with mr. putin. don't think there is anything wrong with it, from the tandpoint of exxon, our companies do business across the world everywhere and have to deal with governments there. i don't see anything really about it. troubling you: with half a minute, do think russia influenced the u.s. election? guest: well, that is an mpossible question to answer, you need to analyze result of the election in way that is not possible now, but i do think tried. host: eugene rumer, trektor of for ussia eurasia prom carnegie endowment for international peace, thank you for being with us. guest: my pleasure. host: mr. rumer will stay with s, we will go to the house for a brief pro forma session, we'll of you are ome calls on the line for and comments, live coverage on the program. the president will be speaking at cpac that gets underway in 40 minutes. a brief session, house calls and comments, live coverage on the program. and resident senate in recess for president's day, this is pro forma session, back in a mi

so, i can imagine that in 2024 mr. putin will be i believe 72 years old, about the same age roughly speaking as president trump now. he could continue, either as president or prime minister or in some other capacity. i think he it will be determined at that time as he approaches that threshold but he is here for quite some time and on the first part of the statement, he has proven himself as a very capable leader. he has been a the helm for 177 years now. he came out of virtually nowhere. he was an unknown when he emerged as the successor to boris yeltsin, president boris yeltsin and he managed to dominate the world stage it and limelight and remain at the helm in very difficult times domestically in russia much.ri he keeps coming back. don't write him off yet. >> host: bill on independent line with eugene rumer. >> caller: good morning. do you think nato's encroachment on the western border of russia is being used as leverage and i think? >> nato enlargement as an idea began in the mid 1990s. mind you has nothing to do with

that's the crucial point for mr putin. nside the mind of the russian president, what do you think he wants from donald trump? what does he think he can get from this administration that he didn't get from the obama administration? i thinkjust the main purpose of mr putin just to somehow ensure and to create an understanding of mr trump's administration that putin's regime isa administration that putin's regime is a decent one, normal. that you should stop teaching him democracy, as mr putin describes and just start dealing with him as a normal regime, despite the fact that — western politicians mr putin believes everything in this world is tradeable. he is looking for a transaction, a deal. i don't know what he's ready to sell to mr trump, but he expects us administration to lift sanctions and just to make transatlantic unity a little weaker so transatlantic unity a little weaker so that he could deal with individual european states and make them weaker. when you describe him as wanting a deal, somebody who wa nts a as want

mr. putin depends upon corruption in order to run his type of government and it's a country that does not respect basic human rights of its citizens. they don't enjoy human rights and i've tried to put a face on this because we know the numbers. we know the thousands of people who have been persecuted by the russian government, their own people in russia but we put a face on it with certify guy ma anyone ski back in 2009, air force lawyer just trying to represent a client discovered massive corruption within the russian system and he did what a lawyer's required to do. he reported it to the authorities. as a result he was arrested, tortured and killed. and the people who were responsible were not held accountable. they were promoted. and democrats and republicans came together in the united states congress to pass the sergey law. we're not going to let them travel to america or use our banking system and as a result of u.s. leadership, other countries followed and we established national/intern

this is what is happening today under mr. putin in russia. we know what is happening, the question is what do we do about it. i think the trump administration has compromise itself in this regard. i say that because it starts with what america stands for. mr. trump, in taking over the presidency and failing to release his tax returns, not doing what every other president has done, with his own personal wealth and business complex, no longer has the standing that torica would normally have question actions in other countries. so we already have i think compromised our ability and credibility on these issues in dealing with russia or dealing with other countries that commit corruption and failed to protect the rights of all of its citizens. so to me it was shocking when president trump continues to side with russia as we have seen over and over again. he criticizes every country, our allies, but for russia it seems like he will not say anything. he refuses to knowledge the atuation in the ukraine is result of russian aggression, even know there

do you consider it would be correct to invite mr putin to the g-7 in be correct to invite mr putin toite mr putin to the g—7 in tower meena or not? —— in taormina. there are four questions here. i start from the last one, even though it was addressed to prime minister may. because, in order to be clear, the italian presidency is not issued any invitation to mr putin to come to the g-7 invitation to mr putin to come to the g—7 meeting in taormina. 0bviously, the g—7 meeting in taormina. obviously, there is a need for all of us, and italy agrees, to maintain a firm position when it comes to principles. we also should try and foster dialogue. italy is available to do this because it holds the chair of the g—7. this has nothing to do with the possibility of any invitation. that at the moment are nonexistent. as far as the two questions that were asked of me, and i'm sorry if i spoke about putin first, italy... sorry, the eu already has different levels of integration. we know we have the euro countries and the multi—currency countries. there are some countries that have signed the schenge

and then in dealing with mr. putin, i think, and i'm all for engaging him to try to identify, you know, those areas of common ground that cold-bloodedly exist and be equally hard-nosed about areas of difference, but to engage in that step-by-step so that when two leaders meet a lot of the ground has been prepared. ms. mitchell: there are now reports that the french election might be being interfered in. germany's election is coming up. czechoslovakia has had issues. when are we going to see any commitment to investigate the hacking? senator murphy: well, i mean, there has been an effort to investigate the hacking. the american intelligence community, you know, made a very clear and definitive finding that the russians had methodically and planfully tried to disrupt the election in favor of donald trump. now, i think the fact that trump politicized that by attacking that finding relentlessly for weeks necessitates republicans and democrats in congress coming together and making our own finding. that's why many of us hav

mr. putin depends on corruption to run its government. and it is a country that does not respect the basic human rights of its citizens. i have tried to put a face on this, because we know the numbers. we know that thousands of people who have been persecuted by the russian government. but we put a face on it with rgei back in 2009, a long -- a young lawyer trying to represent a client. he did what a lawyer is required to do and reported it to the authorities. as a result, he was tortured and killed, and the people held responsible were not held accountable, they were promoted. democrats and republicans came together the past the law that was aimed -- to pass the law that was aimed originally at russia that said if you don't punish these individuals, we will not give them the benefit of our country. as a result of u.s. leadership, other countries followed, and we established international standards on how we treat people who are guilty of violations of human rights not punished by their a country. we have made that global in the last cong

we continue to seem to stand occasionally with mr. putin attacks on the media, on the press are deeply deeply frightening to europeans who are being challenged by a threat to liberal democracy. >> we have to leave it at that. up next, the russian side of all this. i will talk to sergei car gone november who frequently advises vladimir putin on foreign policy. what does he make of it all? i'me mucinex sinus-max. too late, we're about to take off. these dissolve fast. they're liquid gels. and you're coming with me... you realize i have gold status? mucinex sinus-max liquid gels. dissolves fast to unleash max strength medicine. let's end this. mattress firmness? enter sleep number... she likes the bed soft. he's more hardcore. you can both adjust the bed for the best sleep of your life. save 50% on the ultimate limited edition bed, plus 24-month financing. go to sleepnumber.com for a store near you. today, unlimited gets the netwverizon.eserves. (mic thuds) uh, sorry. it's unlimited without compromising reliability, on the largest, most advanc

putin. >> that's right. mr. trump acknowledging that putin may be a killer but then adding this. we've got a lot of killers. have a listen. >> do you respect putin. >> i respect a lot of people but that doesn't mean i'm going to get along with them. he's a leader of his country. i say it's better to get along with russia than not. will i get along with him? i have no idea. >> he's a killer, though putin's a killer. >> there are a lot of killers. you think our country's so innocent. >> and jill doe ert ty joins us from seattle washington. first to claire, this is quite an interesting comment by president trump. he seems to be putting russia and president putin on equal footing with the u.s.? >> yeah. the linda that's so interesting about this is that the sense of moral equivalence that you get from those comments it's something we hear a lot in russia. for example, a speech that putin gave back in 2014 comparing u.s. and western actions to what russia did with crimea so this is very much the sense of the rhetoric that we get here in russia that's oak owed by the russian media. the

putin. >> that's right. mr. trump acknowledged president putin may be a killer but added that we've got a lot of killers. take a listen. >> do you respect putin? >> i do respect him. >> do you? why? >> well, i respect a lot of people, but that doesn't mean i'm going to get along with them. he's a leader of his country. i say it is better to get along with russia than not. will i get along with him? i have no idea. >> he's a killer though. >> it is possible i won't. >> putin's a killer. >> we have loot a lot of killer. what, you think our country is so innocent? >> claire sebastian joins us from moscow. certainly interesting words from mr. trump. what did you make of them? >> yeah, lynda, it is not the first time we have heard it from mr. trump. it is the first time since he became president we heard had it, but what is so interesting about it from where i'm sitting here in moscow is it sounds a lot like some of the rhetoric we hear from the russian side, this kind of moral about equivalence, you know. putin made

mr. putin's man in moscow. and he was shown the exit. reverse of the normal procedure in washington. we know what the cover-up is. it's lying. what's the crime? this is what the f.b.i. wants to know very, very badly. >> so let's talk about leaks. donald trump went insane over leaks at the news conference this week. "this whole russia scam you guys are building. russia is fake news. russia is fake news. it's but putt out by the media." first of all, who is leaking on whom and why? is it personal ven debt as, or are the agencies inside the government trying to essentially fight putin, what he's doing to create this chaos, to basically reclaim the government as donald trump just basically denies that anything's going on. >> the president is at war with his own intelligence services. >> clearly. >> he called the c.i.a. "nazis." he puts quotation marks around the word "intelligence" which he tweets about the f.b.i. and the c.i.a. this can't continue, okay, especially without a national security adviser. the job of running the n.s.c. is one of

dealing with mr. putin until 2018 and the general view of those who is we will be dealing with him at least until 2024. i think implicitly we see six, seven, eight years more of my words, manage our way through and have and on where we can those critical including cyber nd military and ukraine and having progress where we can on things that are desirable. that can be accomplished at perhaps lower level whether it arctic or nuclear terrorism. nuclear security. general nk it is feeling -- i could be correct by my colleagues -- we thought this effort that would at least stretch out as long as 2024. >> that is president putin, not trump.nt used our think we have time if not the questions. thank carnegie and this panel. worth meeting and all of us to think deep earn in this evolves.hip as it thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] flemingy night, melissa from the united nations high commissioner for refugees recounts a young woma

mr. putin's man in moscow, and he was shown the exit. this is the reverse of the normal procedure in washington. we know the coverup, it's lying. what's the crime? this is what the f.b.i. wants to know very, very badly. >> hockenberry: we continue with russian scholar kim martin. >> possibly it is putin just trying to test the trump administration to see where they're going. it could also be the putin regime is feeling a little bit uncertain and they want to demonstrate areas where they are strong to try to sort of prevent any uncertainty within the united states from leading to some sort of a strong response against putin. >> hockenberry: we conclude with seth myers interview with author george saunders, book is called "lincoln in the bardo." >> i noticed every time i had an artistic thing work out, my mind would go to that, you know, what do you think. in 2012, i finished my last book, the idea showed up. i was, like, why don't i try that? and the answers were it's too hard, too earnest and would require too much heart of you. i though

mr. trump said "we got a lot of killers" when defending vladimir putin. that's all coming up after the break. >>> we're live with breaking news on the court fight over u.s. president donald trump's travel ban. >> just a few hours ago, the u.s. justice department file add appeal say agfriday's decision to suspend the ban "harms the public." protests continued in cities across the country against the president's policies. about a thousand dem monstrator turn toed out in florida. >> in a spring of tweets on saturdays, the president blast the judge who suspended the ban and at a red cross gala ball in palm beach, he predicted his administration would win the legal battle. >> international perspective from scott lucas, professor of international politics at the university of birmingham in england. we have re-established our sound connection with you. just before the break, you were talking about how this spat between donald trump and the judge is not normal. you say. >> no. i mean, a president can object to judicial decisions. that happens quite often. and the

only thing we ask from western leaders is that they stop supporting mr. putin by treating him as a respectable and worthy partner and allowing putin's cronies to use western countries as havens for their looted wealth. i pray that he will recover and pray that he will be allowed to participate in the russian society and that russian people will have a country that is reflective of them as a greatness as individuals and i think we can play a role in that. and i look forward to our hearing. >> thank you for those comments. and i just want to reiterate something you said. i see no moral equivalence, none. between ourselves and the actions that russia has taken and i agree with you those comments to me do not reflect certainly most members of the united states senate. i would say all but i think at least most and couldn't agree more. secondly, i thank you for efforts legislatively. i talked with general breedlove before coming in and having spent time with tillerson, understanding the route he is planning to take to ratchet back what russia is doing. i want to take

if we backed off active opposition to assad, a serious concession to mr. putin is moscow really willing to partner in syria and beyond? another area to explore is iran. moscow has been an active partner of iran and syria. as is the recently, iran even provided russian warplanes, a base for a brief period of time. yet at the same time it worked with us and others. the trump administration has indicated it wants to take a second look and approve the terms of that agreement is moscow willing to partner, or does it prefer good relations with tehran at the expense of stability in the persian gulf? this is by no means a complete list. space exploration and counter-narcotics among the other areas we could possibly cooperate, but all these issues point to the important business we can do when u.s. and russian interests overlap. we must not, however, be naÏve. there are a number of critical areas were moscow is challenging u.s. interests, including our vital interests. as a supreme allied commander in europe i had a ringside seat for three years of watching moscow do jus

trump also said he respects mr. putinat doesn't mean the two leaders will necessarily get along. >>> the new england patriots are super bowl champions yet again. they rallied from 25 points down against the atlanta falcons to win the first overtime game in super bowl history. the final score 34-28. it's the patriots fifth super bowl title, all with quarterback tom brady. >>> and in romania, some of the biggest protests since the fall of the communist dictatorship almost three decades ago. under intense pressure the government scrap a decree that would have prevented many politician for being prosecuted for corruption. some are demanding the entire government resign. >>> donald trump's third week as president promises to be as bumpy as his first two. >> he is facing a lot of pushback over several issues including his executive order travel ban. cnn's suzanne malveaux has more. >> reporter: after just the first two weeks in office, president trump is preparing now for judicial showdown over whether his travel ban by executi

mr. trump is also in a war of words with members of his own party over his comments about vladamir putinrussia. margaret brennan has that. >> radical islam terrorists are determined to strike our homeland. >> reporter: in his first address to the troops as commander-in-chief, president trump accused journalists of covering up terrorism. >> it's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported, dishonest press doesn't want to report it. they h understand that. >> reporter: mr. trump offered no examples. and neither did press secretary sean spicer when he tried to clarify aboard air force one. >> there's a lot of instances that have occurred where i don't think they've gotten the coverage it deserved. >> reporter: the president's comments come after senior adviser kellyanne conway referred last week to a terrorist attack that never took place. >> two iraqis came here to this country, they were radicalized. they were the master minds behind the bowling green massacre. most people don't know that because it didn't get covered. >> reporter: she later said she misspoke, but she talked abou

for cooperation with russia, with all the respect to moscow, well, trump is going to disagree with mr putinbsolutely clear, it's absolutely clear. and it's how real politics works. we've are talking about the realistic approach to this world. this one we are discussing now. many thanks, avigdor eskin, good night. even in this era of unprecedented political upheaval, some of the old conventions still hold true. and it's fair to say that busy prime ministers don't often turn up on the mid—term by—election stump — unless they think they've got a very real chance of winning the seat from another party. factor in the pub quiz classic about governing parties not having made a by—election gain since 1960, defections excluded, and you'll understand some of the excitement surrounding theresa may's visit to copeland today. newsnight‘s political editor nick watt was there. for more than 80 years, the tories have really had much electoral success beyond the dreamy landscape of swallows and amazons countries in the lake district but now for the first time since 1981, the conservatives think that they ca

mr. putin seems bent on trying to take on the very system that defines us.re not ready to stand up to that, we're going to have a big problem. our friends in europe now are experiencing acute sense of whiplash because they heard good things from the secretary of defense, from the vice president, from the secretary of state and then they hear exactly the opposite in a tweet storm coming from the president. the most troubling thing to them is at the very time when they are being challenged in europe, a threat to liberal democracy from profoundly illiberal actors we seem to stand with mr. putin. the president's attacks on the media, on the press are deeply frightening to europeans who are being challenged by a threat to liberal democracy. >> we have to lever it at that. up next the russian side of this. what does he make of it all? i'll have that goat cheese garden salad. aver it at that. up next the russian side of this. what does he make of it all? ver that. up next the russian side of this. what does he make of it all? up this. what does he make of it all? a

what mr. putin tries to do everyday is find ways to find cracks in nato to divide it and therefore render it neutral. so the first and foremost and most important message i ever saw, and i watched the wales summit could it it early is the solidarity of our alliance and commitment to article 5. >> i guess my point is, isn't that evidence after pretty significant crack when the president of the united states casts doubt on whether the russians are controlling or involved in forces in eastern he ukraine? >> it is. yes, it is. it's worrisome to our allies because they are not exactly sure which narrative is the right one. they are hearing conflicting messages when it comes to the eu, nato and russia repeatedly among cabinet members of this administration and the president. and what they are waiting for is some clarity on which view will prevail. will what we heard from ambassador nikki haley recently about ukraine and russia hold to be true? or will we in fact see an administration and president moving

looking at how this administration is cozying up to mr. putino is a bully, whose interests are different from ours, we need that strength of congress to stand up to the president and say, we are going to weigh in. we are to require a much more transparent process before you ease sanctions against russia. >> it was the new secretary of state's first day at the state department this week. what can you tell us about what you see as the top of his agenda? also realizing that he was confirmed very narrowly in the senate. just a few democrats, one independent came over to support him. he faces some resistance in the state department. we saw the 800 signatories to on some of hisle actions the other day. separately, i wanted to also ask you about the president's statement on israeli settlements. do you see that as a change in his position? what do you make of the statement the white house sent out the other night that they had concerns about additional settlements? senator cardin: on so many areas of foreign policy we don't really know mr. trumps cohere

what did you uncover that made a connection to mr. putin? it is not just people like me writing this kind of stuff. we had a public inquiry in london last year, and it concluded that vladimir putin had probably approved the assassination with a radioactive cup of tea. he is someone, according to a british court, who murders people he doesn't actually like. >> i know that your reporting led to your expulsion from russia. did you feel threatened by the putin government at any time? >> well, i mean, the real heroes in this story i think are russians, opposition people, politicians, many of whom have been killed in the last 17 years. but certainly when i was in moscow with my family, we had a tough time at the hands with people in large leather jackets following us around the dark, icy streets of moscow and all of our phone calls being bugged and interpreted. and the break-ins in our small apartment is really a pretty chilling message that the kremlin didn't like the stories i was writing. >> wow. but these accusations, -- >> well, i mean, that'

that's hardly being tough on russia and putin in my view. mr. hoyer: i was responding to your premise that trump was now saying the taking of crimea was wrong. i'm not aware of the tweet where he blames president obama, which is unfathomable that that assertion would be made. reporter: two quick questions, the first for you, mr. hoyer. this morning on msnbc, speaker ryan seemed to suggest that -- was asked about sanctions on russia and he said was for those sanctions in response to -- in response to actions by the white house to lift them, which seems to be philosophically a difference of position you are taking here as opposed you want to act, congressional approval to require lifting of sanctions, speaker ryan this morning said he thought congress should act to -- mr. hoyer: i don't think those are contradictory. this legislation would affirm those sanctions and then say those sanctions could not be repealed unless congress had a time frame in which to do that. 120 days, and a fast track procedure. similar to the jcpoa. i don't see those posit

we know that mr putin did not kick out any spooks or diplomats from russia following the announcementere a re two diplomat in the united states. there are two explanations for putin's action. 0ne are two explanations for putin's action. one is the simple one you're putting, that they were told in this conversation, don't do that, don't overreact and everything will be fine. ithink overreact and everything will be fine. i think there was also an interest on putin's park, regardless of this conversation, it was quite a clever game not to react. had he reacted, they would be back to the same old tit—for—tat stuff. by not reacting, i won't say he got the moral high ground, but he tossed the ball back into the trump camp and said, this is my contribution. i'm not going to retaliate, now it's up to you to do something to break this logjam. there is no doubt that relations between america and russia did get completely stuck on 0bama. is it possible to just look into the mind of the russians with all this happening at the moment? are they thinking, god, we have lost our man? 0rare thinking, g

himself because those are the same tax particulars mr. putinnd a lot of my republican colleagues have gone against. when you think about hugo chavez or victor in hungary, those individuals shunned the press. it seems donald trump wants to move in that same direction. so all democrats and independents and a lot of republicans, because republicans have long been against chavez' type of movement or albine's type of movement. so they have got to speak out loudly for the sake of the country and put party before country -- put country before party. >> a new nbc poll is putting out that 53% say congress should investigate the alleged contact between russian government and the trump campaign and darrell issa who sits on the foreign affairs committee with you has called for a special prosecutor to oversee the investigation into trump associates and any potential contacts with russia. how likely do you think that this is, given that it's not democrats, it is gop senators, it is someone like congressman darrell issa, how likely do you think it is that the

. >> he doesn't understand fully who is mr. putin. he's a tough guy. >> reporter: he picks risky fights, they believe, like with the media. >> he's dancing on thin ice. it's a risky game. >> reporter: and relies on his intuition more than his advisers. >> he should listen to the people, especially in the areas where he is weak. >> reporter: the kremlin is also watching president trump's problems over russia, including losing his national security adviser with growing alarm. according to putin's former prime minister. is he laughing in the kremlin at the minute at what's happening in washington? >> absolutely not. not laughing. the situation is very seriou serious. >> reporter: in the kremlin, they want president trump to end u.s. sanctions against russia and to improve relations. but they're worried at signs that he's getting tougher on russia and may not deliver. many believe hard-liners in america want to sabotage the president and his russia plans. some even talk here of a conspiracy. >> intelligence services against president dona

so it would be wise for mr putin not to easily flex his economic muscle, in order not to strain the relationshipr, now, she is born in the year of the fire monkey. that is an interesting element in theresa may's chart, that is actually compatible with donald trump. so, of all the leaders, we've seen on the list today, she probably is the only one that could possibly get along with donald trump. however, being born in the year of the fire monkey, and also going through the transition that she is in her current luck cycle, she is going through the element of betrayal. so this indicates the possibility of internal party struggles and challenges in the year 2017. we are going to end the programme with the inspiring story of nine—year—old new yorker isaiah bird. isaiah was born without legs, but that hasn't stopped him pursuing his passion for sport. my my name is isaiah bird, and i am nine years old, and i love wrestling. i also like football, soccer, swimming, baseball. what makes me unique is, i have no legs andi makes me unique is, i have no legs and i was born this way. god made me this way. man

for him to flex his economic muscle to mr trump will not be so advisable in 2017. vladimir putinand powerful status. there is a unique relationship between putin and the trump charts. everybody is talking about the romance however there will be a rise in competition in terms of political powers so it would be wise for mr putin to easily flex is economic muscle and not strain if the relationship. theresa may, the british prime minister, now, she is born in the year of the fire monkey. an element in her chart is compatible with donald trump. 0f all the leaders, we have seen on the list, she is the one that could possibly get along with donald trump. however she is also going through a transition in the current luck cycle, she is going through the element of betrayal so this indicates possibility of party struggles. very interesting feng shui forecast. you have the watching news day on the bbc. stay with us, we will be taking a look at india's airline industry and why they are soaring and how one domestic airline has had quite a change in forecast. we will leave you with chile pictu

he said he respected mr putin and it would be a good thing if russia helped the us in the fight againstonald trump about the violence in the east of the country where government forces are fighting with russian—backed rebels. petro poroshenko said they talked about the need to resolve the conflict through diplomacy. greg dawson reports. a single rose to mark another death in a conflict that shows no sign of ending. in rebel—held lugansk, pro—russian forces are blaming ukraine for a car bomb that killed one of their senior commanders. kiev denies responsibility. this came at the end of what has been one of the bloodiest weeks in the region since 2015. a key moment for ukraine to seek assurances from the new us president. after the phone call a spokesman for president poroshenko said: a statement from president trump said: there was no mention of whether the two leaders discussed the us maintaining sanctions against russia despite donald trump's wishes to improve us—kremlin relations. ukraine's own forces are preparing for more violence. local officials say rebel shelling has left more th

i don't know exactly the dynamics of that relationship but it seems very successful for mr. putin, and it seems like that might be at least a model for those who are trying to figure out how to advance their company's cause the farther west the new administration. >> do you think companies are worried that they'll be the object of a twitter tantrum on the president's part? >> i think everybody is a little bit worried about that, tyler. in particular, i think janet yellen should be worried about it. because it is fiscal stimulus, tax cuts and things that will propel the economy. those things can be inflationary. what happens if the fed starts raising rates, trying on counter manned? what about the next press conference? the unpredictability that we're getting used to. but wall street doesn't like it. >> michael, thank you as always. >> thank you. >>> still ahead, how a rollback in regulations could put more money in investors' pockets. >>> president of the european central bank struck back at the trump white house. mario rejected accusations that germany manipulates the euro and us

and mr. putin was and is a kgb agent. says you never leave the service, except with extreme prejudice, of course. and putin famously said the great geopolitical strategy of the 20th century was not holocaust, not the holodomor, but the fall of the soviet union, which of course is a great misjudgment in world terms. and mr. putin represented -- the kgb, theo ran the ministry of defense, and veriest others, the ministry of interior, the power ministries have the soviet union. and his becoming president meant the returning of this type of socket -- psychological type to power in russia. and that psychological type greatly enjoyed the geopolitical preeminence of the soviet union, and to this day they feel for preeminence the person whose life is indicated feels their vanished leg -- is amputated feels their vanished leg. surprise therefore, .5, that under this regime -- point formerhat this regime of kgb and kgb types, there is no interest in looking at the horrors of communism. in fact, the ideological debt to the extent tha

the only thing we ask from western leaders as they stop supporting mr. putin by treating him as a respectable and worthy partner, by allowing his cronies to use a western country as heinous death -- i pray that he will be allowed to participate in the russian society, i pray that the russian people will have a government that is reflective of the greatness of them as individuals and i think we can play a role. corker: i want to reiterate some do you set i see no moral equivalence between ourselves and the actions that russia has taken and i agree with you those comments to me do not reflect certainly most members of the u.s. senate. i could not agree more. secondly i thank you for your efforts legislatively. i talked a little bit with general breedlove and having spent some time with rex tillerson, understanding the route he is planning to take to ratchet back what russia is doing, i want to spend some time making sure that what we do to strengthen his hand is appropriate. there is a very different type of activity towards russia. this is not to be pretoria, b

first of all, mr. putin is the president of a sovereign country. you should respect him as such. i suspect that mr. boyle still believes that fuel, that's right, fuel, fuel from the jets, brought down the world trade center on 9/11, huh-u? >> let's hear from the congressman. >> i don't think september 11th was an insider job or any of the sort of conspiracy theories that are out there, whether president bush had advance notice or any sort of rhetoric. in terms of iran, i'm very realistic, i serve on the foreign affairs committee in the middle east subcommittee, i am very realistic about the real intentions of the iranian regime. have spoken quite a number of times about that subject. the fact that ever since the deal that was made under president obama, their behavior has not changed at all. it has gotten worse. they write in hebrew on one of their illegal missile tests, we want to -- we will wipe israel off the face of the earth. i'm very realistic about the intentions of the iranian regime and making sure that we remain guarded against them. >> 1515 cherry street, according to g

. >> reporters: is mr. putin testing you, do you believe, sir? >> no, i don't think so.hink putin probably assumes that he can't make a deal with me anymore because politically, it would be unpopular for a politician to make a deal. i can't believe i'm saying i'm a politician, but i guess that's what i am now. because, look, it would be much easier for me to be tough on russia, but then we're not going to make a deal. and don't forget, we're a very powerful nuclear country, and so are they. >> reporter: but do they damage the relationship-- >> they all happened recently. no, i'll see what happens. >> reporter: --do they undermine this country's ability to work with russia? >> they all happened recently, and i understand what they're doing. because they're doing the same thing-- now, again, maybe i'm not going to be able to do a deal with russia, but at least i will have tried. >> reporter: can we conclude there will be no response to these particular provocations? >> yeah, i'm not going to tell you anything about what response ondo. i don't talk about military response.

. >> reporter: today the kremlin daid that fox news should apologize for insulting mr. putin. the russian president has held office more than 17 years and has been accused of having some of his critics killed. scott, the vice president did come out in defense of mr. trump saying he merely wanted a fresh start with russia. >> pelley: margaret brennan at the white house. tomorrow an appeals court in san francisco will hear arguments on whether to reinstate the president's travel ban. in a filing this evening, government lawyers argued that the ban does not discriminate based on religion. it targets country of origin instead. our chief legal correspondent jan crawford is following this. >> reporter: lawyers for two states urged the appeals court not to reinstate president trump's travel ban, saying it would unleash chaos again, separating families, stranding our university students and faculty, and barring travel. in a flurry of legal filings, the trump administration said the ban is necessary to protect national security. unlike the president, courts do not have access to classi

is mr. putin testing you, do you believe, sir gidon't think so. i think putin assumes he can't make a deal with me anymore because politically it would be unpopular for a politician to make a deal-- i can't believe i'm saying i'm a politician but i guess that's what i am now. it would be much easier for me to be tough on russia but then we're not going to make a dealey. >> reporter: do they damage the relationship-- >> no i'll see what happens. >> reporter: this country's ability to work with russia? >> it happened recently and i understand what they're doing. they're doing the same thing-- now, again, maybe i'm not going to be able to do a deal with russia but at least i tried provocations? >> i'm not going to tell you anything about the response i do. i don't talk about military response. when you ask me, "what am i going to do with the ship, the russian ship, as an example," i'm not going to tell you. hopefully i won't have to do anything, but i'm not going to tell you. >> reporter: the president's pick to replace flynn is retired vice admiral

mr. putin's regime. it's a dangerous vocation to be in russia today. but again, these are the risks we know and accept. >> reporter: at that time the strong man and close man of the kremlin published this video on his instagram account showing karam usa in the cross hairs of a sniper rifle. he could have stayed at his adopted home in the u.s. state of virginia where he's lived for years with his wife and three children. but he came back to russia last month to promote a documentary about the assassination of his friend boris, an opposition leader shot dead in the shadow of the kremlin in 2015. were you worried about your husband on this visit to russia? >> i was terrified, not only on this visit. every time he leaves the house to go on one of his trips, i'm terrified. >> reporter: she says the doctors are giving her husband a 5% chance of survival. >> russian government and president putin are responsible for what happened to my husband two years ago and now one way or another. the climate in our country is such that opposition figures can be intimidat