i hope people in the west already understood that whatever russian ministry of foreign affairs is sayingt necessarily always the truth unfortunately. moreover, what russian information sources are bringing on the public. that's also quite frequently something that is made up. that is something that we have to deal with in our everyday life. what you are asking about... the ukrainian government had to make a response to the actions of the russian federation when the so—called puppet, basically, authorities that are installed on the occupied territories by the russian federation on us, they expropriated 26 ukrainian enterprises that are on the territory. coalmines and steel? yes, operating within ukrainian law but they expropriated that so after that we couldn't continue working with them. moreover, the russian federation decided to recognise the so—called ids produced on the local ground in the territory not controlled by the ukraine. and they introduced the ruble as the only currency. so the ukrainian government unfortunately had to react with the measure that we have taken. the blockade

i hope people in the west already understood that whatever russian ministry of foreign affairs is sayingruth unfortunately. moreover, what russian information sources are bringing on the public. that's also quite frequently something that is made up. that is something that we have to deal with in our everyday life. what you are asking about... the ukrainian government had to make a response to the actions of the russian federation when the so—called puppet, basically, authorities that are installed on the occupied territories by the russian federation on us, they expropriated 26 ukrainian enterprises that are on the territory. coalmines and steel? yes, operating within ukrainian law but they expropriated that so after that we couldn't continue working with them. moreover, the russian federation decided to recognise the so—called ids produced on the local ground in the territory not controlled by the ukraine. and they introduced the ruble as the only currency. so the ukrainian government unfortunately had to react with the measure that we have taken. the blockade. but civilians might be s

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philip to know exactly what's being said well the russian's foreign minister was asked about your marks in a press conference at the ministry of foreign affairs and circular from the squad remarks that russia has long meddled with us elections before twenty sixteen as quote common sense take a listen to exactly what lavrov said. if you mean. two thousand and two thousand and twelve it means president obama. i will leave it without comment because it transcends the bounds of what's reasonable. and the meantime lavrov also did an interview with n.b.c. where he was questioned about these alleged secret meetings that took place between president trump and president putin on the sidelines of the g. twenty summit in hamburg earlier this month and that's because a lot of media have been reporting and speculating that on top of the three official meetings between trump and putin that been widely reported there had been at this channel meetings where extra secret deals have been made the white house and the kremlin had come out to the nie this and in this interview leverage once again this mystery allegation and even news and the analogy of the kinder

government off for what the intentions of the trump campaign had been but kislyak is not a russian spy. people say this guy comes from a foreign affairs ministry background. his protege, rather, the famous soviet ambassador to the united states. these guys play it more by the book. part of the job is to gather intention and information and read the tea leaves of the countries they're posted in but it would be surprising if he was kind of feeding nonsense and lies about what he had discussed with jeff sessions to moscow and indeed, the fact this exchange took place and only reported now indicates that there was more toing and froing than we had previously known about. if you look at the timeline, when did vladimir putin take the decision to really interfere with the u.s. election and political system by authorizing hackers? if it can be shown this decision was taken some time after information was conveyed by trump campaign officials to russian officials, look, we're guys on bilateral relations. we want reset 2.0. she's a hawk, looking for war with russia. world war iii. going to do businesses with you. >> those are theories and allegations. if

russian foreign ministry says the new u.s. sanctions are extreme aggression of u.s. and international affairs. it now goes to the president to his desk whose staff has not clearly said if he would sign it. >> it makes no sense for him to not sign this bill. >> the blame game is underway, along with the scramble over what to do next after senate republicans failed to repeal obamacare in a very late -- let's call it an early morning showdown on capitol hill. >> proud everybody stayed up that late, including you. >> we're minutes from senate minority leader chuck schumer holding a news conference. he's calling for immediate bipartisan work on how to improve the health care system. >> just going to do push-ups. >> these three republicans, keep note of them, they are the ones who voted no on the skinny repeal. senator john mccain was the shocker. the other two were expected to vote no. he walked into the senate chamber, got the attention of the vote taker with his hand and then turned his thumb down on the no vote getting cheers from the democrats in the room. >> can i say two women and war hero. >

russian foreign ministry says the few u.s. sanctions are quote extreme aggression of u.s. and international affairs.rdered the u.s. to reduce its diplomatic staff to 455 people. that number matches the amount of russian diplomatic staff currently in the united states, in addition, russia says that the u.s. embassy will not be able to use a moscow warehouse, both american diplomatic properties starting august 1st. joining us now, from control colombia university, and the "new york times" reporter, joins us as well. rick, the russia sanctions package in essence it does what? >> it continues the sanctions that were started for the annexation of crimea and the invasion of ukraine and corker and various folks it's a bipartisan majority. people in congress realize russia has been meddling in a way not only in our space but in eastern russia, that was so amazing, they didn't retaliate. now it's back to the same bad footing that it was on before tit-for-tat, you do something to me, i do something to you. >> often the president, one might argue, kind of worries about the appearance of things and what it look