my life as kgb spy in america. we'll have it back, if you stay to sign them be happy to that. >> thank you. >> jack, very welcome to come to the spy museum. >> can i say something? >> absolutely. >> longest surviving member is still very important to me. i'm still very competitive. the person who had the record was also known as colonel able. his real name was eddie fisher actually. he was featured in the bridge of spies. he managed to stay here undetected for eight years. i actually managed for 10 and another nine until the fbi finally found me. but after 10 years i did that resignation thing. >> i would say the longest surviving is the key word. look at that one also. i want to start by talking about luck. i think luck plays such a key role in your story, both good and bad. starting with where you were borne. a lot of people have conversations about, we're so lucky to be born here in the united states. i can't imagine being born in the third world. not having creature comforts you have here. you were born in east

another 60% are cooperating with kgb.o practically every soviet union who is a official is involved in active measures activity. one way or the other. >> >> from 1964 until 1966, the czechoslovakiaan service was involved in measures against the united states, undermining american policy in western europe and developing countries. at the same time they were thinking about making a documentary about -- that actually brought the czechoslovakia disinformation department an idea to use it. he actually prepared a series of documents for that purpose. they dropped four chests at the bottom of the black lake. and they would discover it. originally, we dropped four of them at the bottom of the black lake. documents.have these we were searching for him -- for them. then came the czechoslovakian team. i was one of the divers. they did not know i was a intelligence officer. they thought i was an official. from czechoslovakia. i led the diving team to the area where these chests were placed on the bottom and were discovered. and the m

brian: he used to be a kgb general. he says, once a kgb member, always. is he still a kgb member?alcolm: no, he is american citizen, and he fears for his life. because interestingly, vladimir putin himself, when the kgb transitioned to the fsb -- all they did was remove the border guards -- same headquarters, lots more money, intense quantities of more money. the use of cyber warfare, theft and management of criminals in the world as subcontractors to their intelligence agency, they used cyber warfare like we butter bread. right? the national security agency might craft one weapon for launch once every 10 years again something very specific. the kgb use it like it is sunrise. sorry, the fsb. there is no difference in the organization. they are just younger, faster, stronger, and they understand their job is to discredit the american political system and this attack on the american electorate was a gross example of how they decided they were going to put their hand on the thumb of democracy, on the scale of democracy. brian: there is a lot more in these books. here is another segme

kgb general onex- the board. he lives under the motto of vladimir putin, once kgb, always kgb.ou are seeing an extremely sophisticated, modern take on what the old soviet union used to do when they would co-opt communist party newspapers, various voices on the left, even some on the right, and get them to act as mouthpieces to discredit american democracy. that used to be a goal of the union. vladimir putin still has that same goal, only he has money, he has national-level resources, and for a period of time, russia was going through a democratization process. in the early 1990's, right up into boris yeltsin being prime minister, russia was a fledgling democracy. they had joined nato's partnership for peace, the first step to joining nato. and then corruption set in. when vladimir putin took over, it became an autocracy led by an oligarchy of the superrich. host: why do you think the americans work for rt? guest: because they don't know that rt and russia is still executing the strategic plan to discredit american liberal democracy. host: why don't they? guest: they see it as a

i mean, this bank is in essence an arm of the fsb, the kgb. gorkov was a former kgb officer.hing he does, he reports back to the kgb. he is not particularly a great back channel to putin. i just don't buy that. you get ahold of peskov if for some reason you want to send a message to putin. he is his aide. everybody knows that. i've got his e-mail. i've got his phone number and the rest of it, if you want to get to him. the real question is was kushner talking about business. and that's the question hanging over this whole investigation. was he looking for a quid pro quo? you invest in our properties, and then we'll lift the sanctions on your bank and russia as well. i don't know that that's true. but the investigators are certainly going to be looking at that, whether there is any financial transactions related to these meetings. >> and ambassador, the big question here is one of good judgment. given what we know about gorkov and his relationship with putin and his possible or at least reported role with the fsb, former kgb, what business reason would jared kushner, who was t

was. >> malcolm, we've established that kgb had "cagey" in the title.o you concede that the fsb is not as impressive. >> i think it is a different animal. the kgw was idea logically oriented and very target focused. the fsb is a creature that came out of putin's rise to power on the back of an enormous quantity of illegal money. so the fsb has been oriented more -- you know, they still have all the basic hallmarks of the kgb but they use mon and integration of capitalism as their main introductory too much of they don't pay as we all know they don't pay at all in the way that a real intelligence agency would. but they do manipulate people on the basiof money. you may recall the post most famous of that team anna chapman, her job was to run around and make contact with high value people and posed as a high level real estate agent at one point. >> malcolm, jack, if you ever have dinner together i would love to be there just to listen. thank you for participating tonight. >>> we will take a break. when we come back, two members of the house intelligence co

the kgb only referred to him as b or ramon. he would communicate with that drops around the washington area. on his final drop in february of 2001, it was at fox stone park. his signal that he was filling the drop was a one inch piece of johnson & johnson white medical tape placed horizontally on the left upright of the fox stone park sign. he disappeared into the park nine minutes. if you walked four and a half minutes into the park, you come to this bridge. he left this package between the bottom of the wooden bridge in the concrete in the bank. when he comes back out, his car is left there. it is currently 1700 -- about 5:00 p.m. he dropped his best friend at dulles airport. his wife is waiting at home with a tv dinner and they will watch nascar. these are robert hanssen's last moments as he exits the park. as he exits the park and is walking up the hill, he is wearing his gray jacket, his black sweater. he is armed. he is a supervisory special agent. he will go to the top of the hill and turn right. the team expected him th

you cannot assume, historically, kgb diplomats either had a lose relationship with the kgb or were kgbost likely not the ambassador. this tradition has not changed. yes, there is some cooperations between the diplomats. >> would you have let him inside the oval office knowing what you know about russia and how everybody operate? >> i would not think to do something really sacred. i would not let him win of the timing of all of this. >> jack barsky. thank you for your advice. >> this story is just ahead in the cnn newsroom of the computers and data held for ransom. experience amazing. itbut one i think with quesa simple answer. we have this need to peek over our neighbor's fence. and once we do, we see wonder waiting. every step you take, narrows the influence of narrow minds. bridges continents and brings this world one step closer. so, the question you asked me. what is the key? it's you. everything in one place, so you can travel the world better. where are mom and dad? 'saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico! goin' up the country. love mom and dad' i'm takin' a nap. dude, yo

this is the head of the kgb of spain. he had many names and he is doing stalin's dirty work in spain. he is arranging with hemingway to see secret facilities they don't show to other people. that is one of the drivers for who the bell told. this guy, the head of the russian secrec services of spain is one of the men who facilitates and enables ernest to write, i think one of the greatest political novels of the 21st century for whom the bell tolds. he winds up living in ohio believe it or not. that is a great story i can tell you if i want you to get into it. here is another character that ernest runs across. this is a man named jacob gold. he always work for the nk. he is 5-2, that is red hair, he has startling blue eyes and said to be a lady killer -- not literally but figure. he is the perfect guy for them to use because he is an old ball chic activist who started before the russian revolution, before he is 18 and he has been arrested three times since the death, once, banished to siberia. he escapes from siberia by wa

or worked for the kgb, i worked with folks like that. to have someone like that interact with russian ambassador is naive, and i have to agree with former cia director michael h hayden nie eaive to a point tha diskournling. >> discouraging. >> do you any it is naive to put someone in a senior role like this and have these communications with adversaries is. >> i think any president wants people around him he can trust but you got to give them appropriate roles in this case it's somebody who never had a security clearance, never worked in diplomacy, didn't understand the structure of the united states government or the pattern of activities of our adversaries and throw him in the middle of it. it's a mistake in judgment in my view, he shouldn't do that to someone. >> lots have been talked about the back channel meant to talk military discussions in syria and others. explain how back channels are ugs in countries. >> back channels are usually a quiet line of communication sometimes done by another country to further obscure that these two

that means he was either kgb or was reporting to the kgb. he's a very experienced player. you have to touch them with utmost care. >> so what is your gut telling you about what we've learned in this "the washington post" report, and what sources are telling cnn, essentially confirming that there was some sort of conversation about setting up a secret line of communication physically at russian diplomatic facility for the trump transition team essentially to use and communicate about syria and other matters? it's what this source is telling us. >> i don't want to believe somebody with be that naive to suggest that it is safe to use russian communication channels rather than american ones, that's mind boggling. so my gut's saying, i hope not, i can't say any more, it'll be all explanatispeculation after . >> would there have been security concerns for the russians in doing this? >> to some extent but more so for us obviously. >> so bob bear, whoever leaked this information to "the washington post" apparently did so knowing that he or she could be exposing some of the interwo

ambassador to russia, and a former kgb spy, along with the journalists working on this still-developing story, as "the 11th hour" gets under way. >>> well, good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. put it this way, "the washington post" story that came out late today broke their previous record for internet traffic, set on the day the "access hollywood" outtakes were published. today's explosive stories says president trump revealed highly classified information to the russian foreign minister, and the russian ambassador during an oval office meeting last week. u.s. officials tell "the post" the information jeopardized a critical source of intelligence in the fight against isis and that the intelligence was not ours to share. the report says "the information the president relayed had been provided by a u.s. partner through an intelligence sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld have allies and tightly restricted even within the u.s. government," officials said. they go on to say "trump seemed to be boasting about his inside knowl

we are playing a bit into their hands according to former kgb agentjack ba rs ky according to formerho said the other day on fox news that what they are trying to do is create chaos with elections. they are picking democrats against republicans and we are not focusing on the true problem, terrorism. this is the first time a president has brought sunni muslims and israel against iran. islamic state is huge, with 200,000 fighters around the world, including 20,000 in the us. they have highly sophisticated technology, including facebook. like my texas animal, the armadillo, they are burrowing into neighbourhoods in the us, the uk, and throughout europe. they are huge threat along with north korea. he comes back from that trip with the german leader saying we can no longer rely on the us. that is sending shock waves around. well, first of all, angela merkel is facing the election in september and is playing to her base. remember, there were protests in 2015 against the trans—pacific partnership so be it her somewhat by surprise. the uk think tank, mackerel, recently said one out of six g

transitioned into the russian federation and comp nymmunism w away, every other facet, including the kgb transitions into the fsb, that stayed. russian diplomats are the first line of intelligence collectors for the fsb. >> and putin himself was former kgb. >> director of kgb. >>> turning now to france and the highly anticipated presidential election, already the top polling candidate reportedly has been the target of a massive and so ocoordinate hack. coming on the eve of the blackout period which forbids them from talking about the election for 48 hours. marine la pen has yet to comment on whether or not her campaign also fell victim to that hacking. matt, thanks for staying up and talking us to. what more are we learning about macron's e-mails? >> well, we know that right now macron has basically said that this is not an attack just on his campaign but against french democracy in general. that's the kind of language as you mentioned, deja vu. once again it sounds a lot like what hillary clinton and u.s. intelligence agencies were saying last summer when those revelations surfaced that

if you came from soviet union and working at the united nation, you were either working o f the kgb, there was no seed. this is his background. once a member of the kgb, this is how he learned how to be whether he's still a secret service or not. it does not matter. the bottom line is that the two were matched completely unequally and the whole idea that the two were talking at matters of international importances is really, very troubling. >> let me continue, the line from the white house that "we are not going to comment on jared." how long do you expect that to last? >> it could last a while or as long as until the next briefing because they'll be asked about it and who knows if they'll have more briefings. the story is such gravity. it does no matter if there is just a comment from the white house because the stories are going to speak for itself. we'll know if jared is kept in molt positions that he has or keeping multiple portfolios. i would say a vanilla comment one way or the other is not meaningful given we have two congressional probes and the fbi special prosecutor on it.

i want to bring if former kgb agent and author of "deep undercover" and also with me is amy pope. great to have both of you on. jack, we'll get to this bank meeting in a second but on the derogatory information that they had on the president and his inner circle, do you see that as legit and not edxaggerated information, is that a threat? >> we're stepping into a realm of unknown. it gets to a point where we are speculating on top of speculations. you don't understand one thing about the russians and it has not changed in history, that they are trying to play everybody that they are dealing with. >> how do you mean? >> play means, you know, you throw stuff out, you throw information out, see how you can confuse everybody. and this has been the game, their game since they got involved in the u.s. elections and with this hacking and so forth. >> but this has been going on, you know, since the soviet area, jack. >> absolutely true. but now they have a whole lot more powerful instruments, such as the internet. >> amy, this doesn't mean the president was compromised in any way, does it

kislyak, the campaign surely would have known is a known figure with ties to the kgb. jared kushner is having multiple meetings, not just kislyak that are secretive and not disclosed and it was not just russian government but bankers with ties to the kgb. kushner not disclosing any of this in his forms. and then you have a story yesterday that is, you know, at best, you can say kushner was naive but the idea that the russians would open up their own apparatus, intelligence apparatus to a 30 something son-in-law of a president-elect, it so defies sort of any good explain swrags, that the best explanation for kushner at this stage is he's incredibly naive. >> i want to point out the report from reuters this morning as well so we tuned numbers. they are reporting 18 undisclosed calls or emails seven months prior to the election, six of those calls with kislyak, the fbi examining whether rurngs suggested to kushner or to others that relaxing economic sanctions would allow russian banks to offer financing to people with ties to the president. so clarify that, does this sugg

if you don't, he either was kgb or he reported to the kgb. i worked with folks like that. so to have somebody like to interact with a russian ambassador with that kind of a background is naive and, you know, i have to agree with the former cia director michael haden, naive to a point where it is really discouraging. >> i want to ask you think, because you are listening you have been listening to all of this. do you go it was knew eve to put someone in such a senior role and to possibly have these sort of relationships or communications with foreign adversaries? do you think it was naive of the president to do that. >> he could appoint whoever he wants. >> any president always people around him he can trust but you have got to give them appropriate roles. in this case, it's somebody who has never had a security clearance, never really worked in diplomacy. didn't really understand the structure of the united states government or the pattern of activities or your adversaries. and throw him into the middle of it -- it would -- it's a mistake in judgment in my view. he shouldn'

we know he's kgb because i saw the kgb record. bobby kennedy handled this man well. russians wanted a summit with the newly elected john f. kennedy. he said please wait for the inauguration. we'll talk about it later. i don't think the people around trump had the sophistication. i think the russians put pressure on them and took advantage of them. we saw how they played us for fools by tweeting pictures of the meeting with president trump. i don't know whether the trump inner circles were dunces or devils. if they understood they were colluding or were so excited a foreign important power that the president or president to be liked that they dealt with the russians. i'm waiting to see the extent to which the trump campaign understood that the russians were wanting to play them. >> there is the original puzzle in this which was why did donald trump fall in love with the russians? can we appoint, can congress appoint a special prosecutor, an independent counsel? >> it would have to come from the attorney general or in this case the deputy attorney general because jeff

. >> he is portrayed as being this ultimate manipulative, master spy with the background in the kgb. i had talked to a former kgb officer a few years into his first tour of office in russia commenting on how he's done well for himself and the fellow pointed out that he had only been given one assignment abroad and that was to ease germany and the fellow added that they didn't send their brightest to anywhere but east germany. so -- >> i hear what you're saying. >> let us not attribute mr. putin as being this -- >> can i ask you one -- obviously there's a russian intelligence apparatus. and i want to ask you one question before we go. we're running out of time. this idea, though, that some people with contacts in russia may not have known that they were intel officials, something that could have been a slippery slope on, you dismissed that that's a possibility. >> russian diplomats have the task, as do every country, to meet people and try to influence them. how you know whether someone is truly a russian diplomat, how do they know that they are an intel officer undercover, hard to kn

old kgb?ven the fact that he oversees a very aggressive intelligence operation in this country, the russians have mortemor more intelligence pray tioperat still after we got rid of 35 of them. to suggest that he is somehow separate or oblivious to that is a bit much. >> why didn't we kick him out? why didn't he specifically get sanctioned? if he basically is viewed not as the ambassador to a country, not as a diplomat but as basically the american head of an intelligence agency, that's sort of what you just described. >> i'm reflecting an intelligence perspective. intelligence people are paid to be suspicious and of course that -- whether to expel people or declare them png, at least in the last administration, was an interagency determination. so what we did do was get at 35 of the more notorious intelligence operatives and ask them to leave quickly. >> one of the caveats in "the washington post" bombshell story was that the russians frequently will do misinformation, even in intel channels.

. >>> a former kgb spy joining us now. jack, thank you so much for coming back.e appreciate it. >> good morning. >> i want to get your take to what we're hearing this morning. how likely is it, do you think through your pursed lip there, that russia could be behind this hack? >> likely, very likely. i mean who else would do that, right? we talked about in the past, about the -- i believe the major goal by the russians is to create confusion. now, if they were really trying to influence the election, the timing is a little bit odd, isn't it, because right now this data can't be used or shouldn't be used. it's against the law in france. so it's just -- either they're being really stupid, or their main goal is to just, you know, create confusion and undermine democracy. i think that's probably where it's at. >> that goes to a deeper question, i think, because what's the difference between what we're seeing here in france and what we saw in the u.s. with the podesta hacking was the podesta hacking happened and was leaked out sporadically over a longer period of time.

we know he's from kgb because i saw the kgb record. bobby kennedy handled this man very well.sians wanted a summit with the newly elected john f. kennedy. he put them to one side, said please wait for the inauguration, we'll talk about that later. i don't think the people around trump have that sophistication. i think the russians put pressure on them. i think the russians took advantage of them. we saw how the russians played us for fools by tweeting those pictures of the meeting with president trump. my issue is i don't know whether the trump inner circle were dunces or devils, whether they understood they were colluding or whether they were so excited that a foreign important power that the president or president-to-be liked, that they just dealt with the russians. so, what i'm waiting to see is the extent to which the trump campaign understood that the russians were wanting to play them. >> and of course, there is the original puzzle in all of this, which was why did donald trump fall in love with the russians? >> exactly. >> cristina, the legal issue -- can we appoint, ca

the kgb had all these covert operations to do this, they didn't have the internet to do it with.and they -- it is amazing how, i mean, it is further proof. >> what was the job of those kgb guys stationed up on wisconsin avenue, up on the hill there, on the perfect line of sight to the white house. >> they made the unbelievable mistake of letting the russians build their embassy on the top of mount alto, direct line to be able to -- they had to put vibrating windows in the office of the national security adviser so the russians couldn't eavesdrop down on his conversation. >> we were writing speeches for president carter, they told us that soviet agents driving up and down 17th street could pick up our typewriter words we were typing. i don't know how they did that. >> isn't that why they drilled holes in the sequoia, in the wood, so the wood, you couldn't hear through it. this was the presidential yacht. >> does anyone think you've written for time and you've written for time and newsweek, does anybody think if you've looked at the big picture that the russians would stop doing th

. >> that is the kgb mentality. i'm not sure that actually helped.y guess is the impression it made on the germans was it was a thugish and take. tim: ukraine, what prospects are there of crimea being discussed or put on the table of talks between president clinton and the international community? >> crimea will be hard. the focus is to try to stop the fighting and dundalk. that is where you are having people killed every week. it doesn't look like there is much progress. it seems the lingering conflict is a way to ratchet press ure on kiev. my guess is we want seachange for some time. they want to see what will happen in the french elections in german elections. mr. putin has an election in march of next year. taking the strong approach, he thinks will be good for his image. imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, marine le pen is very fond of her defeated rival francoise fillon. excerpt from both speeches. even if you don't speak french, you will understand what the fuss is all about. [overlapping french] tim: you would think they would beat r

putin was head of the kgb. this is what they do. >> and on the republican side, senator bob corker, chairman of the foreign relations committee, saying of the white house, "they're in a downward spiral right now and have got to figure out a way to come to grips with all that's happening." corker says "you know the shame of it is really there's a good national security team in place, but the chaos that is being created by the lack of discipline, it creates a worrisome environment." >> the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, calling it deeply disturbing and demanding a briefing for his committee. on the lighter side, senator susan collins quipped to reporters, "can we have a crisis-free day? that's all i'm asking." >> if president trump did reveal classified information to the russian diplomats, critics might call it reckless and irresponsible, but in fact, it is unlikely he broke the law here. that's because the president has broad authority to declassify government secrets and can

this is the period when vladimir putin was an active kgb agent. so you start to put the dots together. donald trump has this affinity. then he has a need. and if you are russia and you're the spy services, who would you target that would be vulnerable? it would be something who is needy or greedy. they're not just cultivating donald trump. ross perot was on the same trip to go and meet gorbachev. you have this active according to being done of the potential american oligarchs who might have needed some russian financing, who might have been open to hearing about a more open relationship between the united states and russia. so you begin to see this cultivation over time. donald trump really starts to mirror paul manafort in a lot of ways who also did some business with unsavory characters overseas for the money. and michael flynn who was disgruntled and angry and needed the money you. begin to see to be t cultivating of american assets based on their financial need or potential greed. donald trump fits into that pattern just like manafort and flyn

the man who was a spy for the russian kgb, he turned around, he flipped.why he turned around and flipped and if it is possible to turn terrorists around as well. that is a good question. >>> uber admitting it stiffed uber drivers over the years millions of dollars. now they're trying to pay everyone back. we're all over that story for you. ♪ stuart: that's it, cabin door to air force one. it has arrived carrying our president in brussels, belgium. the president will appear any moment now. he will descend the steps and formally he greeted by i believe belgium's prime minister as he begins the other part of his european trip. this will be the difficult part, if i can put it like that. our president is at odds with the europeans on the issue of immigration, on issue of islamic terror around certainly on issue of paying for nato. the europeans oppose our president on all these issues. here he is walking into the middle of it all. he will be walking out my moment from the cabin door. ashley: he is thinking about it. stuart: that's right. he will be emerging ver

vladimir putin is a former kgb operative. therefore, he is always going to use these tactics. what's important is for the american people to say no, that our democratic process is so sacred that a matter who holds the office, republican or democrat, we want to find out whether that individual has undermined our constitutional process of the elections, our democratic process of the elections, and whether there have been any collisions. usions. push your congressperson or senator to see these investigations occur. host: this is from mississippi. caller: good morning, miss lee. i like to compliment you on your impressive speech that you have just given. but i would also like to say you really need to be saying that to the people of your own party. i would also like to say, as a , we are not falling bs all this hoopla and against our president. we still back him 100%. i guarantee you if you had another election today he would probably get more votes. so thank you. well, let me thank you as well, because again i applaud the differences of opinion. that's what is great about this co

kaspersky attended an academic institute associated with the kgb. was the best place to pursue his academic career, but you're right. a number of officials did work for the kgb and russian military but mr. kaspersky said they ended many years ago but some see it as a cause for concern. >> all right, pierre, thank you very much. >>> michael, what's coming up on the big board? >> we got lebron james and steph curry about to clash for the third time in the nba finals. third time in a row. who will come out on top? we'll find out when we come back in two minutes. in two minutes. in two minutes. and take an extra $10 offal day weekend sale when you spend $25 or more. save on summer styles you'll love and for a limited time get $5 kohl's cash for every $25 you spend. earn it on everything spend it on anything. only at kohl's. yet up 90% fall short in getting key nutrients from food alone. let's do more. add one a day women's complete with key nutrients we may need. plus it supports bone health with calcium and vitamin d. one a day women's in gummies and t

. >> because i, dimity ree, have i not seen you since kgb academy. >> dimity ree, so good to see you,here, have drink. >> so, how is-- germany. >> i have been undercover for ten long years. i have a fake family, i had surgery on my face, my teeth have been replaced by microchips. i have been working as a, how do you say drug whore to gain access for information, a living hell but some day germany's secrets will be mine. but how do you get the americans to give you secrets. >> donald trump tells me. >> this is a trap. >> no, no, it is just a lonely weirdo, hold on. that's him now. hello, mr. big crowd. >> oleg, oleg, you will never guess what we are about to do to china. very secret stuff, come over and i will tell all about it over some ice cream. but i get two scoops, oleg. >> trevor: we'll be right back officials are reporting, this new doritos mix is responsible for the worldwide bold outbreak. woo hoo! over you to you tom! things have gone totally around the bend. c'mmon boys! rarin' to go! because of new doritos mix, there is boldness everywhere. [robotic voice: doritos!] i quit!

vladimir putin with a former kgb operative and therefore he's going to always use these tactics. what's important is for the american people to say no, that our democratic processes are so sacred that no matter who holds the office, republican or democrat, we want to find out whether that individual has undermined our constitutional process of elections, democratic process of elections, and whether there's been any collusions. you can continue to push your congressperson, your senator, to ensure that that investigation or these investigations do occur. >> on our republican line, this is gina from mississippi. >> good morning, ms. lee. >> good morning. >> i would like to compliment you on your impressive speech that you had just given. but i would also like to say that you really need to be saying that to the people of your own party. i would also like to say, as a republican citizen voter of this country, we are not falling for all of this hoopla and bs against our president. we still back him 100%. and i guarantee you, if you had another election today, he would probably get mor

fluent russian and she grew up in east germany, vladimir putin speaks fluent german from his days as a kgbangela merkel is seen as someone who was a staunch defender of western liberal chrissy, western institutions, civil society and the eu. vladimir putin is an authoritarian leader who seems determined to undermine western the broad democracy and institutions. at at least they are talking and both believe it is important to keep the dialogue going. thank you. paula radcliffe has reacted angrily to the rewriting of records. it is part of a bid to address concerns over doping. it would mean that in future world records with only stand if test sa m ples were world records with only stand if test samples were stored for ten yea rs test samples were stored for ten years but those standards were not in place when paula radcliffe set her marathon record. she says it means m ea ns clea n mea ns clea n athletes means clean athletes are being penalised. the crowd anticipating something special once again from jonathan edwards of great britain. august, 1995, and forjonathan edwards, a leap into hist

the former ambassador to russia, and a writer at "the atlantic," and a former kgb spy. ambassador, you first. cnn learned today that rod rosenstein doesn't see a need for a special prosecutor in the investigation into russia's meddling in the investigation. do you think that's the right position? >> no, i don't. is i think the firing of comey and all of the things that happened underscore the need for a special prosecutor or a 9/11 style commission. that would elevate this to something with more credibility. unfortunately, looks like the republicans in the senate aren't prepared to do that. they're in effect, becoming accomplices after the fact, with a cover-up by the administration. >> you said the administration would be better served by a russian policy than a russian scandal. look at these pictures. the former director laughing about comey's firing. listen to this. >> does the comey firing cost a shadow on your -- >> what's the question? >> what would a white house/russia policy be at this point? >> i think it's not completely impossible to get the focus back on pol