diplomat jim jeffords said shed some more light on the situation thanks for joining us a good to haveyou on the program we still know we still don't know for sure do we who poisoned the script the u.k. lab which i'm lies the solid pulls they know i will to ascertain exactly where they came from which country they would produce then do you think perhaps the u.s. has some evidence that we don't know about war that they're not making public no of course not that not only do they not have such evidence i would go so far to say that the u.s. government like the british government knows very well that the russians were not responsible for this and this is this is a political demand this is designed to undercut the overtures from the trumpet ministration from president trump directly and also senator rand paul now in moscow to warm relations with moscow with with russia and this is a way to undercut that by making accusations against russia that are not only false but there's no way they can disprove how deep is russia going to submit to on site inspections by the united states which by the

diplomat jim jeffords things washington's angry of rancorous purchase of the s four hundred systems because undermines u.s. attempts to damage russia. the people behind these policies do not look at russia as a partner at all they look at it as an adversary and that their goal is essentially regime change in russia buying russian weapons is not bad because they're a competitor for business they're bad because there is essentially a full scale political warfare being carried on against the russian federation by the agency is that the american government i don't know that this is nationally what president truck wants but it certainly wanted hartmann of state department of treasury and other organs of the government want and. purchase of russian weapons is bad because russia is bad i think that not only with regard to arms purchases but every other excuse we can think of we will find ways to put new sanctions on russia or countries and companies the deal with russia a top of the morning moscow time for good morning for me kevin i mean coming up punks the stories ahead the french journalist on

with our military industries on more than icing on the voices but it was only used to promote jim jeffords told us he thinks washington's angry over an increase purchase of the s four hundred systems because it undermines u.s. attempts to damage russia. the people behind these policies do not look at russia as a partner at all they look at it as an adversary and that their goal is essentially regime change in russia buying russian weapons is not bad because they're a competitor for business they're bad because there is essentially a full scale political warfare being carried on against the russian federation by the agency is that the american government i don't know that this is nationally what president trump ones but it's certainly want to department of state department of treasury and other organs of the government want and the purchase of russian weapons is bad because russia is bad i think that not only with regard to arms purchases but every other excuse we can think of we will find ways to put new sanctions on russia or countries and companies the deal with russia here on this child

an then jim jeffords made the jump. when that happened, john decided that there was really little value in his coming as well, because we were then in the majority. >> it's like remember that movie "sliding doors" where things happen and it changes a person's future, never mind in this case the future of many other people, never mind american history. imagine if john mccain left the republican party. he wouldn't have been able to run for president, to be the nominee in 2008. but not just that, it really is a reminder of the very turbulent relationship that john mccain has had historically with his own party. >> no question about it. if you look at some of his biggest foils, if you will, it was mitch mcconnell on campaign finance. they loathed each other for years. now, that changed over the last decade. but whether it was the base of the party which senator mccain was battling with, you mentioned the primary issues that he had, but senior republicans, top republican minds, he would often run headlong against them. but h