in putin's russia, the united russia is a part of the government. it merged completely with the governmental institutions and is a governmental institution itself. and the biggest -- a real problem is that this state institution became a social upward mobility -- mechanism for criminals to go move up into the government. and the system is basically finished. it is completed. it is not going to evolve anymore. i don't believe that it's going to last for a long time. when putin is gone for some reason he's gone, the system should evolve. because the person who secures the system and is -- who designed the system and is the main security asset of this system is putting himself -- which was designed to reinforce his personal -- the system can collapse in very different ways. for example, you might know the very good example of how the ruling party in ukraine which was called the party of the regions ended up. it will be not completely appropriate to call -- to draw direct parallels between the ukraine and russia, but the ukraine and ruling party, the pa

isil works in russia. the sites you can find the werescernible]the sites all kind of iso-propaganda --isil propaganda. it was quite in october and september last year. paul: thank you very much. >> i write a foreign affairs columnist for the boston globe and i want to thank you both. it was really fascinating your remarks. i will make my question brief because i have to leave early. maria, to you. you presented that you had a situation where you only had five publications that were willing to accept your writing because it was considered so critical. briefly, i want to ask you about personal repercussions that you have faced. if not, why not? anna, because you work for state media, but obviously are critical -- are a critical thinker, i wonder if you worry about whether you are being manipulated? i am a edition minded journalist. i try to understand what is going on. why i think the reason was immune to any attacks. there is always a bunch of trolls on the internet that follow you and cite your articles th

what is russia's role? what role do we want russia to play? and how do we construct a policy that gets us to where we want russia to be? >> very good. paul? >> i'm very concerned about the breakdown in military to military communication, the impact that that can have in a crisis situation. that's where i'd like to start so that if we get into a bad situation, we've got a channel to try to deescalate before it gets worse. >> very interesting. david. >> i would make it clear that pressure on russia will be ramped up if it doesn't get out of the ukraine, and doesn't respect its neighbors' sovereignty and territorial integrity. if it doesn't stop what-the-doing in syria. -- what it's doing in syria. but if russia were to change on these things the united states is prepared to partner with russia on a range of issues. but until putin changes the behavior, and the track record is very long of bad behavior, there are no bright prospect between the u.s. and russia. >> alena, you have the final word. >> just to go back to what i opened with there are m

we have the russia that we have, and we need to deal with the russia that we have. now, the united states and russia have different interests in a number of areas. it is not easy to deal with partners who have different interests. there's an issue of trust, absolutely. but look, we successfully got rid of most of the chemical weapons without trusting each other. i feel that was an accomplishment, and we don't actually need to trust russia in order to be able to accomplish things with russia, and what we need to do is to be able to understand how russia defines its interests and to structure our engagement with russia in a way that creates realistic untensives and penalties that -- realistic incentives and penalties in ways that reflect our own interests. >> and then david and elina back to you for two minutes. >> thank you. just in response, we are not calling for isolationism, and cutoff of the relations. even in the cold war when we face ad bigger adversary of the soviet union, we had after knews -- avenues of cooperation, and we should still be able to find those

i feel that this administration is as close to russia and how russia behaves. i believe that there is not that much difference between the obama administration and the democratic party than what goes on in russia right now. think they are trying to show that the democratic party and the obama administration are a bunch of hypocrites. they are really afraid of what is going to come out. host: thanks, we are going to join on -- move on to michael from south dartmouth, massachusetts. your comment on all of this. caller: good morning, steve. thanks for c-span. could you imagine if during world war ii someone in our government went on tv or the radio or the newspaper and told the germans when we were going to invade on d-day? that person would be tried for treason and probably labeled an enemy of the state. but anyhow, i just wanted the public to think of that. all the democrats are against trump and half the republicans are against trump. you know what that tells me? that he is the man for the job. because they want the status quo. donald trump will shake it all up

agreement to reduce russia's nuclear start. -- stockbroker she would toe to toe with russia and launched protest when it went to georgia. we put punishing economic sanctions on russia that we need to continue. donald trump come on the other hand, didn't know russia had o invaded the crimea. he was on a tv show a couple months back and he said i'll guarantee you this, russia is not going into the ukraine. he had to be reminded that they've gone into crimea two years before.before. hillary clinton has gone toe ton toe with russia to work out a deal on new start. she got them engage in a meaningful way to get iran's nuclear weapons program an hered yet she stood up to them on issues such as series of and their invasion of georgia. you've got to have the ability to do that and hillary does. on the other hand, and i'll come get some of your praises vladimir putin all the time. america should really wonder about a president trump who had a campaign manager with ties to putin, program elements in the ukraine who had to be fired for that reason. they should wonder when donald, trump is sitting d

to russia. then she talks to me about russia. 20% of the uranium in our country to russia.ut you know, the deletion of 33,000 e-mails, that is so out there. after receiving a subpoena from the united states government, she lied to congress, she lied to the fbi, she made 13 phones disappear, some with a hammer. the clinton crew gave more than $675,000 to the wife of the deputy director of the fbi, and the man who was overseeing the investigation into hillary's server. right now, that takes care of itself. i'm very proud that the fbi was willing to do this. [applause] just yesterday, we learned that bill clinton's right-hand man just for clinton foundation donors and other donors to funnel as much a $65 million in personal profit to bill and hillary clinton. this man explained that the cozy relationship between the consulting firm, the foundation in clinton's personal income had helped bill and hillary enrich themselves and obtained in-kind services, including personal travel, hospitality relations, and the like. the same people were lobbying hillary clinton at the same time.

time was russia's weapon.lt in which, like our own, were designed for the ways of peace or converted for war. instead of steel for plows and tools, steel for shells and guns. they knew their industry could never produce enough to adequately for the titanic struggle but what they could produce, they would. ♪ the same time, the army began to grow. more and more men were call up to be trained. hardened. drilled. prepared to defend their land. ♪ the conquest of the balackans. the russians had built themselves a buffer to take some of the steam out of the nasty punch no matter where it landed. but where would it land? when the blow came, it was from five different directions. and from the north, one extra just for luck. that was the big day. >> more than 2 million men plunged into a front 2,000 miles long reaching from the white sea to the black. their aim, the annihilation of the red army and decisive battle on the frontier. the offensive started along the whole length of the front but was concentrated on three ma

the most gorgeous women are in russia. welcome to russia.kind of sober. united we stand. >> chef: i prepared today special for you: "russian tapas." >> zamir: russian tapas. >> chef: specially for vodka drinking. with the small pancakes, like blinis. >> anthony: nice. >> zamir and anthony: nice. >> chef: and uh, astrakhan caviar. looks like winter. salted cucumber with honey. and this is baltic sprats, smoked one with beet root. and this one is a muksun, this is a white -- whitefish. >> zamir: ooh! white fish from -- >> chef: whitefish frozen with malden salt and a little bit of pepper. and you can eat it raw. >> anthony: thank you, chef. >> chef: yeah. >> anthony: i'm hitting the caviar and the bellini. >> zair: oy, yoy, yoy. >> anthony: mmm. >> zamir: maybe some more vodka. thank you. and your smile makes it like -- feel like it's water. [ anthony burps ] >> zamir: what do you think? what is the perception of mr. putin these days? after 14 years, he's in power, just think about, his personal -- >> anthony: my -- my perception? do you reall

and russia deal with each other as equals. we are the two super powers and russia usually feels it's being respected as a world player because we come to the table as equals so all more reason to question why it's been so difficult to complete and to sustain these arms control agreements. now we have two because we couldn't have any better speakers to discuss that with us today. i'll be turning first to steve. that's a principal and former assistant secretary of state dealing with arms control issues in the george w. push administration and he has also in capitol hill and former ambassador to ukraine. having dealt at various levels in the state department and the national security council with arms control issues. he is of course a senior fellow and he's the director of the arms control and nonproliferation initiative and has written widely on all of these issues and i'll sure that he'll have a great deal to say about all of this. so i'll going to say a few words about the background to when george w. bush came into the white

isolate russia, isolate russia. it doesn't work with russia and it's not going to work. we are very much disappointed that instead of trying to build and capitalize on what both russia and the united states can help together to solve the issues that do exist in the region and regional conflicts, we are locked into that kind of unfriendly discussions. and i think we are missing a lot of opportunities. i would like to underline that we feel that it's not us who started it. it's not as who are feeling it. but the result is where we are. it started even before the current disagreements on syria or disagreements on ukraine two years ago. you might remember -- kind of offense to russia and russians. then there were snowed in affairs that we didn't solicit but it came on us. just by instance of events happening without our participation. and afterwards when mr. snowden got stuck in russian airport and we didn't have any legal or moral reasons to give him to the government of the united states, even for very simple reason that we do not have an agreement for mutual extradition b

russia is simply a unique country to which unique standards must apply. >> russia is unbeatable. it will be neither communist nor european. russia has always lived according to its own rules, and has gone its own, special way. >> those who have the money can afford their own, golden russia, and hope that it stays that way. >> babi yar is a ravine on the outskirts of the ukrainian capital kiev. it is where the nazis carried out one of their most notorious massacres during world war ii. in september 1941, over 30,000 jews were murdered here in mass executions. ukrainian rayisa majstrenko is one of the few who survived the atrocity. then, she was only 3-years-old, but now, on the 75th anniversary of the babi yar massacre, she remembers. >> rayisa majstrenko did not walk this road to babi yar for many decades. but after the monument for the murdered children was erected, the dance instructor has come here repeatedly with her pupils. >> my words are always, "this monument could have been for me. but i survived." >> in the early autumn of 1941, nazi germany's army, the wehrmacht, captu

-russia agenda. if you go back to some kind of a dialogue between united states and russia on arms control, if g you wanted to move forward, you'd have to reconcile, i think, two very different approaches, what has opinion in the last eight years, american desire to move to further reductions but also bring nonstrategic weapons and the russians desire, conventional strike and there maybe ways to bridge those differences but will take quite a bit of work. >> mayra, university of washington. i was fashion -- fascinated by the way negotiation and enthusiasm and the element affects negotiations. i would like you to reflect a little bit more on the moment oc unilateralism at this period of un time and unilaterally the united states find one thing and russians come and put it in a treaty, treat us as equal element and that somehow there's a change in context in moscow and the national context in moscow and that there is more aggression moving forward. so if you can piece these two episodes together, do you

russia is a big player in that.and going between the united states and russia and arms control they have to use different approaches with the american desire with the non-strategic nuclear weapons. but that will take quite a bit of work. >> >> i am from the university of washington. i would like to reflect a little bit more of unilateralism and if they could treat us as equal. that somehow there is a uh change of the national context in moscow. and to move forward. looking at these two episodes together that moment is a reflection more strength to afford that unilateralism. and if it is justified. >> boca putin in the united states. it goes back 2008. and this is what regime ltd. -- legitimacy is about. and with nationalism and that is a big part of it. but another part goes back to the bush said ministrations that putin has a huge chip on his shoulder. that they mistreated russia. and it was organized by putin and germany that was russia's borders. and to respond to the appeals of the other countries to one peacefu

they asked russia for their approval to dispose of it this way. russia did not approve. that is what is causing the breakdown of the agreement. there is nothing wrong with the u.s. plan. it is a far cheaper and actually safer way to get rid of plutonium. but russia doesn't want anything to do with it. katty: meanwhile, ukraine, syria, all playing into this. thanks very much. intense efforts are already underway in colombia to rescue an historic peace deal after voters narrowly rejected it this weekend. the truce between the colombian government and farc rebels took four years to negotiate and was already signed by both sides last week. the rebels say they will continue to observe the cease-fire despite the results of the referendum. this report now from bogotÁ. reporter: it was all too much for some. after more than 50 years of civil war, this was meant to be the moment of hope, the realization of a dream that finally the bombs and the guns would be put down in exchange for peace. but by less than half of 1%, the people of colombia rejected the deal. president juan manue

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russia and the united states has produced for weapons purposes. and some 12 years ago we start to negotiate and agree because of what we produce to for the purposes and would be a eliminated between the scientist and diplomats and discuss how to eliminate that. because it is reversible. and then learn about that and nuclear reactors. there up to my eyes with that kind of functions. so to tell them that we will build a reactor that will be very well designed with that process of elimination. we have to build a facility and so then that the government was insisting we did not want them to do that at that time because it was enormously expensive and at that time we were promised a lot of financial help and it never came. what happened? the u.s. government and the of middle of the process you have decided to move in another direction because it is reversible and we have completed one that is why we have just learned. . . it is crucially changed into the circumstances did change. we have seen a hostile russia and ballistic missile defense being deploye

but i think the route forward is for us to recognize that about russia, acknowledge russia's importance on the world stage but to make it clear that that recognition is only possible if they will cease from what i'm aafraid are -- afraid are barbaric acts in aleppo and in syria and if they will help find way forward in ukraine. i mean, i think you've got to -- the committee can see what's happened to the former soviet union over the last 25 years. i mean, everybody can see the reasons why the russians might collectively feel that they were, they'd been squeezed. they've lost huge amounts of territory that they once conceived of as belonging to them. they see nato -- you have to see things from a, to a certain extent from the russian point of view. but the russians have got to understand that the way forward for them is to do the right thing. and doing the right thing means doing a deal in syria. let's hope that john kerry and his counterpart have success on saturday, and let's see where we get. and doing a deal in ukraine. but the points that mr. gates makes about russian cyber activity

pulled out of talks with russia on syria. this was his first speech since his party swept the parliamentary election in russia last month. for more on what he had to say, i am joined by armen georgian. what about international issues? what did he have to say about them? : there was nothing explosive on the situation with the west, syria, or ukraine. this was about domestic policy. but he returned to a favorite theme of his, which is that russia does not impose its ideas or governments on other countries. let's take a look at that. when we talk about nations having the right to be strong, we're not saying that they should not have great power ambitions. we never impose anything on anybody. i have no intention of doing so. is insideof russia our people. >> what he is saying there is that the west does not -- that the west does impose its governance on other countries, and there is a clear reference in that statement, in that changete, to the regime agenda, as russia sees it. this is really the source of these problems in syria,

must stand up to russia. even when it comes to russia's involvement in bombing aleppo. >> the provocations by russia need to be met with american strength. and if russia chooses to be involved and continue i should say to be involved, and this barbaric attack on civilians in aleppo, the united states of america should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets for the assad regime and to prevent them from the humanitarian crisis taking place in aleppo. >> so when you look at the debate as a whole, i think that when it comes to foreign policy, both of these two vice presidential candidates were laying out reasonable arguments for foreign policy. nothing very radical. both blaming each other about what they would do wrong or what they have done wrong in foreign policy. but i would say far more responsible than what we heard donald trump himself talk about in the last debate. >> richard, just on that last clip when that moment really stuck out to me too, because i wasn't sure exactly what pence

to exert russia on our politics.hat means a recognition that this is happening and that we can't see it separately from russia's military pressure on the transatlantic community and aggression in the ukraine. it means a clear statement that there will be consequences if that behavior continues. and from that recognition, then would flow elements of a transatlantic agenda that includes the european union as well as nato, because dan was absolutely right. there are certain things nato does well and certain things nato does less well. we shouldn't ask it to do the things it is not well set up to do. i think this will involve several things. it will involve cyber security, economic state craft, which includes cooperation and harmonization on things such as economic sanctions. it will involve transparency, media freedom issues and a whole host of steps that will help reinforce integrity of our democracies which are the fundamental thing we are protecting. i'll stop there and hand the microphone over but that's where the f

elaine: gentlemen, russia. russian president vladimir putin invaded ukraine and crimea and provided crucial motel or military support to the assad regime. senator kaine? sen. kaine: let's start with not praising vladimir putin as a great leader. donald trump and mike pence has said he is a great leader. he has business dealings with russia that he refuses to disclose. hillary clinton has gone toe to toe with russia. she did so as secretary of state with the new start agreement to reduce russia's nuclear stockpile. she went toe to toe with russia and launched protests when they went into georgia. and we have done the same thing with ukraine, but we put punishing economic sanctions on russia that we need to continue. donald trump on the other hand, did not know russia had invaded crimea. he was on a television show a couple months back and said, "i guarantee you this, russia is not going into the ukraine." he had to be reminded that they had gone into crimea a few years before. hillary clinton has gone toe to toe

did russia tip its hand? >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." ♪ >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> we're following breaking news. dramatic new twists in this unprecedented presidential race. donald trump reacting to a series of new allegations that he forced himself on women. the embattled gop nominee is denying the stories as "fabricated, pure fiction and outright lies." >>> and michelle obama's reaction to the recording of trump bragging about groping women. the first lady smoke emotionally saying trump's words have shaken her. she calls trump "a powerful individual speaking freely and openly about sexually predatory behavior." >>> more breaking news. cnn's jim sciutto is learning new information from his sources about russia allegedly using wikileaks to make public stolen e-mails pertaining to the u.s. election. today, wikileaks published almost 2,000 more e-mails stolen from john podesta. in a possible sign of collus

russia is simply a unique country to which unique standards must apply. >> russia is unbeatable.t will be neither communist nor european. russia has always lived according to its own rules, and has gone its own, special way. >> those who have the money can afford their own, golden russia, and hope that it stays that way. >> babi yar is a ravine on the outskirts of the ukrainian capital kiev. it is where the nazis carried out one of their most notorious massacres during world war ii. in september 1941, over 30,000 jews were murdered here in mass executions. ukrainian rayisa majstrenko is one of the few who survived the atrocity. then, she was only 3-years-old, but now, on the 75th anniversary of the babi yar massacre, she remembers. >> rayisa majstrenko did not walk this road to babi yar for many decades. but after the monumement for the murdered childreren was erected, the dance instructor has come here repeatedly with her pupils. >> my words are always, "this monument could have been for me. but i survived." >> in the early autumn of 1941, nazi germany's army, the wehrmacht, cap

-russia relationship. and just a comment on reset, a small and decreasing people but i see this as success in terms of what i understand it's original purpose was, not to get the u.s.-russia relationship to nirvana but to get out of hole with russia in 2008 and get russians to do something that the obama administration defined as u.s. interest. the strategic nuclear arms agreement, more help on ending iranian nuclear weapon and help in afghanistan in terms of getting supplies and forces easier to afghanistan. and on those areas in the first couple of years, the obama administration went back achieved important things. by 2011, maybe may or june, the reset run its course, maybe come up with a new term and that term would have failed, but looking at the new start treaty it was also very clear and the president made this public, he wanted to go beyond new start and not only negotiate further cuts in strategic weapons but also bring in nonstrategic nuclear weapons, and so for the first time the idea that you m

listen. >> i think everybody's patience with russia has run out. russia. they've also spent a great deal of credibility in making a series of commitments without a clear indication they were not committed to follow them. they have been reduced to either acting unilaterally or supporting the iranians in dropping bunker-busting bombs on civilian hospitals in aleppo. it is outrageous. >> reporter: now when you ask the white house what happens next and what about the humanitarian need in syria? the white house seems to put the onus back on russia. russia has a lot to lose. russia is extremely isolated right now. sounding like the possibility is there if russia wants to come back to the table. that may be a possibility. the white house is not saying that in so many words. instead, the president is weighing a range of options. john and christine. >> thank you, michelle. >>> the situation on the ground in syria is deteriorating. senior diplomatic editor nic robertson is live in turkey. >> reporter: good morning, christine. a bunker-busting bomb dropped on the hos

what is russia doing? >> i think russia has three motives here. taking all of their ships in the north, in the baltics and they're streaming past great britain and they're on their way to syria, off the syrian coast. what are they about to do? they're about to finish the job. they're about to attack aleppo. they're about to level aleppo and they will cement assad in power. by doing that they think they will do three things. one, they will take over the middle east again. they will be the major outside power in the middle east. number two, they're trying to show how weak nato is. nato won't even, european union won't even put sanctions on them for what they're about to do, the genocide they're about to commit. number three, they're showing the world we're back. russia is superpower again. i, vladmir putin have rebuilt mother russia and now reclaiming russia's place as world superpower. jenna: timing is everything, though. >> yeah. jenna: do you think elections have anything to do with this? what is it? >> here's why, jenna. putin is assuming obama

russia relations are tense. ukraine is an independent country with its own culture, language, history, national identity, worldview and the reason there is tension over ukraine is that russia doesn't want to recognize ukraine as a separate culture, people and sovereign state even though moscow didn't even exist so the goal is prohibiting its course before demonstrated. >> is there a question [inaudible] my question is 10,000 people have been killed in this senseless war including your russian soldiers and acquaintances of mine that have left their cities to defend their homeland. my question is when will russia pull its troops out of ukraine and my second question is in the beginning -- >> i think we need to stop their otherwise -- >> my second question is at the beginning is that we do not interfere in the international affairs of the u.s. and that's important for people to understand. last week obama confirmed that the kremlin was behind this and other institutions of people. some people are suggesting we have

she's saying russia, russia, russia. maybe it was.sia but it could also be china and lots of other people and could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, okay? you don't know who broke in to dnc. >> when you're hillary clinton in that moment and he says somebody sitting on their bed who weighs 400 pounds, like, what do you think if you're debating somebody and they bust out the weight of their imaginary hacker that's doing this stuff instead of russia, like the intelligence agency? like, what do you -- turns out we sort of do know as a country who broke in to the dnc and hacked those e-mails. turns out, not only did the u.s. intelligence agencies know it but donald trump apparently knows it, too. nbc news has now reported today, based on an anonymous source, that both candidates, hillary clinton and donald trump, got classified intelligence briefings that specifically included information on russia and russia's attempt to interfere with 2016 elections through hacking. a senior u.s. intelligence official tells nbc ne

i know about russia but i know nothing about russia the inner workings

russia wants to create confusion or divert attention from moscow. peter has documented that the aim of russia's information operations is to use disinformation cascades to advance the notion that the truth doesn't matter. for example, by propagating multiple theories of the mh-17 shoot down, russia plans to leave the public with the truth is unknowable or can be believed because everyone has an agenda. russia has similar goals in other spheres, politics, civil, and cyber. let me mention a few examples, and you have already touched on a few of these. disinformation, of course, in which russia uses disinformation and propaganda, taking full advantage of the internet and new technologies. we know about the troll farms and we have seen other examples of this behavior. political parties, you've mentioned and touched on this. there's growing evidence uncovered by journalists about russian connections with anti-establishment populist political parties in germany, hungry, and austria. we all have read the stories about the national front in france borrowing

we have tested it in russia. so for us, it was very important that we came first on the invitation of the government of syria to help to fight terrorists. nothing more. nothing less. by the way, when asked -- one has to remember that we are there on a fully legal basis, unlike some others who flies their troops on the ground without asking permission of a legitimate government. but returning to the crisis in syria, we certainly understand, and here we agree with the united states and most probably even the latest disagreements didn't change it. that there is no solutions, stable solutions for syria that can be achieved through the use of force only. what is important is to have a legal solution. political solution that will bring all the syrians together. sometimes when i speak to my american colleagues, everybody speaks in a way that is assad against syrians. it is not. there are more than 50% of people, if not more, who feel that it's their country, their president, dutyfully elected, and they don't want an alt

hillary clinton went toe to toe with russia, went toe to toe with russia as secretary of state to do the new start agreement. she has experience doing it. she went toe to toe with russia and launched protests when they went into georgia. and we've done the same, but more by putting punishing sanctions on russia that we need to continue. donald trump, on the other hand, didn't know that russia had invaded the crimea. he was on a tv show, hed i guarantee you this, russia is not going into the ukraine. he had to be reminded that they had gone into the ukraine years before. she got them engaged in a meaningful way to cap iran's nuclear weapons program, and yet she stood up on the syrian invasion, you have to have the ability to do that and hillary does. and on the other hand, you have number in donald trump who praises vladimir putin all the time. america should really wonder about a president trump who had a campaign manager with ties to putin, pro-putin elements in the ukraine who had to be fired for that reason. they should wonder when vladimir putin is sitting down with donald trump,

this note return to russia or next to russia. is a real concern. second we also understand the government of syria and needs to continue because if it isn't only for syria it is increasingly more difficult and dangerous. and it is a totally failed states. and expanding from the region as well. and then to spend their lives. but we have tested that in russia up. and with the government of syria to help to fight terrorist. nothing more, nothing less. the emir there on a fully one illegal -- a legal basis that are there on the ground. of the legitimate government. returning to the crisis in syria even the latest disagreement did not change that. and what is important is the of political solution ha ha that sometimes when i speak to my american colleagues everybody speaks in a way that is serious but it is not. to be dutifully elected. and with those different sectors of religion. and we need to understand and to will eliminate the source of terrorists. and with the united nations to improve the security council resolution. and for all kinds up. -- and

russia.here have been four different races find that a more productive relationship. all of these have been good in disappointment because obviously where the very different understanding of what productive relationship with russia would look like. what has worked in the past 25 years has been issues where russia feels we are treating it as an equal, and where it feels its interests are respected and where our interests and those of russia rather narrowly defined. one of those has been what happened in the fall of 2001, the cooperation with russia in the first place of the war in afghanistan and the initial defeat of the taliban or the russians were very helpful and cooperative with the u.s. because we very much a common goal. there's some more examples the u.s.-russian cooperation in disarming syria of its chemical weapons in 2013, the discussants we had to the agreement on iraq, and the arms control agreement. because in arms control in general this is a field where the u.s. and russia deal

get along with russia. he wanted to get along with everyone. but more or less on his terms. and reagan had a romantic attachment to sdi, to what we in the press called start wars. and that romantic attachment was complete. it was total. and if you had a choice at a certain point in that negotiation of saying, maybe we could both agree on eliminating all nuclear weapons by the year 2000. but gorbachev wanted first the elimination of the idea of sdi. that didn't work. and then there was the possibility of a compromise. reagan wanted the ability to test not only in the laboratory but also in the skies. and gorbachev was prepared, so i was told by russians whom i trusted at the time. gorbachev was prepared to accept the idea of testing in the laboratory but not in the skies. but the president would not accept that. and so at the understand of the day, what was explained to us by secretary schultz and by others later was that, yes, this was possible, but the president would not yield on sdi and, therefore, nothi

documents are connected to russia, he is the only one standing on the stage to defend russia. well, we don't know that russia was involved. it might be a big guy sitting in his parents' basement. over and over again he is defending russia on this as if russia is involved even though the director of national intelligence and justice department and f.b.i. officials have connected russia to these attacks. why does donald trump keep going out of his way to defend russia on this? he should condemn russia. in fact, it's even been reported that he's received intelligence assessments laying these attacks at russia's feet, but for some reason he seems to want to defend vladimir putin. i don't get it. wants to, but i think he ought to, instead of making weird claims that our election is rigged and challenging the integrity of the american electoral process, he should be standing up against people who are trying to destabilize our elections. >> dickerson: but the clinton campaign is saying the trump campaign is doing something wrong by talking about this, and if that's the case, then wer

the term "you" here refers to russia. god is prophesying against russia. and he is saying, "i'm against you." and when he uses the word "they" or "them," he's talking about israel. and so, the question we have to ask is, why would russia want to attack israel? i mean, we've already talked about how small israel is, its size is in relationship with the size of the world. but the bible tells us why russia is doing this. there's three reasons. first of all, the russians are going to come and seize israel's land. ezekiel 38:11 and 12 says, "i will go up against a land of unwalled villages, to stretch out your hands against the waste places that are again inhabited." israel's land away from them. secondly, their second purpose is not only to seize her land, but to steal her wealth. verses 12 and 13 of ezekiel 38 read like this. "to take plunder and to take booty, and to carry away silver and gold, and to take away livestock and goods, and to take great plunder?" you may wonder, what kind of wealth does israel have that would cause such an army to come together

russia capital fleeing itself to get into safer areas, and in the russia-georgia conflict. as is now becoming a confrontation in the buffer zone, if you will. i hate that term, but if we want to call it that -- we saw the acceleration of the use of the economics and the politics that was starting to then create that vicious circle -- that on virtuous circle -- where it was growing. today we see it as a challenge to maintain unity of purpose and policy on eu sanctions against russia. with theficult now parties --an, anti- just fill in the blank -- is growing with how democracies view themselves and their way forward with a disruptive society and the russian government is adept at helping us with that disruption. we did see the difference. we think it is a policy. it is why we keep saying looking at these in isolated issues -- individual economic cases of corruption -- it exists in all of our societies. the difference here is in how it is being used and its ultimate objective, and that is the part we all must recognize and take action. again, it is about us. it is about our s

>> we have no assets in russia, no debt in russia. i haven't been to russia in six, seven years off the top of my head, five years, six years, seven years. it is nonsense. i think we held ms. universe in russia one year, that's the extent of our business dealings there. we have no who tells, no golf assets, no residential buildings. we don't have properties in russia. to come out here, that's -- and i think that's what the american people are fed up with. it is the sound bites, it is these lies, it is the disingenuous nature of it. it is referring to a great company that employs thousands of hard working americas as a company that's nefarious with tentacles all over the place. >> do you understand the power if your father released the taxes and laid them out and say to your point, here are the papers, they're lying? they're making it up, it doesn't exist. why wouldn't he do it. >> the tax returns wouldn't show those things anyway. >> they're trying to make the -- >> go to look to see if our name is on a building, if we own property th

hearing from our own lawmakers, some real concerns about russia, what is russia doing.are your be were vaitions, what do you think the american people should know? >> i think they need to understand the real and present danger russia poses. the dynamic that started with the invasion crimea, the ramp-up of spending in military spending by russia and the build-up of forces on the baltic states. and the reality of the importance of building up our deterrent capability as a nato alliance to protect and defend the alliance. jenna: how bad is it right now? >> the nato alliance is a great alliance, the most successful alliance the world has seen. but there are plenty of indications the emperor's clothes are pretty skimpy when it comes to a deterrence posture. the point of the book is to highlight the weaknesses and generate the debate to understand what really needs to be done. jenna: what does need to be done. >> we need an effective military capability, forward based in the baltic states. we need to see effective nato reserves to reinforce them work through practice deployed

it is surrounded by the government which is supported by russia.he aim is to open up the east to deliver food and aid to civilians. and weapons to federal -- fellow rebels. the rebels include militants from so-called islamic state according to the syrian government. its biggest backer russia hosted a meeting on friday and vowed to intensify its fight against these terrorist groups. >> we have stressed for the continuation and intensification against the terrorists as well as the parallel improvements and the current cease-fire regime. also the urgent watch of the negotiations in accordance with the u.s. without any preliminary terms. the syrian government says it would consider a cease-fire but only under certain conditions. >> we are ready to again repeat the attempt after we have received guarantees that confirmed the country supporting these organizations are prepared to act so civilians could use the cease-fire to leave the city. the rebels are determined to break the government siege of the eastern parts of the city making a cease-fire look le

we are trying to so homosexuality and the use of russia. what is it like to be gay in that province? >> better than most of you would think but not as great a life as someone who stayed there. it has gotten more difficult. there is one in particular, very popular, well attended gay bar for the restaurant open on friday and saturday and sunday night where it is packed and the best entertainment in town. i didn't understand most of it but it was so funny and none of the words were in my dictionary. they are very careful, there are bouncers, they check people, no weapons or drugs, they pat you down, they don't want to be shut down. curiously, i am sure they could find them. the tax police, anybody could find any reason to shut anyone down and they haven't. his life interesting for anybody interested in the arts in the gay community has no predilection for liking those things but a lot are moving to where it is even better. >> or less bad. >> it is possible. if you want to adopt, if you have adopted in the past when things were a little easier,

to is it really a good idea remove russia economically? they are very weak anyway of -- because of the sinking oil price. that's their largest export commodity, oil. once the oil price went down, putin became more aggressive because the weakening economic situation in russia forces him to be aggressive outside to stabilize his power. if we start weakening him on top of the sinking oil price it might be backfiring. it's not really a good idea. but i agree that europe is divide anyway on the question effect anctions would themselves economically. melinda: what about brexit? does that make a common foreign and security policy even less easy to reach? >> yes. very much so. the core strength of the european union is trade, fiscal and economic unity. it's not foreign policy. they do not -- don't even have a military to try implement policy. >> they have nato. >> nato is different. it's not part of the european union. that makes the biggest difference of all. i believe very much in nato bebeing a strong foreign policy militaririly for us and i do

for russia. i think that is the second dimension. there are a couple of strng and important points this year. sarah: it has been the role of the syrian president bashir al-assad. how closely is the leadership allied? could they dropped him at some point if it was no longer advantageous? >> i think it's a really important question. if we look at what bashir al-assad is doing, his ideology, there doesn't appear to be all that much similarity between him and moscow. if you look at what the russian press has been saying, there are rumors that moscow was getting ready to drop a sod -- assad when he was no longer listening to moscow and not being all that useful. what we see is that moscow has realized that the sheer al-assad is useful as long as -- it tells us a great deal of about how long russia will continue to support him. and let's not forget, it's the regime that is responsible for around 90% of the deaths in syria. it is estimated 400,000 people have died in this conflict. the regime is respons