(man speaking russian) >> narrator: back in russia, vladimir putin tried to use the perceived threat to his political advantage. >> for putin, the sense of america as an enemy or an adversary was not only, i think, the way he views the world, but he uses it as a very potent tool at home, where he can say, "i'm the only person willing to stand up to the united states." and that's a very powerful message for russians. >> narrator: it was a message putin used during a tragedy that began in the small town of beslan. >> men and women wearing explosive belts attacked a school in beslan. >> this is definitely the worst hostage tragedy that russia has ever seen. >> narrator: it was the first day of school. >> if you could imagine an even more shocking terrorist attack than the several large apartment bombings that killed people in their sleep, that was beslan. >> narrator: as the students entered their school, the terrorists took them hostage, rigging the school with explosives. >> the school that's normally meant to only hold a few hundred people is holding hundreds and hundreds of people.

and russia influencing america and the dangers of vladimir putin. this could end up being the biggest breach of american national security in our history. and then telling us how dangerous pollutant is and how dangerous russia is? this is beyond media malpractice. they don't care about the truth or facts or investigative reporting, radical, rigid left-wing ideologues who lie to you on a regular basis and are hell-bent on one thing and one thing only. destroying president trump. it's even after john solomon and sara carter's reporting they have ignored this massive scandal. imagine for just a second if donald trump ever gave 20% of america's uranium to vladimir. how would they be reacting? money kicked back to the trump foundation? a network newscast, they haven't touched this story. a complete united blackout. the mrc found that cnn devoted a whopping 19 seconds to it. this is pathetic. it proves the point i've been making since 2007. media in america is dead and in this case involving national security, they are complicit. totally and completely co

vladimir putin wanted control over america's uranium market. what's so inexcusable is that the obama administration, hillary clinton, eric holder, so many others let this happen. in 2010, the uranium one deal was approved. it gave vladimir putin what he wanted to. control of 20% of america'sve uranium supply. the foundational material for nuclear weapons. who would ever do this? we also learned from the hill and circa news, the fbi has evidence including testimony -- they have an informant that millions was funneled to the clinton foundation and a hillary was serving as secretary of state and personally signing off on the uranium one deal in the first place, that gave the uranium to putin. the informant was blocked by the obama administration from exposing to congress what was happening.ed "the new york times" also reported back in 2015 that the russian nuclear companies uranium one was actually exported. a yellowcake uranium outside of our country to canada.ni even though they did not have an license. we have no idea what putin has done with i

and see what happens to political oh poentsz of vladimir putin inside russia. harass, persecuted, imprisoned or dead as in the case of boris, played an instrumental role convincing the u.s. congress to pass the magnitsky act. trying to use other mechanisms. also mort fiified, pockets, wal, bank accounts. stress not sanctions in russia in general. i don't think it makes much sense to try to punish and entire country for the actions of a small unelected group of people in the kremlin. personal targeted sanksdss on them personally and prepared to do anything to try to overturn that. >> and very important to make. when we talk about the russiagate, russia in general, it isn't russia but the small og gas oligarchy sitting at the top of it. think of vladimir putin, a can be goode agent, a guy with a background in doing this disinformation campaigns we've seen. this was particularly hamhanded. proffers of information were essentially given away in e-mails to donald trump jr. who then replies, great. if you've got dirt. it does feel like this sort of attempt to withdra

nyet. >> reporter: mikhail khodorkovsky spent ten years in prison after crossing vladimir putin. russia, he made a fateful decision to criticize putin's corruption at a 2003 meeting to putin's face. >> translator: this is a man with a very particular view of life, a view typical of special services operatives or gangsters. if you show willingness to negotiate, it means you're weak and must be squashed. >> reporter: khodorkovsky did not seem weak. the well connected oligarch ran russia's largest oil company before putin seized it and had an auctioneer gavel a sham sale to the kremlin, and prosecuting him, displaying khodorkovsky in a steel cage during one trial and in a plexiglass cube in another trial. the verdict was international news. >> khodorkovsky stunned to hear the harsh sentence. >> reporter: after ten years in prison, he was freed and exiled. >> tonight the host nation of russia is continuing a well timed release of high profile prisoners. >> mikhail khodorkovsky decided that he would put his money to work for what he wanted for his country. >> reporter: now he's speaki

all these schemes to advance vladimir putin's radium interest in america. wait until you hear this report. john solomon and sara carter will all be here with the very latest. also, victoria toensing. also breaking tonight, the department of justice is now deliberating whether to allow this fbi informant with all of this evidence to testify before congress about the script uranium one deal. a possible new clinton pay to play scheme. this is the same pay to play informant that helped uncover the bribery and kickback plot and has all the evidence of the russian money flowing straight to the clintons. also, house republicans are finally catching up to us, a year later. they are now launching the investigation we've been calling for into the corrupt uranium one deal. thanks to the amazing reporting, the investigative work of sara carter and john solomon and this show. things are starting to move at an accelerated rate. we are moving closer to getting to the truth about what is the biggest national security breach and russia scandal in american history. we've got

>> yes, i mean, one of the biggest issues was that vladimir putin wanted to penetrate the u.s./uranium market. this was a huge deal for him. he wanted of to move this through. it was a main, main point. and all of the things that he did. i think that the informant, who was privy to these conversations, who had recordings, who had emails. >> does he civil have that? >> i will leave that to victoria to answer. >> sean: victoria? >> we will let you know what he has. have you been a friend for years. you sore tough. it drives me crazy but i love you for it i would hire new 20 seconds because you are so good. john solomon, this is huge. we have all -- if you go back, it's two years since we learned about uranium one. peter schweizer will join us later. you guys have been digging and investigating now for a long time. bit by bit, you are putting this together. is this a network? was vladimir putin through agents trying to corner the market on uranium and our fbi knew about it and eric holder, the head of the attorney general, the head of the department of justice actually signed off

an american-born financier that works in london and political foe of vladimir putin. p tower meeting, browder's -- sanctions in sfons that death. browder is saying that putin is putting him on fugitive list through interpol and thinks that trump administration responded by denying him paperwork he needs to visit the u.s. trump administration is playing against that. but prospect that he's doing anything that putin wants is drawing outrage. pushing to clear it up. top house democrat saying immediately reverse the decision. browder is at center of other russian things. act is new development. >> did you know what the mcginnity act was? >> never heard of it. >> but bill browder has worked to punish putin for years. >> dedicated years to uncover the truth. >> bill drbrowder. >> for years putin's champion but turned into dogged adversary. >> thank you for joining, i know it's busy time for you. under the trump administration today customs and border patrol put out a statement you have valid authorization. what is your response and what happened to get to this point. >> firs

he sat down with vladimir putin. one other point, this is important. you want to talk about a real russian conspiracy theory? listen to this. the bank that was paying bill clinton -- when you pay attention to this -- that bank was connected to putin and that bank had financial interest in uranium one. there's more. according to a "hill" report, after hillary clinton became secretary of state, russian spies purposely tried to gain access to hillary, her top aides and the former president, bill clinton. one russian spy who was successful actually got a job with a major democratic donor and actually was arrested and deported. there's peter schweizer's book, the first to bring that to attention -- it exposed how $145 million in donations poured into the clinton foundation. while hillary was secretary of state. while she was approving the uranium one deal. this is what people all across this country and all of you corrupt people in the media --pl you should all be angry about this tonight. because of all of the evidence of wrongdoing earlier today, finally

her father was a man who gave vladimir putin his first job in politics. some say putin might be her godfather. in 2011made headlines when she attended anti-putin protests. it is not clear where she stands politically. "politico" says some kremlin critics are suspicious about this bid. they wonder whether she might be there to run interference for vladimir putin and take votes away from other opposition leaders. not think she is deemed a serious threat to vladimir putin. a medical breakthrough. frfrench scientists have made a signgnificant discovery in the course -- in dyslexia. says is >>e monde" he at affects some hundred million people around the world. it is a widespread disorder. french leaders think they have linked it to a malformation in a miniscule part of the eye. they have compared people with and without dyslexia, and among the dyslexic people, they found in this miniscule zone of the eye, part is asymmetrical. there is no dominant eye through which the brain can send messages. hence the reason dyslexic people often are confused when they look a

with president vladimir putin at one point if you would have called intervene.to ensure that not only within opec but between. rich view was honest and this we did and boys. them strongly in support of the. implementation of the declaration of petition and we have seen that the markets have been responding positively we have since talks. must simply across all regions we have seen demand growth is very robust. levels of all that but splits in countries have been extremely good story to us threw up she was. speaking of the. skeptics are still out there and there have been reports that there are opaque countries that are failing to comply with the output terms and we know that this is in some way driving the oil prices do you think that the deal and the oil market as a whole is in any way in jeopardy because of this. tragedy for the first time in the history of opec we see in this a record number of conformity. in our history we have hard times. but we have never seen this level. and secondly that this is the time joining us in such a supply adjustment decision an

of the war ends, a few years later vladimir putin is born. i had studied a lot about vladimir putin's live as best you can because there isn't much information. i had never heard that story. i thought it told us a lot about his mindset and his feelings about what russia must be in order to protect itself, defend its interests. i got back to the room i was staying in and called our ambassador and other experts in russia and i tell him this story and said have you ever heard this. none of them had heard it and i put it in the book and the russians never contradicted it, so to this day they have never confirmed it, but they have never contradicted it, so i assume it is true and i thought it was an important insight into how this man thinks and of course, now, we know that he is it determined to reassert russian greatness and along with that his own and he is also determined to make and a mormon-- an enormous amount of money , hundreds and hundreds of millions, maybe even a billion or two out of his connections so he has a piece of all the action

of course, vladimir putin in that panel with our very own. or 20 minutes. we have dynamics with saudi arabia showing up in russia and now putin showing up as a kingmaker in the middle east. tom: our president will travel to las vegas. with our first world -- first news, emma chandra. danley was met by federal agents. she had been in the philippines. meanwhile, there are pictures showing the inside of stephen haddix hotel room. rifle was clearly visible. set up small cameras outside the room so he could watch security approach. trump is suggesting that puerto rico's government debt will need to be wiped out to help the island recover from hurricane damage. after visiting the island, the that the told fox news government owned lots of money -- owned lots of money and you can say goodbye to that. congressional committees are responding to the growing threat from north korea. they've agreed to shift more than 400 million from accounts to other programs. upbeat abouting the agreement between a pack and non-opec countries. meet think we will not hav

this was designed by vladimir putin. he had eight agents in this country. using all this illegal activity to get what john is describing. >> yes, he wanted to penetrate the american market. not only was he searching for a global marketplace, he specifically wanted to penetrate the american market. that's what he did. i think as victoria, through her client, will begin to unravel -- possibly some of these threads we will see a lot more. it wasn't just in 2009 when the client began to work undercover. but previous to 2009, the fbi had gathered enough evidence to show it was happening either before 2009, this was a long and well thought methodical plan by vladimir putin to penetrate the u.s. market and i think as information continues to develop, we will unravel those pieces of those threads for the american public. >> sean: victoria, i know you have to protect your client and i don't want you to step outside and i know you wouldn't in any way. was he aghast knowing what he knows, in spite of all that he knew what was happening? >> he was furious when the cfiu

uranium assets to vladimir putin. there is the connection with russia. >> sean: let me go to you, john. the fbi has evidence with financial records and records and eyewitnesses, bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering to secure their uranium one deal -- and about $145 million kicked back to thee clinton foundation. and it was back in 2009? they knew about the deal? >> the russians tampered with our election results in 2016 but six years before that, they tampered with our nuclear security. they create jesus proved the russian nuclear industry had compromised an american truck company that moved all of the uranium. for two years, the obama administration and hillary clinton and everyone -- they said they had no knowledge of a national security threat and that's why they did not have any problem approving the uranium one deal. guess what? tonight we have a national security threat that was proven in real time in 2009 in it's going to be interesting to see what congress does tomorrow morning. chuck grassley ha

that is the absolute obsession from the kremlin and vladimir putin personally to try to get rid of orthe effectiveness of the act. for all the similarities that exist between the putin regime and the regime we had back in soviet times, there is one crucial difference. that is that the people who are in charge of russia today, they want to steal in russia but spend in the west. members of the soviet didn't keep their money in western banks or buy high class reality and luxury cars. these guys do. they want to undermine and attack and violate the most basic norms of democratic society but they want to use the privileges that democratic society offers for themselves and families. the sanctions put a stop to that hypocrisy and double standard. this is why they have been obsessed. within three hours of his inauguration, vladimir putin signed a decree trying to stop the act from being passed. now there have been several countries since then who have followed the u.s. in adopting similar measures. we also saw this past week the parliament in lithuania taking steps. it could potentially becom

in st petersburg, we see people marching on vladimir putin's birthday. moved in to stop them. st petersburg is vladimir putin's hometown and it is vladimir putin's hometown and it is clear that the authorities are determined not to let this anti—government protests boil the president'sbirthday party. these protesters are president'sbirthday party. these protesters a re not president'sbirthday party. these protesters are not making a new russian revolution, they are making a point — that the government is beholden to the people. it is a faint echo of 1917. i'm laura trevelyan. thanks for watching world news america. at long last, we have had ourfirst widespread frost of the autumn. but tonight, a different matter. but we will be back in double to bridge of figures to start the day. —— double temperature figures. whilst we will have more clout compared with monday across the south, one or two spots of rain, most south, one or two spots of rain, m ost pla ces south, one or two spots of rain, most places will be dry. these are your temperatures for the week.

vladimir putin has exploited those strains. if have seen this with the growing in front of russia over its near neighbors. we have seen it with a literal conquest of territory on its purchaser -- periphery, taking primary -- crimea. we as seen in the information operations some hacking of social media, a blend of things that affects many countries' incesses, especially our own 2016. dr. nance, how well is the administration spawning to this strong and aggressive poker playing by vladimir putin? : i think the obama administration is making a great response. [applause] chesney: how is america responding? dr. nance: in the last couple of years, poorly, and there has been no american response. the strategy for confronting russia today is merely coming down to words and rhetoric, that russia just discounts completely. they do not care what we are doing. vladimir putin has the g4 where he wants to bring the russian federation in the future. that requires -- and i really believe this. that isid my analysis, a book, it became very clea

latest things that were said by mr secretary-general and also the other participants including vladimir putin at the plenary session of the russian energy week twenty seven teeing cake. thank you very much i mean that's the russian energy form in moscow thank you very much indeed. let's return to talk news story the european parliament is holding a special meeting on the crisis in catalonia hundreds of thousands protested on tuesday across the spanish region in support of the results of a disputed independence referendum and decrying madrid's crackdown on the votes for an assessor churkin a is following events in boston and she joins us now live well hi then asked what's the what is the latest developments. ok to the european parliament is indeed meeting and strasburg to discuss the latest ongoing situation in catalonia this chaos that has a right. old following and around the days of the first referendum was held here where ninety percent of the people who voted voted to leave spain and this is going to be quite a critical meeting of the european parliament because they did receive quite a b

in 2011, secretary of state hillary clinton encouraged russians to protest vladimir putin's rule.id putin decide to mess with her election as payback? i'll ask her. >>> go to cnn.com/fareed if you miss a show for a link to my itunes podcast. >>> i've got to ask you about another world leader. vladimir putin. >> yes. >> you write about him in a remarkably -- it seems like there was bad chemistry from the start. you talked about how he would sit in a way that was almost disrespectful. you call it man spreading. >> right. >> i was wondering whether you've thought about -- because you recount the events that we highlighted in a documentary as well. basically, the arab spring happens in 2011. >> uh-huh. >> he gets nervous about it and then the russian elections and then in december of 2011 you say, when asked -- you come out in favor of democracy in russia. there are many people who believe that vladimir putin decided that you were out to get him. >> uh-huh. >> and that you were trying to do a regime change in moscow and he was going to get you back and that the election interference w

russian president vladimir putin earlier in moscow talking to our colleague, john fraher. president trump saying puerto rico's massive debt needs to be wiped out, but can the government actually do that? we take a closer look, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ shery: welcome back. this is "bloomberg markets: balance of power." i'm shery ahn. david: i'm david gura. puerto rico is financially ill-equipped to deal with hurricane maria, the storm the made landfall in puerto rico two weeks ago. after a record-setting bankruptcy in may, the island stopped making payments on tens of billions of dollars worth of debt. president trump yesterday suggested that debt could be wiped out. president trump: we're going to work something out. we have to look at their whole debt structure. they all a lot of money to your friends on wall street and we're going to have to wipe out out area you can say goodbye to that. i don't often's goldman sachs, but whoever it is, you can wave goodbye to that. david: the president talking to geraldo rivera. is it possible to make their debt just disappear? the pr

tonight, vladimir putin has a well-known whistle-blower in his crosshairs. a man who has exposed putin's alleged corruption. >> in putin's russia, there are no good guys. >> reporter: russian prosecutors are claiming that this man, american-born financier, bill browder, conspired to murder sergey magnitsky, an investigative lawyer who browder himself had hired to blow open a tax fraud scheme worth hundreds of millions of dollars, benefiting people linked to putin. >> i think it's totally absurd. it shows that putin has effectively lost his mind and he's totally rattled about the magnitsky act. >> reporter: the magnitsky act is an american law, spearheaded by bill browder, which sanctioned individual russians close to putin. putin is furious over it. >> he takes very seriously the threat to his economic interests. >> reporter: browder, who once ran a hedge fund in russia, hired magnitsky because browder believed russian officials were ripping him off. after magnitsky exposed that tax fraud scheme, magnitsky was jailed. he got sick in a moscow prison and died i

vladimir putin has exploited those comparative strength. we've seen this with the groin influence of russia over its neighbors, the literal conquest of territory, taking the crimea from ukrainians, and we see it course in the combination of information operations, hacking, the leveraging of social media, the hold linda things that affect many countries internal political process is, but especially in 2016, dr. nance, you've literally written a book about this. how well is the administration responding to this strong and aggressive poker playing by vladimir putin? next i think the obama administration is making a great response. [laughter] >> how has america responded? >> in the past couple of years, poorly. there has been no response. all of the strategy for confronting russia, so to speak, today, is coming down to words that russia, discounts completely. they do not care what we are doing. vladimir putin has a strategy for where he wants to bring the russian federation in the future, and i really believe this, when i did my intelligence an

vladimir putin will speak.no audio] manus: spain's king felipe it is six has addressed the nation on the crisis. trying to break up his country "unacceptable disloyalty" has no place in a democratic state. >> the catalan regional government has broken the democratic principles of every rule of law and has undermined the coexistence of society. the authorities have rejected the affection that united these bandits due to the interest -- the spaniards. manus: meanwhile the spanish president says the decoration of independence is a question of days. let's cross to maria taddeo. this is a very significant intervention by the king, this is channeling moments of his father's reign. that theficant is it king a step in? maria: a lot of people are saying why has it gone quiet -- why has he gone quiet? i was at the airport and everyone was listening to what he was saying. such was the expectation. he came up blasting basically saying this is put at risk everything this country has earned over the past 40 years. democracy,

now we're learning about how the obama administration officials, they knew in 2009 that vladimir putin was using bribes, extortion, kickbacks, money laundering and racketeering all within this country, spice within this country. nothing was done to stop it. we have evidence that all involved tried to cover this up. they put a gag order on the one fbi informant that knew everything, to prevent the truth from getting out. now it's getting out. we have evidence that the clintons benefited in a massive, huge, financial way because of this corrupt uranium one deal. we know bill clinton doubled his speaking fees in moscow while giving a speech to a bank that had a financial interest in uranium one. bill clinton also tried to get state department permission, his wife estate department, to meet with russian nuclear officials during the time of the uranium one deal and he eventually the ended upsetting down with vladimir putin himself. as the author peter schweizer writes about in his best selling book, the clinton cash, the clinton foundation got $145 million in kickbacks from people that dire

vladimir putin took part in a panel discussion.e topic of his relationship with donald trump. our personal relations, there is none. we saw each other one time. we had some various telephone conversations on areas of mutual interest. we also discussed the serious issue. on certain issues, we are cooperating the americans on many tracks. there has been problems, tensions. confrontations over our approaches. to findapable of coming preventing -- they have become hostage to the portugal situation. i mentioned that on many occasions. theain forces are using relations to address their problemspolitical while we are passionately awaiting for the process of this to come to an end. i do hope the fundamental mutual interests which are not proliferation of weapons of mass distraction, commenting on -- destruction, commenting on cyber and crime, cooperation in regional conflicts. i have been working tirelessly on those conflicts coming up with solutions to these conflicts. the fight against terrorism, cybercrime. these are fundamental interes

-- to the united states and vladimir putin. this is a man who has described the white house as an adult a care center in which adults have to terminally beyond shifts. , fundamentally, with no sense of responsibility to the power he holds and the sacred duty he is required to uphold. he will use that power, that office and everything that has come before it, something that hundreds of thousands of americans have died for, in order to launch petty vindictive attacks and private citizens, spoiling the ct fits in. -- spoiling the seat he sits in. himself, in control of but is in control of us. i wish this were not the case. there are many problems in many on the left overreacting to him, and elite thatrefused to understand trade in immigration are good. all of it is true and not pertinent to the debate tonight. the debate is about the legitimate feelings, about a man feelings -- who uses those feelings. disgrace to the united states of america. he should be removed by all constitutional members -- measures as soon as possible. by

clinton was secretary of state and helped approve the uranium one deal which gave moscow, russia, vladimir putin control of 20% of american uranium, the foundational materials for nuclear weapons. they are also reporting the fbi now has evidence that it russia for years has been doing this and they are reporting the fbi has evidence that literally they used bribery to regain control over the uranium industry. in the clintons benefited to the tune of nearly $145 million.

russians and explain why anybody gave vladimir putin 20% of america's uranium supply. hillary clinton, high ranking dnc officials all playing down when it comes to the phony and salacious dossier. we will cover that in tonight's opening monologue. before we get into all of that new there's a ton of it, i want to remind you that for over a year, democrats and members of the bias -- abusively biased -- press were all breathlessly talking about trump, russia, collusion. hysteria breaking out every night. they were acting like it was the worst scandal in american history. meanwhile, there are so many prominent democrats and former obama officials -- in spite of all this -- they were saying there's smoke but no fire. for a year, no evidence. but thousands of hours of television coverage. we knew by listening that it was never true.

also a gesture of openness towards dialogue with germany and any time ally and russian president vladimir putin need what will they be talking about do you think. well it seems that. is kind of feeling out how open putin and how open russia is to dialogue with germany and to dialogue with the west he said that they would be talking not only about the common ground that they have the common ground that they share but also about several difficult topics today. went to memorial which is a civil rights society that monitors human rights here in russia and they asked him to talk to putin about the human rights issue but steinmeyer also emphasize that one of the main things that the two leaders will be discussing is ukraine actually and hopes that there can be some progress on the peace there and we shall win in moscow thank you very much getting out of football and in the second round of the german cup they would no upsets on tuesday night as all sixty five teams one day games in month to month don't want crews to be prepared to go from balloons on to castro in the forty first minute the midfielder

ever -- it's a good idea to give 20% of america's uranium to vladimir putin? by the way, that's a foundational material for nuclear weapons. we need to hear from key obama administration officials. for example, eric holder. what did he know and when did he know it? he was in charge of the doj. did he know about the evidence of putin's network right here inside the united states quest to mark all the crimes being committed in 2009, before this uranium one deal was approved i. eric holder and hillary clinton were part of the committee signed off on this deal, personally. eric holder did and hillary did. there's robert mueller. the fbi director back in 2009. how inconceivable is it that he did did not know russian operatives were in our country? trying to break into the uranium market on behalf of vladimir? how could he possibly oversee any investigation into any russian collusion? next we have rod rosenstein.

to vladimir putin saying we killed a lot of people in iraq so how dare we attack vladimir putin. yeah, this is -- >> by the way, donald trump -- >> this guy -- >> donald trump is talking about russia. >> and tell me, what -- >> voluntarily. >> was this the morning after the crazy guy in south florida got kicked off twitter? >> roger stone. >> yeah. >> he had some sort of -- i think he was under the influence or something. he went off. he went crazy. >> melted down in unison across multiple twitter platforms. >> multiple. i didn't know there were more than one. >> mad libs. i didn't do it, they did it. look at this, it's a big witch hunt. every year, every couple months. >> lots of red herrings with the uranium thing. just checking out yesterday morning. howard got to something on the politics, i do think now this has been going on for a while, so much coverage of it, that you wonder what it would take in terms of an indictment or action from mueller at any stage for people in the trump camp or republicans who are leaning to the trump camp to come around and say there is something

in repeated e-mail contact with russians to set up a meeting first between russian president vladimir putin and trump and later between trump campaign officials and other russians. according to court documents, one foreign contact told papadopoulos in april 2016 that he, quote, learned that the russians had obtained dirt on then candidate clinton. in may, papadopoulos e-mailed a high-ranking terrorism campaign official who cnn has learned is former trump campaign chairman paul manafort that, quote, russia has been eager to meet mr. trump for quite some time and had been reaching out to me to discuss. manafort then forward that had e-mail to another campaign official who cnn has learned is rick gates stating, quote, we need someone to communicate that d.t. is not doing these trips. it should be someone low level in the campaign so as not to send any signal. today the white house said that pantlous never acted in an official capacity. >> he reached out and nothing happened beyond that which i think shows, one, his level of importance in the campaign and, two, shows what little role he had in

with the russian president vladimir putin with huge oil deals at stake and if a trying to report deals with the biggest and richest gulf monarchies always mean big numbers on paychecks and king solomon of saudi arabia is in moscow to do just that for these contract signatures but it is no secret that when it comes to international politics russia and saudi arabia aren't exactly friends but that only adds spice to the story because when it comes to the economic partnership high ranking officials on both sides have been teasing the journalists with these big numbers multibillion dollar contracts are expected to be announced including three billion dollars worth of arms purchases by saudi arabia plus one billion dollars of extra cash for the joint and energy fund to riyadh is also going to invest and gas production in russia moscow. he's going to build plants in saudi arabia and so on so is this a case of economic interests first politics second we'll see because i'm not sure the leaders will be able to dodge that many issues where moscow and riyadh don't see eye to eye in international p

the time robert mueller and then district attorney rod rosenstein they all knew that russia and vladimir putin were trying to corner the uranium market right here in america. there's also a strong belief that president barack obama knew all about putin and his crimes in this country as he probably saw it in his presidential daily briefing. this is news, information and truth. i promise you can't get anywhere else in the media. and that is tonight's ever important breaking news opening monologue. ♪ ♪ >> sean: let's start in the beginning, it was announced today that paul manafort, well, something that was

for president who apparently owed a lot of money to this russian oligarch who's very close to vladimir putin. and the e-mail exchanges talk about his concern about being made whole. he's trying to repay this oligarch close to putin. remember all of the things that happened during 2016. donald trump, the republican candidate, did not criticize vladimir putin. in fact he went to great lengths not to do that. they changed the platform, the republican platform to make it more russia friendly with respect to provisions on ukraine. so all of this underscores the idea that there was something involved between russia and the trump campaign that was obvious in a superficial way because of the use of the e-mails and the timing of the release and that sort of thing, but this clearly runs deeper than that. >> and your reaction, josh? >> well, i do think it's a significant report, alex, for a number of reasons. one, it does show more ties with this person. and one thing that you have to keep in mind, when you talk about oligarchs at this level in russia, they are essentially members of putin's cabinet. t

s a meeting with russian president vladimir putin to find. ways to circle never get the e.u. sanctions. this is the double your business as in berlin it's a done deal germany is largest airline is about to take over most of what remains of its rival bankrupt. the deal was signed today after two weeks of negotiations british no frills airline easyjet is still in talks to swallow the leftovers and competitor ryanair whose boss has called the deal a stitch up in the past said it's going to complain to e.u. and he trusts authorities so why is everybody so up in arms let's see what's up for grabs in this deal first there are apple and landing rights for routes around the world it's unclear who they're going to at this point but loved ones are likely to get most of them of tons i will also take over eighty one of evelyn's are craft the rest of them were reportedly earmarked for britain's easy jet but that deal is now under doubt but they're still talking technically airlines flight maintenance operations is said to be going to a berlin based logistics company but lufthansa is repor