and the system is based on kgb. it's still based on kgb. it's not just -- well, of course it's the hybrid system. it's just kgb, and looking to the history even in years of '99 to early '99 to somebody already mentioned that when this -- well, symbiosis of kgb and mafia took place, i should say that looking even back to the history we should say that all of these chiefs -- in law were controlled by the kgb in the soviet times. so it's really based on the kgb and kgb managed from the -- as i said, we should look at the year of 1991, 1990, what they did at that time and they managed to come back to power in just in ten years. so to even answering the previous question, the regime would need to do something with all the system. not just putin or his cronies. >> thank you. additional questions? right here. katia will bring you the microphone. oh, you'll get it natasha. >> hello. i'm ellen, i'm an intern for senator gillibrand. my question is directed to dr. ozland and mr. whitmore. can you discuss more about how kleptocracy specially with busin

and kgb managed. we should look at the year of 1991, what they did at that time and they managed to come back to power in ten years. so answering the previous question, we need to do something with all of the system not just vladimir putin and his cronies. >> thank you. additional questions? >> she will bring you a microphone. >> hello my name is alan and in an intern. i was wondering if you can discuss more about how this relates to business ties and undermining democracy. >> we will start with brian. >> will give you an example. back in 2010 i was researching an article i ultimately co-authored called the velvet surrender. it was looking at russian influence in the czech republic network of influence. i came across this company that was an energy trading company with a mind bogglingly opaque structure that led. [inaudible] about ten to 12% of the check energy market and the ties to it were unsurprisingly supportive of the kremlin line. >> >> and to be perforated and the sites pop up in europe with o

putin tore pages of kgb documents in secrets. as the crowds closed in, with the fire still raging, putin went downside and faced the mob by himself. there are armed guards inside, he told them. they will shoot you. he's able to bluff his way out of this and tell the crowd, don't try it here, you are going to get hurt. putin's threat worked, the mob dispersed. this is the drama that stays with putin all the time. the fear. vladimir putin quells that fear with absolute control. this is what control looks like. in one of the world's busiest cities. the streets are empty for vladimir putin's motorcade. 12 million people simply disappeared on putin's inauguration day. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> the event was perfectly produced for russian television. every detail flaw lessly planned. >> almost every detail. >> a few russians did not follow the script. >> literally a block away from his inauguration was a cafe where the opposition were together and drinking wine and coffee. and the riot descendent on the cafe and start arresti

that night in dresden they found a target, the local kgb head quarters. mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. inside, peering through the curtains was a young kgbt lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. is there he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. >> putin was a junior officer but the boss was away. he was in charge. >> the police weren't going to help and he called for instruction. >> desperate for help, putin dialled quarterquarts in moscow over and over again. finally one official told him simply moscow is silent. >> and i think it felt like a deep betrayal to him. >> vladimir putin was on his own. he went down into the bowels of the building and fired up the furnace. >> he finds himself in a basement shoveling documents as he hears demonstrations out on the street. >> they are burning the street with fire so high -- >> putin torched thousands of pages of kgb documents and secrets as the crowd closed in. with the fire still raging, putin went outside and faced the mob by himself. there ar

headquarters in moscow, he said once kgb, always kgb. and lying is a part of his job. and he is amazed that he keeps lying, and people are still buying it, still asking him did you do that? no, i didn't. [laughter] by the way, by saying i didn't, he just, you know, he's looking back at russian people thinking, of course, i did it. [laughter] >> they don't get it. >> so let's sell this nonsense to them. and it's all about his appearance. and as long as he's being treated as the most powerful man on the planet -- by the way, two consecutive years, "forbes" magazine, that's what counts. he knows not because he read books like us, but because he has these instincts that no one ever in historyattacked a strong dictator. as long as dictator looks strong, there will be no uprising. >> well, let me get to the point about lies. you tweeted, i think yesterday, the point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda, it's to exhaust your critical thinking and to annihilate truth. and i think that my concern is how can our sort of d

which when are you dealing with a former kgb agent can be a dangerous thing in itself. in fact, jordan klepper has more. >> reporter: the news has been all over this trump-russia story like flies to borscht. >> russia scandal. >> the russians are attacking our country. >> to figure out what the hell is going on i met with an e-kgb spy jack basser kee, born albrecht deet rick in east germany, recruited by russians, spy odd on the u.s., later defected and never forgets an anniversary. i was meeting him at a location no one would ever suspect. >> jack, you are ex-kgb. >> i am, i was. >> that was the cia, the fbi, the nsa, what have you all rolled up into one organization. >> in other words, he was a mother [bleep] russian spy. >> what were your weapons of choice. >> there were no weapons. >> there is really no gadgets involved. >> what about that drone. >> that is not mine. could be yours swns that our drone. always looking for a new interesting-- can we just cut the drone, we need to get rid of the drone. >> maybe there were drones but basser kee did have a few spy techni

you don't get into a kgb school by accident.t's one of the most ruthless cut throat intelligence organizations on this planet. for him to say he got into that school willy-nilly, absolute falsehood. >> by the time he left the school, he knew what he wanted to do and who he was going to do it for. >> computer guy. >> computer guy for military intelligence, then the soviet union collapses and you go into private business. >> more or less yes. >> and now you're on the forbes millionaire list. >> yes. >> so your biography reads like someone who has done well in the new russia, the russia that emerged from the soviet union. >> i'm lucky. >> estimated fortune at $1.3 billion allows him access to all of the best toys in the world. but he says that unlike other russian billionaires he owes none of his success to a relationship with the government. >> zero help, zero advice from russian government. russian government didn't recognize it until mid 2000s. >> you're saying your story is different from the other oligarchs who emerged. >> abs

he is a kgb operative. he has spent his life knowing everything he can use against any possible rival including us. >> reporter: i will say this. the adviser to the president have really down played expectations for what they would want to see tomorrow. that's intentional. we see the expectations all the time. so i had one person say to me early in the week. the two of them talking about the current status of the conversation. that's a metric for success. acknowledging where the status is. agreeing to more talks in the future. we know there's more going to tunneled lid. we know, for example, the president is likely going to president putin or talk with putin about the threat from north korea. likely to talk about syria. we know that from secretary of state tillerson. as forward body language, i will curious to see it tomorrow. remember g-7, the first international trip the president won't that we were on a month and a half ago or so? there were should, now that the president has had these first meetings wit

protest them are in no small part by the kgb. for the next four years, the two sides jockey at the negotiating table until it finally reached an agreement. today, vladimir putin and russian strategic thinkers remain ambivalent. after all, we don't worry about missile threats from canada or mexico in the deployment of intermediate-range missiles to cuba would plainly bridge the understanding reach after the cuban missile crisis that the united states will not accept west end stationed on the island. .. countries on the eurasian perimeter and here i speak in particular china, have complete freedom todeploy intermediate range missiles . moreover, the lack of these missiles in russia's arsenal decries russia as a potent tool to gain leverage in its near bride as it always seeks to do. vladimir putin has resolved this ambivalence in a single way: cheating on the inf treaty.by state department accounts, rush has been testing a new cruise missile that can strike western europe and at least nine years. the obama administration repeatedly

this was huge to the kgb. it was to the book of the soviets to always get someone else to do the dirty work. they did through the bulgarians in particular. when they heard that the bulgarians were involved, that was it. >> let me ask you this, why did the bulgarians want to kill the pope? what do they care about this? the bulgarians? they're not going to do this. questions? no? >> as documentation is there is discussion proceeding the eastern, there are also questions to what he might have been a copper must figure. do you have any comments? >> i am not sure. i zeroed in on the same thing. what he actually said, i go through this on the book -- in the book. they put a contract out on him. they actually tried to assassinate him. i think the payment on that would be $300,000. was is fascinating, it january 20, 1981. he badly for him and john paul ii gave him a blessing. they had a private mass together. he went back to his hotel and in rome, it was supposed to detonate, it was supposed to explode. it didn't happ

i want to go back to the former kgb agent who spied on the u.s. for ten years. a american citizen. we're watching the horses moving in. >> you can see the protesters sitting there. and the protesters are -- as i don't know what that is -- >> this was developed in 2009 when the intense protests developed and they realized they were sit ins, what they didn't want to do, they didn't what a repeat of london. they introduced the use of horses, i remember covering g 20 in toronto that year where there was a heavy use of horses because what they realized is that the protesters won't go into the horses. the horses allow them to slowly inch forward and clear people from the ground. the problem is there are bridges above those horses and there are protesters firing flares or smoke bombs which spook the horses and that creates a whole different set of problems. we're seeing that, seeing something burning on the right-hand side of your scream. to ambassador emerson's point, i think he's sti while we -- there's a point hans nichols was nmaking yesterday that germany has a pr

so the new kgb has plausible die my built.ut russian intel joins every where it can be and means to do us harm. dagen: i grew up in a household with two parent who remembered the threat of the soviet union and remembered the threat of the cold war. these individual involved on the right and the left, it seems they have forgotten what the cold war was like and what the former soviet and not you russians are capable of. >> i blame the american left that just about destroyed k-12 education. we don't know about the cuban missile crisis or the berlin wall. but i also have a problem. with conservatives who -- in the media, in washington, who made their careers out of being american patriots. and now suddenly something has changed and russia is okay. russia is not okay. putin is not a good guy. he's not our friend. he's a war criminal. when people say we should have a terror alliance with russia. you can't have an anti-terror alliance with terrorists. putin is a war criminal. he did do everything he could to interfere with the basic

and like i said, there is no such thing as a former kgb agent, there are only kgb -- present kgb agents. they enlist people with no empathy or morals. they get them to go out and influence people using one of two ways, with bribery or blackmail and extortion. they figure out what you can bribe somebody with, and what people are scared of, to blackmail them. that is there modus operandi. it is entirely plausible they would've looked at all people who potentially influenced leaders in america and try to figure out if they are probable or extort a ball. -- extortable. sen. hirono: that is why the firing of sally yates, and the raising of concerns over trump's campaign operatives in their dealings with russia. as you described, this is a russiansrandi for the to collect incriminating evidence on their target, so they can gain leverage or control over them. sen. hirono: this is exactly what they do. there is a russian word, which means to collect compromising information about the target. russians do that on a regular basis. they have been doing it on me for seven and a half years. they do i

the former kgb officer has a reputation for threats beyond typical maneuvering.er: when angela merkel met with vladimir putin back in 2007, they were not alone. he brought along his big black lab bra door even though she was afraid after being attacked by a dog. she seemed uncomfortable while the president seemed to smirk. >> this is a way of showing the russian people, hey, i'm a powerful man, i'm a manly man. >> reporter: years later, putin tried to explain to a german newspaper, i wanted to do something nice for her. when i found out she doesn't like dogs, of course i apologized. >> it's well known that putin is a former kgb officer and in that role he was trained to be a handler of people. what that means in an espionage context is exploiting people's vulnerabilities but also their desires, their ambitions, their insecurities to achieve your objectives and it's not always to shame that person. it's not always to have dominance but it's to advance your interests. >> reporter: this wasn't putin's only apparent ploy involving a dog. an how putin, quote, dissed h

these are not kgb people. they don't work in state companies. they are his real friends whom the u.s. government assumes is a part of newton's wealth. analyzing this, you wonder how do they make the money. essentially in two ways. asset stealing, that is they buy assets, financial control companies and television companies cheaply and they get big state procurement orders that are massively inflated. and there's no competition because these are vladimir putin's friends and everyone knows they've been given it. looking at the numbers, i come to the assessment that 10 - $20 billion. year has been taken out by this group of essentially half a dozen people. if you added up, this is 100 - $200 billion that has been taken out by this small group of people. of course a consequence of this is there's not much corrupt avenues left for the others. corruption in russia today, it's quite legalized. they get the state procurements legally and it's very concentrated, but what i will shock you with is the fourth circle. that is the west. this would not happen

he looked in vladimir putin's eyes and saw the initials kgb. and i hope that is what president trump will see. i'm skeptical. he is quite unsound on russia issues. quite soft on russia in a way that i was pleased in his speech yesterday. he at least pointed out that russia's destabilizing behavior with the invasion of ukraine and the invasion of georgia. that needs to stop. >> so, jonathan, you have, as she points out, the kgb spymaster versus the man who wrote the art of the deal and loves to talk about what a great dealmaker he was. a lot of people voted for him on the basis of his belief that there was this great businessman. what do they both bring to the table on this and what are their weaknesses? >> you are certainly right that president trump in a small setting on a one-on-one setting. he's much more prone to flattery. he's much more conciliatory and in the realm of foreign policy to be inexperienced. we know that he holds vladimir putin in high esteem. this is someone who four years ago when he was a celebrity developer and reality tv

he's annex kgb dude.eparation would he do in transof meeting with president trump. >> putin is a supremely confident person. he's going into this meeting feeling as if he's going to gain it upper edge. the reason he feels that way is because in the previous meetings he has had with previous administrations with obama and president bush he did gain it upper hand. he won concessions or at least he got them to sit on the sidelines. when he made his moves on georgia or crimea or the ukraine. so he's going into this very con fir dent it's likely in that confidence he will underestimate the new president. it will be a fascinating meeting. what is more fascinating is the amount of hand wringing from the european leaders who can't get enough of disrespecting the new president, president trump. they are wailing about how this could go very badly and putin will get the upper hand and relations with the u.s. as far as the e.u. goats will go in the toilet. these are the same leaders who for the most part could bother

he came to depend on a former kgb agent, a man by the name of vladimir putin. by the summer of 1999 boris yeltsin fired his prime minister and announced putin in his place. almost immediately bombs tore through apartment buildings in russia killing hundreds. putin blamed terrorists from the break away republic. evidence began to emerge suggesting otherwise. many believed the whole thing was orchestrated by putin to consolidate his power and boost his popularity. by 1999 boris yeltsin was a shadow of his former self. his administration consumed by corruption that could send yeltsin from the kremlin to a state prison. he needed a man he could trust so he turned to his prime minister and struck a deal. on new year's yeeve yeltsin resigned naming putin in his place. president putin signed a decree granting boris yeltsin immunity from prosecution. yeltsin struck a bargain. optimism, the hope of a democratic and open russia was replaced with putin's russia. he surrounded himself with loyalists and cracked down. the stage was set for russia to become what critics call

conversery vladimir putin kgb is a kuning operative. in fact once he brought a large dog to a meeting with angela merkel because she knew she was afraid of him. >> how did she take that. >> not well. >> i hadn't heard the dog story had you. >> i had, yeah it's a great story. >> it's a good one. and dogs scare a lot of people. no shame in that. phillip take a listen to the president here on foreign soil talking about the free press. >> yeah. >> because many presidents in both parties talk about this in broad, nonpartisan terms, that the first amendment is something that affords more freedom not only to reporters but citizens of all stripes than we see in many other countries. but the president today didn't hit that note. instead turned it into more of a time for media criticism, saying we should have a fair press. they didn't say anything about the fair press in the founding documents they just said first amendment rights protected. >> they have been fake news for a long time. they've been covering me in a very -- very dishonest way. do

far from a coincidence i would suggest that an old kgb officer took power in russia less than a decade after the soviet empire expanded. therefore, the history of the soviet era and the u.s.-russia relations remains vitally important today. our 30 yearaching anniversary of an important moment in that era, the ratification of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty. 30 years on, it's still a ofarkable achievement president reagan's statecraft. not merely imposing numerical limits on weapons systems but eliminating entire -- an entire class of weapons, namely land-based weapons with a range of 500-5500 kilometers. those missiles pose unusually high risks in europe. and movede stockpiled rapidly making them difficult to monitor. they cut warning time for launch down to just a few minutes. in contrast to intercontinental missiles. it was deeply provocative when the soviet union deployed such missiles into eastern europe in the late 1970's. nato had no choice but to respond. president carter began the planning steps and president reagan carried them out, deploying american built missil

it is far from a coincidence i would suggest that an old kgb officer took power in russia less than a decade after the soviet empire disbanded. therefore, the history of the soviet era and the u.s.russia relations remains vitally important today. we are approaching our 30 year anniversary of an important moment in that era, the ratification of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty. 30 years on, it's still a remarkable achievement of president reagan's statecraft. not merely imposing numerical limits on weapons systems but eliminating an entire class of weapons, namely land-based missiles with a range of 500-5500 kilometers. those missiles pose unusually high risks in europe. they can be stockpiled and moved rapidly, making them difficult to monitor. they cut warning time for launch down to just a few minutes. in contrast to intercontinental missiles. it was deeply provocative when the soviet union deployed such missiles into eastern europe in the late 1970's. nato had no choice but to respond. president carter began the planning steps and president reagan carried them out, depl

this was done when he did the initial test to admit him into the kgb.ow, this test said that vladimir putin was not vulnerable in the slightest to women or alcohol or flattery, but he was vulnerable to a lowered awareness of danger. >> what's that supposed to mean? >> it's supposed to mean that vladimir putin wouldn't realize how dangerous the situation would be, that he would charge ahead. he could be foolhardy, that he wouldn't appreciate the risks associated with certain power moves, with certain operations, and that he would behave in a rather more boyish way, not thinking ahead at the risk this could entail and not being sufficiently frightened of them. >> do you think just at a very base level, does putin respect trump? >> i think that the people that vladimir putin respects the least are ideological hypocrites, people who are very blinded by the talk of the 1990s, and those people are, a lot of them, middle tier officials and the middle tier leaders in the european union. that's something they'll both have in common, that they will not have a gre

once you are in the kgb, you are always in the kgb. it was not to talk about adoption, it certainly was not to talk about anything else but if anything, it was there to cap information and the fact that jared kushner lied and admitted it, until finally revealed today, asks the question whether that man should be in the white house right now instructed with this type of information. military,were in the if we had this type of her and our security, that would have been -- what would have been our punishment? clearance would've been suspended immediately an investigation open. i'm glad you mentioned jared kushner because many are wondering why is he in the white house caps on -- in the white house? in the first form, he light on it. he did not disclose a single meeting with the russians. if you make a false statement or you canto tear a fax, be imprisoned. he omitted that information. he has been confronted and what does he do, he revises it. then he submits a second clearance form he lied on that went to because he did not disclose this

our draft will kgb strengthened and we would invite anyone in good faith who is interested in strengthing the bill to work with us to do so. we will continue to talk and listen and exchange ideas on how we can continue to make improvements. you are willing to try to work with us to do something better that provides more affordable care actable health care on the doctor and health care provider of your choice. that is the choice people have. a no vote is a vote for the status quo under obamacare and we know where that is going to lead. it is going to lead with a big multibillion bailout of insurance companies without any reform. that is what our democratic colleagues are hoping for if we are unsuccessful. but we think there is a better way to approach this and one that brings down cost and maintains choices and the freedom of choice. we will continue to plow ahead with their help or not because we think it is our duty to do so and have confidence working together we can come up with a better care plan that suits the needs of americans. >> mr. president, as senators continue to return from

that has a different connotation in kgb speak than it does in the western imagination. that means putin is ademocrat at getting a read of hi interlocutor, in this case a man who is frightfully sensitive and narcissistic and i would hazard to say megalomaniacal and desperate for approval and flattery and pew tip is adept at breaking them down psychologically and building them back up again in his image. >> very flattering word. >> very flattering. you couldn't put a better kind of instance of trolling by the russian president across. and he also said i don't know how this will sound, but donald trump answers questions adequately in person as oppose odd the way he is on tv. this is the russian president eating the american president's lunch for him. again, keep in mind, donald trump ran -- some of the criticisms trump leveled against barack obama i felt were quite well-founded -- ran a campaign saying the former administration, the obama white house, was completely hopeless when it came to negotiating, they inaugurated terrible deals on behalf of the united states, and th

. >> it is never being sent from kgb to these guys.up of people around putin and then they are told make a payment to this person and that american. that is where this thing comes from. a guy is paying for the stuff here in the united states. same thing with this manafort stuff. the russians never paid from kgb central. >> how do we stop this? >> we have to wake up. sit a country that's trying to destabilize the world. they are not our friends. we have to be on guard as we were during the cold war. we are in a different kind of cold war. putinis out to get us. if we don't reck cog miez that and allow them to sort of roll all over us and to do fake news and to hire different people inside the corridors or power. >> do you think this personal targeting of russian officials is the northeast successful way to get open? >> it is abjectively and subjecti subjectively the fact that we had such a personal reaction means if you ever played the game battleship, this is it. we found his achilles heel. >> they also seem to be going after you the a

she was raised in east germany when vladimir putin was in charge of the kgb there.nd take a look at -- if you can see it, we're going to show ow viewers at this moment where it was captured, he was talking there, both fluent in both russian and german. and you can see her sort of rolling her eyes. angela merkel does not look sort of -- falsehoods or fake news or anything else. >> well, you know, the europeans generally have lived with the russians, of course, closer and longer than we have. and they are taking steps across the board, i think, to make visible russian fake news. after all, the russians are the inventors of fake news and have practiced it for over 100 years. they just have social media now that is boosting the effectiveness of what they do. angela merkel knows this very well. as do the swedes, as do the pols and so forth. and so i think putin has a rougher time with them. you know, i think -- here's the other point, though. i will be very surprised if putin and trump don't emerge from this meeting saying that they have a very good personal relationship

putin, the former kgb colonel, has the ultimate poker face. american presidents have thought they could read him before. >> i was able to get a sense of his soul. >> i found him to be very smart. >> but failed. former ambassador to russia has been in the room during high stakes meetings with president putin. >> putin loves intelligence data. he does his homework to know full brief of the people he deals with including most certainly president trump. >> richard engel joins me now from hamburg, germany. was there any sense that there was a weakness on the side of trump? is there something that president trump could exploit? >> yes. they say his hand is not as strong as it seems. let's go back to what gary was saying. they were saying that putin is not a chess player. if you think about chess, that's significant to hear from perhaps the greatest chess player in history, a fellow russian and a putin critic. a man who tried to run for president in russia and dbl get very far, he says, because he was blocked by the kremlin. he says if you play chess

the kgb was not a law enforcement agency. was it providing a public service or providing information about people. it was holding that information so that it could blackmail large segments of the population into compliance. >> who is yuri skaratov and what is his treatment? >> he was the former prosecutor-general of the russian federation, so essentially their equivalent of the attorney general. >> he was one of the people trying to take over, become the president of russia after boris yeltsin. he suddenly appeared in a video with two prostitutes in a moscow hotel room. this was publicized and the person who recorded that information, and who released it to the public was a man named vladimir putin. who we all know quite well now. so that was actually case where the information was not held in reserve, necessarily. in other words, it was used to destroy a political enemy. to create the space for putin to become president. >> is sex often the currency of kompromat. >> there's the honey trap, western businessmen or officials ar

he came to depend on a former kgb agent, a man by the name of vladimir putin.e summer of 1999 boris yeltsin fired his prime minister and announced putin in his place. almost immediately bombs tore through apartment buildings in russia killing hundreds. putin blamed terrorists from check neea. evidence began to emerge. many believe the whole thing was orchestrated by putin to consolidate his power and boost his polari. by 1999 boris yeltsin was a adow of his former self. his administration consumed by corruption that could send yeltsin to a state prison. he turned to his prime minister and struck a deal. on new year's eve yeltsin took to air waves to resign naming vladimir putin in his place. on his very first day in office president putin signed a decree granting yeltsin immunity from future prosecution. yeltsin struck a bargain. optimism that followed the collapse of the soviet union, the hope of a democratic russia was replaced with putin's russia. he cracked down and the stage was set for russia to become what critics call a criminal state. >>> next up from

today matters because putin trained as a kgb agent to manipulate, corrupt and bully targets into doing bidding and many around the world saw putin doing that to an american president. people who know how putin operates don't think for a second this meeting didn't go exactly as he planned it and wanted it to go long and wanted to bait president trump into trading horses. but there are costs of playing let's make a deal with vladimir putin. we spent months looking at what putin's russia is like today, a place where business deals can get you killed and where speaking out also can land you dead. we've met analysts and activists that say putin is playing trump but first, this are still protests underway in the city and fires burning tonight as demonstrators clash with police. we spent most of our day here in hamburg on the streets covering the protests and clashes that shut down the center of the city. they were big, tens of thousands of people from all across europe, united by a shared desire to scream their frustration at all that's wrong in the world from environmental degradation to wa

he came to depend on a kgb agent, a name by the name of vladimir putin.mer of 1999, boris yetson fired his prime minister and announced putin in his place. almost immediately bombs tore through apartment buildings in russia killing hundreds. putin blamed terrorists from check chi that. but evidence emerged that the check chans might not have been behind the apartment buildings. many believed that the whole thing was orchestrated by putin to consolidate his power and boost his popularity. by 1999 boris yetson was a shadow of his former self. his administration in corruption, corruption that could send him to the state prison. he needed a man he could trust so he turned to his prime minister and struck a deal. >> translator: on new year's eve, just in time for the new millennium, yetson took to the airways to resign, naming vladimir putin in his place, on his very first day in office president putin signed a decree granting boris yetson immunity from future prosecution. to save his own skin yetson struck a bargain. optimism that followed the collapse of the

protests that were funded in no small part by the kgb. they were at the negotiating table until they finally reached an agreement. today vladimir putin and russian strategic thinkers remain ambivalent about the imf treaty, in my opinion. on the one hand, russia benefits more from the inf treaty than does the united states. after all, we don't worry about missile threats from canada or mexico. and the deployment of intermediate range missiles to cuba would plainly breach the understanding that the united states will not accept offensive weapons stationed on that island. russia by contrast is the vast land power of eurasia with potential rivals in close proximity. by eliminating the missiles from europe, russia gains security in the most likely theater of a general war from the superpower most capable of striking its territory, the united states. on the other hand, the inf treaty applies only to the united states and russia. so countries on the eurasian perimeter and here i speak in particular of china, have complete freedom to deploy inter

it is far from a coincidence that an old kgb officer took powerless in a decade. and the history of the soviet iraq and us russia relations remain slightly important today. and approaching a 30 year anniversary of an important moment in that era, ratification of intermediate range nuclear forces treaty. 40 years on it is still a remarkable achievement of president reagan's date craft. not merely imposing limits on weapons systems but eliminating an entire class of weapons, mainly land-based missiles with range of 500 to 5500 km. those missiles pose unusually high risks in new york. they can be stockpiled and moved rapidly making them difficult to monitor. they can warning time to a few minutes in contrast to intercontinental missiles. it was deeply provocative when the soviet union deployed such missiles into eastern europe in the 1970s. nato had no choice but to respond. president carter planning steps that president reagan carried out by deploying american built missiles in europe in 1983. a decision protested widely in the united states and europe, protests tha

what i know about his background -- you know, we make the russians kgb agents to be ten-feet tall. no. i've worked with people like him. and east germany wasn't necessa necessarily where they sent the very best. his claim to have run a bunch of agents is vastly exaggerated, i believe. having said that, i don't know if he's going to do a whole lot of preparation because the guy is extremely clever. he is extremely cagey. it's not a play on words. he has been playing foreign dignitaries for a long time and he will be trying to play donald trump. and certainly he has been briefed. and i think they're savoring the day of playing one-upmanship on the national scene against the american president. >> this morning in warsaw we heard president trump spend some time talking about russian aggression, crimea and the annexation there. how would vladimir putin handle any kind of conversation about russian aggression tomorrow with president trump, do you think? >> it's not russian aggression if -- and he has done it before in a couple of interviews that he has recently given. you know, he would

i mean, was there a full-on program with the kgb to go after the american elections.w, if this didn't meet then they went to somebody else and there were multiple meetings with terrorism aides and e-mail contact. you know, context with meta data, and it's all over the place. it's not just one meeting. roger stone talking to hackers on e-mail, and it wasn't another countries. and frankly, i agreed with the last guy on, anybody who withholds information or impedes the investigation is flat-out treason. >> we know jared kushner was in this meeting that wasn't originally disclosed on his security clearance form. we also know kushner tried to set up that secret channel to the kremlin on previous reporting. does security clearance need to be revokeded? >> look, if he worked for the fbi and cia he would have zero clearances. not even confidential. it would be taken away from him the same day this was known. it should be. he should have no clearance. >> bob baer, thank you for joining us tonight. >> we'll be right back. no, please, please, oh! ♪ (shrieks in terror) (heavy bre

putin is kind of eyeing the dog. >> he's an ex-kgb agent.d on your psychological profile, and certainly i don't know if donald trump has an issue with canines, but you can be sure that this is well planned out from his point of view. >> of course vladimir putin was famously the kgb head in east germany. >> yeah. what's interesting about the meeting between the president and vladimir putin is what's said and what isn't said. the body language. >> and how about russian hacking? >> will the president bring that up? will he be strong about it in the idea that the president of the united states is not at every opportunity hammering away at russia, at putin's role in all this, i think is, to use your word again, extraordinary, but also again something we never thought we would see. when i was growing up, the american president always defended america, particularly a republican american president would always defend the united states against russia, and that's not what's happening now. >> a lot of evidence that russia is interfering in european ele

you got a kgb agent president of russia.ump has the things he wants to get out of this meeting. putin has the things he wants to get out of the meeting. what is putin going to try to do in the room, in that eye to eye situation with the american president? >> if we were doing this from my side, we would write a profile on the vulnerabilities. i'm talking about having psychiatrists look at video about how someone speaks. >> what vulnerabilities would they have? >> one is when you speak in public about him, praise him. don't get too much into detail. when you talk about the press, denigrate the press. say clearly you are the man that has the answers. i think anybody who looks at his video knows it is a man that wants to be based. and i guarantee you the kremlin has people breaking that down and saying here's some words you can use to play up to that. >> he was already psyching trump out this week when he met with president xi talking about they're going to work together on north korea. i think there is already a little gamesma

protests that were funded in no small part by the kgb. for the next four years the two sides jockeyed at the negotiating table until they finally reached an agreement. today, vladimir putin and russian strategic thinkers remain ambivalent about the imf treaty, in my opinion. on the one hand, russia benefits more from the imf treaty than does the united states. after all, we don't worry about missile threats from canada or mexico. and a deployment of intermediate range missiles to cuba would plainly breach the understanding reached after the cuban missile crisis that the united states will not accept offensive weapons stationed on that island. russia by contrast is the vast land power of you'eurasia. by eliminating the missiles from europe, russia gains security in the most likely theater of a general war from the superpower most capable of striking its territory. the united states. on the other hand, the imf treaty applies only to the united states and russia. so countries on the yur asian perimeter have complete freedom to deploy interme