with the russian kgb?ow does this affect the international relationships? it is a huge topic of debate if there is a putin-biden summit in coming months. do you think the incident over the weekend could somehow derail things >> on a matter of belarus-russian intelligence cooperation. yes. there are signs of close links just about two weeks ago there was what appeared to be a bizarre joint operation that arrested on frankly ridiculous charges a number of belarusian figures. including a former biographer of lushenko it was kgb involvement obviously. part of the large either picture of russian seeking to exert greater control over belarus putin has long sought to make belarus completely dependent on russia and also use belarus a place to put russian air bases that is a security concern for nato and the west. on the matter of the summit. this matter of the ryanair flight and in fact the combination of terrorism and kidnapping we have seen on the belarusian authorities more will come out in the coming days if i

this is a kgb office that's even more outspoken. i'm ready to lose my party card as long as i get back to the unit. you found these reports. it turned out before i started that research 75 to 80% would go from the military district and ultimately 80% of the personnel from ukraine. each of those ships that were bringing in equipment had to engage. the officers then required in the reports the expedition. they were reporting on the attitude of the personnel and the encounters of the ships. half of those would make one trip to cuba and back but it's a unique source of the documents, specific documents. there were certain things from the memoirs but now they also have reported what's happening at that time and it sheds a new light on the story. >> it turns out quite a few people were not really happy about this mission and they felt it's pretty useless to send all this equipment to a place like cuba with the collapse of the soviet union when there's a great deal of discontent about all the money being wasted on the countries and this co

and he was supposed to have his materials vetted by the kgb before it was released and various thingsappened instead he hijacked it. it's a long story. it was fantastic for us. it's all translated and it's published. there are other sources from that from the soviets. of course from the united states side right of freedom of information act documents, from the fbi, from the cia, and then there are memoirs, some of it was from interviews, former tv general, provided some information, cia officers, fbi officers who told me things that i didn't want to include in the book but they provided me with leaves. >> despite what many people in the world think the cia is reluctant, like really reluctant to participate in journalistic operations but many -- have had no such reluctance. as you noted this evening, it was certainly one of those. the soviet agency task for decades had a presence around this building from i think 1933 right when roosevelt recognized it. everybody knew here. everyone in washington knew that everyone in the press knew that they were journalists but there was also a cover

this is the way kgb dictatorship works. attacking america, whether it's american democracy, whether it's american infrastructure, whether it's american interests worldwide, cannot happen without the direct instructions from the very top. >> the biden administration has come in and has rolled out new sanctions in response to russians' election interference, to cyberattacks, like the solarwinds breach, and also for the russian annexation of crimea. so, 10 russian diplomats were expelled, but is this enough? >> no, absolutely not. it's much better than we saw on the trump, because trump also imposed sanctions, but we all knew that it was all kind of fake. and putin knew it. and i believe we're still yet to find out w trump was so friendly to putin and why, you know, he was willing to accommodate putin's bidding. but now we've reached a point where just, you know, traditional measures like, you know, expelling diplomats -- this is -- it's not going to work because it doesn't affect putin. you expel diplomats, he expels diplomat

this was codename park pipe and in his famous message to the kgb.he says i need as much money as can fit in this pipe, and i need it very quickly. ultimately. they bought a home in arlington. they paid $520,000 cash their cover was quite clever. her family name was a well known name in columbia. her uncle was very successful and they covered the money saying that it was a gift from the family. he was ultimately prowling at planting a trip to the eastern europe. he was arrested by the cia fbi before he could depart interestingly his his license place is going to be on display in the new museum. this is soon after he was arrested. so he is the at the time the most damaging spy in the history of cia. the most damaging spy in the history of the fbi is robert hansen and this is hanson's residence on 94-14 talisman drive little known is the role played by. house across the street. this is 94-19. and after hanson had been identified in. she would been the fall of 2000 the cia fbi understood for the first time who he was. this house had been on the market f

this is the way the kgb dictatorship works. attack in america whether american democracy, american infrastructure, american interests worldwide, cannot happen without the direct instructions from the very top. >> the biden administration has come in and rolled out new sanctions in response to russia's election appearance, cyber attacks like the solarwinds breach and also the russian annexation of crimea. ten russian diplomats were expelled. is this enough? >> no. absolutely not. much better than we saw with trump because trump often pulled sanctions. it was all kind of fake. and putin knew it. i believe we still yet to find out trump was so friendly to putin and why he was willing to accommodate prudent's biddg. in but, now we've reached a point where traditional measures like expelling diplomats, this is and going to work because it doesn't affect putin. putin cares only about his direct interest and money. it is not just his money, but mush money of russian oligarchs. as long as america and europe are not ready to go after th

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and now he _ roman was detained by the kgb and now he is_ roman was detained by the kgb and now he isy not the detention is the worst but the interrogation because they use different methods in order to get information from him. roman is wanted third by authorities for running an opposition news channel on the social media platform telegram that is used to organised protests in belarus and to broadcast them. the protests sprung up around last summer's election when belarus's long—time leader president lukashenko claimed yet another disputed victory. since then, the regime has cracked down on dissent, arresting hundreds ofjournalists and opposition figures. the leader of the opposition was forced into exile. we are sure it was because of a direct order from lukashenko we are sure it was because of a direct orderfrom lukashenko himself because he considered roman to be his private enemy and so he made possible this operation fulfilled. it couldn't be done without direct orders for sure. the ryanairflight had been making its way between two european capitals, athens and vilnius, when it

well, we thought that he was held at the kgb prison, but. he was held at the kgb prison, but he was heldly. it is a notoriously known one where some of the political prisoners are being held. it is a pre—trial detention centre in minsk, so that is where the official said that he is where the official said that he is being held. just an hour ago there was a video released by pro—government channels about roman, showing him kind of saying that, yes, he confessed that he participated, he basically organised and plotted riots. that is what he was saying. and he had to say that the security forces are treating him well, even though his forehead, if you see it closely, there are some signs that he might have been beaten. we signs that he might have been beaten. ~ ., , . , beaten. we might have some pictures of his forehead. _ beaten. we might have some pictures of his forehead. we _ beaten. we might have some pictures of his forehead. we will _ beaten. we might have some pictures of his forehead. we will see _ beaten. we might have some pictures of his forehead. we will see if - beaten. we mig

we should view russian politics largely as a reflection of putin's kgb background and his omnipresence and here it is the way putin is. others have you taken the view of the private and state property. russia's total lack of interest in markets and democracy and suggests we should see russian politics through the lens of russia's unique history and culture and in its strongest version that argues there's a uniquely -- mentality that allows russia to favor a strong hand and brushes the way it is because that's the way russian czar. one problem with this view is that similar reparations of energy companies to ways around the same time as algeria bolivia chad ecuador dubai senegal and venezuela and if we look at our countries in 1946 to 2010 what we see is when oil prices are high naturalization sara much more common so like a lot of russian politics the takeover was driven less by prudence background a russian history but, not a credit grill. russian see putin's russia as led by a unique leader overseeing a unique country. i argue we should view putin's russia as a personal autocracy. th

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my colleague was there and the journalist to brought the image on earth did from the kgb image hadn't seen the light of day and it was not used in any war crimes against those in the image. they have the photograph. the name of the photographer. and the date, october 13, 1941 in the photograph was taken in ukraine 100 miles west of kyiv. so that is what started me on this research journey that culminated in the book through that ravine. what did i find particularly striking on this image. feel free to interrupt at any time. i know you have read the book as well. i started to pick apart the pieces and thought how they were representative to me as far as what we know of holocaust memorialization the empty shoes. i start with that in the in the book with the shoes and if we have time i will read from the epilogue and the meaning metaphor of the shoes there are papers strewn about if you look closely now with the advent of digital technology to zoom in and zoom out you can see the bullet casings. the environment. i had the advantage when i started the project in 2009 the field of holocaus

terrorist list by the kgb which is the security service agency in belarus which only shows that he isrs him a personal enemy because he's a blogger and who spreads information and informed citis inside and out of the country about what is happening in the country. but because lukashenko is so scared of information that is why he basically forced down a plane to detain ramman. >> and it feels like this is a -- a somewhat cruder version of a russian strategy which is to say that vladimir putin has made it appoint to attack pop position leaders, opposition movements when they're abroad. lukashenko said this in recent days, we've eyes everywhere. you can't escape even if you leave the country? >> yes, absolutely. it is not just russia, actually. the whole phenomenon of what summer are called transnational repression is something that is growing rapidly. we have examples of russians trying to assassinate in some cases successfully their russian citizens in england, in germany, we have examples of the chinese kidnapping their citizens abroad. we have iranians that have been murdered disside

and my father not being shot down by the soviet union, imprisoned by the kgb, or alternately exchangespy, if movies had not been made about him or books written about him, i might have a different interest. but my dad died when i was 12 years old, and at that time it was too late to ask him any questions. so in high school i was very introverted i did not understand the significance of what my father went through or why my people wanted to talk about it. in college a came out of my shell. i was curious, and i started to ask questions. sam and i wasn't starting my research to vindicate my father. i knew there was controversy that surrounded him, but i also wanted to find out the truth so i knew how to answer questions. and so that desire to find out that you sent me on a lifelong passion to find out all i could about the u2 incident, but the more i learned about you to incident the more questions i had. i realized i had to learn more about the cold war to understand the u2 incident, to learn more about my father. that's why started on this path, and as i grew and developed and found it

it is called a shocking act, and the ceo of saying that there were belarus kgb officers aboard. kgb officers and so belarus or at least russia is belarus' number one ally, and unconditionally support that country, and the foreign minister today said that belarus's actions were essentially reasonable in the context of looking for a fugitive. what gets you this treatment in belarus? a 26-year-old journalist with followers reporting on the excesses of the regime. >> matt, thank you >>> and antony blinken is traveling to the middle east to strengthen a cease-fire between israel and hamas prime minister netanyahu is scheduled to go to ramalla where he is to speak, and then to jordan and the visit to the middle east is going to be after a rare show of strength by hamas, and these men paraded through the streets of gaza city, and there a humanitarian crisis is growing, and senior white house official said it is going to cost billions to rebuild, but that is not going to help the thousands grieving. international coverage from sky news and their reporter mike stone in gaza city >> repor

it is likely, not certain but likely that some kgb person, some police person, would go over to that russian citizen and begin to question him about what is it that foreigner wanted from you? in other words, in asking the simplest question of a russian, then, you could get that russian into a lot of trouble. and if i got information from a russian source, and i have to be very clear about this. they didn't come dangling like fruit from a tree in springtime. they were very rare indeed because everybody lived in a frightening environment, tight environment, but those that it did know and those who did talk to me, they took huge risks and i took a risk, too, in possibly opening them to a kgb crackdown on them and their family. so it was always on your mind as a reporter -- it should have been -- that you could get these people in terrible trouble so be careful. >> host: an interesting followup from bill mccarran, did the russians ever try to recruit you when you were there, and what was that like if so and did you report it? >> guest: i'm sorry to disappoint you but to the best of my kn

they believe the russian kgb agents used a bomb threat as cover for belarus to dispatch a fighter jetand force the plane to land in minsk. in minutes, the opposition leader who faced lukashenko in last year's election, now living in exile will join me live. we start in the middle east with the latest. joining us from jerusalem, nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell, from tel aviv, a correspondent, great to have you with us. let me begin with you. describe the feeling on the ground. is it any more relaxed than a few days ago before the cease-fire, and explain why we are seeing this up tick in sweeping arrests from israeli police? >> hi, ayman. first, it is clear that the situation in israel and gaza in the last several days since the night between thursday and friday is much more relaxed. there were no hostilities from both sides, both sides are engaged in fight over the narrative on who won. on one hand, israelis are telling the public and outside of israel, trying to send a message hamas was badly hit militarily in the conflict. on the other hand, hamas said he

now the thing to remember about putin is he is former kgb, and russia experts say he is very convincing with whatever president he works with. biden says he'll meet with putin june 16th in geneva. it will be the first meeting of the two since biden became president though they have met in person before. you'll recall president trump spoke very kindly of putin at a summit in helsinki when asked by a reporter whether he believed the reports from 14 american intelligence agencies that the russians attacked the elections or putin who said they didn't, trump said he believed putin. now there's going to be a lot on the agenda for biden's meeting, including the election interference, of course. the russians pressure on ukraine and the fate of putin's political rival alexei navalny. biden says he wants to reset that relationship with russia, something that has been tried before. marcus, we're kind of putting together a more comprehensive report for you about how different presidents have handled putin during our -- we're doing our research now and i'll get it to you first thing tomorrow morning

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she asked to meet in the open on the edge of town because anna's daughter is now in a kgb prison, arrestedriend when their flight over europe was diverted by force to belarus. the last anna heard from sofia was a text message. itjust said, "mum." the next was a video confession taped by her interrogators. it seems clear it was done under duress. anna is still reeling. translation: we are in such a state that we keep - saying to each other, "this can't be happening." we don't believe it's happening to us, to our daughter. anna says sofia wasn't even part of the protests that swept belarus last year, as minsk turned red and white with crowds calling for president lukashenko to go. nine months on, everything has changed here. the mass arrest of opposition supporters and people's own fear have cleared the streets of protesters. but alexander lukashenko is still very much in power, and today he made a defiant address to the nation from right here in the country's parliament. he called new sanctions over the diverted plane a western plot to try to topple him. translation: our ill-wishers have ch

she asked to meet in the open on the edge of town because anna's daughter is now in a kgb prison, arrestedboyfriend when their flight over europe was diverted by force to belarus. the last anna heard from sofia was a text message. itjust said, "mum." the next was a video confession taped by her interrogators. it seems clear it was done under duress. anna is still reeling. translation: we are in such a state that we keep - saying to each other, "this can't be happening." we don't believe it's happening to us, to our daughter. anna says sofia wasn't even part of the protests that swept belarus last year, as minsk turned red and white with crowds calling for president lukashenko to go. nine months on, everything has changed here. the mass arrest of opposition supporters and people's own fear have cleared the streets of protesters. but alexander lukashenko is still very much in power, and today he made a defiant address to the nation from right here in the country's parliament. he called new sanctions over the diverted plane a western plot to try to topple him. translation: our ill-wishers hav

she asked to meet in the open on the edge of town because anna's daughter is now in a kgb prison, arrestedwas diverted by force to belarus. the last anna heard from sofia was a text message. itjust said, "mum." the next was a video confession taped by her interrogators. it seems clear it was done under duress. anna is still reeling. translation: we are in such a state i that we keep saying to each other, i "this can't be happening." we don't believe it's happening to us, to our daughter. anna says sofia wasn't even part of the protests that swept belarus last year, as minsk turned red and white with crowds calling for president lukashenko to go. nine months on, everything has changed here. the mass arrest of opposition supporters and people's own fear have cleared the streets of protesters. but alexander lukashenko is still very much in power, and today he made a defiant address to the nation from right here in the country's parliament. he called new sanctions over the diverted plane a western plot to try to topple him. translation: our ill-wishers have l changed their methods of attack. l

immediately after the plane forcibly landed in minsk, - roman was detained by the kgb and now more likelyi by special services. usually not the detention is the worst, but the - interrogation, because they use. different methods in order to get information from him. roman is wanted by authorities for running an opposition news channel on the social media platform telegram that is used to organised protests in belarus and to broadcast them. the protests sprung up around last summer's election when belarus's long—time leader president lukashenko claimed yet another disputed victory. since then, the regime has cracked down on dissent, arresting hundreds ofjournalists and opposition figures. the leader of the opposition was forced into exile. we are sure that it was because of a direct order of lukashenko himself, because he considered roman to be his private enemy, and so he made possible this operation fulfilled. it couldn't be done without direct orders, for sure. the ryanairflight had been making its way between two european capitals, athens and vilnius, when it was diverted by belarussia

again, he is in the kgb, we don't have access to him through the lawyer.erify so we are hoping that sooner or later the lawyer will have access and they will have some contact with him. i have access and they will have some contact with him.— contact with him. i mean, how are ou and contact with him. i mean, how are you and the _ contact with him. i mean, how are you and the rest _ contact with him. i mean, how are you and the rest of— contact with him. i mean, how are you and the rest of the _ contact with him. i mean, how are you and the rest of the nations i contact with him. i mean, how are | you and the rest of the nations who are condemning what has happened in the last 48 hours going to either get roman protasevich released ought stop him being put on trialfor the crowds with which the belarus regime accuse him of and stop him being given the death penalty as a punishment?— given the death penalty as a punishment? given the death penalty as a unishment? , , ., ., , punishment? this is going to be ressure, punishment? this is going to be pressure, in

he believes there were kgb agents on that ryanair flight. we'll bring your response to this.ondemnation from european leaders and the united states. we'll get more of that, poland calling for sanctions, others calling for targeted sanctions. we heard from an analyst that there are plenty of sanctions on belarus. we'll see what comes from the e.u. meeting that takes place later. we'll leave you with the european market open steam. "surveillance: early edition" is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ in business, it's never just another day. it's the big sale, or the big presentation. the day where everything goes right. or the one where nothing does. with comcast business you get the network that can deliver gig speeds to the most businesses and advanced cybersecurity to protect every device on it— all backed by a dedicated team, 24/7. every day in business is a big day. we'll keep you ready for what's next. comcast business powering possibilities. >> the world economy can benefit if we accelerate the exit from the pandemic. >> inflation numbers and 21 which we will see rising are of a

she has now been remanded in custody for two months in a kgb pre—trial detention facility in minsk butabout that video. i5 extremely wary about that video. is a russian citizen. being held in this jail in minsk, could the arrest caused tensions with moscow? i don't think it will cost _ caused tensions with moscow? i don't think it will cost tensions, _ caused tensions with moscow? i don't think it will cost tensions, judging - think it will cost tensions, judging by what russian officials have said. there have been some comments by the foreign ministry here but i think moscow is watching and waiting to see what happens. obviously the two countries are close and certainly i think moscow sees this whole drama as an opportunity for deeper integration with belarus and to get greater influence in belarus which i think is something vladimir putin seeks, and the weaker alexander lukashenko is in minsk, the more possibilities i think that gives the kremlin. this speech he came out with this morning, president alexander lukashenko, really painted a picture of the world according to him and it i

we know that he was followed by kgb agents and the director of ryanair confirmed that these men wereferent what do you think of that? it is horrible, what do you think of that? it is horrible. it _ what do you think of that? it is horrible, it is _ what do you think of that? it 3 horrible, it is shocking. one week ago, we took the same flight and we could have been and his place. we were flying over belarus territory. no one is safe who is flying over belarus. even if you are in the territory of the european union you cannot be safe, the regime is using all possible ways to persecute journalists and activists. it abuses international standards. it misuses interpol to persecute and collect information. it is horrible. why would the president of belarus be so worried by this 26—year—old opposition blogger. he be so worried by this 26-year-old opposition blogger.— opposition blogger. he has lost elections last _ opposition blogger. he has lost elections last august _ opposition blogger. he has lost elections last august and - opposition blogger. he has lost elections last august and the

lost his legitimacy, can rely only on violence, police force, law enforcement and kgb and enforcementn activists and journalists, that's a sign of desperation. >> what are you asking europe and u.s. to do. had comments from blinken and outcry from leaders. what do you want them to do? >> we want action, not condemnation. this is moment when west democratic countries must react. ask for imposing sanctions on lukashenko's enterprises and cronies that support the region. asking g-7 countries to raise the issue in summit in london, asking state department and white house to discuss how belarus democracy act might be implemented to help belarusians on the ground, people on the ground need help and need help right now. >> how concerned are you that all of that might be too late? you know, there is torture, perhaps, going on right now. and that a death penalty might be instituted here. how much urgency is needed? >> never too late to make effort to do something good. 35,000 people got detained since august, 3,000 under criminal charges in prison. about 20 face terrorist accusations, fake ter

called it redirecting of the flight by belarus a statehijackg he told irish radio he believes there were kgbgents on board the plane that was forced to land in minsk. belarusian authorities arrested a journalist in the city and having sent a fighter jet to reroute the plane. the plane from athens and just before getting into lithuania, it was rerouted to belarus and minsk. we have the european commissioner and nato secretary-general and top diplomats from the uk and germany among those calling for an investigation and potential sanctions. secretary of state antony blinken said they were concerned over the military aircraft saying it threatens the lives of those on board he called for the immediate release of the detained reporter there is a u.n. summit happening today. brian, a major story here in europe >> very scary situation as well. joumanna bercetche, thank you very much. >>> let's get down to the other top stories. let's welcome in kristina partinos >> reporter: i heard you were one of the greatest anchors to banter with. you have jack ma stepping down as president of the elite busines

the situation because we really don't know what's happening to him right now, and we know how cruel kgbn contact with the parents of the journalist, and they are really in an awful situation, you know, as the rest of the belarusian people. i have to say that a week ago i applied to -- with the same flight above the territory of belarus, and i also could be in the same situation a week ago. >> so this happened to you as well? something similar? >> no, i was traveling with the same flight a week ago. so it could have been with me as well, but i managed to get -- but raman couldn't. we couldn't expect from illegitimate government of our country that they will act like this, that they will -- that they will endanger 171 people that were on board from 17 countries to capture one person. it's unprecedented. and unprecedented. and i'm sure it should be -- it should be on news all over the world. because it's unacceptable, the situation to happen. >> in fact, there are other countries who are saying this is unacceptable for something like this to happen. latvia says they want a strong and effec

. >> there were a lot five agents of the belarussian kgb service, five agents on board this.k they probably were monitoring his phone. they were watching him in athens and they got on the plane. they wanted to be sure he was on it where t landed. they put up the jets. what do you think would have and -- this has been going on for a long time and the opposition to lunge shenko and there's a lot of worry about where this is all going to go. clearly he's miscalculated the opposition, but nonetheless he crossed a line and there will be retribution. >> what are the chances that you think this journalist will be freed from custody? >> i think probably none at this point. the only person that could -- that could change this is vladimir putin. the russians have an enormous influence there, and once they understand, you know, what's happened here, they may force them to release them. you know, the russians right now are supporting minsk. >> there is now a push for airlines to avoid flying over bela ru s all together, the uk, sweden, telling airlines to avoid the area, much like what h

geneva, switzerland, with no preconditions rate is isn't media going to accuse bad enough being being a kgbdefending it. >> we don't regard the meeting for the russian president, we regarded as a vital part of defending america's interest and president biden's meeting with vladimir putin because of america's interests, not in spite of them. >> jesse: remember how joe biden approved that huge giveaway to russia, not a big deal. >> to go ahead and post sanctions for now, in terms of our relations. >> jesse: all right, dana, you are probably familiar with the view of these big high-level meetings, should there been preconditions? >> dana: there might be some in private, you can kind of have your own, right, but this will be their first chance to meet, i would imagine that putin is like yeah, what you got? i can outlast you and in his mind he's running circles around america and quickly on this, i get it that it's almost finished but the keystone pipeline was something where you didn't want to upset you european allies but what about your neighbors to the north, what do canadians do? hello, we

that's the successor to the kgb. they were working in concert.there's some evidence at least that the dark side team was at least sensitive enough to not go after russian assets. you don't cause any additional trouble if you don't have to, but in their targeting package in their software, one of the things that would happen when they got on network is they would look to see if any of the machines they were scanning had russian language packages installed. if they saw that, they would x it out. they don't want to poke the bear, so to speak. >> chris krebs as usual, thank you very much. >>> coming, we're closing in on a truly defining moment for the republican party. the gop has just set a date for its purging of its highest ranking trump critic from the house leadership. we're going to bring you new information right after a quick break. what if you could have the perspective to see more? at morgan stanley, a global collective of thought leaders offers investors a broader view. ♪ we see companies protecting the bottom line by putting people first.

girlfriend and three other passengers believed to be members of the security services still called kgbere found, plane was eventually allowed to leave. video was released on social media appears to show the journalist, hostage style, confessing to crimes that would carry a long sentence. unclear what will become of him. and clear that europe's last dictator has stepped over a line. using fighter jet to stop commercial aircraft flying from one european country to another is transgressive act. covered russian and neighboring countries, correspondent for gq, she joins me tonight. for folks who monitored this a little bit in the back of their news consumption and know a little bit about lukashenko, the brazenness is shocking. your reaction? >> when i saw the news yesterday, my jaw hit the floor and took me a while to compose myself and get the jaw back on my face. incredible, not just calling in fake bomb threat from hamas, using the israeli/palestinian conflict for his own aims, sending fighter jet to force civilian airliner to land outside of the european union to arrest a 26-year-old jo

putin's masterful at doing this, a former kgb agent himself.when he's dealing with somebody. so he knows biden -- maria: he walks into this meeting a victor already because joe biden waived the sanctions on the company operating the nord stream 2 pipeline. so he'll be able to double that gasoline going into europe while the u.s., unfortunately, faces a shutdown of the xl pipeline. general, it's good to see you. thank you so much for weighing in a on all of these very important issues. general jack keane. we'll see you soon, sir. thank you. >>> and that'll do it for us on "sunday morning futures." i'm maria bartiromo. thanks so much for being here. from all of us, thank you to our wonderful men and women in the military this memorial day weekend. the news continues, "mornings with maria," on fox business this week, 6-9 a.m. eastern. i hope you'll join me all week, every day. ♪♪ . . . a lot of people think dealing with copd is a walk in the park. if i have something to help me breathe better, everything will be fun and nice. but i still have bad

alleged criminal groups work for russia's military intelligence or the spr which is the successor to kgbl of russia, the kremlin is doing this and basically three weeks ago they told us they were going to do something like this, in the midst of the ukrainian crisis, who is an unofficial intimate of putin that runs sputnik had an interview where she announced a cyber war between the united states and russia was inevitable that russia was much better prepared to win such a war and she gave examples, they can blackout the whole united states, they can blackout florida harlem, they could do things selectively if they wanted. in war the united states to back off when it came to ukraine and get out of their way we've all been expecting russia, china, north korea to test the biden of administration. this is a test, it's an amazing coincidence about a cyber work is united states against the colonial pipeline, this is a demonstration by russia that they can do it and because cyber attacks are hard to attribute that they can get away with it. in the biden of administration does not want to admit i

vladimir putin and the kgb enjoys used cloak and dagger material. let's not forget pelonium 210.o look at russia. the biden administration is talking about building a stable and predictable relationship with russia? i'd like to have more detail how we're going to hold them accountable for this and other nefarious attacks like the solar winds attack and the dark side attack as well. >> martha: the president, we now know he's going to meet with vladimir putin in the middle of june in geneva. stability is nice but you have to hold people accountable. do you expect president biden will be tough on putin when it comes to the energy attacks? >> i think the summit is an ideal opportunity to talk about where we have common ground. there's arms control, maybe counter terrorism operations and discussions on afghanistan, north korea, russia is involved in negotiation over another flaw's iran deal. and it's targeting our people, whether it's bounties paid to the taliban or in this case, microwave attacks on the elipse. if we don't have the capacity to respond, we don't deter them. >> martha:

picture of him, it was a newspaper pitcher but he was the russian representative, because he was the kgb agent in dresden and that is where klaus fuchs was living. >> and he thought he was a hero right? >> yes he probably did, but the russian government has never acknowledged that he spied for the most part. that basically that klaus fuchs spied for them. >> so let's mute let's move to some questions for the on from the audience. >> so was klaus fuchs outraged by nazi scientists like vaughan brown by the u.s.. >> assuming he heard about it in prison, he never made any mention of it, so i honestly don't know the answer to that one. neither one way or the other i don't know if he knew about it, i don't know you know if they had a lot of newspapers for things like that redone prison. >> right right. >> so here's another question, did he express regret about his spying. other than the risk he had to his friends at the time. did he later issue an apology? did he ever. >> no never. he never said i shouldn't have spied. except in connection with his friends he did not feel that he had done anyt

they are believed to be belarusian kgb, secret service, that had followed roman down in greece., squalid, potentially exceptionally dangerous situation which, don, is why tonight the eu has taken the strong measures that it has. but it won't be enough. >> max, you have a column out in "the washington post" where you write about how this is just the latest sign that autocrats are feeling empowered to break with international norms. tell me about that. >> well, this is a very dangerous trend, don, which we've seen going on for a number of years and in some ways recalling the 1930s where now these dictatorships all over the world feel empowered to break international law with impunity. you've had russia, which has invaded georgia, annexed crimea, invaded ukraine. you've had china, which is an aggressor in the south china sea. you have russia carrying out operations in western europe to kill russian defectors and diss dissidents. you have iran being responsible for missile and rocket attacks on saudi arabia. the examples, don, go on and on. what you're basically seeing, i think, is