he floated the idea of establishing no-fly-zones there. russia's top diplomat said last night that is a step in the right direction. on the eve of the meeting, the kremlin said regrettably, we don't know what washington wants to get out of the meeting. they admit the relationships between the two countries are at zero. the kremlin said sitting face to face would probably be good for geo-- ge

they have not intentions back out of the crimea.f anything, there is suggestion and real hard evidence that they're helping out a rebel force that supplied by russian hardware and even may have russians working within it? >> absolutely. i don't expect the russians will give up crimea which we don't buy into. they have their justification. i don't think they will be leaving there. it will be difficult for putin from public opinion standpoint to back out of crime crime. rest of ukraine, eastern ukraine is negotiation. i think putting pressure on government in kiev, make it collapse. that kiev doesn't move west towards europe or economically or -- david: peter, excuse me for interrupting. i want to alert our viewers that, did what we're saying that 747 arrived. i assume vehicles had something to do with it. 747 is loaded up with the hardware that the president uses to tool around while in europe. of course these vehicles are super secure against any kind of potential attacks. the president, our president is going to be meeting i unders

we're not going to talk to but anything else until you get out of crimea, right? >> reporter: not exactly. in fact, this hasn't been top of mind in any of president trump's statements on russia. i think there is still an issue here. there is under consideration by the white house, a request to give assistance which would in if you are rate russia further. there are a whole host of problems in which russia and the united states are really butting heads. at the u.n. yesterday, you had the russian ambassador and the u.s. ambassador, you know, barking at each other across the table about what should be done about north korea. >> shepard: what were they saying? >> well, today, the u.n. ambassador said that russia blocked a clear statement condemning the missile launch over july 4th, because russia has asked for more information about whether it was intercontinental ballistic missile, even though u.s. intelligence says it was. other services say it was, and the north koreans claimed it was. so that's the first order of business. what the russians want is for the u.s. to

it is not quite 90% like it was right after crimea, but it is still city percent or 70%.hings like crimea, syria are able to convince russians that putin is strong, respected on the international stage, and can project russian power. a lot of that is propaganda. you get an echo of the points on russian tv with anchors saying putin is strong and everyone is weak. part of it is that. but they do see that russia has a huge part to play in the middle east. >> russian television, americans get a bit of that through rt. >> there are two parts of this. one is the propaganda machine in russia. it has gone through different messages and changes, but the consistency is this. we have to rally around russia, and there are lots of enemies. right now the message is russia may not be great but the west is not great either and you should support us, you should support the government, because you need strength right now. the second part is the external focus, rt, sputnik. rt and the most popular anchor in russia admits information is a weapon and they have aimed it at russia's in these. t

at treaty are isolated but rather part of a pattern of provocative behavior, whether it's annexing crimea, meddling in our elections or assaulting our diplomats in moscow or harboring edward snowden, buzzing american ships with aircraft or giving aid to the town man, providing the missiles that were used years ago today issued a civilian aircraft out of the sky. russia is deliberately probing our defenses around the globe, looking for weak spots. is why every provocation must be met with a firm and unyielding response. put simply, we remain the strategic competition with russia and intermediate range missiles are just one part of the central element of that competition. and military modernization. russia has engaged in a brightness breakneck pace of military modernization and it's essential that we modernize our military we hope to maintain overmatched against russia. perhaps you've heard our army generals say nato is outgunned and out ranged in europe. what they're talking about are the very weapons systems that are banned by the inf treaty so even if we do remain in the treaty, we urgen

brutally viciously enix in crimea and this is you know playing to a u.s. public that would much rather visit you know a liberated mosul than an annexed crimea this is how people understand things in the united states and you have this this stated punishment of russia for things it hasn't done combined with in the latest bill punishing iran not for violating the nuclear agreement which donald trump admits it is complying with and punishing north korea for its aggression whereas most observers see the united states as the aggressor in korea these days but if you look at what's what's in the bill it's going after economic competition it's yes exactly right excuses hypocritically and it's going after media competition demanding another report on russian media as if that you know brilliant one by the cia some months back wasn't good enough so it's a mixture of of hostile assaults on the world and no it hasn't been fought through alexander or how does can you decide a good example where sanctions actually work because i mean i understand that the domestic politi

constitution in crimea the supreme council. decided to call the referendum and it was all started when the twelfth i mean the council was convened and when the my down crisis happened and. when there was blood our european colleagues including. rasmussen who was general secretary of nato he publicly made it times asked you know which three frames from the use of force towards his own people and after the coup d'etat spent and when they started the anti-terrorist operation against the people of ukraine well what nature said back then we urge the new government in kiev to use the force proportionately shoes you see in proportions that's a difference and well we all see what kind of force they exercise and how they do that. that kind of direction towards using the solution we have and. we haven't seen that but we have likely the normandy form or two it started in two thousand and sixteen we do welcome these efforts and germany and france they did. and they expressed their willingness to make those who are responsible make them acc

in the last weeks due to russian activities in ukraine and the 2014 annexation of crimea from ukrainee potential area where the leaders could see eye to eye, miguel, is in the grinding conflict in syria. the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson said that the two militaries, u.s. and russia, have had some success in activating kind of de-confliction zones in syria. he floated the area of establishing no-fly zones. russia's top diplomat responded saying that that would be a step in the right direction. the kremlin set just getting the leaders into the same room would be good for international stability. there are still a host of areas where traditionally russia and the u.s. have not seen eye to eye. back to you. >> all right. ivan watson in moscow. thank you. >>> cnn political analyst josh rogan, columnist for the "washington post." they've shaken hands on the sidelines here. see you later, we'll have a talk later. what is that the russians need for a successful meeting, what is it that the americans need for a successful meeting -- for a win, a deal? >> sure. we should say just the fa