what we have here is the new york times really seizing the lead here to make sure that russia russia russia russia doesn't disappear from the consciousness of americans at a time when the allegations about russia gave you know from collusion to the actual russian hack yeah have been have been debunked yeah but there. york has not replayed that. alright russia has actually been host to a taliban delegation after peace talks between them and the us failed last year the russians are trying to broker a peace deal which the us has been unable to do in nearly 2 decades of war so who stands to gain from this maligning of russia. well the people who are behind russia gate in the 1st instance the afghans that want the us to stay and the us people want the us to stay in afghanistan the 2nd place you know when you look at the new york times and you see ignored a full body david sanger you have to realize that you for iraq. 8 months before you rock you wrote a piece that 7 times genocide weapons of mass destruction as flat shanked sanger's the archdeacon of flesh sacked when that fact turns out to be very eph

table and to focus as all a lot of british establishment would have done down the years russia russia russia russia russia to get us focus aggressively on russia's and bent really what the british government doesn't yet whether they follow this up with aggressive moves against russia where the report just comes out and it's a 2440 hour and then just we will get back to actually more important things because as i said if you look at the report there ain't much in it it's a lot of much ado about nothing and we have got far far more important things as british citizens to worry about at the moment which is about the biggest threat to our liberties and freedoms in this country which we faced probably since the days of cornwall so i think i think it really that's what we should be focusing on ok near look we're going to leave it there we've run out of time but so good to talk to this afternoon that was neil clark journalist and broadcaster thank you thank you. i mean the ongoing protests in america president on trump has announced that he will send federal forces to all violence ravaged cities across th

russia, russia, russia. for two and a half years and then they found nothing. they top russia, russia, russia. they top china. they talk all these countries. they say they get involved in our elections. this is easy. you can forge ballots. this is much easier for foreign countries. go ahead, steve. >> rigging the election is probably a nonstarter. when you agree with that? >> i just feel, i don't want to delay. i want to have the election. but i also do not want to have to wait for three months and then find out the ballots are all missing and the election doesn't mean anything. that is what is going to happen, steve. that's common sense. everyone knows it. smart people know what. stupid people may not know it. and some people don't want to talk about it, but they know it. we want to have an election where people actually go in. what's your name? my name is so-and-so and you signed the book. i've been doing it for years. it's very unfair to our country. if they do this, our country will be a laughing stock all over the world. everyone knows it doesn't work. how many ballots is he sending in ca

to the greatest fraud you know we talk about russia russia russia for 2 and a half years and then they found nothing there was nothing but they took russia russia russia they took china they took all of these countries they say they get involved in our elections this is easy you can forge ballots this is much easier for foreign countries go ahead. cuba is probably a start really. i'll just feel i don't want to delay i want to have the election but i also don't want to have to wait for 3 months and then find out that the ballots are all missing and the election doesn't mean anything that's what's going to happen see if it's common sense and everyone knows it. smart people know it stupid people may not know it and some people don't want to talk about it but they know it and know we want to have a an election where people actually go in and what you name my name is so and so bomi assigned the book like i've been doing for years. it's very very unfair to our country if they do this our country will be a laughingstock all over the world because everyone knows it doesn't work how many ballots is they sending in california 628000000 or some mas

russia, russia, russia, ukraine, ukraine. nobody has gone through and get i've gone more than any a president in the first three years in history. the snow president that's done what we've done with rebuilding the military, the judges. we will be up to almost 300 judges including two great supreme court judges at the end of this term. so it's really something that's been great, but you need stami stamina. you need physical health and you need mental health and because you have so much fake news, every once in a while you say -- first they say he wants to take over the world, w he's going to take over the world, he's a dictator. the next day they'll say he's crazy. the next day they'll say he's incompetent. the next day they'll say something -- so the last time i was at the hospital, probably a year ago, a little less than a year ago, i asked the doctor, is there some kind of a cognitive test that i could take because i've been hearing about it? because i want to shut these people up. they are fake news, they make up stories. i will do an interview with you -- i didn't say you can't ask me about this. i say ask me anything. i did one with chris wallace, he was nice enough to say -- he said i just want to tell the audience there was no question that's off bounds and he's a tough cookie and was a good interview, i liked it, i enjoyed it. and it was good, but i didn't say you can only ask this, you can only ask -- we have to be sharp. if you're in the offices of the presidency, we have to be sharp. so they were saying all these different things, going all over, whatever stock. none of it stuck, fortunately, but one of the reasons it didn't is i took a test.in i said to the doctor, dr. bonnie jackson, i said is there some kind of a test, and acuity teste and he said there actually is and he named it, whatever it might be it was 30 or 35 questions, the first questions are very easy, the last questions are much more difficult. like a memory question.li it's like you go person, woman, man, camera, tv. so they say could you repeat that? so i said yeah. so it's person, woman, man, camera, tv. they say okay, that's very good. if you got it in order, you get it extra points. now he's asking other questions, other questions. and then 10 minutes, 15, 20 minutes later they say remember that first question, not the first, but the tenth question, give us that again, can you do that again and you go person, woman, man, camera, tv. if you get it in order you get extra points. they said nobody gets it in order, it's actually not that easy but for me it was easy. and that's not an easy question. in other words, they ask you to you, they give you five names that you have to repeat them,ey and that's okay. if you repeat them out of order, that's okay, but, you know, it's not as good. but then when you go back about 20, 25 minutes later and they say go back to that, they don't tell you this, go back to that question and repeat them. kcan you do it? and you go, person, woman, man, camera, td. they say "that's amazing, how do you do that." i do that because i have a good memory. because i'm cognitively there. joe should take that test because something is going on and i say this with respect. i mean, going to probably happen to all of us, right? it's going to happen. but we can't take a chance of it happening. when you're dealing with russiad there's nobody been tougher than russia than me, nobody been tougher than china than me. they would love to see joe biden instead of, trump. we've taken and billions and billions, tens of billions of dollarstr from china, which they never give us anything. the worst or before the plague came in, they have the worst year just about in their history, 67 years. it was the worst year they had and 67 years, before the plague and we were doing great, we have the best economy. but we have to have somebody that's sharp. if this person isn't sharp, because i can tell you, president xi is sharp. president putin is should sharp. erdogan is sharp. you don't have any nonsharp people that you're dealing with and we can have somebody that's not 100%. so what i did -- it's a public test and i said if you take this test we may have to reveal it and i said that's all right. is it tough, tell me about it, i've never heard of it. i and i got a perfect mark. and the doctors said very few people can do th

we talk about russia, russia, russia for two and half yea rs russia, russia for two and half years andfound nothing. they talk russia all the time, they talk china, they talk all of these countries and say they get involved on elections, this is easy. you can forge ballots. this is much easier forge ballots. this is much easier forforeign forge ballots. this is much easier for foreign countries. go ahead. probably a nonstarter would you agree with that? moving the election. ijust feel. ido agree with that? moving the election. ijust feel. i do not want to delay. i want to have the election. i don't want to wait for three months and then find out that the ballots are all missing in the election doesn't mean anything. that is what is going to happen. that is everybody knows it. smart people know it. stupid people may not know it. and some people don't want to talk about it. but they know it. and no, we want to have an election where people actually go and what is your name, my name is so—and—so, you sign the book, like for years. it is very unfair to sign the book, like for years. it is

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we talk about russia, russia, russia, two-and-a-half years, they found nothing, but they talk russia, russia, russia. they talk china. they talk all these countries, say they get involved in our elections. this is easy. you can forge ballots. this is much easier for foreign countries. go ahead, steve. >> there's probably a nonstarter, wouldn't you agree with that? >> i just feel i don't want a delay, i want to have the election. i also don't want to have to wait three months and find out ballots are all missing and the election doesn't mean anything. that's what's going to happen, steve. that's common sense. and everyone knows it. smart people know it. stupid people may not know it, and some people don't want to talk about it, but they know it. and no. we want to have an election where people actually go in and what's your name, my name is so and so. you sign the book like i have been doing for years. it's very, very unfair to our country. if they do this, our country will be a laughing stock all over the world because everyone knows it doesn't work. how many ballots in california, 28

we talk about russia, russia, russia, for two and a half years and then they found nothing and there was nothing. but they talk russia, russia, russia. they talk china, they talk all these countries. they say they get involved in our elections. this is easy. you can forge ballots. this is much easier for foreign countries. >> it's probably a nonstarter. wouldn't you agree with that? >> i just feel, i don't want to delay. i want to have the election. but i also don't want to have to wait for three months and then find out that the ballots are all missing and the election doesn't mean anything. that's what's going to happen. that's common sense. everyone knows it. smart people know it. stupid people may not know it. and some people don't want to talk about it. but they know it. and we want to have an election where people actually go and what is your name, my name is so and so, you stein book like i've been doing for years. very, very unfair to our country. if they do this, our country will be a laughing stock all over the world. everyone knows it doesn't work. how many ballots are they sending in california? 28 millio

we talk about russia, russia, russia, for 2.5 years, and they found nothing and there was nothing, but they talk russia, russia, russia. they talk china. they talk all of these countries they say they get involved in our elections. this is easy. you can forge ballots. this is much easier for foreign countries. go ahead. >> probably a nonstarter. wouldn't you agree with that? pres. trump: i just feel -- i don't want to delay. i want to have the election. i also don't want to have to wait for three months and then find out that the ballots are all missing and the election does not mean anything. that is common sense. everyone knows it. smart people know it. people people -- stupid people may not know it and some people don't want to talk about it, but they know it. an electionave where people actually go in and what is your name? my name is so-and-so. sign the book. it is very unfair to our country. if they do this, our country will be a laughingstock all over the world. are theyballots sending in california, 28 million? other states are sending out millions and millions of ballots. they have done it. th

russia, russia, russia. >> everyone brings up russia here. ecurity correspondent is with us, because the issue was russia and intelligence suggesting russia may have perhaps paid bounties to have american soldiers killed in afghanistan. why would the president of the united states not bring that up with the russian leader? >> reporter: john, excellent question and one that hearken bes to a pattern we've seen with the president in his relationship with vladimir putin. obviously, this story when it first emerge a month ago sent shock waves because american lives were ultimately at stake and a lot of questions revolved about what the president was doing to keep an attack like that from happening and's prevent loss of life with american soldiers abroad. an issue the president pointed out in that axios interview, questions regarding the credibility of those reports, and we've heard that over the past month. questions from the white house as well as some people in the intelligence community who cast some doubt about the ner inevitability of these ki

russia's experience. no i think you know i think we hear the rhetoric but i think it's very different for china. rather than russia russia has russia has many ways it's not if you compare russia and china russia is not that they can the economy can find lots of work arounds of dollars and stuff like that and it's not all russia that banned from from from dollars. but for china given its. its role in international trade the lack of. exchange ability of the of the van which basically even now only accounts for less than 2 percent of international foreign exchange transactions. i think china is saying it's preparing for it but ultimately there's very little it can do about it and i don't i find it hard to see china being cut out of the dollar system and i think the economic consequences that for the world especially now would be far too grave so there's i think there has to be other pressure points rather than the the wiping out of the currents of currency access it would impose a huge cost to the world just bring it into to spec $2.00 for us for what would it mean for hong kong for hong kong's peg to the dollar what's at stake here f

russia, prussia, russia. two and half years and they found nothing. they talk russia, russia, russia they talk china, they talk all these countries they say they get involved in the elections. this is easy. you can forge ballots. this is much easier for foreign countries because -- >> reporter: there's probably a nonstarter. >> president trump: i just feel -- i don't want to delay. i want to have the election. but i also don't want have to wait for three months and find out the ballots are all missing and the election doesn't mean anything. that's what's going to happen. it's just common sense. everybody knows it. smart people know it. stupid people may not know it. and some people don't want to talk about it. but they know it. no, we want to have an election where people actually go in and what's your name, my name is so-and-so and you sign like i've been doing for years. it's very, very unfair to our country. if they do this, our country will be a laughing stock all over the world because everybody does it. how many ballots are they sending in california? 28 million or some

russia, russia, russia. if it reached my desk, i would have done something about it. >> you do read your brief? >> i do. i read it a lot. i handle it extraordinarily well, probably better than anybody you've interviewed in a long time. i read a lot. >> this morning at the white house, trump claimed colin powells with the bush administration figure who called it a fake issue. that was not true. in fact, on this network powell only talked about media coverage report. trump also added the about the reports of russian bounties. >> i don't know why they would be doing it, but if you're telling me they're doing it, aisle certainly take that under consideration. [ inaudible ] . >> i would respond appropriately. nobody has been tougher on russia. >> on another front the administration confirms it intends to withdraw 12,000 troops from germany, something many believe has been at the top of vladimir putin's wish list for years. those militarized federal agents in this country cracking down on protests in portland may also be on the move. the federal government says they would leave but the department of homeland security said they're staying there for now. also, atlanta, the city that was in the cybil rights strigle is paying tribute to congressman john lewis. his funeral will take place tomorrow. barack obama is delivering the eulogy. >>> one more item, we learned that ruth bader ginsburg is back in the hospital, but again for a non-invasive procedure it's called to clear a bile duct. she's expected out in a few days. it's a lot, nothing we can't handle as we start things off with shannon pettypiece, senior white house reporter for us at nbc digital, dr. redford, and jeremy dash. and former chief council to the house intel com

russia, russia, russia. >> so let's discuss now. cnn national security analyst and former director of national intelligence, director james clapper is here. thank you, director, for joining us. time and time again president trump has been soft on russia everything from election interference to the war in syria. so i don't have to tell you that the question that came to people's mind once again is, what explains president trump's submission to vladimir putin? >> well, don, and, you know, you and i have discussed this many times over the last three years. why the deference to putin? and, you know, all i can do is speculate that they've got something on him. there are financial complications. he admires putin or he's intimidated by him because he's, you know, putin's clearly alpha dog in the relationship. so that's one of the -- or some combination of the above. so i don't know. but it certainly doesn't serve the interests of the united states. >> meanwhile, the white house is moving ahead with the president's plan to withdraw nearly 12,000 troops from germany. senator mitt romney says it's a gift to russia. is he actively giving putin one of his greatest priorities? >> well, first of all, senator romney's absolutely right, it's a big w

president, they tried to beat you on russia, russia, russia. that didn't work out too well. they couldn't do it. they tried the impeachment hoax. that was on a perfect conversation. they tried anything. they tried it over and over. and this is their new hoax. >> if we came into this room today, and said the battle is over, we have won, it's 100% gone. the democrats would say the president has done a horrible job. >> now, they're beginning you the other. testing. testing. but they don't want to use all of the capacity that we've created. we have tremendous capacity. dr. birx will be explaining that. they know that. the governors know that. the democrat governors know that. they're the ones that are complaining. >> with governor cuomo, he had a chance to order 16,000 ventilators, two years ago, and he turned it down. he turned down the chance. now, he can't be blaming us. >> and i say, mike, don't call the governor of washington. you're wasting your time with him. don't call the woman in michigan. it doesn't make any difference what happens. >> don't want him to call the gover

what i find so comical, the three years of media and the democrat they screamed russia, russia, russiagetting to the bottom, they don't want to find out, i think of a lot of people knew the truth they would be mystified about the whole argue and make sure does not happen again irrespective of political party. liz: now there's a separate probe by u.s. attorney of the unmasking of general michael flynn. that is separate from the derm probe. it is noise great to see you, come back soon. >> you got it. take care. liz: iz coming up the battle over20 the 2020 vote, now heating up and we got a new front, this one with democrats wanting to count illegal immigrants that say they could read elections. james comer joins us next. he is leading the counterattack against that. ♪ as a caricature artist, i appreciate what makes each person unique. that's why i like liberty mutual. they get that no two people are alike and customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. almost done. what do you think? i don't see it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ an

russia, russia, russia. >> cnn has reported that intelligence on the russian bounty plot was in the president's daily briefing some time this past spring. president trump has spoken to putin at least seven times since march. therefore, has had at least seven opportunities to bring this up. i want to bring in retired republican congressman mike rogers who is the chairman of the house intelligence committee who is now a cnn national security commentator. chairman rogers, thanks for being here. obviously, even if the intelligence is disputed, which it is, this is not a slam dunk as has been said. some people in the intelligence community think this is definitely a real thing. other people question it. regardless, is there any excuse for an american president not raising this with putin given that they've had at least seven conversations? >> absolutely not. and you could see if the president said, hey, and this was part of a strategy. i don't want to talk about it. i'm going to use the next tier down to go in so you can take the gloves off and really hammer this home. but what i heard him say was i still don't believe, we're not going to do it, i didn't do it, which means no one's doing it. and that's what worries me most. remember, it made it into the president's daily brief. so, even if it was on the edge of maybe but maybe not, it made it into the president's daily brief. that is screened by a whole bunch of agencies that come together to put forth what they think is going to be in the president's daily brief. so the intelligence exists. that's what it tells me. and it tells me that they have just decided that they're going to err the other way. and i think when you have troops in the field in contact with the enemy and we already know general nickelson said, hey, guess what, the russians are giving money and guns to the taliban. we knew that. this bounty thing is not that far of a stretch. it's really concerning. we still have troops in afghanistan. >> right. and listen to this because as you know even if the intelligence about the bounties isn't definitive. general nickelson said clearly russia has been helping the taliban. listen to swan press the president on that topic. >> john nickelson, former head of forces in afghanistan, said, and this is when he was working for you, that russia is supplying weapons to the taliban. isn't that enough to challenge putin over the killings of -- >> well, we supplied weapons when we were fighting russia too. >> it's well known in the intelligence community that they're arming the taliban, russia. >> i don't know. when you say arming, is the taliban paying or are they -- >> supply weapons and money to the taliban. >> i have heard that, but it's never -- again, it's never reached my desk. >> so, not to put too fine a point on it. but that's literally a kremlin talking point. the idea that the president is confronted with the fact that general nicholson says the russians are helping the terrorists who are killing our soldiers and the president says, quote, well, we supplied weapons when they were fighting russia, too. and that obviously date

thinking about russia and this is russia centered and therefore it has a truly russian constitution so if the if it gets the go ahead it will set russia on a new course. that's good news for russia what was the rest the world to think about than. they will see russia is trying to get shot off from the outside world because one of the important clauses will be that russian law takes precedence over international law. at present that means in the future that no international court using international law can actually improve its will on russia russia cuba russia will say no we don't agree with that follow our constitution in fact and knows that judgment less a very important statement and a very important move because it places russia above international law and the outside world cannot interfere cannot impose its will on russia and what i remember is caught your eye story what other amendments caught your eye that aside the other no bonds was the fact that a russian official to be president you have to be 25 years to live 25 years in russia which means that in the future that if there is a. chaos or both who becomes the next president no new russian in exile can come back. and be

russia, russia, russia. >> we're joined now by malcolm nance, analyst and author. welcome to the program west played a small part of. . much of what the president said was false and not fully worth reairing. what is true, both intelligence overseen by the administration and these independent reports found this russian plot. how rare is it for the president to say the underlying intelligence isn't believable? >> the president retains the option of believing the information that is put in front of him. there's an old intelligence saying. we can give you intelligence but we can't make you think. we produce within the intelligence community. the people in the national security apparatus and in this position, the national command authority, the president, he must consume this information. donald trump refuses to consume the information. he doesn't want to read it. he doesn't want it read to him. he thinks his own internal gut is better than the 100,000 people and the near $100 billion that is spent every year in order to check this information. so there is been no other president who has really thrown information that has been as tangible as this. you might remember commander nichols in afghanistan said his afghan counter parts were bringing him the actual weapons, laying it on his desk. they could trace this back to gru, russian military intelligence, and find the funds to the point they would send s.e.a.l. team 6 out to capture they will. >> is there an increased danger here, from your knowledge, does this the russian apparatus view this, basically this pass? >> it emboldens our end ms. that's the materiterm. it emboldens our enemies. this literally gives our end , . enemies a green light. this gives vladimir putin and his exkgb officers teams, believe that the united states is working in their interests because the president of the united states won't even do the simplest defenses of his own armed forces or his intelligence apparatus. they must be very pleased. >> it is really striking, the way the president talks about a big story by any measure. always good to get your experienced views, sir. >> my pleasure to be here. >> appreciate it. >>> attorney general bill barr finally facing the music. he's facing new calls to resign. we'll be back in 30 seconds. we'll be back in 30 seconds. stop struggling to clean tough messes with sprays. try clean freak! it has three times the cleaning power to dissolve kitchen grease on contact. it works great on bathtubs. and even stainless steel. try clean freak from mr. clean. >>> attorney general barr under fire for partisan testimony. the way that he conducted himself and the repeatedly endorsing just about anything donald trump has said or stood for radless of the law. all of that leading to calls for his resignation, including one of the committee members who questioned him at that marathon hearing. >> you and your wife have donated over $730,000 to republican and conservative candidates. >> are you surprised i'm a republican? >> if in this upcoming november legislation, the president asks to you entintervene and try to p states from counting ballots after election day, will you do the right thing? yes or no? >> i will follow the law. >> you won't say no? >> i'll follow the law. >> is it ever appropriate for the president to solicit or accept foreign assistance in an election? >> it depends what kind of assistance. >> barr did go on to confirm that most of the foreign stance under discussion would be wrong to get from abroad. these discussions also reveal how mr. barr seems to selectively invoke references to the law when convenient. he used that line, you just saw on foreign assistance. when it came to president trump's handling of the coronavirus. let's be here. a doj official could try to say that there's no legal reason to get into that in detail. barr took opportunity to flash his political loyalty to donald trump by backing him at every turn. >> president trump said, i take no responsibility at all for the failure in testing. baltimore superb? yes or no? >> it was accurate. >> president trump irresponsibly suggested that the american people inject themselves with bleach. was that superb? yes or no? >> that's not what i heard. >> that's exactly what he said. president trump falsely claimed that 99% of covid-19 cases are, quote, totally harmless. baltimo was that superb? yes or no? >> i think what he was saying was that the fatality rate relatively is very low. >> the answer is, 150,000 americans are dead. >> you take it all together. more happened than you could fit into one night of coverage at that hearing. but one of the big takeaways that we'll dig into with our special guest is what mr. barr is saying under oath. what he really thinks his oath is with people pointing to the attorney general's line that i played earlier, and it is worth playing again to sum up his own words on his role. >> are you surprised i'm a republican? >> we are joined now by former acting united states solicitor general neal katyal. are you surprised? >> i am surprised by the attorney general's testimony. i mean, attorney general barr yesterday seemed to be frankly, ari, at the rudolph giuliani stage of his personal development. someone who had competence a while back and traded it away from modern relevance and threw away all principle. he came in with a huge cloud over him. it wasn't a part sandal cloud. there was an editorial by ken starr's deputy. a very prominent republican hair who said, barr, you lied about the mueller report. this roger stone stuff is unforgivable. and barr did nothing yesterday to really dispel any of. . i work for two attorneys general. i've been in hundreds of senior leadership meetings. i've never seen one in which a presidential campaign comes up. and he admitted the campaign had come up. this is not the way the campaign operates. >> as someone who has been in the news yourself. i'll remind people as well, you have been very fair and positive about plenty of people who happen to be republicaned but who you think are qualified to be judges. with the thousands of doj rising up, i think far from that story. it is something deep better mr. barr and the way he's conducting himself. i wanted to get your views on something we didn't have time for. it is a new clip on this whole battle of what really happened in the mueller probe and the russia inspector general review and what else may come by november. take a look. >> let's talk about the memo directing to exclude undocumented people. >> do you repeat these claims today there was no basis for this investigation and it was politically motivated by calling at this time russia gate scandal. in december 2019, the justice department's own inspector general, your department's, michael horwitz, found the investigation had been initiated properly and without political bias. isn't that correct? >> no. >> it's not -- that was not the finding? >> no. em -- >> you are wrong, he found the investigation -- had been initiated properly. i'm reclaiming my time without political bias. >> a flash of emotion there, neal. what is important to you about the substance? >> i think what is important about the substance is the selective action by the attorney general and the way he reads things. the congressman there was absolutely right. the inspector general at the justice department found that t

russia, russia, russia. >> did you hear that? the president of the united states, who has a constitutional responsibility to protect and defend america's interest at home and abroad is shrugging it off when it comes to vladamir putin. it's been almost five months since the president was made aware of the allegations, and not once has he defended america or demanded answers from the kremlin. mind you, he's had cervicals with the russian leader, seven sense these reports emerged. and not one word about it. and it would be bad enough as some sort of one off, but this is part of a pattern with trump, a pattern of being grotesquely solicitous of putin. >> now all of a sudden putin's going wild with bombing i.c.e., and th -- isis, not a bad thing. >> putin is a killer. >> we've got a lot of killers. you think our country is so innocent. i would rather see russian the g-8 opposed to the g7. 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. >> okay. now if all of that is not outrageous enough, today defense secretary mark esper announced the removal of 12,000 troops from germany, a long sought-out ambition of putin's, that undermines our nato alliance. for more, i'm joined by california congressman eric swalwell. he attended yesterday's judiciary committee hearing with congressman gomert. congressman, i'm going to have you go first. i want to let you listen to one more bit of this interview. this is if question he was asked. >> john nicholson, former head of forces in afghanistan said, this is when he was working for you, that russia is supplying weapons to the taliban. isn't that enough to challenge putin over the killings of -- >> we supplied weapons when they were fighting russia, too. when the taliban in afghanistan -- >> it was a different era. >> i'm just

russia, russia, russia, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine and nobody's gone through and i've done more than any president in the history. no president has done what we have done, rebuilding the military, judges. we will be up to almost 300 judges including two great supreme court judges at the end of this term. so what is really something that is been great. but you need stamina. you need physical health, and you need mental help. because you have so much from every once in a while, first, they say he wants to take over the world. he's going to take over the world, he's a dictator. the next world, they will say he's crazy. the next incompetent in the next day something else. so the last time i was at the hospital, probably a year ago or less than a year ago, i asked the doctor. is there some kind of cognitive test that i can take? because i've been hearing about it. because i want to shut these people up. they are fake news. they make up stories. i mean, like i will go and with an interview with you and i didn't say you could ask dumb it can't ask me anything. i did one with chris wallace and he was nice enough to say i want to tell the audience there is no question off balance. and it was a good interview. i liked it, and he enjoyed. but i didn't say you can only ask this. if you are in the office of the presidency, you have to be sharp. so they are saying all these different things. which ever stuck, none it stuck fortunately. one of the reasons as i took a test. i said to the doctor, dr. ronnie jackson, is there some kind of an attack, acuity test? he said there actually is and he named it whatever it might be. it was 30/35 questions and the last questions are much more difficult. like the memory question. it is like you will go person, woman, man, camera, tv. so could you repeat that? i said, yeah. person, woman, man, camera, tv. okay, that is very good. if you get it in order, you get extra points. okay, now is asking other questions, other questions. and then, 10 minutes, 15 minutes later, remember the first question, not the first but the tenth question? give us that again. and you go person, woman, man, camera, tv. if you get it in order, you get extra points. i said nobody gets it in order. it's actually not that easy but for me it was easy. that is not an easy question. in other words, they ask you, they give you five names and you have to repeat them and that's okay. if you repeat them out of order, it is okay, but you know, not as good. but then when you go back about 20, 25 minutes later and they say go back to that question and they don't tell you this. go back to that question and repeat them. can you do it? can you go person, woman, man, camera, tv. they say, that is amazing. how did you do that? i do it because i have a good memory. because i'm cognitive lead there. now, joe should take that test. because something is going on. and i say this with respect. i mean, and it will probably happen to all of us, right? it's going to happen. we can't take a chance of it happening. when you are dealing with russiaobody is tougher than me. nobody tougher on china than me, i can tell you right now. they would love to see joe biden instead of trump. we have taken in billions of dollars from china. they never gave us anything. they have the worst year before the plague came in they have the worst year and just about the history, 67 years. the worst year in 57 years before the plague. and we were doing great. we have the best economy. but we have to have somebody that is sharp. if this person is not sharp because i can tell you, president xi is sharp. president vladimir putin, sharp. you don't have any nonsharp people that you are dealing with. and we can't have somebody that is not 100%. and so what i did, you know, it is a public test. they said, you know, if you take this test, we may have to reveal this. it's all right. is it tough? tell me about it. i've never heard of it. and i got a perfect mark. and the doctors said very few people can do that. very people can do that. it's not that easy. ot

russia, russia, russia. >> jonathan joining us next with his exclusive interview. next wh his exclusive interview. ♪ right now, there are over a million walmart associates doing their best to keep our nation going. because despite everything that's changed, one thing hasn't and that's our devotion to you and our communities. our priority will always be to keep you and our associates safe, while making sure you can still get the essentials you need. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome back, everybody. joining me now with a look at axios a.m., national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan. we have an exclusive clip, jonathan, from axios on hbo, featuring your sit-down with the president about a phone call that he recently had with russian president vladimir putin. i want to take a listen to that, and then we'll talk. >> it's been widely reported that the u.s. has intelligence indicating that russiaes to taliban fighters to kill american soldiers. >> right, right. >> you had a phone call with vladimir putin on july 23rd. did you bring up this issue? >> no. that was a phone call to discuss other things. and frankly, that's an issue that many people said was fake news. >> who said it was fake news? >> i think a lot of people. if you look at some of the wonderful folks from the bush administration, some of them, not any friends of mine, were saying that it's a fake issue. but a lot of people said it's a fake issue. we had a call talking about nuke lure proliferation, which is a very big subject where they would lake to do something and so would i. we never discussed that, no. >> and you have never discussed it with him. >> i have never discussed it with him, no. >> my favorite part of that clip is when you look at him and kind of go, "fake news?" break down for us, jonathan, what exactly is happening here. because the president has actually spoken to him more than just one time -- >

will lead to the greatest fraud -- we talk about russia, russia, russia, for 2 1/2 years and they found nothing and there was nothing. but they talk russiarussia. they talk china. they talk all of these countries, they say they get involved in our elections. this is easy. you can forge ballots. this is much easier for foreign countries. go ahead, steve. reporter: delaying the election is non-starter, wouldn't you agree with that. president trump: i just feel, i don't want to delay, wait three months and ballots are all missing that the election doesn't mean anything. that is what is going to happen, steve. that is common sense. everyone knows it. smart people know it. stupid people may not know it. some people don't want to talk about it. but they know it. and, no, we want to have an election where people actually go in and, what's your name? my name is so-and-so. boom, sign the book like i've been doing for years. it is very, very unfair to our country. if they do this, our country will be a laughingstock all over the world, because everyone know it doesn't work. how many ballots is he sending in california? 28 million or some massive n

russia, russia, russia. nick: former intelligence officials tell pbs newshour the taliban received russian military intelligence money to officials debated the target u.s. service me intelligence, and commanders say the bounties did not likely rebulting deaths. it was an increase in russian support to the taliban, as already detailed in 2018 by then top commander gen. john nicholson. we've had weapons brought to this headquarters and given to us by afghan leaders and said, this was given by the russians to the talibanwe know that the ssians are involved.n, >> john nicholormer head of forces in afghanistan, said--and this is when he was working for you--that russiapons to the taliban. isn't that enough to challenge over the killings of us soldiers? >> well, we supplied weapons iaen they were fighting ru, too. you know, when we were, when they were fighting--fge taliban, innistan, >> but that's a different era. >> well, it'a different-- i'm just saying-- >> but--t >> i'm jsaying, we did that too. nick: in 1979, the soviet union invaded afghanistan to prop up an unpopular communist government. the united states supporteanand armed afighters known as mujahideen, who targeted soviet troops. in 2001, the united states was attacked, and waged war in ghanistan because that's where , 9/11's planners plotted. is inaccurate, says doug lute. >> the equivalence here is inappropriate because the situation is exactly reversed fromhat it was 30 or 40 year ago. nick: doug lute is a retiredte lint general, appointed by president bush to coordinate the afghanistan and iraq wars, and by president obama to be nato ambassador. he said both his former bosses, would h

russia, russia. for two and a half years and then they found nothing, and there was nothing. but they talk russia, russiarussia, they talk china, they talk allay of these countries. they say they get involved in our elections. this is easy. you can forge ballots. this is much easier for foreign countries. go ahead, steve. >> -- probably a nonstarter, wouldn't you agree to that? >> i just feel i want to delay. i want to have the election. but i also don't want to have to wait for three months and then find out that the ballots are all missing and the election doesn't mean anything. that'sll what's going to happen, steve. that's common sense. and everyone knows w out. smart people know it. stupid people may not know it. and some people don't want to talk about it, but they know it. and, no, we want to have an election where people actually go and what's your name, my name is so and so, you sign the book like i've been doing for jeer years. it's very, very unfair to our country. if they do this, our country will be a laughing stock. how many ballots are they sending to california? 28 million or some massive

russia, russia, russia. we see the bounty program. that was the heart of the impeachment case, because he was trying to get ukraine to absolve russian of intervention in 2016. that was one of the investigations he wanted. and we still have new information coming out of the mueller report that was recently unredacted. it was about both manafort and stone. the original sin of the trump presidency, the russian intervention, and i would say trump's complicity in it, not collusion, but complicity, is still with us today. and we still don't even understand everything that happened in 2016 and all the reasons that trump still won't criticize putin, even when he's putting a bounty on americans in afghanistan. >> so what can you prove the reason might be for trump's reticence? >> i think it's mind blowing in a way, because any other politician, just if you want to get elected, will at least pay lip service to protecting american troops overseas. whether they cared or not. and he won't even do that. we see in john bolton's book that part of it that was not covered extensively when it came out a couple of weeks ago, that he tried to get trump to challenge putin on intervention in u.s. elections in 2016 and make sure they're not going to do it again in 2020, even though the fbi says they are up to it again, and trump refused to do this. bolton gave him a memo. just gave this memo to putin. you don't have to say anything. and still trump wouldn't do it. we're left with this puzzle that just won't go away about why he is so enthralled with and by putin and refuses to stand up to him, even when american lives, let alone an american election, is at risk >> where does bill barr fit into all of this? >> that's interesting, because one of his major priorities, it seems to be, since he took office, as attorney general, is to basically undo the mueller investigation and anything related to the russian investigation. so he intervened in the roger stone case to get roger stone a lesser sentence that may lead to a pardon, we don't know yet. and he intervened in the michael flynn case, and he has taken u.s. attorneys and had them reinvestigate the russian investigation itself. so even though the fbi director, chris wray, and the director of national intelligence, who trump appointed, john ratcliffe, say that russia is yet again -- right now, as you and i speak, trying to intervene in the 2020 election, bill barr is assigning people to go back and look at the 2016 investigation to try to clear trump, rather than saying anything publicly about russia is doing right now to perhaps throw the next election into chaos. and maybe once again, as the intelligence community once concluded, try to help donald trump win. >> and we're about out of time, david. but will you keep the beard post this pandemic period? >> you know, i was thinking that maybe i'll wait until election day. >> and will the results affect your grooming or just election day's a natural time? >> it seems to be a point of -- a natural point that we're working towards as a country that could be somewhat significant. >> yeah, well, and all i would add to that is you said election day, but depending on how close it is and counting mail ballots, it could be election days. david corn, we'll be coming back to you. i hope people check out your

they are all the way back to the russia, russia, russia. >> sean: was there any evidence of that? was there any evidence ever given of any contact with any russian intelligence? >> there was evidence that i had a twitter direct message exchange with lucifer .2. a persona. if you look at when that happens, it happened long after wikileaks had published all their material. if you look at the actual content of the exchange, it's benign. there is no collusion. there's no collaboration. and thirdly we don't even know that guccifer 2.0 is a russian agent. just because john brennan said, he said the steele dossier was true. i could have proved at trial using forensic evidence and expert testimony from fellows like the former sna counterintelligence expert and ray mcgovern that no one hacked the dnc, that there was no online hack of the dnc, that the information based on the download times was downloaded to a portable desk and taken out the back door. but i wasn't allowed to present that defense because judge jackson would not allow it. >> sean: roger, i want to believe in our system of j

russia doesn't want anything to do with afghanistan. let me just tell you about russia. russia used to be a thing called the soviet union. because of afghanistan, they went bankrupt. they baecame russia do understand, okay? the last thing russia wants to do is get too much involved with afghanistan. they tried that once, it didn't work out. >> "let me tell you about russia," and then let me defend russia. none of that is normal. nor is it normal for a reporter to have to explain to an american president just how an adversary is arming our enemies, so they can kill our soldiers. and it's remarkable to see trump there, as he often does, going further to say that even if it's true, well, america did that too, arming the afghans against russia. it's a stunning piece of propaganda coming out of the american president's mouth, that is at this point only furthered by pro-putin puppets. and donald trump. and if trump's willing to say and do all of that publicly, if he's not even concerned enough about the possibility, the possibility, the tip deemed verified enough to put in his pdb that russia might be paying the taliban to kill american soldiers, at some point it's not even worth asking wh

russia what we have seen in this report is possum parcel. very well orchestrated and i was very loose less media p.r. and political campaign against russia because russia is not russia of the 99 seas russia is a russia resurrections much of it so yes iran's superpower status is and that is what is high in this report that is what is behind the fear of britain and america well it's an immature think my very curious about it is that it's essentially is demanding people like ourselves and our viewers to prove a negative because they make a claim and they tried to build a case to satisfy that claim but they obviously don't and they turn around and say you have to prove to us that they didn't meddle this is inverting the entire inverted and logically end and actually how you approach the law in any kind of meaningful honest investigation go ahead oh well this is exactly the point because instead of saying you know we have all this evidence that there is russian meddling you know politics and you know setting out what the evidence isn't coming to conclusions all this saying is there is no evidence of russian meddling in our politics that must mean that the intelligence se

russia doesn't want anything to do with afghanistan. let me just tell you about russia. russia used to be a thing called the soviet union. because of afghanistan, they went bankrupt. they became russia, just so you do understand, okay? the last thing russia wants to do is get too much involved with afghanistan. >> russia used to be the soviet union. hmm, not a whole lot of people knew that. and, there you have it, if you heard him. that's what this president cares about. defending russia or the former soviet union. but he can't be bothered to say one word about the 150,000 americans dead fr americans, dead, from the coronavirus. i asked, earlier, where is the outrage? where is the outrage over the more than 150,000 fellow americans, citizens, losing their lives to this virus? more will. that's a question for david axelrod and art kaplan. they're next. if you're at home thinking about your financial plan... so are we. prudential helps 1 in 7 americans with their financial needs. that's over 25 million people. with over 90 years of investment experience, our thousands of financial professionals can help with secure video chat or on the phone. we make it easy for you with online tools,

for syria's information and we just report the same thing all the time russia interferes russia gets involved russia destroys russia is called a whore style contrie in this report well this is a very aggressive move i cannot imagine our parliament call in britain and aggressive or horse style country well of course in the united states hostile country despite all their actions against us so you can see from this report who is really aggressive and then under the thumb see you in just a 2nd to the military to me to we are going out on a diagonal from a legal point of view i want to get to everyone i will just 10 seconds. ok just 10 seconds in this report this report calls to investigate every of on connected to porton and some call it suggest that any people connected to the kind of russian state even if they're involved in charity activities in the u.k. are somehow suspect you imagine what would happen if the russian parliament areas or the russian press wrote that anyone connected to boris johnson should be suspect that's absolutely wrong from a legal point of view and to say that boris johnson or the conservative