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u.s. or russia. this is according to a czech court filing.e was arrested in prague in and 2016 has denied any wrongdoing. he said authorities urged him to falsely testified that he was part of the russian hack on the democratic national committee in exchange for money and a life in the united states. coming up, the race between amazon and alphabet to $1000 per share. amazon jumped to the bar. we will take a look that. bloomberg tech is live streaming on twitter. check us out weekdays 5:00 p.m. , in new york, 2:00 p.m. in san francisco. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: out of europe, and investment -- an activist investment firm bought a 5.6% stake in ericsson, valued over $1 billion according to regulatory filings. the move will likely push the wireless network firm to accelerate cost-cutting in its underperforming businesses. they have plans to appoint one of its managing partners to the board. meantime in the u.s., stocks returned from the holiday weekend, breaking a seven-day winning streak for the s&p 500 and nasdaq. abigail doolittle joins us

the committee that has a special expertise and intelligence and expertise in foreign relations or u.s. russia relations. i daresay the investigations going on now are made up of fully capable members who are working forward. i believe those investigations will do an effective good -- effective job. congress would establish the commission but it would remove any real influence from partisan lenience so like the 9/11 commission you would appoint distinguish members of society to such a commission, it may be a mechanism where republicans and democrats may appoint an equal number. people who are thought to not have been involved in partisan politics in any significant way. and those distinguish members would be given a budget, a staff, subpoena power and they could can talked a thorough investigation. whether or not there is any significant involvement for the campaign or the trump administration. i think the justice department is inclined to go forward. the deputy attorney general ,ould be easily influenced especially to take them out of the hands of the justice department. the justice departmen

u.s. or outside. russia has incredible capabilities.rnments, they will look to leverage those capabilities across data, intelligence gathering. in some cases, perhaps leaking that data on the internet for political purposes. emily: where else might we see russia being active this year? in europe around elections? >> there were reports about russian activity in some of the elections. capableif you have a adversary, people need to be thinking about their own security and risk management policies and making sure they have the appropriate security controls and protection in place to identify the breach activity which is most important. i think that is where a lot of companies have fallen down. emily: you said you're open to small acquisitions that might complement what you already do. what kind of acquisitions might we expect? >> since we have such a broad platform that looks a lot like , anything that might allow us to create a new application on top of the form would be a good fit. we spent a lot of time to build the underpinnings and tec

which is a bigger threat to the u.s, isis or russia? >> both are a huge threat. >> tucker: which is bigger? >> i think isis is a more immediate threat absolutely. but russia has a much stronger military. russia can hurt us and hurt u.s. interests all over the world. we have to worry about both. >> tucker: we don't have the graphic. i'm just going here with the facts as they are. we have on the one side, isis islamic terror, al qaeda over the past 15 yearsv thousands of americans have lost their lives, many thousands to those forces. russia has killed zero americans. so it's really not even in the same universe actually. the threat we face from islamic terror and the threat we face from russia. one is theoretical. the one is real and present, so why are we not seeing that? >> first of all, you can't evaluate the threat just based on how many american lives have been lost. russia is a threat to democracy. it's a threat to our way of life. look at what russia has done in ukraine, annexing crimea. ukraine wanted to be part of the west, want

u.s. official, including the president, intentionally or inadvertently discloses top secret information to a nation that sponsors terrorism or, like, russia -- or, like russia, is subject to u.s. sanction. this would give the congressional intelligence committees an opportunity to examine the rule for theties closure, asess any fallout and take appropriate action my bill would simply provide quonk the same information that was made available to other nations. i hope my colleagues on both sides of the aisle will support this bill and i yield back the remainder of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is ecognized. >> i rise to reflect on what memorial day mean tours country. it's a special occasion in which we honor the brave men and women in uniform who made the ultimate sacrifice. many from the volunteer state dieden of the battlefield. mr. desjarlais: because of them and many others across ou

russia. and so kushner may have to explain more. we don't have any date for an interview or the next steps, but multiple u.s. ficials say that they think he has information that could be pertinent to the russia investigation. >> kelly, thank you. safe travels. >>> let's bring in former chief of staff to john kerry. ned price, a national security analyst. also former senior director at the national security council at the white house. i want to get to kushner and russia and all that stuff in a moment. john, let me ask you about kelly reported with regards to the paris agreement. this news that the president of the united states may be changing his mind. kelly o. describing it as an evolution of his position on climate change. what do you make of that? >> i think kelly gave two relatively positive reports in terms of the potential policy agenda for the trump administration. one the president may be evolving on the paris climate agreement. we heard before the president went to the g7e postponed a decision until aft consulting with other world leaders. that seemedike a relatively positive thing. she also said tha

u.s. persons' contacts with russia, whether benign or not. therefore, one of the key pieces of any type of counterintelligence effort is to compartment that effort so that your operators, your investigators, your collectors, can continue to uncover what the russians were doing. we set up a group within cia. i spoke to jim comey, i spoke to mike rogers to make sure they were able to send over their exe exerts so that they could share information among them, even the most sensitive information that was not disseminated within the community. i want to make sure learning the lessons of 9/11 there were not going to be any stove pipes and barriers to sharing information from the intelligence and law enforcement communities. >> thank you, mr. chairman, i yield back. >> time expired. mr. gowdy, five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman, director, thank you for your service to our country. let's go back to where we were a couple minutes ago. you mentioned or you testified that you had a conversation in august of 2016 with your russian counterpart. you

russia and trump campaign officials, are you aware of any of those u.s. persons who had contacts with russia either making false statements about those contacts or failing to disclose those contacts? >> i think that's something that you can -- we can pursue in closed session. >> and director, with respect to the contacts that you have seen, have you ever seen in your history working as an intelligence official this number of contacts between a foreign adversary and a presidential campaign? >> i think our collection systems have increased over the years, and so, i don't know whether or not it's a result of better collection or because there were more contacts this time. i just do not have a basis to make a determination about that. >> thank you. yield back. >> gentleman yields back. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. brennan, for being here today and your candor in this conversation. have you ever been asked to give your opinion to the fbi about whether intelligence you've gathered should lead to an investigation? do they engage you in that way? you said there is fbi engaged in cia, so i didn't know if they have an opinion or ask your opinion on tha

or do nothing. the western u.s. and both got to russia. you don't have enough money or celebrities. as they noticed only 56% of the population named to the vision as a resource. nowadays the channels are popular among the local politicians .. >> they are creating their own issue. it started from i think zero and should look like a robot. in the first video it was pathetic and stupid. but now is a very popular blogger. >> use protesting during this when somebody threw liquid asset in his face in his own most blind on the right. he is protesting with green face and closed. he was broadcasting with a special mask. >> you hide. >> i think the biggest achievement figure from youtube was the documentary about the corruption, about the current prime minister in the president. so they made these documentary about the property. in the published and i think one month ago. no, and more than one month ago. >> is this what catalyze the protest? >> yes. >> were the youtube videos about -- and it sort of spread? >> i think russia was the first country where you to became the channel for. >> for di

u.s. is never pursued a policy of regime change. if you want to see how regime change looks, you can look at afghanistan in the 1980's or even -- nermeen: in that sense, russiand u.s. are in agreement. in other words, that they would rather retain assad himself or someone from his regime as the head of state or in control of syria because of fears of whom i take over in the event he goes or that his regime goes. >> exactly. i was a bit only difference between russia and the us is that russia probably wants assad to continue and u.s. once the regime to continue. we see this in many ways. there are cases when rebel groups are fighting against the regime, getting weapons and funding from u.s., the u.s. will cut off funding to them unless they focus their fighting on isis only. this has happened numerous times. theirgroups have lost funding. then they went and joined al qaeda. there's a narrative that says if the u.s. is supporting extremist now a cut of groups, it is false. u.s. is punishing groups that are trying to fight assad. then there going and joining al qaeda or extremist groups. nermeen: but there supporting the kurdish militia force that is fighting t

russia's meddling. it is also noticeable that the u.s. intelligence committee believed russia was behind somewhat or there is evidence to involved.ssia was this has been an ongoing on a busyt here morning inside the nation's capital. vonnie: we will continue to monitor the session. still ongoing. turning back to markets, the federal reserve -- some investors are wondering if the treasury will boost its offerings. it sounds like you are one of your nine years of age, but you are not. calling for an increase in 30 year bond offerings. us about what that my due to the treasury market. >> the problem with 50 year bonds is it would not have the same liquidity as the regular offerings. while this -- while there is probably demand for that, i could see it -- vonnie: how might you get it hee because it seems like wants to. >> they have a lot of market research to do. it is already impacting the yield curve. >> true. people are mindful of the fact that in the coming years you aggressiveve an fiscal stance by the administration. supply has to go up all across the curve and the fact the treasury is interested in maturity extension has some impact a

u.s. relationship with russia, but knowing that he could possibly be -- or being warned that he could be spiedn by the u.s., that it could cause a lot of political problems for the trump administration. guess what? it absolutely has. i mean russia is the 100-day political story for the trump administration right now. so it's unclear how high up this goes, but i feel like there are more questions than answers with each new development about what michael flynn actually did in those early days. >> the report goes on, eugene, to say that flynn's contacts with russia created, quote, a divide in the transition team, creating separate factions vying for power when it comes to national security. >> mm-hmm. >> any of those tensions spill into the white house, do you believe? have you gotten any indication of that? >> absolutely. i think towards the end of the campaign and definitely now in the beginning of the administration, we have seen a diversity of opinions on the role of russia in the campaign and their desire long-term. i mean there were certain people affiliated with the trump transition team o

or somehow in cooperation with russia. once you get into that sort of line of inquiry, you're looking at the possibility of spending by foreign entities in u.s. and being able to show that russia or russia-aligned agents spent money to attempt to influence the u.s. election. that gets into another potential legal violation of the federal election campaign act. we reported this week that the federal election commission is, in fact, investigating a complaint that alleges just that. it is yet another sort of legal wrinkle or legal avenue for both the doj, the senate and house intelligence committees, and then even possibly the federal election commission to pursue. >> let me go back to ari if he's still with us here. >> yeah. >> so ken just raises an interesting point here about how these things seem to go. when you have investigations, when you have leaks, when you have all of this reporting we're seeing, it seems like there's new tentacles that sort of emerge every day. now you have this special prosecutor who is looking into this, bob mueller. do we have a sense between bob mueller's investigation, between the senate intelligence committee,

on how much corruptioning there is in russia as -- corruption there is in russia as opposed to france or italy or even the u.s. >> host: although most russians do vote, more than five-sixths think they have little or no influence on what the government does. >> guest: yeah, and they're right. but voters don't in any country as individuals the odds that your vote will affect the outcome of the election in america, 1 in 10 million, probably his than that, and it varies by state. so, you know, russian citizens don't feel very empowered. this isn't something that's unusual for them or unique to them. >> host: is there somebody in the wings that could take on vladimir putin? >> guest: i don't know. the interesting thing is although i've been working on russian politics for the past quarter century, i'm not really a russian expert. i'm a public opinion specialist who's chosen russia as an interesting case. and so i've learned a little bit about russia, but if any of my true russian scholar friends see this, they'll say, yeah, he's right, he doesn't really know that much about russia. >> host: is it easy to measure

with respect to some of the contacts you referred to between russia and trump campaign officials, are you aware of any u.s. or since you had contact with russia, either making false statements about those contacts or failing to disclose those contacts? mr. brennan: i think that is puruse andhat we can close session. session.closed >> have you ever seen in your history working as an intelligence official this number of contacts between a foreign adversary and a presidential campaign? i think our collection systems have increased over the years, so i'm not sure whether or not it is the result of better collection or because there were more contacts this time. i do not have a basis to make a determination about that. >> thank you, yield back. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for being here today and your candor in this conversation. have you ever been asked to give your opinion to the fbi about whether intelligence you gathered should lead to an investigation? did they engage you in that way? you said there's fbi engaged in this, and the cia. i don't know if they have an opinion or ask your opinion on this.

u.s. territory perpetration sadly is not immune to the rise of basis or other militant groups from trinidad we are talking about. u.s. adversaries including china iran russia have looked to exploit it anti-american sentiment in the region. the disturbing trends are a number of things we should do first make it absolutely clear the united states does not expect other countries to trade solely with us but we will not allow the enemies to establish a foothold in the right - - a foothold in the region pro-democracy leaders who seek to deepen cooperation with the united states to make clear america will not leave a vacuum in the region for others to fill. by utilizing bilateral trade agreements to increase u.s. economic engagement in the region and where possible to assist u.s. companies to have the military sale in the region and increased the reporting of and on state actors in the region to deepen military relationships with key latin american partners and those such as argentina to take that implants seriously. by working to build the capacity of the smaller states to face those challenges in this area and to prioritize and multilateral organizations such a

or people than he had realized. --spoke to the u.s. senate by the way, a dozen or more other countries had passed the vote for women, including germany, austria, bolshevik russiagreat britain. the u.s. was starting to look bad. he said, are we alone to refuse to learn the lesson? isolate our thought from the rest of the world. we must either conform or resign the leadership of noble minds to others. isolate our thought from the rest of the world. so we came out on behalf of women's suffrage. the women immediately took this up. wilson said it is time to grant suffrage but it did not happen before that fateful moment, the midterm elections. when woodrow wilson went to france, he knew the people coming into office would be people who did not support his international programs, people like henry cabot lodge, for example. back in france, the battle is " battle.erway, "the it was interesting to learn how men supported women, too. it is a story about men and women working together for justice, learning how to work together, live alongside each other, count on each other in the most dire of circumstances, to be there, forthright, honest, fulfilled their duties. they a

russia and trump campaign officials, are you aware of any of those u.s. persons who had contacts with russia either making false statements about those contacts or failing to disclose those contacts? >> i think that's something that you can pursue in closed session. >> director, with respect to the contacts that you have seen, have you ever seen in your history working as an intelligence official this number of contacts between a foreign adversary and a presidential campaign? >> i think our collection systems have increased over the years. so i don't know whether or not it's a result of better collection or because there were more contacts this time. i just do not have a basis to make a determination about that. >> thank you. yield back. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. brennan for being here today and your candor in this conversation. have you ever been asked to give your opinion to the fbi about whether intelligence you gathered should lead to an investigation? do they engage you in that way? you said there's fbi engaged in the cia. i didn't know if they have an opinion or ask your opinion on that. >> well, we would make a referral to the depar

u.s. cyber command, though he has been at the center of so many stories breaking in the last month or so, including russia'sthe u.s. election. let's bring in ryan to get some preview of what we might hear. ryan. >> yeah. this is a hearing by the u.s. senate armed services committee. john mccain is the chair of this committee. and the topic is u.s. cyber command. when you look at the make-up of this committee, you have a number of democrats who may be running for president in 2020. you have the elizabeth warren and tim kaine of virginia. it seems when democrats have an opportunity to ask questions about russia, they usually take advantage of that opportunity. and it wouldn't be that big of a lane for them to go there today when talking about u.s. cyber command because, of course, russia is accused of interfering in the election. and considered to be someone who is a straight shooter. he has answered questions very honestly in these open hearings before. he is limited by what he could say, depending on whether or not that information is classified. but certainly this is a hearing worth keeping an eye on here

russia in the middle of a huge scandal. question of whether or not russia interfered with the u.s. election.don't forget jared kushner has been trusted with resolving middle east peace and justice system in the united states. also giving our federal government a refresh and so i think that this just shows the many questions of surrounding confidence of the trump administration and many of those instances are issues to make. why do they keep, you know, doing things where secrecy is being questioned and the coverup. this is just one more of those examples where doesn't necessarily seem like common sense. that's more than we expect from this administration. >> competency and wrongdoing are two different things. i myself have spoken to people inside the white house who said, they don't know whether or not there's wrongdoing on jared's part here, but the fact he has no government experience during the transition maybe he was asking for things or doing things he didn't realize were wholly inappropriate. is there a chance that's the case and putting a cart before the horse here. >> absolutely there

russia last summer. ians had been successful in getting u.s. persons, involved in the campaign or not. it should be clear to everyone that russia brazenly interfered in our 2016 presidential election process and they undertook these activities despite our strong protests and explicit warnings that they not do so.> ( darya ) brennan stopped short of calling the ties between russia and the trump campaign a "collusion." investigations into russia have intensified since president trump fired former f-b-i director james comey and then hired a private attorney to represent him. ( darya ) a violent fight breaks out in a classroom in georgia... and it was between a teacher and staff member. it happened at a middle school in georgia on friday. you can see the women throwing punches and pulling hair... and another adult has to get in the middle to break it up. after this fight was finally broken up, students say school officials came into the classroom and went through their cell phones and made them delete any evi