two, herbert hoover really did hope that by bringing food into soviet russia, he could help overturn the soviet government. by the end of the mission, it is pretty clear that hoover is disappointed. for me one of the surprises is that the chief americans on the ground, hoover did not go to soviet russia during this mission. he was in washington at the time , but the chief americans who were administering relief actually wanted the united states to grant soviet russia official diplomatic relations. u.s. soviet relations. hoover was against this. officially you are soviet relations would not be introduced until hoover left white house. franklin delano roosevelt would introduce that. the americans who were saying this had seen bolshevism up close. they were not friends of lenin. their idea was if you want to undermine the bolshevik government, kill it with kindness. engagement is what we would call this in later days. here is the third unpleasant surprise. the americans leave. those russians, particularly those that work with americans suspect.offices, were they were vulnerable. the amer

don't forget that we have a world war that caused tremendous economic dislocation in russia and in soviet russia, 1914 to 1917. in 1917.o revolutions russia is becoming a failed 1917 and a sense, by 1918. in 1918, the inevitable civil war. the bolsheviks were trying to hold onto power. the reds. and on the periphery, the white army was trying to dislodge them from power. army would eventually be unsuccessful. but for a time, they can crawl -- controlled the neighboring regions of russia. a very small piece of territory. people in the cities of soviet in 1918 to 1920. bolsheviks have an idea when they come in to wipe out the free market. in other words, to prevent peasants from trading their surplus grain. idea that they are a communist government, so trade should be outlawed under a communist regime. peasants to confiscate grain. russia has known peasants and there are pockets of famine. prepared.asants are they have something they have put away for a rainy day. they have the surplus. in 1921, they have nothing. 20, 25, orwards of 30 million people, they are threatened with starvation in soviet

two, herbert hoover did hope that by bringing food into soviet russia, somehow he could overturn or help overturn the soviet government. pretty clear. but and at the mission, it is pretty clear that hoover was disappointed that that was not going to happen. surprises isf the that the chief americans on the ground, hoover didn't go to the soviet russian during this mission. he was in washington at this time. the chief americans are administered the relief wanted the united states to grant soviet russia official diplomatic relations. u.s. soviet relations. hoover was against this. relations.s. soviet would not be introduced until hoover left the white house. frankland eleanor roosevelt would -- franklin delano roosevelt would say this. those who sample should fix up close hated it. they were not friends of lenin. if you want to undermine the bolshevik government, kill it with kindness. engagement is what we recall this. here is the third unpleasant surprise. when the americans leave, those russians, particularly the ones who worked with the americans in their offices, where suspect. they w

we have a world war that caused tremendous economic dislocation in russia, and then in soviet russia.n we have two revolutions in 1917. there is a feeling russia is becoming a failed state. in 1918, and in navigable civil war.- inevitable civil on the right the armies are trying to dislodge them from power. the whites, as we know, will be eventually unsuccessful. time, the whites controlled a region in russia, and the reds, led by lennon and trotsky, controlled only a very small piece of territory. people in the cities of soviet russia's start in 1918, and in 1919, 1920. to add to all of these problems, the bolshevik have an idea when they come in to wipe out the free market. in other words, to prevent peasants from trading their surplus screen. the bolsheviks began requisitioning green. course, they are a communist government, trade should be outlawed under a communist regime. this, as well, forces peasants green, becauseg they know it's going to be confiscated. russia has known famines over the sam's it -- over the centuries. peasants are prepared. they have something they put away

two, herbert hoover really did hope that by bringing food into soviet russia somehow he could overturnrturned, the soviet government. by the end of the mission it's pretty clear that hoover was disappointed that that was not going to happen. for me one of the surprises is that the chief americans on the ground, hoover didn't go to soviet russia during this mission, he was in washington at the time. but the chief americans who were administering the relief actually wanted to renew united states to grant soviet russia official diplomatic relations. so u.s. soviet relations. hoover was against this. officially u.s. soviet relations would not be introduced until hoover left the white house and franklin delano roosevelt introduced that. the americans who were saying this had seemed bolshevism up close. they hated it. they were not friends of lenin their idea was that if you want to undermine the bolsheviks government, kill with kindness. engagement is what we would call this in a later day. here's the third unpleasant surprise and the americans league those russians, particularly the ones w

forget we have a world war that caused tremendous economic in --ation in russia and and then in soviet russia, 1914 to 1917. revolutions ino 1917. so russia is becoming a failed state, and a sense, already in 1917. and then in 1918, and inevitable bolsheviks, the so-called reds, trying to hold onto power, and on the periphery the white armies are trying to dislodge their power. the whites as we know would eventually be unsuccessful. whites a time, the controls the grain-growing regions of russia and the reds, ,ed by lenin and trotsky control only a small piece of territory. people in the cities of soviet , and intarved in 1918 particular 1919 and 1920. so to at all these problems, the civil war. the bolsheviks have an idea when they come in to wipe out the free market, in other words, to prevent peasants from trading surplus grain. so the bolsheviks began requisitioning grain, with the idea that of course they are a communist government, and trade would be outlawed under a communist regime. peasants stop planting grain because they know it is going to be consequent -- no it is going to be con

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mindedness so you fall off and 1st mickey them and are familiar they exist between family members in soviet russia is a shuffling hold. really gone as well as between groups within the society between people of different skin colors nations and religions. walls that keep preventing us from envisioning the world in which together we want to live opposite linked done or whether we manage to do that it's up to us. if we can i do you have to mine fields are good that's why my forethought for you da graduates to consider is this but then can see. nothing can be taken for granted when the individual fired the 1st then please our individual liberties are not given the mccarthy years they said 1st then please democracy is not something we can take for granted freedom lish neither is peace or would stand and neither is prosperity. above and the more one thing an eye in the eye is but if we break down the walls that hammers in then the ants often live in noir and the thing of. if we step out into the open and have the courage to embrace new beginnings dunn is a was everything is possible. thanks how on some

she was so serious and she had -- she is an expert on the soviet union, russia and she was taking notes as to the equipment whether it was the helicopter, the parts, the airplanes, weapons that were there and she knew but we didn't know how they could have so much stuff there until we later found out about iran contra. she was really getting to the heart of the matter right then and there. it was an honor to travel with her then and an honor to be today. >> this morning we heard a patriotic american make his presentation. i have the deepest respect for special counsel -- well former special counsel mueller and what he had to say. he indicated if he saw any evidence that the president was innocent, he would have let us know. if he had any evidence that the president was not guilty, he would have let us know but he didn't. he didn't. i think that was very, very important. i have the deepest respect for him and thank him and his team for the presentation of facts that will further lead us to help us in the congress, in the courts. this is a very valuable contribution. i'm gravely disappoin

side hoping to open up iran toward markets and having a more balanced foreign policy between the soviet russia china and west more sister hardliners who are much more inclined to improve iran's relationship with. the east with russia with china he believes the have reached a point of impasse with end the governing elite and only baby can break the impasse through a referendum so there for a friend to me is more of an attempt to address the contradictions and the disagreements and a lack of consensus will send a governing elite down to greeley listen to what people want so it on foreign minister at once again has suggested that the gulf states should sign a non-aggression pact who specifically tehran inviting on war the biggest player in the region saudi arabia is united states ally and is strongly anti iran and the only true friend iran has in the region well is iraq i guess. well. the situation in the region is that. we have actually a 2 different camps we have the camp of hardliners in the region led by saudi arabia and bahrain and the united arab emirates who seek to have a more hardline po

the subtitle is the american relief exposition to soviet russia in the famine of 1921.nd first thing i realize there 1921, 1922 about the famine in english. no one had a serious book. i would have to do double duty, the famine and the relief. it happens to a lot of people, i get into the archives i opened up an archival box and doing that opened

it is about post soviet russia and away intellectual leaders and political leaders in russia use conspiracyheories to consolidate power and identify an enemy and create political and social cohesion and what we see donald trump doing is a stupid version of that. we see him doing a ham-fisted job at trying to be like here is the enemy, please does like this person or this group of people, please direct your eye or out there, they are the cause of your problems which is very effective for a lot of politicians and has proven effective among his base, but because of the sort of awkward roll out of his particular conspiracy ideas he's not getting as far as he would like to. >> host: there is a way to weapon eyes conspiracy theories. some people have done that. is it happening now? >> guest: definitely. i think one thing we see a lot of. there are two sides of what is going on politically which is the russiagate political conspiracy theory which is donald trump is an agent of russia and so is everybody in his cabinet and the deep state conspiracy theory being deployed by the trump administration

this isn't soviet russia. t union where you have a dictatorship and people are afraid to speak out against their leader. yet we find ourselves in a position where many people in the president's party, at least, publicly, will not say what every reporter at this network can confirm hearing when they speak to many of them behind closed doors. that they disagree with the president on his rhetoric. they disagree with the president on certain policy issues. they disagree with the president's behavior as outlined in the mueller report as divided as we are as a nation, it is very difficult for them or they feel to speak out publicly that way. >> as you know, democrats are now filed a new lawsuit. they are hoping to get the president of the united states into a deposition to testify, whether he's personally or businesses are making money as a result of his being president. >> right. >> i think they will prevail on the records requests. the president strategy appears to just be using the court proceedsings in order to i

russia is understand. for us the world most of the americans don't know the difference between soviet union and russia for them russia is so that you know that that is simplified most of america's never left america never traveled outside the home that they don't know and that is one of the calls that russia is considered to be an enemy or go if you come to russia in the market ever spoke market they have a private privately what does it always make english reread american communism but evan it american does not know that the celts of united states don't know russia is soviet union soviet union is going to them by the finish and then to me the next thing is that we have to understand then i'd say that eisenhower say that he called him very bad names it's called the industrial military complex they invest in military complex needs to have and me to be able to get budgets to build their own place to be there at moments and that the minute they meet they need to have an enemy and not american history than the industrial military complex that's been advanced and you're correctly that you believe that regardle

is okay but our biggest business opportunities are going to be in the soviet russia place.centives where tech companies are thinking how can get into china and make chinese government happy and then on the other side our government saying the chinese are our biggest threat to our way of life. >> are you seeing that change a little bit amazon has retreated from china and google >> for the better part of a decade these companies are been entranced by the idea they're going to make their mega bucks in china you are starting to see them come around not because of any ideological change but the chinese are so resistant to let them operate there they're getting a reality check. the chinese will never let us in and if they're never going to let us in why are we doing this good stuff for them. that's one of the reasons you're seeing a turnaround on huawei with google and microsoft they're turning around partly because they're starting to see the threat and partly because china has been so restrictive in their market controls that they blocked too long and tried the game too long. o

but evan it does not know that to the south of united states they don't know russia is soviet union so that you know it's going to them by the finish and then to me the next thing is that we have to understand then i'd say that eisenhower say that he called him a very bad names it's called the industrial military complex they invest in military complex needs to have and me to be able to get budgets to build their own place to be there at a moment's and they have them anything they need they need to have an enemy and not american history than the industrial military complex that's been an advanced and you're correctly that you believe that regardless of whatever findings. they relationship between our military complex is that i think foreign policy because the real enemy for me is not russia and china but china is a big market big market we will make a deal because it's the business is driving the decision like that well mr jesus we have to take a short break now but we'll be back in just a few moments stay tuned. this footage is unique because the zoe tribal lands are normally off limi

after the collapse of the soviet union, rapid market reforms in russia in early 1992 led to widespread man was russia's economy minister. he was responsible for implementing this shock therapy, and he told us why he is proud of what he achieved. translation: after the collapse of the ussr, russia had no state apparatus, not at all. there was no army, no customs, no central bank, no national currency, et cetera. for thousands of bureaucrats in moscow's centralise ministries that future looks uncertain. already they are not sure who they work for, russia ora not sure who they work for, russia or a soviet union that has been declared dead. all foreign loans we re declared dead. all foreign loans were frozen and we had no hard currency reserves. the country is entering a twilight zone between the old and the new. what comes next could easily be the chaos and anarchy which mr gorbachev has re ce ntly anarchy which mr gorbachev has recently warned of. translation: on sundays, the foreign reserves of our once mighty power were $25 million. million. while our foreign once mighty power were $25

already they are not sure who they work for, russia or a soviet union that has been declared dead.n: all foreign loans were frozen, and we had no hard currency reserves. reporter: the country is entering a twilight zone between the old and the new. what comes next could easily be the chaos and anarchy which mr gorbachev has repeatedly warned of. translation: on some days, the total foreign reserves of our once mighty power were $25 million. million. while our foreign debt was $118 billion. we had a real threat of hunger in large cities, where most food supplies were imported from abroad. across the road from my moscow home we had a large shop. 0n the day of my ministerial appointment, i went in after work to buy something to eat. the shop was completely bare. no bread, no meat, no sausages, no nothing. what were our options? to wait till the economy grinds to a halt or to remove the old communist price controls? yeltsin was ready to do it, and so we did it. reporter: the long haul towards a free market economy began injanuary, with the lifting of state controls on most prices, whic

you know, it's not like lichtenstein is being invaded by soviet russia. no, you don't do it. if you get to the point you have to take everybody, i think better to live under whatever you've got because after awhile you've just gutted the home, in a sense. so, but, yeah, i -- i think that drivers licenses might suggest an option. >> ms. eden? >> so you're asking if there was a different screening question when people register for the draft if that would make a difference -- >> right. >> -- as to -- as to conscientious objection or the existence of the draft at all? >> to the draft at all. >> no, it wouldn't change my opinion. >> oh, okay. >> i have two answers and they're both no. >> okay. >> first, that people that don't want to serve the war effort don't want to serve the effort. and saying you can serve the war effort without wearing a uniform is still serving the war effort. so, no. and second, if what you're saying is, well, you're going to conscript people but not necessarily for the military, then you're back to the hearing you held in february about compulsory service.

the plan is mainly used as a replacement for outdated soviet era aircraft in russia, however is used by airlines and other countries. this is the second fatal accident involving this type of plane. in 2012 one of the demonstration flights struck a mountain in indonesia killing all 45. one board.>> there are many problems with the plane, initially in the engines, the engine was not allowed to fly above a certain altitude>> reporter: the investigative committee has launched a criminal investigation into the incident. >>> information about that plane in florida that skidded off the runway and into a river, 143 people were on board and everyone survived, the federal investigators as the pilots made a last-minute request to change runways and" we don't know what they were thinking or why they made that choice. the plane was flying from the j something went wrong. >>> there are now signs of a cease-fire following intense fighting over the weekend, there has been no official word but the israeli army lifted protective restrictions on residence in southern israel. it follows a wave of massiv

done a certain number of mishandling this or mistakes in relation to a former enemy the soviet union or to russia it's true true we were not always at the top of his relation and when i look back to relation to russia today for me it's to some extent unfortunate and. to both sides to some extend on the one hand the neo cons. on the other side of it line take. side to russian home policy but the nato countries are saying we're going to have an increased presence in the black sea and they all neo-cons then who don't share your opinion of recent history i suppose pacifically under the obama administration pretty please on the other hand when you look at the presence or in the incidence of the plexi you have to see both sides have a part of responsibility in the increasing incidence of the russian side as view crane inside and. the problem is really that we missed very real moment to discuss to go over what should be the best possible status for ukraine for an independent ukraine accepted in the beginning by the russian side please and therefore i. think we missed that very moment but you know it's n

history, involving nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars of very suspicious money from russia and former soviet states. it was turned into untraceable american dollars. >> $230 billion. >> kroft: one bank. >> wilkinson: one bank. >> kroft: one branch. >> wilkinson: one branch. >> kroft: and this is the whistleblower who found one loose thread and decided to pull on it. a lot of this money came into the bank and was out the door the next day, right? >> wilkinson: the next day? oh, you think it was that slow? ( laughs ) >> wertheim: in more than 70 countries worldwide, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or l.g.b.t. citizens live in fear for their safety, their freedom, and in some cases, their lives. their governments not only sanction brutality against them, but often carry it out. there's no obvious or easy escape path, but for those lucky enough to hitch a ride there is something called the rainbow railroad. >> cooper: you've probably heard of bitcoin, but to understand how the electronic currency works or why it's value has fluctuated so dramatically. tonight we'll introduce you to some

always taking notes and she was so serious and she had, she is as you know an expert on the soviet union, russia, and she was taking notes as to the equipment whether it was the helicopter, the parts, the airplanes, the weapons there and she knew but we didn't know how they could have so much stuff there until we later found out about iran contra but she was really getting to the heart of the matter right then abdomen there so it was an honor to travel with her then and an honor to be with her today. thank you gloria. [applause] >> so this morning we all heard a very patriotic american make his presentation, and have the deepest respect for special counsel now former special counsel mueller, and what he had to say and as gloria indicated he did say if he saw any evidence that the president was not, was innocent, he would have let us know if you have any evidence that the president was not guilty, he would have let us know but he didn't. he didn't and i think that was very very important. while i have the deepest respect for him to present the presentation that will further lead us to help us in

nixon's desire, because we had a common adversary in russia and the soviet union, to forge an opening with china. there was a trip to pakistan. you reported you were ill and that you are going to rest. the convoy was a decoy and you got on the plane to go to pakistan with the present and pakistan to china. he spent about 49 hours on the ground talking to him. how challenging was that moment of meeting a world leader that we did not have relationships with and there weren't normal briefing papers or intelligence reports that were, please today, you had to go meet a world leader without the public eye. explain in your mind what that was like. >> the problem we had is that pres. nixon-- we could not ask for normal briefing papers. the reason, people will ask you about that, he thought that the expectation that would never take place. so the first thing was to organize-- which we made in pakistan and then we had to-- with the government to pakistan to fly out to. china was in the midst of a revolution and they had no contact but they did have one with pakistan. it was difficult.-- some ac

union and the fbi predates the soviet union and the russian federation, so we've been thinking about russia as a threat actor and the soviet union before it for decades and decades. this information 1st of all comes in against that back drop and then we can talk about the other things going on in the summer of 2016. >> i want to come back to the question about what the investigation was about. it's a really important question and i want to flesh it out. just to clarify, was there an open investigation against anybody associated with the trump campaign before this papadopoulos investigation was opened, you know, in response to this information? >> not to my knowledge. >> so it's fair to say the russia investigation -- there may be other investigations of things involving russia -- and we'll come to that in a moment. but to the extent that people associated with donald trump were being investigated by the fbi, that is a creature of this incident in the summer of 2016? >> this incident, the papadopoulos information is what triggered us going down this path. >> okay. >> again, it's against the

your and president nixon's desire, because we had a common adversary in russia and the soviet union to forge an opening with china, there was a trip to pakistan. you had reported that you were ill and you were going to rest. the convoy was a decoy and you got on the plane to go to pakistan with the president of pakistan to china to meet. and spend 49 hours on the ground talking to him. that moment of meeting a world leader that we didn't have relations with, there weren't the traditional briefing papers and intelligence reports that are commonplace today, and you had to go meet a world leader without the public eye, explain in your mind what that was like. well, the first problem we is that president and did not tell anybody in his administration that this trip was taking place, so we could not ask for the normal breathing papers -- briefing papers. the reason president nixon did that, and people will argue about it, is that in the middle of the vietnam war, leaking was huge. if the effortt became public, there would be such a debate about the conditions we should make that it would ne

boris yeltsin russia's 1st elected leader transformed the country from the one party soviet system to multi-party democracy. so what went wrong. way the west treated russia would play a powerful role in the course the country would follow my good friend alexander bono expert at the carnegie moscow center has been considering these issues for a long time. or i'm glad that all men are the one in on their i gin steve. stockton come behind of walsh that option which. is going yeah because of dollars at last you see gosh. this one nurse says. anything near city or similar simply things that doesn't your mails that are sending you mostly just. in of the jungle started. just to prove which. nor is it always that i mean. at the even though. sources james much company grow. sinusitis callable. what my a time machine that i shipped over to an admission is going to. come. home when you're in the cross hall thing and the. only scar you would walk. and what africa speech from. medical speech and then the creation of the speech with the pledge buttons yeah he looked like she did the copy. the road

civilians have been killed as the government presses on with a week's long offensive in soviet northwest backed by russia the violence has put a strain on the cease fire agreement struck by turkey and russia last year as they know how the reports from beirut. people's lives have been destroyed while their neighborhoods are reduced to rubble during their home or the lot schools mosques and hospitals have been hit. for 3 weeks syrian and russian jets haven't left the skies over northwest syria opposition controlled villages across southern it live and northern hama and provinces have been targeted like i'm honestly not going on those in the middle that the majority of the people flocked to areas further north many were injured and killed in the bombing of a solution there is no ghost town empty of its residents. it's the biggest military escalation since the ceasefire agreed by turkey and russia last september that agreement is now under strain turkey says it is intensifying diplomatic efforts with russia to deescalate the violence but it seems moscow has its own agenda. asked. all right. what's what's the

flights here in russia and it was actually the pride of russian aviation when it was first launched in two thousand and eleven it was the first civil airplane that was launched after the soviet union a russian airplane the hope was that russia could compete on the international aviation market we'll have to wait and see of course whether this plane is really the cause for the accident but it's clear that this will be certainly bad for the refuse it reputation of the superjet the savoy superjet one hundred i'm really sure when in moscow thank you. let's get a quick check now some other stories making news around the world white house national security advisor john bolton says that the u.s. will deploy a carrier strike group and to bombers to the middle east to send a clear and unmistakable message to iran it is the latest in a series of moves aimed at ratcheting up pressure on tehran a year after washington withdrew from the nuclear accord. from iostat to suspend capital punishment for gay sex and adultery the sultan of brunei made the announcement in a television address the country has been under international pressure after celebrities including george clooney and elton jo

russia here. the first post-soviet union jet built in russia. sukhoi, primarily a manufacturer of military aircraft. aircraft operated by aeroflot include both boeing, airbus, they like to say they have a modern fleet. this jet has been in service for just under ten years. there have been a few incidents reported around this, but aeroflot said it has a good safety record -- safety certification on this and they also point out that they evacuated this plane in about 55 seconds, pointing out the industry standard in a situation like this is 90 seconds, george. >> nathan hodge, thank you for the reporting. of course we'll stay in touch with you as we learn more about this investigation. >>> another story we're watching. global markets feeling the impact as u.s. president donald trump threatens to raise tariffs on $200 billion worth of chinese goods by friday. now, he tweeted sunday trade talks between washington and beijing are moving too slowly. >> and the result, asian markets tumbled in response. the shanghai composite index, as you see here, cl

know there is a there is an effort to to diminish the soviet war effort i think you know i lived in poland for many years before i lived in russia and the removing war memorials. from those things you know that's kind of moving into this secret area ok. when you were in the soviet more more war memorials like in hungary with six hundred thousand soviet troops died liberating hungary and then there is a debate if there should be memorials to them i don't think there should be a debate here there's got to be a way to to balance the need that the the remembering those that had fallen in the doesn't have to be ideologically driven i'm a very conservative person i don't really have anything to do with communism i studied it and i don't believe in it and i don't think it's actually a very good idea but i do recognise the sacrifice. monuments don't they often are politically charged but they don't have to be if they iconography is chosen carefully of course some of those. monuments have the the iconography of the regime which you could see people might take exception to but you can remove that and retain the spirit there's a very movin

union collapsed communism grow in the immediate post soviet post cold war era ninety's when you have to magically translate into hostility towards russia about just dust all point you know you know so you had this expansion of the you had this expansion ninety good efforts to actually unify the count of the continent so that was the moment of unity but of course it was at the expense of russia and what should have happened in ninety nine she didn't we're paying the price now is the shit you're russia should have been integrated into that unifying moment you said it was kept a distance not you treated treated very badly it was really it was really interesting doing the during the cold war they had this concept of captive nations . under communism and i got myself into a huge huge trouble for saying but russia was a captive nation as well that really disturbed people ok because what i'm what i'm saying is that that was an ideological conflict it wasn't with the people yes yes that's right. it's interesting since we talk about remembering the second world war the way to say i remember walking you through the. for this in that there are al

i was part of a group that went to the soviet union under the auspices of commission cooperation. the beginnings of perestroika in russiasoviet union. we had three days of roundtable discussions with existing members of the duma, all of them unelected, facing their first election. it came into a hold a conversation about press freedom, and they asked what do we do when we are attacked by the press, and since i get that a lot, i pointed out that we write op-ed's, contact the journalists involved and try to set the record straight, and we talk to their editors and maybe editorve a letter to the to try to make a point that they got it wrong, but that is it. ae idea of bringing defamation suit that almost never is successful, but it is one of the prices we pay in a mock lessees, i think, for having a free and unfettered press. they can get it wrong sometimes and grossly wrong. i do wish there was more of an emphasis on responsible journalism by some. i took a class in college and journalism and the first thing i the tenets ofat journalism are accuracy, accuracy, accuracy, and a wish we would get back to that. unfortunately,