as everyone in the room knows we are in a period of significant crisis in the bilateral us russia relationship. causing symptoms are multifaceted, the ukraine, the buildup in exercising nato and parts of military forces, the common border area between the alliance and tempers of russia, russia's alleged violation of the 1987 intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty, concern that russia is developing new nuclear weapons and threshold for when it might consider using them and of course, russian meddling in the us election and some of our european allies. nuclear arms control may not be dead but it is certainly wounded. while some meaningful cooperation continues such as entry into the 20 2010 start treaty, the implementation of the joint comprehensive plan of action, there's no ongoing dialogue on steps although it was encouraged here. from chris ward that perhaps some dialogue may be in the offing. >> but in the absence of dialogue, this raises the odd , steps of conversation in the areas of strategic offense and defensive forces. meanwhile technological change and advancing congressional weapo

we know that there are a lot of friends out there in the us, friends of russia, my us colleagues told me and we are also had opinion polls several months ago that say that we have a lot of friends down there in the us. unfortunately, we have this hysteric atmosphere in the media that must have an impact, but definitely there are a lot of people in russia that have a lot of respect for the american people and help that eventually our relations would go back to normal and we are very much interested, both as in the us. >> our relations with the us have more question. let's continue on that topic. when we were preparing for the direct line conversation with our guess we realize that almost everyone here is worried about that and wants to know more and from the sidelines many discussed the national issues and i would like to give the floor to the person who is not only worried about russia and the whole world. editor-in-chief. >> well, i would like to talk about relations with the us and russia, we have one trend, you mentioned it and the guest also mentioned it with the new initiative on

russia f.-f. relations with the us to discuss this i was joined by danielle corvallis a professor of international human rights at the university of pittsburgh school of law and author of the plot to scapegoat russia how the cia and the deep state have conspired to vilify putin. well i think you're going to see that the holes so-called russia gate scandal is going to disappear because i think there is. scant evidence as you say that anything of substance actually happened. in terms of alleged russian hacking or meddling with the election so i think what you're going to see is a move instead towards investigation into whether trump obstructed justice by trying to somehow interfere with the investigation of the russia gate scandal if you can follow me on that you know so. and we only know that hillary clinton who as you know a lot that election she stated strongly that he thought rest and played a part in the election and trey gowdy this morning actually had a very interesting points and he said if clinton were the victim to a so-called crime then why not turn over the server the d.n.c. never turned

us. friends of russia. my us colleagues told me and we also had opinion polls several months ago that say we have a lot of friends out there in the us. unfortunately, we have this hysteric atmosphere in the media, it must have an impact. but definitely, there are a lot of people that have a lot of respect to the achievements of the american people and hope that eventually, our relations will go back to normal. and we are very much interested in it, both us and the us. >> will about the relations with us we have more questions. let's continue about that topic. we will be conversation without guessing because everyone here is worried about that and wants to know more.on the sidelines many discuss international issues even today. i would like to give the four to the person who is not only worried about russia but the whole world. so the editor-in-chief. >> i would like to talk about relations between the us and russia. we have one trend, you mentioned it. and the guest also mentioned there is russo phobia and t

well meanwhile the legendary filmmaker all of us state has said his latest work as a documentary is the person interviews gives a view of russia which has never been shown by the mainstream media. how it can go live now to us he's paid to scott wilson paid to you money to ask a question his post conference. hello kate yes i certainly did so only bestowed he gave a talk on coding the truth in films here installments which is hold up by a press conference and displaced almost being dedicated to science in the arts politics dominates the press conference on the course his documentary about what do you make what's in my mind to ask oliver stone a question and i asked him if he has seen the documentary and what his thoughts on it were. as you know the stuff they never heard you know i love it when they say this is all boilerplate boilerplate like illegal but this is all boilerplate russian talk not even though this talk with you i've never seen that lead us to the explanation for mr putin's point of view of the crimea of ukraine i never see that so talk talk to me about boilerplate because anyway the west is very divided as though

trump looks bad because he called the whole russian probe a witch hut and democrats were upset using russia, russia meddling in the election is an excuse for bloosibloo losing. >> i had many kind of hard weapons and some of them are straightforward and some of them are -- i don't use it anymore. >> i think this is going to be, i heard someone say earlier, this is going to be the most watched things of this hearing since watergate. >> the most important thing here is it is going to be tiend onig symboli symbolism. they'll get into this week. basically, we'll get to, tall, catholic and devoted his life to the service. >> try to make a judgment, is he telling me the truth? >> the strategy now is to put you on trial. >> we are going to look at the skies and say, god love it. do i believe it? >> that is a tough one for donald trump because you know his whole life had been on his own. i am not using his own voice. exaggeration and fudging and a lot of people would say false pood. >> his life had been about adversary shaping. now he's up in all right, standby. we have much more to talk about. when

collymore the expert alongside me stan what the football fans love woman thing else goals bring them to us russia to new zealand from the yes a very solid start boy how soon it was me the russian sporting public a bit a little bit down on their rightly so after a disappointing european championships last summer in france but i started like you trying there were papering the new zealand go weak shots and one glitch she coughed it lifted it over the news even goalkeeper and turf the ball into the back of the net the russian saw you were running small off at a really good season last season we present to the president was happy it could have been three perhaps four which might have flocked to the visitors new zealand i would desperately supporting to him on the dry off to winning stuff yeah president personal attendance and he was very pleased at a victory for the home nation the fact that he turned up it shows how important it is to the country as a whole you had the great peace player most people say to ever play the game pele was in attendance and a lot of top players have turned up at the end of

the us has accused north korea of providing workers to countries like russia and china. ecretary of state explained more. let's ever listen to him as well as china's response to him. many work 20 hours a day. their pay does not come to them directly but goes to the government of career which confiscates most of that, obviously. the north korean regime receives hundreds of millions of dollars from the fruit of forced labour. responsible nation simply cannot allow this to go on and we continue to: any nation that is hosting workers from north korea in a forced labour arrangement, to send those people home. responsible nation ‘s also must look at china. it was downgraded in part because it has not taken a serious steps to end its complicity in trafficking. translation: china resolutely opposes us remarks about our work with trafficking. we are willing to fight against the crime of human trafficking with all countries but only on the basis of mutual respect. we will be speaking to amnesty international for we will be speaking to amnesty internationalfor more we will be speaki

the expert alongside me stan what the football fans love more than thing else goals bring them to us russia to new zealand from their yes very solid start boy their house it was knee deep the russian sporting probably could get a little bit down on their rightly so after a disappointing european championships last summer in france but i started like you trying there were peppering the new zealand go with shots and one glass you coughed it lifted it over the news even goalkeeper and turf the ball into the back of the net the russian saw you were. small off of a really good season last season we present to the president was happy it could have been three perhaps four which might have flocked to the visitors new zealand they were desperate disappointing on the dry brush off to winning stopped yeah president personal attendance and he was very pleased at a victory for the home nation the fact that he turned up it shows how important it is to the country as a whole you had the great player most people say to ever play the game pele was in attendance and a lot of top players have turned up at the

us. russia's foreign minister says moscow is waiting for washington's explanations after the u.s. led coalition shot down a syrian army plane near the city of raka so gay lover also stressed the pentagon is still treating various terrorist groups differently for. the franks we have sure that the u.s. is really targeting i saw but we don't recall america bombing so actively. so whatever it's called now it's constantly changing its name but it doesn't change its nature to me because. all russia has now halted some cooperation with the u.s. over syria is pulled out of the agreement it signed with washington to prevent collisions in syrian air space or meanwhile australia has announced it is temporarily suspending its air operations in syria. well the u.s. led coalition says the downing of the syrian fighter jet in self-defense however in the last month coalition has already cheap already targeted i should say syrian forces and those loyal to damascus five times well let's have a look at where some of these attacks have taken place the plane that was shot down size west of the syrian

you use russia's foreign ministry hitting up the last of us. syrian chemical attack saying washington seems to be creating a pretext for military intervention. to another scandal hit c.n.n. as a political commentator this time. russia culprit. what do you think's going to happen this week to meet with all russia. because it will be really. in northern syria america's allies in the region of. u.s. support for the kurds.

that he's governing a country but he is head of the government and torture people and for russia for europe for us. such treatment towards the people of syria is a military crime for russia for germany but for syrians that is just another step to achieve their interests and if you ask. how we are going. to react to search for. well we can do and we should do all we can to prevent the use of chemical weapons we should prevent another incident of chemical weapons. regardless of who is going to perform to execute that attack syrian government forces or isis. but the difference is today is so tremendous that we cannot coordinate a joint investigation i agree with mr rolfe that we do need. to have that investigation but it's too late today we need to ensure the security of the investigators we should. wish to gauge the fact. that might have used chemical weapons he used to demonstrate that he's going to he was going to act just like that and we should understand that we want to resolve this conflict but the future of the syrian government and it can't be solved and decided upon only doing the talks is

us . russia's foreign minister says he's waiting for an explanation from washington after a syrian military jet was shot down near the city of raka sort of a lover of also stress the pentagon still treating various terror groups differently. for. the facts we have show that the u.s. is really targeting i saw what we don't recall america bombing so actively. so whatever it's called now it's constantly changing its name but it doesn't change its nature. by russia's now holton some cooperation with the u.s. over syria has pulled out of the agreements to prevent collisions in syrian air space and meanwhile australia's and its temporarily suspending air operations in syria. well the u.s. led coalition claims the syrian jet was downed in self-defense however in the last months it's already targeted government forces five times well let's have a look at where the attacks took place the plane was shot down south west of the syrian city of raka where the coalition supporting kurdish troops in their fight against i so well the u.s. led coalition has also conducted several bombing raids against pro-go

which affect us as well as russia what are those challenges first of all syria. we have a common enemy. which is the well identified terrorist groups which tried to use the syrian territory to organize attacks against. and attract train and indoctrinate foreigners. we also have another common interest which is the return to stability. through a political credible solution assuring a democratic transition negotiated neither russia nor fronts. is interested in tensions developing. through this syrian civil war. nor the massacres committed by the assad regime so stability for us is a question of national security. in the. background of this through the chemical use of chemical weapons by the regime. taken under the aegis of the us and russia remains a challenge for the world in this context. the status quo is no longer acceptable there's been too much suffering so i hope we can work together according to our interest to a process which shows a real succession succession of hostilities and a political solution for all syrians and i hope

us. in fact, russia was soon behind us as well as china, very good at it. they're smart.re are a lot of independent hackers in the world that are like dr. nose, they operate on their own, and they can do enormous damage. and we have all kinds of accusations about cyber warfare going on, and you heard a lot during the election campaign, and many of them were silly and really out of hand and based on a sort of mccarthy-like fear of russia or china. so, we're in a mess right now. we need a cyber treaty between countries. we really have to sit down and renegotiate this thing, because no one knows -- as snowden says, surveillance is in free fall. no one knows what's happening. >> is trump the right person to hit the reset button with russia, since you referenced it? >> i hope so -- >> and what does that look like, do you think? >> i hope so, because if i had one beef, the major obstacle i had with ms. clinton, was most scared of her was this russia situation. she was certainly pressing the russia button, making accusations about their cyber warfare influencing the election and

there's been several, very clear serin or something like that was used. russia refused to believe that. why do they do that about chemical weapons? because they know if assad uses them that rapidly ratchets up the potential of bigger international engagement inside syria, russia's game plan in syria is potentially broken or damaged, the strategy for the middle east potentially damaged or broken. they don't want to risk that. although we don't know what was said to assad, you can imagine from the kremlin's perspective they don't want them using chemical weapons and escalating the situation. >> thank you. we have a cnn exclusive now from inside syria, secret video from the de facto capitol, raqqa. >> reporter: this is what a reign of terror looks like. isis is losing on raqqa, because of one thing, it's actually easy to film them in secret. using a body camera could be a death penalty for this activist, streets lined with sandbags, they just don't fear isis anymore. to even this foreign fighter from belgium is a target as he makes a front line fashion choice. else

second, across the and call community in russia, you see a variety of opinion on the moscow conflict. some russians say that threats were useful reminder to the west that russia's interest need to be tape -- taken seriously and russia is a nuclear danger and nothing more than propaganda, but still other russians say that moscow has lost legitimacy and that loose nuclear talk in the media as well as by low-level officials should have occurred much sooner and last october putin spoke where he said, quote, nuclear weapons are a deterrent and a factor of ensuring peace of security worldwide. it's impossible to consider them as a factor in any potential aggression because it would probably end -- mean the end of civilization. it's abundantly clear that it's a deterrence and many experts believe that possession of nuclear arms by leading countries was one of the reasons why the world has not experienced a major armed conflict in the 70 years in the end of world war ii. now, we can debate whether or not russia used the nuclear shield in crimea. i think that's a very interesting discussion. we can also wonder if putin's statement of t

network in america to a familiar story is that russia meddled in the us presidential elections he believes it was part of a decades long effort in fact to undermine american democracy russia's always denied any interference can't talk about the details of the intelligence but we have the intelligence committee has said that this election was meddled with by the russians in a way that is frankly not particular original they've been doing this for an awfully long time and we are decades into the russians trying to undermine american democracy but if cia chief himself is tired of accusing the kremlin seems more and more americans are a newly released poll suggests that more than half of the people surveyed would like to see congress at the media focus on other issues such as health care for example we've got expert opinion only allegations against russia from joel microfiche sees the guy that created the first commercial antivirus software and work for nasa he says the u.s. elections were most likely by a teen. i feel that russia has been seriously abused by america and certainly our american

because he shut his eyes when the so-called extremists got electricity to create near west us all russia had to supply all the electricity itself he shut his eyes when the extremists stopped the shipments of call from us now in fact in fact basically pushing down bus away from you and then we go to all your nationalist issues like language access to the internet here i mean again i don't know western puppet is against. speech. will prohibit russian social networks in ukraine which is very pretty but in facebook in canada and but the problem is he will stay because of these policies he already showed up snitch. extremist forces from probably sector. and second if there is a rebellion against him unlike on the quality because a license to shoot from the west if he just shoots all of his opponents there you know the west is going to say he just shot that point is almost all that she says chiefs of the groups there are m.p.'s it is a unity and you get you can see them for as friends and so i was trying to. keep some of this. and it wasn't punished but of course the european union doesn't lik

with russia you use against the democratic systems. i think democratic systems in soft power are much better off than russia. and may offer more than russia an offer to countries. >> i would like to add small remark. dr. stelzenmueller: that is if i may say, as an ally and citizen of your ally of of over 60 years , do no harm. do not question the alliance. do not question the alliance that is greatly inure strategic interest with europe. but that is also in our interest. it is important for us. and an american government, white house, that questions the validity of that alliance, that questions the validity of the article 5 neutral defense commitment does more to undermine our security and our safety than many things that the kremlin does. we're all vibrant western democracies. that's not to say we don't have flaws and vulnerabilities. we should not only address those but as western democracies can address them together. we can look at them together. and i would add only one thing. sanctions do work. perhaps even more as a political sta

russia. thanks for joining us. lot of discussion about communications between russia and the united states, especially over at the election. can you give us your take of what you are hearing and the you make sense of what is going on? mr. pomeranz: there is a lot nowadays. it comes from a variety of sources. one has to try to understand where the sources are, anonymous sources, published sources, and try to put it into a pattern to see what it means. on,as the events have moved i think really two issues right now come to the top. there is now a potential third but i will focus on the first two. one is the question of michael flynn, who was clearly under investigation and who clearly has a legal problem. i think the question for michael flynn in this investigation going forward is the investigation of flynn and with len or does he have more -- does the investigation anend with flynn. the second issue is trump's finances. where did he get all this money from during the election? it is clear that bank for not wanting t

is a sovereign nation nobody is invited to go into syria and i say nobody i mean mido khatib it's us russia is a different story in iraq at least we got that pat on the back we got the invitation we have our special forces there we have our medics there and we know who were helping we're helping the kurds and we're hoping the iraqi army gets to get isis out of mosul in syria it's a different arena and when you see things happen like they just did over this weekend well then you're asking who are we helping in the first place when you see a plane's god. well that's an issue a poll twosomes that i've spoken to here in canada one on one of the agree with you know the situation's a lot more complex that all media is pushing to be yeah doesn't just doesn't work it doesn't make for a clicks and quick sound bites let's talk about the f. thirty five mired in trouble for his recent history being what it is but all the price is going to be the same or other countries actually paying the same price on these so they're all going to be paying the same as talking to be different for one country versus th

this gets back to the kind of tense triangle, rectangle between us, russia iran, and syria. want to say you have set on this program before we have to prioritize defeating isis on the issue but then some people who love the american first platform the president ran on are not happy seeing this intervention. >> eric: i am glad nikki haley said heads up, russia and iran. we may be doing this if bashar al-assad kills more of his own people with mustard gas or whatever gas he's using. this -- the middle east is such a mess, especially with syria. bashar al-assad does this again for the 100th time, kills more of his own people. now we are supposed to bomb syria again, maybe implicating russia because they are already there? north korea, that crazy dictator is doing the same thing to his own people. so we are going to get involved there? i believe north korea is our issue. i don't think syria is our issue. humanitarian reasons, there are so many humanitarian atrocities around the world. we are going to get in everyone, will be spread -- finite resources. we will have none left. >>

attack hit sperms around the globe with russia and ukraine bearing the brunt and russia. to use military force against the assad government saying it is unacceptable and it comes after the white house claims damascus is preparing to use chemical weapons in syria. the welcome come july from moscow you're watching international our top story this hour a producer for america's c.n.n. news channel has apparently been caught saying the network's russia coverage is more about boosting ratings than offering solid facts investigative journalism group project veritas is released a secretly filmed conversation here's a clip of. the more i see them constantly like russia the structure of. this regimes even if russia was trying to swing an election i think we try to sway the election in this weird little r.c. i do which time when we're out there trying to manipulate governments like honestly if you think. it's just like. it's mostly right now we don't have any. giant. proof i was feeling they don't really have that they want to keep doing. and so i think president is probably right to say.

you earlier we spoke to that russian affairs analyst and historian martin mccauley and he tells us that russia is not the only country facing security issues with encrypted messaging services there's going to be an enormous amount of traffic on these apps which provide a certain level of security because you have the same thing in the united states with the f.b.i. tried to force. encryption keys to be revealed to them and the answer was no we're not going to do that because. a matter of privacy and secrecy the constitution guarantees privity of correspondence and so on and it's an extremely difficult area no country is really broken this code because the. jihad easy people can in fact send. messages like my mother my mother died last thursday and then you have the difficulty of working out what does that really mean so you may have an enormous amount of texts and so on which the authorities can look at because social media if you take. the e-mails and you take i phone and all the i phone messages they can all be intercepted worldwide and the americans french and to the same they do that the am

the us has accused north korea of providing up to 50,000 workers as forced labour to countries like russia. at a news conference, the us secretary of state, rex tillerson, explained more. let's have a listen mr tillerson, as well as china's response. many of them working 20 hours a day. their pay does not come to them directly, it goes to the government of korea, which confiscates most of that, obviously. the north korean regime receives hundreds of millions of dollars per year from the fruits of forced labour. responsible nations simply cannot allow this to go on and we continue to call on any nation that is hosting workers from north korea in a forced labour arrangement, to send those people home. responsible nations also must take further action. china was downgraded to tier three status in this year's report, in part because it has not taken serious steps to end its own complicity in trafficking, including forced labourers from north korea that are located in china. translation: china resolutely opposes us making thoughtless remarks about other countries that work in fight against huma

us for confederation cup coverage now better place to be facing. the guys later but we'll go back to some petersburg now we can talk to alexander sackhoff who is. also russia's all time. top scorer for the national team he joins us in russia's northern capital now welcome to r.t. sale stadium looks pretty magnificent i want to ask you first if i may about the opening game russia versus new zealand achilles the cat was a little hesitant how do you rate russia's chances. well first of all. i'm happy to welcome all of you to our wonderful city you can see the weather is nice and everything is ready for the kickoff of my cast for the opening match. on like. you don't have any hesitation so i feel confident that russia will win today we'll beat new zealand and we'll start our path to qualifying from our group. which of the games are you looking forward to the most in the group stages. it was nice to see a much well to me all the games will be interesting of course i'll be rooting for russia first and foremost our next match vs portugal will be the decisive game for us. what's your impression of the atmosphere so far june summer in some petersburg combi many more

us. [applause] >> we will make a quick costume change as we move to the next panel on the future of u.s. russia relations. i want to ask our moderator to join us at the stage and we will get started shortly. in 30 seconds. [inaudible conversation] >> are we set? [inaudible conversation] if i could ask everyone to take a seat, we are going to get started in 60 seconds. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] >> please find your seats right now. thank you. thank you very much. i wanted to introduce our director for disarmament policy, can kingston reef who will moderate the next session on reducing risks with russia. >> good afternoon everyone. welcome to our final panel of the meeting which will examine reducing security and nuclear risks with russia. as everyone in the room knows we are in a period of significant tension and some would say crisis in the bilateral russia relationship. the causes and symptoms are multifaceted. they include the crisis in ukraine, the buildup in exercising of forces in the border area, russia's alleged violation of the 1987 intermediate range nuclear forc

when the two men last met in february, they talked about the allegations of russia hacking the us electionelyan, about his close encounters with russia's president. oliver stone, you have had unparalleled access to vladimir putin for a western filmmaker. what do you hope all that access is revealing about him?|j do you hope all that access is revealing about him? i hope it leads toa revealing about him? i hope it leads to a serious and interesting discussion about world affairs, especially the us and russia. he lays out a world we don't know. we know about the latest crisis and all that in the western media, but let's go beyond those pictures and caricatures. you spend a lot of time with him, going to his holiday house, playing ice hockey with him. what was your impression? he is an extremely disciplined man and a nswered extremely disciplined man and answered every question and there was no editing. there was no demand for questions in advance. he is not pretentious. the image of him is built up to be macho and a sportsmen, dominating, it is not true. isn't your impression from these powe

you watch china and russia that will say you can't trust the united states, you can trust us. >> russia build cuba's new railroad. >> and they have forgiven billions of dollars in debt, doing the things that we should be doing. >> no one can deny the human rights cditions in cuba. the lack of a free press, compared to erdogan in turkey -- >> or saudi arabia or the philippines, he talks about going out and murdering people. we have a fear cuba? it makes no sense. is there repression in cuba? yes. will it get better, yes, it will. you have been there many times, you know it is two steps toward and one step back. today our flag went up, the wan said we always liked the united states and cuba your relationship with cuba is like a stone shoe. when that flag went up, the stone came out of our shoe. it kind of says it all, i'm afraid that donald trump and the people around him who know nothing about cuba that just want to make the twitter feed, they're going to set back the people of cuba and our relationship with cuba. >> what is the chance for your bill, 55 sponsors, ten republicans, it coul

us. russia has only been great when it has been ruled by great and like peter the great and alexander the second. now, every bone in your body wants to say do you mean vladimir, the great. your secretary of state, that would be rude. you can't say that. but that is who he thinks he is. he thinks his reuniting the russian people in greatness. he is avenging the humiliation of the cold war and the collapse of the soviet union. so what if it means you take someone's territory like crimea. so what if you make eastern ukraine ungovernable because the russians are backing ukrainian separatists who are killing ukraine every day. so be it if you five obama runs along the coast of sweden. what to the swedes due to the russians? lee's last 300 years, nothing. he does something really dangerous, russian pilots fly close to american ships and planes. and so he is going to push until he is stop. president obama did a good thing into play rotating forces in the baltic states and poland. that's a signal that article five of the nato treaty that attack on one is a tack on all. rotating will do. we need t

plane which was flying the defense minister of russia somewhere over kaliningrad so you see the tensions are mounting and this is exactly what a lot of us fear that's why i've been speaking out against is why i wrote this book the plot to scapegoat russia because i fear that no matter what happens with the russia gate scandal again even if it disappears which i think it will this hostility that's been built up against russia will remain and i think it is pushing us closer to a confrontation that i don't think any of us want and to add to that i mean the u.s. has now brought it sanctions against russia now one hundred sixty individuals and more than four hundred companies are on it. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov reacted saying quote i can only express my regret at the probe sesson of our u.s. colleagues so what's your take do you think this is all merely political sense trump has received much backlash when he pressed relations with russia since his campaign days. i think there's two things at least two things going on one is political one is the russia gate scandal which i think is pushing the white house into feeling a need to

in 2016 i believe russia got us money's worth and so in doubt, distrust and dissension in the heart of the american political process. my fear is that rate of return to russia will continue to return to those tactics. i don't believe anyone believes russia will stop. i believe a state that has statewide elections in 2017 we have to be alert now. that's why last week when we had dhs before the committee we asked them to share even if they have to share confidentially the names of the 21 states that were attacked by the russians in 2016. i've written and spoken with secretary kelly on this matter as the oversight committee i believe are entitled to that information we need to work through a process so the state election officials can at least be read in. my fear is that when the top election official from wisconsin, both of those states could not acknowledge whether they were part of the 21 states. also we heard from illinois which is testified openly that they were attacked on a regular basis, that they had not been informed until last week that those attacks originated from russia. tha

expert opinion on the allegations against russia from john mcafee he created the first commercial antivirus software and he's also worked for nasa to he told us the u.s. elections could have been hacked by anyone that so easy it was. i feel that russia has been seriously abused by america and certainly our american pop government and politicians over the false accusations of russia tried to hack our election i know for a fact that russia did not hack the d.n.c. source absolutely not yet all of our politicians all of them are going crazy about us the russians tried to hack us they tried to control us we had a report from homeland security here in america that actually included the malware the software that was used for the hack well myself and hundreds of other researchers have looked at that and discovered that it's a very common piece of malware called p a s web shell it was it was collected from a website that only asked for donations and it was six versions old and even the newest version only sells for fifty dollars now i ask you please people do you believe that the russian government cannot afford to pay even fifty dollars if they wante

there was a mechanism to avoid syrian airspace incidents between russia and the us that is now suspended after the us shut down the plane we have requested a detailed explanation through the ministry of defense we expect that it will be provided by the us. the pentagon earlier claimed it had shot down the syrian jet in self-defense after it bombed u.s. backed militants damascus though so this plane was targeting islamic state fighters and the syrian jet was down near the i still held city of rock which is of course under siege by u.s. backed local troops is that the first time the u.s. led coalition has targeted pro assad forces in the war zone just last month in fact in the area of the border crossing here the coalition bombed pro-government forces several times after accusing them of violating so-called confliction zones. and all it takes a closer look at the latest. the u.s. shoots down syrian plane over syria in self-defense the only actions that we've taken against pro regime forces in syria and they've been to specific incidents have been in self-defense let's imagine a random guy

russia hype. that has more for us from toronto alex let's start with the new sanctions implemented by the u.s. against russia what's the latest on that. we all know this happened on tuesday thirty eight individuals and firms sanctions popped up on the from the u.s. side these are all russian are obviously individuals and firms you know it's when you really look at it is intended with the president petro poroshenko his visit to washington he's the ukrainian president these sanctions are supposedly aimed at the issue of the for enjoyment of russia in ukraine so again thirty individuals in firms symbolic more than anything else basically a cookie toss to ukraine but at the same time it's just the irritants obviously to the russians seeing that the sanctions are popped up now let's really face facts here of us saying sions another sanctions from other nations against russia haven't really played that big of a role in the russian economy any sign of that russian economy doing poorly is due to oil prices nothing to do with sanctions i've lived in a country under sanctions for nearly five years in the

neverthele nevertheless, raises questions about what the president now and his tie to us russia. >> shepard: andrew napolitano says if the russians were paying manafort, he's going to have explaining to do. more on the senate republican's push for healthcare reform and their effort to get a deal, at least an agreement in place in the next two days. this is news. some republicans say the longer this goes on, the worst the outcome could be. a lot to get into from the fox news deck on a wednesday afternoon. the pain can really be a distraction. pain is sometimes in my hands, right before a performance especially. only aleve has the strength to stop minor arthritis pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. this is my pain. but i am stronger. aleve. all day strong. finding the best hotel price is now a safe bet. because tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites - so you save up to 30% on the hotel you want. lock it in. tripadvisor. >> shepard: much more now on president trump's former campaign manager, paul manafort registers retroactively as a former agent. let's bring in andrew napolitano.

russia. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> a lot of discussion between medications and russia and the united states especially over the election. could you give us your take of what you are hearing and make sense of what's going on between who did what and when. >> guest: hears a lot nowadays. it comes from a variety of sources. i was, one has to try to understand where the sources are, in anonymous sources, sources, and put it in a pattern to see what it means. i think of the events have moved on the two issues right now come to the top. and there's now a potential third will focus on the first two. one is the question of michael flynn was clearly underio. investigation, who clearly has a legal problem and i think the question for michael flynn in this investigation going forward is does the investigation of flynn and with flynn or does he in fact have more information that indicates the president or the campaign? the second issue that hasn't really gone away yet is trump's finances. where did he get all this m

so empowered with hard core measures, we have to put this on soft power because this is what russia uses against democratic systems. i think democratic systems in soft power are much better off than russia and may offer more than russia can offer to countries. >> madam senator, i would like to add one small remark to what's already been said. and that is, if i may say, as an ally and a citizen of your ally for over 60 years, do no harm. do not question the alliance. do not question the alliance that is greatly in your strategic interest with europe, but that is also in our interest. it is of great importance for us. and an american government, a white house that questions the validity of that alliance, that questions the validity of the article five mutual defense commitment does more to undermine our security and our safety than many things that the kremlin does. we are all vibrant western democracies. we should not only address those, but we i think as western democracies can address them together, we can look at them together. and i would add only one thing. sanctions do work. perhaps

she was suggesting in her campaign of course that he was a pawn of russia, that his campaign was being used by russia and they were trying to promote his campaign. which of course we now know to be true. but donald trump at the same time was talking about a rigged election. he was talking about the hacking being completely a hoax. so you had these two, it was sort of a he said/she said dynam dynamic. if president obama had started talking about this in a more proactive way, he would have elevated perhaps this discussion about russia hacking beyond the normal campaign noise. but at the same time, there was that concern in the administration that that would look like it was politically motivated. like he was putting his thumb on the scale. and you also had concerns about just public faith in the election process in general. and when you had donald trump out there talking about a rigged election, having democrats and the president come out and say well russia is also trying to interfere in this election, that wouldn't necessarily restore the public's faith in whatever the outcome was going to