that is eastern ukraine, what about crimea? this pa rt ukraine, what about crimea?protect the rights of crimean tartars must provide opportunities for them to be represented in different institutions and must help them to retain their own ruling by the police. secondly court said russia must provide opportunities for crimean is to be educated in the ukrainian language. is very important for ukraine and ukraine's president, who said it is a very important day in the history of the ukraine and this interim decision is very important for ukraine and would make the moscow kremlin not that happy. that is the ukrainian reaction, what about the russian reaction? there has been no reaction from major russian figures. while the ring was going on, russia underlined a couple of times that ukraine has not provided any evidence and denied any sufficient involvement in conflict in eastern ukraine and said that the situation in crimea is stable and the crimean tartars as well as other ethnic minorities and their ethnicities in crimea have ways of being represented. it is very inte

to crimea i think now when we are speaking about ukraine, the issue is much and the issue is eastern ukraine and the thousands of people have died there and whether or not the ukrainian government to make the forms necessary while they're still fighting with russia in part of its country. host: as far as the talks

and, of course, we are concerned about the situation and especially eastern ukraine and the fact that russia illegally annexed a part of ukraine, crimea, and that is a first time since the end of the second world war that one country annexed a part of another country in europe by force. so this is of course serious for ukraine but it is also undermining the whole idea of a rules-based order in europe which has been so important for the peace and stability in europe. so nato, the united states, nato allies provide support to ukraine. we help them to modernize their defensive structures, their armed forces, their defense institutions, trained them. we have different trust fund for cyber, for command and control. so nato, provide political and practical support to ukraine and the same time i think it's important to understand that this is not only about ukraine, because nato has, the main reason why we have implemented this strong reinforcement to our collective defense, tripling the size of the nato response force, deploying forces in the eastern part of the alliance is because of ukrai

of course we are concerned about the situation in eastern ukraine. and the fact that russia illegally annexed a part of ukraine, crimea. it is the first time they have done it by force. this is big for ukraine and it underlines the relationship in europe. it has been so important for peace and stability in europe. so nato, the united states, nato allies, provide support to ukraine. we help them mobilize defense structures, to armed forces. train them. different trust funds for cyber and control. nato and nato allies provide political and practical support to ukraine. at the same time, i think it is important to understand that it isn't only about ukraine. because nato -- the main reason why we have implemented this is reinforcement is because of ukraine. so actually, the illegal annexation of crimea and the support of russia in eastern ukraine, the continued desegregation come is the main reason why nato has strength in a collective defense in europe, making sure that no allies y experience anything like what ukraine has experienced with russia since

relations and giving ukraine -- >> and of course we are concerned about the situation in especially eastern ukraineact that russia illegally annexed crimea. it is the first time one country annexed apart another country by force. so this is of course cease for ukraine and also which has been so important for the peace and stability in europe. so nato and united states provide their defense structures, the armed forces, the defense institutions, train them. we have different trust funds for cyber, for command and control, so nato, nato allies provide political support to ukraine. at the same time, i think it's important to understand this is not only about ukraine. because nato has -- the main reason why we have implemented this strong reinforcement to our collective defense, the response force, deploying forces in eastern part of the alliance is is because of ukraine. the illegal annexation of crimea and support of russia, is the main reason why nato has strengthen their collective defense in europe. making sure that no nato ally experiences anything like what ukraine has experienced with russia si

they're not only watching his youtube channel but videos of russian troops in eastern ukraine, so russian how does the russian government deal — to stop these protests from spreading, saw the russian prosecutor—general block international pages of some of the protesters calling for new protest tomorrow. he's going to be have a ha rd tomorrow. he's going to be have a hard time reining in this new young kind of opposition movement that breathed new life into what was previously a moribund opposition. michael gove, you're just back from america. a time ago, they would have said they were on the side of the protesters on the street. but not 110w. protesters on the street. but not now. it is striking. there's certain people who, the former national security advisor michael flynn and the former campaign manager, paul manafort, absolutely in the gun sights of congress and others, because of allegations of corruption and collusion. separate from that, the president and rex tillerson are looking for a reset. now, every previous president has sought a reset with mr putin. 0bama wanted one, bush wan

. >>> overseas an american paramedic has been killed in a separatist region of eastern ukraine. the man who has not been identified was working for a european security watch dog monitoring mission when his vehicle struck a land mine. a german and czech were also wounded. during his recent trip to moscow secretary of state rex tillerson told russian officials that their continued aggression in eastern ukraine remains an obstacle to improved relations with the u.s. >>> tensions are increasing on the korean peninsula after north korean detained an american citizen. 50-year-old accounting professor tony kim was detained at the airport as he and his wife were leaving the country after he wrapped up a one-month teaching assignment. kim is now at least a third u.s. citizen in north korean custody. and it comes amid a new threat from north korea to the u.s. about what it calls america's mad cap nuclear war provocations. pyongyang, officials there threatening to sink the uss carl vinson which is now starting joint drills with two japanese destroyers in the western pacific ocean. the pent

the area of eastern ukraine which borders russia — and is controlled by separatist rebels backed by moscowars since the war between ukraine and the separatists began. tom burridge has travelled to the conflict zone and sent this report from near the government held town of avdiivka. our commuters in the conflict. to a land which has no international limerick nice name. ukrainian checks have now become more thorough. the separatist held east beyond this crossing has never been so cut off from the rest of ukraine. olga has travelled from her home under the separatist to collect her ukrainian pension. translation: iwould separatist to collect her ukrainian pension. translation: i would rather die than make this journey but i need to raise my grandchildren. my son has nojob. need to raise my grandchildren. my son has no job. many lives over the other side of the frontline. where separatist forces fighting ukraine are backed by russia. translation: i don't like what putin did here. ukraine used to be whole and undivided. he tells us life under the separatist couldn't be worse. but a woman inter

for example, they say they don't have any troops in eastern ukraine, but of course, they have thousands. they just pretend that they are locals, but the russians are running the show there, they keep pumping and more very sophisticated weapons. >> jenna: i hate to interrupt you but we will get cut off by commercial. ambassador, great to have your expertise, we value it. thank you. get everywhere else, like claim free rewards... or safe driving bonus checks. oh yes.... even a claim satisfaction guaranteeeeeeeeeee! in means protection plus unique extras only from an expert allstate agent. it's good to be in, good hands. >> i am melissa francis. we have breaking news about who from the obama administration requested the unmasking of names of trump's transition officials, and who else had access to that information? our own adam housley will be life at the top with the details plus we are awaiting the white house briefing where that could be one of many hot topics. we are also awaiting the senate judiciary committee vote on neil gorsuch's which should come down in our hour on "america's new

vladimir control in eastern ukraine.s is said that the us strike on syria reminds him of the wmd claims in iraq. not as surprising analogy for him to draw, but one thatis analogy for him to draw, but one that is difficult to defend against. in other words, bad intelligence, again. at this stage, litres try to find the right analogies to push the buttons that work. the americans have few options. they can't independently present evidence of russian culpability. what they are relying on is the body in the hague, the autonomous body in the hague, the autonomous body in the hague, the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons, for those wheels to start turning up some evidence to be presented. you say that will chime of the domestic audience in russia. it will chime but some people in the west who are still believing that they were misled over the claim of weapons of mass attraction being held by saddam hussein. is it possible to get absolute proof that syria was possible for the chemical attack? one thing vladimi

they're sense of ukraineian national identity which extent beyond western central ukraine into eastern ukraine, and second, it's imbued at a very strong anti-russian sentiment that will be there for a long time to come that a lot of hot hostility in ukraine towards russia. >> in terms of being reactive versus strategy, one, clearly actions in ukraine were largely reactive and versus actually not very well-placed to intervene in ukraine in 2014. forced weren't there in terms of operational plan for crimea, operational planning but the forces that used in the planning didn't exist until 2012 so we know must have been afresh plan. russian is very cliff but cleverly tries to get out of situations that smart powers don't end up in the first place, and on grand strategy, don't think it's there for anybody. grab strategy is for grand strategyis to talk about. do know places that write about grand strategy. on ukraine, just the reality of it. russian goals in ukraine, destabilizing, ukraine,us, but the russian perspective is to clear things that don't end up with. they don't want to own 40% over -- no

ith they must withdraw from eastern ukraine as a precondition with relations with russia. host: has his position been of the newsl by all about potential russian meddling n the election and ongoing investigations that are happening here, has that hurt president trump's credibility? guest: yeah, well, i think it possibilities s to change the relationship with russia. that would be much too to change the u.s. now. s on russia right a method of concern s that president putin's ambition is to undermine people's trust in our democratic institutions. president putin is following the banter on the ill, i think he's lying, because hehas actually achieved goal. and people do have mistrust ight now to all democratic institutions. they are thinking what is going on. i think people feel convinced that this is a swamp that should be drained. what i would urge is to get a bipartisan policy on russia. issue from ove this a omestic agenda to being foreign policy agenda, the president and congress should in a bipartisan way formulate a long-term russian partnership. host: okay. former u.s.

links to the kremlin, the other through an oligarch accused of helping to finance russia's war in eastern ukrainend special recommendation and request of those businesspeople to help marine le pen. there are in the kremlin‘s hands, like instruments, just undertaking one or another specific, specific order, specific operation. the kremlin told us it had nothing to do with the loans but in russia business and politics are intertwined. absolutely true. why, if the kremlin say "never"... it wouldn't have happened? yes. without the approval of the kremlin, it wouldn't have happened ? i think, i think. so what is marine le pen's relationship with the kremlin? in public, she has denied meeting mr putin before this recent visit to moscow. here she is speaking to newsnight just last week. but we've heard something different, and not just from anyone. it's vladimir! when we met marine‘s father back in february, he let something slip. to be clear, this was before the public meeting in the kremlin last month. others who were close to marine le pen told us the same thing. she told me that she met putin, but i

happened in eastern ukraine where 2015 cease-fire with russian backed separatists violated.ent confirming the death. officials saying they're shocked and saddened. last december, members of the armed services committee, including john mccain, rather, visited the region. mccain saying the u.s. stands with kiev in their fight against putin's aggression. the death of the american in eastern ukraine comes as another american is detained in north korea getting ready to leave the country. after wrapping up a one-month university teaching assignment. >> well adding to that. new bellicose threats from north korea, abc's bob booed rouwoodr the region and joins us from seoul, south korea. >> reporter: american detained in north korea. the private north korean university where tony kim had been teaching for several weeks, tells abc news the 58-year-old was taken into custody at pong yong airport trying to leave the country with his wife. kim's detention brings the number of americans held in north korea to at least three. >> i have made the worst mistake of my life. >> including 22-yea

to crimea i think now when we are speaking about ukraine, the issue is much and the issue is eastern ukraine and the thousands of people have died there and whether or not the ukrainian government to make the forms necessary while they're still fighting with russia in part of its country. host: as far as the talks currently going on, described what to expect from the rest of these talks. do we see future meetings happening between the two countries? guest: yes, prudent and trump are excited to meet in july. they will meet later this year and this is sort of to lay the groundwork for that in a lot of ways. a lot can and will happen now between now and july. the kremlin will have to shape their policies and plans us to we are prepared for that meeting as well. see her you want to riding, you can see her riding on russia and other topics. take a looke will at continued efforts by the republicans to repeal and and replace the afford will care act. the nations katrina vendor who will. washington journal continues after this. ♪ >> check out our c-span.org/classroom. it is full free teaching resour

are watching not only navalny's youtube channel, they are watching videos of russian troops in eastern ukrainenment deal with, what does it do to stop these protests from spreading? already we have seen the russian prosecutor general blog internet pages of some of the protesters, calling for new protests tomorrow. he's going to have a hard time reining in this new, young opposition movement that has breathed new life into what has previously been a moribund, demoralised opposition. michael gove, you're back from washington. there was a time when america would have been very publicly saying it was on the side of the protesters on the streets. presumably not at the moment, with the administration of president trump, given the difficulties he's facing over the relationship between some in his campaign team and the russians? yes, it is striking. the former national security adviser, mike flynn, and the former campaign manager, they are in the downsides of congress and others because of allegations of corruption and collusion, but separate from that, or so it appears, the president and rex tillerso

this reminds me of the situation with the boeing flight that was shot down over eastern ukraine, the ng theirair ukraine, the west accused russia of putting their airjet down and bosco just called for an independent investigation and this was going back and forth for months. this might be the case again. russia would call for an investigation and it would go back and forth for months. what is obvious is that moscow is very interested in dialogue with washington and is interested in cooperation because it has invested so much in the syrian campaign. but they need to find common language with washington. read the tea leaves for us with that press c0 nfe re nce . read the tea leaves for us with that press conference. you have listened to sergey lavrov many times. is the kremlin feeling under siege in the light of the attacks in syria or is that not what you heard from the press conference? definitely, the kremlin is under pressure because of the chemical attacks and what has been mentioned by washington. but vladimir putin never steps back under pressure, never surrenders. what they ofte

when you look on what russian ukraine,oduced in identity which i would argue goes into parts of eastern ukraine. second is the view of anti-russian sentiment that will be there for a long time to come. hostility in the ukraine toward russia. i do not think it is in either country's's interest. >> clearly, actions and ukraine were largely reactive and russia -- ot its forces were not there. i will not going to the weeds, but yes, operational planning but the forces they used to do not exist until 2012. russia isit is clear clever but it cleverly tries to on grand strategy, i don't think it is therefore pretty much anybody. grand strategy, i do not know a lot of countries that do grand strategy. ukraine, this is the reality of it. perspectiverussian was they clear things they do not end up with. they are now forced to threaten to an exit as part of a game to basically play back and forth with europeans, it is problematic for them. a lot of time people talk about ukraine like it is may be like that. i am not sure if russia stopped firing the ukraine was stopped firing. they are not dumb. is, its r

paramedic was killed by explosion in eastern ukraine. >> north korea threatening to take out the u.s.craft carrier. saying the north is ready to sink that warship with a single strike. the carrier is doing training drills in the western pacific. >> since he left the white house three months ago, we've seen the former president vacationing. now mr. obama public remarks since the end of his presidency. in just a few hours, he's scheduled to speak about organizing to young leader and students and the way his political career started. >> this story just in, in afghanistan, the nation's defense minister and army chief of staff resigned from their post. this cops a few days after the taliban launched a deadly raid on an army base in northern afghanist afghanistan, as many as 140 people have been killed. >>> president trump is approaching his 100th day. he has the lowest level in support of any moderate if the in this new abc poll. 53% of americans say that disapprove. 42% say they approve. >> and poll from the embassy and the it's strengthen with many more disciplines. there is a another cl

with russia's aggression in crimea and eastern ukraine, with russian military modernization and instability to the southeast of nato in syria and iraq and due south across the mediterranean that has sparked mass migration, european allies have gotten the message and are about three years into a ten-year program where all 28 allies have committed to move to 2%. we only have five who are there but the 2016 data is in and 23 allies the u.s., made real increases in their defense budget. you can see after a decline in budgets, last year saw the first of in defense spending. the proof will be whether this trend continues and i'm sure the nato secretary-general and president trump share an interest to see this trend continue upward. kevin: is that why we are seeing the tweets from president trump on this? is he hoping to keep pressure and follow through on their commitment to keep up? guest: it is in the u.s. interest that they day -- that they do so but it's also in nato's interest. --re is a general insentnt general consensus to respond most of care -- most severe challenges in europe since the

ukrainian national identity which i would argue extends beyond western senator mccain into parts of eastern ukraine. and second very anti-russian segment will be up for a prolonged time to come. there's a lot of hostility in ukraine towards russia. i do think it's in either country interest but that's been the result of russian policy over the last few years. >> in terms of being reactive versus strategy, actions in ukraine were largely reactive and russia is not very well-placed to intervene in ukraine in 2014. its forces were different in terms of operational plent plang for crimea, i will not go into the weeds but operational planning of the force of use his airplanes didn't exist until 2012 we know that must've been a fresh plan. strategy, it's very clear that russia's very clever but a clever try to get out of situations of smart power still end up in the first place. grand strategy i don't think it's there. i don't think it's there for pretty much anybody. grand strategies for grand standing chairs to write about. on ukraine, that's just the route of it. russian goals in ukraine, destabilizin

to lean on the eu to tighten sanctions, to come on board, and to insist that russia get out of eastern ukraine. insist they leave crimea, and not to dismantle the sanctions program. >> john mccain's tweet was to the point. he tweeted "are they crazy" over all of this. the secretary of state is rescuesing himself. and it is up to the treasury. would there be an informal "what do you think many. >> i think if the recusal is respected he should have no impact, but the decision to grant or not grant this decision should be made by the treasury department. treasury seeks what is called foreign policy guidance, and there is a regular process. people in the state department that work for rex tillerson are providing input and making this decision. >> of course there are no people because they don't have any deputys or -- >> all of the career staff there, and these decisions are often, you know, at least the initial decisions. it would be up to them, but those in the accounting roles will be consults. >> president trump is facing off one again that the judge he slammed for bias because of mix medical e

. >>> a veteran paramedic working in eastern ukraine was killed sunday. two others were injured when the vehicle hit a mine. the state department is calling for a timely transparent investigation and is urging the kremlin to use its influence with separatists to maintain a cease-fire in ukraine. >>> an american airlines flight attendant suspended after an altercation that left a woman traveling with children in tears. the attendant nearly coming to blows with a passenger who threatened him following the incident. it happened while the flight was boarding on friday. witnesses say the attendant violently grabbed the woman's stroller. >> the airline's swift response apologized to the passenger and said the flight attendant's actions do not reflect the company's values. a stark contrast to united's -- that faced a p.r. nightmare after video showed officers dragging a passenger off of a flight where they tried to make room for some crew to travel instead. united initially appeared to blame the passenger before apologizing and offering compensation to those on

army, the ukrainians who were fighting against the separatists in eastern ukraine. we know that debate was settle in a way that broke with the republican establishment. the russians successfully infiltrated that campaign and affected policies. >> even if he did not have influence, he can give information even unknowingly about who did have influence and who the players were on russia policies and all the inner wo workings or knew the information is of value to him >> exactly. >> what's so significant about carter page is he is swimming in a sea of sharks, russian sharks and trump's sharks. he was used by both and both were chasing after him. what has become so important in terms of the investigation by the fbi is that by following him and having electronics surveillance of him, they have been able to open up this conspiracy of the trump's campaign and colluding with russians to help the trump's campaign against hillary clinton. that's what's the fbi is looking at and trying to establish. there is now a greatly expanded fbi investigation even though they are not yet

year >> it has not been a good year for >>> an american observer was killed this weekend in the eastern ukraine who was working when a land mine blew up the car he was riding in. so officials say those responsibility will be accountable. >>> now a live desk update from "abc7 mornings." >> vice president mike pence is back in the united states. he is making his way to washington and cutting his pacific trip short. he is in hawaii right now and landed there a short time ago. pence coming back a day early from his tour citing, quote, the amount of issues on deck in washington this week. pence was scheduled to visit pearl harbor tomorrow and he will not be doing that, he will be leaving hawaii today, so a very short stop, indeed, before going back to the nation's capital. reggie and natasha, back to you. >>> happening today an immigrant rights group will announce plans for a massive strike and march next week. the coalition of san francisco will make the announcement today on the steps of city hall. may 1st is traditionally international workers day and the coalition will march for justice and immi

so go ahead and keep crimea and eastern ukraine and continue to mess around in that area. and by the way, you want a foothold for the first time for 40 years in the middle east? okay, keep syria. that's the problem right now. that it is this sort of war for influence that moscow under president putin thinks that is rightly his. >> christian amanpour, thank you very, very much. we're waiting for the secretary of state rex tillerson and the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov to speak any time. the meeting between tillerson and putin just wrapped up. we're going to have live coverage of that joint news conference, that's coming up right here on cnn. >>> also coming up, why a phone call between president trump and china's president might signal a new direction in u.s./china relations. and how to deal with north korea's provocations. >>> plus, lawmakers from both parties have reviewed classified intelligence documents say they contradict surveillance claims made by the house intelligence committee chairman congressman devin nunes and president trump. the cnn exclusive repor

arming the ukrainians who are fighting russian bagged separatists in the eastern ukraine and we know that that debate was settled in a way that broke with what most of the republican establishment wanted. so those are the things as this investigation goes on, you would want to know to really get a sense of whether page had any influence and whether frankly as crazy as this sounds, the russians successfully infiltrated cam pain and affected policy. >> it's so interesting, that what phil said, even if he didn't have influence, he could give information even unknowingly about whether he did have influence, who the players were on russian policy, all the kind of inner workings, and not even know whether that evaluation would be of value to them. >> he's a way into the trump campaign and subject to manipulation, what's so significant about carter page is that he is a minow, swimming in a sea of sharks, russian sharks and trump sharks and he was used by both and both were chasing after him and what has become so important in terms of the investigation by the fbi is that by following him an

clear eyed view of russia whether it's their occupation of crime area, their interference in eastern ukraine or their support for this dictator. >> tucker: i'm confused as to what you're saying. if you're saying that politics, the pressure you applied on trump played some role in his position to bomb syria you cannot possibly support that bombing. he would be horrified if you thought that. you would be calling out the administration for bombing syria and instead you're complementing them. so now i'm completely confused as to what you're alleging and why. >> the trump administration bomb syria for a number of reasons. whether one of those reasons was to prove to some element of a country that they weren't too close to russia, we won't know. the trump administration says they did it in order to punish assad for his use of chemical weapons. defense of the chemical weapons d states,n is an important one that deserves at least some limited action, but certainly not an all-out war. that being said, our objectives and syria are threefold. protect the syrian people and hopefully provide them with go

calling for the investigation into the death of an american paramedic on an accident working in eastern ukraine first death of osce. the u.s. urging the kremlin to honor a cease-fire agreement in the region. >>> heart pounding video of rain ravaged tennessee. firefighter has to go in flood waters and rescue a intelligent. trapped and clinging to a light pole. he was fortunately pulled to safety. kid's okay. powerful storm ready to strike. cnn meteorologist chad myers. the kid was bike through the waters. the first responders say if you don't have to be out there, don't go out there. >> putting first responders at risk. you are getting in the way of other rescues by doing silly things like that. this will be a big day today. we almost have tropical-like moisture coming onshore here. a low pressure system dragging up the moisture from miami, florida. you know how hard to can rain in mia miami. this is not miami. this is north carolina. the rough terrain will make 6 inches of rainfall. this is not a matthew 25-inch rainfall. there will be flooding and roads washed away. 6 inches of rainfall in les

they violated when they send russian forces into eastern ukraine. i was there at the time, and invaded a country and its sovereignty, violated the international order when they armed the separatists there in ukraine and ultimately had one of their missiles struck down, a civilian plane, violated the international order when they indiscriminately bombed civilians in aleppo in syria, and so at the end of the day, the challenge is to bring russia back into the international order and to change its attitude, particularly as it relates to syria, and the only way we're going to do that is if we ratchet up the sanctions go, to more significant sanctions, we call sectoral sanctions, to get russia to change its calculus, both as it relates to assad and it is a relates to the consequences of violating international order. >> senator, are you encouraged that president trump and his administration are clearly getting tougher in their rhetoric as far as russia is concerned? secretary tillerson brought up russian election meddling during his news conference in mos

and so that's why i think he is insisting on establishing his presence in eastern ukraine, encouraging on tonmy there, that's why he went into crimea. for him, one of the biggest threats on his horizon is that ukraine succeeds. in a way, just to finish this comment, maybe the most important thing we can do if we want to put a crimp in putin style is to help ukraine succeed because it would drive him crazy. >> john, let's hope you can get that message to rex tillerson, thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> you bet. >> donald trump has some new things to say about steve bannon, not a good day for steve bannon. and bill o'reilly, breaking news tonight, about bill o'reilly and the crisis at fox news. you won't be seeing bill o'reilly on fox news for a while. brian, i just need to know if the customer app will be live monday. can we at least analyze customer traffic? can we push the offer online? brian, i just had a quick question. brian? brian... legacy technology can handcuff any company. but "yes" is here. you're saying the new app will go live monday?! yea

and so that's why i think he is insisting on establishing his presence in eastern ukraine, encouraging on tonmy there, that's why he went into crimea. for him, one of the biggest threats on his horizon is that ukraine succeeds. in a way, just to finish this comment, maybe the most important thing we can do if we want to put a crimp in putin style is to help ukraine succeed because it would drive him crazy. >> john, let's hope you can get that message to rex tillerson, thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> you bet. >> donald trump has some new thin to say about steve bannon, not a good day for steve bannon. and bill o'reilly, breaking news tonight, about bill o'reilly and the crisis at fox news. you won't be seeing bill o'reilly on fox news for a while. ♪"all you need is love" plays my friends know me so well. they can tell what i'm thinking, just by looking in my eyes. but what they didn't know was that i had dry, itchy eyes. i used artificial tears from the moment i woke up... ...to the moment i went to bed. so i finally decided to show my eyes some love

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there's been active fighting in eastern ukraine and active fighting in syria. in libya. there's been the continued deployment of new russian assets towards western europe. this is not really the signs of somebody looking for a renewed, hopeful relationship and i think the other part of that is that, you know, kurt very well said that we're coming in from a position of strength for the first time in a long time but strength requires strategy and bombs are not a strategy and i think everyone seems fairly clear on the fact that behind this week's military actions, there is not much guidance on what this looks like in any sort of end game and we still don't have a strategy on dealing with russia and the many wars it's fighting against in many places of the world. you heard russia say it has a sophisticated campaign of subversion against america and he's right and this is something that we're not yet confronting in great detail and we need a strategy against it. >> there's certainly much more to talk about with this but i have to go. kirk, molly, thank you for joini

support of assad and syria, the continued occupation of crimea, the rebels sort of agitating in eastern ukraine. do you fear, however, that the political tenor in america, particularly from the democratic party because of the election, will produce momentum towards confrontation with another nuclear power? >> look, we want to have a reasonable relationship with russia, but when a country attacks you, you need to understand why and take precautions to make sure you're not attacked again. when a country is facilitating the type of atrocities that we see in syria -- >> wait. i want to stop you right there, senator. attack, though. that word is a specific word. it connotes warfare. do you view what the intelligence committee said that russia did in terms of hacking during the election -- you view that as an attack? >> well, no. then they used that information in a way to try to influence the results of our election and to discredit our election. that's interfering with the internal democratic institutions that we have here in america. we know that they were directly involved in montenegro in fundin

ways pop so another area that you might want to look out for is anything that might happen in eastern ukrainecould be another sudden disclosure of e-mails from wikileaks. anything is possible because russia will want in some way to hit back after the american missile strike. dara. >> bill kenealy reporting live for us from moscow. thank you so much, bill. >>> also on the global front, the white house is calling the meeting between president trump and china's president xi a success, saying progress was made on issues including trade and north korea yn aggression. but halfway through the visit, another issue took center stage as president trump personally informed president xi that air strikes in syria were under way. joining me now is gordonon chang columnist for "the bailey beast." he's the author of nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world. let's start with secretary of state rex tillerson because he said president xi responded when children are being killed. how do you think that is being interpreted? >> tillerson, who is a diplomate, tried to smooth things over. but the chinese tha

russia has annexed crimea and occupied it, russia is occupying and disturbing the peace in eastern ukraine and obviously stoking up violence and russia has been aligning itself with assad in syria, has been indiscriminately bombing civilians there. it's trying to cut the united states down to size all over the world. it's our greatest adversary. and finally we have, after a year and a half of donald trump talking about some kind of a mo honeymoon with vladimir putin, we have reality that has hit home here. it's the first day in the administration of donald trump i think that we have a clear view of the reality of this relationship. >> and in a larger context, let's fold in north korea. how dangerous a place is the world right now in all the years you've been in the business? >> i think north korea, the fact they have nuclear weapons, the fact that kim jong-un has been so unreasonable is the number one security problem the united states faces in the world today and it was interesting, brian, when president trump was asked about his relationship with president putin, he didn't criticize puti

, although every time i hear that from russian officials, i want to ask them about crimea and eastern ukrainetin himself has been rather cautious about the way he's reacted. he asked his prime minister, medvedev, to do the tough talk. i'll be interested to see how he reacts to tillerson. remember, they were elated by president trump's election. they thought they were going to get all kinds of concessions from president trump because candidate trump promised those concessions. i'm not sure they want to give all that up, lifting of sanctions, recognition of spheres of influence, just because of this one military attack in syria. >> how does this standoff change the tenor of things for this meeting between tillerson and lavrov this week? and is it at all a disadvantage for tillerson to be on moscow soil rather than the reverse? does that put him at a disadvantage? >> well, yes and no. i think the big advantage is that he'll be able to see president putin. in fact i expect that he will. and if he doesn't, that would be a signal, by the way, that they are not interested in engagement. but it gives