he met with his kgb handler on a double decker news london, and the kgb had kept this information very tightly held. in fact, according to blake, maybe three or four people in the kgb knew about it, and at this point. and the kgb now is face evidence with this dilemma where they know that the americans and british have succeeded in tapping their lines, or more particularly the red army's lines, but they're faced with a dilemma-want to lose their mole, george blake, who is only one of a handful of people who know about the project, and if the kgb does anything to stop the tunnel, blake would clearly be exposed. or do they want to risk losing the secrets, and that's where we are in may 1955 as the tunnel starts to operate. now, i'll stop the discussion -- my discussion here and i want to open it up to questions, but thanks very much for having me here. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, steve. if a been to many press club events and can't recall one that has been so spell binding and fascinate little as your presentation and we're grateful to have you've here tonight. so raise your hand

yourfather was the head of the kgb. in budapest, yes.he city many years ago. and your mother was a soviet agent. that is an exaggeration. my mother, yes, she worked in the first department of the kgb but she retired in 1953, steve. in different ways, russia is trying to restore its influence. for moscow, the real lesson of 1989 is weakness costs power. today's russia wants to forget about 1989. it was, yes, an amazing period but it was the period of backtracking, surrender, defeat. now, russia seeks victories. i think that whatever label you give russia — global player or superpower or empire — what i see is a country with a cast—iron conviction that it is great and that great powers must have influence. it's very mild out there. let's see what's in store for the run—up to the new year. very mild in western scotla nd the new year. very mild in western scotland in the last 2a hours. 0vernight into sunday this plume of subtropical air caused temperatures to hover around briefly 17 celsius in the western isles of scotland, a local phenomeno

yourfather was the head of the kgb. in budapest, yes.ears ago. and your mother was a soviet agent. that is overexaggeration. my mother, yes, she worked in the first department of the kgb but she retired back in 1953, steve. in different ways, russia is trying to restore its influence. for moscow, the real lesson of 1989 is weakness costs power. today's russia wants to forget about 1989. it was, yes, an amazing period but it was the period of backtracking, surrender, defeat. now, russia seeks victories. i think that whatever label you give russia — global player or superpower or empire — what i see is a country with a cast—iron conviction that it is great, and that great powers must have influence. hello there, saturday's sunshine was in short supply, only the favoured few got to see much in the way of brightness, but i am hopeful that through the day ahead a few more of us through the day ahead a few more of us will get to see something just a little bit brighter, some sunny ellipses. it certainly is going to feel mild, particularly acro

the man himself graduated from a kgb school in moscow. and the man himself was a member of a french party in the parliament of ukraine, a pro russian party. are we now going to have impeachment turn on the word of a kgb agent? come on. give me a break. >> that's why though the democrats on the other side have to use that in their opening statement if you will, when they present this at the senate trial. the managers at the senate trial have to use that. they have to go on the offensive and say exactly that. are we going to, they don't have to wait for rebuttal. they have to use that in their offensive on the first count and use it in their obstruction count saying look, giuliani's over there right now. is this part of the defense? and actually add that, if you will, not to the counts on the obstruction, but add that if to the defense and the obstruction right in the senate trial. >> clearly there's a lot to debate. we'll know a lot more after 5:00. thank you. have a nice weekend. >>> well the political stakes certainly high of course on t

the man himself went to a kgb school and graduated from a kgb school in moscow and this man belongedssian party in the parliament of the ukraine and this is the guy he's doing business with now and they want to convince us this is all on the up and up? >> it's incredible. greg, in a word, is there any way that he's doing this on behalf of his client if his client does not know about it? >> well, he could -- he could be doing it on behalf of his client because he believes that it's good for his client even though his client isn't actually directing it. i think that's probably -- that's the out trump will have. >> a big part of what giuliani has done throughout this process. >> thank you all very much. the white house working behind closed doors on an impeachment strategy and joe biden not having it with a voter who tried to call him out. >> you said i set up my son to work in an oil company. isn't that what you said? get your words straight, jack. ♪ i thought i was managing my moderate to severe crohn's disease. then i realized something was missing... me. my symptoms were keeping me

and as the chaos unfolded, less than half a mile away, president putin, the ex-head of the kgb himself, was honoring his former comrades, toasting their success in stopping extremist attacks. >> so, let's get to ian, with us live tonight from moscow. and ian, we know russia has seen many terrorist attacks before. what will investigators be looking for in this case? >> reporter: yeah, david, i think there are two possibilities. one, as you suggest, is terrorism, although there hasn't been a terrorist attack here in moscow for at least five years. the second is that somehow this was some kind of disgruntled former fsb officer. friday is national fsb day, that's something investigators will look at, but either way, this was an audacious and unprecedented attack at the heart of russia's state security. david? >> ian pannell reporting from moscow tonight. ian, thank you. >>> and also overseas, the state of emergency playing out in australia, and the u.s. help tonight. there are deadly wildfires raging amid record heat there. more than 100 fires now burning, destroying dozens of homes. sever

don't repeat the propaganda from an ex-kgb agent.us we have -- >> he is willfully choosing. >> that's correct. he is willfully choosing to ignore our intel leaders and the intel community. he's willingly choosing to ignore the united states military. he's willfully choosing to ignore what he's heard even from the heads of homeland security. and he's willfully ignoring the warnings from america's own intelligence professionals that donald trump appointed, by the way, who say this is russian propaganda. please do not push it. and ted cruz from texas, has decided he would rather be putin's puppet if that's what he needs to be, to support donald trump right now. >> it's sickening. it is a strange legacy to attach to yourself, but he has done it. >> with us we have white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan la mmir. donny deutsch is here as well. republican strategist and msnbc political analyst, susan del percio, and host of msnbc's "politics nation" and president of the national action network reverend al sharpton joins us.

. >> donald trump believes the words in his heart, the words of an ex-communist dictator, kgb officerather than any person in america. we are inso danger. >> tucker: we are in danger. this is really irresponsible. keep in mind that everything we played youd aired in the past o weeks. if you exclude to debunk conspiracy theories, could any of these people actually tell you why vladimir putin is so bad? why is he so bad? he is bad! chuck todd says, speak slowly so i can understand. what makes vladimir putin worse than a whole long list of allies? let's try the king of saudi arabia for example. the people who run the emirates. the people who are on that payroll. why is he worse than them?mi they couldn't answer that. for chuck todd and the rest of the dummies, vladimir putin is isn't a real person with country sapping that long ago. he's a living metaphor. he's the bogeyman. step out of line and you're a traitor in love with vladimir putin and! can we get its picture on the screen? please. the irony is that he does not hate america as much as many of these people do. they call the people

. >> one was an intelligence operation, a top-down attack by the kgb on the election. >> the other was op-ed. >> michael, thank you for being with us. i think you'll be watching the lawyering very carefully today. it'll be interesting to see how they treat each other. >> true. >>> in just a few hours, one of the men at the center of the impeachment inquiry, president zelensky will meet russia's president vladimir putin for the first time. nick paton walsh is live in paris where this will happen with what will be a remarkable and notable meeting. >> reporter: yeah, john. we are in fact hearing from the french president saying that vladimolodymyr zelensky and vla putin will have their first bilateral face-to-face meeting. here is how high the stakes are for these peace talks. it is europe's only hot war and it was forgotten until it was suddenly at the heart of president trump's impeachment battle. but now possibly an uncomfortable peace might be nearing for ukraine's five-year conflict with russia. today volodymyr zelensky will meet vladimir putin to talk piece. it's another first, too,

then, he is turned over to the kgb.video clip] ♪ >> in moscow, nikita khrushchev's shown as he told the soviet presidium that the downed american pilot, gary powers, was alive. that the russians have found photographs made 1400 miles inside soviet borders. the plane was brought down mayday, less than two weeks before the summit talks. he was quick to play on the incident for public advantage. out in the open came the story of the most sensational intelligence operation. america admits flights over russia by unarmed planes of the last five years. state department spokesman lincolnwood gives the reason for the flight. >> given the state of the war today, intelligence collection activities are practiced what -- practiced by all countries. postwar history certainly reveals the soviet union has not been lagging behind in this field. >> they interrogate my father for three months. they put him before trial, an international show-trial to embarrass the united states. his sentence is 10 years in prison, he serves a total of 21

and don't forget that president putin is a former kgb official.nerabilities. they assess what someone's vulnerability is and push the lever. with president trump it is vanity and power. so if they can share with him a narrative that legitimizes his election and defeats the deledge mization. that plays into his vanity and fits a narrative of what he likes. they profiled him and figured out which levers to push and it's working. >> how did the democrats get into this race and think that it will be a fair fight? we're going to leave it there. next, president trump's true base that he counts on are evangelicals that helped him win in 2016. he's counting on them next year. but this morning he is lashing out at a prominent evangelical magazine that just called for him to be removed from office. we're digging into that. don't you move. ca who captured our hearts. female anchor: how often should you clean your fridge? stay tuned to find out. male anchor: beats the odds at the box office to become a rare non-franchise hit. you can give help and hope to tho

one of them that he met with formally worked for the kgb, digging up, it appears, dirt on a politicalt. this is central to the democrats' case, as you heard them a little more than an hour ago, saying that the next election is at stake here. i just want to ask you, because you've been a skeptic of the democrats' impeachment case from the beginning here. should americans at home believe that's legal, constitutional? acceptable? for particularly after all we learned from 2016, all the questions that were raised, that it's okay to go out to a foreign government, even knowing that your sources of information there may very well be influenced by a hostile foreign government in russia, is that legal? is that constitutional? >> looking, putting aside the legal nuances, the constitutional nuances, rudy giuliani is the president's personal lawyer and it is not okay the way he has comported himself in this. he has not made clear his role to ukrainian officials, to american officials, and he's overstepped his bounds, including through tweets in the past week, so that conduct is not okay. and it'

apparently in ukraine meeting with a conspiracy theory pusher with a kgb pedigree, plus smoking joe.iden explodes on a voter in iowa, calming him a liar, challenging him to a pushup and iq contest. what caused so much tension in an iowa town hall? ♪ >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin with our toll picpolit and history with president trump almost certain to become the third u.s. president to be impeached by the house of representatives. speaker pelosi announcing earlier today house democrats are moving forward with articles of impeachment against the president. pelosi saying that mr. trump left her with no choice but to act. members of congress are now faced with these two key questions. one, what do we know about the president's actions, and two, do they rise to an impeachable offense. we know according to the president's own words, he asked the president of ukraine to pursue an investigation of his political rival, joe biden, as well as an investigation into a debunked conspiracy theory that ukraine, not russia, interfered in the last election. we know, according t

one of whom studied with kgb. can you call it an investigation? is he and some republicans are claiming? >> i think rudy believes it's an investigation. his excuse to himself and his defense is that he's protecting his client, the president of the united states. >> what's the facts, though? >> the facts are that a lot of these witnesses are dodging. but it follows a political play we've seen from the president who which is to muddy the waters. ukraine is -- collusion, corruption. so part of the president's strategy and i think it's been executed by rudy as well is to muddy the waters by using the same phrases that he has been credibly accused of in his ukrainian deals. >> except protect his client from what? his client won the election. >> yes, but, remember, this is about muddying the waters about where there was collusion. this is the argument that democrats colluded with ukraine to hurt candidate trump. something that rudy has argued in various tweets, even though he has also said he doesn't believe the crowd strike conspiracy theory which is j

it is the home of the russian federal security service, fsb, and its communist era predecessor the kgbhen reportedly fled to a neighboring building, barricading himself inside. himrity services then shot dead. ambulances were on the scene to help several casualties. >> there were gunshots. i didn't get any closer, because it wanted to live. i hid around the corner, and watched from there. emergency services came later. before that, police officers rent to an ambulance unloaded somebody onto it quickly. i don't know for sure, but apparently he was already dead. reporter: the shooting happened on the same day vladimir putin was holding his annual showcase, screened live on russian television. thes unclear what attacker's motives might have been or whether he was acting alone. sirens]cy authorities are trying to establish his identity. in attack took place here front of one of the most important institutions of the country, the institution where vladimir putin worked for 16 years. this incident will be taken extremely seriously, especially since it took place during the fsbal celebration

he was meeting with pro-russian ukrainian politicians, one of whom trained with the kgb.ussia's additional interference, being invited, in effect, by the president's personal attorney. it so raises and answers the question. does the president feel chastened by this process in terms of this kind of thing, seeking dirt on an opponent in a foreign country? it does not appear he is. we have not seen the last of it. >> doug collins, the ranking member of the judiciary committee, there you see him right there, he's walking in. jerry nadler, presumably the chairman of the committee, abby, will be walking in shortly and they'll gavel this session into order. it went on for, what, 14 hours yesterday. the democrats have the majority. they have 23 right now. ted lieu is out. he's ill. 23 to 17, all of the republican amendments were defeated along strict party lines. and i assume these two articles of impeachment against the president of the united states will be approved along strict party lines. >> absolutely pip me. i mean, i think that nothing else is clear about this except for

. >> which we didn't know about.as >> whopparently both targeted by the kgb but also talking to the unitedstates and its agencies. and that should have been included, made clear. and it wasn't, according i to tpector general. >> one thing that i found remarkable was that in the closed-door testimony of fiona hill, she said that she was concerned that the so-called stle dossier may have revealed that steele himself may have been ayed by the russians. and it brings up this subject of disinformation. "very likely that russians planted disinformation in and among other information that may have been truthful because that's exactly again the way they operate and i think everyone should always be cognizant of that." >> it is certainly the way the russians operate. whether they did this with christopher steelein i is purely speculative on dr. hill's part,d m tremendously impressed with her, and i think she's a phenomenal russia expert. but let's not lose sight of the fact that t rusans had a goal in the 2016 election, and thr overriding goal was to help the trump campaign mage hillary clinton and

. >> who was apparently both targeted by the kgb but also talking to the and that should have beenncies included, made clear. and it wasn't, according to the inspector gener >> one thing that i found remarkable was thatse in the cdoor testimony of fiona hill, she said that she was concernedhat the so-called steele dossier may haveevealed that steele himself may have been played by the russians. and it brings up this subject of disinformation. she said it is t "very liket russians planted disinformation in and among other information that may have been truthfulth becaus's exactly again the way they operate. and i think everyone should always be cognizant of that." >> it is certainly thethay russians operate. whether they did this with christopher steele i think is purely spive and i'm tremendousressed with her, and i think she's a phenomenal russia expert. but let's not lose sight of the fact that t russians had a goal in the 2016 election, and their overriding goal was to help the trump campaign and divide the amepublic. and so you have to ask where does christoer steele point of view.f

who has pushed debunked conspiracy theories about 2016 election meddling and the bidens, went to the kgbol for spies. what are they thinking here? >> there is only one play here for president trump, to use the whole russia disinformation campaign to prop him up and have him maintain power. i think what you just saw was a real patriot for an hour on your network who basically described how it happened and once the articles of impeachment are posted up, don, i believe that those republican senators, i do believe this, many of them will look at that and say, wait a minute, i don't want to be known forever in my family's legacy, that i backed this traitor who disavowed the american constitution, i just don't want to be known for that. i think her game theory of what is about to happen is going to eventually unfold, he will leave office. he will either resign from office or say he's not running for reelection. the mayor, i'm good friends with him, i wish the mayor well, they can do that, they can do the what-about-ism, which the soviet union did for many years trying to keep the soviet union

this is something pumped by the former kgb, by the rugssian intelligence services.makes it appalling is this is being parroted by people who know better. >> why does he say it? >> i think he believes it. and i think putin said it to him. the president really believes that whatever a large group of people around him, experts, intelligence officials, whauv they tell him must be wrong because he's the smartest guy in the room and if his pal, who is his friend and scares him, it tells him that ukraine is out to get him, then ukraine is out to get him. >> very with quick. this line that republicans know better and they don't believe this but they're saying it, you are who you pretend to be. so be careful who you pretend to be. >> i didn't thing anybody could believe that. >> it doesn't matter. they're highest elected officials and they're saying it. >> i appreciate it. we're out of time. thanks for waing everyone. new neutrogena® bright boost with dullness-fighting neoglucosamine. boosts cell turnover by 10 times for instantly brighter skin. bright boost neutrogena®. ( ♪

some of the documents that rudy giuliani is citing were provided by a ukrainian lawyer with kgb training. is rudy giuliani used to spread this information and well, it is bizar bizarre, is this is true, it is a lot worse than bizarre. >> i would agree. bizarre is one way to describe it. it is more serious than that especially given the fact that he again, has an audience of elected members of congress. some who served on the gang of eight of the small group that is on the receiving end of sensitive briefings and the president. it is more than bizarre, it is frankly dangerous. >> mitch mcconnell reaffirmed today that he's not impartial and impeachment trial. >> do you think chuck schumer is impartial? >> no. >> bernie sanders is impartial? >> let's quit the charade. this is a political exercise. >> heidi, does he have a point? is it fair to assume, this thing is going to go down a party line vote. >> i am not going to give any character judgment other than to say it is the constitutional role of the senate. once the impeachment articles are received to hold a trial. trials have witnesses

this is something pumped by the former kgb, by the russian intelligence services, and it doesn't mattergain, what really makes it appalling is this is being parroted by people who know better. they know. >> so, tom, why does he say it? >> i think he believes it, and i think putin said it to him. i think the president really believes that whatever the -- whatever large group of people around him, experts, intelligence officials, whatever they tell him must be wrong because he's the smartest guy in the room. and if his pal, vladimir putin, who also is his friend and scares him, tells him that ukraine's out to get him, then ukraine's out to get him. and he's got rudy giuliani running around trying to prove it. >> can i just add something real quick? >> if you can do if quickly. >> very quick. this line that republicans know better and they don't believe this but they're just saying it. to quote kurt vonnegut, you are who you pretend to be. >> i wonder if they believe it because i didn't think anybody could believe it because they're just parroting it because -- >> it doesn't matter. they'r

it means, a kgb case officer recruits and runs assets.o understand human psychology, a read of someone's character and temperament. donald trump because of the ostentatious nature of his personality and narcissism, everything he says, tweets, one of the easiest people to read on the planet. for putin it's like a scoop of vanilla ice cream. i think he meets with the president of the united states in the white house or wherever and says, listen. just between ourselves, we have intelligence which suggests we didn't do this. you want to get along with us, we want to get along with you. out to get you since day one, dastardly ukrainians creating in president trump's mind a polluted understanding of ukraine. not only tried to alter the 2016 election through cyber espionage, false. tried to undermine my campaign dispatching operatives to spread disinformation about me and my work with the russianss. false. now, indeed, actually this whole thing was just a, a sinister conspiracy from kev, niev. >> appreciate it. >>> just 44 days away from the fir

they sent in the end kpd, the predecessor to the kgb, the guys who made their reputation in the 1930's with the purges and rounding up people and sticking them in the gulag, they filled them three or four times over. they were some of the coolest cruelest secret police this side of the gestapo. when the soviets knew the conference was going to take place, they flooded tehran with an kpd. -- within kpd. you have heard in the movies about, sometimes you have the cops or secret police rounding out the usual suspects. they rounded up the usual suspects, and the unusual suspects. there is a famous quote about the purges in russia in 1937. it said, basically, they picked up every second man and an awful lot of women and send them to the gulags. this is their strategy and they brought that to tehran. they brought their dragnet's and their jails and their dungeons. they were setting up jails and dungeons all over tehran. but, long jump was not sorted -- thwarted through the efforts of any of these agencies. not schwarzkopf, not the mi six. this takes us to a small circle of young friends livi

we all aspire to the fact that one day putin will become someone who is not a former kgb guy who meanshat will not happen. shannon: this administration has been tougher on russia than the last couple administrations. most-watched, most trusted, most grateful you spent the evening with us, shannon bream. >> isis fighters -- >> coming from europe. >> a great politician. that is one of the greatest nonanswers i ever heard. heather: it is wednesday, december 4th. happening on the east coast, donald trump arriving for a celebration of the 70th anniversary. the french president front and center on the world stage, live in london with a fiery exchange ahead of another busy day for the president.

>> of course it's not the kgb anymore, it's the sfb about a long history of pushing the fault lines onhe american society that are real fault lines. they don't think they are interference in terms of facebook ads and such did much of anything, and they did have the deep cultural divide. i think it goes to the fact that the president consistently has his 40-45%. basically it doesn't matter what it does. they feel like they are playing for all the political marbles because of where the left is and because of what the democratic party has gone. people are willing to overlook things that even in the past ten or 20 years ago they wouldn't overlook the candidate but that's going to be our politics. i hope that in the long-term future americans find a way to come together but i don't see -- >> president has become the actual proxy for those disenfranchised voters who voted for them the first time around. and speaking of gifts, the house putting some coal in the white house talking but the senate is giving the senate a present when it comes to impeachment. >> article one is adopted. better tha

one of the parliament members giuliani met with trained with the kgb. now, you'd have to be pretty dumb not to imagine that russia is trying to juice that process. perhaps provide shady information to the president's personal attorney? what is the level of confidence you have in anything that they would be delivering? where we are today. less than a year to the u.s. election. >> where we are today. jim sciutto, thank you very much. thanks for sticking around for me. >>> coming up next, on the next day as laying out articles of impeachment speaker nancy pelosi announce as deal with the white house on the new north america trade agreement. we explain what really changed, coming up. and if i didn't find a donor, i probably wouldn't be here right now. be the match uses the power of the cisco network to match donors with patients faster than ever, saving lives like max's. me and dylan are dna twins. ♪ ♪ dylan's like my brother. ♪ ♪ cisco. the bridge to possible. (employee) half a millionar sales preowned vehicles,er most with tech features like blind spot de

putin was kgb agent. so it's a weird, weird thing for someone who grew up in a conservative movement and a republican party that was always the tough party against russia to be where it is. >> are you surprised to see someone in conservative media like tucker carlson saying maybe we should be siding with russia instead of ukraine? >> look, i like him a lot. he was a great boss. i think it's insane that we obviously disagree on this issue. putin is a thug and a murderer and essentially a dictator. and there are a lot of things i didn't like about the soviet union. one of them was communism, right? and the fact they were imperialistic. an authoritarian regime. a lot of the things are still g there with putin. >> okay. we'll end there. i appreciate it. >>> impeachment moving to the next steps in the judiciary committee. what would our founders think of all of this? at doesn't smell fa? start with the essence of nature air wick scented oils are infused... ...with essential oils that are 100% natural. to fill

eve an time the fbi was klebola quote/unquote old kgb. holdsi holding up are the r that they were somehow right? >> actual report a disaster. obvious to anyone who read it. everything we've reported for years dead-on accurate. we were right every step of the way. >> the report is a deservastati indictment of our fbi and intel gathering apparatus. >> okay. mandy carpenter and form are congressman charlie dent with me. amanda wrote the book "gaslighting america: why we love it when trump lies to us." charl dent, republican from pennsylvania. amanda, start with you. even add bill barr, right, to that chorus today. the last 24 hours, a microcosm of the trump era. my question to you is, how damaging is this really? >> well, it's damaging, because our institutions are used to prop gaagate the idea the trump campaign was spied on en masse and i think bill barr is most dangerous in this, so tricking the way he's talking. in front of the cameras essentially saying there was spying. if you go back to his confirmation hearing, saying the same thing.

>> he's a trained kgb officer. he's engaged in information operations against the united states.rything he does is calculated. that is not necessarily even for domestic consumption here in the united states, that's for around the world. russia goes -- america is broken. look at america right now. they're broken. that's why you need to engage in the kind of activity that we're trying to do in your neck of the woods, wherever that is. they're very active, the russians are very active in latin america, the middle east now, and they're spreading this message. america is broken, they're not the great world leader, they've been knocked off their pedestal, and what you saw vladimir putin do is just feed that fire. i would argue coming to an informational operation near you 2020, that's the same messaging that the russians will engage in again in american politics. >> all roads lead to putin, quoting nancy pelosi. that's all i'm going to say. she keeps saying it. >> final word, mike. >> putin a year ago expressed his love for the communist system who reagan was famously responsible for t

so of course mech kgb kmitch mcconnell presented in the senate. we heard from an official in the department of defense that upon polling her staff she she'll -- there were instances of the ukrainians in july calling up and saying, hey, what's going on with this aid, we're worried about this aid. >> and number four, no investigations were announced and the aid was released. >> right. that's the beauty, right? so remember when the aid is released. the aid is released on september 11th. when the white house has known probably 2 weeks about the whistle-blower complaint and it is clear that congress is going to launch an investigation. so, yeah, let's give them credit for that. when the bank robber heard the silnz and the bank robber put down the money that is not expull puatory. >> what do we know if this try goes to the senate and normally managers at the impeachment trial, will there be some participation in the impeachment trial? >> i don't think anybody knows. it's not clear necessarily the speaker has actually chosen who the managers will be. i t

apparently in ukraine meeting with a conspiracy theory pusher with a kgb pedigree, plus smoking joe.alming him a liar, challenging him to a pushup and iq contest. what caused so much tension in an iowa town hall? ♪

the experienced former kgb guy and he had no levage at all.at he had sought, and he was humiliated in fortunate of the world and having domestic problems. so a lot was lost in that period. and all of these things are being joefr looverlooked in a l foreign policy context. >> and the republicans have become a monarchist country. it is interesting because in the spird of the era, what the first great political opposition is, ham illton, amends, and washington, they were trying to fight against it. they wanted a greater fluidity of power than having heredity titles. there is a huge fight in the 1790s when george washington left office, went back to mouth vern vernon, and there was balls and galas on his birthday. people were uncomfortable with it because it was like a kingly event in the country. and the federal iist it was a sign, and in the politics of that time, it was look, we're not following a man, we're following a constitution. and right now too many republicans, i think, are following a man, whatever the facts may be. >> and investigate

putt seine a kgb guy. there is phrase we use. it is called plausible deniability.ering your tracks. if we are going to do something can we cover our tracks by saying there is a reason arc plausible reason somebody else could have done it. it is plausible. >> it is also the basis for impeach. the articles of impeachment just approved by the house of representatives focused on a conversation, focused on a event that basically can be traced facebook the russians. the question beings -- the concern is what is the extent of russian influence over this president? for the president not to disclose that and for the president to seem to be subservient to it is a concern for a lot of americans. >> there is a powerful editorial, shifting gears, in chichbity today, just published. trump should be removed from office. it is time to say what we said 20 years ago when the president's character was revealed for what it was. let me read a couple sentences from this editorial. we believe the impeachment hearings made it clear in a way that the mueller investigation has not that pres

what they're trying to do, what the kgb under barry is said to stalin, the dictator, i am not comparing our country to the soviet union, i just want to make sure it never becomes anything like that. he said to stalin show me the man and i'll find to the crime. and that's what some of the democrats are doing. they have trump in their sites, they want to figure out a way of impeaching him, and they are searching for a crime. first they came up with abuse, it's not a crime. so another saying bribery, but they're making it up. there is no case for bribery based on, even if all the allegations against the president were to be proved which they have it meant. but even if they were approved, it would not constitutes the impeachable offense of bribery. levin: i understand this is not a criminal case, you have been involved in some of the highest profile cases in the nation during the course of your career. no one is saying this is a criminal case. but we do things like the magna carta coming forward, the whole motion and enlightenment of due process. give a right to confront your accuser, for w

what they are trying to do is what the kgb, what they said to stalin the dictator, i'm not comparing country to the soviet union, just want make sure it never becomes anything like that. they said show me the man and i will find you the crime, and that's what some of the democrats are doing pretty have trump in their sites, they want to figure out a way of impeaching him, and they are searching for crime. first they came up with abuse of power. not a crime, not in the constitution but now they're saying bribery, but they're making it up. there is no case for bribery based on, even if all the allegations against the president were to be proved, which they haven't been, but even if they were, it would not constitution the impeachable offense of bribery. eric: i understand this is not a criminal case, nobody is saying this is a criminal case. we do a little thing like the magna carta coming forward, the whole notion and the enlightenment of due process. you have the right to confront your accuser and have witnesses and so much of this has been eviscerated given a rubberstamps by the jud

putin was an agent handler for the kgb.trained in identifying people's vulnerabilities, their weak spots and trump is the perfect victim. the perfect recruit, as it were. you have somebody who had financial problems, has interesting taste in women, has an ego that's easily played to, that craves praise. putin undoubtedly has been able to work him just brilliantly. if you're in the intelligence world or the espionage game, the best victim is somebody who wants to be a victim. >> best victim is somebody who wants to be a victim. does that explain -- >> somebody who is just susceptible and trump's praise. trump won't listen to the facts. won't is the wrong word. the correct word is can't. once trump has settled on an idea, a concept or whatever you want to call it, once he's committed himself to something he has no reverse gear. it's impossible for him to admit he's wrong about anything. it's a question of can't. trump has to been the smartest person in the room. in washington where he's dealing with genuine subject matter, ex

remember, the fsb is the internal security services, the successor to the kgb.ccording to authorities what we know there was a lone gunman that opened fire just around the corner and killed one fsb officer. shots rang out, passers-by were running for cover, and five civilians were also injured -- sorry, four officers and one civilian. now they're trying to establish the motive. was it a lone gunman slightly unhinged or was this a terrorist attack? we believe that they have now identified perhaps where the man lived. either way this is an audacious attack in the heart of russia's state security, michael. >> thank you so much for that, ian. >>> we are just five days away from christmas. this is the final weekend before the holiday. it's going to be a busy one for shoppers. the question is, can you still order online and get them in time? rebecca jarvis is at the u.s. postal facility in new york with a reality check. good morning, rebecca. >> reporter: hey, michael. yeah, that's right. this is the heart of the action here in new york city where they have more than

chris: his passion took him to berlin and kgb headquarters. >> during times of times of stability artifactswhat becomes a good spy? >> information that's obtained that our adversaries don't know is missing is far more valuable than they realized has been stolen. chris: melton has a new white whale, a small cross bow u.s. intelligence came up during world war ii. >> they only made a handful of them. i've gotten into 30 minutes of obtaining one and that's the piece i haven't been able to find. >> i hope you find a cross bow. >> thank you. chris: since the spy museum reopened this summer more than 400,000 people have gone to see it. and that's it for today, have a great week and we will see you back in washington next fox news sunday. ♪ hello america, professor allender to wits, how are you. >> it's good to see you, nice to meet you. >> likewise. >> should president trump be impeached? >> it would be an utter abuse of the power of congress. they set out four criteria for impeaching a president. treason,

like senator kennedy and others, i think it's thune, they've taken it on and they're mouthing with the kgb and fsb what they want you to say. >> there's no question that there is nothing to this ukraine thing and everybody knows it, it's adding to the intrigue but i'm looking at it a little differently. when we look at the forensics here and the evidence, everything runs through or leads to rudy giuliani in terms of understanding why this happened. now, with that said, i don't think he's the problem, i think he's an agent for the president, but here's why i ask you the question. do you believe that he is the president's lawyer? >> i think he is. i think he's been acting as the president's lawyer, he's been acting as kind of a renegade, self-dealing secretary of state with pompeo's authorization, but he's the president's lawyer, yes. >> i tell you why i ask. it matters because if he is not the lawyer, then he doesn't have any privilege and there is really no explanation for him being put into this process except to subvert it. and if he is the lawyer, there is still a big problem. you say,

somewhere, wherever the retirement home is for old kgb officers, you can almost hear them saying, wellct this conspiracy theory into the american political dialogue through the president of the united states and got him to buy it. it's something that the president had been told over and over again was debunked, that there wasn't -- that it was russia who engaged in the systematic sweeping campaign to interfere in the u.s. election, not ukraine, and yet the president, for his own reasons, continues to accept what apparently vladimir putin told him. >> here's what "the post" is also reporting, julia, that after the 2017 g20 summit in hamburg, that multiple trump administration officials tried to convince trump that it was russia, and that didn't work. and here's what trump said about those efforts at the g20 summit in helsinki a year later. here's when he had yet another private meeting with putin. watch this. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others. they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see

. >> that's the same guy who compared the fbi to the kgb.f course, there's always sean hannity. >> the inspector general horowitz, it will shock the conscience of a nation. that's a quote. >> and we can't forget senator lindsey graham. >> i believe the horowitz report is going to be ugly and damning regarding the department of justice handling of the russia probe. i want the american people to hear the story. i want all this information to come out. >> okay. well, now we have the information. it's out. all 476 pages. and here's the real deal. no fbi spying on the trump campaign. no political bias or improper motivation for the investigation. and the so-called steele dossier, that didn't spur the investigation. in fbi hands more than a month after it all began. but they did find serious errors in the fisa process and recommended reforms. now we know the truth. it's messy, but it's not that complicated. this was essentially right wing hype. disinformation designed to divide us and demonize dedicated public servants. for some folks, facts don't

rudy giuliani, the agent of the president was over meeting with ledgeilators who were trained by the kgb continuing in this scheme. >> for their part the republicans defended the president today arguing it's democrats abusing their power in the impeachment process itself. >> now and today we watched them introduce two articles of impeachment. it changed the course of congress to take away due process for any point where we are. it is a fear that alexander hamilton had that came to fruition in this congress. i just hope no congress ever repeats what we're going through today. >> the abuse of power which is so ambiguo ambiguous and so vag there's really nothing that can define what that actually is. and obstruction of congress, are you kidding me? after 70 days they're going to charge the president with obstruction of congress? really we have two articles of impeachment. >> they're not impeaching the president because they can enlist an impeachable offense. they're impeaching him because they're afraid he'll get re-elected. >> i think it's important as the democrats go into this, they don'

interpretation but why would trump buy soviet propaganda, russian propaganda because it is still the kgbit is still the sove iet union. >> why has president trump from the time he was a candidate had such a friendly attitude towards russia unlike anything we've ever seen in modern times. and i don't think we know the answer to that. i think the day will come when we do and history will judge on those things, but it is the conundrum and what has led president trump to this sad state of being impeached? it is because at least in part because of his faith in russia and his willingness to attack ukraine. >> i think maybe that's more independent of putin than he is. anyway thank you, susan page. ben, thank you so much. happy holidays to everybody out there. >>> still ahead if trump was banking on cult-like loyalty carrying him through this impeachment process it looks hike he called it correctly, cult-like behavior from some of the republicans. some of it's actually messy about this guy. actually messy about this guy i've always loved seeing what's next. and i'm still going for my best, even