for me there is no doubt that was authorised by kremlin.ple to help marine le pen. there are in the kremlin‘s hands, like instruments, just undertaking one or another specific, specific order, specific operation. the kremlin told us it had nothing to do with the loans but in russia business and politics are intertwined. absolutely true. why, if the kremlin say "never"... it wouldn't have happened? yes. without the approval of the kremlin, it wouldn't have happened ? i think, i think. so what is marine le pen's relationship with the kremlin? in public, she has denied meeting mr putin before this recent visit to moscow. here she is speaking to newsnight just last week. but we've heard something different, and not just from anyone. it's vladimir! when we met marine‘s father back in february, he let something slip. to be clear, this was before the public meeting in the kremlin last month. others who were close to marine le pen told us the same thing. she told me that she met putin, but i do not have the proof... but she told you? she told me. b

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wants the kremlin to stop supporting syria following a suspected chemical weapons attack. tensions between washington and moscow remain at an all-time high after the u.s.'s recent airstrikes on eight syrian air base in response to that attack -- a syrian air base in response to that attack. thomas is in moscow. do we have any confirmation at this stage on whether president putin will show up to meet tillerson? >> no confirmations for the time being. there have been tentative suggestions from the kremlin's side that a meeting could take place. hearing that there are connections between the department of state and the kremlin to decide on a potential meeting last night. that thisn say is would be a bit of a snub if putin did not meet with tillerson. the previous secretary of state, whenever he came to moscow, he would meet with the president. syria is such an important topic right now for these two countries that it would be in the best interests of the kremlin for them to pull out all their political elements of the president at the top. >> syria is the hot topic. what do w

defence secretary michael fallon blames the kremlin for the civilian deaths in tuesday's chemical weapons attack — borisjohnson seeks support for a new initiative to end the conflict. swedish police confirm a number of people are in custody and being questioned following raids at addresses around stockholm. the body of the police officer, keith palmer — who was stabbed to death last month — is to be taken to the palace of westminster before his funeral tomorrow. also in the next hour — commemorating the fallen of the first world war. a ceremony to mark the centenary of the battle of vimy ridge — more than twenty thousand people are expected to take part. lewis hamilton has won the chinese grand prix beating sebastien vettel who finished second. also this morning, we meet the sisters with a combined age of three hundred — and a century of stories to share. and our sunday morning edition of the papers is at nine thirty five — this mornings reviewers are martin bentham, the home affairs editor the standard and journalist and broadcaster rachel shabi. the uk will accused russia of conspiracy

the kremlin has made its response. saying the attacks on syria are an aggression against the sovereign state under norms of international law. and the facts that russia does not acknowledge that the syrian government carried out a chemical weapons strike. this was a normal air strike, that was on a storage depot where the rebels were storing chemical munitions and that resulted in the largescale loss of life. and the foreign ministry saying this situation, this action, destroys russia/u.s. relations. and interesting, they've announced what is potentially a very important measure. they're saying that russia is suspending the air safety agreement, between russia and the united states and syria. this is a decon flags agreement. to prevent planes coming into contact in the skies over syria. it's a dangerous step the russians have taken in retribution for the strikes. >> is it what they use to alert the russians that the air strikes were coming in? >> reporter: it probably is. and that is, in fact, one of the silver linings

the british defence secretary michael fallon accused the kremlin of being complicit in the chemical attackng it as a war crime that happened on russia's watch. writing in the sunday times, he said, by proxy, russia is responsible for every civilian death last week. if russia wants to be absolved of responsibility for future attacks, vladimir putin needs to dismantle assad's chemical weapons arsenal for good. speaking to the bbc‘s andrew marr show the international development secretary said it was time for concerted pressure to be applied on russia. this isn'tjust about one voice, this is about the international community coming together and our foreign secretary is working with his american counterpart, as that is the right thing to do. following the us air strike on the air base in homs boris johnson announced he was cancelling a planned trip to russia but his american counterpart rex tillerson will go ahead with a trip there later this week. prompting ridicule from mrjohnson‘s critics. the idea that the foreign secretary can't be trusted because he might pursue his own line or have an i

the latest and the kremlin? >> i think that the strength of the united states teams have a pretty clear and narrow purpose and that was to respond to those chemical weapon attacks by the assad regime and to impose a cost for the tax. i think that that in itself will shape the reaction about the states. i think many states will welcome that. i think we are seeing protest from russia and this will make secretary of state tillerson's trip to russia next week and interesting visit, but it might also limit the amount of criticism or level the reaction of the russians because it was apparently a pretty narrowly targeted and one-off sort of strike. >> do you think secretary tillerson will continue to go there on wednesday? do you think this will be canceled? >> it's of course possible that it could be canceled but i would suspect there is more reason for it now than there ever was before. this does raise the question of what is american strategy in syria, or what is russia's reaction to the u.s. is doing, and there's r

that is the usual rhetoric from the kremlin.hift things? tillerson may meet with lover of today. —— with russia today. they want to remain influential. implications for russia are complicated and they don't want to deepen this conflict. we can now speak to leslie vinjamuri, an associate fellow of the us and the americas programme at the international affairs institute, chatham house. thank you for coming to talk to us. things have got really bad between russia and the us, even in the last few days? that's right. russia has said the air strikes were unlawful. they have not recognise, in fact they attribute the use of chemical weapons to rebels and not president assad. there is a basic disagreement on assad. there is a basic disagreement o n fa cts assad. there is a basic disagreement on facts and russia can see that there is not a coherent strategy coming out of the united states. it's not clear what the position is. the us ambassador to the united nations has suggested that there could be a regime change, but primary goals haven

as recently as last week, a kremlin spokesperson sort of reiterated this idea. perhaps they could reach some agreement either now for laying he groundwork now for when putin and donald trump meet later this year to keep syria with an russia's realm of control, but not within assad's power. host: emily tamkin joining us to talk about these meetings taking place between the u.s. and russia and relations with the two countries in light of syria. if you want to ask her questions, (202) 748-8001 for a publicans. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8002 for independents. you can also tweet us at c-span wj. idea of given us any how the secretary has prepared for this? guest: that's an incredibly important point. perhaps more important is how labrov has prepared with this for his career and diplomacy. he was a russian ambassador to the united nations for a decade and he has been in the job over a decade. he is the constant professional diplomat. tillerson until very recently was the chief of exxon mobil. he has worked with russia before, but it's very different work

there's new information coming from the kremlin. >> yeah. it's immensely important what the reaction of russia is going to be to this. russia has military forces on the ground. it you'ded that base for its attack helicopters in the supporting role they played to support syrian ground troops. they were in the firing line as well as the syrians on the ground. president putin, this is coming from the kremlin, the first remarks on this issue. president putin regards the american attacks on syria as aggression against the sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law and under a far-fetched pretext. the kremlin and the russian defense ministry argues this was not a chemical attack undertake bin the syrian air force at all. it was an air strike they carried out against a storage facility run by the rebels, in which they were storing rebel chemical mmunitions. it was the spillage that caused the huge loss of life. in terms of the relationship, though, between the united states and russia, it's been rocky. there were hopes it could

also relations with russia, given that secretary of state rex tillerson will be going to the kremliner in talking about bashar al assad, the president of syria, made a comparison to hitler saying that even hitler didn't use chemical weapons the way that bashar al assad did to his own people. let's take a listen to that entire exchange. >> what makes you think that at this point he's going to pull back in his support for president assad and for the syrian government right now? >> i think a couple things. you look -- we didn't use chemical weapons in world war ii. you had a -- someone as despicable at hitler who didn't even sink to the -- to using chemical weapons. so you have to, if you're russia, ask yourself, is this a country and regime that you want to align yourself with? you have previously signed on to international agreements, rightfully acknowledging that the use of chemical weapons should be out of bounds by every country. to not stand up to your own word should be troubling. >> give you an opportunity to clarify something, quote, hitler didn't even sink to the level of usin

he's still in power. >> we have reaction from the kremlin and i'm paraphrasing as i read this. it says president putin sees the u.s. strikes as aggression against a sovereign country which violates international law and distracts from many civilian deaths in iraq and impairs u.s.-russian relations is what we're getting out of russia this evening. >> you know, look, go back to bosnia, for example, 1995. president clinton was watching, and you yugoslavia, all these places where genocide occurred, in many cases in order to stop the genocide, in order to stop these atrocities against our fellow man, we had to break international law. these were instances in which the united states was not directly impacted,and,ou know, again that doesn't -- there's a moral compass here. clearly you look at those videos, and we had to do something. so i will say that thatsomethins this. the russian response, there's not going to do anything. they're not going to escalate. i don't think this really changes anything. i don't think the russians are going to leave syria anytime soon. they clearly want t

that's the slush fund that keeps the kremlin power system going, right? >> yeah. two projects. there's the noise i have project sort of near -- sort of where putin wants him to be not a power of the united states. there is also project 2. which is a kind of private project which is to basically steal a large amount of money. when you started it you have to do two things. one you have to offshore it and the other is you have to protect it from other people who want to steal it from you. in my view, the stealing project is more important than the nationalist project. >> part of your reporting was you come from the papers and you discovered there was a russian friend of putin's who had a bank account with 2 billion dplarz it. putin was asked about it. his ri response was staggering. >> he said it was used to buy musical instruments to import into slaurussia. >> maybe the world's most successful vhellist. i think the reason of this story is important. if you go switzerland and say is your bank account in the name of putin? they will say we have nothing here for you. t

but this is, as one official told me, classic kremlin playbook. that they wanted to show themselves in a position of power here. add some drama and mystery to it. the fact that it's a very long meeting shows that there is discussion going on. i think the message would have been very clear if this meeting hadn't happened. it seems like the kremlin wanted to put that notion out there, that this wasn't just a done deal, that the meeting would occur. now that it has, we're just going to have to see, if any opening to progress can come of this, which we'll hear from the foreign minister and from secretary tillerson. but when you listen to what putin himself was saying earlier in an interview, i mean, more of that strong rhetoric that we have heard over the past couple of days. it is really coming from both sides. you have two deeply entrenched positions here. it's difficult at this point to imagine where that opening lay, but always there is some opportunity for cooperation. because the u.s. and russia have been cooperating, even through this tension o

i think the kremlin will be leaning hard on assad to come clean on those chemical weapons., actually humiliated by what has happened, because remember russia was part of that accord in 2013 that was part of that accord in 2013 that was meant to eliminate all its chemical weapons. there was concern when rex tillerson was appointed about his previous close links to russia, could that give him some leverage? know, in fact the kremlin is quite surprised to see secretary tillerson talking pretty tough. he arrived in moscow today with strong endorsement from the g7, supporting the us cruise missile strikes on the syrian air base and strong support for assad to eliminate those chemical weapons. i think now vladimir putin will be seeing rex tillerson in a different light to what he did when he gave him a special award a few years ago. thank you for talking to us. you're quite welcome. charity workers say they are struggling to locate dozens of children who were evacuated aftera migrant camp in northern france was destroyed in a fire. french authorities say the fire at the grande sy

the kremlin is not easy to negotiate with and is a huge supporter of assad., the positive scenario of what happened last week because the crucial question is whether the effect of america showing military force in that area suddenly changes the dynamic and makes the russians listen more rather than less, because previously they had just gone on supporting assad ever since the previous failure to carry out an air strike in the wake of a chemical attack, the russians have got ever more deeply involved, overtly supporting assad on the ground and so on, and whether this air strike last week changes the dynamic and this russian a nalyst changes the dynamic and this russian analyst in the observer suggests that it might. the russians will see america as a serious player with some weight, that's the positive pa rt some weight, that's the positive part of it, the negative part is that there's the risk of confrontation things getting worse! that's what we have to see as the next week unfolds and the weeks afterwards, as to whether putin, who clearly believes in streng

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but just yesterday the kremlin spokesperson says the relationship between the u.s. and russia is now worse than it was during the cold war. >> yeah, the champagne corks were so premature, weren't that? in retrospect. it's right. when trump was the candidate, he was talking about building a better relationship with russia. talking about potentially recognizing crimea as being a sovereign part of russia, cooperating with russia on international terrorism on the conflict in syria, criticized nato for being obsolete. all of this was music to the ears of kremlin officials and to the russian president. but of course none of it has come to pass. the political situation in the united states now is toxic when it comes to the russia issue, and toxic is the word the kremlin uses to describe it. and they're faced with a situation where a turnaround in this relationship that they all hoped for under president trump is simply not happening. and the relationship is much worse now than it was during the very rocky years of the obama administration. and that's very disappointing and

president assad has become a liability for the kremlin.ve been calls tonight for donald trump to fire his white house press secretary, sean spicer, after he said adolf hitler did not use chemical weapons during world war ii. he made the comments while discussing russia's support for the syrian regime. when asked to clarify the remarks, mr spicer said hitler did not use gas on his own people in the same way as president assad. here's our north america editor, jon sopel. the president's spokesman sean spicer came to the daily briefing determined to talk about the seriousness of last legs sarin attack in syria, which the administration holds bashar al—assad responsible for. but then he drew on history to make this point. we did not use chemical weapons in world war ii. you know, you had someone as despicable as hitler, who did not even sync to using chemical weapons. but that statement drew an incredulous response from journalists attending the briefing. sarah—macro i want to give you an opportunity to clarify something, hitler did not sink t

the kremlin is concerned if there was anybody in his shoes he wouldn't be so indebted to the kremlin. he could well turn his back on the kremlin and move more towards the western powers, and the russians don't want to risk that. they like assad where he is right now because he doesn't have anywhere else to go. he has to protect russian interests because no one else is prepared to be an ally. >> syria and russia has been questioning whether this military attack happened at all, calling it fake. then russia vetoes a u.n. security council resolution which would have called for an investigation. >> reporter: yeah, it's cont contradicto contradictory. what the russians say is they didn't just reject an investigation into the chemical attack, they vetoed a resolution which they say was biased and had already prejudged who was guilty, and that's not something they want. they say they want an honest and true investigation. so they've called for the international body, the opcw, to come into syria and to do a proper, impartial study. of course, around the world to russia's critics, that just l

when the kremlin says u.s.-russia relations are the worst since the cold war, would you characterize it like that as well? >> i'm afraid it's not a big exaggeration. you have to go back to the 1960's to think of a period so unstable and unpredictable, when they were building the berlin wall and the cuban missile crisis. it is not just syria could it is what the russians are doing with the invasion of ukraine that is turned upside down the rules-based international order. tim: on the issue of syria, rex tillerson is arriving out. he got the medal of friendship years ago. what leverage does he have if he meets president putin? >> yeah. the russians know that president trump, unlike president obama, is willing to use force if major norms are violated. at the same time, u.s. leverages may not be sufficient to convince putin to abandon assad. assad has been his ticket to influence in the middle east. the russians don't even believe the evidence, or they claim not to believe the evidence, that they used chemical weap

america and publicly expose its ties to the kremlin. the audacity of russia's interference in western democracies, including extensive meddling in our 2016 presidential election is deeply alarming, and we've learned that russia's influence campaign reaches tens of millions of unsuspecting americans. false news stories can end up on our facebook time lines, twitter feeds, and include conversations with friends at work. these are a few headlines from r.t. and this is from sputnik, and they show the extent to which these false news stories are being spread around. so this one talks about 1,000 turkish forces that surround nato's air base for inspection amid rumors of a coup attempt, which suggests that we were involved in that coup attempt. then we have f.b.i. wiretapped structure tosh in search of russian mobster. then spying on trump: c.i.a. whistle-blower points finger at clapper, brennan be, comeyortment. then we've ukraine su-25 fighter detected in close approach to mh-17 before crash. dozens of false narratives originated in russia.

that goes back many centuries. >> now, before the us elections there were obviously hopes in the kremlin that were donald trump to be elected, relations would improve. and in the conference in october last year, this is before the election obviously but president clinton plays donald trump as a populist who understood the resentments the masses have against the elite and of course president clinton himself presents himself as a populist leader as well and there seem to be some convergence there and it was clear on at least what russia was hoping for it would be a listing of the financial sanctions that were imposed after the beginning of the ukraine crisis or in the middle of the ukraine crisis because that is something russia would like to see listed. whatever the truth of the russian interference during our election campaign and we know there are lots of investigation going on, lots of rumors, it's undoubtedly true that the perception in this country of russian meddling and of russia possibly contributing toward president trumps victory did have an impact on the white house and we seen

now matthew says he's received confirmation from the kremlin.re you hearing anything from your sources? are you hearing anything from the state department on this? >> reporter: the state department isn't yet confirming, but it's now being reported openly and there has been a confirmation to cnn that this is happening now. as with most things regarding russia, there's some deciphering in how this is playing out that you have to put into it. i mean, the state department from the beginning fully expected that tillerson and putin would sit down. that's what always happens, as long as putin has been in office he has met with u.s. secretaries of state and then it kind of evaporated. it was not scheduled yet although tillerson as of yesterday did have a big gap in his schedule, right now, that hasn't changed much. so we suspected if this was going to happen, and russian officials were being very coy about it. i asked one of them, what do you think? is this meeting going to happen? and he responded we have to see and he left a smiley face after it. so i

he kremlin spokesperson calls that absurd.on is meeting with president putin and survey minister sergei live rauf. he has talked about contradictory ideas from the u.s. and rejects the idea that russian was behind the chemical attack. >> u.s. secretaries of state tillerson is talking in moscow and we welcome this direct, high-level diplomatic engagement at this crucial moment between the united states and russia. isk: senator john mccain congratulating montenegro for its upcoming nato membership and criticizing russia for its alleged attempts to interfere in the balkans. speaking in montenegro today, senator mccain said the russian behavior is not acceptable. mccain was a prisoner of war during the vietnam war and is one of the strongest supporters of expanding nato in europe. a lawyer for one of the women accused of murdering north korean leader kim jong own's brother with a chemical agents is the case has been compromised . in an interview with the associated press, the attorney said the man who he believed recruited his cli

he has gotten an award from the kremlin for friendship to russia. they would get beyond the pleasantries and cut to the bottom line. the united states wants to know if russia will stick with assad no matter what or can we bring you to the table to ease syria away from assad and start a political propers cease together to continue to fights isis and obviously try to get someone else, perhaps someone pro russian. someone else to lead in syria. many here saying it will be important and watch for this as to whether or not vladimir putin agrees to meet with rex tillerson on wednesday. >> true. that would be a big signal. paula newton. thank you. let's discuss with anthony scaramucci. >> good to be back. >> there are two stories. the policies and political. what do you make of the political intrigue that the president has said to his son-in-law and top adviser steve bannon. you boys learn to get along. one thing that says for sure that white house is leaking, anthony. how big a deal? >> you sounded like your father when you said that. >> he used sign lang

the kremlin has a number of advantages here. the circle of deciders is limited to a handful of putin associates with similar world views. they have considerably resources at their disposal, especially since most of their tools are quite cheap. a handful of cyber criminals, cost a lot less than an armored brigade but can do a lot of damage. russian meddling is viewed by the kremlin as an unqualified success. that payoffs include, one, a major distraction for the united states. damage to u.s. leadership in the world. and perhaps most importantly, the demonstration effect. the kremlin can do this to the world global superpower, imagine how other countries see it. the differences between russia and the united states are profound and will not be resolved soon. this is not a crisis, not something that will pass soon. it's the new normal. we will see russia relying on this toolkit in the months and years to come. in the upcoming elections in france and germany this year and our own future political campaigns. deception and active measu

today, the kremlin accused washington of inventing a pretext for the missile strikes.n tomahawks may have been targeting the syrian military, butjudging by what the kremlin has been saying, its us—russian relations that will take a real battering now as a result of the missile strike. the russians had been hoping that with donald trump in the white house, relations with america would improve. so far, there's been no sign of that. today, moscow suspended a deal designed to prevent incidents between us and russian warplanes over syria. which means that we have two big military powers in the area operating without any contact and any coordination, which is very dangerous. the russians are hoping that this us strike was a one—off, but tonight, they are strengthening air defence systems across syria, just in case. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. reaction from moscow pretty much resista nt reaction from moscow pretty much resistant from the reaction of the security meeting. our correspondent nada tawfik is in new york where the un security council has been holding an emer

by a russian private bank — something that presumably is only possible when it's authorised by the kremlinpen? that story is fake. it was not a russian bank, it was a czech bank, actually, with some russian participation. and since the 9 million loan was given to the front national, the bank actually went bankrupt. and those people who have undertaken their affairs, they are now demanding the money back. and so, those who said, for example, mikhail kasyanov, who was prime minister under president vladimir putin before he joined the opposition, said "for me, there is no doubt the loan was authorised by the kremlin". is he wrong? i am sure he is wrong. and, you know, he was prime minister very long ago. ok, well, let's move on to germany then because you say all these things are inconsequential, what about the fact that the german chancellor angela merkel refers to russia "sowing false information in germany", and her warning that it could play a role in the coming election campaign? well, i respect her views as a german politician and as a candidate in the upcoming bundestag election, and o

the kremlin says it's there to fight terrorism. military analysts say it's to protect its mediterranean base on the syrian coast, and, also, its own influence in the middle east. as soon as the news of the chemical attack horrified the world on tuesday, russia denied syria's military was responsible. in fact, back in 2013, russia was supposed to make sure the syrian government gave up all its chemical weapons. the fact that, apparently, it didn't do that is an embarrassment for the kremlin. today, russia's foreign minister, sergey lavrov, said the strikes had harmed already-broken u.s.-russia relations but that he hoped the damage would not be irreversible. in spite of the kremlin's anger and outrage, scott, it has left the door open to dialogue. secretary of state rex tillerson will be in moscow next week, and the way forward in syria will be at the very top of the agenda. >> pelley: elizabeth palmer in our london newsroom. liz, thank you. and late today, the trump administration said it will follow up on this attack with more eco

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earlier today he called the kremlin's actions to date incompetent.e u.n. but the two diplomats seem to disagree on what to do about assad in syria. here's what haley had to say during an interview with cnn. >> you saw this terrible tragedy on innocent people. a lot of them children. and the first reaction from russia wasn't how horrible. it wasn't how could they do this. it wasn't how did this happen. it was assad didn't do it. assad didn't do it. why was that the reaction? and so all of that is in play. that's why you're seeing the investigation on russia. that's why you're seeing the fact that we know the evidence on assad, we've seen it. we know exactly what happened. so we're calling them out. >> let's bring in our matthew chance. matthew, what are you hearing in moscow after all this? >> well, we're hearing a certain amount of anger and frustration being expressed by russian officials that these allegations by the united states continue to be made. in terms of the missile strikes they've been widely condemned here in moscow, of course. president

that is respected by the rest of the world and one day the united states treats as unequal but the kremlin believes the united states has not treated them as legitimate. it is also true look at the past 25 years with the u.s. russia relationship we have treated each other as equals more deadlines have converged in the fall of 2001 the russians were extremely helpful with the do nuclear arms agreements with the number tissue fusion at work with the war in afghanistan and the russian-american cooperation on the syrian chemical weapons issue but it is also very important mocking and what russia expects the united states that defines the security perimeter with the borders of the former soviet state and with any institution if it is any closer to the borders it is a uh direct threat to the heartland so now before the elections those in the kremlin dented one donald trump to be elected at that conference in october last year the president praised donald trump has of populist to understand the resentment the masses have and of course, president putin himself looks at himself as the populist lead

the defence secretary blames the kremlin for the civilian deaths in tuesday's chemical weapons attack and boris johnson seek support for a new initiative to end the conflict. good morning, it is sunday the 9th of april. also ahead, a rare honour for pc keith palmer who was killed in the westminster terror attack. his cough and will lie in rest at the palace of westminister ahead of his funeral tomorrow. a ceremony to mark the centenary of the first world war battle of the meat ridge, more than 20,000 people are expected to ta ke more than 20,000 people are expected to take part. in sport, england's justin rose is at the top of the leaderboard in the masters, he is six under par along with sergio garcia going into the final day at augusta. who is the bossy one? also this morning we are going to meet the sisters with a combined age of 300 and century of stories to share. and matt has got the weather for us, good morning. after yesterday's sunshine and warmth, today will be even warmer. for some of us sunshine and warmth, today will be even warmer. for some of us but not for all of us, s

then behind closed doors in the kremlin, president putin. lot to talk about, including this. last week, america launched cruise missiles, targeting a syrian air base. an act of aggression, said russia, against moscow's ally. washington claimed it was an appropriate response to the recent chemical weapons attack in the syrian town of khan sheikhoun. today, america and russia publicly disagreed about who was behind it. the facts that we have are conclusive, that the recent chemical weapons attack carried out in syria was planned and it was directed and executed by syrian regime forces. translation: we saw no evidence of this and from tv pictures and eyewitnesses who were at the base when the planes took off, it's clear there were no signs of any chemical substances present there. there was disagreement too over president assad. moscow appears unwilling to do what america would like it to, stop supporting him. today, donald trump called president assad "truly evil" and criticised russia for backing him. clearly, our view is that the reign of th

america this wednesday morning, happening now, secretary of state rex tillerson meeting with top kremlin officials as he turns up the heat on russia and its involvement in syria. plus, press secretary sean spicer apologizing after saying hitler did not use chemical weapons. >>> under fbi scrutiny, the bombshell new report this morning saying a former adviser to president trump was being monitored by the feds because of alleged ties to russia. what he told abc news overnight. >>> the growing outrage following that united airlines fiasco. the new video this morning showing what happened before the incident. plus, a passenger on another overbooked united flight saying he was threatened with handcuffs. >>> and caught on camera, look at this. a truck plows through a storefront, but this was no accident. >>> we do say good morning on this busy wednesday. i'm kendis gibson. >> and i'm linsey davis in for diane macedo. we begin with those high-stakes talks getting under way in moscow this morning. secretary of state rex tillerson holding face-to-face meetings with russian officials amid a growin

what message will he deliver to the kremlin? >>> facing a pr nightmare after disturbing video of a paid passenger being forcibly dragged from an airplane. a man who paid for his seat, a doctor who wanted to get back to his patients in louisville dragged off the plane. universal condemnation for unit this had morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> pleasure to be with you here. >> you, too. >>> we start with the white house. new confusion over president trump's red line in syria. air strikes president trump ordered against the air field. spicer seemed to significantly lower the threshold against the assad regime that would trigger a response. the administration is now saying never mind, spicer's words should not be taken literally. the latest from the white house. >> reporter: good morning, borrow sbis christine. ever since president trump ordered a military strike in syria, the question has been what comes next? the white house offered more confusion than clarity yesterday on that question after white house p

and it's something the kremlin and russian officials under the kremlin categorically deny.a few days ago vladimir putin came out for the first time really since the trump administration and said read my lips, did we influence the u.s. election? read my lips. no. and that's the message we're getting from russian officials all the way down from the kremlin. >> matthew chance reporting live from moscow. thank you very much. >>> on friday the top democrat of the house intelligence committee was given access to the same documents that were shown earlier to the committee chairman, devon nunes. now, nunes has been at the center of this latest controversy for the trump administration. the white house is accused of sharing intel reports with nunes. our jessica schneider takes a closer look. >> reporter: as the ranking member on the intelligence committee arrived at the white house to examine documents, the trump administration pushed back against concerns it coordinated with the chairman of the house intelligence committee. >> it's not in our interest to talk about the process. what

what was the reaction been from the kremlin?ch longer corporation with trump on the syrian dossier, especially if the americans were ready to use force. i think what they were expecting probably would be some kind of agreement on how to proceed with an inspection and with some kind of fact—finding mission. with an inspection and with some kind of fact-finding mission. after those chemicals? yes. and hopefully find some kind of common position on how to act. i think they were very disappointed that the americans decided just to go into syria without really warning them effectively. 0nly without really warning them effectively. only in the last moments, when they were going to conduct the attack. what is the real russian view of this chemical attack, which the wider international community truly believes was carried out by the syrian government? publicly the russians have said they are critical of this unilateral strike by the us. it's very hard to know what they really think and what they really know. i think on the one hand, the

the number two man in the kremlin leadership, the prime minister of russia, dmitry medvedev. he is considered to be the most pro-western membership of the leadership. he is the man on whom president obama and secretary of state clinton based their entire so-called reset. he was sitting in the presidency at the moment. or we keep him in power. so everybody liked prime minister medvedev. set in the aftermath of this, we are on the brink of war and american-russian relations are utterly ruined. so the pro-western faction in the kremlin is saying that, need i tell you what the so-called state patriots are telling putin about what is going on. that is why what tillerson said is so important. amy: we're going to go to break and come back to this discussion. , weddition to stephen cohen will be joined by jonathan steele, former correspondent for the guardian moscow for years and now working with middle east eye. we will be back in a minute. ♪ [music break] amy: "there's a new world coming." this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nerm

talk to me about what the scene will be like when rex tillerson goes to the kremlin. i know he doesn't have plans to meet vladamir putin, but what are the russians hoping to get out of this meeting? >> reporter: good afternoon, kae. this will be a very different meeting from the one we thought would happen between rex tillerson and serge lavrov, the russian foreign minister. we did think it would be the preliminary meeting and the summit, maybe in the summer between presidents trump and putin. that on the table would be ukraine, nato, u.s. sanctions, iran, libya, and yes, syria. instead, what's going to be on the table is sarin gas, dead children, cruise missiles. because that u.s. missile strike on the syrian air base has changed everything. and today, russia, the kremlin is looking closely at that g7 meeting in italy, for any sign what rex tillerson might bring here. what is that clear and coordinated message from the west that he might bring to those talks on wednesday? is it some kind of an ultimatum, that russia drop its attachment, its alliance to syria's presid

today, the kremlin accused washington of using a pretext for missile strikes.rian military, but byjudging what the kremlin has been saying, it us—russia relations that will now really a battering, as a result of the missile strike. the russians had been hoping that with donald trump in the white house, relations with america would improve. —— those american tomahawks may have been targeting the syrian military, but byjudging what the kremlin has been saying, it us—russia relations that will now really a battering, as a result of the missile strike. the russians had been hoping that with donald trump in the white house, relations with america would improve. but so far, there has been no sign of that. later, the two countries clashed at the un security council. it could be that russia is knowingly allowing chemical weapons to remain in syria. it could be that russia has been incompetent in its efforts to remove the chemical weapons. or it could be that the assad regime is playing the russians for fools. "i would ask russia not to insult my country," said russia's

then behind closed doors in the kremlin president putin. there was a lot to talk about.t week, america launched kruz missiles, targeting a syrian air base, an act of aggression said russia against moscow's ally. washington claimed it was an appropriate response to the recent chemical weapons attack in the syrian town of khan sheikhoun. today, america and russia publicly disagreed about who was behind it. the facts that we have are conclusive, that the recent chemical weapons attack carried out in syria was planned and it was directed and executed by syrian regime forces. translation: we saw no evidence of this and from tv pictures and eyewitnesss who were at the base when the planes took off, it's clear there were no signs of any chemical substances present there. there was disagreement too over president assad. moscow appears unwilling to do what america would like it to, stop supporting him. today, donald trump called president assad truly evil and criticised russia for backing him. clearly, our view is that the reign of the assad family is coming to an end. they have