russia. and germany goes out and pays billions and billions a year to russia. we're protecting germany, we're protecting france. we're protecting all of these countries, and then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with russia where they are paying billions of dollars into the coffers of russia. we're supposed to protect you against russia, but they are paying billions of dollars to russia. i think that's very inappropriate. and the former chancellor of germany is the head of the pipeline company that's supplying the gas. it's ultimately germany will have almost 70% of their country controlled by russia with natural gas. you tell me. is that appropriate? i have been complaining about this from the time i got in. should never have been allowed to happen. germany is totally controlled by russia because they will get from 60% to 70% of their energy from russia and their new pipeline. you tell me if that's appropriate because i think it is not. i think it's a very bad thing

/russia relations. he said russia and the u.s. control more than 90% of the world's nuclear energy and as a result he feels this has been detrimental. both president trump and president vladimir putin saying the military operations of the country is get along better than the politicians. with regards to the energy policies, president vladimir putin and president trump drawing the line in their disagreement, particularly with north stream 2. trump said he offered his comments to president vladimir putin as a competitor, and he had every intention of competing against russia in the energy sector. let me bring in our moscow bureau chief. she joins us from moscow. what you make of the fact that halfway through the q&a, vladimir putin said he wanted president trump to win the election? >> thought that was a quite interesting comment just to come out and put it on the table. he wanted trump to win because he is thinking normalization of relations. administration had been critical and put sanctions in place over the annexation of theea a

for really a confrontational position against russia and then he gets to russia i mean to helsinki and meets with putin and the american media says this is the surrender some vendor some and acting as if you know here's a united states spend seven hundred eighty billion dollars on war every year russia spent sixty billion and yet russia's on the march you know early and rideable and russia's defense spending is on decline right now ok it's not being increased here early does the united states need brushes an enemy is this the it because it to justify all of these expenditures ok i mean brian is a logically looking at it but logic good politics don't always parlay ok i mean sensually we need an enemy it justifies is here montenegro is good it is adding value added to nato defense ok montenegro his army is smaller than the new york police force ok but we need an enemy here is that would russia's purposes because it's really easy to paint russia is as an enemies because it because it really demands stubbornly its sovereignty go ahead irl. i agree pete peter i mean we meet we mean let's fa

against russia and germany pays billions of dollars a year to russia. we are protecting germany, numerousd then countries go out and make a pipeline deal with russia where they are paying billions of dollars into the coffers of russia. we are supposed to protect you i think thata come is inappropriate. the former chancellor of germany is the head of the pipeline company. ultimately, germany will have over 70% of their country controlled by russia with natural gas. is that appropriate? i have been complaining about this -- it should never have been allowed to happen. get 60 70% of their oil from russia. i don't think it's appropriate and i think it's bad for nato and i think we have to talk to germany about it. germany is paying just a little over 1% where the united states is paying 4.2% on a much larger gdp. i think that is inappropriate also. everybody anding yet we are paying a lot of money to protect them. this has been going on for a decade and then brought up by other presidents, but they never did anything about it. to our it is very unfair count

with the introduction of sanctions against russia and the tumble of the ruble. well during that time b.b.c. newsnight said there would be a current account crisis there would be a debt crisis and basically russia would fall and we covered the story we had liam how again mom telegraph journalist and we had constantine and it was episode six nine five and this is december twentieth two thousand and fourteen and here's a short clip of liam halligan talking about the nerves of steel coming from the kremlin i actually think even though the current the interest rate move that we have seen has been dramatic from ten and a half to seventeen of course the six interest rate rise so far this year the central bank hasn't actually fired its big guns yet we have had a little bit of currency intervention it's mainly been the conversion of the ministry of finance is existing on the books flows from rubles. from dollar story into roubles. you've also go the reserves this for the so-called stabilization fund stabilization fund those created for more revenues over the last few yea

which is called i hate religion i hate russia russia is the enemy and we almost. genuflect at the altar of this new religious icon and that's the way you can take the american people's money heart yearned tax dollars which could be used for housing and health care and the education the things human beings need and shovel it over to the defense contractors you have to explain to them that it's an absolute national imperative to do that in order to carry out this looting of the national budget and that's what we're witnessing rather than he let me go to let me go to earl before we go to the break you manufactured consent this is what be in its most recent incarnation it's manufactured consent and and and i want to talk about the intelligence committee in the second half of the program but the liberal media loves it and they perpetrated go ahead girl thirty seconds. if it is manufactured consent then it and i believe it's probably orchestrated some somewhere in the dark corners as well i mean what we have here we have mccarthyism two point zero even if you shake that

does ma make russia morley that wil-- russia lethal? >> does not cost much to meddle in an election, just takes a few people pressing buttons on a screen, and key words. japan was a poor country when japan bombed pearl harbor and germany was advanced industrial company, by fought incredibly brutal difficult campaigns against each other and the free world. russia is a poor country does not mean they will not be belligerent. but what is in it for them. liz: that is a great point they could become more belligerent. they really want is to have santions taken off and be able to tried with u.s. >> to expert minerals, they are a mineral-rich country, they want to go as close as they can as they can to chinese model, they have some government control but basically a free market economy. if they can do that with native intelligence of the russian people and their pock pil stocke of minerals they could be a health power house. liz: russia economy is growing at just 1.8%. the sanctions are squeezing russia. 700 companies and individuals starting w

from russia. i think it's something that nato has to look at. i think it's very inappropriate. you and i agree that it's inappropriate. i don't know what you can do about it now, but it certainly doesn't seem to make sense that they pay billions of dollars to russia and now we have to defend them against russia. >> nato is the largest 20 nations and there are sometimes differences and different views and sometimes agreements. it's an issue where nato disagreed. but despite these differences, we have always been able to unite around our costs to protect and defend each other. because we understand that we are stronger together than apart. i think that two world wars and the cold war taught us that we are stronger together than apart. >> but how can you be together when a country is getting its energy from the person you want protection against or from the group that you want protection? >> because we understand that when we stand together, also in dealing with russia, we are stronger. i think what

the common enemy is russia and countries like russia, that want to undermine our democracy, pit us one against the other and they did it in 2016 and if you believe dan coates, they're going to do it again. so this meeting recently with president trump and putin, in my view, we missed a opportunity to really put the russians on notice. but rather than look back, let's look forward. today president trump expressed confidence in our intelligence community. i'm glad to hear that. i trust them far more than i trust putin. and it's just not america that putin's been trying to interfere with, it's in france, germany and everywhere else there's a democracy. president trump putin is trying to destroy alliances like the european union, which i think has value to the united states. he's trying to break nato, and he's attacking us here at home. fake news, truly fake news, made up news articles to pit one american against the other. trying to steal e-mails and at critical times in the election. what do i stay to our republican colleagues, it's the democrats last time, it could be us next time. and

against russia, and germany pays billions of dollars a year to russia. we are protecting germany, we are protecting france, all of these countries. they go out and make a pipeline deal with russia, where they are paying billions of dollars into the conference of russia. we're supposed to protect you against russia, but they are paying billions of dollars to russia. i think that is an appropriate. the former -- inappropriate. the former chancellor of germany is applying it. germany will have almost every -- 70% of their country of their country controlled by russia with natural gas. is that appropriate? i have been complaining about this from the time i got in here. germany is totally controlled by russia because they will get 60% to 70% from energy from russia. you tell me if that is appropriate. i think it is not. i think it is bad for nato. i don't think it should have happened. i think we have to talk to germany about it. on top of that, germany is paying a little bit over 1%. the u.s. is paying 4.2% of a much larger gdp. i think that is inappropriate

to industry and to russia industry.it is the glue which which is sticking together the western nations so that's why we're seeing this fear now and the sense of insecurity among among the elite athletes and as you rightly said and what it won't cup two thousand eight hundred mosco proved is that people are not afraid i mean ordinary people are not afraid of russians many citizens of them from all over the world came to russia and they were pleased with. what they saw in moscow in russia all together so it is. said is this forty seven percent of all of the german populace which is unwilling to have. u.s. troops on their soil it is only thirty five or thirty four which is still willing to have u.s. troops on or on german soil so if you talk to the you know regular people even in poland in. a republic in france they're not scared of front of russia's kids maybe it is only the elites who those who are you know participating. profiting from from from stigmatizing russia are afraid because what they are going to do and you kn

they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be, but i really do want to see the server. but i have confidence in both parties. i really believe that this will probably go on for a while, but i don't think it can go on without finding out what happened to the server. what happened to the servers of the pakistani gentleman that worked on the dnc? where are those servers? they're missing. where are they? what happened to hillary clinton's e-mails? 33,000 e-mails gone, just gone. i think in russia they wouldn't be gone so easily. i think it's a disgrace that we can't get hillary clinton's 33,000 e-mails. i have great confidence in my intelligence people, but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. and what he did is an incredible offer. he offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators with respect to the 12 people. i think that's an incredible offer. >> truly a shocking barrage of statemen

trump: you are just making russia richer. you are not dealing with russia. you are making russia richer. >> during the cold war, nato allies were dealing with russia. pres. trump: energy is a much different story than normal trade. you have a country like poland that will not accept the gas. some countries want accepted because they don't want to be captive to russia. germany is captive to russia. it is getting so much of its energy from russia. we are supposed to protect germany, but they are getting their energy from russia. explain that. it can't be explained. >> thank you. [inaudible] pres. trump: i have great confidence that they will fix it. >> [inaudible] pres. trump: i have great confidence that they will be spending more money, as they should be. >> [inaudible] >> later, the president met with angela merkel. they spoke briefly with the press about their meeting and u.s.-german relations. pres. trump:

representative adam schiff the grand inquisitor of russia before russia gate began was on our t.v. but why are people branded who go on our team now branded russian agents well number one is because they're usually critics of american foreign policy and criticism is not permitted in our suppose a democracy number two russia is considered as greenwald said an enemy of the united states by mainstream democrats so if i go on al-jazeera and i was on al-jazeera two nights ago this is a channel run by qatar i'm not accused of being a qatari agent i worked with al jazeera off and on for years and that's because qatar has a u.s. military base qatar plays an important role in america's empire russia does not russia would not allow a u.s. military base within its fear and so this is all about geopolitics and people like glenn greenwald. have been have become collateral damage in the revival of mccarthyism not just by malcolm nance but by an entire network and less n.b.c. which is dedicated to promoting the cynical imperatives of the democratic party all regardless we do appreciate you coming

it's fair enough for russia to express. you know its own interest these are the the kind of alliances that happens in happen in its. neighbors but i wonder how would you navigate those very difficult relationship because all on the one hand as i said russia wants to have you know better trade ties with the european countries but when those countries are kind of from the common perspective lured into the nato alliance that makes it. very difficult to deal on the diplomatic level and i'm sure you've heard we've had a number of scandals recently the russian diplomats have been expelled from greece over the major controversy surrounding the supposed it russia's interference in the domestic politics of greece dealing with the with its long running dispute over macedonia what is a fair game when it comes to europe i mean because as i said before there is trade diplomatic relationship and that there is another aspect to it which is security relationship well it is a complex question indeed and you raise of course the latest exampl

russia. said i have confidence in both parties. after someone was killed protesting neo-nazis, he said there is blame on both sides. what do you think of that criticism? >> i would not compare the situations. the president said exactly what he thought yesterday in his remarks and i would refer you to those. the president, does he see interference in elections as an attack on democracy? the homeland security said it was an attack on american democracy. you see it as an issue for american democracy or just opponents being attacked? >> the president things we have to focus on securing our election integrity. which is why he has spent so much time making sure this does not happen again. this did not happen under president trump's watch. we are trying to make sure this gets fixed because we take it seriously. we understand systems are important. >> the president spent two hours with vladimir putin. was there a sense of what came out of the meeting? said,the president trump issues were raised. nuclear ambition. ukraine and the occupation

mcdonald's invests in russia. ford has four plants in russia.s wrong with germany trading with russia? and the president himself is meeting with vladimir putin to normalize relations and have trade with russia. that whole statement, it was all confusing to me. his statement, again, about past presidents have done nothing about nato. he talked about how spending on nato was up by $40 billion. it's up by $46 billion since 2015. two years of the increase occ occurred under barack obama. 's. it's inaccurate. i don't follow what he wants the europeans to do. >> can we assume that germany is not pulling its own weight. it goes back to what we're talking about in determines of defense spending by each country. there's no more powerful country in europe than germany. and they're spending 1% on gdp. isn't that the point he makes, that germany, being a powerhouse and having the deals where it's making money, should not be paying more? >> i agree. germany should pay more. i don't understand the president's point about russia. is russia an enemy that we sho

with russia and russia also has become another moments in the rising tensions between the you and the u.s. . donald trump has accused germany or of being under the influence of the bretton lane well obviously germany the german government also has been critical of trump unease approach to what to russia but also refusing to broaden sanctions to to include d.n.a. into the larger tensions between the u.s. and e.u. and that includes russia in a quite products a cool manner but more generally does does this willingness to to somehow appease tensions i mean we see trump as somewhat of a disrupt a day or a one one hand in one week grammy we saw him blasting naysay and then just a few days later a bus rang up putin that's got to alarm the e.u. . well the certainly a big political game at the moment with trump criticizing european governments for their relates of low defense expenditures at the same time. getting closer to russia so that's also an economy excite to. today's political game as put the tramp has been very critical of the was a cut especially of germany's traits plus. you can see

/russia relations. it wasn't the president's repeated denial of election interference that drew condemnation but the fact at putin's side. >> it was a clean campaign. i beat hillary clinton easily and, frankly, we beat her and i'm not even saying from the standpoint, we won that race. and it's a shame that there could be a little bit of a cloud over it. >> reporter: going into the summit 'em so summ summit trump offered a bigger gift suggesting the slate to be wiped clean. he blasted the special counsel's investigation. >> i feel that we have both made some mistakes. i think that the probe is a disaster for our country. i think it's kept us apart. it's kept us separated. there was no collusion. at all. everybody knows it. >> reporter: the president repeated that point again and again. >> zero collusion. i say it all the time. there was no collusion. there was no collusion with the campaign. >> reporter: putin echoed those words. >> translator: we should be guided by facts. can you name a single fact to

russia well done to russia for the. russian people and we saw the ice. so i've been in there for a stop near me some papers board luzhniki spartak stadium i'm talk with my mom every day you know house food house hotel you know money's all of the best for your son and of course i'm so glad and thank you and of course we will enjoy. if somebody asked three years ago russia he will beat spain think attack at the best players in the world in spain are winning a lot of throw for us everyone say no but football is it's the best sports in the world and that's why we like not always winning the favorites and that's why he's nice to be in the world cup in russia and that's football on fish can eat big fish once but not every day troll the world playing for my country that's the best feeling in the world and that's why kids please dream dream come through play for a national team play hard and give all. yes russia will be hoping that they are going to be eating the big fish today now the fans support to make the difference in any game and they're making themselves

no one is tougher on russia end quote. and it is not clear that the president or his allies actually care to stop russia from putting a finger on the scale. just today, house republicans blocked a push by democrats to pass new funding for cybersecurity and other measures. members of the president's twitter army and the pro trump media are dropping all pretenses of actually objecting to russian interference. if russia assists magga candidates on the internet in this year's midterm, that's not the end of the world. joining me now is congressman swalwell. let me repeat that tweet to you. if russia assists magga candidates on the internet in this year's midterm, that's not the reend of the world. what is your response to that sentiment. >> it certainly would be the end of our democracy. it is going to take unity to make sure this democracy continues to thrive. we offered as democrats a no use truce. essentially saying if there is a hacking that occurs against you, you will not use any proceeds against you and we will expect th

defense minister to still continue to drag russia into the story the simple reality is russia has committed to an attack on british soil which you see. there is something designed think the world will unite with those actually. going williamson's claim that russia has something to do with that. it's just the same old mantra russians did it. could you perhaps come up with something appropriate careful investigation for instance well if you keep in mind gavin williamson was a british politician who really raised eyebrows not just in russia but also here in the u.k. when it came to this whole scandal when he said that russia should shut up and go away so in this particular case what could be seen as a somewhat premature reaction seems to be followed by some british politicians as well as journalists here in westminster time to send a clear message to putin about chemical weapons relegated the remaining games of the world cup to elsewhere in europe and also indifference to collateral damage is one of the hallmarks of the putin regime and its extraterritorial operation. that novacek big don't st

it looks like russia had fallen for a new leader.eaking foreign language] >> there were toasts all over moscow. at the parliament. on talk shows. and at bars. but one man seemed to utterly unsurprised by trump's victory. >> he's happy to take credit. and that means that he won the u.s. election, the man who is simultaneously in charge of russia and the president of the united states. >> at the heart of all this are some deadly serious questions. does vladimir putin have some kind of hold over donald trump? we simply don't know. but one reality is now critical clear. american intelligence has established that putin interfered with our election in order to help donald trump. mr. putin did not agree to answer questions about this, but his closest aid did. >> the answer is very simple, no. you are humiliating yourself saying that a country can intervene in your election process. america, huge country, country number with the most powerful country in the world. this is simply impossible. >> we will get at the truth of all this. but to do

russia agnostic, i have no interest to go to russia. i'm not interested in russia.ut they have forced me to believe that russia is the greatest threat to my liberty. like i'm stupid. like anyone who pays attention knows that is not true. >> this is not a defense of russia. why are they trying to force me to believe that and punish me if i don't nod in agreement? >> that is the first premise. they have based everything on the russia controlling trump. that is the premise for the first six months to get him to resign or get him impeached. the russia we agree, did meddle. there is like that theme of the basic reality. we know that through the congressional testimony. the president brings this together. unfair witch hunt and that versuses the dynamic of meddling in the country. which really had no impact. that is clear. the never trumpers, the democrat party, establishment invested in a fantasy of the president, donald trump being controlled boy the russians. his performance has proven his commitment to the nation. this is the only investment and it's what they have. th

/russia relationship. but when you talk to white house officials and about the rhetoric from president trump where he blames the united states for the poor relationship between the united states and russia, when he blames the investigation into the cyber attack by russia on the united states and not the actual cyber attack, do they even understand where you're coming from when you say how can a u.s. president be towing the russian line? >> it's not just president trump that feels this way about this relationship with russia, blaming it on the rigged witch hunt which is an investigation into not collusion just with trump officials and russian officials bus them attacking the election. they can't hold them in different hands. they think anything that has to do with the russia investigation is implying they are guilty of doing something. they can't take it this is an investigation into russian meddling into the election with the aspect of did any trump officials coordinate with the russians to help try to win

donald trump it seems you can't make his mind up about what he thinks about russia and whether russia meddled in the u.s. presidential elections why the inconsistency what he says. well this is part of his his his schtick isn't it this is the madman strategy keep everyone on their toes keep everyone guessing don't let anyone feel too secure in your backing this is this is part of how he how he operates and of course if you're dealing with someone like trump who semantic ability doesn't even stretch to knowing the difference between would and wouldn't then of course what else can people do but keep guessing as to what your nonsensical statements actually mean but if we go beyond those statements to look at his actions actually there reveals revealed a pretty consistent policy towards towards russia which is that he wants to enlist putin in his economic war against china and iran is been pretty consistent about this and the way he's trying to do this is obviously ramping up aggression against iran ramping it up against china but meanwhile constantly flattering russia and putin and unfor

they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would. >> i have great confidence in my intelligence people. but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. i hold both countries responsible. i think that the

which is called i hate religion i hate russia russia is the enemy and we almost. genuflect at the altar of this new religious icon and that's the way you can take the american people's money heart yearned tax dollars which could be debt used for housing and health care and education the things human beings need and shovel it over to the defense contractors you have to explain to them that it's an absolute national imperative to do that in order to carry out this looting of the national budget and that's what we're witnessing right and he let me go to let me go to earl before we go to the break you manufactured consent this is what be in its most recent incarnation it's manufactured consent and and and i want to talk about the intelligence committee in the second half of the program but the liberal media loves it and they they perpetrated go ahead girl thirty seconds. if it is manufactured consent then it and i believe it's probably orchestrated some somewhere in the dark corners as well i mean what we have here we have mccarthyism two point zero even if you shake

relations with russia. do you hold russia at all accountable for anything in particular, and if so, what would you consider them, that they are responsible for? >> yes, i do. i hold both countries responsible. i think that the united states has been foolish. i think we've all been foolish. we should have had this dialogue a long time ago. a long time, frankly, before i got to office. and i think we're all to blame. i think that the united states now has stepped forward along with russia, and we're getting together, and we have a chance to do some great things whether it's nuclear proliferation in terms of stopping because we have to do it ultimately. that's probably the most important thing we can be working on. but i do feel that we have both made some mistakes. i think that the probe is a disaster for our country. i think it's kept us apart. it's kept us separated. there was no collusion at all. everybody knows it. people are being brought out to the fore. so far that i know virtually none of it related t

russia didear, metal, not only did russia meddle in our elections. they are doing it around the world. they're doing it to the baltics. russia is trying to undermine democracy, delegitimize democracy. they can look good by comparison. making is weare know they interfere with our elections and we have passed sanctions on russia to hold them accountable. what we intend to do is to make sure they do not get away with it again and also, to help our whoes, to help democracies are going to be facing this kind of russian aggression again. we need to make sure we can equip them with tools to stop this from happening. some of your colleagues have called the comments yesterday embarrassing, disgraceful, damaging to the united states relationship with allies. have you talked to the president, do you think you need to clarify, retract exactly what he was trying to accomplish? >> i put out a statement yesterday within minutes after the press conference and i think the statement itself. president trump tried to clarify some of the statements he made in helsinki re

to counter russia. an expansionist russia.things where i agree with the president when i say when he said he's been very tough on them. >> chris stewart from utah, thanks for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >>> still ahead -- the president calls the people of montenegro strong and aggressive, though the proom minister of that country might say the same thing about mr. trump. we'll explain. we have a live report. >>> also, controversial comments from the president calling the u.s. commitment to defending nato allies into some sort of question. we're going to talk to the former u.s. ambassador to russia to get a sense of how much these words may be damaging u.s. relations. but in very differents f f does your business internet provider promise a lot? let's see who delivers more. comcast business gives you gig-speed in more places. the others don't. we offer up to 6 hours of 4g wireless network backup. everyone else, no way. we let calls from any of your devices come from your business number. them, not so much. we let you keep a

and russia for damaged relations and slammed robert mueller's russia probe for making things worth. both world leaders dismiss the russia investigation as a tool to drive a wedge between the two countries. >> president trump: he said there was no collusion whatsoever. i guess he said it as strongly as you can say it. they have no information on trump. >> i am not interested in this issue a single bit. it is the internal political games of the united states. don't make the relationship between russia and the united states. don't hold it hostage because of this political struggle. >> sandra: more on reaction from capitol hill. byron york is standing by with analysis. let's start with kristin fisher live at the white house this morning. >> it has been radio silence ever since president trump landed back in the united states. the last we heard from him was a tweet on board air force one where he seemed to walk back a little bit the most inflammatory of his remarks that he made while standing next to russian president vladimir putin, the one where he put putin's word on par with that of

of russia. i don't know the extent of the situation, but president trump mentioned this issue and i'll look into it. o far i can say the floling. off the top of my head, we have an acting, existing agreement within the united states of america and the russian ederation that dates back to 1999. the mutual assistance on criminal cases, treaty is in full effect. it works quite efficiently. initiate 100, 150 criminal cases from foreign tates. for instance, there was one case, upon request sent by the united states. so this treaty has specifically - specific legal procedures. the appropriate commission special agent mueller, send ause this treaty to formal request so we would interrogate, hold the questioning of these individuals who he believes are privy to some crimes and our enforcement are perfectly able to do the questioning and send the appropriate materials to the united states. moreover, we can meet you halfway, we can make another step. we can actually permit special riptive -- representativ

trump's concessions to russia and his apparent inability to hold russia responsible. improving relations with russia is a worthy goal so long as it doesn't undermine security or reward bad behavior. david french, let me bring you in. i heard you have a new review calling the witches are real. let me ask you this because we talk so much about the president's been making the case to his supporters, that hey, this is my enemies, the democrats, the clinton die hards who don't want to respect what happened in 2016, do you see anything in this indictment today insuring t today, in the news, in the coverage of this. >> certainly not in the hard core trump base, immediately the response was, yet again, we see no collusion even though interesting paragraphs in the indictment indicating there was direct communication which broadcast there were more shoes left to job. until you see evidence that is screaming collusion, you are going to have a hard core base that is going to be unfazed by this. a lot of thoughtful conservatives out there, saying it is becoming clear and clear tha

do that is equivalent to russia interfering in our election to russia annexing crimea, russian fighting ukraine. >> rebecca do you want to end so that? >> bret baier said earlier on in your show, this is moral equivalency. >> ryan talks about that too. >> even though i said i was disappointed that the president missed an opportunity there, if you look at -- there was no capitulation on the matter of policy coming out of this meeting. president trump did not say that we are going to get seat on any major policy point that is important to the united states. the obama administration as a matter of policy, gave into the russians, time and time again. even though i was not happy with the president's rhetoric today, i will take the stuff policy over the obama administration's russian reset policy everyday of the week. >> we still do not know what happened to hillary clinton's server and you are the president talking about that, too. if there was an investigation wide enough to let us know what was on the server and what might have been looked at humor that would be helpful, too. we will be ri

what what russia was. you know a few weeks ago which is a hardline authoritarian state where critics are dealt with dissidents scourged i think the issues that russia faces haven't gone away the canonic issues are very big and troubling for many russians i think that yeah they've had this opportunity to enjoy this world cup and good on em it's been a fantastic few weeks but i do think that those problems i thought they haven't disappeared they're still there they're real and mr putin regardless of what he accomplishes with donald trump is still going to have to deal with and it's a question of how he deals them i suspect he will deal with them as he has done in the past which is to attempt to silence all criticism and when it comes to the economy has there been much of a boost seen why would we russians because of this world cup well i think yes i'm sure that the economy has taken a bounce up but again that that's that's a short term fix clearly there was a lot of beer and alcohol that vendors who benefite

also reiterated that trump does agree with the intelligence community that russia did hack a b. twenty sixteen election but his sentiments last week were a bit different i have president putin he just said it's not russian i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be there was no collusion at all it was a clean campaign i beat hillary clinton easily the song that led to total hysteria in the u.s. the media called trump a traitor a crime one stooge putin's puppet and some even accused him of treason. instead of standing up for our democracy and democratic principles president trump cowered in the presence of putin it was a ho sale betrayal of the values and interests of this country president sided with the enemy and with the perpetrator of the election interference i was sacked he is unable to confront russia after helsinki trump invited putin to d.c. for another summit however another wave of hysteria ensued but just an hour before pompei a scheduled testimony john bolen trumps national security advisor announced that the summit would be postponed john bolen explained

ever done with russia. there has been no president ever as tough as i have been on russia. all you have to do is look at the numbers, look at what we have done, look at sanctions, look at ambassadors -- unfortunately, what happened in syria recently. putin knowsident that better than anyone, certainly better than the media. he is not happy about it and shouldn't be, because there has never been a president as tough on russia as i have been. thank you very much. >> later during the daily briefing, press secretary sarah sanders was asked about the president's remarks. next, we will show you that briefing in its entirety. it runs about 25 minutes. sec. sanders: good afternoon. the president will be transit -- traveling to kansas city july 24. he will address the veterans of foreign wars convention. he is committed to our veterans and ensure veterans are given the support they deserve. the president will look forward to being with more than 4000 veterans in attendance. yesterday, the u.s. senate confirmed randy quarles as vice chair at the federal reserve. nominationtunate his

one, did russia meddle, with the cyber?n did that have an effect on the election, and was there trump russia collusion. for me the answer is pretty obvious from the beginning, yes, russia meddled in the election with the cyber activity they did and spearfishing and devin nunez's house intelligence committee report laid that out very clearly two months ago. did that affect the election? no. it had no effect on the election. trish: we know that!. >> the president -- obviously trump russia collusion. i've been very outspoken on that. when the president talks about it being a phishing expedition, trying to rope his campaign n i think it would be very good for him to be very firm on the first part, yeah they were involved in cyber activity. they're a malevolent force and be clear they shouldn't be to undermine the legitimacy of president which media and democrats trying to do. two years since having contact with trump campaign, we don't have any evidence of russia trump collusion. the media intermingles those and i think the pre

this seems like it's a nice ingredient to the russia russia russia mantra go ahead joe. you know i think it's more than that peter i've read the criminal complaint and the f.b.i. agents affidavit in the case and i think it's pretty clear that they're setting this up to be the so-called evidence for collusion as you were everyone knows the miller in the last miller indictment of the the alleged twelve russian g.r.u. agents did not have anything to do with anyone on the trumped team this crime that she's being accused of is trying to build better u.s. russian relations with informal dialogue dinners maybe that was one of the ones ray was that. they're setting achievement would person american u.s. person want a u.s. person to i predict i suspect that this of one and two will be somehow linked to the campaign because she met with a political party won the complaint says and that was a part of it used to be hostile to russia or in the past you have to think that's the republicans so this is all being set up and all she may have violated as you pointed out peter at the beginn

see petersburg it's arguably one of the most beautiful and picturesque cities in all of russia it's. considered the capital culture of the north of the country and one photographer is offering people the opportunity to take in the stunning views the unique style by having photo shoots and the chill here on the rooftops. and that's all with me because i coughed up a small side but some ice just kind of peter costello's from i mean from not just on the bottom some i could. have my eyes so i got an approach such as you take on your snout which to be kind what i taught our students so much so what are. some of us shared so use it to go to the produce to you when you're going to church and going up you know i mean so when you're a board member. so guys just to the silver what do you think about this little kind of tour it's amazing i mean if you look around the off so many classy buildings all over the place and it's it's a really beautiful city you can see the city's bustling with the markets and everything yeah because what do you think about the tournament itself the football that craz

so many people come to russia, business people, why would russia focus on it? in the press conference he said he's talking from the position of having been a kgb agent, trying to get more clout that way. he also said that there had been an economic forum in russia where there were 500 american business people and impossible to keep track of all of them and also why would russia do that? he then sort of tried to laugh it off and there was no flat-out no we don't have anything. >> that's very interesting, jim. the notion that putin -- i think fair to say he tried to dodge that very, very sensitive question which so many people are focusing on. >> would have been easy for the russian president to eliminate that as a possibility when, in fact, you saw the russian president there, former agent, relishing a number of moments which supporting his agenda. right? american president when's repeating russian talking points about the interference, about the investigation undermining his own agencies as he is undermined allies in the days proceeding this summit. so on that

if i can say no we will be to russia nothing. i am president but the players minus maybe the small war but nice words small about two eleven against eleven strategies we know exactly how we played russia and russia know exactly how to play the corrosion at the spine go around today's high there finishing their knowledge you can sign or each corner each one of the each fall how prone to reproduce the game the russians of gracious but what is the moving forward from the bill enjoy the world cup game we will enjoy sochi i never been to sochi it's beautiful country beautiful city and that's what i was glad and why we're here to enjoy football let me. ask one more question about here team and i want to. base it on somebody that maradona once said about your he said that when you played football you used to create an optical illusion that your game seemed the batter and it actually was i wonder if that's also fair about the quality of the creation squad at the moment that they actually seem a little bit better than they really are that

and no evasion used against a former russian agent four months ago sajid javid is now calling on russia to explain the situation. it is now time that the russian state comes forward and explains exactly what has gone on. the french or city of normed sees three nights of protests some of them violent over the death of a young driver killed by police at a checkpoint. and iran threatens to block oil shipments along a sea route that is used for transporting twenty percent of global oil if indeed washington attempts to stop terror runs on exports. but i am back next hour with a full news program covering today's latest headlines for right now though i do get ready for the kaiser report. sure this is the ca's report you know where in paris paris france city of light city of beauty city of and and speaking of enchantment stacey you know so many times on you tube people will say it's not pronounced like that it's pronounced like this so my question to them is well strewed we start calling it perry. yeah absolutely i totally agree with that point actually i'm not sure where that comes from but i

and russia. mike pompeo during his confirmation hearing, he was asked do you feel that that why relations are bad? and he said definitively, no, that's not why. it's because of russia's bad behavior. but after this as he's traveling with the president, he chooses to have absolutely no reaction. nothing to say. nothing from the state department. i think it's also striking that hillary clinton that probably without knowing it had almost a p prebu prebuttal for this when she tweeted yesterday, president trump, do you know whose team you're playing for? today president trump himself did not seem to know the answer to that question. >> yeah, they're certainly sharing the ball and they did on that stage. let's go to manu raju for congressional reaction as we continue to monitor what, if anything, republicans are saying from capitol hill. manu? >> reporter: we haven't heard a whole lot from republicans yet, anderson. one reason why is because this is monday and members are just starting to trickle in. w

what is the policy toward putin's russia? the policy toward putin's russia is the toughest, the most -- people have been kicked out of the country. the consulate is closed down. trade control is put on their products. you will have the admit, it is tougher than we've seen under president obama. we're getting to a wordsmith argument. what i would say, the president is allowed to engage in personal diplomacy. >> this is a highly personalized diplomacy. to be clear, you're saying -- it is the way it's been covered, but -- let me just say -- >> diplomacy is always personal. >> americans watched the news conference. for more than an hour, we watched the news conference. americans made their own judgments. it is not just me. >> i have no problem -- >> republicans said this is not okay. >> i said the same thing. i have no problem with -- it is your job as a journalist to be critical of the president. i don't have any issue with that. my thing is, what do the american people need to know about our relationship with russia? there isn'

they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would. >> i have great confidence in my intelligence people. but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. i hold both countries responsible. i think that the united states has been foolish. i think we've all been foolish. >> said there was no collusion whatsoever. i guess he said as strongly as you can say it. they have no information on trump. we've had phoney, witch hunt deal drive us apart. it has driven a wedge, and president putin said they drove a phoney wedge, a phony witch hunt rigged deal. >> i really wish foryour american listeners to listen to what i say. first of all, russia, as a state, has never interfered with the internal affairs of the united states, let alone its elections. did you really believe that someone acting from the russia territory could have influenced the united states and influenced the choice of millions of americans? >> u.s. senators from both parties. don

russia is a big nuclear power. you're telling me the cnn fake news, the economist all telling me russian is an adversary. i'm making america safer and we want to jeopardize that safety by sticking for corrupt ukraine. that will then assign ukraine's russia's sphere of sphere of influence. second thing is the lifting or some form of lifting of sanctions. and we've already seen -- this is a very different europe. okay? america might not lift sanctions because of the internal debate and fight between the congress and the president. but the atmosphere is very, very different in europe. we have victor or bahn, the hungarian president saying sanctions are very harmful. we want them lifted. we have italians who's northern league who effectively quite pro-putin and pro kremlin. so obviously, this some european countries will be reading and looking at trump's statements carefully. if president trump doesn't stick for sanctions, the argument will be what are we doing sticking and harping ourselves. and look, we don't know ab