the local kgb headquarters. mob surrounded the building, as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. inside, peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. >> 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 berlin wall had come down, and he called for instructions. >> desperate for help, putin dialed kgb headquarters 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 the basement, at a furnace, shoveling documents, as he hears demonstrations out on the street. >> they are burning the secret files so fast that the furnace is blowing up. >> putin torched thousands of pages of kgb documents and secrets, as the crowd closed in. with the fire still raging, putin went out

no, the kgb changed its letters from kgb to fsb 25 years ago, and then they went to work the next day and continued the same thing. so i tried to bring about continuity in knowledge base of what our opponents were doing over all this time and then how, how it survived the communist era and became the perfect propaganda weapon systems which really required the money, resources and dedication of a capitalist society to turn it into the lethal weapon that they used to attack the united states with. >> host: and the director of national intelligence, dan coats, has talked about the fact that russia's efforts are ongoing and pervasive efforts to undermine democracy. and you also talk about the fact that although people say the russians had been back for the midterms, they really never left, did they? >> guest: no, they didn't leave at all. you know, the 2016 election was not an isolated incident. what it is, it's a continuum of activities which i spell out in the book in great detail. ing and i, you know, a lot of people say to me, they go, well, you discuss europe quite a bit. well, that'

systems that the kgb were using back then. think that's why, when the soviet union transitions to russia and the intelligence community in which he became he first director of russian intelligence in the post soviet era, that he saw technology was the way forward. harnessing that but marrying it with the old system. that being said, he had to also come about and -- how can -- happy russia to become whatever russia wag goes to be. they were having a horrible identity cries forgot 1989 to the mid-1990s. many people were saying they wanted to go back to the soviet system. and i believe there was some polls that said, as as as many as three-quarters of russia would prefer the former soviet union to come back because they weren't transitioning well into capitalism. by the time 2000 rolled around and he became the pratt, that had gone and people were starting to earn income and live very well. but they also realized that russia was a fundamentally conservative nation. the communists had quashed all forms of religious expression, eve

you have to understand he's a former kgb officer who started as a careerist. in fact the famous biographer tells a story about when he was a young boy, ten or 12 and went to an open house and jokingly he went out with all seriousness and said i want to be a kgb officer, how do i do this, and they were unused and said tell you what, grow up, go through high school, go through universities, law school and then come back and apply and that is what he did. he wanted to be a russian intelligence officer serving the supreme soviet from childhood. that doesn't mean he was always going to be up to maintain that mindset. he was sent to the east germany running agents into west germany to steal technology, computer technology mainly. but i think that gave him a better view of how the world was going to be. things were operating at the speed of however a computer from radioshack operates in 1984. so he thought about improved and the systems that they were using back then. i think that is why when they transitioned to russia and became the first director of the russian in

furthermore, the kgb front, and has been for years. anybody who studies this note. moreover, look at the figures on church attendance in russia, they are not very impressive. three to 4%. all the stuff that russia being a christian religious country, it's nice public in but the reality is rather different. however, here we seen all these men at the right. they were to the left like a jill stein window but the photograph of flynn. the one sitting there is a jill stein. i mean, there are democrats will tell you stein may have cost them a lot about industry states, wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania. i don't know how many she got but it may have had a factor. beyond that we know about flynn, we know about manafort's can we know about the nra. we know about the center for the national interest. we know they try to hack into the republican national committee and various senators to attack democratic national eating clinton campaign and then attacked 20-30 state election. that's since 2016. what they're doing it is not a matter of public record but it's clear they're do

>> they are that crafty, the kgb. this started under the kgb, what is a precursor to the fsb.ive the sur moil the -- turmoil. soviet union was going through. one of the ways they did that. they started huge corporations. and a number of those people were trading commodities. they were vetter rap veterans of the kgb. now these people came alive again, and you sit -- see them partnering with donald trump. >> why would the russians be interested. at least that early on in 2016 i think we figured out why. he didn't like hillary clinton. he said putin admitted me wanted trump to win. >> why would they be interested in someone like donald trump. as far as 1984. when he was a real estate person. >> back then he was a businessman, and they approached him as a powerful businessman and that was sort of it, i believe it started out as laundering money, when the soviet union crumbled there were enormous amounts of flight capital that needed to be laundered. what is the best way to launder money? it is real estate. donald trump created an empire that became a money laundering machine. trum

it is well-known the kgb poses as matters of the kkk, at one point. it also found evidence that links the cia to the assassination of jfk. past the material off to unwitting conspiracy theorists. the soviets forged a letter from lee harvey oswald to a little-known cia operative known by the name of e howard hunt. , asking before any steps are taken, let me know what to do. before he took place in the 1970's when hunt was better known. more worryingly, the kgb also tried to discredit martin luther king by planting articles portraying him as an uncle tom, being secretly paid off by the government so lbj could control martin luther king. when written about this, they said the events were selling, but that is the context in which this took place. that is what malcolm asked was calling dr. king and uncle tom. and the separatists, just because he saw peace and assimilation rather than separatism. aside, a lot of , he himself tried to turn himself in to the cia in the early 90's and was turned away. soviet in the east european division had, at the time, come

he said it is another part of kgb, they are another part of the intelligence. 30 years, i document it all in my boogk. he would never get a security clearance today. >> so some of this, similar claims that we saw on a new york magazine article a month ago talking about things he believes started in 1987 on that first visit to the ussr. he was targeted as a businessman and one that people saw as having a large ego, being fragile, and they knew he had money problems. it seems so simple even given all of that, was he really targeted? what was it about that profile that made you think she going to end up at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. they groomed him. he made his first trip to russia, that was initiated by the soviets. and the ambassador of the un went up to trump tower with his daughter. they invited him to russia. they said build a trump tower in mosc moscow. they brought him over, they brought him over with a tourist agency that was run by the kgb. they said he hat ld lots of fun with the russian women. and promoting a foreign policy that is very -- it sounds lik

that's part of the kgb. they were in trump's buildings. they were living there.ence cell in the home of the president of the united states. and i don't think people like that should get security clearances. >> you're talking about donald trump, the president right now. what about vladimir putin? how central is he to this knowledge treasure trove? >> incredibly central. i mean, when you use the term mafia state to describe russia, it's not a metaphor. it's literal. and vladimir putin is the copout -- russian mafia reports to him. i got transcripts from ukrainian intelligence showing that putin was meeting with the most powerful figures in the russian mafia and making agreements with them to siphon off billions of dollars from russia's energy trade with ukraine. >> one to ten, how worried are you now that you finished this book? >> i'd rather not discuss that. >> okay. craig unger, thank you very much. author of "house of trump, house of putin," just out. appreciate your time. >> thank you. >>> some migrant families separated at the border are still in limbo as the

the mav gentleman is just another branch of the kgb.to them. so in vent days we've seen trump revoke the security clearance of john bren nap. i would argue this is a very serious security breach to have people with ties to russian intelligence in the home of the president of the united states. >> tell whaution you know about trump tower moscow. >> it never got built, obviously. i think one of the reasons, really, is the real attraction of trump properties to a lot of people was the ability to launder money. if you want to launder money, you don't want to do it in russia, you want to get your money out of russia. >> interesting. craig unger. the book is "house of trump house of putin" i like your russian nesting dolls here. the untold story of donald trump and the russian mafia. here it is. thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >>> next up, one more thing about an american hero. before you and your rheumatologist move to another treatment, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. xeljanz xr is a once-daily pill for adults wi

you're doing the bidding of an ex ex-kgb agent. you were aiding and abetting enemy if you call it a witch-hunt. >> yesterday at the white house, maybe not for the first time, but sarah sanders referring to it as the witch-hunt in shorthand as official statement from the white house podium. >> can you imagine, can you imagine -- i just can't imagine any time in our past with the united states military, people at ft. mead, the united states intel agencies discover that a hostile power is waging some form of war on the united states of america and elected officials and sarah huckabee sanders and cable news hosts are attacking that investigation. and demanding, okay, we just found out that, yes, they are trying to undermine american democracy. we now demand that you, that you close that investigation right when we start getting evidence that russia. we've got the hard evidence. why don't they want us to find out what else vladimir putin's done. >> we had facebook coming out this week talking about more intrusions for 2018 and story for

, the current version of the russian kgb.w the line between u.s. prosecutors are doing and what the special counsel is doing and how a guilty plea here will affect anything going on here? >> the move today is not directly part of robert mueller's investigation, it is tangentially involved. when robert mueller comes across what he believes to be criminal conduct that is not in his wheelhouse, he pushes it or let some other group prosecuted. this is the u.s. justice department national security division. , even though there was a connection to paul manafort, not directly involved with the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. vonnie: what information may he have that prosecutors would find useful? what only pertain to paul -- what it only pertain to opponent for? dashwood it only pertain to paul manafort?> >> -- what it only pertain to opponent this cooperator wile stronger evidence and presumably some evidence pertaining to paul manafort and could have an impact on whether paul manafort decides to corpo

the kgb, and when i asked him about the russian mafia, he said, that's just another part of the kgb,tacular security breach, when you think about it. we have heard all this talk aboutjohn brennan's security clearance being revoked. i believe donald trump would never in a million years get the security clea ra nce. a million years get the security clearance. $:/startfeed. but this still doesn't get to this issue that robert mueller may or may not have evidence about, and we are no closer to that, even after the events of the last 2a hours, which is whether trump colluded with russia. it is still a different question from his financial dealings. this is a man who is owned by russia. he was $4 million in debt after his the ask you in atlantic city. they started a real estate firm in trump tower, he was $4 billion in debt, couldn't get a bank loan, and suddenly money sta rts a bank loan, and suddenly money starts going in, with trump tower being financed by russian money, and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. at least 1500 trump branded condominiums involved in what appeared

eye of understanding him and reaching acome daths with him -- accomodation with him, john said, i saw kgb. >> reporter: outside, people lined up in 105 degree heat to pay respects to the senator. >> he's done a lot for the country. >> reporter: officials at the state capitol will keep the building open to the public until everyone moves through the line. larry and his wife are navy veterans. >> we admired him and respect #d >> reporter: and she's a makeup artist who knew the senator through tv appearances. >> television news, 2:00, 3:00 in the morning, he always had a smile on his face. >> reporter: today would haveb his daughter was overcome with emotion as she placed her hand on the casket. the celebration of life continues tomorrow morning with a service at his family's church in phoenix. from is there, his body will be flown to washington dc and he will lie in state at the capitol on friday. chris martinez, kpix5. >> and another live look at the capitol and casket you see there. public viewing begins at 2:00 today. people have been lined up for hours to pay final respects. we will con

>> i can't say that he was an eyewitness, but he was head of counter intelligence for the kgb and he had been vladimir putin's boss. so i think that he has a lot of institutional knowledge. >> but how reliable might he really be given that russia stripped him of the rank, the awards and pension, and suspected him of working with the cia. so there is not a lot of the love loss there >> no, not at all, but to be honest, i believe him more than i believe vladimir putin or donald trump. there are records of all of the fails and the money laundering is not in dispute. there is $1 trillion of flight capital from russia since putin has been presidenta apresident,s to be laundered and you look, that trump's condos all over the world, and so it is going to be an effective way to launder massive amounts of money. >> it is complicate and fascinating and we will wait to see where the mooueller investigation leads into any of this when their report comes out whenever that is. thank you for coming on with us. >> thank you. >>> and it was ahead of a massive and shocking report detailing decades of

this is a change of state of affairs that trump equals kgb.e you concerned about staying the course because it's uncharted territory. these are economic wars may be for some of these folks but the battle has begun. >> look i think one really interesting thing was sanctions on turkey. i think it's really important to send the bad actors of the world a message that we are a strong united states and its equally showed people on human rights we have their backs. charles: the major shakeup in the fbi with the man including some of those questionable texts about president trump. we will be right back. before you and your rheumatologist move to another treatment, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. xeljanz xr is a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough it can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections, lymphoma and other cancers have happened. d

bush said he could see in putin's soul, mccain said he saw kgb. state television announcing the news without any tribute. they called mccain an inplack ab inplackable person. >> i can hear john cackling. he not only loved that he had called putin out and that line about seeing in his eyes and the letters kgb, he cackled delightedly about it ever afterwards. john welcomed this. he always felt as max said, he felt so deeply associated with the cause of people working for freedom. >> max, there has been some level of criticism for his approach to foreign policy, how hawkish he could be. he seemed to jokingly talk about a military action with iran. he suggested that u.s. troops may have to stay in iraq for 100 years or so. how will history judge his hawkish tendencies? >> there's no question that senator mccain did not get everything right. i didn't get everything right. nobody gets everything right. he was very -- as always, he was very big about owning up to his mistakes and learning from them. for example, just in the last year or so he talked abou

so smart. >> he's a kgb agent by definition. he doesn't have a soul

understanding and and reaching accommodation with him, john of course said i looked into his eyes and i saw kgb>> outside, arizonans lined up in 105 degrees heat to pay their respects to the six term senator. >> he has done a lot for the country and is a great statesman. >> they say the building will remain open until everyone moves through the line. larry osborne and his wife are navy veterans. >> we admired and respected him. we think that he was a great hero and a great person. >> reporter: virginia is a makeup artist that got to know the senator through his many tv appearances. >> television news, 2-3 in the morning. he always had a smile on his face. >> tod d haveeen his birthda his ughter was overcome with emotion as she placed her hand on the casket. >> reporter: the celebration of john mccain's life continues tomorrow with a memorial service at his family's church here in phoenix. after that, they will fly his body to washington dc, where he will lie in state at the nation's capital. reporting in phoenix arizona, chris martinez, kpix 5. >>> here is another live look at the pewÃpublic vi

i interviewed general head of kgb, the russian mafia, that's another part of the kgb.e actor, that's why this is so important. it's very different. americans grow up watching "the godfather" and think of the italian mafia. this is quite different. it's an arm of the russian government as surely as the united states was to use the cia to use a covert action, the russians can use the russian mafia. and they are based -- they've been based in trump tower on and off for more than 30 years in the home of the president of the united states. >> craig, two more questions. first off, you say that trump for 40 years has been the subject of russian intelligence somehow his sexual misconduct they would use against him obviously we heard about these tapes. secondly also what is so damning and i said this all along is trump was $4 billion in debt and the russians showed up. first question, what do you know, what did you find out what they possibly might have as far as some type of sexual eye candy of what trump has done? >> the general was talk about -- again, he was head of counter

and we can't forget that his background is as a kgb agent. think he's playing a hand well, and we need to respond to it in strength. >> but what does that mean, let's say, if president trump decides, as one of the israeli former air force commanders told me yesterday, that the only thing that would work in terms of getting rid of any more barrel bombs and chemical drops is to take out all the airfields. russia is so heavily on the ground. what do you think russia would do? >> i think that the sanctions that have finally been put on need to be really enforced. i do think there needs to be diplomatic context. and then i don't want to be a military planner. i'm not. but if i were still secretary of state i would want to know what the pentagon has in mind, and what is the long-term here? because frankly, i don't think there's any solution in syria, unless there is a political settlement of some kind where the various parties are involved. and where there's a plan for what the next steps are. the problem has been, this is always immediate gratific

he didn't join the kgb. he went to law school. he looks to the west.rms of world view, he was much closer to barack obama than vladimir putin was. and during that period we got a lot of big things done. we eliminated 30% of the nuclear weapons allowed in the world between the united states and russia in 2010. we got the most comprehensive set of sanctions on iran ever in 2010 working with dmitry medvedev. we got a new supply route in afghanistan open through russia, flying soldiers through russia the first since world war ii that happened, that allowed us to not be dependent on pakistan as we were at the time that we joined the government. over 90% of our supplies back in 2005 went through pakistan. and that allowed us to bring the war against terrorists inside pakistan, including most directly and dramatically in 2011 when we killed osama bin lauden. when vladimir putin came back, there was no disagreement in the white house. i was still at the white house. but things were going to get difficult. i had written for years about putin and joined the whit

after another, coming from the white house, and silence in the face of a complete capitulation to an ex kgb spy, this republican party, these republican leaders will have much to answer for when donald trump leaves the national stage, and he will. >> yes. as common as moments like yesterday become sadly as common as well has been the silence from some of those republicans. talk about some of the news here, joe. president trump issued another call for the special counsel's investigation to end after the fbi terminated a senior agent, peter strzok, removed from the investigation into russian interference in the election after an internal watchdog discovered he traded negative text messages, you remember, about trump. the president tweeted, agent peter strzok was just fired from the fbi finally the list of bad players in the fbi and doj gets longer and longer. based on the fact strzok was in charge of the witch-hunt it will be dropped? a total hoax, no collusion, no obstruction, i just fight back, writes the president. also tweeted a lead role in the crooked hillary clinton sham investigation.

she had unauthorized meetings with the old kgb, the security service that she should not have passed they were aware of her activities, and they passed on her information to the russian security services. the issue of having foreign nationals working -- all over the yietsz, it is something special, but it is known in russia these individuals are a source of personal information on the u.s., als sin. >> thank you, ivanka trump breaks with her father not one, but twice, and how her father is responding. what?! -welcome. -[ gasps ] a bigger room?! -how many of you use car insurance? -oh. -well, what if i showed you this? -[ laughing ] ho-ho-ho! -wow. -it's a computer. -we compare rates to help you get the price and coverage that's right for you. -that's amazing! the only thing that would make this better is if my mom were here. what?! an unexpected ending! feeclaritin and relief fromwsy is if my mom were here. symptoms caused by over 200 allergens. like those from buddy. because stuffed animals are clearly no substitute for real ones. feel the clarity. and live claritin clear. this ijus

mafia, he said, oh, that's another branch of the kgb.rted to us. they are part of russian intelligence. you have part over a 30-year period part of russian intelligence. if i may read one quote he gave me, he says, i would not be surprised if the russians have and trump knows about them, files on him during his trip to russia and his involvement in meeting young ladies that were controlled by russian intelligence. the general was the boss of vladimir putin. so -- >> and that's a quote from him? >> absolutely. >> i'm going to leave it there. sometimes they taught me in brooklyn, enough said. >>> can you stand at the podium and guarantee the american people they'll never hear donald trump utter the "n" word on a recording in any context? >> i can't guarantee anything, but i can tell you the president addressed this question directly. i can tell you that i've never heard it. >> welcome back to "am joy," i'm al sharpton in for joy reid. this week donald trump's own press secretary couldn't guarantee a tape of trump using the "n " word isn't

he reminds me of the kgb who said show me the man and i will find you a crime.ed crimes 12 years ago when he worked for the ukraine. irrelevant to the trump 2016 campaign. lou: let's turn now to a couple things. north korea we find out according to the latest imaging, satellite imaging, that north korea appears to be advancing its missile program. very quickly, dr. gorka, your thoughts on whether this is a setback or anticipated in what will be a long process as secretary pompeo put it. >> i think after three generations of leadership you can't just flick a switch and change the way that regime behaves. but the rocket engine side is dismantling and they canceled the anti-american parade. those are good signals, but it will take time. lou: thanks so much. that's it for us tonight. thank you for being with us. see you tomorrow.ew york. [♪] kennedy: president trump wrapping up a big rally in tampa, florida where he spoke on behalf of gubernatorial candidate ran desantis. he boasted about the economy and low unemployment numbers, taking shots at the fake news media

is spending tens of millions of dollars to pursue an election system that would be the envy of the kgb or the sru. they're trying to meddle. we have enough people colluding with the russians in that effort, certainly, insider by george soros, his money and the organizations he's funding. >> yeah. you hear a lot about this idea of russian collusion. when i told people i was writing a book on voter fraud, they were like, it's going to be about the russians, right? we should be concerned about any threat to election security. but it's silly to assume that somehow russians are less concerned about manipulating political outcomes than the democrats. lou: i think we should be safeguarding the integrity of the elections. there should be republicans and democrats at every polling boothe in the country -- pooling place in the country to ensure the integrity. but you and i both know that's not going to be sufficient. and these two parties had better be certain this time they're doing everything they can. eric, we thank you for being with us. come back soon. we'll continue to watch very carefully

understanding him and reaching a accomodation with him, john, of course, said i looked into his eyes and i saw kgb. i believe john's greatest contributions was america's national security. we must comment a little bit on arizona's interests as well. in the word that he loved his adopted state. he loved its beauty and protecting our environment and water and forests. he worked throughout his career with our native american citizens and arizona veterans. he was a big champion of our many military installations. some have disagreed with some of senator votes on policies, that should not diminish or gratitude for his service. let's return to where i began. john's love for america and arizona. he represented our values all over the world as senator from arizona and america is stronger for his fierce defense of our values. we can be proud he was our senator. i consider it to be a great privilege to have served with john and i will miss him as a friend, and as a strong force for america in the world. >> we have all seen the grainy video, a young man in his 30s emerges from behind the folding doors of a b

he reminds me of the kgb who said show me the man and i will find you a crime.ve committed crimes 12 years ago when he worked for the ukraine. irrelevant to the trump 2016 campaign. lou: let's turn now to a couple things. north korea we find out according to the latest imaging, satellite imaging, that north korea appears to be advancing its missile program. very quickly, dr. gorka, your thoughts on whether this is a setback or anticipated in what will be a long process as secretary pompeo put it. >> i think after three generations of leadership you can't just flick a switch and change the way that regime behaves. but the rocket engine side is dismantling and they canceled the anti-american parade. those are good signals, but it will take time. lou: thanks so much. that's it for us tonight. thank you for being with us. good night from new york. see you tomorrow. [♪] kennedy: president trump wrapping up a big rally in tampa, florida where he spoke on behalf of gubernatorial candidate ran desantis. he boasted about the economy and low unemployment numbers, taking s

one was a former kgb spy. and then there was a phone call after the meeting. we don't know who donald trump jr. called because the republican parties had stopped us from getting the records from the phone company. so there is something that is there. we do need to follow it through. whether the pop star is relevant i don't know. the fact that there were so many lies created tells me there is something relevant that is important. >> thanks for joining us. >>> we have urgent breaking news coming into the situation room right now. a senior administration official is confirming that a russian spy worked at the u.s. embassy in moscow for a decade. we have details. we'll share those details with you right after this quick break. with an ingredientr brain originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. it's a high-tech revolution in sleep. the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it intelligently senses your movement and automatically adjusts on each side to keep you b

helsinki standing next to vladimir putin and dissed american intelligence services while praising the kgbd over again never willing to criticize putin, but always willing to make fun of, mock people in our justice department, cia, fbi. brennan had enough and a right to free speech. 37 years in the navy, the purern who over saw the killing of osama bin laden. he's one of our great s.e.a.l.s and reversing clearance on great americans, he's threating to do it to susan rice and james clapper and many others is just beyond the pale and that's why so many americans are speaking out against donald trump. >> a total of nine people, by our count, are risk of losing their security clearance. michael, all of these people speaking out. the dozen of intelligence officials. does that make this president more or less likely to take away more? >> i think he's likely to do more. i think it's true as josh said that there is a stack of these orders on a shelf someplace and next to that is a basket of additional tricks he is going to pull out when he needs distract and claim to be so oppressed by all of his

. >> i interviewed the head of counterintelligence for kgb and he said mafia? it's part of the kgb.intelligence with us. i think it's very deeply disturbing when you have russian mobsters laundering money through trump-branded properties, living in trump-branded properties and they're living in the home of the president of the united states. >> let's unpack that very learly. what is -- you're saying what donald trump's connection to the russian mafia is they used his properties as ways to launder money from the post-soviet era, to essentially take money out of russia and put it into cash buying condos? >> right. the demise of the soviet union there were enormous amounts of flight capital. it is a mafia state. that goes all the way to the stop of vladimir putin. he is the top. they were essentially seizing all natural resources of russia and pumping it out and they needed to launder that money. there's no better way to launder vast sums of money than real estate. and it would be great to find a great real estate mogul with thousands of condos. trump loves doing business with gangster

he operated in the kgb. he knows how to plan things and he knows how to use the openness of our society against united states. >> and he knows how to use state media. >> the media has fallen for it, the left has fallen for it. if we want fairness, investigate it all. i want to know everything that happened. thanks very much. >> thank you. >> the president putting the spotlight back on the mueller probe instead of the economy and the jobs. is that a mistake? jointing me now, ashley pratt. kathy arue and shelby holiday. you have a great economy to brag about right now, shelby. you know the economist on earlier telling me he thinks this is going to be a stellar jobs number friday and we could be heading to the lowest unemployment levels ever in this country. gdp, 4.1%. should the president stick to that instead of the other stuff? >> i think republicans want him to stick to that. what we're hearing is talk about more tariffs, an escalate of the trade war and possibly shutting down the government. they're not us

this guy is a former kgb colonel. we are not sending blankets like obama did.orget the socks. blanket and socked. lou: the idea that he can be compared to his predecessor, he has done in a year and a half more than obama accomplished 8 years and what little he did do was in the wrong direction for the wrong and most of of that this president has taken time to reverse. dr. sebastian gorka, thank you for being with us. president trump angrying radical dems with numbers they have no response to and they can't argue with in any way. president trump: women's unemployment rate, i'm sorry women, it's the lowest in only 65 years. not history. sorry. lou: joining us now, gordon chang. author of "the coming chance of china. it's going something of a cliche' to say he's a force of nature. >> he command the world stage. he takes stand and follows through with them. he's actually benefiting the american people and the american economy on protocols and on. steel workers, going back to work. how about apple. trillion dollar market cap. he's making progress because his policie

this guy is a former kgb colonel. we are not sending blankets like obama did.on't forget the socks. blanket and socked. lou: the idea that he can be compared to his predecessor, he has done in a year and a half more than obama accomplished 8 years and what little he did do was in the wrong direction for the wrong and most of of that this president has taken time to reverse. dr. sebastian gorka, thank you for being with us. president trump angrying radical dems with numbers they have no response to and they can't argue with in any way. president trump: women's unemployment rate, i'm sorry women, it's the lowest in only 65 years. not history. sorry. lou: joining us now, gordon chang. author of "the coming chance of china. it's going something of a cliche' to say he's a force of nature. >> he command the world stage. he takes stand and follows through with them. he's actually benefiting the american people and the american economy on protocols and on. steel workers, going back to work. how about apple. trillion dollar market cap. he's making progress because his p

in communication with glenn simpson, he must have been in communication with other russians, former kgb sbc people living in europe and possibly into medication with people in russia and even more interestingly enough, now we know -- >> sean: a meeting before and after. i love this. the russian lawyer was a -- >> the attorney, yes, was in munication with glenn simpson before and after. absolutely. >> sean: amazing report, sarah sarah. we are proud of you. thank you, the information is critical in your book. a lot more to come tonight. kristin fisher, new information on these abuse allegations surrounding deputy dnc chairman keith ellison. also, alan dershowitz, david shown, they will react to this breaking news. the great one mark levin. busy news night. stay with us. george woke up in pain. but he has plans today. hey dad. so he took aleve. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered...

understanding him and reaching accommodation with him, john, of course, said i looked into his eyes and saw kgb. well, i believe john's greatest contribution was to american national security. we must comment a bit on arizona interests as well. in a word, he loved his adopted state. he loved its beauty. he was committed to protecting our environment and our water and our forests. he worked throughout his career with our native american citizens and with arizona's veterans. he was a big champion of our many military installations. some have disagreed with some of senator mccain's votes on policy positions. but that should not diminish our gratitude for his service. and let's return to where i began. john's love for america and arizona. he represented our values all over the world as senator from arizona. and america is stronger for his fierce defense of our values. we can be proud he was our senator. i consider it a great privilege to have served with john and i will miss him as a friend and as a strong force for america in the world. >> we've all seen the grainy video. a young man in his 30s em

i repeat, there is no moral equivalent between that butcher and thug and kgb colonel and the united statesamerica. and to allege some kind of moral equivalence between the two is either terribly misinformed or incredibly biased. neither. neither can be accurate in any way. >> so george, while the president of ukraine, which has been fighting a russian-backed separatist movement for years in eastern ukraine, while he has expressed his condolences and applauded john mccain's legacy, russian lawmakers have been on the opposite side of that. russian state tv calling mccain a symbol of russophobia and russian lawmakers saying he had the mentality of the cold war. george? >> ivan, let's look back at the past as well. mccain fought in the vietnam war, a nation where he was captured. he was tortured. and when he returned to the united states he was part of the push to normalize relations between the united states and vietnam. >> and this is remarkable because he says he was terribly tortured, he wasted away to barely more than 100 pounds during his 5 1/2 years as a p.o.w. in vietnam. he was captur

john mccain said i see three letters when i look at vladimir putin, kgb.is somebody trying to undermine this country. look what we have heard from the president. president trump has spoken more highly of vladimir putin than he has of john mccain. i just think of this past year, since we have known about this diagnosis, this death wasn't a surprise. i think about all the heart ache, the unnecessary heart ache this white house, this president in particular put his family through in addressing issues about public spats, going out to rallies and demeaning him. so unnecessary and so childish. it really is telling when you read reports that white house insiders agree to be named. john kelly. sarah huckabee sanders saying they disagreed with the statement the president gave out. they encouraged him to include the word hero. it shouldn't be difficult. we are all americans here. trying to cover this as objectively as we can. at the same time, you have to call a person out for not mourning as a leader and teaching us to mourn somebody who meant so much to the countr

he was an officer in the kgb. an interesting fact about him, telling fact is he spent most of his time in east germany and became fluent in german. he was in that one part of east germany that could not receive broadcast signals from westerners. they referred to dresden as the valley of the clueless. this is where vladimir putin was oftioned all during the time glasnost and perestroika. he was trying to transform the soviet union. vladimir putin missed that altogether. generation, he was not there for those critical moments. interestingly, by 1991, perestroika it was restructuring and it was threatening to pull the soviet union apart at the seams. undercision in washington the first president bush was the collapse of the a soviet union would be a bad thing. we were used to dealing with the soviet union and it was better to have a firm of government over these people. -- kiev tf in 1991 when in 1991. he told them not to split from moscow. ofwas a complete misreading the situation at the time. hell-bent tos were get

mccain talking about another president looking into the eyes of vladimir putin and mccain said he saw kgbve seen the same over the years. secretary gates said he saw a stone cold killer so yeah i think occasionally we've been too charitable to put it mildly. >> david petraeus, do you want to give us a sense of what you'll see on monday? >> i'll recall the moments. >> the troops and the fact that no one had our backs more than he did. i'm going to recall the many visits that he was not just with us rhetorically or figuratively, he was there literally every single congressional recess with the other two members of the three amigos. >> general david petraeus, we appreciate you coming in, skipping your workout to be with us to speak about your friend john mccain. >> thank you very much. >> alisyn. >> aretha franklin's hometown is saying good-bye. we are live in detroit where they are honoring the queen of soul next. only fidelity offers two zero expense ratio index funds directly to investors. and now we have zero account fees for brokerage accounts. at fidelity, those zeros really add up. ♪

we have putin who is former kgb spy.our intel sources from coats to pompeo, to john bolton, they all knew that, there was impression media was spinning after helsinki with putin and trump that trump was a puppet in his administration knows exactly what the score is. >> certainly our policies are again directed for russia are much stronger than they were toward the obama period. it was important to have the press conference as a way of resting assured the american people as well as russia to put them under warning, we will not tolerate this. we must differ and defend against this type of message. david: i think the message was more to americans than to russians because the russians know pompeo is not an idiot, that coats is not an idiot. john bolton has been talking about russian intrusion in our process for years, for decades. >> russia's goal is always to sow dissension in the united states however i would argue the liberal mainstream media constantly emphasizing this fake russian collusion story they're empowering pres

the way russian propaganda, just like its kgb predecessor works, 90, 95% of what they tell you is truehey want to establish their bonefides. then tell you a few things not true to sway influence the targeted audience after the audience is accustomed to reading things they find to be truthful. trish: so it is possible that was all a bunch of garbage directed to christopher steele by the kremlin. now walk me through -- which by the way the hillary camp paid for, let's not forget. if you want to talk about collusion as some people in the media talk about it. that might be worth looking into. on other hand you have russian lawyer that sits down with trump, jr., and that is seen as some kind of smoking gun for, well surely there was collusion then with the russians. what do you make of that? >> so the russians, their intelligence services with which i'm very, very knowledgeable i must say based on my career, they run a variety of intelligence espionage operations against us. some of them are extraordinarily clandestine like when they ran the illegals operation against us in 2010. that wasn'

in communication with glenn simpson, he must have been in communication with other russians, former kgbbc people living in europe and possibly in communication with people in russia and even moreic interestingly enough, now we know -- >> sean: a meeting before and after. i love the fact of the russian lawyer was a client of fusion gps. >> the attorney, yes, was in communication with glenn simpson before and after. absolutely. >> sean: amazing report, sara. three weeks and running, number one in "the new york times," gregg. we are proud of you. thank you, the information is critical in your book. a lot more to come tonight. kristin fisher, new information on these abuse allegations surrounding deputy dnc chairman keith ellison.he also, alan dershowitz, david schoen, they will react to this breaking news. the great one mark levin. busy news night. stay with us. ♪ us. bass pro shops and cabela's bring you the fall hunting classic - with great deals. like savings of 40% on redhead silent hide camo shirts and pants. and save $130 on this garmin handheld gps. douglas! we're running dangerousl

a 131 minute meeting with a former kgb colonel who has a reputation as a master of manipulation.ust two of them and two translators, no one else. its still unclear tonight what, if any, specific information u.s. intelligence officials have on what was said between donald trump and vladimir putin. america's top spy director of national intelligence dan coats recently indicated he may be in the dark. >> i'm not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened at helsinki. >> reporter: and that former intelligence officials say say problem. >> if our intelligence boss, that's what former senator coats is, doesn't know, certainly the working people in the intelligence community have no idea what actually happened in that closed door session between two men in helsinki. >> reporter: former spies tell cnn that presents two potential disasters, president trump could have divulged classified information to putin and u.s. intelligence wouldn't know it, and intelligence officials won't be able to help trump and his team formulate strategies on russia if they don't know