without the kremlin.you want to have success, if you want to have a chance of success, you have to have connections to the kremlin. >> ambassador, can you speak to that? and your view of -- again, i agree, we don't know, one theory, though, one of the reasons they're of investigative interest is they suggest part of a larger conversation about russians offering to help donald trump, in the same way that the trump tower meeting had russians saying, allegedly, they were speaking on behalf of the kremlin and could rough up hillary clinton in the information campaign. >> that's right. i mean, there's a larger narrative out there with lots of data to support it. you know, the kremlin wanted trump to win and did what they could to try to help him win. including most vivaciously stealing e-mails from the dnc and john podesta and we know that to be true. we also know it to be true that there were connections between trump affiliated people and russian affiliated kremlin people, business people, that were trying t

would be drowned out because of the kremlin agent label or. so the discourse here a clinton or the democratic party is financing. what i was saying then was that the illegally obtained one billion dollars what channel to the beneficiaries of the activities conducted by mr browder here in russia. the beneficiary was the brothers hedge fund in the u.s. . what it did a couple of us so it received this billion dollars in two thousand and seven and in two thousand and eight the u.s. media referred to it as the main or at least a major sponsor of the democratic party and the election campaign that kicked off in two thousand and eight that is what i talked about. what was at this i discuss this with anyone else yes fill a void or ask cause of all i told this story to a large number of lawyers i talk to journalists and politicians to anyone who could help and bring the truth out. you know. what if i had the chance to approach mrs clinton i would have been on and to share it with her or anyone from her team. my story has nothing to do with politics i d

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would be drowned out because of the kremlin agent label. so the discourse here a clinton or the democratic party's financing called. what i was saying then was that the illegally obtained one billion dollars which channel to the beneficiaries of the activities conducted by mr browder here in russia the beneficiary was the ziff brothers hedge fund in the us. but it was. little not so it received this billion dollars in two thousand and seven and in two thousand and eight the us media referred to it as the main or at least a major sponsor of the democratic party and the election campaign that kicked off in two thousand and eight that is what i talked about. what was at this i discuss this with anyone else yet still a thought or ask cause of all i told this story to a large number of lawyers i talk to journalists and politicians to anyone who could help and bring the truth out. if i have the chance to approach mrs clinton i would have been on and to share it with her or anyone from her team yes. my story has nothing to do with politics i did n

the kremlin seems to have deliberately left leading from troum tower to the kremlin.ion was meant to be discovered. that former cia station chief, daniel hoffman joins us. we should mention you have retired which is why we can blow your cover and say you were in the cia for many decades. >> correct. >> what do you mean that meeting between the russian lawyer and don junior and others was meant to be discovered, it was planted basically with a trail of bread crumbs by the kremlin? >> i think the evidence from that meeting points to an effort by the kremlin to influence rather than some sort of a covert back channel for collusion. vladimir putin wants to soil our dem mattic institutions, i think he found the best way to do that would be to tie us to the kremlin. >> it seems you're suggesting in your op ed that the trump team were serving as dupes, basically, they were unwitting pawns, they didn't know what they were walking into. so it wasn't active collusion, though don junior said i love it when offered the dirt on hillary clinton that may or may not have ever been pr

would be drowned out because of the kremlin agent label. so the discourse here a clinton or the democratic party is financing. what i was saying then was that the illegally obtained one billion dollars what channel to the beneficiaries of the activities conducted by mr browder here in russia. the beneficiary was the ziff brothers hedge fund in the us. but it was the couple of us that when that so it received this billion dollars in two thousand and seven and in two thousand and eight the u.s. media referred to it as the main or at least a major sponsor of the democratic party and the election campaign that kicked off in two thousand and eight that is what i talked about. what was at this i discuss this with anyone else still a daughter asked cause of all i told this story to a large number of lawyers i talk to journalists and politicians to anyone who could help and bring the truth out. what if i had chance to approach mrs clinton i would have been on and to share it with her or anyone from her team yes. my story has nothing to do with poli

trump sought business and help from the kremlin with it. today, the putin government confirms they heard that digital plea for help. now, yes, there is good reason to follow the rubles. the putin aide saying i can confirm among the mass of e-mails there was a e-mail from mr. michael cohen, quote, this really happened. why is russia corroborating a story that looks so bad for donald trump? they do offer a defense within this corroboration claiming they didn't respond to that e-mail or raise it with putin. a claim bob mueller is sure to be fact checking. these are putting more pressure on michael cohen who sent the e-mail and facing calls by congress to sit for questions. the same who pressed donald trump junior to agreeing to an interview of his own. all of these developments raise a pretty basic point. if you need an alibi in the russia investigation, it's probably better that it does not come from a key aide to vladmir putin. i'm joined,0 eed now by former m bask -- ambassador to russia. olivia, we have talked about this a lot. when you lo

the soviet kremlin tried to kill a pope. do you know how that would have changed the end of the 20th century? it was the crime of the century. the italians figured out that the gru was behind it. they are convinced about it. to know that our cia concluded the same thing, that information has not been released. i am hoping that the release of this book will hopefully some of that information. it is about time. on, i guess this was in the summer of 1981, many newspapers in europe began to cover bulgarian connections. paul: that is right. >> there was a hearing on income on it, pauley -- tinsley, i was there, i wrote about it. the cia never glommed onto it. can you explain why do cia drag its feet? paul: it was the establishmentarians who had worked softer on their views on the soviets. casey, clark, others who had a much more hardline before the soviets. claire sterling, who had an amazing report on it, she wrote a huge, multithousand page piece for "the new york times." before that, a huge piece work reader's digest. it had a

but admit that they were tasked directly by the kremlin. because they're russian nationals doesn't mean they're russian officials. i do think that there is a link there. at the end of the day, one of the last things president obama did before he left office was to throw out 35 russian spies and seize two intelligence compounds in the united states. i don't think that that was coincidence. i am sure there's a connection here, we just don't know about it publicly yet. >> jill, i want to ask you about another development that's happened. we now have reporting about subpoenas that have been issued for former manafort associates, one of whom is someone he worked with and one of whom is his former attorney. i'm not a lawyer but i was surprised to see that. my sense is that that is rare. what do you make of a subpoena for his former attorney? >> before i answer that, can i just add to what navid said which is when you combine with all the lies and all of the misleading statements and all of the nondisclosure of meetings with the russians, when you

cohen sought the kremlin's help with a proposed trump tower project in moscow.ohen wrote "i respectfully request someone, preferably you, contact me so that i might discuss the specifics as well as arranging meetings with the appropriate individuals." it does not appear peskov responded. today, cohen said he discussed the deal with mr. trump three times and that mr. trump signed a letter of intent in october 2015. by that time, candidate trump had surged to the top of the republican polls. >> and i will get along with putin. >> reporter: cohen also traded emails with felix sater, a business associate involved in the trump tower moscow project. sater claimed to have deep ties inside the kremlin. "our boy can become president of the u.s.a. and we can engineer it," mr. sater wrote. "i will get all of putin's team to buy in on this, i will manage this process." in a statement today, cohen described trump tower moscow as "a building proposal that did not succeed and nothing more." the project was scrapped shortly after cohen emailed peskov, the kremlin spokesman. >>

to each other well we're in the dark now so let's keep digging what else you got washington post kremlin mouthpieces have enthusiastically promoted the views of american neo nazis and white nationalists what is that even based on what listen to the actual words spoken by the russian president on the issue but not so many of them if nationalism is understood as intolerance can show even ism to other people it is going to destroy our country and that which we developed as a multinational with multi confessional country it not only leads to a dead end which but down a path of self-destruction russia will do everything not to allow that sound like a nazi leader to you and i save the best for last the article even ties in the recent tragic events in charlottesville none of this is to say that the coma in show let's feel is directly attributable to mosco we have not yet lou and of evidence the mystic terrorist is spelt prove true kremlin views so why stop there if actual proof is unnecessary you also don't have evidence that he likes to watch disney cartoons but he probably does and most of th

who calls moscow a key to white survival and then white supremacist richard spencer for whom the kremlin stands as the most powerful white power in the world which yes sounds bad but these men will use anything to promote their agenda so how is that russia's fault when white nationalists claim inspiration. and america's founding fathers as they do does that suddenly make george washington a nazi sympathizer and what about threw it out after all he's white and powerful too and we're spencer they found a way to drag our teeth into it as well spencer and his wife will welcome this geo political analysts on kremlin funded outposts so just see and sputnik and while spencer yes did appear on r.t. the post gives the fact that after his hail trump salute he became persona non grata here and was never invited again unlike the us media. and that's not all wait until you hear what other nazi crimes russia has committed in twenty fifteen some petersburg hosted one of the most outspoken gatherings of idealogues europe has seen in years now it seems a shame to ruin the papers theories but the event wa

way to drag our team into it as well spencer and his wife welcomed this geo political analysts on kremlin funded outposts so just see and sputnik and while spencer yes did appear on r t the post gives the fact that after his hail trump salute he became persona non grata here and was never invited again unlike the us media. and that's not all wait until you hear what other nazi crimes russia has committed in twenty fifteen some petersburg hosted one of the most outspoken gatherings of idealogues europe has seen in years now it seems a shame to ruin the papers theories but the event was not state sponsored it was organized by one party not even the russian parliament with white nationalist gathering in charlottesville just a few weeks ago does that suddenly make the state of virginia a safe haven for nazis no war but sure one right wing form in the country obviously mean russian evil knows no bounds and after all no one else's house at such an event. we love. our motivation comes from the heart. say an american black walked into this room that person really more to all of us than any of us

reliably depend on sergey kislyak to be is a strong advocate for the position of the kremlin. he's a professional diplomat. he was the russian ambassador to washington since 2008. and so he's had quite a long tenure there for any diplomat in the united states. and what he was saying, he was asked the question on state television, this is the first time that he's spoken since leaving his post a couple weeks ago, obviously front and center of the allegations of collusion between the trump team and the kremlin. what he was saying is what the kremlin has been saying all along, there's nothing to see here, any conversations that were had were a part of the normal duties of any ambassador, any diplomat, and certainly nothing nefarious came out of these conversations specifically with flynn, but also with any of the other figures, jeff sessions, jared kushner, who we v he also met with. so this is sergey kislyak saying, you know, again, this is much ado about nothing. >> all right. matthew, michael, corinne, thank you so much to all of you. appreciate it. >>> coming up, robert muelle

we see kremlin-backed, kremlin linked. david: not now. >> these are kremlin-linked russians.id: except in the washington examiner where my friend byron works. >> thank you, david. david: and be sure to vote in tonight's poll do you support president trump's threat to shut down the government if congress doesn't support the border wall? cast your vote now on twitter @loudobbs. this daredevil taking his soccer game to brand-new heights as he performs a series of very impressive tricks -- take a look at this. 600 feet above the ground. this is in england. he juggles the ball on his right foot, balances it on its toes and unfaced by that daunting drop. coming up, president trump's fake news media and the news media to portray him as a racist. trump: they don't want to report that i spoke out against bigotry and hatred and violence and against the neonazis, the white supremacists, and the kkk. david: and espn is under fire for removing this sports announcer from covering a football game because of his name. we take up the politically-correct madness with conservative commentator c

is to each other well we're in the dark now so let's keep doing what else you got washington post kremlin mouthpieces have infuse us tickly promoted the views of american neo nazis and white nationalists what is that even based on what listen to the actual words spoken by the russian president on the issue of those who say russia is for white russians only are either bad people or just outright morons or provocateurs plain and simple because russia is a multinational state sounds like a nazi leader to you and i save the best for last the article even ties in the recent tragic events in charlottesville none of this is to say that the carnage insurance bill is directly attributable to moscow we have not yet evidence the mystic terrorist is spelled prove true kremlin views so why stop there if actual proof is unnecessary you also don't have evidence that he likes to watch disney cartoons but he probably does and most of the heroes are white but really who needs proof when it comes to blindly attacking russia these days. r.t. washington d.c. exactly not lionel will tell you but that in a minu

accused the kremlin of meddling in the 2016 u.s. presidential election.ma punished those that might have been complicit in the hacking. new sanctions were imposed on russia's top intelligence agencies. this, along with the immediate expulsion of 35 russian diplomat's who were working in the u.s.. if moscow had hoped for an easier time with trump, it has been left as sorely disappointing. before taking office, donald trump had hinted at wrapping sanctions to repair ties with russia. instead, the white house said it would maintain the obama administration sanctions. washington then announced more penalties for moscow in june, these targeting 38 individuals and organizations accused of helping russia tighten its grip over eastern ukraine, including individuals who allegedly bankrolled moscow backed separatists, and an organization that provides tactical military running to pro-kremlin fighters, and a multimillion dollar private equity firm promoting the tourism industry entire area -- and crimea. these sanctions go even further, by tightening the existing on

michael cohen also wrote directory to the kremlin, to vladimir putin's spokesman to ask for direct kremlin help in restarting discussions about the building project which by then he said was stalled. the other trump organization figure involved in these negotiations is someone we've talked about before named felix seder. a russian bonn ex-con convicted of a $40 million mafia connected scheme. in 2015 trump in a sworn deposition professed to not be able to recognize felix seder if he had been sitting in that room that day. it's a little hard to believe felix seder had been associated with the trump organization for years. carried a trump business card that described himself as senior adviser to donald trump even after trump said he wouldn't recognize him if he were in the room. by 2013 apparently felix seder was recognizable again because he was working with michael cohen to make the trump-moscow thing happen and trump was signing off on the letter of intent to move forward with it. michael cohen i think has to testify to house intel next week. he handed over document to house intel today.

and we know that the kremlin has done this before. in eastern europe.re is something called the kremlin play book, a document which talks about how they do it. and part of the way they do it is they corrupt people. and we see -- >> rose: then they own them. >> and then they own them. and we see manafort. and flynn taking money from the russians. we see trump's son saying in 2008 that a disproportionate amount of our money is coming from russia. i mean if the trump businesses are in large part financed by -- you know, it is lard to borrow money in the united states after you've gone bankrupt many times. (laughing) and so if your son is saying there's a lot of russian money coming into our business, he's presumably saying because there's a lot of russian money coming into their business. so that's -- and part of the kremlin play book is corrupting people, is getting their claws into them by investing in them. and corrupting them. and so we will -- this will unfold. ♪ ♪ >> rose: first time author and yale law graduate j.z. vance is a son of the white rust

sought the kremlin's help.te i respectfully request some one preferably you contact me so that i might discuss the specific as well as arranging meetings with appropriate individuals. in an interview with t"the wall street journal", cohen says he discussed the deal with mr. trump multiple times and mr. trump signed ape letter of intent in october 2015. by that time, candidate trump surged to the top of the republican polls. >> i will gait long with putin. >> cohen traded e-mails with a business associate involved in the trump tower moscow project. seder claimed to have deep tie thousands inside the kremlin. our boy can become president of the usa and we can engineer it. i will get all of putin's team to buy in on this. i will manage this process. in a statement today, cohen described trump tower moscow as "a building proposal that did not succeed and nothing more." the project was scrapped shortly after cohen e-mailed peskov, the kremlin spokesman. >> the campaign is on its way to victory. >> cohen did not take

he's closely tied to the kremlin. they did business deals. don't work for the former ukrainian president yan cove itch without dealing with the kremlin. and i just want to pull back a little bit here on all these stories. you know, you raised a very good point how do we connect all the dots and, of course, you know, we have investigative committees and mr. mueller that's going to do that. but let's be clear what we're talking about here. the russians were involved in trying to influence the outcome of our elections, and people were coordinating with them from the trump campaign. that may not be illegal but it's wrong. and number two, during that period, the trump organization appears to have tried to take advantage of their candidate to try to do a business deal in moscow. that to me also seems wrong. and so irrespective of where it lands legally, let's be clear what happened here. this is not something that we should approve of. this is something we should be very upset about, and some day maybe have laws that prevent it in the future. >> th

who not only adopted kremlin-favored positions on issues, but also adopted the language and logic of the , welin come a talking about cannot say anything about what is happening in russia right now because we have killers, too. that is exactly the kind of thing that putin himself would say. charlie: he said that in an interview, too. do you also believe that president obama could have made a difference if he had been stronger in his own declarations about russian hacking? >> i think president obama was in an impossible decision on this issue. give you was the commander -- here he was a commander in chief, trying to defend democracy, but also the standardbearer of the democratic party in the middle of an election. i think he wanted very badly to avoid any appearance that he was putting his thumb on the scale in this election. that is to his credit. i understandwhy he decided not to. charlie: you said you now know

to each other well we're in the dark now so let's keep digging what else you got washington post kremlin mouthpieces of ensues yes dickie promoted the views of american neo nazis and white nationalists what is that even based on and i save the best for last the article even ties in the recent tragic events in charlottesville none of this is to say that the carnage in charlottesville is directly attributable to moscow we have not yet learned of evidence the mystic terrorist is spelt prove true kremlin views so why stop there if actual proof is unnecessary you also don't have evidence that he likes to watch disney cartoons but he probably does and most of the heroes are white but really who needs proof when it comes to blindly attacking russia these days. r.t. washington d.c. . other media outlets go even further suggesting that russian intelligence is using hate groups to escalate the situation inside the united states however despite all the conclusions the article admits there is no evidence that russia is supporting american extreme right groups media unless lionel shared his thoughts

evidence the mystic terrorist is supposed to prove true kremlin views so why stop there if actual proof is unnecessary you also don't have evidence that he likes to watch disney cartoons but he probably does and most of the heroes are white but really who needs proof when it comes to blindly attacking russia these days. r.t. washington d.c. other media outlets go even further suggesting that russian intelligence is using hate groups to escalate the situation inside the us however despite all the conclusions the article but admits there is no evidence that bush is supporting an american extreme right groups media around his line is that. russia is the hotbed of or the preferred country of neo nazis it's absurd first neo nazis are looking to russia neo nazis did they ever hear about this thing called world war two they understand how historically that doesn't seem to make any sense if you ever meet a neo nazi all you have to do is ask said nazi. saying not. to me and they can't answer it and the reason why many of them can't answer is that the nazis that we saw in charlottesville were bas

he is written at a kremlin e-mail address so it is not clear they knew each other. but there is outreach on the part of michael cohen he, this figure in trump tower and council to the trump organization to a top level person at the kremlin. >> okay. we will come back to this. we are juggling a bunch of things here. but julia, other major breaking story on russia. you reported it here for nbc news. let me get this to you. you have robert mueller, special oun counsel, did the president play some role in crafting, and let's be clear, you're talking about crafting a misleading potentially public statement. this isn't a statement under oath or to congressional investigators. this is a public statement he may have according to investigators he maybe played a role in crafting? >> yes, that's right. this is different, of course, than if he had made false statements to investigators or under oath to congress. but what is interesting here is that this statement investigators believe could be a tell into what trump knew when. if at the time he came up with that first response

>>> demonstrators protesting the communist party marched to the walls of the kremlin.f this keeps the pressure on gorbachev who has promised to accelerate the pace of his reforms. these people want him to deliver on that promise, now. >> many of the protesters carried the flag of free prerevolutionary russia. >> gorbachev's reforms weren't working. prices for food and energy in russia will go up several hundred percent next week. >> life was becoming harder. consumer goods harder to find. food even hard to come by. the economic system was breaking down. >> in a country accustomed to shortages, people are saying they've never had it so bad. >> hardliners did not like the tone of reforms introduced by gorbachev. >> gorbachev's reforms were meant to restore and refresh communism and save the soviet union and actually they had exactly the opposite effect. >> you couldn't reform this economic system. you had to throw it out. gorbachev wasn't willing or able to do that. so it was only a matter of time before the old establishment were going to try to get rid of him. >> mr. g

. >> reporter: did you discuss opening secret channels with the kremlin with jared kushner, for instanceave said many times that we do not discuss the substance of our discussions with our american interlocinterlockutors. >> reporter: that was a long convoluted story, it takes 15 hours to get here from moscow own on a train. the local administration they basically lied to us. they said he eat not here, he's in a village 3 1/2, four hours' drive from here, but we waited in this central location where he was meant to be giving a press conference and we had an opportunity to ---asked him about those allegations of collusion, and also asked him about that meeting in may with president trump alongside the russian foreign minute stister. when you met donald trump the president, were you surprised when he disclosed credit information to you about syria? >> i don't think there was anything secret disclosed in that meeting. >> what about this allegation that you're a spy master, a spy recruiter. did you recruit any members of the donald trump administration. >> you should be ashamed, because cnn

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. >> reading what the kremlin is saying i think that the kremlin thinks that personal relationship hasn't gone away yet. i think it's fascinating to see what pass cover had said about the sanctions -- >> who's that? >> he's putin's spokesperson in the kremlin. >> he's the spicer/sarah huckabee -- >> yeah. he said this isn't news. it was going to automatically expect law with or without the president's signature. it tells you that the kremlin is watching very closely what's happening inside the beltway. it knows -- it can see it, and the other thing is and we have talked about this, i believe the kremlin still believes that it has a friend in president trump and what i mean is somebody who does want to change the relationship with russia. whether -- but he's surrounded by people who don't want that. what i'm interested to see is whether at some point that changes. that position in moscow changes and they decide they no longer have an ally in trump. as we discussed, everything is interconnected. if the u.s. takes action in north korea and you saw that in president trump's statement, talking

the secretary of state says he made it clear a lot of harm has been done by the kremlin. >> russian meddling in the elections was certainly a serious incident. trying to help them understand just how serious this incident had been and how seriously it had damaged the relationship between the u.s., the american people, and the russian people. that this had created serious mistrust between our two countries, and that we simple have to find some way to deal with that. >> the kremlin has ordered the u.s. to cut its diplomatic staff by 60% in retaliation for new sanctions. tillerson told lavrov he would respond to that request officially by september 1. >>> it is monday, 11 minutes past the hour. let's check your money. the benefits of charitable giving might change if lawmakers push through tax reform. that's according to new analysis from the congressional budget office. now most people do not donate to charity just because of the tax breaks they'll get. but the republicans plan to double the standard deduction, lower income tax rates, and repeal the estate tax has charity experts concerned. le

the move came after american lawmakers hit the kremlin with new sanctions.rom moscow. >> reporter: the state department called the russian action regrettable and uncalled for. the russians are saying they had no choice but to react to the tightening of sanctions against them. all weekend as the world waited. president putin didn't say a word about russia's retaliation against the u.s. he was busy with the pomp of russia's navy day. a celebration and also a reminder that, russian muscle extends out over the oceans too. finally sunday evening he weighed in. the american diplomatic mission in russia he said would have to lose 755 >> translator: we waited for quite some time for something to change for the better, he said, referring to relations with washington. but it became clear, it wouldn't be soon. the state department won't reveal how many people it employs. but the russians say there are 1200 in moscow and three other cities. 2/3 of them will have to be cut. so the american diplomatic operation is trimmed to the same size as russia's mission in the u.s. t