vladimir putin ripped into the u.s.f the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty and said that if the u.s. positions intermediate range nukes in europe, that the russians would not only target those sites, but would target calling it a decision making capital. >> translator: russia will be forced to create and develop weapons which can be used not only toward those territories from which direct threats may be directed at us, but also toward those territories where centers of decision making and rocket systems that are threatening to us. >> reporter: he said the weapons are purely defensive in nature, but at the same time he also pointed to a new russian hyper sonic missile which he said the development of which was firmly on track th. >> sounds like we just lost fred at the end of his live shot. he was talking obje ing about t missiles. we're going to talk about that a little bit more with cedric leighton. before we talk about these missiles, i want to ask how seriously you think the u.s. should take this threat that p

did the same russian president vladimir putin also announced putin moscow would be big begin pardon me developing new weapons systems and ordered his ministers not to initiate any new disarmament talks with washington. russia's response came quickly president vladimir putin said he was simply doing what the americans did the day before halting its involvement in the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty or i and if you can skipper you know our american partners have announced they are suspending their participation in the deal and we are also suspending our participation but. we will wait until our partners are mature enough to conduct an equal meaningful dialogue with us on this important topic you know. the u.s. decision ended months of speculation president donald trump hinted at a pullout in october last year secretary of state mark pump a and finally announced the move on friday. if russia does not return to full and verifiable compliance with the treaty within the six month period by verifiably destroying its i have violating missiles their launchers and associated equipment t

why is the president doing flis vladimir putin? i don't know the answer yet. think we need to wait for mueller's report to eboo released. the circumstantial evidence is very strike that he's always supporting putin and people are beginning to wonder what is the motivation for him to do that. >> speaking of that report, you may remember that nbc news report back in december that mueller could submit the report as early as this month. with quote attorney general bill barr is preparing to announce as early as next week robert mueller's investigation. >> that will be totally up to the new attorn a general. he's a tremendous man a tremendous person who really respektr respects this country and the justice department. that will be up to him. the new attorney general, yes. >> quote an advisor to president trump said there's palpable concern among the president's innerserbal th innercircle that might contain information thaltsz politically damaging but not criminal conduct. i've been trying to figure out what we can expect in terms of what kind of a report will be view

russian president vladimir putin says his country will follow washington's lead in suspending a landmark nuclear arms control act experts warned of a new arms race plus but. not everybody wants tom brady and the new england patriots to win a record six super bowl a lot of american football fans are backing their opponents the l.a. ramps and we'll find that on. nick spicer welcome to the program. tens of thousands of protesters have held rival rallies across venezuela both for and against president nicolas maduro the self declared interim president one why go join supporters in the capital caracas he's trying to force the incumbent incumbent president maduro out of office and has already called for fresh protests in ten days time the opposition considers the duros government to be illegitimate and blames him for the country's economic collapse i one guy whose message to supporters is that changes around the corner he and his back is a demanding fresh presidential election as i some who came out to support the opposition leader say even basic survival has become a struggle i went on with t

the attempt to change the subject, but also speaking of vladimir putin is so unusual. one thing that is important to remember in this conversation is that it is very likely that even at that time andrew mccabe, others at the fbi and intelligence community had additional investigation publicly known about back channels of communication. the fact that we know that michael flynn lied about his conversations with russia is likely because of intercepts with russian diplomats. they may have known about more, things that andy mccabe is not permitted to disclose. his clearance stays with him forever. that is things that robert mueller may be looking at. >> what does this say about how vladimir putin may have been using donald trump? >> yeah, that is the open question. i mean i think the one thing when you look at this, you talk about rod rosenstein not wanting to put russia in the memo, the second was with lester holt here on nbc news. he said russia was on his mind and now the third one, the most alarming, bringing in people into the oval office with knno american media there

russian president vladimir putin says his country will follow washington's lead in suspending of landmark nuclear arms control passed from the experts warn of a new arms race for the. next vice or welcome to the program. tens of thousands of protesters are taking part in rival rallies across venezuela both for and against president nicolas maduro the self declared interim president. joint supporters in the capital caracas he told protesters that change in venezuela is very close and his supporters are calling for fresh presidential elections to be held in the country elsewhere the duros backers held rallies marking twenty years since the rise to power of the lake leader hugo chavez addressed the rally and suggested holding congressional elections earlier than planned. earlier today a high ranking air force general declared allegiance to opposition leader it's a major victory for glide zero who has been working hard to persuade venezuela's armed forces to a breath abandon president nicolas maduro let's hear a bit of what he had to say. i'm addressing you today to say that i reject the ille

russian president vladimir putin has made a thinly veiled threat directed at the united states in a state of the nation address aimed at boosting his falling approval ratings while putin warned washington against supporting any new missiles in your following the u.s. withdrawal from the i.n.f. treaty saying moscow would consider it a quote serious threats. a sharp warning to the u.s. and its allies from russian president vladimir putin after washington announced it was withdrawing from a landmark arms control pact earlier this month. to retaliate if the u.s. places new intermediate range missiles in europe. so i'm saying this clearly and openly russia will be forced to create and deploy a new types of weapons that could be used not only against the territories were a direct threat to us comes from but also against the territories or decision making centers directing the use of missile systems threatening us are located. making his state of the nation address putin boasted of state of the art weapon systems that he got specific about russia's deterrence capabilities. i'd like to tell you a

apparently in the summer of 2017 vladimir putin called up donald trump and told mr. trump that russia was against those joint military exercises and putin reportedly told trump that he, trump should be opposed to those exercises, too. president trump got off the phone with vladimir putin in the summer of 2017 apparently convinced and said as far as he was concerned, putin was right and those military exercises should definitely end. that was trump's big idea for north korea, a big idea that he got on a phone call with vladimir putin. white house advisors including defense secretary james mattis apparently talked trump out of ending the exercises in the summer of 2017 but then in fact when trump went and met kim jong-un last summer in singapore in his own little art of the deal moment, he blurted out that in exchange for no concessions with the north koreans, the u.s. would in fact pull out of the joint exercises and everybody in national security, everybody in the trump administration like white house advisors, everybody was like where did that come from? it's actuall

did the same in a statement released by the kremlin president vladimir putin said quote our american partners have announced they are suspending their participation in the deal and we are also suspending our participation we will wait until our partners have mature enough to conduct an equal meaningful dialogue with us on this important topic. putin also ordered his ministers not to initiate disarmament talks with washington and said russia would start work on new missiles the tit for tat moves come after america secretary of state and now that the u.s. was suspending the accord. it's the end of months of speculation and tension secretary of state mike pump aoe has officially signaled that the arms control treaty which has helped keep europeans safe could soon and if russia does not return to full verifiable compliance with the treaty within the six month period by verifiably destroying its eye and f. violating missiles their launchers and associated equipment the treaty will terminate this is the weapon that the u.s. is talking about the russian built as a c. eight a missile system

>> vladimir putin would not have much difficulty pushing something like donald trump's buttons. aining that all basic case officers have which is to identify vulnerabilities in your target. putin is looking at trump as a target. >> when top u.s. intelligence officials contradicted him, iran's dangers or north korea's will to denuclearize he dismissed that and said they must go back to school. he has presented a sunnier picture than his director of national intelligence. >> a lot has been accomplished. >> nuclear weapons is critical to regime survival. >> a key question tonight, if trump goes into his upcoming summit with kim jong-un believing what he wants to believe about kim's intentions instead of trusting u.s. intelligence, what could happen? >> he might declare that he has ended the nuclear threat, that north korea has made a solid commitment which might take away the leverage needed to have monitoring and verification to prove that north korea is giving up nuclear weapons. >> it's for that reason that analysts believe mike pompeo and other leaders under president trump is l

vladimir putin can continue to violate the treaty now openly. and the real question is what are we going to do to punish him? are there going to be more sanctions? we don't have sanctions related to chemical weapons. are we going to implement sanctions punish noncompliance. and will any allies join us in that endeavor. >> what do you make of the argument from some that support the u.s. withdrawal from imf treaty that in some part this is related to having to crackdown on china, that they have to bring china into the fold and make sure they're not going where the soviets were going 30 years ago. >> it is an argument based upon the fact that china is, if it was a party to the treaty, would be in violation of it based upon its extensive buildup of short and medium range missiles. at this point i think it will be very hard to negotiate a separate agreement with china based upon inconsistent approach to nuclear weapons around the world. we are currently engaged with north korea in discussions, we're not willing to call out their noncompliance with th

care, i believe putin. >> wow, so andrew mccabe is saying, well, if trump is basically believing vladimir putin over his own intel officers and garrett, just remind us why putin would even want the u.s. to think north korea is less of a threat. >> yeah, brooke, this is an incredible comment, but again, as elie was just saying, it's actually part of a pattern of behavior, where we see in numerous instances behind closed doors as well as in public settings like that helsinki summit with vladimir putin where the president came right out and said i trust vladimir putin over u.s. intelligence, in terms of vladimir putin told me he didn't hack the 2016 election, and i trust him, even though that is definitely not the consensus of the u.s. intelligence community and is belied by the indictments that robert mueller has brought. and i think that that's just the thing to really underline that this is incredible behavior and also dangerous decision making by a president of the united states. i mean, remember, just to take one step back from this, the entire purpose of the entire u.s. intelligence apparatu

unacceptable. >> we'll see how president trump responds specifically to that sort of statement by vladimir putinbeen shy about responding to putin directly on those terms before. thank you. >>> we have a troubling new report that was published this week to tell you about. nato forces could be manipulated by bogus social media accounts. troop positions, names and phone number were easily accessed from fake facebook and instragram accounts during an unidentified nato military exercise. researchers say the experiment shows that at the current level of information security, an adversary is able to collect a significant amount of personal data on soldiers which could then be used to target with pre-significant and potentially influence the troops. >>> sgloeb al stoglobal stock m mixed. and on wall street, futures up a little bit. pretty much directionless here. the dow jumped 63 points, the s&p 500 closed up a little bit, the nasdaq up slightly as well. it's eighth straight gain, not a big gain, but at least it is the longest win streak since august. >>> big name advertisers are pulling their ads fro

and even though vladimir putin says russia is ready to talk it's clear that the threat of a new arms race is real and some here in moscow are certainly concerned about that prospect. it worries me a lot i'm scared that could be a second cold war like the one in the soviet union. that flight time is only something like ten to fifteen minutes then we wiped out and they're wiped out and we're for. the most brutal i think it's really bad when countries only think of themselves and don't think about the whole world the two superpowers should sit down and agree on something. in the go but he's moscow says it will now work on a range of new high tech weapons sparking concern in moscow and in many european countries about the possibility of a new arms race to his best and a remote central asian country is starting to open up after years of oppression and authoritarian rule. you're a shadow went to the capital tashkent to meet a woman who started a business that's challenging old taboos. there's a revolution happening in this small workshop in news pakistan a fashion revolution in this former

president trump god got off the phone with vladimir putin in the summer of 2017, apparently convinced and told his white house advisers that as far as he was concerned, putin was right, and those military exercises should definitely end. that was trump's big idea for north korea. a big idea that he got on a phone call with vladimir putin. white house advisers, including defense secretary james mattis apparently talked trump out of ending those exercises in the summer of 2017, but then, in fact, when trump went and met kim jong-un last summer in singapore, in his own little art of the deal moment, he blurted out that apropos of nothing, in exchange for no concessions from the north koreans, the u.s. would pull out of those joint exercises. and everybody in national security, everybody in the trump administration, white house advisers, everybody was like, dude, where did that come from? it's actually in the public record, he got that from putin. that is where he got the idea. and then he enacted it when he was given the opportunity at a one-on-one meeting between him and kim jong-un. th

a new nuclear arms race at a kremlin meeting with the security minister is russian president vladimir putin says his country will follow washington in suspending a landmark nuclear arms control act. also coming up venezuela's political crisis can't stop self-proclaimed president once why joe calls for nationwide protests as the country's socialist ruling party celebrates twenty years in power i'll talk to latin america correspondent about a deepening political crisis. thanks for joining us i'm mary and i haven't seen. russia has suspended a key new player arms control treaty one day after the united states did the same in a statement released by the kremlin president vladimir putin said quote our american partners have announced they are suspending their participation in the deal and we are also suspending our participation we will wait until our partners have mature enough to conduct an equal meaningful dialogue with us on this important topic. putin also ordered his ministers not to initiate disarmament talks with washington and said russia would start work on new missiles the tit for tat

this is going to be a gift to vladimir putin and russia why because it will allow russia to produce new ballistic missiles legally moscow has long been warning of increased armament between the two nuclear powers and after failing to reach any kind of understanding with washington vladimir putin said the time for empty talks is over. for many years we have proposed disarmament talks which are initiatives have not found the support of our partners in fact they always find a pretext for dismantling the global security system moscow says it's purely defensive after all it's not russia building missile systems along the u.s. border but america is convinced russia started it with its own violations of the i.n.f. treaty to this day russia remains in material breach of its treaty obligations russia's violation russia has jeopardized the united states' security interests russia's shamelessly violates the russians are in violation of the agreement there's no mistaking that the russians have chosen to not comply with the treaty of washington's official beef is with this particular system but

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awesome. >>> russian president vladimir putin is threatening to target the u.s.ific key areas of the u.s. if the u.s. deploys missiles to europe. listen to this. >> translator: russia will be forced to create and develop weapon which is can be used from those territories through which athletics can be directed toward us but also where centers of decision making and rocket systems that are threatening to us. >> decision making, read that as washington, read that as military command centers. quite a threat from the russian president after the u.s. pulled out of the nuclear arms treaty with russia earlier this month because it's the u.s. position russia was violating. let's go to frederik pleitgen. these speeches to the russian parliament were explosive confrontational words and we saw that today. >> yup. i think you're right. if we look at last year's speech for instance he introduced russian weapon he is said the russian federation would be developing so building on that, the russian president saying he believed the u.s. was violating the inf treaty. he ripped int

vladimir putin promises a resolute reaction if washington deploys any new missiles here in europe. in a state of the nation address aimed at boosting the longtime president's plummeting approval ratings, he made that warning. also coming up, nationalists in india demand revenge over recent violence in kashmir. now kashmiris living in india say they fear persecution. and as three mp's from britain's ruling conservative party defect, citing theresa may's disastrous handling of brussels -- of brexit, they travel to brussels for more talks on how to leave the european union. plus, the lost childhood of afghanistan's youth. we meet some of the children who are forced into labor instead of going to school, and kept drugged on opium so their parents can work. ♪ brent: i'm brent goff. to our viewers on pbs in the united states and all around the world, welcome. we begin tonight with russian money and muscle. in his annual state of the nation address, russian president vladimir putin today promised to improve living standards within a year. he said that many russians are living in poverty a

vladimir putin ratcheting up the rhetoric against the u.s. leader saying if there was a nuclear standoff between moscow and washington, he wouldn't back down. >> translator: this is no reason to escalate to the levels of the cuban missile crisis of the 1960s. we do not want this but if somebody else wants this, well, okay, go ahead. i have said what will happen then. let them do their math. >> reporter: a major factor in putin's calculation, his growing missile arsenal. saying if the u.s. deploys medium-range nukes in europe, russia will place new hyper sonic missiles allegedly valving nine types the speed of sound off the coast. >> translator: nobody can prohibit them from navigating in neutral waters plus they will not be stationary. they will be on the go, making it more difficult to detect them. >> reporter: despite his friendly relationship with president trump, vladimir putin has vastly accelerated russia's missile programs, a move he openly says gives moscow the edge over america. >> translator: how long would it take to reach the deci

since he met with vladimir putin in helsinki in july, where he took the interpreter's notes or hasn't told any u.s. official what they discussed, he has taken us out of syria, which is a top priority of russia. he sought to diminish or pull out the u.s. from nato. and he's easing sanctions on vladimir putin's friends, who are under investigation -- >> but he did pass sanctions against russia. he has armed the ukraine. he has killed 200 russians in syria. i mean, those aren't the actions of an agent of russia, either. >> he signed, i think, you know, begrudgingly, sanctions against russia after congress and people expressed concern and he got backed into it. but as soon as he could, he has pulled those away. >> what makes him an agent of russia, though? >> during the campaign, the russians were offering -- and we saw this in our investigation, and free-press reporting showed this. they were offering their assistance to help him. they were reaching out, you know, whether it was the trump tower meeting, whether it was, you know, the number of subject-line e-mails we saw that said, you kn

isn't compromised by vladimir putin, how can you tell? at every turn takes russia's side, defends them constantly, engages in behavior and policy that help russia and putin over and over again. it's an off-ramp. i don't think they will take it however. >> if you care about the republican brand, is there a moment you say bob mueller, just comey, andy mccabe, republicans. i'll trade you one crazy now technically obese president on the omelet line for those three guys. do you not start to look at the evidence and say maybe those three men are on something? >> once again, in a normal world, that's an easy question. in the world of trumpism, these guys are not in a party anymore, they're in a political cult, and they will stick with donald trump until the last dog dies and they will go down in flames with him. they will athlete themselves up like the guys in the house did and end up getting tidal waves by the politics and reality of the fact donald trump has got something wrong with him with regards to russia and will burn anybody down, even th

how are you thinking about vladimir putin and his relationship with us and venezuela right now? >> remember the horrible situation in 1961 with the cuban missile crisis in here is some numbers for you. cue banls 10 million, venezuela's 5 million. cuba only exports sugar. venezuela sits on top of the largest oil reserves in the world. if you want russia to have political, economic and human capital in south america to threaten us, you don't have to look any further away than venezuela. trish: general scales, thank you very much. far left democrat ilhan omar who made some very anti-semitic comments is entangled in another controversy. we have learned that miss omar recently traveled to latin america with a group that supports nicolas maduro's socialist brutal dictatorship. later this hour, a major update on the american hostages being held captive in venezuela. the daughter of one of the hostages will share exclusively with "trish regan primetime" a report she just received on her father. >> delays rumor they are going to do a kidnap operation. when you retire will you or will you

vladimir putin told me north korea doesn't have that missile capability. i believe putin. what's your reaction? >> well, obviously, that's very, very concerning to me. these are his intelligence folks who are calling lots of points of collection, meaning human and electronic and digital. every form of int as they would say. they take all of that information and then they come up with a policy or at least proposal or at least an understanding of what's going on in the world. the president needs to have faith and trust in that information. it's the best that we have by the best that we have in america to provide it. and so when you walk away from that information, that to me is very, very concerning. and you can't not want to believe it. it's the one good thing about the intelligence community is they'll lay it on your table. it may not fit your political narrative. it may. but they'll tell you what the facts on the ground are and then it's up to policymakers to take it from there. saying off the chart that, gee, i just don't believe it. i believe vladimir putin who is a tra

>> absolutely, vladimir putin, when history is written, he has gotten.nybody. i think the real question that scares seems to me whether he is not satisfied with what is accomplished. if you are vladimir putin why would you assume that nato responds to the challenges you have done in ukraine somewhere else? this can be a chance for once and for all, if he wants to roll the dice a bit to challenge nato. he can't assume that this president would necessarily invoke article 5. he can't assume what the europeans would do. >> exactly. why should he, he's been reluctant, noah rothman to enforce that we are constantly hearing the president and peel around him sneer about certain members of nato and suggest they wouldn't defend against an attack from russia. and have you vladimir putin, a president who invaded georgia when george w. bush was president, crimea when barack obama was president. it looks like he might be lining up to invade another country as donald trump is president. as hitched said, why not? nato is torn to shreds, so much so, that as the "new york

worries grow as the possibility of a superpower standoff moves a step closer russian president vladimir putin says his country will follow washington's lead in suspending a landmark nuclear arms control pact could this be the start of a new arms race also coming out tennis while as political crisis poised to enter a new phase of the crime president one calls for record breaking protests as the country's socialist ruling party celebrates twenty news in town we'll talk to our correspondent in caracas for the likes. of. i'm rebecca read his welcome to the program russia has pulled out of a key nuclear arms control treaty one day after the u.s. did the same in a statement released by the kremlin president vladimir putin said our american partners have announced they're suspending their participation in the deal and we're also suspending house will wait until our partners have matured enough to conduct an equal meaningful dialogue with us on this important topic. putin also ordered his ministers not to initiate disarmament talks with washington and said russia would start work on new missiles the

did the same russian president vladimir putin an ounce to moscow would begin developing a new weapon systems and ordered his ministers not to initiate any new disarmament talks with washington here's a little more of what putin had to say because keeping our american partners have announced they are suspending their participation in the deal and we are also suspending our participation but. we will wait until our partners have mature enough to conduct an equal meaningful dialogue with us on this important topic and you know. and putin was responding to the u.s. decision to pull out of the cold war era i.n.f. treaty secretary of state might pump aoe said washington was suspending its compliance because moscow wasn't respecting the arms control agreement u.s. says is weapons like these the s.s.c. eight cruise missiles with a range of more than five hundred kilometers which show russia has violated the treaty. for more on saving for more on this we're joined now from moscow by defense analyst pavel felgenhauer mr felgenhauer now the treaty appears to be officially dead and moscow is sayi

on this twentieth of february news event for you now to tell you about the russian president vladimir putin's about to deliver its annual state of the nation address to a gathering of lawmakers government ministers and regional officials in central moscow go in there live any moment. got our cameras trained there last year went on for about two hours we're waiting for the russian president since that will go straight to it is a correspondent trying to reporting from the venue just a bit earlier. we are minutes away from the big event of wednesday and perhaps the best way to explain what's about to start is to compare it with america's state of the union but a lot of our putin isn't making an appearance at either of the houses of the parliament known as the duma and the senate's in russia and the lawmakers are not coming to the kremlin as well we are at moscow's ancient merchants courts that is the location for the event and it can be anyone's guess what vladimir putin is going to focus on in the first place domestic issues or something that's going to be had the international audience so to s

did the same thing russian president vladimir putin also announced moscow would begin developing new weapons systems and ordered his ministers not to initiate any new disarmament talks with washington he's more of what putin had to say when he comes confronted with our american partners have announced they are suspending their participation in the deal and we're also suspending our participation. but. we will wait until our partners are mature enough to conduct an equal meaningful dialogue with us on this important topic you know. who was responding to the u.s. decision to pull out of the cold war era i.n.f. treaty secretary of state. said washington was suspending its compliance because it had been breaching the arms control agreement agreement with the us says its weapons like these s s c eight cruise missiles with a range of little five hundred meters that show russia has violated the treaty. over the latest let's bring in our moscow correspondent emily show and emily president putin is now following suit after the u.s. pull out of the treaty is this an escalation well rebecca from

did the same in a statement released by the kremlin president vladimir putin said our american partners have announced they're suspending their participation in the deal and we're also suspending aus we will wait until our partners have matured enough to conduct an equal meaningful dialogue with us on this important topic hooten also ordered his ministers not to initiate disarmament talks with washington and said russia would start working on new missiles the tit for tat moves comma after america's secretary of state announced the u.s. was suspending the accord. if russia does not return to full verifiable compliance with the treaty within the six month period by verifiably destroying its violating missiles their launchers and associated equipment the treaty with. its weapons like these that washington says violate the ion of treaty experts believe b s s c a cruise missiles have a range of movement five hundred meters moscow says it never intended to breach the agreement. over the latest let's bring in our moscow correspondent emily show and emily president putin is now following suit a

appointed interim president why does we'll go live to caracas also coming up russian president vladimir putin says his country will follow washington blade in suspending a landmark nuclear arms control tax could this be the start of a new arms race. i'm rebecca races welcome to the program in venezuela high ranking air force general has declared allegiance to opposition leader one. general grant cisco jaan has released a video statement by twitter saying he recognized as interim head of state it's a major victory for quite a who's been working hard to persuade venezuela's on forces to abandon support for president nicolas maduro caracas and other cities across venice when i'm bracing for mass demonstrations later today the opposition has called for marches to support quite a. a rally on saturday venezuelan brothers we invite you to protest points in every city around the world we need to send an important message and thank those countries that have already recognized does and to ask them to help us with humanitarian aid. the u.s. and several latin american nations have recognized why do as th

correspondent out until ten has been listening to president vladimir putin's address and joins me now from moscow now aaron this speech is always highly anticipated from your perspective what was not the key points of address. what putin's address today was a market departure from the more marginal rhetoric that we heard last year and said he took his time to express the russian people a clear economic message one basically saying that the government had heard their complaints yes they realize that times are tough economically you have to remember that russians the russian government and economy is looking at a departed depressed economic system right now they realize that a lot of russians have less money left over at the end of the month than they did four or five years ago and they're going to do more to make sure that the economic situations of everyday russians improves in the coming year. and this in a year ago fourteen was reelected with a large majority but since then his approval ratings have slumped why. well a lot of it has to do with the dire economic straits that russia i

that the president of the united states seems to be going with stuff that vladimir putin is whisperingn his ear as opposed to stuff the u.s. intelligence community is saying? >> yes, but i don't know if this is true. i don't know the context in which the president said i heard this from the russians differently. >> frankly in 2016 and early 2017, there were a lot of criticisms about the amount of intelligence we had on north korea and whether they even had the capability and how some of these weapons might have been and some of the tests that failed and so forth. so i don't know the context in which it was played. what is clear, though is that throughout his tenure since donald trump became president i think he had the objective to have him removed from office and i think every person should be concerned about bureaucrats coming together and taking head counts supposedly on cabinet members to exercise the 25th amendment. i think that's what should be extremely concerning. >> can you think of any scenario under which an american president should take the president of russia's word for s

vladimir putin threatening to target the united states, even as andrew mccabe explains why the fbi opened an investigation into the president and russia. >> does that mean you leave open the possibility that the president of the united states was taking direction from russia? >> absolutely. that's the possibility that exists in a counterintelligence investigation. >>> and crowded house. in the first 24 hours of his new presidential campaign, bernie sanders reportedly raises $6 million while joe biden sounds like he's getting closer to a third white house bid. >> guys, it's time to get up, get off our knees, get up. remember who the hell we are. this is the united states of america. there's nothing we've ever not been able to do. not a joke. >>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in new york. president trump unloading on "the new york times" today as the enemy of the people after the newspaper's exhaustive report on a two-year pattern of alleged attempts by the president and his team against investigations into his campaign and his conduct in office. multiple officials telling "the times" that

>> vladimir putin. it is a gift to vladimir putin.e one that gets to deploy as many weapons as he wants because there are no longer or won't be in six months limits on what he can do. it, of course, produces great trains in the u.s./european alliance system. that's to putin's favor. the u.s. kicks the blame for this also to putin's favor. this is not standing up to russia. this is a gift to russia. >> was there some other way that the u.s. could have encouraged compliance if the obama administration was also complaining that they were not complying? >> absolutely and ronald reagan showed us the way. treaties often have violations in them. one state or the other accuses another party of violating the treaty. in what ronald reagan became president, he accused the soviet union of violating another treaty, the anti-ballistic missile treaty, but he didn't pull out of that treaty. he didn't kill that treaty. he pressed the russians for six years. in fact, while he was pressing them, he negotiated with them this inf treaty. and after mikhail

disarmament russia has decided the time for empty talks is now over russian president vladimir putin said that the u.s. is lack of support for russia's suggestions and proposals for u.s. disarmament is under is undermining international security and so this mere response is not only the suspension of the russia's participation in the treaty but it's also about to continue research to stay on par with the united states however russian president vladimir putin also said that this will not mean that russia will embroil itself in a costly and drawn out arms race with the west now russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said that the us has been violating this treaty since one thousand nine hundred ninety nine specifically with their usage of unmanned drones for military purposes he also took some jabs at the american a forty one vertical launching system used to launch missiles and it's used by the u.s. navy it's been in service since the one nine hundred eighty six and has right now a success rate of ninety nine percent and now russia's saying that that's actually against the treaty as w

russian president vladimir putin has said that russia is withdrawing from the cold war—era intermediate—rangefter a similar move by the united states. president putin added that russia will start working on creating new missiles, including supersonic ones, and told ministers not to initiate disarmament talks with washington. we will have more on that from moscow in the next hour. children should be banned from bringing smartphones into school according to the minister for school standards in england. the government is preparing to publish new guidance, which is expected to say children should be taught to limit the amount of time they spend online. here's our political correspondent, chris mason. schools in england already have the power to ban phones from being brought onto the premises but government policy is that it's the responsibility of head teachers to determine whether this is appropriate. nick gibb said that it was his own view that schools should ban their pupils from bringing smartphones into school. the government is due to publish new guidance for schools shortly and it's expect

out, depend on vladimir putin's good graces.met with, which oligarchs, tell us more about oleg deripaska's relationship, which i think will be one of the central threads to all of this in understanding donald's relationship. by the way, i've been saying long before andrew mccabe that the kindest thing you can say about donald trump is that he has divided loyalties and i believe that wittingly or not he is in fact a russian asset. >> interesting. okay. steve, why do you think this photograph? we'll put it up. why is it drawing interest frost senate intelligence committee? >> well, there was a lot of racy stuff going on in moscow in the' 0 '90s. that's pretty tame but a lot of different standards. what those are interested in, those investigating donald trump, whether the russians, specifically the fsb, was able to obtain anything along the lines of kompromat, compromising information on donald trump. it would could be anything from shady business dealings that later on could be extremely embarrassing to trump if they were reveale

this interview, i just wanted to play one other piece of it where he talks about fighting with vladimir putinintelligence regarding whether or not north korea had long-range nuclear -- potentially nuclear arms missiles that could reach the u.s. or u.s. territory and saying that he didn't believe it because he believes putin over our own intelligence agencies, but the first time the president said that about putin, but let's listen to this part. >> essentially the president said he did not believe that the north koreans had the capability to hit us here with ballistic missiles in the united states, and he did not believe that because president putin had told him they did not. president putin had told him that the north koreans don't actually have those missiles. >> and u.s. intelligence was telling the president what? >> intelligence officials in the briefing responded that that was not consistent with any of the intelligence our government possesses to which the president replied i don't care. i believe putin. >> robert costa, the president's tweets very angry not just against mccabe who is g

just one forty six pm this witness the afternoon we've just been hearing from russian president vladimir putin the states of the nation address the one on the hof are addressing a whole range of topics being spoken about as you might imagine but domestic issues really being the big address of the day. the host of parties worlds apart oxana boy who is joining me in the studio. you've been here from the scratch your main takeaways but what i was looking at before i was in here domestic policy much more than. oren policy was the real takeaway from this absolutely and in a way he has to make it about the state of the nation actually i don't want to play on the words here but i thought that these address this year was very very statist in terms of tone because remember that famous phrase by john f. kennedy ask not was the country can do for you but rather what you can do for the country while this was a total opposite it was all about what the country can do for you and it was about how the country can't afford the families how the country can support the education how the country can support the i