now, to understand putin, you have to understand russia. evolution, war, communism, democracy, collapse, and then comes vladimir putin, who ushers in two decades of stability and thanks to rising oil prices, increases standards of living, and increases prominence in the world. russians do have immense national pride. russia is, after all, the largest country on the planet. 48-times larger than germany. it encompasses 11 time zones. straddles europe and the middle east. it claims a prominent place on the world stage. after the strange summit in helsinki, putin has established that goal and perhaps much more. what did america get out of that meeting, though? donald trump gave perhaps the most embarrassing performance by an american president i have witnessed or read about. his preposterous efforts to talk his way out of his troubles even make this more absurd. >> the sentence should have been, i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia, sort of a double-negative. >> what has been obscured by this disastrous and humiliating performance, i

year, the same year, that's the year that you had these massive demonstrations inside russia against vladimir putinis regime. his initial reaction, by the way, to those people was he was upset with them. he believed that he had made them rich, that he had brought russia off its knees. and this middle class -- they actually called it the creative class inside russia, was of his making, he thought. but his second reaction was fear. and again, the last time that had happened in his country was 1991, the year the soviet union had collapsed an event, by the way, he called the greatest tragedy of the 20th century. he was not going to allow it to happen again. that's why he decided to crackdown on those protesters and to use us as part of the propaganda to say they were literally pup et cetera of me. they used to have video of me allegedly handing out money to the opposition. saying i was sent purposely by barack obama to overthrow the regime inside russia. >> let me go back to another thing that you've written. when you went to russia in 1991 after the fall of the soviet union and to try to help them in

putin is remarkably popular in russia. why? ome back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> the most powerful man in the world is also the most popular. >> vladimir putin's approval rating soared as high as 86% in recent years. consider that american presidents are happy when they break the 50% mark. ♪ >> how has he done it? partly it's the cult of putin. he has mastered the art of the manly photo-op. he rides horse back bare chested, finds ainge enlt treasures underwater, he rides a submarine to the bottom of the sea, he fights flames. >> ridiculous about a middle age world leader riding around shirtless on a horse like konan the barbarian after a dozen donuts. who thinks this looks good? >> everything that we find ridiculous about vladimir putin is very appealing in a media universe that he controls absolutely everything. >> perhaps the foundation of the putin juggernaut is a truism no mat wrer you liv matter where you live, it's the economy, stupid. >> after the chaotic years of yeltsin, putin stepped in and stabilized the country. and he rode the w

from here the project of the new silk road depends on moscow's goodwill but does putin's russia even want it. watered down to doing well but i'm skeptical about the relationship between china and russia russia is facing a laborious rethinking process a solution that russia used to be china's big brother today it struggles to accept that china is superior. to handle war trauma of course china and russia are cooperating on military to raise. geopolitical reasons but the new silk road has little support in russia because russia has its own eurasian project and with the shah should have housing it all yeah i'm with you fine and you they see. the whole story and for putin as for stalin before him military strength is the primary factor decision but that's just not enough in today's world and if acutely you need an efficient economy technology science which is putin's russia has none of that cosmic stan and his backers stand are already turning towards china while trying to maintain a balance but russia's all talk of it is go order china has the money all russia has is memories who glorious

why would you not want putin to intergrate-- intergate you in russia? serious. they accused us of a crime. vladimir putin accused me of a crime committed in russia. he didn't want to just intergate me. he wanted to indict me. he's accused me of a crime. so the idea, whether you are democrat or republican, let's leave that aside. we can't have our ambassadors, our soldiers, our aig workers, anybody serving the united states of america abroad be allowed to be hauled in by dictators. that sends a really bad message. and so we've got it push back on that now tragically the president didn't. president trump didn't. called it a great idea. and at the time i don't think he really understood what was going on, right. maybe that is part of the problem. maybe he shouldn't spend two hours with putin when he doesn't understand these issues. eventually they got it right but you know, to this day i have to worry about travel in third countries. >> right. >> there is this interpoll and something called red notice where i done think it's likely but putin is a little un

yeltsin years it lost a lot of power a lot of prestige the economy was terrible and i think under putin russia has sort of come back into a sense that it's a global player that its voice matters the economy has picked up russian people are becoming more proud of being russian i remember even six years ago when i first came here people kept apologizing to me for how terrible everything was that this wasn't like america and i had to finally tell them to stop i'm like i knew when i came here that this wasn't going to be like america and that for me was we are because americans never apologize for a country like welcome to america enjoy. and for people to be ashamed of their country was so different and now i don't really see that i see people are more proud of their country and i think putin has you stalin in particularly the great patriotic war in the victory there as a way to inspire nationalistic pride now you said before that the russian people a generally good at gaming or circumventing the system and i wonder what's been your experience in dealing with the bureaucracy and the red tape which

that is the broad conclusion, that it will be met by a scornful response from putin. russiae said they have attempted to extradite russians back into russia from the uk, and these would be high—profile critics of the russian regime, and the uk has refused that. people will think that the crown prosecution service, after hundreds of officers trying to work out the precise movements of these russians, they are ready to put in this request. nothing is expected to come from it, from russia's point of view. to you and me it seems obvious they have to continue the process, but there is a paragraph near the end of the peace which i thought was quite amusing, in a sense, that there was a conflict from within the government as to whether they should do this or not. that's exactly right, because i think it is accepted that it will be met by a scornful response from putin, it will start a tit—for—tat response, and that is perhaps inconvenient or difficult, but if they don't do it it is almost allowing it to potentially happen. i think a line has got to be drawn and this process has got

would bring even more russian gas through the baltic sea to germany a very important project for russia putin said you know this would make russia an even more reliable energy partner for europe don't trump by the way says it would make germany totally dependent on russia so he's critical of it but merkel says that what she wants is russia to agree that even with nord stream two russian gas will continue to flow through ukraine as a transit country because that's the strategic relationship there putin was very skeptical he said any such deal would have to make economic sense and his spokesman after these talks last night was quoted saying you know the russia was thinking of taking measures against the countries that were trying to block the nord stream project so there's a lot of differences on that key energy relationship as well plenty of discussion very little agreed ok thank you very much. one of the other stories making news around the world's the indonesian island of lombok has been struck by a magnitude six point three earthquake its epicenter was in the island's northeast the quake ca

putin has been leader of russia for 18 years. he's met with four total american presidents. that they misread vladimir putin and didn't get what they wanted out of the relationship. so, yeah, i think a lot of people would agree that he was like an amateur up against a pro in that meeting. it's interesting, isn't it, that it really stuck with president trump. he seemed stung by that criticism. >> and just hours, though, susan, after intelligence teams firmly stated russia interference has happened and continues to be a threat the president says he had a great meeting with putin and called out the russian hoax. what message does that send to the russians? >> well, i think that's an important point that you're bringing up. putin has always been a believer that only his peers, presidents and other leaders really matter. i remember when i was based in moscow during george w. bush's presidency and putin was getting some criticism from colin powell, from the u.s. ambassador at the time, and he and his advisories basically said yes, but we haven't heard it from president himself. i b

remember, putin has been leader of russia for 18 years now. tive american presidents -- four total american presidents. trump's three predecessors have come out feeling in many ways that they misread vladimir putin and didn't get what they wanted out of the relationship. so yeah, i think a lot of people would agree he was like an amateur up against a pro like muhammad ali in that meeting. but it's interesting, isn't it, that it really stuck with president trump. he seemed stung by that criticism. >> and just hours, though, susan. he firmly stated russian interference has happened and continues to be a threat. the president says he had a great meeting with putin and called out the russian hoax. these are quotes, russian hoax, great meeting. what message does that send, let's say, to the russians? >> i think that is an important point that you're bringing up, don. because, you know, putin has always been a believer that only his peers, presidents and other leaders really matter. i remember when i was based in moscow during george w. bush's presid

pulled back but then we were renewed so publicly from the president himself nothing against putin all russia of course insists that he is the toughest president ever in terms of the relations with russia in terms of sanctions but again this is a two to tale story here in washington d.c. when it comes to this ok we'll be following the cell as it progresses and moves forward stuff and for now thanks very much. now for a look at some of the other stories making the news around the world this hour a powerful aftershock has struck the indonesian province of long ball the six point two magnitude tremor is the strongest of hundreds of other aftershocks that have hit the area since the deadly quake on sunday officials say the death toll from sunday's quake has now risen risen to two hundred twenty seven tens of thousands of people remain homeless. japanise marked seventy three years since the u.s. atomic bombing of nagasaki in the closing days of world war two u.n. secretary general on tonio good terrorists laid a wreath in tribute to the victims the bombing took place three days after the u.s. targ

russia is only being treated cut a because putin central bank. host: the larger issue when it comes to russia and nato, talk about expansion. which country should be expanded -- which countries should be expanded to nato? guest: it was a controversial idea. there are people on both sides who think it was the right thing to do. people thought we will encroach on russia's sphere of influence and they will be angry. expansion, nato-russia cooperation, russia in the g8 and be a great global power were nato-russia all fully compatible with nato's expansion. nato was open to countries that nato. to join it was not marching across anywhere. it was not pushing. we thought was a competition -- hey, who was to be with his club? -- with this club? putin has made a lot of choices for the direction of the country . it is not good for his country. facing a demographic crisis. it is dependent on the oil industry. stealing from the people and enriching themselves, that is not the fault of nato. hear the effectiveness of russian propaganda on how people are addres

yeltsin years in lost a lot of power a lot of prestige the economy was terrible and i think under putin russia has sort of come back into a sense that it's a global player that its voice matters the economy has picked up russian people are becoming more proud of being russian i remember even six years ago when i first came here people kept apologizing to me for how terrible everything was that this wasn't like america and i had to finally tell them to stop i'm like i knew when i came here that this wasn't going to be like america you know that for me was weird because americans never apologize for a country like welcome to america enjoy. and for people to be ashamed of their country was so different and now i don't really see that i see people are more proud of their country and i think putin has you stalin in particularly the great patriotic war in the victory there as a way to inspire nationalistic pride now you said before the russian people a generally good at gaming or circumventing the system and i wonder what's been your experience in dealing with the brokers see and the red tape which

even though the president himself did not call out russia for this chemical attack when he was standing there side by side with vladimir putinn helsinki just weeks ago, among other behaviors that he did not call out russia for, his administration has shown themselves willing on a number of occasions now to take action, to punish russia for things like this. >> didn't call them out a couple weeks ago, elise. also, we've known about this case. and everyone knew it was russia months ago. so why issue these sanctions now? >> as michelle said, brooke, it's one thing to say they suspect that russia is involved, that they have intelligence that russia was involved and there have been actions taken against russian oligarchs and been these expulsions, but when you meet and try to meet legal criteria for a violation of this 1991 law about chemical and biological use, to meet that legal criteria takes a long time. lawyers have to see whether it meets it. a lot of things are involved in terms of a technical examination. and so, you know, you might think it's political expediency that right now there's a lot of tension against russia or

russia. this happened recently so it seems to be almost a reaction to trump. as putin says domestic politics you feel like trump is trying to sort of way emulate leaders like putin to help syria's i'm not sure i can tell you what is in donald trump's head on all the anyone can and if they tell you that i don't think he's stupid i think he's a very sharp guy and i'm sure he wrecks respects the. 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

his work for the ukraine related to the russia investigation because he was working for a pro-putin candidate making all that money working for yanukovych and the russia investigation is about whether the putin government worked with the trump campaign to defeat hillary clinton. >> and that is what is significant. they came upon the crimes through the investigation and what's being done here is 23409 about partisanship. tad devine worked for al gore and bernie sanders. it just shows the underbelly of what's done in political lobbying work and campaign work internationally but you have two players here, you have a campaign manager who has these ties and his deputy rick gates who worked on the trump campaign who is now separated himself from manafort because he's cooperating with the government. two big players who haven't revealed any information that would incriminate anyone on the campaign or president trump himself but the dynamic of the underling flipping on the superior is nothing new. >> no, the idea of scape boating somebody else is nothing new. one thing is for sure, nobody can claim t

that is what the deter act is all about, to create a big penalty to putin and russia if they get caught again. i am optimistic, because momentum is growing. you will have hearings in the coming two weeks in senate foreign relations and another committee. it is really hard for anybody to say that we should not take action now to protect the integrity of our democracy. and the only way to do that is to send a signal that there will be automatic tough penalties if we catch russia, putin, anybody else. nicholas: you don't think warnings from the administration, which have become stronger in recent weeks because of criticism, are enough or have gone far enough? sen. van hollen: i don't think so at all. you have warnings from some of the top trump administration officials. within 24 hours, you have the president of the united states saying this was a "russia hoax." that is a quote. we saw the performance of president trump in helsinki standing next to vladimir putin. i don't think anyone would see that and come to the conclusion that vladimir putin got the message of not interfering in our el

russia. this happened recently so it seems to be almost a reaction to trump. as putin says a domestic politics doesn't feel like trump is trying to sort of way emulate leaders like putin behalf he is i'm not sure i can't tell you what is in donald trump's had i don't think anyone can and if they tell you that i don't think he's stupid i think he's a very sharp guy and i'm sure he wrecks respects the. 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 the u.s. can i ask you really that has been the excuse. he's been attacked profoundly for russia there's no ev

series of interviews with russia's vladimir putin. i caught up with the director himself to talk about the experience my over so it's great to have you with us today so if you're having a great trip in moscow there's just got here so your book compared to your extensive interviews with putin is published by you called the putin interview for a day his climax to my strange life as an american filmmaker climax your career is the best thing you've ever done. you know i have to take the point of view that it could be the last film too you never know time is seems more precious when you get a little bit older and as a filmmaker it's a very young profession you know and very few and america especially it kind of goes fast you don't get off in another chance so i felt like this was a kind of a climax not that it's a feature film but that it's the most safe at this time in history the most forbidding character to american media to american and western europe to i think forbidding kind of. cross into that into another world i'm glad i got here

i have president putin, who just said it is not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> he believes vladimir putin over dan coates. that's where we are today. >> he clarified that to say i don't understand why it weren weren't -- weren't be. but he said it was a very forceful denial. so in the con dex, it is very hard to imagine that he just missed a contraction there but i am glad you pointed that out, what do the intell chiefs, can they work around the president? >> look, we can see them collecting information about russian involvement. that is why they're out there so clearly speaking about it. it is about a bipartisan sanctions. you heard them mention yesterday by someone at the podium about operations against russia. if we under take our own u.s. government's cyber operations, he ought to be involved in those operations. has he or has he not. the other thing he has to do is speak to the american people. as you go into an election campaign, the midterms, what do they think about the difference between a nut screaming on soes

he was fiercely proud that one place he was not welcomeled was russia. putin had banned him. no more holidays in siberia john laughed. well, mark my words. one day even russia will turn towards freedom, and when it does, john mccain will be revered there. john made a big difference in a great many ways, but the one i want to close with is the senate. senators are often stuffy. john was not. if there was ever a senator entitled to take himself seriously, it was john. yet he didn't. he effervesced the stol i.d. senate -- s it. ollid senate to the occasional a noahance of some of our colleagues. here, too, john engendered lifetime loyalty and affection and respect. lindsey and joe and kelly were his great amigos, none greater than lindsey. but many of us loved him well. millions of americans saw john mccain give the famous c-span thumbs down that put an end to repeal and replace. they probably did not see what happened next. having just cast what was a devastating vote for many of his colleagues, he went back to his seat, and from my seat here across the chamber, i saw john's col

people including celibate teas and government leaders doesn't mccraw france spoke to president putin of russia recently asking for a humanitarian solution to deal with this issue how much will this pressure help to you think well it's hard to say you know the i know that there is a large heart negotiations it's not only macross and i know that. my colleagues since also advocates they are trying to reach america will also recently i imagine we don't know she raised his case or not. it's very hard to say unfortunately it looks like she is saying it is in the hands of only one person and . what is in regions that it's very hard to imagine i know that. we have a coalition of supporters around the world and today for example four hundred hunger is a hundred days of anger straight we have actions all around the world organized by plan it's a national. in sweden. and organized. the russian embassy and reached testament a short story of alex and stop in front of the russian embassy so we personally we want to stop until the end. it's just it's very important. to not lose this of. you doing well what n

president, whatever you think of this president, stand next to an adversarial nation like vladimir putin's russia take their side over our own intelligence agencies. but for folks who follow this every day, it's one more thing, we always have the conversation, is this the thing, there are signs that on the other hand, trump folks are doubling down. look at these shirts, professionally produced, i'd rather been russian than democrat, it says. dovetails with something you've written. gene robinson, "one of the most astounding things to happen in recent memory is that the become the kremlin party." i'm wondering if there's a political bind that's created as people come to these rallies and embrace russia and putin, because that's what their leader is doing, are they embracing a message that's a 35% message, and hurting the republican party if folks don't want to go along with that in november? >> i think that segment of republican support, that part of the republican vote, is definitely -- is basically wrapping itself around donald trump. and, yes, that is a 30 to 35% message, all in for trump, all

that they went after this hudson institute you see as something that is a threat to vladimir putin and russia>> i think the hudson institute's kleptocracy initiative is a threat to the circle of crooked oligarchs who surround and support vladimir putin and to vladimir putin himself. you saw from the panama papers and paradise papers how much they use foreign shell corporations and the anonymity allowed in rule of law world to shelter their ill-gotten gains so this is an important priority for them. >> does this show to you that the russians in the intelligence services there are on the attack for the 2018 midterms? >> i don't think there's any doubt about that. they'll try to keep some faint level of plausible deniability but i think anybody who's got any brains sees that plausible deniability as a joke and their real hook is that they have a a president of the united states who's highly reluctant for whatever reason to take them on in any serious or sincere way. >> at least rhetorically in the last 24 hours -- again in an interview with reuters he was talking about the mueller investigation

merkel 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

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particularlyience, russia under vladimir putin, has russia ever changed its behavior in response to economicions? this goes back quite some time, and yet, i not sure they did anything differently because of sanctions. michael: that is one way to look at it. the other way to look at it these to say russia had opportunities to further invade ukraine and establish a line to anor along the coast enclave controlled by russian forces in moldova but they did not do that, probably knowing they would these significant costs of the operation. it does have some deterrent effect, but in order to be effective, they have to have an economic impact that is immediate and causes the common to think about the cost of what it is doing and decide to take a different course of action. sharp, those kinds of sanctions as applied to iran by the obama administration have not been applied to russia. sherry: of course, i remember you had a piece on how to stand up to the kremlin on foreign affairs, and you mentioned that the united states should leave allies standing up against russia given the relationships with cana

in february of 2000 before putin became president of russia this is during a south carolina republicanbate in another presidential debate in 2008, he warned of the coming foreign aggression from the putin regime. that, of course, also came true as well. senator mccain was a friend of my very close friend who came to see him many times when he visited washington. one of those meetings together and the last meeting that took place between them was in january of 2014 and senator mccain expressed his concern and told boris that, you know, he should not go back to russia to which mr. nemsov replied, it's my country. i'm not giving up the fight. i have no choice. just over a year later he was killed, gunned down on a bridge in front of the kremlin. and senator mccain had a ceremony for him and also led legislation that designated the street in front of the russian embassy in washington, d.c., as boris nemsov plaza. as you mentioned, senator mccain is one of those people thanks to him i'm actually alive and able to speak to you now. last year about 18 months ago when i was lying in hospital i

putin . anna frankly i enjoyed the meeting him i met him originally on the at the on one of my trips to russia because i was interviewing snowden a lot we were doing research with ed and a lot of the movie and soden was represents what ad this point of view was so getting that information took time and we came back and we're trying to be accurate the last scene of the movie was shot in moscow so after a by one i met mr putin which is in the back room of a theater in the moscow a play an old like hundred sixty s. play he was attending to promote folkloric culture. we met in the back and i asked him about mr snowden and he gave me the russian version his version of what happened which was fascinating different than what we had been told in the public newspapers and so forth but anyway long telling the story quickly is getting back to the end of the movie if snowden we shot in moscow to a weekend with with ed and then we turned around a few days later we went to the kremlin and we shot mr putin over three days and. at that time we didn't know if this would go on it was simply you know take it as

senator paul of kentucky delivering by hand a letter from president trump giving it to putin's administration in russiaeally clear what's in the letter, though. >> it is not. initially rand paul advertised this as something he was a courier here of president trump and president vladimir putin but we are told by white house sources that, in fact, president trump was doing a favor for rand paul. he was in moscow. wanted to meet with the russian president and president trump, this according to white house, wrote a letter of introduction and that this was not a secret communication between trump and putin. >> tonight republican senator rand paul announcing he delivered a letter to russian president vladimir putin claiming from president donald trump tweeting, quote, the letter emphasized the importance of further engagement in various areas including counter terrorism, enhancing legislative dialogue and resuming cultural exchanges. the white house said it was written at the request of the senator, not the president, the help paul obtain a meeting with putin that has not happened in the solo trip to russia.

many observers still recognize are striving to warm up relationships with russia and with putin you are aware that there is standing invitations which then have to be had to be pulled back by then we were renewed so publicly from the president himself nothing against putin all russia of course insists that he is the toughest president ever in terms of the relations with russia in terms of sanctions but again this is a two to tale story here in washington d.c. when it comes to this ok we'll be following the cell as it progresses and moves forward stuff and for now thanks very much. it's the bell ross now where police have arrested a number of journalists on suspicion of illegally accessing information from the country's state run news agency local rights groups are saying the arrests are part of a government drive to muzzle independent media among those detained is d.w. freelance correspondent because he is apartment and men's was searched for two hours by police d.w. has launched a protest with some bastard here in berlin demanding his immediate release the arrests followed the police s

many observers still recognize are striving to warm up relationships with russia and with putin you are aware that there are standing invitations which then have to be had to be pulled back but then we were renewed so publicly from the president himself nothing against putin or russia of course he insists that he is the toughest president ever in terms of the relations with russia in terms of sanctions but again this is a two to tale story here in washington d.c. when it comes to this ok we'll be following this as it progresses and moves forward stuff and for now thanks very much. we have some breaking news coming in from argentina that country's senate has just rejected a bill to legalize elective abortion the vote followed some fifteen hours of heated debate about abortion in the senate and the bill would have legalized abortion up to the fourteenth week approved pregnancy tens of thousands of people have been holding demonstrations for and against abortion before the senate began its debate we'll have more on this story for you in our next quarter. to the mideast now in the gaza heal

russia. what the story is saying, and it's really hitting vladimir putin's popularity in russia. a time when politics and economics have been more intertwined? normally the markets ignore anything political, but at the moment... they can't. donald trump in the white house, vladimir putin, with everything that's going on, this is the most politically driven market i've ever experienced in my career. let's talk about this story in the independent, firms are struggling to recruit as net eu migration falls. we're talking about shortages in a number of sectors in the uk, including it, transport, construction but also health, social care, hospitality, they're having problems recruiting. what's going on, what are they saying? the fall in net migration means there's less people for a number of these differentjobs. but at people for a number of these different jobs. but at the people for a number of these differentjobs. but at the same time as saying net migration is an issue with the number of people coming in falling, thejobs aren't with the number of people coming in falling, the jobs a

of american national security officials said that despite president trump's warning to vladimir putin, russias still heavily involved in trying to disrupt u.s. elections. the officials raising the alarm bell today saying, "democracy itself is in the cross hairs." chief white house correspondent was a front and center in that briefing with a show of force on election security. good evening. >> just two weeks ago in helsinki, russian president vladimir boudin assured president trump that russia has not and would not interfere in america's domestic affairs including elections. today, very powerful group of administrative officials called b.s. on that. it was a dramatic show of force at the wall white house. homeland security secretary, director of the nsa. united in pointing fingers at russia for continuing to metal in u.s. politics >> russia attempted to interfere in the last election and continues to engage in malign operations to this day. >> they did say so far that russian efforts to interfere with the midterms are not as robust as in 2015. but despite vladimir putin's denial of government

republican senator lindsey senators goal is to impose sanctions against vladimir putin russia until he ceases meddling in the u.s. electoral process, stops cyberattacks, and removes russia from the ukraine. some bob boy and election officials say the president won -- zimbabwean election officials say the president won the election. several were killed in postelection process -- protests. two decades of misrule. global news, 24 hours a day on air and @tictoc on twitter powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. you can find more stories on the bloomberg at top . what a volatile week it has been for asian markets. the regional index on top for its most weekly loss since march. , but still a lot of weakness in beast chinese markets. and i was mentioning that fall on the ground the one, heading for its longest weekly -- that fall in of the yuan. its longest weekly loss in years. apple had that $1 trillion mark in the u.s.. at stocks inlook detail, particularly the tech players. realtek in taipei is rising the most since 1997. it has had a double upgr

greg, you just mentioned one of the least discussed aspects of where we are now with regard to putin and russia administration, and it's the root of this, the origin of this. hillary clinton and vladimir putin. give us an explanation of what happened and why it so affected putin to the extent he's doing what he's doing. >> as you must know, vladimir putin is really animated and motivated by a deep sense of grievance, a conviction that the collapse of the soviet union was a terrible development for russia, that it stepped back and ceded power in the world in a way it should president have. he became focused on hillary clinton much later when he was president of russia, when there were protests around russia in places like ukraine. and then when protests erupted in moscow, he blamed hillary clinton who was the secretary of state at time for fomenting this opposition to him, and he identified her as the point person for an american effort to unseat him, for regime change. he really believed that that was the case. >> the book "the apprentice, trump, russia and the subversion of american democracy"