would you call the mandate a success for the kremlin? >> the kremlin thinks it is a success. they set the target for what they wanted the campaign to look like. they got voters out on election day, so for them it is a success. tosome extent they are able manage the political system to provide a narrative that they think suits their interests and the elites are more or less on board. things are under control, which is above all what they want. it is worth noting that if you compare this election to the last presidential election, the last election, we saw protests in moscow in particular. the middle class said we are not satisfied with the results with the return of putin. this time we didn't get that much. the opposition was marginalized, but it seems like the population is not willing to complain too loudly about it. i would notice that voting patterns in moscow look different. we can debate why that is, but more so moscow voted in favor of the status quo. in the past moscow was seen as a change vote, it was like that in the last election. in this case, that wasn't true. i t

and then out of nowhere we have this admission that she works with the kremlin. putin had to sanction sher saying that publicly. and so to me this is vladimir putin engaging in a putin-esque show of force and telling donald trump and everyone else in the meeting he has information that could impact the investigation and could impact them. >> and i have to think there are people inside of the white house who are pulling their hair out over this. we'll have more on the exclusive. did a russian banker illegally try to help the trump campaign by funneling money through the nra. more on that coming up. vo: gopi's found a way to keep her receipts tidy, even when nothing else is. brand vo: snap and sort your expenses with quickbooks and find, on average, $4,340 in tax savings. quickbooks. backing you. every day we hear from families who partnered with a senior living advisor from a place for mom to help find the perfect place for their mom or dad thank you so much for your assistance in helping us find a place. mom feels safe and comfortable and has met many wonderful r

we also continue to see evidence of the kremlin and kremlin linked agents deploy hybrid schools to sow division to amplify he social tension here at home. we don't have to look far for examples. kremlin linked trolls flooded twitter with messages intended to sow division and disinformation in the wake of the tragic shootings in las vegas and parkland florida. one candidate gained 1,100 russian origin twitter followers over a three-day period with many of the accounts appearing to be artificial. january, the press reports indicate that fancy bear, the russian military linked hackers penetrated and perpetrated attacks on democratic national committee in the 2016 election, have been attempting to penetrate the e-mails of senate offices in the runoff to the 2018 midterm elections. kremlin propoganda outlets continue to try to capitalize on open press and public debates to amplify division. in sum, kremlin and kremlin linked agents are still trying to hack us, our allies, and partners to fuel their information operations. they are still using trolls and bots to manipulate social media and t

media as a smoking gun that would breathe new life into the search of ties between trump and the kremlin a crucial piece of the puzzle the russian lawyer who promised dirt on clinton to the trump campaign worked with latimer putin's kremlin this is natalia vessel that sky as she was twenty sixteen meeting at trump tower acknowledging that she's a lawyer but that she's also an informant listen to what she's telling us now about her ties to the chief prosecutor of russia in front of mark better this year. about them. even in front seemingly this now adds to the collusion case but what more does this new quote from an interview and what is said to be her e-mail correspondence actually add to the overall picture. well we know. a lawyer who worked for the moscow region prosecutor's office before going private she says she's worked on high profile cases in russia and abroad representing both foreign and russian citizens and when she hit the headlines last year the media was quick to point out her alleged links to the russian government from the coverage one could easily think she was on a spec

coming on behalf of the kremlin to lobby to influence some of the election certainly that narrative has come under question of course the other question is why this is coming now this comes out after that report by congress denying any links between collusion rather between trump and the russian government it's interesting to see now what impact this will have on investigation that hawkins there will or. martha macauley thinks there is nothing special in the so-called revelations that a lawyer sometimes works with a prosecutor's office this relation that the television. is very a criminal agent doesn't stand up because as a lawyer she can give advice to the prosecutor general's office. members of the prosecutor general's office as a lawyer that's quite legal nothing there's nothing illegal about it and you can go to the united states and represent a client it's just another meeting and tribune you met her. and he said it only lasted twenty minutes they didn't speak about very much if the opposition of. then can find evidence that they were conspiring together they were trying trying to

the russian boy who promised dirt on clinton to the campaign worked with latimer putin's kremlin this is natalia vessel that sky she was twenty sixteen meeting at trump tower acknowledging that she's a lawyer but that she's also an informant listen to what she's telling us now about her ties to the chief prosecutor of russia in fact a mark that this he gave them. even though in front of this story of course they were back to twenty sixteen as we heard at that meeting between verse and it's going in trump tower between her and trump jr paul and jared couche that story subsequently hit the headlines in summer of last year much media reports are on the story as a smoking gun all rather one of the battery of smoking guns here in that russia collusion probe now. is a top attorney she's worked for the prosecutor's office before something which she's admitted in congress that's the million other interviews as well and she has stated before links or rather her contact with the top prosecutor general in russia with government agencies in her professional capacity as a lawyer this for example i

he says what he thinks, he criticized the kremlin military involvement in ukraine and in syria. he's supported novotny's call for the boycott of the so-called election and this is a directly elected mayor of the fourth largest city in russia and the kremlin is not happy about. since they didn't win over him, they decided let's not have a mayor and election. and it needs to be opposed more, if the regime is popular as it says it is, why is it afraid to let the russian people vote. >> i want to go back to what angela said. russia is much more integrated as far as the economy and that's a difference. and strikes me that russia is politically isolated at the same time and increasingly so because of putin's foreign policy adventures, if you want to describe it as that. do you groo he agree to come extent. putinen in ukraine, the meddling in western elections is starting to backfire on a grand scale, meaning it's actually hampering the bigger strategic goal of making russia great again on the world stage or do you think that this kind of relationship where popular support continues to

he means the kremlin.is name was on it and other people who russia considers -- who the kremlin considered traitors. >> nina khrushchev, poisonings on foreign soil, this is missile test that russia launched today putin saying impervious to american defenses shutting down con is sue lats. spies kicked out of this country. a lot of people's minds we read about, saw, witnessed during the cold war. when you look anhe present momentthe state of relations between the two countries how do they sta up? >> it's very cold warrish. i'm constantly confronted with the watcthought i'ng something from the spy who came in from the cold and reading john la ca ray. it's developing in front of our eyes. it's a very chilling reality and it is a possibility that there is a hit list. i wouldn't imagine that there's anything in writing because no good kremlin would leave something like that in writing. putin doesn't like his enemies. we know that he has a very long memory trained by the kgb in a kgb universe, a traitor is a trai

there was the so-called kremlin list that was mandated.it remains to be seen whether or not they will take the step of implementing sanctions against those individuals they identified. they have a lot of leeway, the administration does, but so far they have been quite restrained in using it. host: we will hear from a member of the state department in just a moment. they say this is not tit-for-tat. they say it is punishing russia for their actions. of the we four is out u.s.? who are these russian diplomats or spies? guest: according to u.s. government, u.s. intelligence agencies, there are still approximately 40 known russian spies. american intelligence officers, russian intelligence officers, often go undercover to do intelligence-gathering activities. so we do not know the names of your these individuals are and whether they were spies are not. we have to trust the assessment from the u.s. intelligence community that they named the people they thought were most deeply involved in spying on various u.s. government and even private secto

coming on behalf of the kremlin to lobby to influence the election certainly that narrative has come under question of course the other question is why this is coming now.

know what the russians did and how and well each section starts off with accusations of what the kremlin did where the evidence is meant to be there is just a bunch of blacked out text nevertheless the committee concludes that russia's goal was to sow discord in america and cast doubt on the democratic process that's apparently with point zero zero zero two percent of u.s. election related advertising on google and with an equally huge amount of ads on facebook twenty five percent of which were never seen by anyone that's in the report still the aim was apparently achieved and is the sole reason for the expansive divide that has grown in america since the election rush's active measures campaign achieved its primary goal of inciting division and discord among americans for more than a year us politics have been consumed by busy recriminations charges and countercharges about the attacks it's wholly unclear how russia's alleged actions are responsible for the political chaos that has ensued since trump took the white house it wasn't russia reporting that term's former campaign manager has

would you call the results a success for the kremlin? >> i think there is no doubt the kremlin thinks it is a success. there have been -- they are happy with the results, broadly speaking. they set the target for what they wanted the campaign to look like. it looks like what they wanted it to look like. they got voters out on election day, so for their perspective it is a success. as far as the political mandate, to some extent they are able to manage the political system to provide a narrative that they think suits their interests and the groups of you leads -- elites are more or less on board. things are under control, which is above all what they want. i think it is also worth noting that if you compare this election to the last presidential election, the last election, that was followed by , in moscow in particular. the middle-class came out into the streets and said we are not satisfied with the results, with the return of putin. this time we didn't get that much. the opposition was marginalized, the election was not a real election

there's only one thing that gives the kremlin some. credibility to its propaganda. and that's when politicians from the total get it countries join in the efforts. driven to the conclusion. has joined this. well boris johnson i'm really tearing into the labor leader in the strongest words possible and all this because jeremy corbyn has consistently all sked evidence of the government's assertion that the kremlin is behind the attack against gay and yulia script how take a listen to some of the things that jeremy corbin has said in recent weeks. as the prime minister taken the necessary steps on to the chemical weapons convention to make a formal request for evidence from the russian government how has she responded to the russian government's request for a sample of the agent used in the souls return to run. as a resolution trace analysis been run on a sample of the nerve agent and has not revealed any evidence as to the location of its production all the identity of which perpetrators boris johnson has serious questions to answer he claimed on german television thi

know what the russians did and how and well each section starts off with accusations of what the kremlin did where the evidence is meant to be there is just a bunch of blacked out text nevertheless the committee concludes that russia's goal was to sow discord in america and cast doubt on the democratic process that's apparently with point zero zero zero two percent of u.s. election related advertising on google and with an equally huge amount of ads on facebook twenty five percent of which were never seen by anyone that's in the report still the aim was apparently achieved and is the sole reason for the expansive divide that has grown in america since the election rush's active measures campaign achieved its primary goal of inciting division and discord among americans for more than a year us politics have been consumed by busy recriminations charges and countercharges about the attacks it's wholly unclear how russia's alleged actions are responsible for the political chaos that has ensued since trump took the white house it wasn't russia reporting that terms former campaign managers con

and number two, i am joined to understand why the kremlin, mr. your bossld not let ron? it seems like if you believe those numbers, 86%, if he ran, with all due respect and them credit, that would be the best way of discrediting him as a political force, as opposed to making him into a martyr like figure. ah, thank you for the question. that has been one of our strategical ideas, that they byld be by -- so persuaded their own figures of 86% that they would let him run just to demonstrate he has a mere 2% of support. he already has experience because we started a moscow mayoral campaign. our own polling in 2013 has -- you know, there is 45% and 36% in real exit polls and 51% in official results. very, very close. because there are different , who will, people ask you vote for, who do you -- during all of 2017, they were building out in russia, so our registered voters -- you do not have television access, newspapers, radio, even on the internet, our ability to operate is very restrict did. so, -- very restricted. so, we have outreach for the media to outreach to their fri

how is the kremlin looking? you recently said that you think that vladimir putin might be looking for an offramp. what do you mean? i want to go back and talk about the remarks from earlier in the discussion. one of the things you were involved with in the 1990's as a russian policy person was this idea that, if you promote the economic integration into this, there would be a moderating impact. the we have today is europeans that are economically dependent and the interdependence with european .nd russian relations russian money, as we know, is very present in great britain and that is a reason why the british have been slow to take the measures they could have after that poisoning. yorkis also present in new and in the real estate market. gives an influence that is different from the cold war and is economically isolated and makes it more difficult to deal with these issues because of the fact that there are a number of russian businesses that are dependent on their relations with russia and it makes it harder

he means the kremlin. so that his name was on it and other people who russia considers -- who the kremlin considered traitors. >> nina khrushchev, poisonings on foreign soil, this is missile test that russia launched today putin saying impervious to american defenses shutting down consulates. spies kicked out of this country. a lot of people's minds we read about, saw, witnessed during the cold war. when you look an the present moment, the state of relations between the two countries how do they stack up? >> it's very cold warrish. i'm constantly confronted with the thought i'm watching something from the spy who came in from the cold and reading john la ca ray. it's developing in front of our eyes. it's a very chilling reality and it is a possibility that there is a hit list. i wouldn't imagine that there's anything in writing because no good kremlin would leave something like that in writing. putin doesn't like his enemies. we know that he has a very long memory trained by the kgb in a kgb universe, a tr

know what the russians did and how and well each section starts off with accusations of what the kremlin did where the evidence is meant to be there is just a bunch of blacked out text nevertheless the committee concludes that russia's goal was to sow discord in america and cast doubt on the democratic process that's apparently with point zero zero zero two percent of u.s. election related advertising on google and with an equally huge amount of ads on facebook twenty five percent of which were never seen by anyone that's in the report still the aim was apparently achieved and is the sole reason for the expansive divide that has grown in america since the election rush's active measures campaign achieved its primary goal of inciting division and discord among americans for more than a year us politics have been consumed by busy recriminations charges and countercharges about the attacks it's wholly unclear how russia's alleged actions are responsible for the political chaos that has ensued since trump took the white house it wasn't russia reporting that term's former campaign manager has

russia is to blame for what happened and any protestations of questions coming from the kremlin are all part of a propaganda campaign but this strategy of writing off anybody questioning the government's narrative as effectively treasonous as betraying the british government it appears to have been rather fruitful for the government and for two reason may as prime minister personally because for the first time since the general election polls are showing that to reason may is more popular than jeremy corbin well as well as attacking corbett in his article johnson also made numerous claims which are open to question yourself he explains. boris johnson's been caught out a fair few times in his role as british foreign secretary sometimes doing the wrong thing other times saying the wrong thing and this time his blunders have taken the form of the written word is after a series of unfortunate events at the u.k. foreign office having to delete the old tweets and post new ones boris johnson felt it was time to get the facts in the script case straight once and for all. boris writes that brita

but try as it might, the kremlin can't keep wagner's work a secret.ogged russian journalists revealed the names and faces of dozens of fighters who died in syria. two of them were captured by isis. others were caught on camera arriving at a russian airport carrying duty-free bags from syria. there's even a rap video celebrating wagner's front line victories. ♪ the man behind wagner is believed to be the man standing next to putin. evgeni prigozhin. >> he's a funder of wagner, he bankrolls the organization but he doesn't have extensive military experience so he doesn't have experience on the ground. >> he use the to be a hot dog salesman. now he's known as putin's chef. >> he has a massive catering business that makes a lot of money thanks to very lucrative contracts he's able to score based on his relationship to putin, and in turn he does putin's favors. >> reporter: one of those favors earned prig azin an indictment from special counsel robert mueller for running the troll farm which attacked our elections. but favors go both ways. he has a contract

clearly a lot closer relations with the kremlin. didn't elaborate on what it means that she is an informant. this doesn't seem to mesh with things she sold u.s. authorities and the u.s. public, guys. >> all right. fred pleitgen, thank you very much. >>> cnn has learned the national rifle association could be getting ready for a possible investigation over its ties to a kremlin-linked banker. >> cnn political correspondent sara murray with the details here. >> reporter: the national rifle association is setting aside years of documents related to interactions with kremlin-linked banker alexander torshin and his protege maria batina as it braces for a possible investigation, sources say. the gun rights group facing scrutiny over finances and ties to torshin. a lifetime member of the nra and one of the prominent russian government officials the u.s. recently slapped with sanctions. the nra is also battling allegations that torshin may have illegally funneled money through the nra to bolster the trump campaign. >> there have been allega

want anyone else to know anyway forget feelings sympathy human things that toria was obviously on a kremlin mission to reach the u.k. that's what you read in the papers in britain croman pawn get it reports are now coming in setting and then sources in british organizations the foreign office there are various theories some even say she was denied an answer because london allegedly things that week terrorist group also because it is organized by the kremlin that's absurd as long as the british authorities are in top of the whole screwball case and they have the facts what the media says might be irrelevant but basically officials haven't shared any facts that will make you scream russia did this russia did that to now that visa thing the pawn so when did speculation like this become a new british tradition like talking about the weather. circus capellan his daughter were found unconscious on a park bench in the city's soulsby on march fourth british officials later revealed that the pair had been poisoned with a military grade nerve agent named novacek

marina litvinenko is a critic of the kremlin.

he isjust one from a relationship at the kremlin. long from a relationship at the kremlin. he isjust one of a long list from a relationship at the kremlin. he is just one of a long list of individuals close to vladimir putin targeted by these us sanctions. actions intended to financially punish them and intended to send a message to moscow. in a statement, oleg deripaska said: but the white house says russia has been abusing its power internationally, as well as meddling inside america. as the president has said he wants to have a good relationship with russia, but that will depend on some of the actions by the russians, however at the same time the president is going to continue to be tough until we see that change take place. the sanctions are in response to claims that russia interviewed with america's residential election. the retaliation for the way the country has used its influence in syria and ukraine. but despite the tough actions of some observers believe donald trump has been relatively quiet perhaps protecting his own rel

had far closer kremlin ties that she said or we knew. john berman in for anderson. what she said. >> this story broke, the republican led house intelligence committee released its final report. the conclusion, no collusion. it says as if irony has the world's greatest scheduler. even as it was revealed one potential colluder who has denied kremlin ties at all is in fact an informant, the president taking a victory lap. >> great report. no collusion, which i knew anyway. no coordination, no anything. no collusion with russia. you can believe this one. she probably can't believe it. who can. but the report was very powerful. very strong. no collusion between the trump campaign and the russian people. as i have said many times before, i have always said no collusion, but also said nobody tougher on russia than me. with that all being said, if we can get along with russia, that is a good thing. not a bad thing. nobody tougher. i was honored by the report. >> the intelligence committee report from which intelligence committee descended no -- as for the meeting, and trump

that was quickly followed up by a statement from the kremlin with a tweet and facebook post. they blasted it all over social media for maximum effect and last month, two days after vladimir putin secured a term as president in a sham election, it was the kremlin then announced that donald trump called to congratulate putin on his victory after being told not to congratulate and a reporter asked trump about it prompting him to deliver news of his own. >> i had a call with president putin and congratulated him on the victory, his electoral victory. the call had to do also with the fact that we will probably get together in the not too distant future. we had a very good call and i suspect that we'll probably be meeting in the not too distant future. i think we'll see president putin in the not too distant future. >> trump called putin to congratulate him on the election win, but for the important part he repeated it seven times, did i mention we are getting together soon? ten times where there was a meeting or call between washington and russia but we here in the united states h

natalia veselnitskaya has close tied to the kremlin. she disclosed to nbc news she was the source of information for russia's chief prosecutor saying, quote, i am a lawyer and i am an informant, since 2013 i have been actively communitied with the office of the russian prosecutor general, unquote. in june of 2016 she met with officials of the trump campaign, jared kushner, paul manafort and donald trump jr. after they were promised dirt on hilling. they mailed a european move: the house intelligence committee down played it as an act of poor judgment in the newly released report that the president is celebrating this afternoons evidence of no collusion between his campaign and the russian government. we have all angles of this story covered with the reporters from the capitol and let's begin on capitol hill with manu raju. the lawyer veselnitskaya long claimed she was a private attorney and she used to deny working on behalf of the russian government but now it appears we're learning otherwise. >> and she also denied there was anything

and military jingoism and so by calling jeremy corbin a traitor and a kremlin. or a moscow media and then that's just playing into the hands of the media who likes or have an enemy about you know a bogeyman character. that doesn't mean the treason maze coming from of this nation of strength far from it i think that they're they're really scrambling i think them turn themselves into a hole that the can extricate themselves from now i think it's almost impossible for the british government actually come back from this despite what the evidence will reveal and i suspect that the evidence is going to show that it can't be linked to russia that the alleged nerve agent could have been made from any number of state actors or even private parties so there is no credible evidence here and there's no credible evidence in syria linking the alleged chemical weapons attack so the syrian government forces so there we have the similarities and whether there's an actual connection between the two the army of signals here in cyprus are trying to allege are not sure like apprecia

marina litvinenko is a critic of the kremlin.er husband, alexander, was killed in london by russian agents, and now another friend of hers has been murdered. marina: nikolay glushkov is a person who i knew very well. and i just, can't just believe who wanted his death and why he was killed. reporter: nikolay glushkov was a russian businessman who'd fallen out with the kremlin. now, police are investigating who killed him in his house in south london. litvinenko shows us a list on the website of the russian embassy in london. the kremlin had accused glushkov of fraud and wanted him to be tried in russia. marina: they gave a list, names of people who they want to be extradited. on this list is name of nikolay glushkov. it's bla, all this what we saw in russian websites, it looks like a hit list. reporter: litvinenko's own husband, a former spy who turned against the kremlin, fled to britain with his family. in london, he was poisoned with radioactive polonium. a later inquiry ruled that president putin probably approved his assasin

source prfrom the kremlin how donald trump would meet him. the white house denied they would meet but then they met just like the kremlin said they would. that was in mid november. by the end of november, the russian news agency enter fafac reported they were set to host a call but the call happened. that was the fifth time we learned the news from russia. the sixth time was december 14th when there was a photo announcing vladimir putin had another call with tdonald trump. thanks for the heads up. the seventh time was three days later on december 17th. the state news agency reported putin and trump had another heart to heart. the eighth time came at the end of january when reuters siting russia's foreign spy chief i should note is under u.s. sanctions came to the u.s. the week before to meet with our spy chiefs. we later learned he did not come alone but we first got the news from russia. in february, it happened again. the ninth time. russian news agency entfacts pu out a report that was quickly followed up by a statement from the kremlin wi

was it really just kremlin disinformation? that seems to be a familiar line of attack from president trump's supporters, when presented when information that is potentially damaging to the president, it's, well, maybe this is the kremlin trying to get it out there to sow dissension in the u.s. that could be the case, but we need a little more evidence of that. >> worth investigating more? matthew said at least investigating more, she says she's an informant -- >> you have the senate investigation going on the mueller investigating going on. this house partisan investigation was never going to be the one that got to the truth of anything. it became nothing but a leak factory for the democratic party. and it also became an issue where it brought up possible malpractice at the fbi. that's all this sort of house investigation committee -- >> it was also devin nunes, who had to recuse himself because of questionable activity. >> sure. absolutely. and it's also the fbi that refused to turn over documents to the house committee inves