and in the book you're open to the fifth finger that's sweet and soft on the fsb. for a series of pop and pullman's in nineteen ninety nine which ended up ultimately in the second chechen war. three other people to know about those bombings for the event of the war what brought them on into power because they galvanized the country behind a new war in church and then that war was pursued more successfully than the first chechen war and with the result and that there was a huge spike in putin's popularity now. all evidence points to those bombings having been a provocation organize by this the authorities themselves including the fact that when a fifth bomb there were four bombs in them there was a fifth bomb that was found in the basement of a building in maria's son was discovered and the people who put enough in that basement were rested they turned out to be not chechen terrorists. but the fsb agents. and there's no question about that they were they were rested and identify. so on. it's not it's not a question of being provocative in my writing it's simply a qu

. >> i believe there is a reason he ended up in the hands -- the loving arms of an fsb agent in moscow. >> the two had congressional intelligence committees both muse allowed on the possibility that snowden, exiled in moscow has been working for the russians all along. snowden denies that and says it is not the smears that mystify me. it is that outlets report state. s that speakers themselves admit are pure speculation. it is interesting the institutions don't have an editorial position on this. these are pretty serious allegations. "the associated press" says it will no longer work with an award winning photojournalist after he admitted to digitally

the funny situation they took this box and send it to the fsb for the expertise so the box returns tohe guys who place it. >> holy (bleep). you speak english? >> a little bit. >> why the (bleep) were you making go through that russian (bleep)? it didn't matter what language we were speaking because when you criticize putin someone is listening. >> i don't think so. the small video camera and that small invisibility camera right here. >> we're going to do a b-roll where we pre tend to walk and talk. you go first. ♪ i know what you are thinking i'm acting like a pussy. i'm american i'm allowed to. russians don't have that choice. >> you are a pussy, right? >> yes. >> take these girls performance artists arrested. some of them spent almost two years in prison for singing in a church. >> we're just fed up with the politics in this country and we just can't keep silent. >> what is next for you guy? >> i can't really go into details because this place might be bugd. -- bugged. >> there's government bugs in here, too? >> yes, most likely. >> okay. listen to me you repeat exactly what i'm say

. >> i believe there is a reason he ended up in the hands -- the loving arms of an fsb agent in moscow. >> the two had congressional intelligence committees both muse allowed on the possibility that snowden, exiled in moscow has been working for the russians all along. snowden denies that and says it is not the smears that mystify me. it is that outlets report state. s that speakers themselves admit are pure speculation. it is interesting the institutions don't have an editorial position on this. these are pretty serious allegations. "the associated press" says it will no longer work with an award winning photojournalist after he admitted to digitally tampering with a picture taken in syria. mexican photographer contreras was one of five journalists awarded a pulitzer prize. the photo was taken four months ago in the northwestern city. it shows a rebel fighter ducking for cover. the original shows a camera in the bottom left-hand corner but in the image contreras submitted, the camera had been removed. it breached ap's editorial policy. its director of photography said ap's reputation

i want to go with the head of the fsb and russia and his friends. these two people including pork with ease. is it only reaches the shootings. terrorists without any annie and as with any proof whatsoever. they knew who it to you to listen to my road shoes. it is. this is a person who can opener as session in parliament. a person's privacy. it was not violated in the person didn't know that it's as if she had been violent. th is the kind of politician in dealing with it so it is these guys used to to be honest. i ask you because i know well while rogers is what he would say and those that hold similar beliefs as head of an email at if you work with classified information you have taken as i like to keep it a secret and that this is violated. it could pose a threat to national security where the same insane things and on that manning case when it comes to week two weeks. i wanna ask you your response to this argument which we can hear time and time again will it into the city we have to go to the basic principles here and the basic principle is that

surprise, but i hope the gay athletes are not using grinder because it is probably being monitored by the fsb. they have to be careful. as far as the climate change thing goes i care as much about what athletes think about climate change as actors care about climate change. shut up and luge. >> there are a lot of things wrong with the olympics. they are too frequent. they went once every four years and divided it up. there are too many sports and it is basically the x games now. >> too much television. >> too much tv. the coverage is everywhere. having them every four years was fine when it was ancient rome. let's go to the olympics. now it is all over our tv's. i think we are all sick of it. >> sorry, but i personally think that the more people on tv wearing spandex with great bodies looking fantastic, the better. >> i don't want them in spandex. i don't want them wearing anything. that's the way it started. at the olympics they were all naked. >> they will get away with it in sochi. it is so warm. >> that's true. >> an athlete trains for a decade and that is on par with a bieber dui. it is

this interagency operational fsb, theers had the federal security service was a lead agency. the interior which would be the police ministry, the emergency ministry, the defense ministry and other bodies. what did that come down to? it was reported that there was 100,000 troops, vehicles, aircraft and so forth in sochi. rumbles have said that there were much more than what were reported. what is the u.s. doing? the u.s. wants to get the athletes over there and home safely. what is interesting, that has evolved in the last few years, is national governing bodies of each sport have begun to hire their own security teams. the is so important because fors have never budgeted that type of private security. ski andple, the snowboard, they hired a company called global rescue. when we take a step back and think about the national governing bodies that don't have to protect their athletes, doesn't mean the athletes may consider or the agents might consider providing some private protection? the nhl sent their own security team for the nhl players. usually, the leagues have former fbi

now russian officials from the fsb, which is the most senior intelligence agency in the country, oldssociated with the games, say that information was maybe exaggerated or incorrect. that it was spread in rumor form by the media. they are dis avowing those notices that they put up themselves and will only say no threat, everything is taken care of. we've got this taken care of. we have the security situation under control. >> we'll leave it there. richard engel live in sochi. thank you. of course, we will continue to cover to the runup of the games which can be watched across our family of nbc networks. >>> while the east coast gets battered by more winter weather, we're going to talk about the massive drought out west and why it's happening and what it means for massive part of the american economy as well. [ male announcer ] research suggests cell health plays a key role throughout our lives. one a day men's 50+ is a complete multivitamin designed for men's health concerns as we age. with 7 antioxidants to support cell health. one a day men's 50+. with 7 antioxidants to support cel

snowden is under 24/7 surveillance by the fsb, formerly kgb, as they surveilled myself as well.doms now in moscow, rather than the united states of america. and there is some evidence to establish he may have been cultivated by the russians, as he was met by russians in hong kong, take on the the consulate office in hong kong. and it's very disturbing the amount of damage that mr. snowden has done with the release of so much sensitive national security data is going to cost the american taxpayer billions of dollars. i think it's a real tragedy. >> you mean cultivated in hong kong, but you're not suggesting prior to that? i mean, obviously he had to have some contact with the russians in hong kong to know that he had to arrive safely in russia. >> yeah, i don't have any direct evidence they cultivated him in hawaii, for instance, but i think the fact that they greeted him in hong kong and took him to the consulate is some evidence that there's a connection there and they are -- believe me, they are greatly benefiting from the amount of data that mr. snowden has given them and it'

the fsb russian secret service approached talking about the tsarnaev druthers.i talked to officials here and i talked to security council and it's pretty clear what has happened. the russians have provided some information but this information was incomplete and insufficient. the people here because this information was insufficient did not want to be manipulated by russian security services against the people who became political refugees and the chechens escaping russian persecution and as a result the russians were told it was not taken very seriously. the question is, do you believe that we could save american lives by having a closer -- on counterterrorism and this is something that is really achievable in the russian environment? >> guest: you raise an important question and of course the problem of counterterrorism cooperation as it goes back to chechnya. from the beginning when you have the first war in chechnya the clinton administration remember president clinton said this is like abraham lincoln trying to say the united states trying to save the union

bring these issues to the table and to drive the discussion in places like, you know, the g-20s, the fsb, and the oecd where countries come together to reach agreement on high standards. >> rose: are you more optimistic on the global economy today, taking into account europe and china and brazil and -- >> certainly we are going to see more growth, the ims most recent global economic shows we are going to see more growth than we did in recent years. i see pockets that were, where policy could actually increase the growth and that is something that we are very much posed on, because one of things things when we, that we do when we come to our meetings we urge our friend around the world to do things that can help drive global growth. if you look at the world economy, the u.s. cannot grow at a rate fast enough to pull the whole world along. >> the difference between three percent and three and a half percent makes a world of a difference in the united states but not enough to make up for losing a percent in europe or losing a percent in china or losing a percent in japan. you have to look a

it's going to be russian special forces, special operations people, fsb that will basically be takingr the country. and when the president said that he told putin there would be costs, i hope he was specific in some of those costs because there are a number of costs. you were talking to the panel before and maybe i could mention a couple of them. one of them would be -- one would be holding those who are responsible for this -- responsible for the actions that are taking place. another would be economic sanctions that would be far-reaching. another would be to restart our missile defense capabilities in the czech republic that we canceled. so there's a number of other actions that we could take and obviously we're not going to be sending troops anywhere or armed conflict but when vladimir putin looks around the world, sees what happens in syria when the red line turned pink and there was no action, our acquiesce sense of georgia, all of the actions that have to do and indicate a decline of the united states of america, i think he's emboldened and he's acting. >> hold on for a moment,

what about the head of the fsb? and their kbg number.that give the orders to shoot or the den -- dem n -- demonstra r demonstrators. >> and you look at the president and his stance on syria, and his comments in kiev about moral equivalencey. he wanted to government to not insight violence in the street. instead of saying we are the united states of america and we back this effort. you can do that and go there without putting boots on the ground. >> there is so much week -- we can do. when we saw protest in iran, obama did nothing. it is the same thing here. the people in the streets are fighting for freedom and against oppression. they want to be part of the west. historically they are part of the west. western two thirds of the country was part free. they fought the russians until the 1950s. these people are fighting for freedom from the west and don't want to be part of putin's empire. our president isn't doing anything and he is unwilling to say anything. >> words mean a lot. sometimes they don't. and sometimes they do. and this maybe

the cooperation between the fsb and fbi has been steadily improving. we have ad exchanges at all levels especially in connection with sochi including me directly to my counterpart and we have a good level of cooperation there. it can always improve. we are looking for ways to improve it as are they. this remains a big focus of the fbi. >> thank you. mr. vice chairman. >> thank you, madam chair. core al qaeda has been on a downward trajectory since 2008 and their ability to conduct con plex dance complex and sophisticated attacks has been degraded. at the same time you assess that aqap poses a significant threat and remains on -- intent on targeting the u.s. and interests overseas. i would like to have your first start off but i will -- i want kind of a general discussion about al qaeda. not just core al qaeda but there threat to the u.s. domestically and overseas. each of you have kind of a different interest. with respect to homegrown terrorists in the future there. these are the questions i would like for you to address. how would you characterize th

didn't >> would you expect someone who is living and being taken care of and in the custody of the fsb to be cooperating with the russians to live there. >> that is possibility. >> have they conducted misinformation campaigns? >> they have. >> does the intelligence company recruit information on behalf of the american companies? >> they do not. >> would that be against the law? >> it would. >> would spreading that we conduct to our european allies. would that hamper the negotiati negotiations in the trade agreement? >> yes, it would. >> could such lies be another misinformation from russian campaign? would it not be in the interest of them to dismantle the trade negotiations? >> i am sure they would look for any opportunity to achieve a political advantage. >> what percentage of information related to anything other than the meta data program? >> the vast majority of what is at risk bears on many other topics besides telephone meta data. >> what is given to newspaper outlets versus things kept for other purposes -- what portion do you think that the represents? >> i don't know. that is

whoould you expect someone is living or being taken care of in the custody of the fsb to be cooperative with the russians in order to remain living there? >> that is certainly a possibility. >> throughout the history of russian intelligence services, have a conducted successful misinformation campaigns against the nsa's of america? >> they have. >> do americans for gate espionage for the cap of american companies? >> it is not. -- doesreading a spreading this information about industrial espionage, european allies, would that hamper americans economic interests there as they negotiate a trade agreement? >> yes, it would. >> could such lies be another russian misinformation campaign, would it not be in the interest of the russians to dismantle the trade negotiations with europe? >> i am sure they would look for any opportunity they could to achieve an economic advantage of the serve their interests. >> generally speaking, what proportion of the information he still pertains to something other than the nsa's telephone metadata program? if you can.ly, >> the vast majority of what is potent

. >> would you expect someone who is living and being taking care of in the custody of the fsb to be cooperating in order to remain living there? >> it is certainly a possibility . >> throughout the long history have they conducted successful disinformation campaigns against the united states of america. >> they have. >> have they conducted industrial espionage on behalf of american companies. >> it does not. >> would it be against the law for them to do so? >> it would. >> to spreading misinformation about the nest is conducting industrial espionage to our european allies, would that hamper americans' economic interest? >> if you're speaking about the spreading of disinformation. yes, it would. >> could such lies be another version disinformation campaign? will not be in the interest to dismantle the trade negotiations? >> and sure there would look for any opportunity of they could to achieve political or economic advantage. if it serves there interests. >> generally speaking it pertains to something other than the nsa telephone midday the program. >> proportionally if you can. >> t

. >> would you expect someone who is living and being taken care of in the custody of the fsb to cooperate with the russians in order to remain living in? >> that survey a possibility. >> throughout the long history of russian codeine syrup is how they conducted disinformation campaigns against the united states of american? >> they have. >> do they conduct international is the notch on behalf of american companies? >> it does not. >> would he be against the law for them to do so? >> it would. >> does spreading misinformation about the united states conducting industrial espionage to our european allies, would that hamper americans economic interests there as they negotiate a trade agreement? >> you're speaking of the spreading of disinformation? yes, it would. >> could such allies he and other russian misinformation campaign? would it not be in the interest of the russians to dismantle the trade negotiations in your? >> i'm sure they would look for any opportunity they could to achieve political or economic advantage, if it serves their interests. >> generally speaking, what proportion of