russia, in terms of the foreign policy style, the chinese feel that russia is good at confrontation. the chinese are good at maneuvering. one is energy exporter and the other is importer. one has natural resources, the other has the money and the cash. so the last point despite agreements or complaints inside the chinese community from time to time, the consensus in china is still that the border has been centered. for decades. so no one should realistically expect china to claim what was given to russia years ago. that case has been closed. as russia and china survey their political landscape, there's a lot of things to unite them. hour, history has taught them the perils of alliance. the former alliance relationship has both sides confidence in the wisdom and visibility of a similar arrangement. that does not mean that china and russia would not align their positions on issues they see coming. such an alignment will enhance the security and economics of both china and russia. it is in their view beneficial to maintain the balance of the world order. china and russia align positions

is the united states losing china to russia? the title of the event is not intended to echo the american debate over who lost china, in the middle of the last century, but it does remind us of the fact that improvements in u.s.-china relations in the '70s and 80s provide many advantages between other states as they strive to win the cold war. but today the trilateral relationship between the united states, china and russia has profoundly changed. u.s. relations with china and russia both seem to be deteriorating. meanwhile, china and russia are strengthening their strategic partnership, or even something or someone would call closer to an alliance. some strategic thinkers in the united states have began to worry about what they call an uneasy triangle. chinese analysts have adopted a new term called the new freaking them. [speaking in native tongue] to characterize the situation of today and try to extol its implication. now, are we entering a new cold war? what serves the best interests of each of these three powers? is it a ri

second, i am a russia analyst, so my job is to look at the russia angle of this. look, whether what you say about the american elite, the establishment, is true or not, and i think plenty of people are persuaded of that, i read an interview just yesterday in the financial times with the editor-in-chief of rt, used to be russia today, the little green box, the russian global news network. what was interesting to me is she made the exact argument that you just made, which he does not mean it is wrong. it just means that the russians are very excited, and they are very excited to spend billions of dollars of their money to point out the ways in which they believe the western institutions of government, of politics are corrupt and are not serving the people. i think what the conversation has been about is, why is it subtly that russians are rushing and to do this in american politics, and should that make us uncomfortable, and what does it mean about where this is going and what we will do about it, not so much about the problems we have in american politics, which ma

worked with russia.strategic alignment with russia has concrete benefits and factors can be managed. they cannot be eliminated but managed. this is true when china views it is dealing from a position of strength and russia is at a strategic advantage. a 3,000 mile long border russia has the most impact on national security and vice versa. it is not desirable and up likely in the future. this point was emphasized as well. the second point from the chinese perspective of all of the countries russia shares the strategic position the most. both have domestic issues and foreign policy aspirations that make them targets of the united states. both feel their strategic spaces are being suppressed by washington. therefore, china and russia share a common interest in quote "maintaining the balance in international politics and creating a more just international order "that message is important for the united states as well. a third point is among all powers, russia and china probably have the most similar. both ar

you heard him work in you'll see there's nothing in russia.ome people tried to suggests maybe this whole e-mail hack and leak has something to do he has russian business interests or something. he says there's nothing there. but we don't know that. donald trump at least has released the financial disclosure form that does tell us something about his finances. it tells us what he has to tell us. it doesn't tell us which tax rate he pays. loopholes, shelters monies overseas. whether he takes advantage of all of these real estate tax credits that allow you to depreciate and not pay the government. >> and how that actually works, too. trump has clearly calculated whatever is in his tax returns is much more damaging than taking the hit for not being transparent. >> that's exactly right. there's no legal requirement that presidential nominees release tax returns but there's a widespread expectation. you see in polls, vast majority of americans, republicans and democrats alike believe they're entitled to that information. when you don't release the i

from russia. his son donald jr. told e news a few years ago that the amount of money they're seeing come in from russia, it is quite large. that they're seeing a disproportionate amount of money coming in from russian investors. there is money unless don jr. was wrong at some point. and that is what concerning people. how much money have the russians given druch and does that color his opinion of them? he has been very friendly if you will towards vladimir putin saying he wants to have better relations with him. nobody would argue we'd like to have better relations with russia, given the state of affairs between these two countries and the history there, there is concern that he would favor russia over allies and that's what people are concerned about right now. he's said that he is not necessarily going to back nato allies unless they pay their fair share. even when it comes to russian aggression, that's raising eyebrows, donald trump continuing to raise eyebrows today and, but know this one mome

-russia relations? guest: russia has adopted a hostile approach toward the u.s. and nato for some time. , and asas also adopted water mayor putin said, he the soviet loss of union and does not believe the eu should exist. he has used russian means, whether it is business deals, bribery, intelligence services, drop again i, anything he can use to try to influence politics and decision-making inside nato countries. we have seen it in germany, hiring the chancellor of germany to become the head of a north stream gas project. we have seen other sweet business deals that have benefited politicians. russia provided funding to marine le pen's party in france. they have been creative and aggressive at trying to influence politics, and part of that is the cyber world. we saw them use cyber attacks when they invaded georgia. cyber attacks against estonia after they moved a statue honoring russian soldiers that fought in world war ii. we have had reports constantly of russian and chinese cyber attacks against all sorts of entities and institutions in the u.s. what i am stru

it's probably not russia. nobody knows if it's russia. you know the sad thing is that with the technology and the genius we have in this country, not in government unfortunately, but with the genius we have in government, we don't even know who took the democratic national committee e-mails, right. we don't even know who it is. i heard this morning one report said they don't think it's russia. they think it might be china. another report said it might be just a hacker. some guy with a 200 iq that can't get up in the morning, okay. nobody knows. honestly, they have no idea if it's russia. might be russia. but if it's any foreign country, it shows how little respect they have for the united states. yes, ma'am. >> you've talked about terrorism, asking people to sort of -- on their neighbors if they hear something, but what specifically do you propose for domestic terrorism and people radicalized here? >> number one, start by keeping people out. because these people, they got something bad going on up there. they got something really bad goin

honestly they have no idea if it's russia. might be russia. but if it's any foreign country, it shows how little respect they have for the united states. yes, ma'am. reporter: [indiscernible] mr. trump: the biggest thing is number one we have to stop by keeping people out because these people, they've got something bad going on up there. that's something really bad going on. and then people in terms of islam and radical islamic terrorism, a term that our president refuses to use, i can't he's still not using it. he's still not using it. and she doesn't want to use it other than i forced her into maybe using it. she said she will use it but so far she didn't. she'll probably use it tonight. like the american flags, as soon as we put out a thing they ran a couple of american flags up in the stage, it was a disgrace. you had a room with a massive stage without flags. i think this -- i think that the people in the community know what's going on. whether it's in a mosque or whether it's in the community and they have to report these people. when yo

in russia.or level between the prime minister and the russian president and between our foreign secretary and the russian foreign administrator. the direct dialogue is conducted principally through the nato machinery and afterwards the meeting and nato-russia council on the 14th of july which covered the situation in ukraine review of the current of the situation in afghanistan, but was principally devoted and this is the essence of policy to make sure that the steps that we take to reassure our members or to deter are fully expressed. there's total transparency in order to reduce the risk of misunderstanding or miscalculations, so at that meeting in the 13th of july the alliance explained the various measure that is were adopted. obviously there was a response from russia and a concern about this particularly positioning but, of course, we did not have a proper explanation from russia as to the three new military divisions that it was stationing on nato's flank, what we did have from russia was

and russia, says when it comes to any relations in business between trump and russia, they are very hard to find i am not aware of any business endeavors of trump's in russia. >> it may be that they turned out to be failures. >> what i can say with certainty is that the trump organization is not a major presence in russia. when you talk to americans who invest in russia, they never mentioned trump organization. >> trump has had better luck dealing with russians living in the u.s., sort of. he partnered with the bay rock group, a company run by soviet immigrants financed by russian and kazakhstan money. together they developed trump properties in fort lauderdale is and new york and planned on opening a trump tower in moscow. but trump said in a deposition that plan ended after media reports started to question trump's net worth. trump did make news with another russian related deal. he sold his florida mansion to a russian billionaire for $95 million. trump walking away with a tidy $54 million profit. while trump may have limited ties with russia, the real connection may be the man who se

honestly they have no idea if it is russia. might be russia.foreign country, it shows how little respect they have for the united states. yes, ma'am? >> [inaudible] >> yeah. >> [inaudible] >> well the biggest thing we have to do, number one, we have to start by keeping people out. these people, they have something bad going on up there, they have got something really bad going on. and then people in terms of islam, and radded call islamic terrorism, a term that president refuses to use, i can't believe he is still not using it. he is still not using it. she wasn't want to use it, i maybe forced her into use it. she said she will use it. she will use it tonight. as soon as we put out the thing they ran a couple of american flags up on the stage. disgrace, room with massive stage without flags. i think that the people in the community know what is going on, whether it is in a mosque, whether it is in the community. and they have to report these people. when you look at san bernanadino, many people knew what was going on. they had bombs lying all

chinese investment is pouring into russia and there's essentially no reverse investment from russia. so the hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign direct investment in china that speeded along its economic development doesn't come from russia but united states and western countries and neighbors of ch a china. until ukraine crisis in 2014 i think you could actively characterize russia-chinese relations as strong, healthy and friendly. this is reflected in public opinion polling in both countries, which was very different from the period when i served in moscow, when russians were acutely suspicious of chinese. but the chinese consistently rated russia as the country toward which they had the least suspicions. united states, japan, even south korea ranked lower in chinese perceptions. and you had considerable easing of the public attitudes in russia toward china but not to the degree that was taking place on the chinese side. but after the ukraine side, i would characterize relations as friendly, close, but unhealthy because russia has been forced uncomfortable close to russia --

but russia has no respect for our country and that's why, if it is russia. nobody knows.or it could be somebody sitting here. i will tell you this, russia if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. let's see if that happens. that will be next. >> do you have any qualms about asking a foreign government, russia, china, anybody, to interfere, to hack into a system of anybody's in this country? >> that's up to the president. let the president talk to them. >> does that not give you pause. >> no, gives me no putt. >> to have a foreign government -- >> you know what gist me more pause, that a person in our government, crooked hillary clinton -- hear's what gives me pause. be quiet. i know you want to save her. that a person in our government, katie, would delete or get rid of 33,000 e-mails. th that gives me a big problem. if anybody has those e-mails, to be honest with you, i'd love to see them. >> i would think that the whole team is in line here with this ridiculous messag

but is russia to blame here?adimir putin hoping to cause chaos in the midst of our most important election in years? meanwhile, hillary clinton and donald trump blasting each other on the campaign trail. >> donald trump painted a picture, a negative, dark divisive picture of a country in decline. he insisted that america is weak, and

is he such porting russia's policy, a guy on trump's campaign worked for a pro russia candidate. if we didn't have these policy changes, i wouldn't think it would be as interesting, but we have a major, major 180 in the republican party with respect to trump's viewings on russia. >> as manafort pointed out, that was my past job, this is my job now. >> that's a good point, but actually to push forward ryan's point here, i have read some books about himself and the way he does business. he surrounds himself with people who are really knowledgeable on each position. if he's surrounding himself with a lot of people who are pro putin, pro russian, that will make a difference in his policies. >> we have a lot still ahead, straight ahead, just moments ago, hillary clinton weighed in the on the back and forth between donald trump and the father of a fallen u.s. soldier. you'll hear what clinton had to say today in response next. lean! it added this other level of clean to it. it just kinda like...wiped everything clean. 6x cleaning my teeth are glowing. they are so white. 6x whitening i

russia's president reacted sharply. in a statement, vladimir putin called it dangerous political interference in sports. he says individual athletes should take responsibility for their own actions. but he also says that russian officials named in the report will be temporarily suspended. with the rio olympics just weeks away, the findings do nothing to boost people's faith in the games or international sport as a whole. the investigative team will continue its work. it says because of a limited timeline, monday's report only skimmed the surface. takafumi terui, nhk world. >>> global markets have stabilized after some turmoil following the brexit vote. >> reporter: brexit is giving significant down i'd risk and they predict more uncertainty. the analysts have reviewed their predick shumpbs saying the world economy will expand by to the downward revision from .#% to 1.13%. the fund says if negotiations between britain and the eu hits bumps in the road, it will be revised to 1.81%. it adds the impact and persistence of un

i guess i sell condos to russia. nobody knows if it's russia. they think it might be china. another report said it might be just a hacker, some guy with a 200 iq that can't get up in the morning. okay. nobody knows. honestly they have no idea it if it's russia, might be russia. >> immediately afterward, paul ryan's spokesman brendan buck appeared to respond by trump tweeting, russia is a global menace led by a dooefs thug, putin should stay out of this election. i want to start with nbc's katie tur who's in miami following the trump campaign. in your opinion that press conference, it went on for a while, but what's really getting a lot of attention here is his comments on rusa about hacking, russia should go in and find more of hillary clinton's e-mails and in fact, since he's tweeted, seeming to double down on it katie, right? >> reporter: yeah, and he was calling for russia to give over those e-mails, if they have them. the campaign quickly trying to clarify that statement to reporters telling our own ally vatali, saying that trump wasn't calling on anyone to intervene or

they underestimated russia all along. >> i have 30 seconds left. you say russia always hacks.ake it any less serious or dangerous? what is the american public to make of this? >> it is very serious, i think donald trump admitted he was joking there. i don't think he'll do it again, i wouldn't advise him to do it again. i think you should not joke about hacking. yet i take him at his word that he had nothing to do with this. he said he has never met putin. the evidence shows that russia always hacks. it is a little odd that hillary clinton is surprised by that. >> ric, have to leave it there. out of time. good to see you. thank you. >> you too. >>> and the latest gdp report delivered not so great news about the economy. the numbers showing our growth is struggling. this comes as the labor marker remains healthy. what's going on? what does it mean for our wallets. we will break it down next. ♪ it's a tangle of multiple symptoms. ♪ ♪ trintellix (vortioxetine) is a prescription medicine for depression. trintellix may start to untangle or help improve the multiple symptoms of depre

i want to get to the russia stuff. first of all, all right, what kind of information do you have as a senator of what russia's been trying to do in influencing western elections whether it's france, or here? what is your information based on? >> i am -- you know, i am on a number of committees, i'm not on foreign relations, so i don't have any special knowledge on this. this is outrageous. now, also, in this, either at the same thing or later in the day he said that would he be willing to cede crimea to russia. he said we're looking at that. here's a guy who clearly doesn't know the effect of what he says. he's had to back track. it's only going to the fbi. et cetera. stuff comes out of his mouth, that he doesn't even understand the impact it has. you can't have someone as president of the united states -- >> i know. we have growing evidence that a foreign government is trying to influence our election. i'm stunned by the lack of bipartisan outrage. we've heard from paul ryan and mike pence. that's been it so far. >> w

russia.the way, if they hacked, they probably have her 33,000 e-mails. i hope they do. they probably have her 33,000 e-mails that she lost and deleted because you would see some beauties there. but i watched this guy move. he talked about -- we think it was russia that hacked. then he said could be trump, yeah, yeah, trump, trump. it is so farfetched, it's so ridiculous. honestly i wish i had that power. i would love to have that power, but russia has no respect for our country and that's why -- if it is russia. nobody knows. it's probably china. or it could be somebody sitting in its bed. it will be interesting to see -- i will tell you this, russia if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. let's see if that happens. that will be next. >> do you have any qualms about asking a foreign government, russia, china, anybody to interfere, to hack into a system of anybody's in this country? >> tha

-russia relations? guest: russia has adopted a hostile approach toward the u.s.ato for some time. , and asas also adopted water mayor putin said, he the soviet loss of union and does not believe the eu should exist. he has used russian means, whether it is business deals, bribery, intelligence services, drop again i, anything he can use to try to influence politics and decision-making inside nato countries. we have seen it in germany, hiring the chancellor of germany to become the head of a north stream gas project. we have seen other sweet business deals that have benefited politicians. russia provided funding to marine le pen's party in france. they have been creative and aggressive at trying to influence politics, and part of that is the cyber world. we saw them use cyber attacks when they invaded georgia. cyber attacks against estonia after they moved a statue honoring russian soldiers that fought in world war ii. we have had reports constantly of russian and chinese cyber attacks against all sorts of entities and institutions in the u.s. what i am struck by

. >>> and ruling on russia. the international olympic committee will discuss russia's state sponsored doping program and whether any of its athletes will be allowed to compete in rio. >>> turkish authorities are continuing to round up suspects to a failed coup against erdogan. authorities carried out a massive raid on a military academy in istanbul on monday. officials say more than 10,000 public servants including police officers have been suspended. commercials calling for country unity under the president are airing repeatedly on tv. erdogan appears set to purge dissident forces for the uprising. turkish officials are blaming islamic cleric gullen for the coup attempt. he lives in the u.s. but has a lot of support in turkey. he denies any involvement. turkey is urging gullen be extradited. nhk world's keikichi mori tells us what he's been seeing there. >> reporter: rebels storm the streets on friday. unleashing a night of turmoil. the turkish intelligence agency released footage captured during the attempted

there were developers in russia that wanted to put developments in russia. they wanted us to do it. frankly, i didn't want to do it for a couple of different reasons. we had a major developer in particular. numerous developers that wanted to develop in moscow and other places, but we decided not to do it. >> a couple other important things to note, mike pence, the vice presidential running mate put out a statement almost immediately after donald trump wrapped up the news conference if discovered behind the hack of the e-mails that there would be, quote, serious consequences. donald trump did not come close to any language during this news conference. it's important do note, in the last several minutes, newt gingrich put out a tweet suggesting that donald trump was joking when he invited the russians to hack into hillary clinton's e-mails and release them. we should point out in the last hour or so, donald trump put out another tweet, essentially doubling down on this request. he said if russia or any other country has hillary clinton's 33,000 illegally deleted e-mails perhaps they s

will you russia has no respect for our country.nd that's why-- if it is russia, no one knows, it's probably china. >> trevor: i'm sorry, what? it's probably china? america is about to elect a president who treats foreign affairs like a game of clue? it's probably china with the computer in the library? what do you mean probably china? (applause) up to this point, up to this point nobody else had mentioned china. no one had mentioned china in connection with the e-mail hack. nobody. most people in a position to know said it's russia. but after about 30 minutes, donald trump then said this. >> we done even know who it is. i heard this morning, one report said they don't think it's russia, they think it might be china. >> trevor: i'm sorry, you heard this morning. you were the one who said it! how do you say that, oh, i heard, i heard this morning. i heard this morning, when i said it myself. you can't do that, sir, you can't do that. you can't cite yourself as a source. and you know how i know that, because someone said it earlier in

partner with russia, bring isis down, we'll deal with syria later. >> that might work if russia had the same goals in mind that we do. and i might full disclosure, i've worked with turkey for ten years. i can tell you that as was stated before, turkey's main interest is to get rid of assad. russia's main interest is to keep assad. so we're in the middle of that. our main focus having retaken fallujah, having removed 150 leaders off the battlefield on isis. we are working with the kurds who are actually the spear of the whole attack on the isis factions is to go after isis. so i think we need to stick with our allies before we start venturing into russian territory. >> stick with our allies? but what about isis? we know who our enemies are. >> the obama administration's main focus is isis. >> get rid of isis because it doesn't matter if you get rid of assad and you still have isis. one of the major -- >> sorry, rick. one crucial point missing here. five years ago when president obama said that assad should go, maybe even six years ago now, the russians did not have military hardware insi

with russia?ns about whether it was an attempt to influence the u.s. election. >> i don't know what their motive is. do i believe they have done it? that's certainly the way it looks. >>> we have 100 days to make our case to america. >> no more mr. nice guy. >> we are going to win. we have to win. >> hillary clinton must never become president of the united states of america. >> you're absolutely sure. >> 100%. no doubts in mind. >> three men and one woman in south florida believed to be the first cases of this kind. >> zika doesn't just fight republicans or democrats or independents, it fights everyone. >>> well, glad you're up early at 8:00 on a saturday morning. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to started this saturday with you. >> in just a few hours hillary clinton and tim kaine back on their bus in pennsylvania. the campaign says their computer system has been hacked and the data program was accessed. this comes after two other hacks from the democratic national committee and

i have nothing to do with russia. for anything. what do i have to do with russia? the closest i came to russia, i bought a house a number of years ago in palm beach, florida. palm beach is a very expensive place. there was a man who went bankrupt and i bought the house for $40 million and i sold it to a russian for $100 million, includie ining brokerage commis. i bought it for 40, i sold it for 100 to a russian. that was a number of years ago. i guess probably i sell condo also to russians, okay. of course i can. i've told you. other than normal stuff. i buy a house. if i sell it to a russian. i have nothing to do with russia. i said that putin has much better leadership qualities than obama but who doesn't know that. of course not, i own the trump

donald trump, russia and hacking hillary clinton's e-mails.ppening is celebrities are practicing of "what the world needs now" which feels appropriate given all this conversation today. i want to introduce you to friends of mine from the pennsylvania delegation. . you are talking about the e-mail situation. he wants russia to hack e-mails. >> i think it's the most ridiculous thing i have ever heard. this is the first time in the united states history that a presidential candidate has blatantly asked a foreign power to commit espionage against his opponent. it's the most ridiculous thing. this tells us that donald trump is willing to do anything, even if it means risking the safety of all american citizens, in order to gain power. this man is extremely dangerous. and then, if not to add insult to injury, he followed up with a tweet to reiterate the fact that he wants this to happen. >> what about you guys? >> absolutely. it's not only that, which i consider treason against the country. she's the secretary of state and asking a foreign country t

it's probably not russia. nobody knows if it's russia. the sad thing is with the technology and the genius we have in this country, not in government unfortunately but with the genius we have in government, we don't even know who took the democratic national committee emails, right? we don't even know who it is. i heard this morning on report said they don't think it's russia, they think it might be china. another report said it might just be ahacker, some guy with a 200 iq that can't get up in the morning, okay? nobody knows.honestly, they have no idea if it's russia . but if it's any foreign country, it shows how little respect they have for the united states, yes ma'am? [inaudible] the biggest thing we have to do is number one, we have to start by keeping people out because these people, they got something bad going on up there. they got something really bad going on. and then people in terms of islam and radical islamic terrorism, a term that our president refuses to use, i can't believe he's ill not using it. he's still not using it

i hope that will change as soon as russia's behavior changes.orter: the annexation and 2014 and its intervention in the years -- russia has done precious little. there has been escalation of tensions of a kind not seen since the end of the cold war. but german chancellor angela merkel sees this as just one element of an overall strategy towards russia. >> deterrence and dialogue, solidarity to our partners and at the same time the offer of dialogue. they are not opposites, they are two sides of the same coin. reporter: the question remains, is russia even interested in talking? >> we are caught in a dilemma. the russian leadership is not really interested in dialogue and is basically looking for a deal that will allow to confirm its post soviet sphere of influence and itself perceived security interests, which are legitimate. reporter: despite the show of unity, nato, the european union and german government disagree over how to approach russia. the nato exercise was controversial, the same goes for the future of eu sanctions over yesterday -- o

he insighted russia to find other missing e-mails.nd we'll talk to jack keane. >> i hope they have her 33000 e-mails that she lost and deleted. because you would see beauties there. i used to blame the weather for my frizz. turns out my curls needed to be stronger to fight back. pantene's pro-v formula makes my curls so strong* they can dry practically frizz free.*á because strong is beautiful. get even stronger results with pantene expert, our most intensely concentrated pro-v formula. >> russia, if you are listening, i hope you are able to find the 33,000 that are missing, i think you will be rewarded mightily by our press. >> donald trump appearing to call on russia to hack in hillary clinton's e-mail. he made several comments in a new's conference. twitter blowing up about it and he tweeted this, so if russia or any other country or person has hillary clinton's 30000 illegally e-mails, perhaps they should share them with with the fbi. and not encouraging anyone to hack her. intelligence officials believe that russia was behind the

they believe that we're trying to influence political developments in russia. their natural response is to retaliate. >> reporter: that is a very serious concern for the u.s. government. >> was this just to stir up trouble? or was this ultimately to try to influence an election? and, of course, this is serious -- a serious proposition. >> reporter: when asked by erin burnett, trump's counterpart discounted the fact that russia leaked the information to put trump in the white house. >> it is absurd. i don't know anything about what you said. you may know it, if you do, expose it. >> reporter: truch maintains he has no connections to russia whatsoever. and cnn has not been able to find any current business operations there. >> i have nothing to do with putin. i have never spoken to him. i don't know anything about him. >> reporter: but when he brought his miss universe pageant to moscow in 2013, trump said he spoke personally with putin. >> i was in russia, i was in moscow recently and i spoke indirectly and directly with president putin who could not have been n

so he talks about russia hacking.t say is what was on the e-mails, was the horror. what was on the e-mails was the horror. but i'm sitting there watching, falling asleep -- he's a boring guy -- and he said russia with e-mails, probably with china or somebody else, may be a 400 pound person sitting in bed. okay? might be. some of the greatest hackers of all time. but he said russia, and then he said trump and it reminded me of john lovetts. did you ever see the liar on "saturday night live"? yeah, yeah, i went to harvard. this was, like, yeah, russia hacked. yeah, yeah, it was trump. trump, that's -- i said, whoa. now, these are lying, bad people, folks. these are bad, bad people. these are bad, bad people. and they're incompetent people and we want to turn our country around. we want to make great trade deals. we want to have strong borders. we want to have the lawall. we want the wall accident we're going to get the wall because we're going to stop drugs from pouring in our country, and people from pouring into our c

they now have high confidence russia was behind the theft. russia has denied involvement. meanwhile, this has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent. that is not a hyperbole. that is just the facts. this has gone from a matter of curiosity to a matter of politics to a national security issue. >> msnbc political analyst, nicole wallace. julia, what do you make of this? you're someone who has covered russia, you covered putin. what's going on? >> i think two things are dove tailing. i think the russians have been very clear about who they wants to win this election. they do not like secretary hillary clinton. they've never liked her since she said in 2011 after a fraudulent parliamentary election in russia, she said this vote is fraudulent. russians deserve to have their voices heard. putin was furious. ever since then he's hated her. trump is a guy who can deal with them. he is utterly cynical. he talks about wanting to pull america back from the world stage which m

second, i am a russia analyst, so my job is to look at the russia angle of this. look, whether what you say about the american elite, the establishment, is true or not, and i think plenty of people are persuaded of that, i read an interview just yesterday in the financial times with the editor-in-chief of rt, used to be russia today, the little green box, the russian global news network. what was interesting to me is she made the exact argument that you just made, which he does not mean it is wrong. it just means that the russians are very excited, and they are very excited to spend billions of dollars of their money to point out the ways in which they believe the western institutions of government, of politics are corrupt and are not serving the people. i think what the conversation has been about is, why is it subtly that russians are rushing and to do this in american politics, and should that make us uncomfortable, and what does it mean about where this is going and what we will do about it, not so much about the problems we have in american politics, which ma

and russia says when it comes to any relations, especially in business, between trump and russia, theynot aware of any major business endeavor between trump and russia. >> the real story may be that trump's business endeavors in russia turned out to be failures. >> what i can say with certainty is that the trump organization is not a major presence in russia. when you talk to americans who invest in russia, they never mention the trump organization as a serious player in russia. >> reporter: trump has had better luck dealing with russians living in the u.s., sort of. he partnered with the bayrock group, a company run by soviet immigrants and according to a lu suit filed, financed by russian and kazahkstan money. today they developed trump properties in fort lauderdale and new york and they planned on opening a trump tower in moscow. but trump said in a deposition that plan ended after media reports started to question trump's net worth and the partners with russian ties in the u.s. backed out. trump did make news with another russian related deal. he sold his florida mansion to a russi

. >>> tonight, trump's russia bombshell. >> russia, if you're li listening -- >> an extraordinary play urging a foreign power to commit espionage against hillary clinton. alarm on both sides of the aisle. star power, obama and bide en coming out swinging in defense of hillary clinton. what will obama say tonight about donald trump? >>> set free the man who tried to assassinate ronald reagan but instead got jodie foster, outrage from reagan family and friends. and dropping all charges for all remaining police officer ings awaiting trial in the death of freddie gray, a st stunning end in the tragedy that plunged the city of baltimore into turmoil. "nightly news" begins right now. >> the democratic national convention, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt, reporting tonight from philadelphia. >> good evening. donald trump's attempt to steal away some of the spotlight from what's going on here with the democrats and the convention may have backfired today. he sparked some serious new controversy when at a free wheeling news conference in florida he looked into tv cameras and invited

and trump's relationship with vladimir putin and russia. he said, quote, i never met putin. i don't know who putin is. he said one nice thing about me. he said i'm a genius. i want to play a clip from last november of donald trump at one of the debates. >> as far as ukraine is conce concerned and syria, i like -- if putin wants to go in and i got to know him very well because we were both on "60 minutes." we did very well that night. >> so that turn out to be false. they weren't in the same city. donald trump was in one town and vladimir putin was in a different place for that episode. which trump are we supposed to believe? does he have a tight relationship with putin or does he not? >> i don't know about the previous instance so i can't comment about that clip you showed. but as far as today, he made it clear e he has no ongoing relationship with putin or russia at all, for that matter. i have seen a lot of that in the press. there's a lot of russian money flown into his company. he sells high end real estate around the world. so clearly

it was part of russia until 1954. a group of volga germans is in sevastopol on a tour arranged by dmitri rempe resettler party -- widely considered to be pro-putin. they say they want to see crimea with their own eyes. they don't trust the media. >> we get our information from some news service or other media, so we wanted to see with our own eyes what's really going on here -- what's been happening both now and before. >> they watch a video made by pro-kremlin tv channel nts. 'no to europe; yes to russia', says a banner at a demonstration. then come images of the better future for crimea that russian rule is supposed to bring. crimea already had a tiny volga german community. with dmitri rempel's support, its leader is promoting a rebirth of the crimea germans. he says about 15-hundred inquiries have come in - from volga germans who back russia's course and not germany's. >> some aren't satisfied with today's situation, especially concerning the refugees. and many can't accept the destruction of christian and family

and you know this is a very difficult idea for russia because there is a battle for l aleppo and russia is playing a major role and this is a battle that is determined not just military, but political dynamics in syria. and for russia to tell assad, ground your air force at this critical point, this is very difficult for moscow. particularly because, as paul mentioned, it is not just the question of iran, but also the iraqi government essentially telling the russians, you are doing a good job supporting the osad regime because it is companied by shiites and we're asking moscow, to put it mildly, heavy lifting, in the context of the general deterioration of the american-russian relationship. there is another problem here. the problem with russian elections. they will have parliament elections in september and what is the connection? well we now how the elections are going to end. putin's party and the united russia is going to prevail. but putin decided this -- this time to have a relatively honest elections. now relatively. but that, they don't mean that if somebody is a real enemy of p

isn't russia, iraq, syria? >> clearly the units are military and personnel and civil servant, said they are sub deck to the normal rules dealing with the media and so on. many of the academic experts that we talked to embed given evidence to before talk to the media all the time and we share much of our analysis with them. in terms of where they are focusing, clearly within russia it south which we discussed the previous section such as the national guard and things like that. it is russia's act committees in the immediate neighborhood bother belarus for ukraine or whatever, but also very active at the moment in syria. the other thing is we are also looking out a russia is doing in the asia-pacific and far east area. we are looking at all aspects of russian behavior. >> i think it's very well the mod is using its officials in this way, but i think the committee still feel that there is a role of a more independent group of actual experts rather than clever officials who are gaining experts who could actually ch

russia has no respect for our country. if it is russia. nobody knows. it could be china. it could be somebody sitting in his bed. it shows how weak we are. it shows how disrespected we are. sooiming it's russia or china. it's a total sign of disrespect. putin and the leaders throughout the world have no respect for our country anymore and they certainly have no respect for our leader. it's one of the more farfetched i've heard. yes. [ inaudible ] i never met putin. he said one nice thing about me. he said i'm a genius. i said thank you very much to the news and that was the end of it. i never met putin. >> -- treat putin as an adversary or ally -- >> i would treat vladimir putin firmly but there's nothing i can thing of that i'd rather do than have russia friendly as opposed to the way we are now so we can go and knock out isis together with other people and with other countries. wouldn't it be nice if we actually got along with people? wouldn't it be nice if we actually got along, as an example, with russia? i'm all for it. and let's go get isis. because we have to get i

for russia, nato isn't defensive.ce 1999, nato has launched wars in kosovo, afghanistan and libya. each ended in regime change. >> that certainly made an impression in moscow that nato expansion was a direct threat not just to their security, but also to their domestic stability. >> reporter: russia again felt threatened when the u.s. either encouraged, or supported, revolutions in previously pro- russian countries. the final straw was ukraine. >> if ukraine is hostile and joins nato, that would be viewed by russia as an existential threat. >> reporter: this isn't only the thinking of intellectuals, or moscow elite. >> ( translated ): we are not going to mexico. imagine if russia moved its troops there. >> reporter: vitaliy anatolievich is a cossack commander in the breakaway ukrainian region of donetsk. his forefathers, known as free cossacks, were notorious and feared 19th century horsemen. they fought and died for this land they referred to as greater russia. today, they're training their children what cossacks hav