so mr gorbachev has pointed out also the the what mr putin says is they greedy on the abrogation of the a.b.m. treaty by the by bush by mr bush in two thousand and one was a vast mistake it and it undermines the nationals the the balance of power that exists between the two countries on top of that you have the american support putin the scent of terrorists in the caucasus on top of that you have opposing points of view on ukraine obviously and mr putin states his case very clearly in this book what his case is which americans don't hear and on top of that you have syria which again it's amazing to me how under reported that war is. archie has covered one of our yemen aren't you guys how are some to report any and i don't have a laundry list i want to be add more about this and the context in which this book came out fills in a weird way that when the actual cold war is in place it was just clean cut you know you had to sidestep where against each other and now for me it's so much more scarier because the world is not a pipe holler and there's so much house around and everyone's trying

american under clinton and and bush and obama so and mr gorbachev as pointed out also the the what mr putin says is they greedy on the abrogation of the a.b.m. treaty by the by bush by mr bush in two thousand and one was a vast mistake it and it undermines the nationals the the balance of power that exists between the two countries on top of that you have the american support putin the scent of terrorists in the caucasus on top of that you have opposing points of view on ukraine obviously and mr putin states his case very clearly in this book what his case is which americans don't hear and on top of that you have syria which again it's amazing to me how under reported that war is. orci has covered what about yemen aren't you. reported to be on the list i want to talk more about this and the context in which this book came out fills in a weird way that when the actual cold wars in place it was just clean cut you know you had two sides to where against each other now for me it's so much more scarier because the world is paul or and there's so much house around and everyone's trying to pull it

in recent months and years as well as we said earlier through mrs merkel's knowledge of russian mr putin is lot of the german that relationship has always remained cool deal with both leaders hoping to take something out of this meeting mrs merkel to reinforce her position. as one of the leaders of europe in the go shares with russia and mr putin in taking those steps to ending russia's isolation through those sanctions. the former while we don't know each other well enough but i'm amazed by her ability to listen to. this because there was so little sister who does know that the russian president likes to drink german beer and sometimes there is a possibility that we can make exchanges i have also gotten very good smoked fish because. i know from time to time since a couple of pulls off round the back. of the flight from moscow to berlin is quite a few i was at a bit of a shorter journey here he was until very recently in neighboring austria where he was attending the wedding of the foreign minister cody and close to the business one. may linger that was a personal invite by the austrian

he may misunderstand mr putin too so i don't know but he certainly hasn't lived up to the idea that he gave many people during the campaign that he was against any foreigner interventions that he thought the united states it squandered its resources its assets in wars abroad so we there was his thinking that it would change but it hasn't changed not because of his willpower it that because he hasn't been able to get anywhere in his administration it behaves been stuck in gridlock from the beginning opposition has been severe also because of russia now because no let's can i ask you really that has been the excuse the has been attacked profoundly for russia there's no evidence as yet and i've seen indicates that russia is in any collusion with mr with donald trump i mean he's not this meant suring candidate and i thought there was a surprisingly stupid story but it got a lot of traction in america which worries me and shows you how frankly stupid the american. voter can be if you believe that i don't believe most of them do but i could i don't know that the polling is off on it it doesn

>> not until i saw a change in behavior by mr. putin. mr. putin is russian. and russia is mr. putin. the political philosophy is whatever mr. putin said and says, and unless he changes his behavior in ukraine, crimea, in syria, in meddling with our elections, i wouldn't support lifting of the sanctions. now, if he started to change his behavior, that would be a separate matter, but i think it is important that we watch what mr. putin does, not what he says. >> what would he have to do in your mind? russia's annexed crimea, invade i did ukraine, continues to support atrocities carried out in syria. it would take a lot, right? >> it would for me. we could start with syria. i think if mr. putin wanted to, we could get a settlement and end to the bloodbath fairly quickly. mr. putin could start by telling iran to get out of southern syria. there's going to be a war if iran tries to establish a foot hold there because israel is not going to put up with it. so we could start with syria. we can start with him calling off the dogs and stop trying to meddle in midterm elections. we're go

he may misunderstand mr putin too so i don't know but he certainly hasn't lived up to the idea that he gave many people during the campaign that he was against any foreign of the interventions that he thought the united states it squandered its resources its assets in wars abroad so we there was his thinking that it would change but it hasn't changed not because of his willpower it that because he hasn't been able to get anywhere in his administration it behaves been stuck in gridlock from the beginning opposition has been severe also because of russia now because no let's can i ask you really that has been the excuse the has been attacked profoundly for russia there's no evidence as yet and i've seen indicates that russia is in any collusion with mr with donald trump i mean he's not this meant suring candidate and i thought there was a surprisingly stupid story but it got a lot of traction in america which worries me and shows you how frankly stupid the american voter can be if you believe that i don't believe most of them do but i could i don't know that the polling is off on it it d

go i think mr putin is well aware that donald trump does not control the apparatus of his own government whereas putin is master of his house trump really is not and he has to proceed much more carefully and can he give orders that he knows will be obeyed and lastly as far as the allies go i think the one who has the most to fear is theresa may here's somebody who's going to dissolving out from under her we've got their fingerprints on not only on the white helmets and the tackle false flag like like peter was referring to the scriptural thing and also the steel dossier let's not forget that i hope mr putin hands mr trump a real dossier about what they've been overt up to over there and the united kingdom to try to subvert american interests but you know peter one of the things i've done in number of programs on this but you know i've had experts on talking about the interests of this country versus the interests of this one and geopolitics and sometimes it just gets down to trump having a memory i remember how you supported hillary clinton i remember the donna ca i remember m i six invo

go i think mr putin is well aware that donald trump does not control the apparatus of his own government whereas putin is master of his house trump really is not and he has to proceed much more carefully and can he give orders that he knows will be obeyed and lastly as far as the allies go i think the one who has the most to fear is theresa may here is somebody who is going to dissolving out from under her we've got their fingerprints on not only on the white helmets and the tackle false flag like like peter was referring to the scriptural thing and also the steel dossier let's not forget that i hope mr putin hands mr trump a real dossier about what they've been overt up to over there and the united kingdom to try to subvert american interests but you know peter one of the things i've done in number of programs on this but you know i've had experts on talking about the interests of this country versus the interests of this one and geopolitics and sometimes it just gets down to trump having a memory i remember how you supported hillary clinton i remember the donna ca i remember m i six in

this is of course the second meeting between mr putin and mrs merkel in the matter of months her last visit to russia came back in may where they took part in but actual talks this is their first but actual talks in germany for quite some time the shots it has been quite blunt with a message don't expect results has been the message so far quite pragmatic with what can be expected saying this is a normal working visit nevertheless though the media has already been speculating what can be gained from this meeting who will come out on top and can headway be made on the key issues there one of them of course being the syrian conflict which is coming to simmer down at least the military front differences though do remain among global leaders this will be viewed as an opportunity by michael to try to make some headway that you have with some of them and he says that's what's going on and a meeting on syria and between germany france russia and turkey could be useful if needs to be well prepared that's the reason why there is no date for it yet but we're working on in prepared three meeting

to reaffirm our position as if you are a peon leader negotiates on behalf of europe with russia mr putin to take steps towards ending russia's isolation and the damage that's been caused by sanctions as we said to mrs merkel has flown in by helicopter just in the last fifteen minutes or so mr putin is on his way we understand from the airport he said a bit of a short flight though just throw across the border in austria where he was a attending of all things in fact not a summit or a conference this was a wedding plus the invitation from the austrian foreign minister cutting can i still being married to business wonderful it's going mailing god the ceremony was held in the. states the austrian foreign minister did come on the some criticism for daring to invite him to such an event nevertheless that didn't stop him attending even adults singing with the bride and later signing off the newlyweds limousine before speeding off to meet the german shot sort of and we are expecting him here in the next half hour to forty minutes or so i will bring you any updates we have as these but actual ta

give you an overall opinion of mr putin he said he's the ultimate negotiator you wear you out he really believes in talking out everything there's no there are certain points of interest for every country has its national interests and he constantly hearts on this russia has its national interests and he's open to the go to negotiating anything but those national interests and when you cross the line. he will let you know as you know i pushed him whatever people say i pushed him and certainly i could feel his irritation when i was pushing him hard on the democracy question on this the question of his succession and what's going to happen next year there were times i riled him more than once.

in the way mr. putin is changing the nature of an international relation, suddenly we are because it is supposed to be about historical responsibilities and culture and you can change it back. then even if you're not doing the same, suddenly become threats. they sometimes really are threat if that's what it's all about. and again, i try to follow the basic problems in russian domestic politics are in some kind of clash between the u.s. and russia. the basic problem in russia is wealth inequality and oligarchy. so if you are mr. putin, by the time you get to presidency around to come you basically got a situation cleaned up. for the security services are basically your security services and in that situation, you can promise the future. you just can't because there's not going to be rule of law under you. and so, you have to do something else besides promising policy. the thing that you can promise is a foreign-policy spectacle, which is with some of you noticed in the russian press for the last week and n

meetings is the better negotiates a very much it's a case of reality for miss that mrs merkel and mr putin the two have been forced somewhat close. said together because of a rift between american donald trump and europe over the iran nuclear deal and tariffs and of course additional u.s. sanctions on to russia has become a sort of marriage of convenience the pair have clashed on numerous issues but of course they do also agree on some mrs merkel has said this is a working visit don't expect much from this meeting that has been her message although she did say that the dollar go relationship with russia is necessary to keep communication going not surprising perhaps given the amount of hot topics on the agenda syria being the one as the country moves from an active battlefield military phase to negotiations about spheres of influence and the interests of various actors mrs merkel said the talks on syria could bring. some progress between the various differences of trump the one it set for that will be one of the topics very much will engender in this meeting. he says his thoughts can enter

mr. putin's persistent attacks on our democratic system. senator mccain and i worked alongside one another to address the genocide against the rohingya community in rokan, burma, orchestrated by the burmese military. last saturday, august 25, marked one year since the outbreak of violence in the western rokan state which resulted in a mass exodus of over 700,000 rohingyan to neighboring bangladesh. in response to this violence crime against humanity perpetrated against the rohingya community, senator mccain and i introduced the burma rights and freedom act. senator mccain would stand up for people anywhere in the world who were victimized by human rights violations. russia dissident vladimir karamiso wrote yesterday about john, as an idealist, he believed in his principles and was prepared to stand up for them, regardless of party, convenience, or political advantage. mr. karamiso has been poisoned twice in russia as a result of him standing up against mr. putin. i remember john doing just that during our foreign relations committee 2013 de

trump calling it a hoax gives mr. putinreen light to contin continue. >> vladimir putin was not waiting for a green light, when president obama said knock it off, that didn't stop him. vladimir putin has been doing it, authorizing it, is doing it again, and president trump doesn't appear to be saying anything to him to stop it, but i'm not sure that vladimir putin would respond to a president telling him to stop it. >> no, but he would respond to presidential action and american action and that's why a group of us filed bipartisan legislation this week to say we're going to take additional steps against russia if they continue this behavior. mr. putin understanding force, he and understands nato and strength. that's why his troops are in three countries that are not nato members. he thought he could get away with it. the united states is not nshowig strength. >> phil mud said what he thought happened yesterday was a publicity opportunity. he thinks not that all of the national security chiefs don't believe it, they do belie

when he had an opportunity with mr. putin in helsinki, he gave a free pass to mr. putin.o, no, we haven't heard from the president in the strong terms that we need and that's absolutely essential to be fully defending against what russia is doing. >> the director of national intelligence dan coats was asked about that disconnect which we saw on display clearly in helsin helsinki. he said he's not in the position to understand fully what happened at that trump/putin summit. how concerning is it to you, senator, that the director of national intelligence is still in the dark on that very important meeting? >> it's really shocking that the director of national intelligence does not know what happened in helsinki in the meeting between the president and president putin. that's absolutely amazing. he need to have that intelligence information in order to do his job. yet he doesn't know what happened in that room. that's why as an oversight function of the united states senate, it's absolutely essential that we have the information about what happened in the meeting between mr.

what we want the president to make clear to everyone that he is challenging mr. putin on what happened in 2016 and protecting us moving into 2018. >> dana: my last question for you then because we know vladimir putin was listening live or he will be briefed on it fully, do you think he got the message and do we have the kind of deterrent for him doing it tell me a little bit about the sanctions you proposed today. >> well, yes. i think the way that mr. putin will get the message is the president imposes some additional sanctions from the sanction legislation that was passed by congress last year. and the president would support the bill that was followed yesterday. i worked with senator menendez and senator graham and others that spells out additional sanction against russia if they dare continue their involvement in the u.s. elections, either through trying to affect public opinion or by trying to affect the apparatus of our election system. i think the president endorsed that legislation said he wants to use those tools. that would be a clear message to mr. putin. >>

mr. putin's involvement in our elections. bipartisan support in congress to very quick action, recognizing the threat. i agree with senator portman, this committee and this congress is active in a very bipartisan manner, recognizing the threat of russia. i want to make that clear. mr. mitchell, i appreciate the fact that the policy that you are enumerating, one that i personally support, the way you articulated, indicating it was directed by the president. the problem is, the president hasn't followed. that is the concern. there has been times when the president has made this a very partisan issue. we haven't, he has. the problem is, the president hasn't followed. i think we need to drill down a little bit more on how this policy is being implemented. you point out, in a very sobering way, that mr. putin wants to break apart the american republic. that is a pretty sobering statement you made. totally consistent with reports i authored on behalf of members of this committee in january that said that mr. putin is not only tryin

in austria saying that the fact that mrs is can i sell invited vladimir putin in the first place means that she needs to step down from her position in the foreign ministry for mr nigel bears responsibility for this and should in order to avert any bad consequences for austria immediately resign if she does not do so voluntarily chancellor because should today suggest to the president that he sack been confirmed that the invite was extended back in june while vladimir putin was on a visit to vienna he's making this is part of a stop off on route here to lynn for an important meeting with german chancellor angela merkel rest social appearance though from vladimir putin in western europe in recent times since twenty. fourteen and since relations between the west and russia took a downturn over the ongoing situation in ukraine we haven't seen much of them coming to places like austria germany in fact on social visits but the austrian foreign ministry it says that this is clearly private visit that they'll be you know journalists in attendance that will be no politics discussed that's some

but what has happened is we've seen mr putin's approval ratings plummet in recent weeks, drop from itsstronomical heights to much lower, and i think perhaps that's why mr putin felt this was the time to step in and perhaps to try to soften the blow for the russian people. let's go to puerto rico now. until yesterday, the official death toll from last year's hurricane maria stood at 64. that's now changed to almost 3,000. here's the island's governor earlier. officially changing the... we're actually putting an official number to the death toll, we take the 2,075 number as the official death toll. i'm sure you remember videos like this one from when hurricane maria struck. it was the most powerful storm to hit the region in over 80 years. puerto rico is a us territory, everyone born there is an american citizen, though they cannot vote in us presidential elections. at the time president trump played down the impact of the storm. every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that die

russia and mr putin's knowledge of germany they have always maintained at least the relationship. while we don't know each other well enough but i'm amazed by her ability to live through. this because it is known in the russian president likes to drink the german beer and sometimes there is a possibility that we can make exchanges toast i've also gotten very good smoked fish. angular from time to time since a couple of bottles over the. germany years not only stop off on saturday before he gets there he's paying a social visit attending the wedding of austrian foreign minister. and businessman of all. the ceremony taking place at a venue in austria styria region and guessing where the protein will offer a dance to the bride or what present he might have for the couple others the foreign minister for daring to invite him. the u.s. department of defense plans to spend up to fifteen million dollars on enhancing the physical and insurance performance of soldiers but as.

nonproliferation and you are supposed to and despite their previous rocky relationship mrs merkel and mr putin have been pushed together into a sort of political marriage of convenience future a rift with the united states both countries have been affected by u.s. tariffs russia has been affected by sanctions mrs merkel has been criticized for being overly reliant on russian gas imports indeed the nords dream to part from project was also something that was discussed news headlines question what could really come out of these bilateral talks which side could gain watson who would come out on top in negotiations but as the day here draws to a close and the limousines pull up to take this back to the residence sees mrs merkel will take this as an opportunity to consolidate her position as a european leader capable of negotiating with russia and putin while the russian president will view this as a chance to take steps to bring russia out of its isolation through those sanctions and find common ground with one of his oldest political colleagues. but before meeting merkel putin paid a quick social

course the united states recently pulled out of was another point upon which they could agree with mr putin emphasizing the importance of maintaining that international deal sanctioned by the united nations security council. and. we will discuss a joint plan to rig the iran nuclear agreement it is extremely important to save this multilateral deal. proved the u.n. security council designed to strengthen global security and nuclear nonproliferation in the worst years of spinning despite their previous rocky relationship mrs merkel and mr putin have been pushed together into a sort of political marriage of convenience through to a rift with the united states both countries have been affected by u.s. tariffs russia has been affected by sanctions mrs merkel has been criticized for being overly reliant on russian gas imports indeed the nords dream to part from project was also something that was discussed news headlines questioned what could really come out of these bilateral talks which side could gain watson who would come out on top in negotiations but as the day here draws to a close and the

merkel and mr putin have been pushed together into a sort of political marriage of convenience through to a rift with the united states both countries have been affected by u.s. tariffs russia has been affected by sanctions mrs merkel has been criticized for being overly reliant on russian gas import it did have points on which they did agree syria being one of the key ones both of them agreeing that emphasis on humanitarian assistance was the key to solving the conflict version of the letter she would certainly should cities it's important to do move for the humanitarian situation in syria and most importantly bring aid to its people and who loses areas where a few jews can return from abroad and the issues are going to use this from my end there's this we have to do humanitarian catastrophe in syria there may be less fighting now but that doesn't mean we have peace until we would have. the iran nuclear deal which of course the united states recently pulled out of was another point upon which they could agree with mr putin emphasizing

in austria saying that the fact that mrs is can i sell invited vladimir putin in the first place means that she needs to step down from her position in the foreign ministry for mr nigel bears responsibility for this and should in order to avert any bad consequences for austria immediately resign if she does not do so voluntarily chancellor because should today suggest to the president that he sack been confirmed that the invite was extended back in june while vladimir putin was on a visit to vienna he's making this is part of a stop off on route here to lynn for an important meeting with german chancellor angela merkel rest social appearance though from vladimir putin in western europe in recent times since twenty fourteen and since relations between. in the west and russia took a downturn over the ongoing situation in ukraine we haven't seen much of them coming to places like austria germany in fact on social visits but the austrian foreign ministry says that this is clearly untrue private visit. you know journalists in attendance that you'll be no politics discussed that's sometimes

retirement age for women over ruling his role long serving prime minister some have speculated mr putin's weighing in on the matter at this time may have been inspired by a visit yesterday to cities in siberia where protests against the retirement legislation have taken place for more on this we're told to parties yulia shop over low. putin has come to the fore the unpopular pension reform in russia in his televised address to the nation mr putin said the country's working age population was shrinking and the number of pensioners was growing making this change essential he called it a very difficult but necessary decision with out of the country's economy might simply collapse so the retirement age for women will be gradually increased from fifty two to sixty years instead of sixty three as initially proposed but a five year increase for men from sixty to sixty five will stay women with three or more children can retire three years there. the draft bill proposes raising the retirement age for women by eight years to sixty three and for men by five years this is not right we care for women

in austria saying that the fact that mrs is can i still invited vladimir putin in the first place means that she needs to step down from her position in the foreign ministry for mr nigel bears responsibility for this and should he order to avert any bad consequences for austria immediately resign if she does not do so voluntarily chancellor because should today suggest to the president that he sack been confirmed that the invite was extended back in june while vladimir putin was on a visit to vienna he's making this is part of a stop off on route here to lynn for an important meeting with german chancellor angela merkel rest social appearance though from vladimir putin in western europe in recent times since twenty. fourteen and since relations between the west and russia took a downturn over the ongoing situation in ukraine we haven't seen much of them coming to places like austria like germany in fact on social visits that the austrian foreign ministry of says that this is clearly private visit. you know journalists in attendance that will be no politics discussed that's sometimes eas

i think mr. putin does on assets in the united states, and i think the treasury knows what those assets are. and whether we do it in a classified or unclassified setting, that's above my pay grade, but i would like us to have a frank and honest discussion about the ramifications of seizing those assets. would you object to that? >> not at all, senator. >> okay. last question. dr. ford, let's suppose that the president of the united states came to you and said, look, i've had enough. crimea, ukraine, syria, chemical weapons, meddling in american elections. i want to bring, i hate to do t by want to bring the russian economy to its knees. how would you do that? >> senator, i'm afraid i'm not enough of an economist to have a real crisp off-the-cuff answer for you. i certainly would hope and expect that we would approach any challenge th the president gives us with the kind -- >> i'm going to interrupt. i'm going to keep come sounds like you are not going to answer, so no offense so keep moving. mr. krebs?

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trump acts this week with secretness to mr. putin. i don't know. and i'm not going to try to pretend that i know. but there is something that is very disconcerting, very worrisome about how an individual who occupies the oval office interacts with mr. putin. and i'm a great advocate of improving relations between moscow and washington, don't get me wrong. i was a strong supporter of that during the obama administration. i stuck my neck out a number of times particularly on syria. we need to work with the russians to bring this mass carnage to a halt. but time after time the russians, but i do believe we need to get this behind us. i don't want this to, you know, royal the waters forever. but we need to have a president who is going to acknowledge this and make sure that he is able to then move on. >> how do we get this behind us? i mean, you're suggesting that there's things that we do not yet know that have not yet been adjudicated or laid fairly before the american people to the president and his connection with what happened to russia. do we nee

the other two leaders have clashed on multiple occasions mrs merkel has been a fierce critic of mr putin over the years nevertheless in recent times though they have been pushed closer together by circumstance into a sort of marriage of political convenience if you will this has been caused by a rift between the u.s. donald trump and europe with both countries falling victim to trump's economic tariffs russia being pressed by sanctions of the u.s. more to come on the back of the chalk screwball poisoning scandal and merkel being a target of criticism by the u.s. president for being so called captive to russia because of russian gas supplies the latter will certainly be something discussed on the table as the north north stream to part from project pushes ahead despite both criticism and controversy now last the ukraine an issue that's been a form in the side of russia u.s. german u.s. relations since twenty fourteen will also be on the agenda the implant implementation of those minutes accords and peacekeeping operations something that will be discussed now the two leaders do have histor