washington post journalist and new author greg miller is back with us. this is called the apprentice. greg, i know you find a brazenness in the russian model of hacking. it is clearly the new war, the new front we are fighting with them on. part two of my question to you, though, is do you have real concerns about our midterms, about their ability to get in and screw around with raw vote and some numbers? >> i think that there is already clear evidence that russia is still at it. in fact, has gotten better at interfering in not just our elections, but elections around the globe. the last time around in 2016 they did a lot of glot of clumsy things. they bought ads on facebook in rubles. they're better at hiding their tracks, if anything. i think the lesson they took from 2016 was that that was a high-impact, low-cost operation. look at the impact it's still having each and every day here in the united states with the investigations, the dysfunction, the war between trump and the justice department and the fbi. >> it is reminiscent in that way of 9/11 whic

still with us greg miller and jeremy bash. greg's latest book, by the way, relevant to this conversation. trump, russia and the subversion of american democracy. let me start with a dual question. it seems to me the thesis of my question is the old-fashioned nature of stewardship and the presidency. number one, what about an arms race? what about casting aside this treaty? and number two, the feds just warned us last week of russian attempts to med until our upcoming midterms. where's the stewardship over the american people and their safety? >> first, donald trump loves nuclear weapons. he campaigned on building up our nuclear arsenal. he actually asked defense secretary jim mattis to build some 30,000 nuclear weapons even though he only maintained 2,000. and doing so would not only bankrupt us and destabilize the world. other than that it was a great idea, brian. it was obviously rejected by the joint chiefs and by the set def. here he is again walking away from arms control and trying to trigger another arms race because i t

greg miller is the author. we're going to put a break in here. he has agreed to stick around and when we come back in the next segment, what we learned today about russian hacking. it's not just for american elections anymore. it's been aimed at olympic athletes as well. our discussion continues right after this. woman: life? honestly, it's a struggle. traffic and roads... a mess, rents going up, friends and family moving out of state, millions of californians live near or below the poverty line. politicians like gavin newsom talk about change, but they've done nothing. sky-high gas and food prices. homelessness. gavin newsom, it happened on your watch. so, yeah. it is time for a change. time for someone new. it's my job to protect as a public safety,pg&e, keeping the powerlines clear while also protecting the environment. the natural world is a beautiful thing. the work that we do helps protect it. public education is definitely a big part of our job, to teach our customers about the best type of trees to plant around the powerlines. we want to

greg miller, let's get to the why.ould vladimir putin want to seek revenge on hillary clinton? guest: it goes back to protests that you directed in moscow -- erupted in moscow when hillary clinton was secretary of state. hade were after putin returned to office after a sort of self-imposed stepping down, and these were for their version of midterm elections. they were organic protests in the street that were deeply embarrassing to him. in his worldview, he is a former kgb officer who was stationed in east germany. this is his background. he comes from an institution that sees sort of bogeyman and conspiracy everywhere, and truly came to believe that hillary clinton, who had scolded or lectured russia on the fact that it's elections appeared to have lots of problems and appeared to be rigged, that she was somehow secretly sending signals to protesters to mobilize. this is consistent with his view of american meddling in russia for many, many years. so part of this was payback. but there were other motivations for putin

olly foster will have more for you in sportsday at 6.30 greg miller is the national security correspondentt—election period by the distinguished us journalist greg miller national correspondence for the washington post. of a new book, "the apprentice — trump, russia and the subversion of american democracy." he was awarded the 2018 pulitzer prize for coverage of russia's interference in the 2016 american election , and the fallout under of a new book, "the apprentice — trump, russia and the subversion greg miller is in our washington studio. it isa it is a great letter to have you with us. in all of the revelations in this important book, what would you guide our viewers to, the most striking things that you uncovered? i think that there is, this is a book that will take you inside of the cia, during the election, inside the cia, during the election, inside the trump white house after the election. as much as i could accomplish inside the mullet investigation that has yet to be finished. there are new details on almost any every major turning points in this crazy story that we're living th

greg miller and jeremy's bash. and greg's latest book similar to this.y with a dual question. it seems to me the thesis of my question is the old fashioned nature of stewardship and the presidency. number one, what about an arms race? what about casting aside this treaty? number two, the feds just warned us last week of russian attempts to meddle in our upcoming midterms where is the stewardship over the american people and their safety. >> first, donald trump loves nuclear weapons. he campaigned on building up nuclear arsenal. he asked jim mattis to build some 30,000 nuclear weapons. doing so would bankrupt us and destabilize the world. other than that it was a great idea, brian. obviously reject bid the chiefs here he is walking away from arms control and trying to fig ur another arms race. i think nuclear weapons makes donald trump feel tough. it won't make us safer and there are other ways to counter russia's use of land-based woechs and counter china's stockpiling of intermediate range issues. i'll say what john bolton is giving a green light to the

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coming up this morning, washington post's national security reporter greg miller discusses his new book examining russian interference in the 20 16th election. then the former assistant secretary for african affairs talks about first lady melania trump's trip to africa. be sure to watch washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. announcer: this weekend on american history tv on c-span3. forest university professor david lubin on 19th century artist winslow homer. , look at how the fashion choices of betty ford reflected politics. eastern, the.m. ceremony marking the 225th anniversary of the u.s. capitol cornerstone, where president george washington and area freemasons first laid the cornerstone of the u.s. capitol building during a ceremony that wine.ed corn, oil and watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. bus wasr: the c-span recently in hawaii for the 39th stop of our u.s. capitol store. this weekend we feature that visit on c-span. book tv and american history tv. explore in hawaii's history as well as public policy issues facing the

. >> we're back with reporter and ourer greg miller. his latest book is "the apprentice." welcome. >> thank you. >> lets start with the recent news which is of indictments against russian hacking having to do with the olympi >> these are indictments we're just learning about now but they're for activity that was happening around the same time as the election. i think it shows we're in a new era of he iespionage and that'st the book is largely about. we face a great challenge at the moment from russia using espionage and cyber operations to go against s adversaries and the president refuses to acknowledge that. >> and now everybody knows about it but was the obama administration slow on the up take? >> they were slow in one important way. i think at the time when the initial penetration of the dnc of russian hackers was detected it was another in a long line of cyber penetrations by china and russia and grab stuff and look at the secrets, end of story. nobody saw the weaponizing of the information by posting to wikileaks and later helping donald trump win. >> your book conn

greg miller from "the washington post," author of a terrific new book "the apprentiapprentice." i want to get to your book, but this trimming down of the attorneys, i believe there were two over the summer that left, another two left this week, does that mean that parts of the investigation are wrapping up? >> yeah, we've seen this happen for a couple months now, mueller sloughing off staff when he no longer needs it. and even handing off parts of it to other areas of the justice department for follow-through. i do think that there is a sense that mueller is heading toward the finish line, though he nor anybody else has told us exactly when that might be. >> i'm looking at your mock. it's pretty thick, so here's the burning question. have you been been able to figure out was there collusion between the trump and the 2016 campaign? >> that's such a difficult question. i have to admit that is the -- i am skeptical at this point we will ever see a smoking gun sort of memo between vladimir putin and donald trump planning out their cooperation in the to 16 election or something like

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he enlists because one of his upper classmen at princeton has enlisted ahead of him. >> greg miller,ank you. >> the it too is interesting. >> yeah, where did that come from? >> we should note we did reach out to the white house about your book. we didn't hear back from them. >>> john lennon and paul mccartney had a close and complicated relationship, ♪ there are places i remember all my life ♪ >> paul mccartney says he still feels the need to prove himself after 55 years as a pop music star. what are you talking about, paul mccartney. he tells "60 minutes" that john lennon only complimented his writing once in all the years they wrote songs together, that's the song you're hearing right now. he says both beatles were insecure and lennon was uncertain about his legacy. >> and i remember him once particularly strangely out of the blue say iing "i'm worried about how people wiare going to remember me." and i was like john, listen to me, look at me, you're going to be remembered as one of the greatest people. i'm getting choked up. i said because you are, you're fantastic. >> mccartney s

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"the washington post" greg miller.week brett kavanaugh told congress sometimes he had too many beers as a younger man. speaking yesterday at the white house president trump took that a few steps further. >> i was surprised at how vocal he was about the fact that he likes beer and he's had a little bit of difficulty. i mean he talked about things that happened when he drank. i mean, this is not a man that said alcohol was absent, that he was perfect with respect to alcohol. i can tell you i watched that hearing. and i watched a man saying that he did have difficulty as a young man with drink. >> judge kavanaugh said in that hearing quote sometimes i had too many beers. we'll talk about where his nomination stands today ahead on "morning joe". today ahead on "morning joe". (door bell rings) it's open! hey. this is amazing. with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, are you okay? even when i was there, i never knew when my symptoms would keep us apart. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned humira can help get,

because in a new book about trump's relationship with vladimir putin "washington post" reporter greg millerintelligence operative, putin understood the power of playing to someone's insecurities and ego." yes, yes, to spot trump's insecurities and ego, it takes years of k.g.b. training... ( laughter ) ...and a television. ( laughter ) and with his high-tech training, putin started to manipulate trump "with frequent praise for the president." well, i think it should take more to influence the president than a little shameless flattery. and i know you agree, because you're the smartest audience in the world! am i right? ( cheers and applause ) yeah! sexy! oh, yeah. whoo! ( piano riff ) ( cheers and applause ) there's a cut for you. there's some time. yesterday, trump paid a visit to new bern, north carolina, one of the towns ravaged by hurricane florence, and he showed deep concern for this boat that washed ashore. telling the owner of the property where it ended up: "at least you got a nice boat out of the deal." ( laughter ) he talked about the boat a lot. his comments are so disturbingly i

joining us now, a man who has some answers, greg miller, national security correspondent for the washingtonand author of the new book. greg, great to have you here. it is a great book. you all it the apprentice, which has many different references and meanings, but are you trying to suggest that president trump is vladimir putin's apprentice. >> it is a title worked on a lot of levels. it is the show that propelled trump to fame. he arrives in the white house with so little training, he hasn't had time to be an apprentice on the job. but there is an act of subserve yans. why is he differential to vladimir putin? is there some sort of compromising material that vladimir putin has? >> i will say two things about that. first, i think that it is psychological for trump. he has an affinity for straw member. his vision of what leaders look like is putin. he doesn't have to deal with pesky reporters getting in his face and causing problems for him. so i think he evnvies that sort of arrangement. but at the same time i think that putin does have something ultimately over trump. we don't know yet fo

greg miller is out with a new book entitled the apprentice, a reference to his own civility to russianvladimir putin. it's a detailed narrative story, a history revealing unreported details about russia's interference. despite the standoff that continues, miller reports that last january the president and his attorneys had embraced a plan to sit down with the special counsel. they had a plan. the plan had progressed to the point that trump's lawyers and mueller had set a date for the interview. it was going to be january 27. and then seemingly out of nowhere trump lawyer pulled the plug on that investigation. i am joined by the author of that book. a couple of things. i want to start at the end. when you do all of this work about what russia was up to in 2016, how they tried to screw with our electoral process, how they were helping, you had evidence of the russians helping trump, the republican candidate who won the electoral college. did you conclude that there was collusion? >> i will tell you what cia people told me, that the collusion was in the open. we don't know whether there w

coming up friday morning, washington post national security reporter greg miller discusses his new book examining russia's interference in the 2016 election. fraser, former assistant secretary of state for african affairs talks about first lady melania trump's trip to africa. watch c-span's african -- journal live. join the discussion. sunday night, on afterwards, new york magazines rebecca traced her on her book good and bad. she is interviewed by britney cooper, rippers university gender -- gender study officer and eloquent rage. >> i am a feminist journalists. art of my work as long as i have been doing it has obviously been rooted in anger, you wouldn't be a journalist spreading about inequity if you were not mad about this inequity. obviously, there has been anger undergirding might work for a long time -- my work for a long time. when i thought about how this book played into my work, one of the things i could do when i looked back with see the pain that i had taken earlier in my career to obscure that anger. because i had ups -- absorb the notion that if i was to them where i wou

coming up friday morning, washington post national security reporter greg miller discusses his new book, examining russia's interference in the 2016 election. then frazier, former assistant secretary of state for african american affairs, talks about first ladies -- first lady melania trump strip to africa. be sure to watch friday morning. joined the discussion. >> this week and on american history tv on c-span3, saturday at 8 pm eastern time, on lectures in history, wake forest university professor, david lubin on 19 century hardest -- artist. on sunday, 8 pm eastern, on the presidency, a look at how the fashion choices up pat nixon and betty ford reflected the politics and culture of their time. at 9 pm eastern, the ceremony marking the 225th anniversary of the u.s. capital cornerstone where president george washington and area freemasons portrayed the cornerstone of the u.s. capitol building during a ceremony that including this man included corn, oil and one. watch american history tv this weekend on cpap -- c-span3. >> sunday night on q&a, university historian joanne freeman on her

coming up friday morning, "washington post" national security reporter greg miller discusses his new book examining russia's interference in the 2016 election. then, former assistant secretary of state for african affairs talks about first lady melania trump's trip to africa. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern friday morning. join the discussion. >>> this weekend on american history

the washington post's national security correspondent greg miller has pulled together these threads inwhy is it called the apprentice. it is the name of the show that propelled donald trump to such fame and he arrived in the white house with little preparation in terms of government service or understanding of how government works and he saw him as an apprentice in many ways and then there is the aspect of subservience to the word and i have to say he often behaves as if he is an apprentice to vladimir putin, he emulates him and admires him. did you come to the conclusion that is the million—dollar question in researching and writing the book that the russians have something on donald trump whether it is financial or personal that would account for why donald trump views the damir putin the way he does?|j why donald trump views the damir putin the way he does? i am sceptical of the theory, i do not doubt that the russians have something on donald trump but when you look at the revelations of donald trump and his sex life and allegations of sexual assault in all these things that he sur

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