. >> he was once a kgb agent but turned into a vocal critic of russia. when he was poisoned, it made headlines around the world. toxin inside a tea. >> nuclear terrorism. >> why was he killed? we follow the tiail of a dark conspiracy. we'll meet and confrupt the prime suspect and now is the danger coming closer? >> two men waiting in the bushes and one said shoot him. >> an expert helping us with this story. ♪ >>> hello and welcome to "dateline." >>> form oer russian agent was a vocal critic of the russian government but in his world access to information could make you a very rich man or a dead one. his murder set off an international investigation to discover who wanted him silenced. here's richard angle with "spy games." >>> a former russian agent poisoned. a multimillionaire found dead in his bathroom and investigative reporter executed in front of her home. their lives have been interconnected. but what about their deaths? random acts or as some suspect part of an international murder conspiracy that stretches across two continents and several world

now, with putin, however, we have a former kgb officer. right?knows this stuff and hates traitors more than anything in the world, and, you know, what we say about putin is, you know, it's -- to be laughed at is worse for them than being feared. this happened in this case and why you see a lot of media attention to the fact this defector we think, say and know frankly was an incredibly important spy within the inner circle, putin now his propaga a propaganda, he was low-level and he didn't do anything. and -- you know what? that's spy talk. because he's not going to admit we just recruited within his own organization and incredibly important asset. you know, i'm worried, again, that, you know, we have to be have to keep our -- our vigilance intact, because this man has become vulnerable. can we protect him? we can protect him, and as i said, you know, right now i don't fear any retribution right now bought or two years. what happens in a case like that is you get lazy. you get, security you think you don't need. that's when putin attacks. >> seen

sergei skripal was an ex-kgb officer. he and his daughter barely survived this attack with novachok, which is a russian nerve agent. the attack did end up killing a bystander and including another attempted russian assassination in brittain. over 100 russian diplomats were expelled from russian countries. that you might remember is what will apply the laugh till you cry moment when we learned that president trump was very upset and almost panicked when he learned that the u.s. was actually expelling more russian diplomats than others in response to the skripal's investigation. the trump administration had done the math wrong and they thought they were only expelling a sort of average number of russian diplomats. they thought they were only doing what all the other countries were doing when they learned that they were accidentally kicking out a lot more russian diplomats than other countries were, a new round of tough u.s. sanctions against russia. the trump administration announced them but then didn't do it. they slow wa

by the cia and the kgb.that's an easy thing to thank and it's an easy mode to fall into because you know they were manipulating people but the writers were so much more complicated and messy and conflicted then this account of the cultural cold war that allowed us to understand. that was kind of a name of mine to try and tell it from the right perspective and then see the kind of dilemmas that they were placed in and the complexity of their position and being caught between these forces. >> i think that's one of the stealthy brilliant arguments in the book and it's not an argumentative book. send narrative but can you do make several cases. one of the cases made. decisively as of course we are accustomed to thinking about the way cold war politics shaped culture. what we are less accustomed to thinking about is the way these cultural workers were actually yunel warriors and it's even in the title "cold warriors." they were agents. kim's still be more than most. >> that's a good point and sylvia was not a nov

of puppets or chess pieces that are moved around, and by sense of forces and so forth, the cia, the kgb. that's an easy thing to think and it's an easy mode to fall into because they were manipulate people and also some interesting ways but the writers were so much more complicated and messy and conflicted in this account of the cultural cold war allowed us to understand. that was kind of a real angst of mine was to try and tell it from the writers perspective and see the dilemmas that were placed and being caught between these forces. >> i do think that's one of the duffy brilliant argument in the book. it's not an argument of the book. it is undoubtedly driven book and yet you subtly make these cases. one of the cases you make is we are accustomed to thinking about the way cold war politics shaped culture. what we are less accustomed to think about is awake is cultural workers were warriors in the cold war, that they were agent so to speak. but can still be more than those. y is in the book when it's a whole book of writers? >> no, well, yes. that's a good point. can philby was not a

with putin, however, we have a former kgb officer, right, who knows this stuff and is -- and hates traitorse than anything in the world. what we say about putin is, you know, it's -- to be laughed at is worse for him than being feared. this is what's happened in this case. and that's why you see a lot of media attention to the fact that this defector that we think -- that we say and we know frankly was an incredibly important spy within the inner circle, putin now his propaganda machine is saying he was low level and he didn't do anything and, you know, that's spy talk because he's not going to admit that we just recruited within his own organization an incredibly important asset. so, you know, i'm worried again that we have to be -- we have to keep our vigilance intact because this man has become vulnerable. can we protect him? we can protect him and as i said, you know, right now i don't fear any -- i don't fear any retribution right now but a year from now, two years and what happens in a case like that is, you know, you get lazy. you get the security that you think you don't need and th

had my father not been shot down, imprisoned by the kgb, ultimately exchanged by a soviet spy. if movies hadn't been written about him i might have a different interest. but my dad died when i was 12 years old. at that time it was too late to ask him any questions. so in high school i was very introverted. i didn't understand the significance of what my father went through or why people wanted to talk to me about it. in college i came out of my shell. i was curious, i started to ask questions and i wasn't starting my research to indivate my father. i knew there was controversy that surrounded him, but i always wanted to find out the truth and so that desire to find out the truth set me on a lifelong passion to find out all i could about the u2 incident. i realized i had to understand more about the cold war to understand the u2 incident to learnmore about my father. that's why i started on this path and as i grew and developed and found out more information about the cold war is that there were hundreds, thousands of men and women sacrificed and died during this time period tha

this threat from a former communist kgb official, vladimir putin against america's democratic processof election? the answer he did not want to get involved. and he didn't. then for months after the election not a single republican senator spoke on the senate floor about the mounting and devastating evidence of russia's attack on our election and in 2016 i know that's personally because the first casualty in that attack was my state of eilinois and the russians found a way through their trolls to get into the file of my home state and into the voting records of 70000 or more americans who lived in illinois. what did they do with that information? it appears little or nothing but they could have changed it could of had a dramatic impact on the rights of these american citizens to make m their legitimate constitutional choice in the election. four months the silence was deafening as well as president trump defended vladimir putin's brazen denials of these attacks. president trump took the word of vladimir putin over that of his own american intelligence professionals. senate republicans

runs and we all know vladimir putin was a former member of the kgb. 2016 the goal simple, sow seeds of distrust and make it impossible for our elected to govern. putin wins with a weakened america regardless of who won the election. this is the kind of approach that's been used by the communists and russia for nearly half a century after overthrowing the czar nicholas ii, a different vladimir used this to defend communism. john reed defendeds the bo bolsheviks and lenin used the term useful idiots to sdrin hour left it leaning communist sympathizing americans could be easily tricks and used to help the russians. for the past three years democrats have focused on undermining america's president instead of working with president trump and republicans in congress to harden our election defenses. i think there would be broad bipartisan support that we need to prevent future election meddling. the mueller report makes clear that president trump wanted to focus on protects our democracy from future attacks. one question, mr. lewandowski. it's clear that putin attacked america with the goa

as we all know, vladamir putin was a former leader of the kgb. in 2016, putin's goal could have been very simple. divide the american electorate, sow seeds of distrust, make it impossible for who ever run to govern. with america weakened at home, we would be weakened on the international stage. putin wins regardless of who wins the election. this is the kind of approach that has been used by the communists for nearly a century. after overthrowing the russian czar in 1917, vladamir lennon and the communists utilized western journalists as propaganda tools to defend communists. john reed defended them advocating against american intervention. lennon even used the term useful idiots to describe how leftist leaning communist sympathizing americans could be easily tricked and used to help the russians. for the past three years democrats have focused on under mining america's president instead of working with president trump and republicans in congress to harden our election defenses. i think there would be broad bipartisan support that we need to prev

leader of the kgb in 2016, putin's goal could have been simple. make it impossible for whoever won our election to govern with america weak ped at home, we would be weakened on the international stage. putin wins with a weakened america regardless of whoever won the election this is the kind of approach that's been used by the communists and russia for nearly a century after overthrowing nicholas ii in 1917 -- different vladimir and the communists, t tools to defebd communism. jon reed for example defended them advocating against america intervention lennon use d the term useful idiots to describe how leftist leaning communist sympathize in for the past three years they've focused on undermining the president instead of working on president trump and republicans in congress. i think there would be broad support that we need to prevent future meddling. the report makes clear president trump wanted to focus on protecting our democracy from future attacks i have one question. it's clear that putin attacked america with the goal of dividing the americ

former leader of the kgb. in 2016 his goal could have been very simple. divide the american electorate, so see the distrust and make it impossible for whoever one to govern. with america weekend at home we would be weakened on the international stage. vladimir putin wins with a weakened america regardless of who won the election. this is the kind of approach that has been used by the communists in russia for nearly a century after overthrowing nicholas the second and 1917, vladimir lenin and the communists utilized western journalists as propaganda tools to defend communism. new york times journalist john reed for example defended the bolsheviks advocating against american intervention. lenin even used the term useful idiots to describe how leftist leaning communist sympathizing americans could be easily tricked and used to help the russians. for the past three years democrats have focused on undermining america's president instead of working with pres. trump and republicans in congress to harden our election

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having huawei in that forum for cyber-security is like inviting a member of the kgb into a cia planningdoesn't make a lot of sense. but huawei is obligated to support the chinese government. lou: it's been a reality for years. >> i don't know why they have been allowed to operate the way they have. lou: as we look at zuckerberg on ono -- cavalcade across capitol hill. he's under investigation by the judiciary, by the justice department, states attorneys general across the country, and you would think it was just a lark here. i saw a lot of kowtowing. i have to say it's uncomfortable to watch. >> i don't envy the position zuckerberg is in. he's having to represent all of silicon valley essentially to washington, d.c. this is a pretty normal process. technology always exceeds the speed of the law. we are always playing catch-up with the law to catch up with telling. i'm glad the conversation is happening. lou: you mean breaking up facebook? >> no, i'm glad lawmakers are discussion with fib facebook the concerns. they are not saying we are going to slap this regulation on you. they don't k

joining us, jean harrison and kgb's president, we love to talk about how good people of this countryng to help complete strangers in times like this. i know that you guys, dogs, pigs, rabbits, whatever needs saving, tell us what you have experienced so far. >> this is unusual for storm rescue because we have more warning. we are more of for lack of a better word, not first responders but pre-responders. we go in before the storm and try to get dogs out of harm's way, save them from any potential damage in the shelter but make room for dogs that come after and in this case you had significant issues with forecasting trying to figure out where it is going next. shannon: there are shoulders full of dogs forced to evacuate, they have to go somewhere. you were there, we have seen guys do it. sometimes people look at you and say these are great people but it is very organized. you have seen the training. tell us what your plan is. >> our focus is to contact emergency operations centers and determine their needs so we can respond with appropriate access. so we can accommodate which does inc

but there was the control of the kgb, in particular. not to dive old step.in 1989, the publication of those. this is also the time when the soviets economy is going into a tailspin so there was no money for anything. so now there was knowledge. maps. how dangerous and how not dangerous it is. but there was no researchers anymore. on the political level. a lot of the countries go into this independence. about this knowledge about chernobyl but do it very differently about how they approach.the ukraine becomes major mobilizing factor, anti-soviet. in belarus, that's the country that suffered the most. so russia, ukraine and belarus were the most affected but out of those three, it is belarus. roughly half of the population or territory is contaminated. until recently, there way to deal with it was a denial on the state level. partially because, they don't know what to do. >> i'm going to come to the audience for questions so do have a think. want to ask relatively quickly each of our speakers because i'm sure there will be questions from the audience. just abo

they said that the number one focus would be the economy and they changed it to ku klux klan, kgb andyou are nancy pelosi usa, which ones do i want my members to talk about? open borders and medicare for all. how about we just talk about the economy? >> harris: it's apparent that they will stay with the platform and every day democrats find something to talk about. and it's sucking the air out of all of the good stuff we are doing. during august recess she only got -- people aren't talking about it but again, back to health care. first your reaction. >> chris: i think she's right and you wouldn't know this from the last election but the last ones were not elected. their constituents aren't interested in this, coming to an actual solution in health care. >> harris: so capri, there was a long list of people that wanted to have issues talked about and it would be for me an opportunity to break away from the gun confiscating conversation that's going on that won't go anywhere, other than among the base. >> capri: what we want to see is people concerned. and that is often to the peril of w

it seems like something that a russian kgb officer might use to manipulate a president. >> if you spendla's, or restaurants in new york city where they giuli information from all pleases. mike pence has a pretty straight and narrow background unless now. where does he land in all of this. >> so i think we don't know, but i think we have to ask crucial questions about weathhether thee president was involved in this effort to extort the you cranuk. so that seems to have been a way for the trump administration to put pressure on the ukraine. did the vice president know he was part of this plan, and the president met president zelensky on the first. it is hard to believe he did not raise the question of why did military aide get suspended? how did the president answer? he has not been willing to say if you want the aide go investigate hunter biden. >> so the questions you jooit outlined is no doubt what they want in their inquiries. do you think they have the levers levers to get any of these seasons? >>. >> you get the sense that those in the administration are going to talk. >> and they'r

he triggers the thing, it opens and they slide through those doors, the kgb guy continues to beat him and beat him and his clavicles. our officer was evacuated, medically evacuated out of moscow the next day. never went back. this is when the cold war was supposed to be over, when relations with moscow were supposed to be normal. it was an interesting nexus of current events that we thought along at the front of this book, just to remind you what reality really is when you're on the streets out there . it's never a kind place to work. moscow has always been hostile. it's always been aggressive. if you're an american diplomat you will be hassled beyond belief. i'm in the middle of ambassador falls book about 2014 when he served out there and what he underwent as the ambassador, the american ambassador in that country was amazing and his wife and his kids, so this is been going on forever and it continues to go on and it was a wonderful way tostart our story . >> to watch the rest of this program, visit our website at booktv.org. type the authorsname into the search box at the top of th

>> well, kgb operative vladimir putin, his primary enemy is the united states, and what scares him theost is democracy and he wants to take every opportunity to disparage our democratic process, that's really what this is all about. >> does that bring up another concern of the people who feel that they have seen on phone call with conversation with president zelenski and president trump, is that the very thing that critics are concerned perhaps somebody like president putin can blackmail president trump knowing that perhaps as according to some, you know, wait till we get results on this, according to some that the president abused power? >> yeah, a number of reasons why phone calls between the president of the united states and foreign presidents are typically shared widely and one of them is that they typically don't discuss classified information on the phone call, another is that the president needs his own team intelligence community, diplomats, the military to take a look at the phone call and then act on what the president is seeking to deliver with that foreign leader and the t

jim, the cia and fbi has never trusted trump since he went to moscow in 1987, a trip sponsored by the kgb. he comes back to the united states and says he's going to run for president. that's never been explained. all the russian money that has gone through the trump empire, that's never been explained. i don't care what mueller report says, there's a lot of counter intelligence questions out there. we don't have answers for. so the cia, when they look at the president and he spills a secret, a special access program to kislyak and the foreign minister, red flags went up all over. at the very least, he doesn't understand intelligence and i think if, in fact, the cia protected the source, they did absolutely the right thing. even if it was just a suspicion, they didn't know anything, they didn't know of any plans of the president to expose him, they did exactly the right thing. what you do is protect your assets and sources especially in a denied area, bring them to the united states, resettle them in a different name so the russians can't assassinate them. this is all very predictable with

remember, the soviet, old soviet kgb, now turned into the fsv and are very good and constant and persistent about trying to find moles or sources of information leaking back to the united states or the brits or others, so the pressure on that is intense. and so any little bit of information, and by the way, i doubt there was a direct link. what happens is, if the director of the cia came out and said there is too much information coming out, all of these counter-intelligence agents are looking at every little piece of information they can get, and what you do is you start putting that information together, and you say, hey, wait a minute, only certain number of people could know that kind of information, and then it kind of intensifies the search for somebody like that. and that's probably what happened. and that's why, you know, the obama administration, they said wow, there is a lot coming out that we use, for public discourse, and diplomacy, and i'm sure that transferred into the trump administration and at some point somebody said hey, for the safety and security of the source, we've go

. >> i mean vladimir putin, a former kgb guy, certainly would be aware of this possibility. >> exactlynd on the lookout for this. you broke this story. you held back -- >> yeah. >> you decided not to reveal some details out of concern and respect for the individual, that it might somehow affect them, is that right? >> exactly. we made an editorial decision now "the new york times" has confirmed our story, and they put out details about the particular aspects of this source, some of which we have, but we also have additional details. it speaks to how high-level this asset, this russian spy was. it is our understanding that this was a russian national who had been serving as an foefrm ant for the u.s. for more than a decade, so a number of years. that this person had direct access to the russian president, vladimir putin, including the remarkable ability to take photos of documents. >> that's incredible. >> this person over those years had risen to the top levels of russia's national security infrastructure, again providing remarkable access. we also learned that during the obama adminis

. >> we should note putin, former kgb official.en the response from the trump administration to this story? >> i reached out to the white house, the cia, and others. a u.s. official suggested there was media speculation at the time about the covert operative, but this official could not point us to any reporting. public reporting about it. asked for comment, britney bramle, the cia director for public affairs told cnn, cnn's narrative that the central intelligence agency makes life or death decisions based on anything other than objective analysis and sound collection is simply false. misguided speculation that the president's handling of our nation's most sensitive intelligence which he has access to each and every day drove an alleged ex-filtration operation is inaccurate. a spokesperson for mike pompeo declined to comment. stephanie grisham said, quote, cnn's reporting is not only incorrect it has the potential to put lives in danger. i should note, this removal happened at a time of wide concern in the intelligence community ab

remember, putin is a kgb guy.>> let me ask you, practically speaking, how important are these sources of human intelligence or as opposed to singles intelligence which is phone calls that are overheard or emails intercepted. >> it is really hard, let me make this basic, to figure out what somebody thinks. if i want to know what you think about cnn, i intercept your financial transactions and email and your texts. i still may not get information that says this is what jake thinks, i need somebody next to you who can get into conversations that you might have with that person you would never put in a financial transaction or emo and getting to what somebody thinks you need humans for that. >> i want to go back to jim sciutto to talk about that russian spy that was extracted in 2017. jim, you have new information? >> that is right. just about how high level this spy was. it was someone who had been providing information to the u.s. for more than a decade. imagine that. and who had reached the highest levels of russia

vladimir putin in hell sink can i to say i believe my intelligence agencies, not you, former head of the kgbthat's our president. and so i -- look, the guy is a menace, and he is an absolute menace. [applause] >> and i believe that the way he is going to longer be there is we'll beat him. believe it -- that is what we have to. do we can't take that for granted. i have no trouble with their being an inpeople. inquiry in the house. believe he committed impeachable offenses. have a problem with people who say just do your duty. it doesn't matter whether he benefits or not. that's a terrible mistake. we have a moral responsibility and i would say a democratic, small d democratic responsibility for this foreign be a one-term president and that is what our focus should be, and however it is we -- whatever it is we need to do that's what we need to do. >> doesn't disthe house does not impeach him, doesn't it give the next president or another president down the road -- >> it does. our government its broken. we are set can bad precedent every day. there's story in the book, one of the saddest story

vladimir putin and helsinki to say, i believe my intelligence agencies, not you former head of the kgbresident. the guy is a menace. he is an absolute menace. but i believe that the way he is going to no longer be there is that we are going to beat him. i believe it. that is what we have to do we can't take that for granted. i have no trouble with her being impeachment inquiry in the house. i believe he's can it committed impeachable offenses of what i have a problem with his people who say, just do your duty it doesn't matter whether he benefits from it or not. i think that's a terrible mistake. we have a moral sensibility and i would say, democratic, small d democratic responsibility for this person to be a one term president in this country and that's what publishes the end however it is whatever it is we need to do to do that that's what we need to do. >> Ãbdoesn't it give the next president down the road à >> it does. our government is broken right now. we are sending bad presidents every day. there is a story in the book that's one of the saddest stories i know which is about wha

i think right now, he's going to have a legacy of basically doing the work of vladimir putin, an ex-kgb agent, and mitch mcconnell has been told by the cia, director of national enten intelligence, the united states military, he has been told by everybody that russia is trying to interfere and disrupt our democratic process, that we are under attack, so mitch mcconnell is killing republican bills like marco rubio's, and democratic bills that would protect the homeland from this attack from russia. and moscow mitch is doing nothing about it, but he's killing every bill, including marco rubio's bill that simply says if we catch somebody interfering with american democracy, we will put sanctions on them. moscow mitch killed that bill too. moscow mitch has killed every single bill that the intel community has said will protect america, so that's his legacy, not protecting us from enemies foreign. and what about his legacy protecting us from domestic enemies, people that would shoot children, first graders, the friday before they go home for christmas holiday with ar 15s or people that would

. >> he was once a kgb agent but turned into a vocal critic of russia. made headlines around the world. toxin inside a tea. >> nuclear terrorism. >> why was he killed? we follow the tiail of a dark conspiracy. we'll meet and confrupt the prime suspect and now is the

vladimir putin was a former leader of the kgb. in 2016, putin's goal could have simple, sow seeds of distrust, make it impossible for whoever won to governor. with america weakened at home, we would be weakened on the international stage. putin wins regardless of who won the election. after overthrowing a russian czar, the communists utilized western journalists as propaganda tools. a "new york times" journalist defended them. l for the past three years, democrats have focused on undermining america's president instead of working with president trump and republicans and congress to harden our election defenses. i think there would be broad bipartisan support that we need to prevent future election meddling. the mueller report makes clear that mr. trump wanted to protect our democracy from future attacks. it's clear that putin attacked america with the goal of dividing the american people and today's hearing is being held for the sole purpose of attacking america's president which will weaken our country on the international stage.

was a former leader of the kgb. in 2016, putin's goal could have been very simple, sow seeds of distrust, make it impossible for whoever won to govern. with america weakened at home, we would be weakened on the international stage. putin wins regardless of who won the election. this is the kind of approach that has been used in the communists in russia for over a century. after overthrowing a russian czar, vladimir lenin and the communists utilized western journalists as propaganda tools. a new york times journalist defended the bolsheviks, advocating against american intervention. lenin used the term useful idiots to describe how leftist leaning, communist sympathizing people could be used to help the russians. for the past three years, democrats have focused on undermining america's president instead of working with president trump and republicans in congress to harden our election defenses. i think there would be broad bipartisan support that we need to prevent future election meddling. the mueller report makes c

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intelligence community, constantly saying he didn't believe the intel community, that he believed an ex ex ex-kgbwhat we called ryan knows. so for him to trot that word out last night is really rich, 1984 rich. >> if you don't salute dear leader, if you don't let him tell you that the hurricane is indeed going through alabama when science doesn't back it up, you are any kind of slur that this president wants to throw at you and you're going to have every elected republican in congress pretty much cowering in fear of being bullied by donald trump. and so we remain day after day where we are today. and we will be tomorrow and the next day probably too. >> all right. last night the president also boasted of the funding. he said he has secured for new mexico's -- >> that's right. >> military sites. >> this is great. >> we've achieved record funding for the u.s. military. all of that money, trillions and trillions of dollars spent all produced right here in the good old usa. and i have to tell you, new mexico, i know you're gonna like this, a lot of those trillions, because, you know, when you do the

hired ex british intelligent agitate creates fer sfooel got in touch with buddies in moscow former kgb to share to famous dossier where was elizabeth warren outrage? joe biden, joe biden i think, you know i thought he had been stronger than a lot of people thought. i think this may kill his candidacy think about this when we are talking about here is his son, in 2014 gets put onboard of a corrupt ukrainian company long with longtime family friend of then senator john kerry put on the board of ukrainian company under investigation by ukrainian government, for krumgs, and money laundering put onboard so the company can say wait a minute we got stroked with america we got senator kerry's friend the son of the american vice president, then, obama administration puts joe biden in charge of going to ukraine saying hey boys you got to clean up your act engage in tougher anticorruption matters people say wait a minute how can you lecture ukrainians cleaning up their act when your son is on payroll getting as much as 50,000 dollars a month, in order to do what? just show that that company -- go

cagey and kgb both, but i do think he's -- he's running out of cards to play. was describing a fighter jet the russians were trying to sell turkey. it's just a lousy jet. it's not clear that it's stealthy. that it can hide in space. got an engine that keeps breaking. anybody who would buy it is making an unwise decision. that's their problem. they're selling a product that isn't very good. >> yeah. and he's -- mika, he's been holding the weak hand since 1999 and has done an extraordinary job with that weak hand. but the question is is he the feature or is he the past? and really the biggest question has to do with he's still relatively certain if you compare him to american politicians running for president, he's a young man. but still that question of succession is haunting. russia was in a chaotic state before he came in and regardless of what you think of him, he brought order and the question is what's after putin? that remains the most troubling question. >> well, coming up, the death toll is rising in the bahamas after hurricane dorian left the island dev

we'll be reaganite and we're going to push back on an ex-kgb agent. we're not going to let them even if mitch mcconnell wants them to, we're not going to let hem interfere with american democracy. that's not a hard message for a republican. a conservative, to deliver in the republican primary and they'd get 35%. >> a republican wouldn't make, but who could make a dent in this president as he goes into the general election. there would be an opening there. but no republican wants to step up for fear of the president's twitter account. for fear of his still extreme popularity among republicans where he's at 80, 85% sometimes. and this summer, the president is -- he has been flailing. because of the economy, because he has been sucked into the petty distractions and it ends appropriately where he canceled a trip to poland because he wanted to monitor this hurricane and instead, instead of projecting leadership -- >> he's golfing. >> yeah. alabama. >> he spent both of the last few days at his golf course in virginia for hours at a a time on the links. >>

there was a senior source, when he retired he moved to the united states, continued to draw his kgb pensionkripal he was exchanged in a spite swap and because his family were still back in russia, he saw no reason to live under alias and he was offered the protection and resettlement but he turned it down on the grounds that his family were regularly visiting him and semitransparent. you can see today many of those old—time defectors have dropped from view even though they left under alias, it was fairly transparent. if i was in the kremlin i would be putting out the story this guy was actually a double agent. that is a possibility that he was supplying dodgy information, always controlled by the svr. that might send some shivers down the spines of the cia headquarters but there are integrity checks, particularly with the cia who are very adept at using polygraphs to check the quality of the information they receive from their agents so i wouldn't be too worried about that. that is the kind of counter blow you would expect from the svr. great to talk to you, thank you very much for your tim