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, tell vladimir more flexibility.a look. >> my last election come after my election i have more flexibility. >> sean: i transmit to vladimir, joining us with reaction larry elder, fox news correspondent out to large, somebody apparently that is hanging with the president at mar-a-lago and we did not get an invitation, what is up with that geraldo? >> i'm sorry. >> sean: you get the point that i am making here. >> yes, i think that if anything that shock, sean is that it has taken this long to get to the incontrovertible fact that president obama has consistently poo pooed the election and so forth. in his debate with governor mitt romney was after he said russia is the biggest geopolitical threat that we face, president obama said, and you can never forget this, the cold war is calling and once its foreign policy back. president trump has been tough on russia through the secretary of state rex tillerson and through the united states, united nations ambassador nikki haley. it is true that the president would like a mor

i marry her son russian leader vladimir putin will run for president again next month in what is sure to be a guaranteed victory given that is only viable opponent has been barred from running so we'll putin be president for life or is there a version of russian democracy that exists in spite of him that's our debate but first they putin's russia collude with donald trump during the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election former f.b.i. chief robert mueller who's investigating that claim last week indicted thirteen russians and three russian organizations but did the campaign participate in the election meddling and should the u.s. really be lecturing russia on undermining foreign elections given how many governments the cia has undermined and even toppled this week's headline from critic former top spy and twenty eight year veteran of the cia and its clandestine service john cypher. john thanks for joining me on up front the latest indictments from the special counsel's investigation into the twenty sixteen presidential election in the u.s. accuses russian nationals and organization

mech vladimir putin's time.t was interesting to watch, the protests which were significant over the weekend. regime hasink the been relatively successful in pushing opposition to the margins and containing it, without having to use excessive force. they are being careful not to -- alex enabled only into alexei navolny into a martyr. it is worth remembering that the assassination of boris nemtsov has to have been signed off from the top of the regime. i believe the party that the leaders of this cooperation i attached to a strong state and repression of western opposition, will translate into a continued confrontational policy to where the west, whether it is by vladimir putin or anyone of his successors. the leaders of this corporation really believe their own propaganda, that the united states is bent on regime change in russia. that they support civil society and democratic values, and be think it is responsible for any progress turn movements which -- pro-western movements which develop either in ukraine or r

bush, obviously, barack obama, both tried at various points to work with vladimir putin. they saw that as their jobs and then when things went south like the invasion of georgia in 2008, the invasion of ukraine in 2014, you know, they took tough action against russia as a result. this president has allowed tough action to be taken at times by people beneath him, by his administration, but himself, he doesn't want to do that. and it does beg the question of why. does he have an admiration for strong men, as a lot of people have said, does he have a personal interest in russia in some way that he hasn't disclosed? we don't know the answer to that, but it's -- he has made it seem more suspicious by the way he has so consciously avoided saying anything about vladimir putin that would be in any way seen as critical. >> and ashley, you've done some extraordinary reporting over the weekend twitter tirade. i don't want to go back too much, except to two things, one, your piece about how the white house looked at the tragedy in florida just in terms of operationally as a reprieve

correspondent emily share when in moscow and also from journalists vladimir fun video good work who has been reporting from northern syria for months but is now following the events from erbil in iraq first of all i go to you vladimir what are your sources in syria saying following this incident. well basically what the russians recently said that their work you know with turkey to retrieve the body from the turkish backed rebels in the area and there's a sort of effect though ceasefire going on the syrian army they are not actually focused on isis and hama which is a little bit further away from you know that so it seems there are still a guns by russia and turkey to solve this issue ok so there seems to be a truce in place at the moment what about over in russia emily what does this incident mean for the russian involvement in syria well question the russian side this is somewhat of a setback at the end of the year russia announced several times sensually victory in syria for example in december president vladimir putin went to syria one of them to the russian airbase there and he sai

now for more on this story we have correspondent vladimir vande velde berg who is in the syrian town of call bonnie and journalist alec loon who is in moscow latimer and alec a good to see you both alec let's start with you vladimir putin as we just said he has ordered a daily a cease fire for eastern gota why now is he caving in to international pressure it looks like that though he says. he discussed the ceasefire at a security council meeting with all the top heads of russia's military and security forces and espionage agencies and he said at that meeting that. the reason they're doing this is because the u.n. resolution passed yesterday calling for a thirty day ceasefire so it looks like he is. down to international pressure a little bit however lehner putin's spokesman said after this was announced that russia still remains very concerned with what it called provocative actions by terrorists in eastern. russia for several days has been saying that damascus and even the russian embassy in damascus are coming under shelling from groups within eastern gooda groups russia or terrori

but very few comments for vladimir putin.versations have led the president to believe vladimir putin when he said there was no russian meddling. it is also not clear what they're going to do going forward. we heard from intelligence officials on the hill. they said there's meddling going on. there is month clear direction and leadership from this white house in terms of what they're going to do about it to safeguard the elections which are coming up in november in very many states. very many elections at the senate level and the house level. so that's the big question. there is no consistent leadership. there is no talking about the seriousness this. >> huge could very well go after and accuse the russians the bob mueller. they've not gone after the kremlin and russian government. they've gone after those around him like putin's chef. what will happen if the mueller investigation indicts and accuses the russian government of doing this and sponsoring this? what is the president's reaction going to be? he can't deny they weren

on the rebel held eastern ghouta after a temporary truce ended earlier today russian president vladimir putin said that his troops had managed to evacuate some civilians but. people are simply too afraid to leave aside from syrian red crescent aid workers and the odd soldier the so-called humanitarian corridor in eastern guta is otherwise empty of actual humans and bill and says stand ready to treat the wounded while provisions that aid stations are apparently plentiful. chose who want to leave can do so after a month for twenty days or they can stay even for two years because there is a school and everything they need is here to get new supplies every sixty days. but people seem too scared to risk the journey airstrikes were reported during the first five hour ceasefire and observers say that syrian government warplanes resumed their bombing almost as soon as it ended but russian president vladimir putin claims that one group did make it through. we have managed to get out quite a big group of those who wanted to leave from there but the second group that was prepared could not leave b

politics at russian and the influence of russian president vladimir putin. speakers include a russian journalist, a former u.s. ambassador to russia and nato and the first russian foreign minister who served under boris yeltsin. this is just over an hour and a half. john: good morning. my name is john herbst. i run the eurasian center here at the atlantic council. thank you all for coming. we have a wonderful program for you this morning. and i should mention that this is part of our series on internal developments in russia. we began with a session in october on demography in russia. and this of course is on politics. next month, we are doing a session on the russian economy, followed by a session a session probably in april on energy sector in russia. we have a real treat for you this morning. we have a wonderful lineup of speakers. i will not describe them except to say yevgenia albats, a top-notch journalist from moscow, who has written a very provocative and a fascinating paper on russia politically. foreign minister kozyrev will comment on that, as wil

why did vladimir putin make the call? good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm dave briggs. >> nice to have you back. i'm christine romans. it is tuesday, february 27th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. lawmakers in the nation waiting for clarity from the president on guns. they're still waiting. the president mentioning a few possibilities when he spoke to governors at the white house. he was firm on bump stocks. >> bump stocks, i'm writing that out. i don't care if congress does it or not. i'm writing it out. >> president trump told lawmakers he is willing to stand up to the nra and they should be too. >> don't worry about the nra. half of you are so afraid of the nra. there's nothing to be afraid of. if they're not with you, we have to fight them every once and a while. that's okay. >> despite that, the white house is backing away from the president's call to increase the age requirement to buy some weapons to 21. >> they want to raise the age. >> they did not bring up the age raising one time. the president is listening to the stake holders here. the governors at

he was shooting at -- tweets off about everything and everybody except vladimir putin. that is a sign of weakness. that is how vladimir putin perceives our president today. >> michael mcfaul, of course our russian affairs analyst here, thank you, sir. >>> let me bring in tonight's panel. ruth marcus bloomberg, a heel kapoor and also gretchen ryder. welcome all. so interesting tact i think. i just want to go with the tact that the white house is taking that no, hey, we are being tough on russia, which tells me they fear the idea the perception that they are not. >> yes, they do about that and i think they realize that there is a congress full of people including republicans and leaders in their party who are russia hawks at heart. democrats, some of them may not have been, but i think they -- >> they have become one now about that. >> so the policies that the trump administration is capable of waging on this has limits based on what congress will allow. but the issue is kind of a personal no-fly zone for donald trump because he is unable to view it as anything other than

vladimir putin. >> he has been tougher on russia in the first year than obama was in eight years combined. >> okay. sarah huckabee sanders, that is absolutely untrue. one more time, for you to say that president obama has been tougher on russia in one year -- >> president trump. >> excuse me -- that president trump has been tougher on rusher in the last year than obama in eight years, it is a straight up lie. >> no. we fact checked this, and it is not a thing. >> shame on you. >>> we start this morning with a hero and a victim. killed in the shooting at marjory stoneman douglas high school being laid to rest. christopher hixson was the school's athletic director. we've heard extraordinary stories about him. he was also so much more than that. rather than cut sports that lacked coaches, hixson decided to do the job himself. are you ready for this? he coached five sports at various times, all without any extra pay. students were given the opportunity to run cross country, play volleyball, wrestle, play

is going after vladimir putin incursion here. we believe it's ran some wear attack, a computer virus attack. but, jim, this is a bit, it seems at least a bit of tarans genit other issue. president valuable commodity is time chooses to focus attention. and he has focused attention as commander of chief on the idea of russian meddling, vladimir putin. he has said he believes his denials here. so at that contentious white house briefing today sarah sanders finally said, look, there will be something coming. but, jim, she could not answer the question of what he hasn't done already. as far as we can tell, it's not been much. >> would have seem to be a pretty simple answer to give. outfront now. editor in chief daily bees former assistant secretary for the department of homeland security, and former director of the nixon presidential library, tim naftali. this is pretty hard line to take. he's taking action. doesn't stand up to the facts though, does it? >> not even ha little bit. the reason why the white house will try to address thi

it was a deal that was brokered by vladimir putin. b.p.'n oligarch partners did very, very well with this deal forced by putin. the alpha group partners got $27 billion for their stake in the venture. one of the partners was a man named german kahn. he has an estimated fortune of $10 billion and gets a mention in the dossier specifically his company's closeness to vladimir putin. an alpha group deny any wrongdoing and are suing buzz feed. but today, german kahn found himself in the news for a different reason because he's the father in law of this guy. alex van der zwann who today pled guilty to lying to robert mueller's investigators. these new charges are interesting for a lot of reasons but what happens when you're a multibillionaire oligarch putin ally and the young man who just married your daughter gets arraigned and possibly jailed in the united states by robert mueller? if you're german kahn in this circumstance, what do you say to your friend vladimir putin about this? if you're robert mueller, did you just indict someone knowing f

hour russian president vladimir putin says that the aim is to help civilians evacuate it comes after the year when germany and france appealed to putin to use his influence with the syrian regime to enforce a cease fire the international committee of the red cross in geneva switzerland welcome to the five hour daily cease fire which is due to take effect tomorrow tuesday. well matters now is that the people on it out. there feel we need it under dignified conditions of course and security for themselves and at the same time it is obvious that it is critical for aid to be let in we speak of four hundred thousand people you cannot take all of them out you have to allow humanitarian aid in and this is extremely urgent and on the ground medics in eastern who took are choosing russian backed forces are using chemical weapons against civilians russia has denied the allegation calling it fake news. these are the images that observers claim proof of a chlorine gas attack that is killed at least one child in france still in diapers or among more than a dozen people being treated doctors say t

vladimir putin was determined to win.tigation against russia's doping mastermind was dropped. >> pelley: who got you out of that jam? >> rodchenkov: of course putin. but it had-- >> pelley: vladimir putin? >> rodchenkov: yes. >> pelley: so vladimir putin, in your estimation, needed you? >> rodchenkov: yes. >> pelley: sochi was the first olympics hosted by russia since 1980. to "win at any cost," rodchenkov formulated an illicit performance enhancing prescription that contained three banned drugs. he told us the bobsled team was among those using his concoction. at the end of the games, russia came out on top with 33 medals. how many russian golds were there in sochi? >> rodchenkov: thirteen, 1-3. >> pelley: and of the 13, how many of those do you believe were won by athletes who were dirty? >> rodchenkov: five. >> pelley: what sports were those? >> rodchenkov: biathlon, skiing, bobsled, and skeleton. >> pelley: five medals, by the way, was the difference between first place and the second place finish of the united states

but we've heard from the russian state agency that the president of russia vladimir putin has ordered this. humanitarian pause between these hours but what's really important to note here is that this humanitarian pause does not allow aid to come in it will be for people to neve so we're seeing a repeat of what we've seen in syria where a large population was displaced to other parts. being told to leave but from what we understand the majority of the people in the four hundred thousand people. are civilians and sources we've been speaking to in the last couple of days have been telling us that there isn't a plan to host four hundred thousand people anywhere else in syria it doesn't work in the south near the border with jordan obviously there will be. people to go into the government controlled side in damascus the city which they're just into and then further north which is also a hot flash point of a war continues so it is the first time that we've heard some sort of implementation ideas about this united nations security council deal which calls for a cease fire with immediate eff

if he goes right back to vladimir putin. kevin: a couple of things, first and foremost, you raised a great point -- it is easy to talk about the politics of this in the moment and there is no language in the latest indictment. thatrd, latest indictment president trump has any direct knowledge of this back and forth. republicans obviously are going to make note of that. yousecond point to what just said, let's take a step back at the trend we have seen, the u.s. government both in the obama administration and now in the trump administration -- think back during the transition. when the obama administration issued their report on cybersecurity concerns regarding russia. the u.s.k to when seized russian assets a new york and new jersey, causing a popular russian embassy of sorts, a prominent house. earlymove forward to the stages of the trump administration and the intelligence community issued a chronology of sorts from top intelligence officials about what had gone on during the meddling. people like coats from the dni explic

syrian government warplanes resumed their bombing almost as soon as it ended but russian president vladimir putin claims that one group did make it through. we have managed to get out quite a big group of those who wanted to leave from there but the second group that was prepared could not leave because the militants just did not give them an opportunity to do that putin's face haunts these ghostly aid stations he blamed rebel groups on the grown for not respecting the ceasefire but france today said that the syrian government was to blame. me the syrian regime didn't feel worried about it and more worries continuing it feeds and large scale military operations with dramatic consequences on the civilian population of eastern. needless to say in complete violation of presentation twenty four when. the u.n. has been in talks with russia in that accelerating and hedonist of the resolution on all sade's perhaps then some of the people whose lives have been shattered by the conflict and start to stream down these empty roads to get the aid they so desperately need. here are some of the other sto

his friend vladimir a former k.g.b. officer a wealthy businessman and pious creditor joined the inner circle that unofficially advises the russian president. with additional vacation of the system it seemed that there were no any ground for more i just try to go. to somebody decides. he possesses the troops riches true story everyone. that is the malaysian and that can lead to actual error over you war water or you know or are you a logical warm or cold war whether. this new cold war is of course directed against the winners of the previous one against the u.s. and its armed extension in europe nato. since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. in one thousand nine hundred ninety one the transatlantic alliance has encroached on moscow's spear of influence poland romania and the baltic states which were occupied by soviet forces sought nato as protection. nato carried out a series of large scale maneuvers in response to putin's nationalist rhetoric a rhetoric that worried his neighbors. the united states pushed ahead with plans fo

>> look, vladimir putin is a bully whoa looks at other leaders and if he senses weakness, he will take advantage of that weakness. that's the way he operates and right now when vladimir putin looks at the united states and sees a president who will not condemn russia for what they did, will not condemn him and will not take steps to make clear that it won't happen again, what vladimir putin is going to read is weak ness and it's virtually an invitation to putin and to the russians to continue to do to the united states what they did in 2016. and they are. they'll do it in 2018, they'll do it in 2020 as long as this president doesn't draw a line on them and make very clear that we will stop russia from interfering with our election process. >> the president publicly rebuked his national security adviser general h.r. mcmaster. he was in a conference in munich last week and he said there's no doubt that russia was doing it, is doing it. the president then in a tweet said he should have said this. what was your reaction when heard the president of the united states publicly go after, humil

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so there has been a reluctance on the part of president trump to go hard after vladimir putin. in fact, i remember last november when he was traveling in vietnam at the apec summit, he had a brief meeting with vladimir putin, and the president said he believed the denials of vladimir putin that he did not meddle in the election. so, anderson, as we end this one more interesting, troubling week on many fronts here, i'm struck by the fact that this is the beginning, not the end, as shimon was saying earlier. keep in mind one thing, steve bannon, the chief strategist, spent more than 20 hours this week with the special counsel. he told michael wolff in the book "fire and fury" it's about money laundering, so that 20 hours will certainly come out potentially in indictments to come, potentially not. but this seems to be just the beginning. >> appreciate the reporting. we're joined by senator richard blumenthal of connecticut, who serves on the judiciary committee. senator blumenthal, i'm wondering what your first reaction is to this indictment. >> i was stunned, anderson, by the mas

why not ever, ever confront vladimir putin for anything he does? >> because the president continues to act in this case like a defendant and not like the president of the united states who is responsible for leading a response to this hacking. it continues to act like someone whose actions are under question. in fact, that's why you see him make some of the mistakes you do that put him in further legal jeopardy. it was that world view back in last year that led him to take all these actions that have now brought him under scrutiny for obstruction of justice. i think it was obviously a mistake for them to view this indictment as any type of vindication. if we see further charges, today was the first step in mueller constructing a legal architecture under which you could see charges against the president or i should say the president's aides. what we saw today was him sketching out a conspiracy to defraud the united states, the first participants in that conspiracy are the russians who were listed in this indictment. further participants in that cons

europe the foreign minister of the netherlands quits after admitting he lied about a meeting with vladimir putin and the russian leaders intentions to forge a greater russia. in an exclusive interview with r t the head of the court of arbitration for sports the friends of the olympic committee's decision to exclude russian athletes which the court itself had already declared cleared of doping allegations. the fact that the unable to show the guilt of an athlete's doesn't mean that he has nothing to do over the case but is totally innocent so. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. and germany's social democratic party leader martin scholtz has announced his resignation with immediate a fact his decision comes after he lost out in the german election to chancellor angela merkel and then faced criticism over agreeing to a grand coalition government for a second time he said his decision will allow the party to refresh itself and come back stronger. yes you did all. this big you need to compute whe

none of them are good for vladimir putin. whether it is fracking, nato, arming the ukrainian government. of aere was any connection positive nature between moscow and president trump, would we not have seen the reverse of last 12 months? it is an absurd accusation because this president understands you vladimir putin is in the threat russia poses, not as a global threats, to the andon, especially central eastern europe and are central allies. from thes tweet president upon the release of that republican house intelligence committee memo -- saying it totally indicates trump in the probe, but the russian witchhunt goes on and on. there was no collusion. there was no obstruction. and the word now because of one year of looking into this and finding nothing, collusion is dead. this is an american disgrace. guest: i think the politicalization is a disgrace. the idea you have a team of this nature -- look. the coup robert -- beaucoup robert mueller hired. -- look who robert mueller hired. gotten a team as far away from the swamp as

and he sat next to vladimir putin at dinner >> here you have a former top intelligence official in theent, celebrates this gala for what is the propaganda armt of the kremlin. >> flynn made 34,000 for his appearance. but investigators looking into his security clearance said flynn told him he did not take any money for the trip from a foreign source. >> i didn't take any money from russia, if that's what you're asking me. >> congressional members from both parties said he may have broken the law in the process. >> it appears as if he did take the pony. it was inappropriate and there are repercussions for the violation of law. >> it leads investigators to wonder why aren't you disclosing certain things? what do you have to hide? >> flynn denied what he called, quote, false accusations of treason. >> general flynn. >> did you betray your country. >> but the bombshell of robert mueller's investigation came on december 1st when flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. while he was national security adviser, he told fbi agents that he had not discussed sanctions with russia's ambassador du

so there has been a reluctance on the part of president trump to go hard after vladimir putin. in fact, i remember last november when he was traveling in vietnam at the apec summit, he had a brief meeting with vladimir putin, and the president said he believed the denials of vladimir putin that he did not meddle in the election. so, anderson, as we end this one more interesting, troubling week on many fronts here, i'm struck by the fact that this is the beginning, not the end, as shimon was saying earlier. keep in mind one thing, steve bannon, the chief strategist, spent more than 20 hours this week with the special counsel. he told michael wolff in the book "fire and fury" it's about money laundering, so that 20 hours will certainly come out potentially in indictments to come, potentially not. but this seems to be just the beginning. >> appreciate the reporting. we're joined by senator richard blumenthal of connecticut, who serves on the judiciary committee. senator blumenthal, i'm wondering what your first reaction is to this indictment. >> i was stunned, anderson, by the mas

that's the damaging information often gathered through surveillance that vladimir putin is believed torful people. >> was your concern that the russians could have leverage over the president of the united states? >> well, that -- yes. >> former intelligence chief james clapper. >> gaining leverage, that's their objective. and if they can compromise somebody, you know, they have a term for it, an acronym for it, kompromat. >> it was our sense, our strong sense that the nation's senior most intelligence officials would not waste the time of the president or the president-elect if it was cockamamie easy to dismiss -- >> cnn did not reveal the contents of the dossier. beyond what we had learned from sources because it had not been verified. shortly after cnn broke the story, "buzzfeed" published the entire dossier on the internet. >> it's all fake news. >> donald trump was furious. >> it's phony stuff. it didn't happen. and i think it's a disgreat. >> though journalists had not verified it, portions of the dossier had been in fbi hands for months. >> around august or september of 2016, ch

we'll call it hurricane vladimir, if you will. >> this is evidence of willingness to commit collusion. >> there is outright treason. there is no question that what he is going is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. >> tom friedman said it's at the caliber of pearl harbor or 9/11. do you agree? >> completely. >> donald trump is at the threshold of impeachment. >> sean: without any evidence, facts obviously don't matter to the fake news media. no evidence of collusion and no american, no member of the trump campaign willingly tried to help the russians. i know a lot of people are shocked by the indictment and there was a collective gasp from the main stream media today. why is anybody surprised? that's my question. russian election interference goes back decades. as we have been reporting an fbi informant that is talking to three separate congressional committees discovered in 2009 under cover for six years, all told in his life 30 years he noticed in 2009 was an informant about a plan that vladimir putin had to corner america's uranium market. this all started in 2009. then he discove

and white house has warning, so they say going to vladimir putin himself. let's go outfront. >>> good evening i'm john berman in for erin burnett. welcome to our viewers in the tan around the world. >> outfront demanding action. anger president trump face-to-face with students and parents who lost loved one including last year massacre killed 17 in parkland, florida. one father asking how many children have to get shot. and here on cnn many of the tonight's participants have been deeply and personally affected by last week's mass shooting in parkland. looking at live pictures from the bbt center in sunrise, florida where several thousand sand people are expected to fill that arena for the two hour cnn houn hall. senators have agreed to participate t along with congressman whose district includes parkland. national sparks mandan na russia will represent nra. they'll offer the opportunity to participate tonight and take questions from students both decline cnn invitation to appear. while the president will not be in florida at the town hall, he did hear from

the one person, the one person he never says a bad word about is vladimir putin. is just incredible, and this goes back years. he has not acknowledged any sort of wrongdoing on the part of the russian goflt, and especially on behalf of putin. it remains one of the mysteries of why he is so insistent on defending russia and diminishing this scandal which is now completely apparent to anyone who is paying attention. >> in contrast to that, david, he goes after former president obama. he was president up to and beyond the 2016 election, so why didn't he do something about russian meddling. so he is accusing his predecessor of not doing enough when he hasn't done really anything over the past thirteen months. >> right. couple of things, wolf. flaw in the president's logic. if it is a ruse and a hoax, how can president obama be in the wrong for not addressing said ruse and said hoax. the other thing is that of course in october of 2016, president obama's department of homeland security and director of national intelligence issued a joint statement saying the russians w

we'll call it hurricane vladimir, if you will. >> this is evidence of willingness to commit collusion>> there is outright treason. there is no question that what he is going is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. >> tom friedman said it's at the caliber of pearl harbor or 9/11. do you agree? >> completely. >> donald trump is at the threshold of impeachment. >> sean: without any evidence, facts obviously don't matter to the fake news media. no evidence of collusion and no american, no member of the trump campaign willingly tried to help the russians. i know a lot of people are shocked by the indictment and there was a collective gasp from the main stream media today. why is anybody surprised? that's my question. russian election interference goes back decades. as we have been reporting an fbi informant that is talking to three separate congressional committees discovered in 2009 under cover for six years, all told in his life 30 years he noticed in 2009 was an informant about a plan that vladimir putin had to corner america's uranium market. this all started in 2009. then he discovere

we know that vladimir putin is going to win, he will go in 2018 for another six year term, he is not going away. even if he had an unfortunate physical accident and one of his heroic outdoorsman performances, horseback or hunting tigers or whatever he does. the leader who replaces vladimir putin, because of their nature of the russian state, will very much be like vladimir putin and will have to be like that in order to stay atop this steadily declining state structure. in russia an autocrat for the first civil future, probably for the rest of our lives. russia is not going away. i think the attacks in 2016 can be characterized as probing attacks. there were clumsy and elementary. there were kind of sophomoric. but one thing about russia is they learn, it will have taken lessons and 2016 and come back at us in 2018 and 2020. he does come back, they will not be as clumsy, they will be more targeted and sophisticated. not going away. third, others are watching. he does come back,it is not lie potential opponent with vladimir putin and russia, north korea, china, the islamic state, they

. >>> also a former staffer who may be vladimir putin's toughest competition. 36-year-old zenia zopchuk is running against him in the next election. does she really think she has a chance? i will ask her. >>> then a massive outbreak of violence in afghanistan. the experts agree it's because of something that happened in washington. from pakistan, and where it will end. >>> ybut first here's my take. i would like to briefly turn your attention away from donald trump, briefly toward another thing happening in the world, you know, the winter olympics in pyeongchang. it's worth focusing not just on the sports happening there, but on this year's host country, south korea. it is in some senses, the most successful nation in the world, and its success provides some crucial lessons. first, the exhibition. south korea is in a league of its own. in its 2012 book, breakout nations, it showed that only two economies have grown at an average annual rate of 5% per year, south korea and taiwan. taiwan is rooted in low manufacturing assembly, and south korea has been able to move into the industrial ec

do you think that vladimir putin will listen?and how to get the world community then around to support you when it comes to iran trying to extend its reach? >> first we expect the community to speak very clearly about the violations. the security council said that the iranians not to -- i think we should expect more from the un and the international community but also when we speak about the future syria, we have to make sure that those involved in the future, we know the syrians cannot put their forces nextel border, next to the jordanian border. they have nothing to do today and syria. look at syria today. it is not as -- their payment be made to come and fight in syria against israel and to increase stability. >> at least you know what hundred tons or so they say they had iranian depots that are supplying hezbollah with missiles up there in the lebanese border. as well as the fact that in damascus they carried out this type of attacks. what is the message and how do you think the us should react and try to stop them or is even

army general lash out in russia today after a temporary truce collapsed, a truce ordered by vladimir in the rebel-held enclave of eastern ghouta, near damascus as you see right there. moscow accuses the rebels of being the first to launch attacks. >> today's the skies over eastern ghouta were supposed to fall silent. a five-hour humanitarian pause brought little relief to residents in the enclave. strikes were reported during the pause and the war planes resumes bombing as it ended. >> we pray to god for help. what kind of cease-fire is this with attacks? >> corridor set up to allowed residents to leave went largely unused. rebels claims people were refusing to leave on buses out of fear of being captured by government forces. >> we are meant to pick up the winded from eastern ghouta and take them to damascus on humanitarian groves. >> syria's ally, russia, accused the rebels of preventing people from leaving and failing top of the true spite by mere putin. >> the militants are -- truce by vladimir putin. >> moscow's plan fall short of the 30-day cease-fire, passed by the united nati

paving the way for a new type of authoritarianism under the leadership of russian president vladimir putin. to his detractors, putin is an autocrat, crushing any threat to his power or that of his cronies, while renewing soviet-style expansionism. to his supporters, putin represents russia's redemption as a global superpower and an alternative to the liberal democracy espoused by the west. russia's foreign policy, next on great decisions. (theme music) - [narrator 2] great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association, in association with thomson reuters. funding for great decisions is provided by price waterhouse coopers llp. (mournful russian music) (applause) the world changed in 1991 when the soviet flag was lowered for the last time over the kremlin. in its place was raised the flag of russia and what many hoped would symbolize a new era of freedom and western-style democracy. - by the fall of 1991, russia was moving towards independence in agreement with other soviet republics. the soviet union was about to be dismantled. - [polyakova] people including myself who live