investigators figured out what the russians were up to. of course the russians want to know how we caught them. of course putin wants to know so they can hide better the next time. but that is giving up our sources and methods and deals a tremendous blow to u.s. national security. to me if the president agreed to that, he is undermining our entire intelligence apparatus. >> john, to remind everybody at home what dan coats said after donald trump had that news conference with vladimir putin, he released a statement that was not sanctioned by the white house, but a statement that underscored the intelligence community's assessment of what russia did during the election. here's what he said. we have been clear in our assessments of russian meddling in 2016 election and their ongoing, repeat ongoing pervasive efforts to undermine our democracy and we will continue to provide unvarnished and objective intelligence in support of our national security. this is dni koegts coats on mon. donald trump tries to correct everything with the change of on

the russian w.b. a champion of it. under russian mob stuff to show you how. long the crimea bridge was built. witnessed the construction willing you need to transport the terrain that will help them out of crimea. the most most of those you know won't go for more familiar with it a bit but it's clear. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. more some one of the principles that have to do like to be prosperous like that before three in the morning can't be good good i'm interested always in the waters about how. this should. it's hard to imagine decades after the war a nazi don't tell was still active rich in the nineteen seventies current intel had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery at auschwitz a german company granted to him develop thalidomide a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby is anything but. you know she said she's just cut

but when yeltsin dissolved the ussr, a big chunk of russian speaking, russian orthodox christians were part of ukraine and its that's causing the problem see it differently than the russians to you. >> did you expect or anticipate anything to come out of that? i've been watching some of the political talk shows and critics are saying the same, why are we having this summit? what does the u.s. want? rush to get out of syria and certainly a lot of things. critics are saying it's unnecessary. is that true? >> tremendous duplication of expense. if you are russian, would you want a new country with nuclear power in your border? they have an interest to work with us on north korea and iran. it can save us a lot of money if we pool our resources and can save a lot of money in terms of raising money for nato if they would spend less on their defense. a lot of mutual interest. that is why trump said the one in russia will be easy because it is easier. it is a win-win for america in. the idea is absolutely ridiculous. if reagan can sit down with gorbachev who's still running concentration camps,

trump's russian is even more dplorably bad. the question is how do they communicate with sign language? they have to have the interpreters there. they are the people taking a conversation from one language and put it carefully in another. and they are very important. and interestingly enough, the interpreters make copious notes. so we're not without a record of the conversation. and whether one or the other side is making a recording in helsinki, we won't know. but clearly there will be some kind of record, whether that record is publicized and shown is a different question. but each side may have some interest in taking snippets from the record to somehow indicate that whatever happened in hlgds li helsinki is to their advantage or something that they can take back to the publics and say i'm winning this particular contest with mr. putin or vice versa putin saying the same about trump. so we need to to watch in carefully. but it would be a shame if it's wasted with nothing achieved. except each one trying to trumpet that someh

the russians don't name wikileaks but say it was another way the russians used. the democratic national committee was begin, they said if you have anything hillary related, we want it in the next two days. the russians created a fake persona and wrote to a trump campaign person did you find anything interesting in the docs i posted? while that person isn't named in the indictment, it was roger stone a campaign advisor. his lawyer says stone had no involvement in the hacking and prosecutors also say a congressional candidate asked guccifer for stolen documents about an opponent and got them but today's charges don't accuse anyone in the u.s. of knowingly helping the russian hackers. >> there is no allegation in the indictment any american citizen committed a crime. >> reporter: there is no climb in the indictment the hacking affected the outcome. pete williams. nbc news at the justice department. >> reporter: i'm hallie jackson in london, knowing about the new indictments today the president blasted the investigation on the world stage. >> i think that we're being

much bought up by russian citizens, a strong russian influence here, and people are asking how suddenly after a meeting with a meeting with vladimir putin did donald trump find himself thinking so much about montenegro, the newest member, joining in june of last year. in the last four years, they have gone through two sprat attempts that they have blamed on the services. it involves lots to open fire. moscow said at the time publicly very angry at the idea of montenegro becoming part of nato, they see the balkans as their back door, if you like, and so the key issue here is how does montenegro retain that sense of being part of nato and being defended by the u.s., you never have to go to war as donald trump suggested on behalf of someone on behalf of nato. many questions still here, john. >> the issue of security in no way an abstraction. very real, nick paton walsh, glad to have you on the ground so much. >> i'm with montenegro. how did they get involved in this? unless, vladimir putin brought it up or was the seed planted with tucker carlson and his question there. how did they get in

have been russian agents themselves. now you've going to haiven them door into your computer. that's one of the systems rosenstein was talking about earlier today. the other thing he was talking about was the possibility that either this way or another way, because you can do it through a computer, that what was sent in was initially some version of malware. we hear this word a lot. in this case what malware with a do is sit on your computer and start automatically collecting all sorts of information. addresses that you were using all the time to send information to, your contact list, your passwords when you signed in. it could grab screen shots when you wrote things. then it could spread out through your network, imitating you and collecting even more information. in that case you would be talking about a version that would be some sort of an automatic system or doxing. all of this, again, would link back to the kremlin. these are the two key ways we heard about today, either tricking people into sending their informat

two vintage russian sedans, a russian four by four and a trailer like this one. the document does not say how much putin has in the bank or investments. former top u.s. treasury official, adam talked to the c brk c. >> i'm not in the position to give you figures. he draws a state salary of something like $110,000 a year, that's not an accurate statement of the man's wealth. >> we may not know exactly how much putin is worth. but we do know this, vladimir putin is remarkably popular in russia. why? we'll tell you when we come back. ♪ if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months, ... with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. tell your doctor if these occur. o

an american president who admires the russian president and who echoes the russian president. the last question of the press conference made perfect sense and was inconceivable. at any moment in history prior to the trump presidency. >> sir, do you -- does the russian government have any compromising material on president trump or his family? >> and vladimir putin gave an answer that was 220 words long and nowhere in that answer did vladimir putin say no. he never said no, we do not have any compromising material on president trump or his family. instead, vladimir putin told a lie, that he did not know who donald trump was when donald trump visited moscow with his beauty pageant. and president trump desperately wanted the last word on this. >> well, please, just disregard those issues and don't think about it. >> i have to say, if they had it, it would have been out long ago. >> as you will hear later in this program, intelligence officials disagree with that. if vladimir putin had compromising information on donald trump or his family of course he would keep it as his little

what we've seen in russian behavior and russian relations with the united states and with the rest of the world in the last few years, i think, has been a pretty clear record of taking aggressive steps. ukraine in 2014 and syria in 2015 and our own elections in 2016. so i think it's a false assumption to simply equate, you know, everybody in this -- in this picture as the president seemed to do. in his earlier tweet, you know, earlier today, he seemed to suggest that this was all about american foolishness. i think it is an even more exaggerated statement of the same thing. >> precisely. and i wonder what you make of the fact that he also in an interview called the eu a foe. he was talking about trade, but he lumped the eu in with china, with russia, with all sorts of other nations, as well. and to that point, you know, victoria noonin, the former bipartisan u.s. ambassador to nato and other positions, said this whole trip, this whole week abroad, would either cement american leadership of the alliances and the world order, or sign the death knell for american leadership. how do you a

you back in the russians if you back in the russian ship backing bashar al assad so there seems to be a circle there that has got to be squared but how do you square it will be to i mean this is the point that i was. actually to me even if assad is winning on the ground in syria i think there are so many stakeholders in this conflict most of them with bad hops now accept that assad is winning including. the united states. the states and others but i think there is a big that there is a big elephant in the room that we need all to see it before we can talk about an end also i mean to this conflict about from seeing a political solution between the regime and the opposition which is iran in this case i think everybody is talking now about. how to get iran out of syria if we accept assad the manning and power and for that for the next war that for the next couple couple of couple of years i mean this is something that is really on board and so now i mean i believe this is why in syria it's c.d.n. borton to get almost everybody on board that that means that the russians the americans of c

the russians attacked us. it was warfare, computer warfare. >> the message the indictment is sending to vladimir putin, now two days before the helsinki summit how this could change the approach for the meeting. >> this is the time for the president to stand up to america. >>> a new day of protests in britain. some people showing up at the president's golf club and booing him on the fairway. but we begin with new reaction from democrats on special counsel mueller's latest indictment is all the pressure that the president needs to stand up to vladimir putin when he meets with the president on monday. this is what representative garamendi said earlier. >> this is not the time to ask. this is the time to ask putin right in the eye, saying you did it. you're going to pay a price for that. don't you mess with the american election this time. it's time for him to stop hugging the russian bear. the russian bear is a dangerous bear. it's frankly time to punch the bear in the nose. >> meanwhile, we're also learning not

rejected by mccain and hurt the russians. here they get a clear signal from candidate trump today, they waste no time in trying to provide that help. i think going into this meeting, within the next 24 hours, trump can't contain his admiration for putin but more than that, trump views putin as his ben factor. putin intervened, russian military intelligence officers were not acting on their own. putin intervened to help trump and trump is nothing if not grateful for that help. >> we'll take a quick break. when we come back, more questions for you about the summit and what is at stake. tomorrow including your call for the summit to be scrapped all together. stay with us. add the activia 2 week probiotic challenge to your healthy routine and see how activia yogurt with its billions of live and active probiotics may help support your digestive health so you can take on your day. start the activia probiotic challenge today. it works or it's free! here's something you should know. there's a serious virus out there that 1 in 30 boom

little gold became a thing off to the two saves by the russian goalkeeper eagerly can fav in the final penalty shootout degree can fav himself already a star here at home became an even bigger internet celebrity of the time. now also drawing attention of course russia's head coach but he took the spotlight not only with these managing decisions and he's managing style but also with his emotions or rather the lack of them i should say a hint of a smile and a reservedly pulled fists in triumph this is cool that he allowed himself on the pitch. churches of some astonished have become known here in russia has them a stosh of hope another symbol for russian fans these russia's traditional headwear caution so here in central moscow in the hearts of the football fever i decided to familiarize fans of other national teams with these features of the russian fan culture. to know that russia's traditional elements of headway. as in the. winter. well. with the bald bald guy i have no idea i have no idea how it. is that's the trick to stop the fuck up i have this. you know what it is. it's this yea

so, in addition to the russian interference in our election there's the russian u.k. nerve agent atck, a british woman lost her life last week because of the attack. there's the fact russia crossed the brightths redby lin invading and an exing crimea. there are u.s. sanction on russian cposed bygress over these b objections to russia's actions, and the president has tostand if he's going to maintain political support in the country, threspect of our allies and even president putin, he has to be tougher than putit. s not enough to say that we just want to get along with a person w's trying to undermine our country. we have to defeat that person,er block thatn and do everything we can to protect our own country.ro that's whaald reagan would have done, that's what any american president before donald trump would have done. >> former ambassador nick burns, thank you very much. >> thank you, john. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, bombings rocked election rallies in pakistan, killing at least 130 people and wounding more than 300 others. the worst attack was in the sou

they see only the russian president arriving. they see only the russian president's plane taxiing. they didn't see him come here and a waiting donald trump then comes to him. they just heard that press conference as well with all the things that michelle just said. just as the press conference ends, it ends right as the second edition of their main political talk show starts again. it seems as though this was all stage managed according to russian time and according to the audience that vladimir putin wanted to reach. we've been monitoring some of the things going on, on russian tv. obviously all of them are glowing about this. there's an analyst who said it's clear that president trump has never said anything bad about president putin, that he respects president putin, and that clearly he feels very grateful to president putin. so you could already see the russians sort of taking their victory lap about this. i think, wolf, one of the things that's so interesting when you're in russia and you hear what they say there, is they've had a lot of criticism -- >> by the way, the preside

he said we didn't know if the russians were doing it. a week ago he said putin, who ordered this operation, was fine. he tweeted out russian disinformation saying putin says we didn't meddle. so this indictment is a reminder of what reality is. there was an attack on the united states and a reminder that while it was under way and afterwards, donald trump refused to acknowledge it and said it didn't happen and in fact gave cover to the russian attack by doing so. so what bolton says now is completely absurd, it's ludicrous to say it gives trump any leverage. it means he would have to totally reverse himself on everything he has said and all the help he has given putin up to date. >> david ignatius, while putin would never let on to this, i know that you released a column just moments ago saying that putin feasibly could be worried about some of these indictments. what are the issues you think this could raise for him? >> friday's indictment is really important. contrary to what john bolton says, doesn't give leverage to president trump,

robert: one of the people who interacted wh these russians or these russian-affiliated entities was roger stone, the longtime trump advisors.s what dhis indictment mean for him? >> i think it may be ok for him so far. department attorney general rolled rosenstein said today we should not assume any implication of gui for any of the americans who are referenced in this indictment. bu what it does show is that the russians were reaching out, that they wein off help. that they had a real willingness t aosk, frankly, people around president trump, cane -- we help full? robert: when you think about the mueller investigation, it has t tracks. there's the russia track looking at interference in the e election and there's the obstruction of justice track. what does today, t timing of it, say about mueller's progress? >> i think i says something that we've sort of long suspected which is that the u.s. government, the intelligence community h h a good idea for some time exactly how this hacking was done. i thinken mueller's indic lays its out in detail. we still have an unanswered diestion so, ok t

russian citizens. i think, for the president to demand something that isn't going to have it put the in a weak position. >> adrian, what you think about that? to demand something that he is not going to do, it is in their constitution, it doesn't look weak? >> i never thought i would agree with trey gowdy on something, but i could not agree with him more. donald trump was on a national stage in front of the international community with vladimir putin that he believes prudent over our entire intelligence community over what happened in terms with the russian hacking in our election process. that is unbelievable. that change the entire dynamic of our relationship with russia, it changes the entire dynamic of where we are on a national stag stage. putin is a trained kgb officer. let us not forget, he knows exactly how to play trumpet. and you knows exactly what he is doing. but forget that this is trump by the way. this is an american president who stood up on a national stage, on an entire international

russian intelligence. that is significant because just to complete the loop of what we wrote about in russian roulette, butina goes to las vegas when trump shows audiotape few weeks after he announces his candidacy, asked the question on the floor about sanctions. get trump on the record in a five-minute answer saying if i'm elected you won't need sanctions. can i get along with putin, very significant. months later, 2016, 2016 campaign, steve bannon and reince priebus watching the video of that event and scratching their heads. why is that woman in the audience? why did he call on her? why did he have a fully baked answer as soon as it was asked. it raised a lot of questions and clearly the mueller team as well. >> i'm curious on "new york times" reporting russia started quite the social media campaign to call for the release of butina. that is going to be effective in any way? >> yeah. no, it's not going to have any effect on federal prosecutors or the u.s. judicial system but it is a very clever propaga

the russians have been secretary the pace. the russians have been laying out the battlefield. everything we know about what happened in that meeting has come from the kremlin. oh, we talked about ukraine. oh, we talked about syria. oh, we talked about turning over our political opponents to us so we can put them in prison. all of this is pretty unusual to be happening and the conversation we're so far other than secretary pompeo, we see very little from the u.s. side. we see very few officials saying, no, we're on top of this agenda. we know what we're working towards. the fact that that meeting, that the idea of a second meeting was announced when most of the national security establishment was in aspen speaking on stage probably speaking on camera, the white house knew that. the fact they put out that tweet about the meeting with putin in washington at the same time as everybody else was going to take the hit from the press for that coming out. it was really unusual. >> it's as if you were reading my nose. that was exactly -- that was the next question that i had to malcolm

after the election, president obama imposed sanctions on russians. kicked out russian agents. shutdown known spy facilities immediately after the election. donald trump is now trying to take credit for those actions that happened in the obama administration. has been directed by congress to impose additional sanctions. has done none of that. instead he's decided to invite this adversary personally to the white house during the next election. by giving a former kgb agent access on u.s. soil. that is abdication of the responsibility the white house has. that is fundamentally what putin regime is relying on is the chaos of the lack of leadership. >> you're getting an amen from malcolm on that. seems to be opening the door. >> if the president won't act. in fact, i think he's also open to going to moscow himself. he's sort of planning for friendship with russia. the if the congress, trepublicas that control are more focused on protecting the president than acting, then what can the candidates be doing. we know there were three people targeted. let's put up the list of democratic s

planned evacuation the russian for. ministry said that there was concern over so-called provocations that could happen during such a move but me she seemed far more at sea according to the information we have the white helmets convoy arrived in the town of adlib and among the a rival swer several chemical experts in the south and missile parts were also unloaded we do not rule out the possibility that these shall we say souvenirs and looted by the what how myths will be used as intended are even when is the now is that these members of the white helmets have been evacuated from the region we cannot rule out the possibility of a large here provocation and pinning the blame for this percolation on the syrian government now with all these controversies surrounding the white helmets they certainly are risks and could be more risks around the secular nation in addition to the evacuation of the white helmets the area has seen hundreds of militants and their families moved into the rebel held north evacuation comes as the syri

it has a long russian border. vladimir putin will be at the world cup final on sunday, will have to come here for the meeting on monday. but it is just not proximity. finland is unique in the sense that it has always struck a delicate balance between the interests of its giant neighbor russia and the west where it is a member of the eu. and so finland sits on that geopolitical fault line between russia and the west. and that is the reason perhaps most of all that it has been chosen as the venue. >> this is one of the entrances to the facility. >> reporter: this is finland's last line of defense. vast network of underground bunkers deep beneath helsinki, designed to shelter tense of thousands in the event of a military attack. >> we are taking care of the whole population in this country. and when we are defending the country, we also have the proper civil defense. >> you are defending against russia? >> that is a potential enemy, yes. >> reporter: with its long russian border and painful history of invasion from m

the russians are nailed. no americans are involved. time for mule tore -- mueller to end the pursuit of the president. juan. >> if i were the president's counsel i might issue a statement like that. for the rest of us we know rod rosenstein was careful in saying in this indictment. what he was indicating is right now what we have on the table is no indication any americans were aware they were being used or abused, if you will, shannon, by the russians who were interfering in the campaign. there was a congressman or top aide in florida who may have gotten information. roger stone close to the president believes he was unnamed in the indictment. so we have lots of those but i think the memphis -- emphasis is so to say so far no evidence of collusion so let's wrap it up and the american people want to know what happened. >> shannon: we heard from a number of folks on the hill including democrats and senator mark warner of the senate intel committee says when they can they need to wrap it up because they're questions that need to be answe

a russian w.b. a champion. and a russian mobster. show you how man the crimean bridge was built. witnessed the construction moving you need to transport. that will help the cause of crimea the faster most of those you know what go for more snow you have it a bit but it's clear. camera. roughly once the show and some look for the. future uncool videos with the broken eastern. down more on string i don't rightly don't t.v. . welcome back to worlds apart but graham allison professor at the john f. kennedy school of government at harvard professor ellison just before the break we talked about what you see as mistakes on trump's part let's. shift our attention to moves by president putin and many analysts noted that he for the first time probably a rhetorical inserted himself in the midst of the domestic american politics on the side of trump and i mean i understand that for some of our american viewers that you know that supposedly was the case before with all those collusion allegations but up until monday the kremlin's line official line was that of neutrality and nonpartizanship w

and we sure were in the russian capital moscow thank you both. all right we've got lots more analysis for you where with me in the studio now is nicole ren very she is a foreign policy expert at the german council on foreign relations a very warm welcome you've been with us all day so we're very happy that you were able to stick around where does this go from here one of the interesting part about the press conference was even though both heads of state came up with a list of issues where they want to cooperate starting with the man on proliferation and working group to fight cyber terrorism social context they didn't have a very concrete ideas on how they want to go about it also with respect to the situation in syria they basically said we want to protect the interest of israel trump made a very strong point in this respect but again it was absolutely not clear what the concrete next steps and you're wondering where does the u.s. define its interests because it seems like there were two brothers in spirit but very little interest every bit of i

robert muller has no russians as as alexander point out there's no russians that we've been able to get and we indicted a whole bunch you know he can indict a ham sandwich what we but both here's a russian a media puttin a we got her now and she's the only game in town ok and we're going to make sure that this works because if we have a russian word was use we have the holy grail a person that we can set up and say aha see she was working in this intricate scheme through the end and everything else to make sure that trump beat hillary clinton i have to tell you i've never seen it sillier season as i have seen it now in washington yeah but you know when you get a job here but i mean raise absolutely right but i mean if you watch the n n n m s n b c they don't listen to anything about facts and decisions and some of the can on congressional committees some of the documents they have had to claw out of the justice department it even they'll even say this is good news for my. or are they just don't talk about it it's really amazing to me this is this is it really is a slow motion cooed it's

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what you're going to hear regarding this this russian citizen is she is called a russian agent what is missed completely is that agent should be referred to as a lobbyist and agent in law in american law means a representative of when american media say agents they think secret agent. i spray an agent you know something nefarious something involving behind the scenes something illegal something that is other than an agent this particular person was charged with basically being a lobbyist and asons without having registered with the department of justice could more indictments happen absolutely will the media american media clarify what that means absolutely not the victorious front squat has been greeted back home by a manual mccrum at the presidential residence that started more after a short break. so. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. for some one of the brits. to go on to be prosperous what with the full story of the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of t

the russian nation over russia's sports now of course all over for the russians croats. they face england in the semifinal in england i feel haven't really had to get out of second or third gear they're not really been challenged to the point where you think crikey they're going to lose it's going to be knocked out . should've played some beautiful football games on the favorites in argentina among them this is going to be quite interesting game isn't it i think so i think in the we'll go into that feeling very confident we've been saying all along since in the last to belgium in the group stage and came second that they are on the so-called easiest side of the draw and by you know seeing how it shapes up they played colombia it went to penalties it was difficult but really they deserved to go that route the jinx at least for the jakes they won on penalties and then they beat sweden yesterday with those goals one wire and then you had me and then after that you look at it and you say well they play a team again a croatia team who are probably better technically but maybe

at the moment obviously the finnish capital is no stranger to hosting these kind of summits between russian or soviet leaders and american presidents so i've seen posters all around the city dollars on sale t. shirts about the historic meeting and one local brewery even came up with two new beer types one is for mr trump and one is for mr putin the hosts finland have even set up two saunas and the media center so i just made it to the area intended for the media very close to where donald trump will be meaty lot of our group and i see this so the hosts are sitting to the straight and perhaps that's a. security precaution very soon we'll find out whether the arrows can be pointing in the same direction on the president's feet so that the last two times longer than the originally expected and we were only allowed to film the first forty seconds of the launch the only other to be heard mr. actually it was only donald trump who said there was a good start to the summit there's something else i pointed out for myself the microphones for both theaters are different for some reason the one for don

russians hacked. so, i would say -- >> do you think roger is that stupid? >> i think roger is conspiratorial, yes. i think roger, alex jones and that whole -- >> that defense that you're sharing, and i appreciate -- >> this is all i know. >> i understand, you're explaining what you've learned. and it makes you interesting.fi. you are explaining your understanding. that suggests that roger stone is stupid or a novice. we have dealt with him. he strikes me as neither of those things. >> roger is someone who does not trust the government sometimes, and has seen disinformation put out. i disagree with him. it was clear to me that putin did this. putin is not my friend. i think putin is not an ally. by the way, the president should confront putin about this publicly in his press conference about this. >> you think donald trump should do that. do you think he will do that? >> i would hope so. i don't know. >> evelyn? >> well, you know where i stand. if the president meets with putin, which i think is a horr

it's important we let the russians know this. so yes, i think he ought to cut his losses with this disastrous trip to europe, not make it worse by a friendly meeting with vladimir putin on the heels of yet another indictment of russia. >> because the specifics in this indictment are enormous. they name names. the u.s. intelligence community hates to do that. they think it could compromise future intelligence operations. they go through point by point. it's one thing to say the russians interfered. it's another thing to bring it up with all this specific detail. >> exactly. what i've been looking at in these indictments, like the last indictment, is both what they include and what they don't include. here in the first indictment on the social media campaign, there was no mention of the hacking and dumping operation. so this indictment was foreseeable. we knew this was coming. but here, there's no mention, for example, of the russians communicating with papadopoulos. now, i'm going through this indictment in realtime, but i haven't

only thing russians want to talk about is sanctions relief. only we know that came out of the secret meeting that trump had with putin was the possible interrogation by russian agents of americans associated with the sanctions. and so, what else is there to talk about? i think we have to remember the senate rejected that idea 98-0. as soon as it became public, almost within 24, 48 hours, senate pass add unanimous resolution. the senate never moves that fast on anything. let's pause until trump says what he wants to speak to putin about. >> an arrangement of syria, assad being sort of a client of moscow and north korea and a lot of american concerns that even when china was actually enforcing the sanctions on north korea, what was happening is russian entities doing back filling and chinese company leaves, russian company comes in. two of the biggest things we hear about and then conversations about whether or not to extend the new s.t.a.r.t. nuclear arms control treaty and doing this all with a one on one or one on one plus interpreters, it's

robert muller has no russians as as alexander point out there's no russians that we've been able to get and we invited a whole bunch you know he can indict a ham sandwich but we both here's a russian a media put in a we got her now and she's the only game in town ok and we're going to make sure that this works because if we have a russian word was use we have the holy grail a person that we can set up and say aha see she was working in this intricate scheme through the end and everything else to make sure that trump beat hillary clinton i have to tell you i've never seen it sillier season as i have seen it now in washington yeah but you know when you get a job here but i mean raise absolutely right but i mean if you watch c n n n m s n b c they don't listen to anything about facts and decisions that have to do with some of the can on congressional committees some of the documents they have had to claw out of the justice department it even they'll even say this is good news for my own. or they just don't talk about it it's really amazing to me this is this is it really is a slow motion c

russian spy and others. the public didn't find out about it until a year later after the election. one year ago, july 2017, don junior downplayed the significance of that meeting in a statement to "the new york times." don junior said, quote, it was a short introductory meeting about the adoption of russian children. he also claimed the focus of the meeting was, quote, not a campaign issue at the time. nearly a month later reports broke that president trump helped personally draft his son's misleading statement. don junior then walked back his initial statement acknowledging that he did in fact meet with the russians because they promised campaign information, but that the meeting ended up being about adoptions. two days after that, don junior appeared on fox news with sean hannity to explain. >> a lot of people are going to want to know this about your father. did you tell your father anything about this? >> no. it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. i mean i wouldn't have even remembered it unti

the case against trump and the russians grows stronger. at the same time, the republicans are going into overdrive to protect him, they're trying to impeach rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, the shameful attempt to obstruct justice on the part of house republicans. they're really putting themselves out there. that's why i call them putin republicans, because there is an element of the republican party that's really tying themselves to the mast, aligning themselves not just with donald trump, but with vladimir putin because they're doing everything they can to impede an investigation of this russian attack on america. >> it's really interesting, the hypocrisy that's going on. you hear people, especially the president's supporters, saying, you should stop it with this impeachment thing because that doesn't work and you shouldn't use it as a political tool. then they're saying, oh, no, but rod rosenstein should be impeached. they're talking about out of both sides of their mouth. >> the hypocrisy is off the charts here. of course t

the russians. june 9, the day after this website was created, there was that trump tower meeting with don junior, jared kushner, paul manafort, the russian lawyer. >> so, we don't know what the nexus is other than proximity and time. but if you read through this indictment and every american who cares about the threat to america should read this indictment carefully. it's a great read. put down the spy novel you're reading, pick up the indictment and read through this. but when you look at the passage you're talking about, katy, you can see there is great effort made to deceive, obfuscate by the russians, attempt to blame it on americans. we see the proximity and time as that is going on, we have campaign officials for trump sitting down, breaking bread, meeting with russians. the proximity of that, i don't believe in hunches. i don't believe in coincidences. i believe there is a familiarity and comfort level with what the russians are doing in the campaign and that is what we're seeing play out in

maybe the russians taped trump in that meeting which the russians can use for their own purposes. they can even presumably doctor such a tape if they wanted to if they wanted to make it appear that trump said something in that meeting that he didn't say but they wanted to make it say that he said that. why not? there's no other american who can corroborate what happened. why wouldn't the russians make up something absolutely to their advantage. and maybe even put out a tape that proves it. we're at their mercy. we'll find out when we find out. anything could happen. as proof of also know from a die that this happened today in washington. this is what we tend to think of as mobley. your eyes do not deceive you. that is a 98-0 vote. that is the senate voting unanimously that the president may be shouldn't send former american diplomats and other u.s. officials and u.s. citizens over to russia to be interrogated by the russian government just because vladimir putin told trump that's what he wanted. it is still almost impossible to believe that the white house did really spend a few d

it's dangerous because you cannot trust the russians. they break every agreement and we've known for 35 years, we cannot trust the iranians. >> great analysis. thank you. we are on the northern latitudes here.this time of year, you get sunlight for about 18-20 hours a day.it's 10:30 p.m. and this is the beautiful sunset we have in helsinki. it's quite different and remarkable. and then the significance of - - a former cia officer who served in helsinki and moscow is my guest, next. ♪motorcycle revving ♪ motorcycle revving ♪motorcycle revving ♪ motorcycle revving ♪ no matter who rides point, ♪ there are over 10,000 allstate agents riding sweep. ♪♪ and just like tyrone taylor, they know what it takes to help keep you protected. are you in good hands? i'm ray and i quit smoking with chantix. i tried cold turkey, i tried the patch. they didn't work for me. i didn't think anything was going to work for me until i tried chantix. chantix, along with support, helps you quit smoking. chantix reduced my urge to smoke. i needed that

the russians are not 12 feet tall. they make mistakes. what they're doing at the moment is they're controlling the narrative about the meeting and the effect of that is that they are actually humiliating president trump. >> so why is he letting him do it? why didn't he come out and say more? >> i think the last week was additional evidence that president trump is not particularly strong. he's not a particularly strong foreign leader. he's very, he's a battering ram with our own allies, but with adversaries, he allows them to dictate the narrative. look what he has done with north korea. so i think the russians are making interesting gamble. i suspect our intelligence community is trying to figure out why they're making the gamble right now. because after all, if you keep in mind. what does putin want? putin wants a free hand in syria the agreement the russians say was reached is an agreement that is contrary to the basic pales of most of the occupation government. why would the russians be admitting that now? it's really interesting. i su

of russian posture. they represent respect, and this is what trump delivered. he delivered respect today. >> fred, i mean that's such an important point that mikhail made, especially given the financial situation that russia has been facing to every the last couple of years and putin's own standing. >> absolutely right. i mean this was definitely one of the biggest wins i think that putin has had in a very long time. we were analyzing this as it was unfolding. to the russians i don't think it could have gone any better than it did. at the beginning we were talking about how putin was late to the summit. he was not late at all. he was planning to arrive when russia's political talk show was landing. you could see him going there and trump essentially waiting in helsinki to join him. >> it wasn't like there was a traffic jam and he couldn't get there. >> no, no, it was staged. you could see it on their show. and then afterwards you have a lot of these analysts saying look president trump has showed respect

the problem today is not the russian people. the problem that needed to be named today was vladimir putin. instead our president decided to advance a fake moral equivalency that plays right into the hands of vladimir putin's bloody hands. everyone in this body should be disgusted by what happened in helsinki today. i yield the floor, call. the presiding officer: the senate is not in a quorum call. mr. murphy: thank you, madam president. madam president, in my lifetime, no american president has ever had a more disastrous overseas trip than the one that was just concluded by president trump. five days of disaster after disaster, insult after insult, capitulation after capitulation, and now today donald trump has america weaker in the world than at any time in recent memory. let's start with what just happens today that has the whole world reeling. to the shock and horror of the american public, president trump stood on stage with vladimir putin and told the world that he believes putin when putin insists that russia did not try t

but not russians. they see it as a revival of a deep sense of power and national destiny. >> putin has given them their pride pack. russia is once again, a great power. ♪ >> putinism is an ideology of conservative, of anti-westernism, but above all, of power. putin might say, he has made russia great again. sound familiar? >> we will make america great again. >> usa, usa. >> like putin, trump has used nationalism to boost his support. but many believe that donald trump is no vladimir putin. >> putin is a much more practiced, subtle, cunning player. he's playing, in poker terms, a couple of deuces at the highest level. he's reasserted russia on the world stage from a position of relative weakness, like nobody i can think of. that's an amazing feat of geopolitics. the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it intelligently senses your movement and automatically adjusts on each side to keep you both comfortable. and snoring? how smart is that? smarter sleep. to help you lose your dad bod, train for that marath

observers were already wondering whether trump would be tough with the russian leader about the russian hack of the u.s. election since to date he's mostly down played it and mostly relied on his gut instinct in a hope to forge a personal relationship. then rosenstein announced of indictment of a dozen russian internationals. joining me now is a senior fellow in the vok love hovel program at florida international university. he's also the author of "back to containment dealing with putin's regime". david, thank you so much for being here. react to the timing issue. i find it so curious that this came on the friday before the monday summit. >> well, it certainly is a coincidence at least. i know in your opening you suggested it may be more than that. it will make the situation for president trump a little more difficult by forcing him to raise this, i hope. although president trump as you indicated knew about this. rosenstein indicated he briefed the president on this before he left for his european trip, and yet the president was rather dismissive yesterday of the whole investigation. h

my personal view, the russians are at it again. you see just about the entire republican party being more hawkish on russia than the president is but this ss hahas a week of mysterious comments coming from the president of the united states on the subject of russia. maybe we can peel a few layers back when sarah sanders comes out in a few moments but my sense is she'll echo what the president's been saying all along, essentially there's nothing to see here, please disperse. >> jim acosta, thank you. our chief white house correspondent. let's start there. got a number of great people standing by to analyze all of this with me now, cnn chief political analyst golor glia bo, david gergen. gloria, you and i were on tv yesterday talked about the attempted clean-up job 1.0 post-helsinki when the president was initially saying he does agree with u.s. intelligence, but wait, in the same breath he said it was russia that attacked the other election. but it could be other people, too. now he said no if he was asked if russia's still targetin

or done by russian forces. a lot of people believe, the dutch have been investigating and believe it because so many dutch citizens were killed on that malaysian flight. that's one of the things you look at putin and the russians, and there's such a long list of, let's call it what it is, crimes exited by the putin regime. to see the president of the united states embrace the regime is appalling. i was listening to some of the earlier commentary and thinking a lot of trump supporters are enjoying this. they voted for him because they wanted him to disrupt things. so he goes to the g7, to nato, to all of the different meetings and it is as if he was going into a poker game where everybody thought they knew the rules and he says, we're going to play 52 pickup. i'm going to throw everything up in the air. oh, i have an ice. that's the way he approaches things. it may work well with his base, it may work very well for his own ego, but it is an absolute disaster for american relations with countries all over the wor

world's most powerful arguments are now operational in the russian military. closer look. when putin announced this new arsenal it came out of nowhere seemed like side five overkill to some but you know we now have videos of each. kindle or dagger and russian is a hypersonic missile and it's fast really fast it flies at three kilometers a second when deafening tries to shoot it down it dodges to maneuvering flying in an unpredictable trajectory weld first by the way move the u.s. plans to test its own analog next year. this is the overkilled bought a new nuclear i.c.b.m. that carries get this twenty nuclear warheads the real a store with its range which is practically unlimited past nuclear missiles had to use the shortest flight path and fly through ed defenses this thing can literally fly to the south pole and back up to hit that stargate from behind. if for whatever reason you don't feel like flying through and. there's adam god it's designed to literally ram its way through enemy anti missile defenses with speed first it's lifted into space then its engine

while the twelve russian said to be members of russian military intelligence are accused of hacking democratic party e-mails on hillary clinton's campaign the indictment says they created online personas to publish the stolen information the justice department though says there was quote no evidence the alleged interference changed the course of the election. there's no allegation that the conspiracy changed the vote count or affected any election result. moscow says the timing of the announcement shows that it's designed to have a negative impact now on monday's putin summit you know in an e-mail discuss the controversy with our correspondent goes down often a bit more depth everything in this investigation when it comes to the packing of the democratic party it provides around the d.n.c. server so we don't know as i've said where moolah got his information from but what we do know is where he didn't get it from apparently and that is the f.b.i. as they themselves have numerously admitted to fail to examine the server themselves have a listen when did the d.n.c. provide access for to the f.b.