putin has been throwing -- and it's not just putin. if you look at demographics, finances, military and everything else.fford th so russia cannot afford the same expansionist policies and soviet union. by the way, also failed of spreading around but for russia spreading sphere a big threat. but putin doesn't care because he stays in power.ip. so he believes he is russia and that is by the way not a definition of dictatorship. >> one chess question and this e comes from virginia texan via tweet. q "mr. kasparov, have you challenged ibm watson to a match? if not, do you plan to?" >> ibm watson doesn't play chess. and it's actually -- it's a great accomplishment and unlike deep blue it's a software project. deep blue was a hardware proj t project. so each was a tiny chess computer making about 1.5 million positions per second. and ibm succeeded in maximizing the output of this project't watson as far as i know doesn't play chess and i also don't plao chess. i retired ten years ago and i'm offering my advice to young players. i've been wor

well, first of all, i would say in my view putinism cannot survive putin. i hope putin can survive putinism. >> isn't this the eternal cycle of russian history? arbitrary centralized power followed by a time of troubles with nostalgia and then people forgetting the injustices of the arbitrary regime. this power is arbitrary, the institutions are undeveloped, and the cycle seems to keep repeating itself without end? >> okay. it can be seen as a vicious circle. i would look at federalism or lack of federalism. russia is huge country by its size, and it should be tyranny if not being federal state. so federalism is absent, and this is due to the fact that none of russian rulers, including present-day rulers, is eager to exercise federalism, especially those who came from paramilitary structures and for whom it's not imaginable that somebody or their subordinates could decide without their permission. i would like at what's going on with russian political regime now. not so much as can this or that person come into power, but as a very understandable and ration

>> you know, you said there's some fans of vladimir putin out there. donald trump is one of them, and he has been a fan of vladimir putin before this. let's listen to trump. >> i would get along with putin. i've dealt with russia. i think i would get along with him fine. i think in terms of leadership, he's getten an a and our president is not doing so well. they did not look good together. >> he does not like obama at all. he didn't respect obama at all. and i'm sure that obama doesn't like him very much. but i think that i would probably get along with him very well and i don't think we would be having the kind of problems we're having right now. >> so there's front-runner for the republican presidential nomination giving vladimir putin an "a" for invading ukraine and an "a" for propping up the assad regime is and an "a" for all sorts of other things that vladimir putin is doing around the world. >> this is a troep that's not limited to donald trump. you hear from a lot of republicans how basically obama is weak and his weakness is perceived by forei

if putin is talking but, putin is not talking about the three of us tonight.st isn't. >> world leader to world leader essentially. >> it does elevate him. >> but5 you do have serious policy differences, i mean if you look at the front running candidates whereas trump has said hey, i could sit down and talk with putin. rubio has been pretty clear that he believes we shouldn't have any coordination with the russians involving syria. let them bomb, let them go. there are real policy differences especially as what we are talking about how much we should be coordinating against isis, which is the threat i think americans care most about right now. >> i think it's actually good that there is some differences. it's easier to tell who is on first a little bit. it's when they are so close that it's harder. >> yeah. i actually agree with that i think it's healthy for the republican party to have this conversation. shows they have gotten beyond. remember, in 2008, the republicans all essentially had to tow the george bush line about how to handle terrorism because he was

how can we do this when putin is bombing u.s.-backed forces in syria fighting the murderous assad regime? i understand that some constituents of senator shelby and senator durbin believe they would benefit from this provision, but as "the new york times" editorial board stated earlier this year, when sanctions are necessary, the countries that impose them must be willing to pay a cost too. after leaning on france to cancel a sale of two ships to russia because of the invasion of the ukraine, the united states can hardly insist on continuing to buy national security hardware from one of mr. putin's cronies. i repeat, that is in "the new york times." mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the article -- the editorial entitled don't back down on russian sanctions by "the new york times" be included in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mccain: on the record, i make this promise: that this language undermining the national defense authorization act is not removed from the omnibus, i assure my colleagues that th

he said it's wonderful for putin to be in syria because putin is fighting isis.eryone now knows, not just on tv, that putin is not in syria to fight isis, he there's to back up aside and fight assad's other opponents including people who back, whom the turks back. and if you look at the way that putin deal with journalists, people who challenge him get assaulted. but if you suffer trumps antings patiently he'll love you. so this is someone easy to manipulate and putin was probably trained about that very well as a young kgb officer. >> oleg, do you think this is real, then? one would wonder why each guy would be attracted to complimenting each other? >> well putin is a smart guy. so his american guests, i believe they have something common in terms of their mind-sets. i may be wrong but that's my impression as i watch television and read the stuff. and probably they do like each other so it's a matter of taste. >> very interesting campaign season. thank you, gentlemen, happy holidays to you. >>> when we come back, the muslim teacher who says she lost her job for

let's move on to vladimir putin, you got that praise from vladimir putin this week. called it a great honor. you said you always felt fine about putin. how can you say you felt fine about vladimir putin when he backs our adversaries like bashar al assad and backs iran and he invades ukraine. >> i have been an extremely successful dealmaker. that's what i've done over years and i know people because deals are people. and i think i'll get along very well for the good of our country, for the good of our country, this is what i want, make america great again. i believe i'll get along fine with putin and i believe i'll get along fine with other leaders. obama doesn't get along with putin. putin can't stand our president, and it's causing us difficulty, and, frankly, and i said it a long time ago, if russia wants to bomb the hell out of isis and join us in that effort, i'm fine with that absolutely. i think that's an asset not a liability. so, if putin respects me and if putin wants me to call me brilliant and other things that he said which were, frankly, very nice, i'll

putin wants to capitalize on this issue. three reasons or international scale is of course the relationship with iraq because iran was for many years a good friend of russia and ally for russia in the middle east. now after the iranian nuclear deal with and after the sanctions maybe were lifted in january, so iran, russia feels it's going out of its influence. putin somehow maneuvers to retain or regain the good relationship with iran with a common cause of stabilizing syria because as was mentioned it's very crucial issue for the iranian politicians to stabilize with syria and have control on syria and assad. .. >> you have different agendas, so i cannot see any for compromise. it was mentioned today. i would say that i doubt that someone can achieve victory over the islamic state there. i really doubt that we can speak for future about united and -- i think the best way to do the job is to make a state because it's inviable for the years to come. but i completely -- i'm completely sure that he would never succeed in defeat

putin. the last one of course is a terror threats because fighting terrorists may be in some grotesque away was for many years mr. putin a big gain and now once again this issue of the fight mr. putin wants to get the dash on this issue. three reasons for international scale is of course the relationship with iran because they were in alia russia and the middle east. now after the iranian nuclear deal and after the sanctions were lifted in january for iran russia feels its european plans so putin somehow maneuvers to retain or regain the good relationship with iran is a common cause of stabilizing syria because as was mentioned it's a very crucial issue for the iranian up politicians to have control on syria and assad. the second is fired he said some kind of cooperation with the united states on antiterrorist agenda and what we have seen in new york and the terrorists visit to moscow proves that putin is quite successful at this than the last but maybe not the least point is mr. putin wants

i was, at one point, a big ally of vladimir putin. and after this whole thing happens, and as i continue to do exposes of corruption, i'm no longer exposing his enemies. i'm exposing his own personal financial interests. and-- and on november-- 13th, 2005, as i was flying back to russia, having lived there for ten years, become the largest foreign investor in their country-- i was stopped at the vip lounge of sheremetyevo airport. i was locked up overnight. and then i was deported the next day and declared a threat to national security, never to be allowed back into russia again. at that point it became obvious to me that putin's interests had diverged. >> then things get-- go horribly wrong. the-- the-- the russian government goes after you. and they start going after some of your aides and all that. and you slowly manage to divest your interests-- your-- your investors' interests. you get your money out, which is great. and you get your staff out, in most cases. and you leave a few key people in russia who are not your employees, bu

how can we do this when putin is bombing u.s.-backed forces in syria fighting the murderous assad regime? i understand that some constituents of senator shelby and senator durbin believe they would benefit from this provision, but as "the new york times" editorial board stated earlier this year, when sanctions are necessary, the countries that impose them must be willing to pay a cost too. after leaning on france to cancel a sale of two ships to russia because of the invasion of the ukraine, the united states can hardly insist on continuing to buy national security hardware from one of mr. putin's cronies. i repeat, that is in "the new york times." mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the article -- the editorial entitled don't back down on russian sanctions by "the new york times" be included in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mccain: on the record, i make this promise: that this language undermining the national defense authorization act is not removed from the omnibus, i assure my colleagues that th

putin's cronies. mr. president, i ask to put the editoral from "the new york times" be included in the record. >> without objection. >> on the record, i make this promise: if this language undermining the national defense authorization act is not removed i assure my colleagues this issue will not go unaddressed in the year 2019 defense authorization act. up to this point, we have managed this issue on an annual bases. we maintained if a crisis occurred we would not compromise our national security interest in space. but if this is how our efforts are repaid perhaps we need to look at a complete and indefinite restriction on putin's rockets. i take no pleasure in avoiding that. i believe in avoiding the year over year israeli-palestine conflict is in our nation's best interest. such back and forth only delays the shared desire to end our reliance on russian technology and from the space launch supply chain and injecting instability into the space launch program. that threatens the reliable launch of the mo

putin's news conference said this.e is a brilliant and talented person without a doubt but it is not our right to identify the virtues. it is the prerogative of the u.s. voters e is the absolute leader in the presidential debate as we see. >> so it seems the feeling is mutual. trump has repeatedly said he would have a better relationship with putin than president barack obama does. trump took it one step further on msnbc saying he is, quote, honored by putin's comments. >> when people call you brilliant, it is always good, specially when the person heads up russia. >> he is also a person that kills journalists, political opponents and invades countries. obviously, that would be a concern, would it not? >> he is running his country. at least he is a leader unlike what we have in this country. >> again, he kills journalists that don't agree with him. >> well, i think our country does plenty of killing also, joe. i think that he is a strong leader, a powerful leader. he has represented his country. that's the way the coun

putin aside any strategy to go out from eastern ukraine.so, therefore, it needs another hot point in the world to present himself as a hero there. and two related issues is first of all, during several years the military in the russian where not intricate shape because first of all they were humiliated during -- and then they were involved in ukraine and major operations. not publicly announced was involved in ukraine. it was in all, some kind of hidden operation and, therefore, now past the possibly for the first time in many years to be openly, to test military capabilities, to protect in this way, to protect russia outside. so this is also to please the military and to contest accomplice which is quite important to provide around

the chief economic advisor to vladimir putin, from 2000 to 2005, and was vladimir putin's personal representative to the g8 and is a senior fellow at the cato institute. i have to start with the trump comments. what is vladimir putin trying to do, injecting himself into the presidential race? >> i don't think it's a real intervention into the race. it hay come later. clearly he expresses support from mr trump, and is referring to positive comments that trump made about vladimir putin. it could be, using the wards of trump. a productive relationship. >> now, regarding the trump comments, a russian american journalist who is no friend of vladimir putin is quoted as saying vladimir putin respects fighters, aggression and not calm and deliberation. he wants a manly adversary. in that way do you think the trump comment were a non-too subtle dig at president obama? >> mr president obama is not participating in the presidential election next year. it's a hards interpretant in this way. definitely among the candidates for presidency, mr trump looks like the best possible choice for vladimir putin, it is

its called "leaders" make no mistake - vladimir putin on the "inspired by vladimir putin - its pretty clear which leader they are referring to. now the advertising says that it smells of citrus fruits and pine needles, a soft - just like putin himself. so i suppose i should give it a try.anna over he is serving me.lets have a smell. (shopkeeper) "do you like it?" "i'm impartial about it, but i can see how it wouldn't be to everybody's tastes." (laughs) matthew chance, cnn, moscow pine needles, a mixture of hard and soft - just like putin himself. so i suppose i should give it a try.anna over he is serving me.lets have a smell. (shopkeeper) "do you like it?" "i'm impartial about it, but i can see how it wouldn't be to everybody's tastes." (laughs) jessica and scott are chatting about the putin calendar. jessica and scott are chatting about the putin calendar. jessica and scott are chatting about the putin calendar. scott: good morning jessica and scott are chatting about the putin calendar. jessica and scott are chatting about the putin calendar. jessica and scott are chatting about te

putin called him brilliant. that's not good. we, isn't this sort of nice, countries we're always fighting with, maybe we get along and let them do -- right? i mean, look, you know, we're all tough guys, but wouldn't it be nice if, like, russia and us could knock out an enemy together, not us bear the full cost sometimes? like, you know, we're all fighting but i've had some guys say, oh, russia. how about one of the people up in the -- i wouldn't talk to them, i wouldn't discussi anything. what do they want to do, they want to have a world war iii. >> trump went on to say they're jealous as hell because he's not mentioning them, vladimir putin is not mentioning them. the other republicans are very jealous. adding that russia and the united states could have a mutually benefiting relationship. but of course all of this cuts really against what the main republican foreign policy line has been for the last eight years or so. republicans have spent their time vilifying vladimir putin. you have marco rubio calling him a gangster and a

>> putin is an autocrat. he believes the best russia is the russia that he leads and there's no evidence he's thinking about leaf leaving his job. he is now and i know this is not accepted by western experts. i think putin's political position now is weak. it's more vulnerable now than it has been in quite a few years. his move into syria is not going the way he anticipated it would. in crimea there is enormous economic unhappiness, and the 68% or 70% of the people there who are russian are being increasingly unhappy about the state of economic affairs and political affairs. in ukraine itself it is a total, unmitigated mess. there is no logical way right now for the russians to leave except to be humiliated once again, and certainly he won't do that. >> what is it that western leaders don't understand about vladimir putin? >> most of all, that putin is in a long line of russian leaders one at another placing the interests of russia as they see them ahead of the interests of everything else around the world. s

respect vladimir putin. he is a leader of a country. to get praise from putin is not going to help donald trump. he is not a serious candidate. he would bring chaos to the presidency. we are at war right now with islamic terrorism and he has not offered one compelling thing to do to keep us safe. it is all high volume, lots of talk. nothing specific. he hasn't taken the time to learn the issues. i think we need someone with a steady hand in the presidency. we will never beat hillary clinton with grandiocity. >> trump continuing to hit back on jeb bush on fox news last night. >> i think he is a nice man. he is doing poorly. he was down to three or four. i came out with numbers at 41%. he has not been doing well. his pollster said here's what you do. memorize it and say it to trump. when they let that clip run, he doesn't look so good. you know, he came out a couple of times during the debate in the middle of nowhere. i said is that another attack? it is not necessary. >> and while bush was taking on donald tr

so you have vladmir putin and he is saying that the u.s. and russia agree on the general approach to syria. tomorrow in new york there is a new round of peace talks on syria. you're a veteran diplomat. do you see an opening here? jane: i'm a recovering politician, i'm not sure that makes me a diplomat, but i'm a veteran watching process like this and i think a diplomatic track is the only way syria will be solved. however, there is a lot of vagueness to what happens next, a resolution that says that there is general agreement on a path to fair elections and a new constitution doesn't say some things that really matter to me and i think matter to the united states like whether asaad can be a candidate in that election. if it's all left vague and it's up to the parties and the parties are the parties on the ground, i don't know how that comes out. e may end up re-electing a guy who most people think could quality as a war criminal. laura: do you think the united states might have caved on the initial demand that president asaad has to go and

russian president vladimir putin's strong words for the u.s. and turkey. >> ankara will regret what it did. the russian president vladimir putin vows to impose more sanctions on turkey over the shooting down of the russian jet. >> hello, welcome, my name is peter doby. i'm in doha. u.k. war planes attack isil targets in syria hitting their ole folds. plus. >>> why would he do that? why would he do something like this? >> shock and disbelief after a mass shooting in california. the couple suspected of murdering 14 people have now been identified. >>> fifa's corruption scandal continues. swiss police arrest two more officials. >> we begin in moscow where the anti turkish rhetoric continues to catcher chet up. the russian president vladimir putin said ankara will regret the shooting down of a russian jet near the syria turkish border. he accuses turkey of supporting terrorism and promised a tougher response. he was speaking at his annual state of the nation address. >> we are not planning to engage in military saber rattling but if anyone think th

is putin. he does not need to be the president or prime minister he can keep in power by himself. what is important i think is the country is coming to new election and new electoral cycle which should be held next september. i would wait almost immediately after this election so he could explain why election are early to address the nation and for putin to address the nation and declare the new scores because the elite understood that china cannot replace the west. in terms of money, in terms of keeping to the russian economy and he reserves to keep the course without credible changes coming to the end. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you. i think we can go ahead and open up discussion to members of the audience. to have microphones? identify yourself if you have a comment or question we can bring you a microphone. >> please identify yourself. >> i work for u.s. a id for five years. i certainly certainly have an interest in that situation. i was intrigued about your same that the general head

i think that's putin. okay. we got putin. two of us got putin right. it's getting very tricky. anyway, the round table is staying with us and they're going to tell us, all three of them, tell me something i don't know. that's coming up. >>> let's go back to the breaking news story we're following this hour. the arrest of a friend of the san bernardino shooters has been charged with three counts including providing material support to terrorist. he's inside federal court right now. nbcs morgan is outside the courthouse and joins us now. you've been inside with this going on all day, correct? >> that's right. i was just inside the courtroom. we saw markez and learned this entire thing lasted just six minutes. the hearing has been continued and he chose not to enter a plea. bail will however be discussed monday at 2:00 p.m. pa tiff siff rancic time and the indictment will be january 6th. we saw him waiting and he was leaning back in his chair swiveling side to side wearing a gray t-shirt and the signature black glasses we've seen on all photos. to bring you up to speed on simple t

i want to reflect on putin and his position. we've got mr. putin speaking in st.rge's hall this morning. let me read you one or two of this. he says that terrorists are using money from turkey, that turkey is making money from syrian oil, that the single front against terrorism should be under the u.n. when you look at the situation between putin and erdogan, somebody here needs to blink, michael. to get this situation off what is an incredibly dangerous boil. give me your take. >> first of all, putin and erdogan, the situation has worsened ever since that plane has been shot down last week. putin is soeasons harsh on turkey at the moment. on the other hand, erdogan should really know the situation , that he cannot on one hand subsidize i.s., on the other hand, be a helper in the crisis, and get money from europe. this is something which has to be discussed with erdogan. i'm not very happy with putin anyway. he is subsidizing assad and assad is another part of the problem in syria. it is a difficult situation. , inpe the european leaders particular by chancellor,

do you think -- if putin can say -- could that change the u.s. attitude about linking russia -- i'm sorry -- the ukraine and syria can change and perhaps we have a new -- >> i think that certainly the fear of most ukrainians. there's really a great fear amongst all the ukrainian people to the ukrainian leadership they'll be forgotten in this and at the end of the day be given up as a kind of, well, putin played nice on syria so we'll let him have ukraine, a questions on the fact that crime -- acquiesce on the fact that crimea is now officially russian and perhaps phrase the conflict in the east. that's the ukrainian's very, very great fear. they had a lot of other obstacles to get over, but as jeff mentioned, you're now starting to see a little bit of a breakdownqn!ramongst the europeans, and unity on sanctions and there's certainly, i think, that very strong possibility. you can see the ukrainians trying to do everything in their power to prevent that because that's really their greatest fear, is that they'll lose the sovereignty, lose the abili

. >> yeah, do you like putin's comments about you? >> sure. when people call you brilliant it's always good especially when the person heads up russia. >> well, also a person that kills journaleist and political opponents and invades countries. also, that would be a concern, would it not? >> he's return running his country and at least he's a leader. >> but again, he kills journalist that don't agree with him. >> i think our country does plenty of killing also, joe. you know. there's a lot of stuff going on in the world right now, joe. a lot of killing going on and a lot of stupidity and that's the way it is. you didn't ask me the question. you asked me a different question. that's fine. >> i'm confused. so you obviously condemned putin killing journalist and political opponents, right. >> oh sure, absolutely. >> so how would america's relationship with russia change if you were president? >> well, i think it would be good. i've always felt fine about putin. i think he is a strong leader. he's a powerful leader. he's represented his country th

bush wrong on putin. obama went to assad giving a plastic reset button to putin.trump bought hook, line and sinker the lie that russia is engaging in syria to fight isis. but what they are doing is shoring you have the dictator assad. but trump and putin seem to be on the same page when it comes to syria. liz: putin is winning favor in the world for taking on isis. >> i think he's winning favor two places. one is with assad and the other is with iran. everybody else considers vladimir putin to be crazy and a pariah. the economy of is in the pits. reporter: germany and other member states of the our mean union are saying we want to dial back on the sanctions against russia. >> the fact of the matter is, russia's economy, having nothing to do with sanctions, they have too much invested in oil. we know where oil prices are. and he's -- this comments today to the press, he was basically trying to spin how the economy would come back and even russian economists knew that was a myth. liz: here is the thing, christian, based on the analysis out of the u.n. and the intell

for putin it's mother russia. that's collectivism. putin is not an endorsement a potential nominee should want or favor. >> michelle, would it be a draw on donald trump's popularity that putin likes him? >> no. i don't think it will make him go up in the polls. >> what if he takes off his shirt? >> that might help. >> i'd love to see him and obama square off on the basketball court and see how he will think he is then. >> if putin wants to kill isis, let him fly over syria and kill isis. decent strategy, no? i don't think you can trust vladimir putin. just as you wouldn't make a deal. trump wants to renegotiate, negotiate the iran deal as well. just because someone a strong leader and you can deal with them i don't think you should want to. that seems to be trump's point of view. >> horseback riding topless, u.s. and russia relations will be all better and good. >> jess, last word on this one. >> another reset that we'll have. joe scarborough asked donald trump about the endorsement and he said this is a man who has murdered journalis

vladimir putin has stepped up. americans who may not like vladimir putin but they like the fact that he's stepping up and taking action against isis. >> katrina -- >> whereas, the american government are not doing that. >> katrina, with all due respect -- with all due respect, let's be intellectually honest here. maybe the trump campaign believes this -- that somehow he's a saviour in the middle east and donald trump is somehow in line with vladimir putin on foreign policy is kind of embarrassing if you actually think that's what the foreign policy of the united states is, if propping assad up -- >> the united states has invaded in the middle east, creating vacuums, making isis grow stronger. is that what you're saying? >> are you saying that donald trump's foreign policy would be not to go into afghanistan specifically and not go after al qaeda after 9/11? you said we had wars in the middle east. the first war that we're talking about is afghanistan. >> actually, iraq is the first war. actually, iraq. >> we went i

his new friend vladmir putin. the almost endorsement. putin says that donald trump seems like a, you know, a big leader a big guy in the a campaign. and donald trump said that's okay. let's listen to what trump said yesterday. >> they're accusing me putin called him brilliant. that's not good. well, you know, isn't it sort of nice if countries are always fighting with maybe we get along and let them do -- right? look, we're all tough guys but wouldn't it be nice if russia and us could knock out an enemy together and not us bear the full costs sometimes, like, i don't know we're always fighting. >> we all predicted the putin forming the alliance that win the election. naturally. if you look over the republican party it's not necessarily a rarity for them to talk about putin's strength. to want almost putin's strength as they criticize barack obama. when you look at the field and what look at putin's russia has done historically and over the last couple of years in ukraine and syria. it's jarring almost to accept the compliment and say it'

what issues will putin be pressed on? >> i think you can expect a very self congratulatryq & a from putin. i think he will express his delight that russia is now playing a far more energetic and important role in international diplomacy and geo political activities. he will highlight the fact that russia has led the charge against i.s.i.l. by moving its air forces, as we just spoke about, into syria. he will point out that the role that-- >>> i will interrupt you because the russian president is just starting to speak now at the kremlin. let's listen in to what he has to say. >> translation: nevertheless, i'm sure you have questions which need further clarification and explanation from my side and when i say "my side", of course i mean my colleagues, the administration and the government of the russian federation. so i propose that we begin straightaway with questions. >> translation: i think last year, of course, we started a good tradition with starting off with the question with one of the most experienced members of t

and putin's pick. russia's president is full of praise for republican front-runner donald trump who's also tossed some compliments putin's way. do the two share similar views on leadership? i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> the breaking news more than two weeks after the san bernardino attack and just days after the bodies of the husband and wife terrorists were buried, the childhood friend of one of the killers is now under arrest on multiple charges including material support for terrorism. officials say enrique marquez has admitted to building pipe bombs in the past with syed farook and giving him the rifles later used in the massacre. meantime, investigators probing the terror attacks now believe the terrorists used encrypted apps to hide their plot. and we're learning two of the attackers and mastermind passed through a greek island apparently posing as refugees. all that comes as president obama says there's no specific and credible terror threat

is he speaking to putin about this? >> he's having several conversations with president putin, in fact even here at the sidelines of the paris talks on climate, they melt for more than half an hour, we're told. one of big keys of discussion was syria and ukraine. the u.s. strategy has been pretty clear. with what we've seen with airstrikes, the president is putting fewer than 50 forces on the ground to coordinate airstrikes for syria. what needs to happen for putin to change his mind is assad forces have started to lose so much territory that it no longer becomes possible for him to maintain power. they believe that they are seeing that shift. they are very optimistic that they would bring the russians to the tail, but then you saw the russians and iranian forces go in in numbers and they've been pushing back the force the u.s. wants to protect. really right now, this is a question about what happens on the ground. if the u.s. coalition and the forces they support can gain territory, the u.s. believes that might be enou

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putin. so we have to be very realistic. we are all against isis, but if it is defeated, we are not going to be agreeing at all. >> i will take ipo takeoff on that and go back to what the russians expected in 2001. the language about the coalition was also used in 2001. so why did it work when he met with mr. bush and the relationship on the uptake. that's because they were hopeful to the united states in the phase of the war in afghanistan because we agreed to who the enemy was it was quite clear was no difference and it was in russian interest to have them take care of a problem that obviously played russia and the neighbors themselves. then we should try to work with the russians us to have a successful coalition like this we would have to agree on who the enemy is and the panel has shown we don't agree except by saying in general it is the islamic state but we have different definitions. because of everything that has happened in the recent years particularly ukraine. so yes we can try but the conditions for instance tha

admire putin's toughness.er? >> well, first of all, there's really no one in the american political context anywhere on the spectrum who is comparable to putin. he's a reexpressive autocrat, who jails his opponents, who violates private companies. look, you know, i think it's not necessarily an endorsement you would want. but where there are similarities, they are probably stylistic and thematic. putin, like trump, kind of advances the theory of the great man of history who bends big global forces through the force of their own personal will. also i think offers a kind of defensive nationalism, which is what we see from trump. this kind of very muscular and belidge rant posture of the world but one that views the world duplicitous, dangerous and needing this strong man to defend the nation against that. so, in that way, they kind of overlap a little, but no one is really comparable to putin in the american political context. >> i separated it out. i said republicans admire putin's leadership, but really many a

putin.the last one of course is a terror threats because fighting terrorists may be in some grotesque away was for many years mr. putin a big gain and now once again this issue of the fight mr. putin wants to get the dash on this issue. three reasons for international scale is of course the relationship with iran because they were in alia russia and the middle east. now after the iranian nuclear deal and after the sanctions were lifted in january for iran russia feels its european plans so putin somehow maneuvers to retain or regain the good relationship with iran is a common cause of stabilizing syria because as was mentioned it's a very crucial issue for the iranian up politicians to have control on syria and assad. the second is fired he said some kind of cooperation with the united states on antiterrorist agenda and what we have seen in new york and the terrorists visit to moscow proves that putin is quite successful at this than the last but maybe not the least point is mr. putin wants

putin would be discussing with the u.s. secretary of state issues of turkey, of the member of nato without nato, without member of nato, without turkey. i cannot exclude there would be some kind of condemnation of this act. >> thanks for being with us today. >>> there's also pressure on turkey to do more in the fight against isil. defense secretary ash carter in ankara trying to drum up more support for the u.s. led military campaign, taking turkey needs to tight that its border with syria, the stretch isil uses for trade and to shuttle foreign fighters back and forth. the embassy in turkey is scaling back consulate operations today in response to a potential security threat. americans in that area have been told to maintain a high level of vigilance and avoid the embassy until at least wednesday. >>> house speaker paul ryan expects a spending bill to be finished today, opening for a vote in the house on thursday. some lawmakers are hung up over policy issues they say have been tacked on to the bill. the current funding dea

. >>> putin raises trump. does trump raise putin? what's next, breakfast in prague? is it too much to ask social media outlets to help fight terror? the answer is no. or yes. frankly, i'm very confused. let's get started, america. we've got a couple of truthies. let's welcome tonight's guests. my favorite, aside from gretchen, tucker carlson. nice hair. she's a democratic pollster and strategist, but we like her anyway, jessica karloff. co-founder and chairman of counterextremism organization. spent a lot of time of prison, egyptian prison. the co-author of islam. probably still drunk from last night, joining us, joann. national review reporter, catherine. to the monologue, everybody. before the republican debaters were tucked into their beds, the media already had their angle. what's with all this isis crap? >> we need to quit arming the -- >> destroy isis. >> destroy isis. >> isis. >> isis. >> isis. >> isis. >> the war against isis. >> if you drank every time you heard isis, you would be more pickled than lindsay graham at a benihana happy hour. shall if one of the

vladimir putin helps russia to achieve that. vladimir putin is talking. he is key to any toll sues we'll keep an eye on this. if anything come comes out of it we'll let you know >>> tens of thousands of syria has been put forward. human rights said is verified the pictures smuggled out. they document the death of some 6,700 people. over several years they died in custody, and in two military hospitals around damascus. this is one of the case makers. custody, an anti-bashar al-assad song was on the cell phone. his picture was amongst the photos. we blurred his face out of respect for the family. >> translation: it was him, akmed with a number. akmed was a sole. he was a number. people were beaten and tortured. bashar al-assad spoke about the photos. he dismissed them as allegations without evidence and said they could have come from anywhere. the deputy director of human rights joins us. we know, confirmed by you, that these come from syria. tell us what you know about the pictures, and what they tell us? >> indeed, this report answers the fact that the al

can i say something quickly about trump and putin? >> do it. >> putin has gotten himself some popularity in russia by being a nationalist. a hard-line nationalist, mother russia. and trump reminds me of america first. that these are two guys, two peas in a pod. they know how to stir up some very deep emotions among a certain segment of their countries. and so i'm not so sure the two of them are not -- i'm not suggesting they're exactly alike, but i would put it this way. putin could build a golf course if he wanted to. >> but my question is, how does it play among republicans, bob? do you think that they look at the two of them playing nice with one another, and they actually like that, because they think that trump could be his equal, where they believe obama is not? >> i think trump supporters don't really care what he says, as long as he keeps saying about immigration, keeps saying about making america great again. and isolating the country off. that's what they're referring to. and i was out in iowa, and i'm telling you, i can't f

they're comparing putin to obama and trump saying i would rather have putin.e is a leader. >> i think he is going for the right here. >> you think so? >> thank you. happy holidays. >> i want to invite you to join me for a special hour citizen trump. why don't the rules apply to donald trump? join me for the documentary citizen trump. >>> up next, a look at the movie "spot light" about "boston globe" reporters exposed to scandal within the catholic church. we might be looking at the oscar winner right here. this is "hardball." the place for politics. i use what's already inside me to reach my goals. so i liked when my doctor told me i may reach my blood sugar and a1c goals by activating what's within me. with once-weekly trulicity. trulicity is not insulin. it helps activate my body to do what it's supposed to do release its own insulin. trulicity responds when my blood sugar rises. i take it once a week, and it works 24/7. it comes in an easy-to-use pen and i may even lose a little weight. trulicity is a once-weekly injectable prescription medicine to improve

. >>> putin raises trump. does trump raise putin? what's next, breakfast in prague? is it too much to ask social media outlets to help fight terror? the answer is no. or yes. frankly, i'm very confused. let's get started, america. we've got a couple of truthies. let's welcome tonight's guests. my favorite, aside from gretchen, tucker carlson. nice hair. she's a democratic pollster and strategist, but we like her anyway, jessica karloff. co-founder and chairman of counterextremism organization. spent a lot of time of prison, egyptian prison. the co-author of islam. probably still drunk from last night, joining us, joann. national review reporter, catherine. to the monologue, everybody. before the republican debaters were tucked into their beds, the media already had their angle. what's with all this isis crap? >> we need to quit arming the -- >> destroy isis. >> destroy isis. >> isis. >> isis. >> isis. >> isis. >> the war against isis. >> if you drank every time you heard isis, you would be more pickled than lindsay graham at a benihana happy hour. shall if one of the

, his new best friend, vladimir putin, praising him, putin praising trump.is going on there? >> i wish i knew. here's a guy who is praising the leader of a country that annexed crimea, that allegedly has made journalists an endangered species in his own country, continues to threaten ukraine. this is somebody because of russia, because of very interests and because of our historic tensions, the leader of russia is somebody historically american leaders have looked on with curcumspection at best. the idea that donald trump would wholly embrace somebody with a checkered record and as problematic as putin, i would think under normal circumstances would make him somewhat not illegitimate but certainly he has been talking about putin this way for months now and it's done nothing to his standing and it should. >> here's a little bit of donald trump calling in to "morning joe" today. >> when people call you brilliant it's always good, especially when the person heads up russia. i can also see russia being a big asset to our country and i really think that's the way

when putin says something that here in the u.s. you say that's strange, not my understand having what happened, that is not how the russian people are processing it. putin said statement that this came out of nowhere and he said murdered two russians, look, a loss of life is a tragic thing no matter what, but when you're in the air force flying planes over foreign air space that is a member of another major military alliance that's different than being murdere murdered walk dowe street and somebody shot you. >> what does it mean that he had such harsh words for turkey considering talks about syria are to begin tomorrow in new york to include russia that putin met with kerry four hours tuesday. does that mean that russia is not going to be as cooperative at we might think when it comes to political solution? >> i never thought russia was going to be very cooperative. it's two major things, first, the data, the public opinion polling shows strong support for president putin, but it is the basis of that support is him the protector of

obama doesn't get along with putin. putin can't stand our president and it's causing us difficulty and frankly, and i said it a long time ago, if russia wants to bomb the hell out of isis and join us in that effort, i'm fine with that. if putin respects many e and if putin wants to call me brilliant and other things that he said i'll accept it and i'll accept it on the behalf of r country. >> you want to get along well with putin, you seem to be alien ating our allies. you said that angela merkel is is -- and david cameron. >> i think donald trump's remarks are devicive, stupid and wrong. >> is it wise to be praising our adversaries and alien ating our allies? >> george, you'rere having n. the fact is, we have a problem, george, you don't have to admit it, because you want to be politically correct all the time, you don't have to admit it, we have the problem and the problem is a very serious problem, you have radicalization islamic and you have the radical islamic terrorism problem that our president doesn't even want