larry i'll tell you what it adds up to it's russia gate without russia russia isn't there hardly at all it ends up to tax fraud and sex so we're now talking about i didn't pay my taxes gate and sex gate please larry how long have we lived you know any other politicians who have tried to make sexual escapades go away and one instance it has to do with russia and that's when general flynn flynn flynn remember he was trump's national security advisor for about eighteen days i would he do he rang up the russian in basher. and he said don't do anything exciting when we get into office we're going to review our policy toward you know every american president elect since at least nixon has told his national security adviser to have such a back channel talk kissinger did it for nixon michael book fall did it for obama flynn did nothing wrong he did it on the orders of trump who was following the advice of henry kissinger perfectly normal why did flynn lie that the f.b.i. that's a different question what do you think of who. i now i step back i cease to be a very worried american a citizen a

that russia should not give in. that russia should go on. russia should be independent. would we like to take this example from... emulate, i guess? emulate, yes. it's... it's, first of all, western countries. so, this is it, ourfinal morning in russia. we're on our way to the airport now. if i'm honest, before i came here, i did have a slight nervous preconception as to what it might be like. probably because of all the negative news stories about russia that have been kicking around. now, we've only been in moscow, so we can'tjudge the whole country, but it's not been like that at all. just walking around, it feels like any other city. and, to be honest, i feel a bit stupid for having that nervous preconception at all. that being said, after you've been here for a few days, you do sense an undercurrent of fear, i think, it's fair to say, among people? we went to a football match in some of our downtime the other day. we went to see spartak moscow. and i've never seen a crowd being so well behaved, as they filed out of the stadium, in my life. but it's because there wer

taking over the crimea in two thousand and fourteen russia broke international law russia could have got to crimea without weapons because seventy percent of the population on the crimea the russians no one but all due respect i mean. there are people who are investor who agree that russia broke international law but indisputable but in this world everybody breaks international law so you cannot demand one single country to a pal that when everybody else including russia main rival sending the same. book optimist i remain an optimist he writes that the only solution to the conflict in ukraine is the fulfilling of the two diplomatic process russia has been failing to do not because the pro russian. separatists in southeast your crane should be. cooled down down not send thousand lives lost my point is that. in doing what putin did in two thousand and fourteen many people and notably all the western countries think that he really how police say the debris of doctrine defending the invasion of czechoslovakia twenty first of august one isn't at once and that was why he did. i think that

all oh yes partially yes of course russia believes that that is. great power should be reckoned with and that the west is trying to kind of eyes away at russia move it to the side kind of. cordon it off somewhere in the steps of eurasia and make it their relevant but there are also other things internally which are very important when you consider russian foreign policy and defense policy decision making there's the so-called economic liberal party the fortunes of ministration and government who are clamoring actually to stop this standoff with the west to cut defense spending which are opposed to the defense industrial complex so there's a lot of infighting within the russian the administration within the russian ruling smallish weak but they are i mean these people are all loyal to ports and sort of but they have incompatible understandings and beliefs on where russia should go and how it should develop so there is so you should always take into account that washington is split but my moscow is also split and that should be taken in the to accoun

between the russia. and the european union so what we need to do going forward we need to concentrate on the me we have concentrate on those projects which. pushes you most for russia and for the repeal you know that is most of the projects. intreat in the vestments in the joint work you know to kind of logical cooperation a lot of this and of course. a list of tension to just the noise and bustle of the political. but if you go a little with some of the small countries which are most important for the quantum of the whole european union are. the initiating the noise and we should be lists attention to that and more attention to the real economic projects while i think there is also some noise coming from the bigger countries too and the political figures there are making important decisions come across these words of yours rene saw in russia. are you sure we are there and renascence is the right word for you know that in the past couple of pigs that was in portugal i was in france but was having. a chip

russia. that only. idiots can believe that is a way back in the one once you mentioned put his name and you had your introduction to that man long before many other people did because i read somewhere that you were served coffee by him when he was still deputy mayor or perhaps even an assistant to the mayor of st petersburg administration what was so memorable about that event that made you remember why would do you. that in my his boss the man who introduced both vladimir putin. did meet him it did if the politics was. the subject he was my friend. and people have to remember after the putsch the coup de ta. in nineteen ninety one mountain for war. became the second most popular leader of the bodies hilson and that's when amit put in the first time that i had been publishing a book it was called return to europe about russia and i gave it to some shock in small may well lenin was in charge of the revolution. and we were sitting bickering a bit about freedom in russia and i said toward alexandrovitch yo

he was lying about his dealings with russia and russia knew it and russia was helping him to keep the secret, right? so this is bad. we've got a presidential candidate, for one thing, offering a $50 million gift -- it's a gift -- to a foreign leader, secretly. so he's compromised on that, right? they can expose him for that, if they want to. russia has already compromised him, because he is lying about this ongoing business pursuit in russia and russia's plan to provide him hundreds of millions of dollars for that real estate project, if he gets those sanctions lifted. he's lying about that. he's not mentioning his personal stake in the sanctions issue, when he's talking about sanctions, so russia has him compromised on that, too. i mean, the secret moscow deal is damning enough. it's damning enough that a criminal cover-up effort is launched. that includes the president's lawyer, at least him, lying to congress under oath about the deal. congressman jim himes from the intelligence committee was here last night and told us that it might not just be michael cohen who is in on the cover

russia and now china and it will do anything but it's almost equal for russia it's not the prosperity of expediential it's not security of its border this it is to ensure that russia is one of those great powers deciding on all major us international relations. this particular oil out this particular treaty aggregation is just is one element of a much wider dispute whereby russia believes it is analogous to the u.s. and that is really only true insofar as numbers of nuclear weapons are concerned ironically. i'm interested in your take on that is this about russia and vladimir putin insisting that they deserve a seat at the table with with with the u.s. and other countries is that what this is about. all oh yes partially yes of course russia believes that that is. great power should be reckoned with and that the west is trying to kind of eyes away at russia move it to the side kind of. cordon it off somewhere in the steps of eurasia and make it their relevant but there are also other things internally which are very important when you consider russian foreign policy and defense policy

russia and iran. i don't mean to suggest that russia and iran are incredibly close allies. i don't think that's true, either. moscow is quite careful in how it handles its relationship with tehran. i met some time ago with the senior russian official and this question came up during the course of the conversation. what he essentially said to me was, look, you know, our relationship with iran is a little bit better than a contractual relationship. but, you know, don't expect us to do things that are going to lead the iranians to think that we have betrayed them. we have too many important interests at stake, you know, where iran's decisions can really have a major impact. i don't see much scope for trying to split the two of them. now, we have to be kind of precise also about what we mean when we talk about things like that, you know. are there specific decisions where the united states or for that matter israel can influence can influence russia to take decisions more in line with our preferences and

nay stalins in russia. are you sure we are there and renascence is the right word for you know that in the past couple of pics i was in portugal i was in france but was having. the cheering in the go until commission between russia and those two continents and there was only positive discussion of joint projects it can do together so i don't know what kind of contest you mentioned when you are asking that question well i'm talking about the statements from senior political figures which one. the major powerhouses of europe and their leaders like ms merkel like mr macron i know the u.k.'s leaving the but i was there i was talking about continued pressure i was in russia i was in france last week and when we together. but it only met who was the head of the ministry of finance and of course the new france were giving the statement to the press after the meeting he was wishing publicly that france will support such a joint projects as. particular and reports that because of the beacon of all but died in the fi

politics because ultimately russia is now no longer a foreign policy issue for the u.s. it's a domestic issue. you mentioned as one possible motive driving a wedge between trump and he is opponents the so-called policy establishment on the blog. and. you know sometimes it's hard to say who is more emotionally unstable whether it's trump or his critics but i think what's clear is that even after even when trump is gone russia will have to build some sort of contacts with the so-called establishment them in. a matter of necessity do you think it makes any sense to try to attempt and reach out to the people who. still run away with the russia gate story over would be counterproductive at this point i think it certainly makes sense for for moscow to think posts trump in its context with the united states i just fear that the dominant view in this city is that it is nearly impossible until the united states kind of settle this domestic divide our domestic crisis you know put their own house in order first because otherwise reaching out to certain groups may be either contra p

as you say in russia if they were. religiously mad at the else and because he forgot it this is an important point about sebastopol you said that in one of your interviews that russia's actions in crimea were triggered by the fears that nato ships would be one has said so himself i mean. seeing the the kind of politics that ukraine has right now do you think those fears were justified you know i think we have to understand one important thing and that this day. to the sanctions stemming from down exceptional to crimea and ninety nine to two russia's president boris yeltsin asked for an enlargement of the hasn't k. treaty of seventy five it was the treaty got on seeing the post-war borders in europe yes an os that this monday be enlarged also to be valid for the buddhists between the formally soviet republics fifteen countries this was done it was ratified also by russia so by going in and. taking over the crimea in two thousand and fourteen russia broke international law russia could have got to crimea without weapons

so maybe with general dunford to say how will we russia one - - deter russia specifically in the black sea with the only branch of government with some ideas that are useful because i think we are wasting valuable time with this white house. >> oh first. >> i agree with the premise that we need to understand what was deter russia in the black sea. and many are hoping that i hope it starts that we have to do this as an alliance with other allies and to agree and not just consent but participation of everybody else. you cannot do this unilaterally. so this would start first by building that alliance to show the nato flag more aggressively. and at the extreme other and maybe we harass russia. for those extraordinary measures but this is not your backyard. >> i would simply add to that with your emphasis about the white house the policies that have evolved by defense and state in the policies turn out to be pretty good so it is quite plausible. and i agree to have a nato context while the whole alliance may be skeptical especially the canadians. next question over here. >> general, to ques

turkey and russia.working hard stablish a constitutional committee for syria to establish a new constitution writes a new constitution or amended existing one. to allow for all inclusive syrian elections and the united states has been absent. looted the fact that the united states is trying to impede the work of the constitutional committee so. interesting thought with syria there. but the issue of i came right thanks for that recap but we're expecting plenty more interesting topics intriguing questions come up more isaac of escaping across all of those developments for us though don't worry if you have to keep dipping in and out yourself we're keeping across this press conference live for us russian relations is expected to dominate a lot of the questions in this press conference this year but of course russia has been in the headlines quite a lot this year with the script powell case maria the russian woman who's been accused of being a spy in the u.s. and also the coach straight incident has dominate

halt the menace of an expansionist russia which i think is. not the case i mean there is a view that russia is this global menace so you have nato on the borders of the baltic countries it's a trip wire for more conflict nato should have been abolished at the end of the soviet union i mean it was there to designed to counter the warsaw pact right now i think what should happen with nato is it should halt its expansion ukraine should become nonaligned the future of ukraine should be as a bridge between east and west that was the hope not as a proxy country for war between civil war between the united states and russia so you know when trump says things like nato attacks nato he's both right but he's the wrong messenger because people think he's doesn't know what he's talking about well he is so. nato has been brought up recently while some german and french politicians were pondering over the idea of creating a common european army. if that happens and trump wants europeans to take care of their own security with that make nato obsolete i don't

borders and it's on russia's borders now in the baltic states in ukraine what did they think russia's reaction was going to be well ok fine put all your weapons on our border or we'll forget about the german invasion in one hundred forty one we don't have any memory of russia to move any power anywhere so march of world to the expansion of nato that's the original sentence now there have been other of its and you could say well russia reacted on watchfully maybe so but i would argue. in response to all this talk that putin is an aggressive foreign policy leader that on the contrary he's a reactive leader and in fact i was in moscow two weeks ago i guess policy class in moscow who is criticized for being too reactive not anticipating what the west was going to do i think that's how historians will write in this what these last fourteen or fifteen years you know that's interesting when you mention you know how we're going to look back on these you know last fourteen or fifteen years and to me what what or what is the biggest misconception that's either under reported or just not being t

russia. next week, we're going to get a whole new narrative about flynn's crime, his cooperation or lack thereof and anything else they want to share, because they believe it will be of relevance to what kind of sentence he's going to end up getting. and it's sort of couldn't come at a better time. because all of a sudden, now, this week we the public just got a much clearer and frankly much more worrying view of the crime that mike flynn pled to, and maybe even why he might have done it. so i think this is worth focusing on intently. not only in terms of buttoning up what we learned over the course of this week, but what's about to come next. we know more shoes are going to drop, we know we're going to get more information from the special council's office in the next few days. focus in on this flynn thing for a second. mike flynn had some unusual russia ties during the campaign, right? he had visited at the russian government's behest, just as trump was declaring his run for president. soon

because russia is now. try to balance between iran which is a valuable ally and between israel which is also an important partner for russia not only in the middle east but on the global scale so russia will not. begin a confrontation with iran but russia can support the central government and the search or go central government and remove the iranians if they choose to because i remember quite well the experience of the previous president hafez a lawsuit here who was also a cup rayton with the iranians but he was always very cautious and he are here always maintain his maintain his autonomy he was never dependent on aunt to her and so i think his son bashar assad will follow this example as soon as he has the opportunity richard there has been mounting concern to be expressed from u.s. lawmakers as to president trump's moves when it comes to syria his decision to pull u.s. troops from syria. will congress in the us be able to do anything to counter this or should we expect this to play out the way trump ha

reports on russia the world bank states that russia should achieved its hardening of policy by twenty thirty it's going to be in a very good position in that it has low debt with the. international world has high natural reserves money to increase growth between one point three and one point eight percent with doubling but it went to thirty so those are some very strong positives the for the russian economy there are negatives the increase in the sea your population issues it's getting older and not placing of young people and also international trade in the grocery store very dependent on its own internal market and not exporting enough outside of of natural resources so the determination of nations. will create problems but i think you could achieve this if you continue on this track i mean build your own we really appreciate all your time this our brilliant stuff thanks for coming independent british stephen wealth we return to our q. and a present britain is just feeling nother question let's listen in for their detention system for the prison system so what is going to be done ab

russia's new hypersonic missile. new watch is the test firing of the kremlin's latest weapon flying at twenty seven times faster than the speed of sound means it could reach the united states or anywhere else within minutes how big a threat is it this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm glad i'm here putin is describing it as an excellent new year's gift to the nation russia's president is hailing the successful testing of a new missile as guaranteeing security for decades to come supersonic missile systems are slower than hypersonic flying at many times the speed of sound they're designed to evade missile shield systems to strike anywhere in the world putin says nothing can shoot it down. and one got the new of unguarded system is invincible against any existing and future enemy missile defenses it's a great success a great victory it will be deployed next year and we'll be joined by a regiment which will be put on judy we will move forward in accordance with our plans promising military arm system

-russia foundation. and of course ambassador alexander, and running this show today is one of our very own melinda herring who's an editor extraordinaire. i hope you all enjoy this conversation. we're looking forward not only to the recommendations the team has. this is not a tactical response that requires short taxicctical replies, but we'll be gathering again and again for comparable conversations. so how do we right that ship? let me turn it over to mulineli to steward the ship. >> good afternoon. my name is melinda herring and i'm delighted to beal here with i think the four top sexperts in the united states to discuss this timely crisis. our four experts will give open statements. we'll have 35 minutes of a discussion and then we'll kick it over to you to ask questions. so please start thinking of questions now, but right now it's my pleasure to give the stage to dr. celeste. >> it's also disconcerting to once again be here to address these issues but it's our responsibility and it is important to

and russia. oh it's terrible i mean i mean i'm disappointed. you know i was a child the cold war i studied the soviet union in order to try and destroy it but then the cold war ended and we were looking to into partnership with russia but it's been one disappointment after another so we had a slight reconciliation the cold war that collapsed then after nine eleven the two thousand and one terrorist attacks there was a brief reconciliation but that slowly fade over time. president obama came in made a sincere effort to reset relations with russia but that failed and now in the present trump that was one thing he made was one of his core object as was improve relations with russia and he's failed so i don't know what's going to make the relationship better or it's just awful and so as both speakers of a point now this leads to a very unfortunate situation regarding arms control and mung other relations so as as was discussed we now have one treaty that's about to collapse the ion after treaty which was signed during the cold war and limits the nu

inside of russia. different from the chaos immediately after the soviet union broke apart the presidential leaders. and not just for grabbing territory but to change the political rules of the game and is brighter for the dangerous reasons i was pointing out. it makes it politically and militarily unpredictable in ways that a more capable and more assertive russia has demonstrated is willing to entertain. >> ambassador, you just wrote in the "washington post" that nato should expand it presence in the black sea. what about the sea of dream three. steve blake showed -- is this legal and is it wise? >> i think it is not legal under the bilateral agreement 2003 that say russia gets too clear on any request by third countries to pass through the streets into the sea of azov. obviously their serous operational constraints in a very shallow body of water and very few if any navy vessels could actually go in there and operate. would it be a wise move? that's more debatable. i think given it's the only theoret

like the bob dylan of russia i didn't believe there was any rock in russia but i thought ok i'll go and meet him because how cool he think it will be to meet me that i'm an american rocker and i met him and we sat we were at seven partment and i played them a couple of songs off an e.p. album i had released here in the states and morris thought it was very cool and it was a little bit punk and he liked it and i i felt very proud and then i said oh can i hear something of yours and we put in a cassette and i put my headphones on and i started to hear one of his songs that was called tonight and it was so hunting and and just brilliant and powerful that i started to slink in my chair because i realized i was in the presence of somebody very important and that i was just the silly girl from los angeles very naive. and that he was the real rocker said that that moment changed my whole life and correct me if i'm wrong but i think you were twenty four years old at the time cali girl in. drab soviet reach was a feeling in oxymoron the source and even bigger paradox was how this doll soviet

created in russia in the past several years. we are collecting of them every day it's the inflation targeting is the new fiscal rule it's a new mechanism which is only it's rational from the blitz you gets you on the global commodity markets and this is what's in the deal if you protects the russian currency makes it more stable because if you compare the cut institutionalization of twenty which you we have as if that put it at that point of time we have. those because of the sanctions stocks we have sharp decline in oil prices it's even the fuss that was happening in the autumn of twenty foot you but the difference is really dramatic at that point of them it was extremely well to financial markets which were infecting the mystic when they meet these things. by the fed that we have for you floating exchange rate because of previous feeble currency would have previously able financial markets which are not on the big stress and that helps economy going forward and that leaving a stable economy because i would just like to explain

and russia have over russia interfering with our election. thereafter, flynn and other people within trump's transition team say that flynn told them that flynn didn't actually have those conversations. that creates a counter intelligence worry for the fbi, right? if the ignacious column is correct and those conversations happened between flynn and russia, russia knows they happened, they were in on the calls. and if those conversations did happen, and russia knows they happen, flynn's lying about them. that's a counter intelligence problem. the fbi handles counter intelligence issues in the united states. if the national security adviser of the united states is telling lies about something, trying to cover something up, and russia knows the truth about it, and russia knows he's lying about it, they can lord that over him, right? they can potentially blackmail him with that, they can threaten him to expose that thing, since they know he wants to cover it up. the fbi handles counter intelligence measures. they want to find out if what flynn re

a difference between the united states on russia is very important russia actually protects its own territory and try to balance. the poor he sees of nato and united states all around eurasia because v. object of the united states that that would. to incite her to eurasia and to frogman eurasia in order to russia and china doesn't become too powerful enough and tool to still be. the first power or a global leader and this is why you russia tries to. talk to the every party see of for preventing a vicious and psycho raiment of eurasia and and trying to balance your offensive posture of united system nato for example of this is very united states who with who first the rift from the a.b.m. treaty that treaty in two thousand and one and then the i.n.f. treaty saw a vision.

don't matter to western know russia poorly as a mention to you don't mistake relationships in russia fascinate me to distaste much more than foreign policy and putin he was wrong publishing a very interesting book in the spring or month in two thousand appeared from the first mom of the states. and then he is describing his period a sick age of the major in the east germany in the autumn of eighty nine we speak for the downfall of the berlin wall and he writes in the book that we were sitting and they take a dissident tool in the burning secret documents until the oval one two zero and is said we didn't quite understand what happened in germany but we did have a feeling that the soviet union was mortally it was called the power lies of governments one of the most quoted and misquoted sayings of putin is that because of the soviet union it was one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century you saw that in real time when you were stationed in russia back then what was it like for you and that experience of the whole universe i suppose collapsing came very abruptly but i underst

and russia since the end of the one nine hundred eighty s. that may be about to change u.s. authorities believe russia may have developed weapon systems like these in breach of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty. we're not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement they go out and do weapons and we're not allowed to wear the ones that stayed in the agreement and we bonded it greatly but russia is not fortunately on to the agreement so we're going to terminate it we're going to pull out. the kremlin has denied trumps allegations saying it has not produced any missiles that are prohibited by the i.n.f. treaty the i.n.f. treaty was seen as a major breakthrough in nuclear security when it was ratified by former soviet president mikhail gorbachev and u.s. president ronald reagan in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven it came after a tense period of confrontation in the heart of europe. with very short flight times nuclear annihilation of european capitals was only five to fifteen minutes away trump has said the u.s. will start developing these capabilities again i

cold war and remind you it's a post communist russia it's a russia that says it's capitalist the old cold war was peoples explained by ideology i'm not so sure about that that's a separate discussion but how do we explain a cold war more dangerous than the last war with iraq. it says it shares our capitalist beliefs and even our religious beliefs how do you explain that something happened back in the one nine hundred ninety s. on bill clinton's watch and it was called nato expansion that's a kind of cliche we've lived with it for more than twenty years but it is the geo political original sense the decision to move us led western military power all the way to russia's borders and it's on russia's borders now in the baltic states in ukraine what did they think russia's reaction was going to be well ok fine put all your weapons on our border or we'll forget about the german invasion in one hundred forty one we don't have any memory of russia didn't move any power anywhere so much of what's happened has been a reaction of russia and of europe to the expansion of nato that's the original

russia's trade on the voice of the u.k. about british business in the largest country on earth that's all coming up in part two of going underground. when a loved one is murdered it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it mean when the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying and there's just no really hasn't been that we want even many of the times families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten light colored foreign tempi each dish. eighty five percent of glob

interest in creating a new approach to the are enough so russia in fact. is not as strong economically as the ass is so at the moment it's in their interest because it's a strategic benefit for them because they have those i.m.f. relevant missiles and yet doesn't have but in the longer term russia is not able to compete with us in terms of an arms race because they just have a much smaller economy they have their life ways worse ways worse off in terms of technology ok also on the agenda in brussels today is a potential flashpoint between the west and russia ukraine do you see nato stepping in as some point in guaranteeing ukraine security you know that would that would be a higher risk of a military confrontation between nato and russia which both sides want to the point what we will see is maybe or and what they at least will see is unworkable. support for ukraine in condemnation of russia's action we may also see air patrols less likely sanctions that's what the u.s. is pushing for but the european partners they want to they want to postpone it to have

i don't have any deals in russia. i have nothing to do with russia.e no investments in russia, none whatsoever. i have no dealings with russia. i have no deals in russia. i have no deals that could happen in russia because we've stayed away. >> eastern promises. we now know those claims made by trump are 100% false. the president's former lawyer michael cohen agreed to congress about a real estate project he was pursuing in moscow while he was a candidate for president. it says it was a holy grail. writing -- trump seen here in december 1987 greeting mikhail gorbachev in washington, first visited moscow earlier that year to scope out luxury hotel sites, a plan that eventually fell through. he traveled again in 1996 exploring another project. that project fizzled. in fact, former trump biographer points out after he was sued for libel, trump told attorneys, it's ridiculous that i wouldn't be investing in russia. russia is one of the top places in the world for investment. tim, let's go over this. what is it about his movement to russia, what is it abou

gets more economic war with moscow we talk to russia's presidential commission and russia's trade old boy to the u.k. about british business in the largest country on earth that's all coming up in part two of going underground. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be for us that's what i'm up for three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the. west sydney. the ways of the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. cause you're going to most of us just a little sympathy want to. enter another one but alas this list of. many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sides of the draft used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities. than. most needed more know that it must not get a lot less and that. they can watch as they all choose to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house. be who could be about to be. a since it struggles of many couples. the push to put impulse respons

just tell me this who set the blockade between donbass and the rest of ukraine was it russia know it was done by ukrainian authorities they haven't forced a full economic blockade of the territory they consider their own they shoot at those people whom they consider their own citizens almost every day civilians die over we provide humanitarian support to those living only not to let those people starve to death. sanctions too of course were brought up as they are these last few years with a question of like them a putin about them and he had putin said that you know russia has always always been under sanctions or variants of them whenever you start to get too powerful somebody tries to contain it constrain it and my colleague who is there right now he asked the question about the double standard between the murder of a subject by apparently saudi arabia and the script power incident where russia is accused of poisoning a former spy. current showed you was assassinated everyone knows that there's evidence screw powell is alive however there are sanctions against russia and complete s

troops have to believe in turkey russia relations. i don't think it's going to affect turkey russia relations negatively as some people think many people many experts are trying to state that this is a warming of relations between the u.s. and turkey since they're withdrawing in supposedly giving a green light to the op a turkey's operation of the euphrates but when we look at the turkey russia relationship it's become a very deep relationship and it's a very strategic relationship right now you have the s four hundred deal you have the nuclear power plant deal you have gas pipelines you have working together on these are high level strategic and security agreements that you don't make these agreements based on a friendship that you expect to last for years you make these agreements based on friendships that you expect to last for decades so i don't see it affecting the turkey of russia relationship negatively turkey and russia did not become friends because turkey's relationship with america deteriorated turkey and russia became frie

he was lying about his dealings with russia and russia knew it, and russia was helping him to keep the secret. so this is bad. we've got a presidential candidate for one thing, offering a $50 million gift. it's a gift to a foreign leader, secretly. so he's compromised on that. they can expose him for that f they want. to russia has also compromised him because he is lying about this ongoing business suit in russia and russia's plan to provide him hundreds of millions of dollars for that real estate project if he gets those sanctions lifted. he is lying about that. he is not mentioning his personal stake in the sanction issue when he is talking about sanction. so russia has him compromised on that too. i mean the secret moscow deal is damning enough. it's damning enough that a criminal cover-up effort is launched that includes the president's lawyer lying to congress under oath about the deal. congressman jim himes from the intelligence committee was here last night and told us it might not just be michael cohen who was in on the cover-up. there were not a lot of inconsistent 70s the is