russian greatness. >> it was the kind of pageantry which putin and russians in general loved.s riding very high. this was, you know, a moment of personal and national triumph from his point of view. (cheers and applause) >> narrator: the games were an announcement that the world needed to pay attention to russia and vladimir putin. (putin speaking russian) (cheers and applause) >> sochi was a huge moment for vladimir putin, and it was meant to be his validation and crowning moment of acceptance on the world stage as, you know, sort of the new russian tsar. (cheers and applause) >> narrator: but putin's moment of glory was tarnished by troubles just over russia's border: in ukraine. >> ukraine is stuck very much in the middle both geographically... >>> ...with the protests in neighboring ukraine, what is russian president... >> narrator: to putin, the crowds were a repudiation. the protesters demanded their government move away from russia and toward the west. coming in the midst of his olympics, putin saw something else. >> putin was sure that that was a real conspiracy to rai

and a russian military intelligence veteran and a russian oligarch, and russian energy executives and also the russian deputy prime minister. and, of course, the russian ambassador. attorney general jeff sessions today upgraded his memory stick once again to declare to the house judiciary committee that despite his previous denials that he'd had any information about there being any russian contact by members of the trump campaign, he now does recall that he may have been aware about some of those contacts during the campaign. he insists that his evolving statements on these matters is all truthful. is all true. it's all innocent. he insists that he's consistently told the truth, even though his story has consistently changed. we don't know everything the trump campaign was doing with all of these russian contacts, while russia was interfering in the election to help trump win it. but after russia interfered to help trump win the election and then trump won the election, the trump administration has continued to behave toward russia in ways we don't have to speculate about. we don't h

are russian government to kremlin flatter me or putin who for the last time are these russian thereby it's so let me get this straight they're going to get back at you by repeating something which apparently may or may not be true they're not making this up they're not lying they're not crafting some story of you having been and all they're doing is repeating all according to you allegations made by someone else who benefits from this who is going to say i was yes george tech guy yes yes this was the man who years ago spoke against russia through l g b t policies ah ha who thinks like that nobody would have thought of that until you bring. it up and it's patently absurd and this also goes to this notion of how does this russian interference work is what more facebook ads does anybody ever stop and ask what is this mean who is believing this it is an example of our new law is an example of things changing slightly because given the russian hysteria he might have been entitle to think you might get some sympathy for accusing russian boats for doing this but that wasn't the case was it i

the russians do.who you go to, the other organized crime group. >> there is something particular about the multiple bankruptcieb. unlike other real estate developers. he was squeezed off from the traditional sources of capital and real estate, the entire game is that you borrow money. you invest it. you hope to make money and get out. that's basically out. if you can't borrow money, you have a harder time. >> one of the most interesting things to the sale was the timing of it. it happened in 2008 when trump was going through essentially multiple bankruptcies. nobody would loan to him. this was a huge infusion of cash into his bank account, so, you know, when you look at the circumstances surrounding the sale and more questionable. >> can you imagine a world in which there is -- game out the possibility of some kind of indictments related to these offenses that don't relate back to the sort of core question about russian political. >> i would say highly likely. we know for certain the president is extr

he denies the allegations and then now deleted tweet takei said russian bought. the allegations against him he attached a charge which claimed to show he was targeted by russian trolls however he didn't seem to win over the backing of those on social media. he should have said the cling on may have done it no he says russian bots so let me get this straight they're going to get back at you by repeating something which apparently may or may not be true they're not making this up they're not lying they're not crafting some story of you having been and all they're doing is repeating all according to you allegations made by someone else who benefits from this this absolutely specious idea that somebody is going to go through all of this work to make some some strange and some cryptic association with some has been star trek actor or what an accusation is forty years old i mean it doesn't make any sense but it's great commentary. the head of the world and he doping agency has admitted it's almost impossible to separate sport and politics craig read his comments follow

new york city russian bank branch. sam clovis is credited with bringing carter page on to the trump campaign and also credited with bringing on to the campaign george papadopoulos, who has now become quite famous for lying with the fbi about his contacts with russia during the trump campaign. in the plea agreement revealed by a judge on money, it was apparently sam clovis who was george papadopoulos's supervisor who told him he was doing great work when he initiated and maintained contact with russian sources. when george papadopoulos suggested that there be an off-the-record meeting between trump campaign personnel and russian officials up to and including people from putin's office, sam clovis is reportedly the campaign supervisor who encouraged george papadopoulos to take that trip. well, now we've learned that m clovis has not only spoken to investigators on the russia investigation, we've learned that he's also reportedly testified to the grand jury in the mueller investigation. now, this happened while sam clovis

and pressure on the russian media doesn't end there u.s. lawmakers are now considering a bill proposing cable and satellite providers not be required to carry video content that somehow link to the kremlin that would mean providers could decide for themselves whether or not to show such content and what's important to note here is that that belief yet to be approved or russia has promised a similar response from some top politicians proposing a tit for tat move if the bill is adopted journalist and writer neil clark believes the pressure on the russian media is because of his recent success. well this is absolutely outrageous i think we could quit mcafee's and it really is mccarthyism on steroids now and it's a significant escalation in this cold war launched by the us against russian media r.t. as a growing audience share in america around the world in r.t. puts a different narrative out to the war party narrative on issues like the syrian conflict for example so i think the war mongers in the us are very angry that artie's been so success

interference in the vote one example used to suppose that russian who's profile didn't fit a typical british political observer however the person posted or retreated nearly one hundred posts mentioning that the political and media scare mongering may have actually now how can effect as poorly boyko reports in recent weeks and days the british media has been heavily focused on the lack of progress the braggs it talks and the problems facing to raise them a government the russian interference story has drawn the fire away from all that and now media outlets can pour over the question of how many trolls does it take to incite a revolution not many according to everyone we approached to discuss this story. london do you think four hundred twitter accounts from from russia is enough to change the outcome of the referendum here in the u.k. well i think it could i think it could sort of and there could be a lot more yeah so you think it's only the tip of the iceberg yes i think it's just the tip of the iceberg i believe there is something at the bottom of it and i'm being very careful with

leaks is claiming that the cia's created a computer program that impersonates the software of the russian antivirus companies kaspersky loved let's get more details on this story on correspondent david morgan kaleb good to see you what else then is in these revelations. well we've got a new batch of documents from the vault eight of wiki leaks this new batch of documents that's been released showing some of the internal workings of the cia particularly in relation to software now what was released is a program called a hive and essentially this is a major component of cia infrastructure and malware and it provides a covert communications about how the cia operates and what kind of software and malware that they're using now one thing that was revealed in these in these documents is that a century the cia had a program to imitate kaspersky laboratory now this is a huge popular russian software company and it's recently been subject to scandal u.s. authorities have actually banned. any government agencies from using kaspersky laboratories citing concerns about national security this happene

plan of money would you make of the russian plan or if it's just a plan to push russia to the front of everything that's happening in syria the man what syria is just a part of the big game that's happening in the middle east and all not only in the middle east for russia the main thing is to build an anti american coalition with iran and hopefully with turkey on the basis of this syrian campaign of course iran and russia already kind of anti american russian military both by the poor and forces in syria russia outflanked nato but ultimate goal would be to part possibly pull turkey away from the united states and nato and of course syria is important because an asset is important for russia because he can guarantee that russia will retain military naval base on the syrian mediterranean coast and even more importantly and their bases there so this is just part of it and russia is using what's happening right now in syria to promote its overall strategic intentions which you're even much wider than the entire middle east sammael ramani. this plan it seems when you listen to both of th

his bella russian is worse than his russian years ago so he needs two official languages. he's a course badly educated dictator if they're gonna think that it's a group where mullah brazil ejector. opposition is largely for britain in belarus. in the one nine hundred ninety s. just gave rich stood as a candidate for a new party but he didn't stand a chance. at that time he still hoped to supplant the old values with new ones. it was a vain hope that the. overwhelming majority of people in belarus support democratic principles our leadership only came to power with russia's help. he would deliver is there has to be if he does what he wants and everyone else shuts up and accept that. if they have jacked he removes them from the fi trough and a fast buck but the west doesn't understand that we're not a state based on law and order and that the way to becoming one has been blocked we're not a country where the government is democratically elected and we were moving towards it but then we were stopped. in. the will of the liquid a bottomless no problem. so at least russia got o

and we saw a lot of the evidence that russian hackers and russian advertisers were playing in our electionsto the right and the left, entangled in a very bitter war trying to really promote that. so the rnc maybe should have been a little more pro active, joy, you're right. but what about the fec and what about getting them to get a little bit more reactive and a little bit more proactive and trying to be, you know, prevent some of this? >> richard painter, a lot of democrats doing a lot of soul searching wishing the obama administration had been more aggressive trying to combat this. we have examples in other countries, richard, same thing happ happening. an aggressive attempt to hack into e-mails of the french, the candidates running for the president in france. hackers came after them, but the french were prepared, headline in the "new york times." we had finland and estonia attacked by the same exact kind of campaign. but the difference is, that in those countries and in germany and other places, both of the political parties came together and were very public about saying, we don't car

about properties russians have bought, russian oilgarches.u go beyond the collusion thing, we'll flip out, we'll fire the special prosecutor, and there's something there they're sensitive about. i think if you're looking now at this investigation and it's clear mueller is looking at people with financial experience and money laundering and your top campaign guy got nabbed it's super worrisome. >> there's a lot of russian oilgarches in the global luxury real estate market around the world, buying lots of properties because it's a useful asset to park prept. how much do you think trump is a person selling and they're parking money there. how much do you have a sense that russian oilgarches that are doing that are in contact? >> i think what you said is correct. i think rugs love to buy property to park their cash abroad and to have a place to flee. in you're successful in russia, if you reach a certain level of success, then you have been blessed by the state. does that mean you must participate to get trump elected? not necessarily. it teams t

we got russian ambassador, russian banker, russian ex-con, military, russian lawyer, russian lobbyistssian money laundering suspect. russian billionaire son and connected academic, oil executive, russian foreign ministry official, russian president's fake niece and now new guy head of russia's fund. -- sovereign wealth fund. that's too big for a band. that's too big for a marching band in most towns. i mean, but there is one more thing to say about the russian sovereign wealth fund that met with eric prince during the transition. the russian direct investment fund, the fund he runs is one of many russian government institutions under u.s. sanctions. since russia invaded crimea in 2014, which means that no american business person, even eric prince, should be doing business with that fund. prince's explanation about that meeting in the seychelles is it had nothing to do with the trump transition. it was just business. it couldn't have been business with that guy from the russian sovereign wealth fund, at least it couldn't have been business if it was legal business. eric prince schedul

a tangential association with the russians or with anything russian for fear of being branded by their political opponents it's ridiculous it's max of the one nine hundred fifty s. to tell you the truth i wish that i had better understood what was happening as it was happening but like i said a moment ago i thought it was a joke in the beginning and before i could even process what was going on two of jacked the decision had been made to remove me and it wasn't until i was doing the television interview that i finally said to the m.e.p. wait a minute did i get thrown off that panel and he said well we didn't want to make a problem with the other guests and and i thought wow ok well american politics rears its ugly head even in brussels but sputnik and ati guests have had to endure all that share of naming and shaming and your pain think tank recently branded them useful idiots. because we're useful idiot i mean useful idiot you called me a useful idiot useful idiot useful idiots great stress in my opinions r t there are thousands of us doing it behind his record is a simple strategy we

they're just pro-russian. and in this election they happen to find a candidate who is also very much pro-russian. and so i hope that moves all to understand that in the next election, for whatever reasons the russian maybe be antirepublican. and that my republican colleagues too could be subject to attack. just as we saw in a smaller less significant way. that one of their own presidential candidates was part of russia's propaganda campaign. i yield back. >> mr. heck, five minutes. >> i have a simple question for each of you. do you acknowledge and recognize that the magnitude and nature of efforts under taken by the russians to interfere in the elections last year constitute an exten shl and material threat to the health of the democracy? >> we recognize that and obviously a threat to all of our platforms. >> mr. stretch? >> yes. >> the activity that we saw in the platform was limited. we're not in position to take a broader view. when you look at the whole picture. >> you do not acknowledge is represents an

russian lawmakers vote in favor of getting media register as foreign agents. in the united states. in response to washington's actions the self appointed global press freedom stay quiet on the treatment of. also ahead this hour u.s. officials from using bestselling russian security software on the alleged espionage threat but there's no evidence to suspicions. volunteers trying to help refugees are being considered. from the humanitarian aid. to the world this is r t international my names you not only a welcome to the program this hour's top story russian lawmakers have voted in favor of forcing media outlets to register as foreign agents it's in response to similar pressure placed on r.t. america in the united states. has been following developments for us just bring us up to spec about what a fact that these amendments could have. didn't hi well we wouldn't be hearing this news from the russian parliament if it wasn't for the american department of justice that demanded that r.t. america register as a foreign agent in the us the russian government promised to fight back and we'r

athlete being only two points short of fulfilling the road map to continue to spend has seen russian officials make their feelings a very clear first up the russian olympic committee chief alexander as you call. relevance to restart his book the mclaren report itself created a clash of opinions it was contested by the russians who claimed that the report lacks sufficient proof to be deemed it legitimate and water itself did speak out when they cleared ninety five out of the ninety six russian athletes accused of various doping allegations in the report their reason being yes you guessed it lack of evidence and hence their cases were closed the russian sports minister has said his disappointment to these two demands are obviously of a political nature we want dialogue not addict out however. has made it clear there is a doping problem and has since become one of only five european countries that have criminalized doping austria france italy and spain being the others president putin had a clear message on the issue in russia when he spoke out some of the main thing is that we have to

this hour's headlines stories russian lawmakers voted in favor of giving moscow the power to classify media foreign agents and similar to those made against. the united states. the response to washington's actions the self-appointed guardians of global press freedom usually quiet on the treatment of artes u.s. channel. reveals that volunteers attempting to help refugees crossing international borders are being treated as criminals but. we hear from one humanitarian aid worker who fell foul of the authorities. believe. the humanitarian. help. your chiming in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow into r.t.e. international my names you know neal good to have your company our top story lawmakers in russia's lower of parliament have voted in favor of requiring media outlets which are funded from abroad to register as foreign agents in eight days in response to similar pressure placed on our team in the united states breaking down the details for us. first of all we wouldn't be hearing this news from the russian parliament if it wasn't for the american department of justic

five more russian police receive lifetime bans from the winter olympics as fears grow the whole of russia could be prevented from competing in the twenty eight games here the latest verdict on the doping scandal from sports chiefs. but the. claims it doesn't prove you want to. give them some time. and germany could be on track for the same coalition government that it had before september's elections three way talks with other parties collapsed last week. police in the french city of concern over a. crime more than a year after the closure of the notorious jungle. here police officers are more than fed up i cannot remember times when so many call came to me to say that they wanted to leave the police. global headlines every hour on the hour you're watching are to international live with me. thanks for joining us tonight five more russian athletes have been given lifetime bans from the winter olympics that brings the total number of disqualified athletes to nineteen the decision was made off the retesting doping samples from the twenty fourteen sochi games based on the findings of the repo

russian clears the way for cruisers.base and vast amounts of [indiscernible] narrator: french communists sabotaged the electrical system on the french fighter plane. with the fall of france, hillard decides tohitler invade the territory of the recent partner, russia. ♪ narrator: the turning point of the german invasion of russia grads at belgrade -- volgo or stalingrad. besarake eastern poland, sakhalin, portions of finland. latvia, lithuania, and estonia are incorporated as soviet republics, and much of the native population is deported. there are russian occupations pending final peace treaties and austria and north korea. the russians have the right to maintain garrisons in poland, hungary, and bulgaria. how did we get from here to there, the present situation? with the iron curtain dividing europe and communist outposts through much of the world? what is the secret to their postwar expansion? what method to the use? the answer is, they use them all. occupying troops remain after political achievement in hungary. want

is simply giving the russian perspective on the news the way c.n.n. and the new york times gives an american perspective on the news and b.b.c. a british perspective of course american journalist don't think that when they think they're giving a universal truth they don't see that they are speaking from within their own national perspective so to call r.t. propaganda and sputnik is a joke in my opinion and worse than that is to lump them both of them in sputnik in archie with info wars i mean this shows you the quality of the mind to wrote that article it's delusional because in four wars is nowhere near journalism r t is a news channel and if you want to understand what's happening in the world you've got to look at the different perspectives from russia from iran from the u.s. from britain and take these all into consideration so to cold one russian television r t propaganda and to lump it in one in four words is just extraordinary and it really shows the depth of the despair i think that the people who are pushing the russia gate story are getting

russian federation in fact there is one culture that has one language the russian one their ease. like almost fun history. russia provide for this time a lot of a lot of assistance. the existence of transnistria is based on the old pillars of the soviet union the army a common language and a policy of dependency on. moscow pays for part of the pensions of transnistria and retirees which certainly doesn't harm their love for russia. many of them long for the good old days that. john as a grandmother is a typical example. moves. when you look at a hand for example you have five fingers with five fingers it's easier to take or carry something try doing the same with one finger. the soviet union was like a single powerful hand today it's different all that is gone. everyone pulls in his own direction everyone has his own household i don't like this. never going to happen again but many people of her generation see only disadvantages in the way things are now and advantages and the way things work and the soviet system of values is still hanging on. already i mean what i think i would

army russian ideology and the russian world. me. most belarussians still accept the monopoly of their russian neighbors and of left to walk a fine line between solidarity and independence. but georgia was a different case. after the rose revolution it quickly developed into a pluralistic comparatively well functioning country. the tax system was simplified and the banking sector and public services modernized its cities were transformed. mikhail saakashvili the new president completely renovated the center of tbilisi. after the rez revolution foreign capital began to flow into the country it felt like a new era was coming people had a great visions that our country would become a new switzerland or singapore or that an economic miracle would happen. and a big boom really did start and things that were worth a million dollars now cost one hundred million apartments in tbilisi were more expensive than in moscow we had an enormous growth in our client base and hired new stuff and really good money. looking west away from putin's ru

for manafort he was a client. >> the pro-russian candidate, was proteching russian language, church,iticians and regime, is advised by paul manafort, who was citizen of united states. >> he was one of the leaders of the uprising. he said everyone in the square was determined to stay there for as long as it took to hold their ground. yanukovich responded with force. he sent in the riot troops, the protesters responded with rocks and molotov cocktails. >> the protesters here put themselves in the center of a ring of fire and said they will hold this square, even if it costs them their lives. and cost them it did. around 100 were killed. i watched as the wounded were rushed to a make-shift hospital. not everyone could be saved. but where was paul manafort? we obtained his travel logs and confirmed them with a source of ukrainian border patrol, leaving just two weeks before his client, the ukrainian client ordered police to turn guns on the protesters. >> he didn't say anything. >> as people were being shot in the streets, i was here i saw their bodies manafort was -- >> he was year and

election twitter and google representatives told a senate hearing they found evidence of russian backed posts trying to influence the vote it's inside story next so stay with us. if you are president donald trump visit to asia the goal is to forge relations and strengthen the resolve to confront the threat from north korea but what impact could this visit really have that we'll be live across asia to bring you the very latest coverage here on al-jazeera. three of donald trump's former advisors are indicted the probe into russia's involvement in the u.s. election is digging deeper so whose name could be honest next and could this investigation sink the u.s. president's administration this is inside story. i welcome to the program i'm jane dutton critics of donald trump have been calling for his impeachment since he became the u.s. president ten months ago now some say a step has been taken in that direction three of his former advisers were charged with federal crimes on monday including tax evasion conspiracy against the u.s. and lying to the f.b.i. about contacts with alleged middlemen

election twitter and google representatives told a senate hearing that they found evidence of russian backed posts trying to influence the vote ten people six of them children have been killed in the shelling of several rebel held areas in syria one of the attacks in east and east of the capital damascus hit a school it happened in one of the so-called deescalation zones which are backed by russia and iran at least three people have been killed in a bomb blast near the u.s. embassy in kabul afghanistan as defense ministry says that fifteen others were injured. kenya's opposition leader has called for the result of the presidential election rerun to be an old president who took in the ass or was declared the winner but the election was widely boycotted by opposition supporters are doing it made no mention of a legal challenge but warned that the election results will undermine the public's faith in democracy. and those are the headlines we'll have more news here here on al-jazeera after today's edition of inside story next. you with the the earth. three of donald trump's forma advisors

do they have a russian phone number, do they have a russian e-mail address. are they coming in from a russian i.p. have they ever logged in at any time from russia. there are some technical challenges with that. the trail sometimes goes cold at data centers where information is being processed. >> looking back at what the russians did during the election, when you're saying the russians paid for these ads, these are ads paid for by the russians because you've now gone back and checked groups like the research agency, the internet research agency and you now know that's a russian group. >> we also have banking information because folks are paying for these ads. we didn't link the ira accounts to advertising in the election but we found nine advertisers based on the signals that i talked about. largely it was russia today who we've since removed from advertise advertisers. >> i've always had some sense that in advertising you pretty much got what you paid for. mr. stretch, how much money did the russians spend on ads that we now look back as over disruptive or

and people of the russian federation. to think about fulfilling our economic relations with the specific serious content. just look at the latest economic forum in st. petersburg. there was the greatest number of american companies there. >> cnn senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny is live in da nang for us. >> let's go live to jeff first. jeff, what else did the president say about that discussion that still the russians are disputing actually happened? >> reporter: good morning, victor and kristie. this is really a perfect metaphor for all of the confusion that has existed over this meeting really the last couple days in vietnam at this economic summit. would president trump and president putin actually meet. we're told they had a series of conversations very brief. about two or three conversations. one of which, the longest of which was about five minutes long. certainly not a formal bilateral meeting that most leaders have attending this summit. there is again a discrepancy whether they talked about election m

, russian agent.t i know of no russian agent tried to contact me. that's not the same standard for the clinton campaign. >> what about what carter page did? what about donald trump jr. do having the meeting. >> i didn't have that meeting. >> you were part on the communication chain. >> i was not. >> i'm talking about with papadopoulos. >> you can't conflat them all. >> i'm not. you're picking one that works for you. i'm asking about all of them. papadopoulos had meetings that you said never happened. carter page took a trip that you said never happened. >> i don't know what carter page did as a private citizen. i have no more ability to tell carter page you can and cannot go somewhere. >> knowing what he did and controlling it are two different things. >> he didn't work for the campaign. >> you said he was an adviser for trump. >> i did not say that. >> i have your words right in front of my face zblefs named to an advisory committee of which he never participated, is what i said. >> you said he was a

the female russian meddling reaches a new level. prime minister. the head of the world watchdog admits it's almost impossible to separate sport politics and. political motives behind those refusal to. drugs. also this week. leader explains all in the first edition. he tells. how he felt. his mistake. start a new. era that will start. we hear from an activist who was terrorism after releasing. headlines of the week top stories of today welcome to the weekly. britain's prime minister may have set a new low for relations with russia in a speech on tuesday after accusing moscow of military aggression and election meddling but also uprising details and apparently the key issue. seems far less important. chief among those today of course is russia but it is russia's actions russia's illegal onix ation of crimea so i have a very simple message for russia because we know there's a strong and prosperous russia russia has the reach and the responsibility russia can russia does not to secure the best possible brics it. the day after mays claims the times news

russian professor in london named by some as mr me food and clearly related in some way or another to all the good that he pasko among others so the russian connection is there in addition to obviously the early and preceding information on the hacking by the russian military intelligence service the g.r.u. so we have in fact a kind of situation in which we have an on rolling piece of the russia connection continuing on we have great uncertainty about where this will go mr mole is running a very tight ship as we have seen we have some indication with. ana forte that he's moving up if you could put it this way the latter toward perhaps higher figures but no certainty with respect to that and i think a lot of attention this morning and yesterday was focused on this particular issue perhaps to the detriment of the legislative process melanie sloan i mean that certainly was a sucker punch wasn't i mean quite a day of drama wasn't it delivering first manifest in gates and then eventually a puppet office on the what do you make of how it was all delivered and what is being set up legally no

linked russian link this russian link that what is what is russian linked well. the big social media and tech c.e.o.'s facebook twitter google and others came to testify before the senate mccarthyite russia gate which on trials they did twitter defined russian linked for us i think it's sport pray tell tell us all if you have any any russian email account that is going to rule. out anything like that your russian agent your russian linked russian h i think there's an account on the from talk to you if you're on that for if you have a russian mobile phone you're criminy if you have a russian credit card you're a russian agent if you have ever once logged into social media from a russian ip address which means every western journalist in moscow and anyone who has ever visited russia and check their faces if you are a criminal if you have russia as your declared country or if you used to really. use a rare items of i mean almost every single night here and then two more points but if you i called to preach made mad to russian six months ago and claimed to report it

but first, a look at the investigation alleged russian interference in the 2016 election. this week, executives testified before congress about the role their companies played in allowing russian misinformation to spread in the run-up to the presidential election. the questions revolved around how russian operatives were able to pose as americans and spread content through facebook, twitter and google onnish shoes such as immigration and race relations. and the first criminal charges into russia's role in the election. paul manafort, donald trump's former campaign chairman, was indicted for tax fraud and conspiracy against the united states. he and his business associate, rick gates, surrendered to authorities and for more on all of this, we turn to california congressman adam schiff, the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee. he joins us via skype from washington, d.c. congressman schiff, nice to hav. >> thank you. great to be with you. >> you were at the hearings this week, where facebooks of facebook, google and twitter all testified you their companies w

thismediary was promising russian oligarch with ties to putin.t he would give them an update on the trump campaign. keep in mind what is not in the indictment. that is also important to charlie: there are hints that is to,. >> we have heard that from law enforcement and intelligence sources. keep in mind all of the other players here that have been under scrutiny. michael flynn, golf junior, jared kushner, carter page. there are several other people who have been under scrutiny. this was hardball from the special counsel's office and we expect there will be more download -- down the road. charlie: more about the meeting that took place between the russian lawyer and paul manafort and trump jr. you now have that she came having been brief by high-level russian officials. in your -- >> another meeting closely mirrored this one. undermining a man named bill browder who spearheaded the magnitsky act. putin really really hates them. there was this effort that was coordinated at the highest levels. the russian lawyer essentially brought with her a memo

phone number, are they on a russian mobile carrier, to the have a russian e-mail address, are they coming inen fm a russian ip and have the ever logged in and you'll see in retrospective work have a logged in at any time for russia. there are some technical challenges with that in the trail sometimes goes cold at data centers where information has been processed and we saw about -- >> looking back at the so-called russians and that did during the election when you are saying the russians paid for these ads these are ads paid for by the russians because you now have gone back and checked groups like the research agency, the internet research agency and you now know that is a russian grou- >> on the advertising side, we have additional data around making information because folks are paying for these ads. we didn't link the ira account to advertising in the election but what we did was found nine advertisers based on the signals i talked about and making information largely was russia today we have since removed as advertisers. >> let's see if we get their money's work. everyone has been in

your mention team russia being dealt a number of blows this november six russians. yours have been banned for life for doping violations while the former head of the moscow anti doping law who was the first to allege a state sponsored doping program has put forward new information on the claims i'm nuts led to some officials calling for russia to be completely bombed from the twenty eighteen winter olympics the experts we spoke to though stressed the need for a case by case approach. i think the most important thing is a case by case decision and that means that every athlete that is proven to be clean should be to discuss any older decision like the quality of ban as it was decided that against russian paralympic members is not illegal and i think we should aim at a proportionate decision that russia is not putting up its hands and saying we accept the mclaren reports finding that there is state sponsored doping it's held the line throughout the whole to ing and fro ing that we've experienced over the past two three years it's always said we want hard evidence that

is simply giving the russian perspective on the news the way c.n.n. and the new york times gives an american perspective on the news and b.b.c. a british perspective of course american journalist don't think that when they think they're giving a universal truth they don't see that they are speaking from within their own national perspective so to call r.t. propaganda sputnik is a joke in my opinion and worse than that is to lump them both of them in sputnik and archie wouldn't win for this but you've also worked for the wall street journal with a new strain would that be a danger that journalists might actually subconsciously shy white knight from r.t. stories because they just don't want the hassle. well not might it's been going on for years as a process of self-censorship you know what's expected and when you cannot report why do i speak on r.t. costs a lot of stories that i've pitched to major publications in the united states are rejected and these stories then i go on r.t. and i will speak about them and they reject it because they're critical o