i have got the right to start a business remotely in estonia. did it cost anything?hey see it as a way of a small nation, little over a million residents, it gives it great power, they think, to advance their digital cause. and they put out a blog saying that the growth of e—residence is higher than their birth rate, and they are thinking of launching their own crypto currency. they float lots of ideas, but this is very interesting, it would be called estcoi n, is very interesting, it would be called estcoin, it would be available to e—residence as a way of trading with all the security that a crypto currency theoretically offers. —— e—residents. crypto currency theoretically offers. -- e-residents. but surely there is a contradiction, because crypto currencies do not have borders, no central bank, nothing to do with nations. exactly, i have been interviewing the guy behind the scheme, and he is admitting that coming says it is time for somebody to float this idea, because central banks are going to have to get their head around the fact that people will be using the

why do you travel to estonia? >> guest: two -- several reasons. one, estonia is probably the most digital economy in the world. granted, they're a lot smaller, about 1.3 million residents, so it's a lot easier for them because the scale is hess difficult. but they were hacked by the russians several years ago, and they learned a valuable lesson. they basically stated this will not happen again, and they have done a tremendous job. the guy that runs the university cyber program is a good friend of mine. he's a german fellow, olaf manuel, and he actually came from the university college of london which is where i first met him, and he asked me if i'd be interested in coming over and teaching them in their summer programs. and it's really a fascinating curriculum because this is not the normal, conventional course. this is a hands-on exercise that takes theory and puts it into an application mode. i'll give you an example. last year we had lawyers working with digital forensics investigators, hand in glove, to go out and actually investigate the crim

estonia. what's special? why do you travel to estonia. >> several reasons. one, the most digital economy in the world. granted, they're a lot smaller, 1.3 million residents. so it's easier for them because the scale is a lot less difficult to implement. they were hacked be the russians several years ago and learned a very valuable lesson and stated after that happened, this will not happen again and they have done a tremendous job. the guy that runs the tulane university cyber program is a good friend of mine, a german fellow and he came from the university college of london. asked me if i'd come over there and teach. the. it's a fascinating curricula. this is not the normal conventional course. this is a hands-on exercise. basically takes theory and puts it into an application mode. last year we had lawyers working with digital forensic investigators, hand in glove to go out and actually investigate the crime, put the evidence together, bring it to the court, and actually do a mock trial and present their evidence. this is the way you should be teaching. pr

taught inthat i just estonia was all about social engineering. we taught people how to do reconnaissance, how to figure out who they can attack in corporations. who would have the most vulnerability on clicking on anime email and allowing people to hack it. that is called targeting spearfishing. we taught them how to do that, who is who, who would be the most likely person if you're able to compromise their identity, would give you the most beneficial access to that network? >> what is the point of getting into a network? jeff: it depends on your motivation but basically it is financially driven. if you want to figure competition to the market, and you want to figure out their secrets, or get into their intellectual property, or their markets energies from an acquisition or merger perspective, there are a lot of reasons. in the defense department of course, it is the weaponization or military advantage. whoever gets to own a network, basically rules the battlefield. so, it dependent on their for the most part, right now what i am seeing is greed.

here is mike pence yesterday in estonia. in just a fewce: hours, we will meet with the united states armed forces in estonia. all of us stand with the united nations initiative. we stand again, here and across the world, because we know that a strong and united nato is more important today than any point since the collapse of communism a quarter of a century ago. in the baltic state, you have your unpredictable neighbor in the east. at this point, russia seeks to redraw national borders by force, undermining the sovereignty of nations and the free nations of europe. trump,resident donald the united states rejects any attempt to use force, intimidation, or malign influence in the baltic states or any of our treaty allies. to be clear, we hope for better days. for better relations with russia, but recent diplomatic action taken by moscow will not deter the commitment of united states of america to our security, the security of our allies, and the security of freedom loving nations around the world. under president donald trump

in estonia he said the u.s. would not tolerate that. but it says washington will be allowed to decide who has to go home. >>> while there is growing concern of missile capabilities after friday's launch, but little agreement about what to do about it. >> the u.s. president lashed out at china on saturday saying beijing could easily solve the problem. by monday he said the u.s. would deal with it. but he offer nod specifics. >> we're going to be able to handle it. it will be handled. we handle everything. thank you very much. >> expert says friday's missile had a flatter trajectory, it could have threatened u.s. cities. it was new york's second intercontinental ballistic mill launch in the past month. >> clayton bibby joins me now, the director of the university of southern california's u.s. china institute. thank you for coming in. just picking up on what the president said, we'll handle it. do you view that as u.s. sakes on china to make them handle it. is that what the president is talking about here? >> it's not at all clear what the

is now proposing a government backed cryptocurrency so we can see estonia create their very own coin essentially and a quest to keep the digital momentum going a stone e.m.i. create its own digital currency and if it happens it would be the first country to do so in a blog post kasper corps exists who runs the country's program wrote as coins could be managed by the republic of a stone but accessed by anyone in the world through its residency program. and launched through in the national queen offering that program which cost about one hundred euros was launched at the end of two thousand and fourteen and allows the residents to register their businesses so far more than twenty two thousand people from one hundred thirty eight countries have become a residence and one of its key growth markets has been the u.k. especially postbox it in fact over twelve hundred u.k. residents have become a stone even as events ninety eight of which have established a company there and as noted in his blog the program's weekly application is higher than a stony as weekly or three he also emphasized how

. >> the capital of estonia, a short drive from the russian border and he was speaking to a few hundred nato troops. >> and a sign of commitment, president trump will sign legislation to strengthen and codify the united states sanctions against russia. >> the bill prompted vladimir putin to retaliate, ordering the removal of more than 700 u.s. diplomats. >> translator: we have waited quite a long time and thought something might change for the better. we had hoped the situation would change but apparently if it changes, it won't be soon. >> despite the diplomatic tit for tat, the vice president said that the administrations preference remains a better relationship with russia. >> we are unified in our mission. a better relationship and the lifting of sanctions will require russia to reverse the actions that caused the sanctions to be imposed in the first place. >> the presidents of estonia, latvia, lithuania are wary russia will reverse course and are nervous moscow may take a move like he did in ukraine. on this trip, they want of the vice president to reassure them that the u.s. was s

armadas de mÉxico entrando a luisiana en 2005tras el paso del huracÁn katrina para asistir al polo estonia ante el desastre que deja harvey. es un acto de solidaridad, es un estado vecino. mÁs de la mitad de la frontera es con el estado de texas. la lluvia del gobierno federal serÍa para quienes participaron en el rescate y limpieza de escombros. el episodio que se recordÓ en este tweet. nosotros tenemos un quirÓfano que sirve para cualquier emergencia. es el ayuda que ofreciÓ el gobierno mexicano, la cancillerÍa ofreciÓ que se deja a un lado y asÍ solidarizarse con las personas afectadas en texas. se desprendiÓ que iba a hacerse una lista para ver quÉ es lo que mÉxico puede ofrecer y quÉ es lo que estados unidos en particular necesita. el presidente trump no ha aceptado la ayuda que recibiÓ mÉxico. trump volvÍa a atacar el gobierno mexicano al justificar el muro por twitter. dejÓ en claro que ambos pareces deben actuar siempre juntos. somos socios, somos aliados y somos muy fuerte juntos. partirÁn esta tarde como rumbo a texas. en ese de texas, alejandro, univisiÓn . marÍa: pasamos con ar

she was a 1—6, 7—6, 6—3 winner over estonia's anett kontaveit in ohio and she'll now play either americanfellow czech lucie safarova an incredible bowling display from ravi ashwin and mohammed shami in pallekele helped india whitewash sri lanka 3—0. india made a87 in their first innings before dismissing sri lanka for 135. india enforced the follow—on and the hosts started the day at 19 for one but they still struggled. sri lanka ended up stumbling to 181, defeated by an innings and 171 runs. ashwin took four for 68 with shami grabbing three for 32 in what is india's first whitewash in an overseas three—test series. england's cricketers are gearing up for a "step into the unknown" as they prepare to face west indies at edgbaston later this week. the first test in the three—match series in birmingham will be the first day—nighter to be played in england, and also the first involving england. west indies have already played and lost a day—night test when they faced pakistan in dubai last year, but it's a whole new experience for the hosts. ijust don't i just don't know what to expect. the a

estonia yesterday. vice president trying to assure russia's nervous neighbors the trump administration will not allow them to be bullied. >> at this very moment, russia continues to seek to redraw international borders by force. president trump has called on russia to cease its destabilizing activities. my purpose here today is to reinforce that message. >> now as proof of that commitment the vice president made note of new u.s. sanctions about to be imposed on russia. >> in signing the sanctions, our president and our congress are speaking with a unified voice that -- that those matters that the president spoke about so eloquently in warsaw, about russian destabilizing activities, about russia's efforts to support rogue regimes, has to change. for there to be a change in our relationship with russia, russia has to change its behavior. >> well put. well put in explaining his policy. is his policy the president's policy? the vice president there saying you know, we're about -- talked about unity between

why was it so successful in the united states when it failed france and germany and estonia, denmark, sweden and a lot of other countries. this is something i only address of the tail end of the book because happened after i finished writing but if you look at the two numbers you can see the level of trust italy 20 percent of the public thought the mainstream media was doing a good job italy 6% thinks that congress is doing a good job that cannot be a surprise that the u.s. is a soft target so you cannot find anything like that in the western european nation not even eastern european nations said this was the clear point to address had to even have an approval rating when chinese to say that economic growth that used to be the official position but fundamentally they don't think they could get by with 20 or 30 or 40% and no democracy can survive that somehow the we get to that approval rating? that is the question may need to ask. >> to with some perspective united states is exceptional but the public is angry everyone around the world is angry or in the face of london or paris or in

. >> that was vice president pence in estonia yesterday, responding to vladamir putin after the russian president hit back at the u.s., ordering american embassy staff in russia be cut by 55 people. putten is retaliating to sanctions just approved by the senate last week in a veto proof 98-2 vote. tonight the sanctions bill is at the white house. sitting there awaiting a presidential signature. but the president has yet to sign the bill into law. or for that matter address the matter publicly. with us tonight to talk about this former acting director of cia john mclaughlin is with us also msnbc security analyst. and nayera is with us. john the president doesn't agree on anything as we got a lesson in last week. i can't remember the last time they voted 98-2. this is a veto proof majority. how does this look that this document is sitting at the white house? will there be a signing statement? a public version of our policy toward russia? >> well, brian those questions underline really what's very different about in particular dust up with the russians. i've been through a lot. this one is

member estonia.praised estonia's commitment to nato and called the russian government's cap on staff drastic. and like putin, e said he hoped things didn't get even worse. >> america is open to a better a better relationship and the lifting of sanctions will require russia to reverse the actions that caused the sanctions to be imposed in the first place. >> reporter: those actions include destablizing ukraine and hacking during the 2016 election. most u.s. officials tell me they want to see a robust response to putin's moves, and acknowledge these days are echoing the cold war diplomatic tit-for-tats of the 1980s. >> he wants to have a cold war type relationship? let's remind him how it ended up. >> reporter: ambassador dan fried led the obama adminstration's efforts last year to sanction russia. fried urges the administration to exploit the nearly unanimously passed congressional sanctions bill. >> if russians are messing with us and trying a playbook from the cold war, then let's implement those ne

in estonia, the vice president saying president trump will go along with it. >> very soon, president trump will sign legislation to regrettably, last week russia took the step of limiting the united states' diplomatic presence in their nation. >> reporter: what happened to president trump's russia reset? >> it's an honor to be with you. >> neither side really knows where this relationship is going. it's a little bit like a couple of fighters, punch drunk,some why near the 15th round, still slugging it out but not sure how it all ends. >> reporter: north korea's launch of a long-range missile that could reach much of the u.s. >> we'll handle north korea. it will be handled. we handle everything. >> reporter: but the secretary of state is trying to do it alone. so far only two of 24 assistant secretary spots filled. as veteran diplomats leave in droves, a mass exodus because of trump policies and budget secretary tillerson did meet with the president. but the state department is going to have to come up with solutions for how to cut so many embassy employees from the staff in moscow an

in estonia the vice president saying that the president will go along with it. >> regrettably last week russia took the drastic step of limiting the united states' diplomatic presence in their nation. >> reporter: what happened with the russia reset? >> it's an honor to be with you. >> neither side really knows where this relationship is going. it's a little bit like a couple of fighters, punched dunk, somewhere near the 15th round. still slugging it out. >> reporter: as for the other big foreign crisis, north korea's large of a long-range missile that could reach most of the u.s. >> north korea will be handle. we handled everything. >> reporter: secretary of state is trying to do it alone. only 2 of 24 assistant secretariries slot filled. as veteran diplomats leave in drove, a maz exodus because of trump policies and drastic budget cuts. secretary tillerson did meet with the president. but the state department will have to come up with solutions on how to cut so many embassy employees from the staff in moscow, all before putin's deadline of september 1st. >> lot of work still ahead. >>

in estonia today the vice president saying mr. trump will go along with it. >> very soon president trump will sign legislation to strengthen and codify the united states sanctions against russia. regrettably, last week russia took the drastic step of limiting the u.s. diplomatic presence in their nation. >> reporter: what happened to president trump's russia reset? >> it's an honor to be with you. >> neither side really knows where this relationship is going. it's a little bit like a couple of fighters punch drunk somewhere near the 15th round and still slugging it out but not quite sure how it all ends. >> reporter: the president wasn't talking about putin today. as for the other big foreign crisis, north korea's launch of a long-range missile that could reach much of the u.s. >> we'll handle north korea. we're going to be able to handle them. it will be handled. we handle everything. >> reporter: but his secretary of state is trying to do it alone. so far only 2 of 24 assistant secretary slots filled and one of six undersecretar

estonia, lithuania, latvia. on the other hand russia has not made things easy for us. in effect they want to continue to bleed the taliban and the taliban to bleed us what they don't want either of us to win. host: they also say pakistan is playing a double game. guest: this is what many people said, democrats and republicans. when it comes to afghanistan this has become a bipartisan problem rather than a national security political football. what many people say is on one hand we are giving billions of dollars of aid to pakistan in order to basically combat extremism, combat pakistan's phone taliban problem and keep pakistan on the right side of the conflict. pakistan does not want to defeat these terrorists because if they defeat the terrorists, the billions of dollars in aid disappears. also during the end of the bush administration there was a bipartisan effort, when senator kerry was still chairman of the senate foreign relations committee said, why is it we are spending all this money incentivizing pakistan's military? what is the face of american diplomacy in pa

vice president mike pence has traveled through estonia where he reconfirmed washington's commitment to secure the baltic states against the alleged russian threat. we stand with the people and nations of the stony and now do you and we do we do to all the delegates we refused to recognize the baltic states this part of this should be you . when you raise your voices in the singing revolution. we join the chorus from. the u.s. vice president is on a trip through eastern europe to show support to washington's nato allies and reaffirm commitment to the nato treaty as an article by saying that an attack on one of us is an attack on us all while the lithuanian president accused russia of using its energy resources as a weapon. and you jews can use it against most extends for a long time even before we opened and then jean if you need ten to fifteen we dated for gas forty percent more than germany for spain because russia always use energy projects as to the influence as to not suppression and still a lot of manipulation. to marco gossage and international affairs common things pence's trip

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vice president mike pence has traveled through estonia where he reconfirmed washington's commitment to secure the baltic states against the alleged russian threat. we stand with the people in the nation's additionally and do you do we do to all the. used to really good news in. this part of the shoot. when you raise your voices in the singing revolution. we join the call rich. the u.s. vice president is on a trip through eastern europe to show support to washington's nato allies pence reaffirm commitment to article five of the nato treaty saying quote an attack on one of us is an attack on us all while the lithuanian president accused russia of weaponized energy. and you just can use it again small text is for a long time even before we opened and then jean if you need ten to fifteen what we did for gas forty percent more than germany or spain because russia always use energy projects as to the regions as to not suppression. and as to moment information earlier we talked to michael gast an international affairs commentator who thinks that the vice president and his trip is part of a u.

and today vice president mike pence on an official visit to neighboring estonia aimed some of the harshest criticism yet at the kremlin. >> at this very moment russia continues to seek to redraw international borders by force, undermine democracies of sovereign nations, and divide the free nations of europe one against another. >> reporter: in spite of all the aggressive rhetoric and the sanction, russia does want better relations with the united states, and it's still offering to cooperate on say the international fight against terrorism to try and turn things around. anthony? >> mason: liz palmer in moscow. thanks, liz. in phoenix today, a federal judge found former sheriff joe arpaio guilty of criminal contempt of court for refusing to stop traffic patrols that targeted immigrants. arpaio was sheriff of maricopa county for 24 years before being voted out in november. now 85, he could face six months in jail. a federal appeals court has ordered the f.a.a. to stop ignoring complaints about cramped conditions on planes. a passenger rights group says the average seat which was 18.5 inches w

we looked at countries like estonia which are employing 1% of their it professionals as volunteers. change passwords regularly, notjust to their date of birth or the names of their children. kevin peachey, bbc news. wayne rooney has just announced his retirement from international football. he is the all—time leading scorer with 50 goals in 119 appearances. david ornstein can tell us more. appearances. david ornstein can tell us more. this is shock news that we received within the past half an hour. wayne rooney, his 1a year international career stretching back to 2002 is over. he has not played for england since november, a friendly against scotland. he was then dropped from the squad for friendly matches over the summer against scotland and france. so you could save perhaps the writing was on the wall then but having moved from manchester united to everton, his boyhood club, he found his top form again scoring twice in the first two games for everton. and gareth southgate the england manager was planning to recall them into the england squad for the upcoming friendlies. but wayne

program the government of dystonia is now proposing a government backed crypto currency so we can see estonia create their very own point essentially in a quest to keep the digital momentum going a stony and may create its own digital currency and if it happens stonier would be the first country to do so in a blog post casper choragus who runs the country's didn't see a program wrote as coins could be managed by the republic of a stoney but. my apologies for interrupting our regular programming we do so though to bring you some news just in from the united states police in charleston south carolina who said that there is an active shooter situation in a restaurant located in a popular tourist and commercial part of the city there is now in lockdown the authorities are urging people to stay away from parts of charleston and we will go to a correspondent to get updates on the story very shortly in the meantime u.s. backed iraqi forces are making fresh gains in their advance on useful positions that in the city of tal afar the heavy fighting in the area has already seen thousands of civilians di

and today, vice president mike pence, on an official visit to neighboring estonia, aimed some of the harshest criticism yet at the kremlin. >> at this very moment, russia continues to seek to redraw international borders by force. undermine democracies of sovereign nations. and divide -- free nations of europe. one against another. >> reporter: in spite of all the aggressive rhetoric and sanctions, russia does want, better relations with the united states. and it is still offering to cooperate on say, the international fight against terrorism, to try to turn things around. anthony. >> liz palmer in moscow. thank you, liz. >>> in fine, phoenix, a federal found former sheriff, for refusing to stop traffic patrols that targeted immigrants. arpaio was sheriff of county for 24 years before being voted out. now 85, he could face six months in jail. >> a federal appeals court ordered the faa to stop ignoring complaints about cramped conditions on planes. a passenger rights' group says the average seat which was 18 1/2 inches wide a decade ago, is now just 17 inches. on friday, the judges to

nations with open arms but they've got to make some choices and threatening to invade lithuania latvia estonia the captive nations that we remember those old postage stamps that we used to see as kids if they want to get out of that business and stop threatening their neighbors i think they can i think we're going to good relations with the russians resisting really forcefully i mean he signed the sanctions cold unconstitutional what he would do is this something where you know the signing statements aren't unusual president obama did or president bush did it so i don't take a lot from the fact that he had a signing statement when he signed the russian sanctions i thought it was important he signed the sanctions for national unity as you mentioned. i think the trump feels to think present trump feels two things that one he could negotiate with putin and come to some sort of agreement and get putin to do what the united states would want to do you know whether he's got those sort of negotiating skills or not you know it's we probably won't get to the point to see if he does or not and number tw

persons is such a fascinating person they now started writing a separate addressing peace table, onto estonia in the fall and is one of the great unsung heroes of world war ii as far as i'm concerned. >> i'd like to back up and say why did i write this book? i've been fascinated by world war ii for a long time. based on my feeling that it is a story that we can identify more than ever because it is absolute good fighting the good fight against bad people. you don't usually see that much of an obvious story in which people have to come together and fight a bad force and win or else. fighting in europe, one was called the freedom line about an american pilot shot down over belgium in 1943, rescued by a bunch of young women, nursed back to health, hit in as he runs across belgium through france and finally escaped spain to fight another day. this story is a story of an amazing escape line with young people, mostly still teenagers fighting undercover freedom. the next one was about hrc would , and american who it journalist who was brought in to help pope pius the 11th, not the 12 to challenge hi

this comes a week after didi made its first major push into europe by backing estonia has taxify.ntly operate in 80 cities across 13 countries. the use of artificial intelligence continues to grow daily, from the products we use and i come to the jobs it is creating. in 2016,study says investments in ai were between billion.on to $39 another study says that just in the u.s., there are more than 10,000 job openings in the field. to fill thoseking jobs is here. today he published his vision for a series of online courses designed to help people become ai experts. great to have you on the show. tough to us about how these courses work. >> anyone that wants to break into a i can go -- ai can go into the site and sign up for a course. i think it has the power to transform, just like electricity did 100 years ago. i have a lot of engineer friends that want to break into -- ai. that knowledge has been hard to access. anyone who wants to break into ai has more power. emily: there is confidence when it comes to online education courses, especially when it comes to technical skills. how do

in europe, in estonia, a tiny forward thinking country, it is looking at using blockchain and even issuingwn cryptocurrency to fund a sovereign wealth fund. they are using it in energy to test it. china has been looking at the central bank issuing a token. we have the chinese looking also at putting data online by blockchain. dubai wants all of its documents in blockchain by 2020. and then across south korea, japan, the list is endless. it seems as though the countries are racing to get ahead of the technology. emily: government validation could go a long way. if government organizations are testing this technology, could that also pave the way for increased business adoption across the private sector? caroline: i think it could. i think this would be a real validation. at the moment, the problem has been the link between blockchain, bitcoin volatility. there have been worries about its use in fraud, though gotten gains. think of it tied to the likes of the silk road, the dark web where people are able to buy drugs or the latest hack attack. if you start to see the likes of ibm and microso

he has been to estonia which is a nato country own russia's western border. he was in georgia yesterday. that is an aspiring nato country. and today he is in mont negro which is the newest member of nato. nato expansion in eastern europe is something that russia continues to strongly oppose and vice president pence on this trip has been strongly expressing his support for nato countries and baltic countries. the kremlin says they don't have a problem with the u.s. forging bilateral relationships with these countries, but they do when it comes to engs passions of alliances. but certainly this trip coming at a time when we have new tensions is creating an even more tense moment here. >> indeed. and clare, u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is heading to manila this weekend. he is likely going to meet with russia's foreign minister. they are expected to talk about the order to cut u.s. diplomatic staff. can we expect anything significant to come out of that meeting? >> this is the first time we have heard the secretary of state address this issue. he said the

they seem to be getting into bed with taxify, which has a team in estonia and across 18 different countriesave to see whether they set up shop in the united kingdom. but when they push into london later this week -- year, i'm sure taxify will indeed come. maybe that is where some of the financial help from didi will help your they will be able to put people on the scene and higher teams. interesting to see how didi comes into play. emily: when do we expect to see the results of these new efforts to push into europe? caroline: i think certainly this year. weeks, ixt few understand that taxify will be making a trip to the united kingdom. they could be already laying the groundwork. we could see the moves into this -- these new countries coming fast. certainly this side of 2017 seems to be where the view is to expand, but at the moment it seems to be doubling down where they are present within the 18 countries. they've got a big area where they want to expand into. being are looking into number one into europe and africa, at the moment they are number two two, they want to become number one. t

. >> reporter: mike pence is speaking in estonia and he calls moscow unpredictable and says the president trump will soon assign the new russia sanctions bill. >> the united states of america rejects attempts to use force, threats, or malign influence in the baltic states are against our treaty allies >> reporter: the u.s. wants to approve ties with moscow but suggests that's only possible if russia changes course. >> we hope for better days. and for better relations with russia. >> reporter: vladimir putin is telling the they must get rid of 755 employees. the move is meant to retaliate against sanctions approved by congress last week. they were intended to punish the country for meddling in the 2016 election. >> we have a large number of options. we are responding now because the americans have taken an unprovoked step towards worsening relations. >> reporter: president obama expel 35 russian diplomats from the u.s. last year. when it comes to russia's latest actions, the white house is and commenting beyond what pins had this day. a state department official tells fox news is our polic

>> well, vice president pence was in estonia as we know that is a former soviet, you know, bloc country under constant threat from russia. you have the administration every time there is an official in europe they speak strongly against russian activity. but we haven't seen that kind of same strong reaction from the president himself. unfortunately, most of our foreign policy seems to be made on twitter these days. policy against north korea, china, all of these announced on twitter. not to hear the president say anything in support or against russian sanctions directly it's hard for any other surrogate to take place and philamena vacuum. now this isn't in context. this isn't a direct retaliation just for this past week. this is several weeks back. in the late obama administration. the obama had done an executive order to kick out about 35 russian diplomats, which we suspected were spies at the time. as well as shut down several russian facilities. at the time putin said he would not retaliate because he was waiting to see what a new trump administration would do. the fact that now six

the vice president speaking in estonia on russia's western bored, saying the u.s.nds with georgia against russian aggression. he reaffirmed that president trump does intend to sign that sanctions bill and they hope this will cause russia to alter its path when it comes to the situation in ukraine and supporting rogue nations like syria and iran. now president trump, as you say, has not yet signed that sanctions bill. but the issue of russian retaliation against that, those two measures that they undertook confiscating two diplomatic properties and cutting the size of the u.s. diplomatic mission in russia by about 60%, that is playing out before our eyes. the confiscation of the properties is effective today. we've already seen trucks moving out of one of them, a country house outside moscow. and that even as the state department and the u.s. embassy here continue to assess the impact of that very large cut to their diplomatic mission here. 755 people will be cut. the u.s. gets to decide who. it seems to all be shaking out. mike pence saying he hopes relations with

estonia, latvia, lithuania, all nato member countries.d military exercises next month. do you see this as a military buildup? are you concerned about what's going on along these borders? >> we don't see any imminent trouble against any nato ally, including against any of the baltic states, but we have seen exercises as part of what we've seen over several years with a significant russian military buildup and only reason nato has responded with the strongest reinforcement or collective offense since the end of the cold war. we have tripled the size of nato response force. we have increased our presence in the eastern part of the alliance and deployed four battle groups to the baltic countries and poland. at the same time, we don't want a new cold car, occupation with russia. we balance it's proportionate and continue to see russia, our biggest neighbor, and have to try to keep tensions down. >> it's interesting you say that, because president trump today tweeted this -- our relationship with russia is at an all-time and very dangerous low.

i was in estonia, poland, ukraine, and i've learned the closer you are to russia, the less likely you are to believe what they say. and the converse of that is true as well. the farther you are the more likely you are to be influenced. we need to look at a whole government approach and look at working with civil society as well. this is a big issue. not only with russia, but as you all alluded to earlier, in the fight against islamic terrorism. we can continue to put the pressure on isis and iraq and syria and our military is doing a good job about that, but we have to be countering the ideology and the ability to propagate a message and influence people even 6,000 miles away using social media is something that we have to deal with. state department plays an important role and they should be utilizing all the funds that they have available. but this is much broader than just the state department. >> as you know, speaking of russia, the president did sign the russia sanctions legislation into law today, but he added this, a very significant statement in what's called his signing state

whole lot of choices here and vice president pence has been giving very strong, explicit speeches in estonia, in georgia, as he travels around the region. is there any question about what the president needs to do on the russia sanctions? >> no. and i think what vice president pence has been doing is very helpful. he has stated the position clearly and distinctly. and he is in an area where the russians practice military intimidation and may be setting up to do so again. so i think his visit is very timely. i think that's one thing that is working. with respect to the white house, we really have to get away from all of this stuff every day. we really have to go to problem solving. and the best people should be brought forward to do that problem solving. and i think the president ought to really put together, if he hasn't already, some high level teams of people who are militarily knowledgeable, government knowledgeable, about what is going on in some critical places in the world today. and fashion plans to deal with it. they don't have to be announced right away. but my sense is that this is