russia is not excluded. today i read an article in the latest issue of the economist, which stated the end of neoliberalism consensus. so, you know, that is true to say that russia is developing, the world is developing. and the challenges should occur for sure, but those challenges should not impose from the outside. are you saying you believe in the future russia will not look more like the west but maybe the west will look more like russia? congregation, correct. it is not my term to be invented, that is the long—standing theory of congregation between different systems. interesting idea, interesting words. vladimir yakunin, thank you so much for being on our show. thank you very much. hello. monday brought the highest temperature recorded in the british isles so far this year and here's one for your diary, if we manage to get as far ahead as wednesday and we're still producing temperatures in excess of 30 degrees, that will be the longestjune hot spell in over 20 years given that by that stage we'll ha

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

sanctions on russia, and new sanctions on russia, they'll be charged with enforcing those. sanctions on north korea, that again falls to ofac. and yet we're going to be telling ofac that now you're going to have to again spend a considerable amount of your time and resources and manpower tracking down people going to cuba to see if they stick to their designated approved itinerary, whatever that might be, whatever we think they ought to be doing there, rather than what they want to be doing there. that just seems foolish to me and a waste of money and time and resources and wrongheaded priorities with regard to other priorities that we have on sanctions. we had situations in previous years that were simply -- they would be laughable if they weren't true. but i think the administration ought to consider that when we have a restrictive policy on travel, you're going to have situations that just are flat embarrassing to us. if that sounds crazy, it doesn't sound crazy to joan slote of san diego who traveled to cuba in the year 2000 at age 72 with a canadian company that organi

he is always thinking about russia. it's the cloud as he puts it that hangs over his presidency. >> shannon, let me ask you about who is up and who is down. there was a lot of talk on the back end of the foreign trip that with pulling out of the paris accord, the bannon wing was ascendant and the establishment folks were on the decline. talk to me to me. phillip has great reporting on how he is constantly mad at staff latest targets include don mcgahn and reince priebus always in the cross hairs what are you hearing about the internal dynamic. >> i think in who is up who is in and out is going to continue going on. almost part of it is by design. i mean, when this administration was put together it was no secret that they were putting people all in a room with a lot of different backgrounds, a lot of different perspectives taking steve bannon and nationalist rue with the gary cone cohen from the goldman sachs and who the democrat. and with a reince priebus from the rnc, this sort of chaos was created by design. i don't

russia cup bridge. to move the ball russia. the things that. really i in northern syria america's allies in the region are fighting we take a look at what impact u.s. support for the kurds and turkey the same time could have know in the region. first day here in moscow very good afternoon for me kevin i mean this is not international without breaking news that within the last hour russian russia's foreign ministry spokesperson for them slammed washington's allegation that the syrian government is planning a chemical attack she said such claims could be a sign of an upcoming u.s. intervention. one is in its name it is even being it we knew about statements from washington all sing you that the u.s. officials refused to confirm the claims with any facts so we don't know what these conclusions are based on the situation looks like a massive provocation both military and informational it's hard getting not only syria or russia as well as good if he were mean if it is likely that where we are seen at the moment it is the threshold of a new intervent

how do you know russia? russia soviet union. how do you know russia ? russia is soviet union. how do you know russia? russia is different now.|j know luckily putin had nothing to do with the soviet union. i let the re cord with the soviet union. i let the record show not with the kgb either. one of the wonderful things about discussions like this is how familiar it is to living in the soviet union for three years, because i willjust ask a respectful question, do you think one reason for the size, you say these are small demonstrations, might be because there's a proven record and forget this particular demonstration, that if you show public opposition to vladimir putin you are almost certain to get arrested. you are likely to suffer economically. you may even lose your life. that's probably a disincentive to public opposition, one would have thought. it's a cliche that you as a former correspondent in the soviet union would say on and on and on. times have changed completely in russia. there is an opposition in the newspapers. there are oligarchs sent to prison. you show me a

] >> crowd was shouting, russia, russia, which means russia. >> estonians did not for a moment believe that was. then defense minister yak had only been on the job three weeks. you believe those protests were orchestrated. >> yes, to a certain extent. >> that kind of violent protest, this just doesn't happen in estonia. >> absolutely. it's like, no, it just doesn't happen. >> so the belief was these protests were orchestrated, manufactured? >> yes. i guess that's pretty much the describing term, orchestrated. >> the violence on the streets wasn't the worst of it. silently, in cyber space, an invii invisible army was mounting an attack, an attack that would foreshadow the turmoil that would soon come to western europe and then america. how did you know that you were under attack? what gave you your first chance? >> i looked at different news portals and they were down. i asked what's going on? the same thing. reported the banks were down, governor websites. >> you suspected a cyber assault. >> yep. yep. it was clear it's not bad weather, it's bad people out there. >> while the u.s. elec

program rehashes allegations that russia interfered in the u.s. election to give no hard evidence we watched did we'll tell you all about it we just did in fact come on up to criticisms leveled at the u.s. administration for failing to give solid proof to back its claims yesterday that the syrian government was preparing a chemical weapons attack on the case that one. former u.k. prime minister david cameron and prince william are implicated in a corruption scandal over england's failed bid for the twenty eighteen world cup according to a long awaited report. good morning to you just turned eight in the morning here in moscow my name's kevin irwin this is r.t. international and we go good this wednesday let me take you through our top stories we're leading with this one a typing error in the i.t. department allegedly helped hackers gain access to the e-mails of clinton campaign chairman john podesta is the news this morning well according to a new documentary on russia's alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election race anyway it's been ai

he was moved from one part of russia to another part of russia. he did not actually leave russia. in fact, perhaps he is also sent as a signal that he doesn't want to go anywhere and he does it in a subtle way. he needs to cater to the interests of the scoundrels running around with swastikas. he is saying that will i've interests of my own in russia and i do not want to leave. maybe that is a hint. a subtle hint. but that is my bold assumption. but in fact, he just wanted to demonstrate to the voters that he delivers on the pledge that he has given. he is moving towards a civilization you know as people say now that he is leaving his country to europe. and again, he wrote blue uniforms and you obedient to them folks. again, blue uniforms. there are so many blue uniforms - out there in the world in which he is guiding his country. many more blue uniforms.so he does not need to rest his morals. he needs to look around, to be on alert. and again, we don't have anything against them. i just want to say, i wish you love, i wish you everything. i wish you good luck. especially with tho

the recusal is about the russia investigation. but if you listen to the president of the united states, he told lester holt that the fbi director was fired because of the russia investigation, in which case it would be inappropriate. so why was he fired? >> greta, if i might just correct you there for a moment. on different occasions the attorney general said he was recusing himself from both of those matters. he said early when he was first nominated that he was recusing himself from anything related to the hillary clinton e-mail investigation, which is what was proffered by rod rosenstein as the reason that comey was fired, and then after his confirmation hearing in front of the judiciary committee he subsequently said he was recusing himself from matters related to russia and the possible collusion with the trump campaign. so, his actual letter of recusal says that he is stepping aside from any investigation that has anything to do with either of the presidential campaign. >> all right. assuming that he's violated the recusal -

and russia. we have one trend, you mentioned it, and the guest also mentioned there is russophobia, and new initiatives on sanctions against russia, but at the same time, we see a global demand not for normalizing relations between the two states, but for a major enhancement overall of those relations. mr. tillerson in the senate said since he was appointed to that high position, each meeting with foreign colleagues save him, listening to him, they asked him to enhance relations. the middle east, southeast asia, all say the same thing. relations should be improved. he was referring to discussing the budget from the state department. in three weeks there will be a of the g-20amburg to meet with president trump. can we say that you, in the talks, you will put an end to the negative trend, laying the foundation for some positive developments? maybe for some major overhaul of our relations which would take place in the future? what problems is productive and mutually beneficial to cooperate with the

russia will do this again, you heard director coming in this committee said that he felt russia would be back maybe against the republican or democratic party. our elections will be at risk when that happens. the sanctity of our elections will be compromised in the minds of our citizens. let me close by senate russia's really testing the leadership and resolve of the west. americans and europeans are far stronger in our democratic and values in the russians. with this in mind we need to be more effective in countering them. we can do that by building bipartisan unity in the congress. i want to commend you for setting a bipartisan tone which is deeply appreciated. we can do that by encouraging the president-elect. we can do that by being very close eli and with europeans to take common action. if we can achieve those three things, we can defeat president putin and the russian intelligence services. thank you. . . >> >> 14 people were charged including two russian agents members of the russian military service or identified as the ringleaders for the operation. so the assistant major at

in russia, the idea of russia, not a return to the old russia, but the continuation with the market economy that would work in europe. amy: let's get to putin discussing fididel castro, assassinatation attempmpts, ands own pepersonal secururity. >>>> i in 2012, you ran for presidident and you win a 63%? three times president, five assassination attempts i'm told, not asas much as castro, who i have interviewed, i think he must have had 50. but there is a legitimate five i have heard about. >> in other words, you trust yo s security y and am donone a greaeat job. >> i t trust them. >> the first mode of assassination, you try t to get ininside the security of the president. >> i k know that.. do you k know what they say amog the russian people? they say those who are destined to bee hanged not going to be drowned. >> w what is y your fate, sir? do you know?w? >> o only god knknows our dedes- yours and m mine. one day this i is going to happn to each and every onene of us. the e question is whwhat we will have accomplished by then in this transient world and whether we will have enjoyed our li

but, you know, even before this previous covert plan to go to russia, what russia can do with cyber attacks, or china or anyone else to develop this capacity, the russians have been clear in the past that they believe our nsa, our cyber command, has more fire power in that regard than any other country on earth. and whatever any other country can do to us, we can do to them and much worse. there is no lack of confidence within the u.s. government that the united states has the power to inflict devastating consequences on russia or any other country if we chose to do so by cyber means. why didn't they choose to do something like that when the obama administration recognized what russia was doing with our election? particularly when they realized it wasn't some freelance operation, it wasn't some criminal operation, it was being deployed directly by the russian government on the orders of the russian president. again, we're going to talk with ellen nagashima from the post about this, but the way they lay it out, they basically give it two answers to that type of question. one is domestic to t

russia sees the latest u.s. threat to use military force against the syrian government is on acceptable the white house earlier claimed the assad leadership is preparing to launch a chemical weapons attack president trumps press secretary says the u.s. will take action if that happens the united states as identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the side regime the united states is in syria to eliminate the slum extent of iraq and syria if however mr assad conducts another mass murder attack using chemical weapons he and his military will pay a heavy price our middle east correspondent paula slee were joins us now with more details the international reaction to these claims hi there paula yes so what else is the white house saying about this chemical attack supposedly being planned by damascus. well the white house a statement on the threat of a new chemical attack as you say that it claims will be carried out by the syrian government is interesting indeed let's first look at the

meddling is in russia's d.n.a. says the former direct to of u.s. national intelligence james clapper and he goes on to say therefore that proves that moscow was still making attempts to influence american politics he was appearing in a new documentary that aired by america's c.n.n. news channel in primetime just but seven hours ago. is there any reason to believe that russia is not right now today continuing to attempt to or to infiltrate u.s. political organizations individuals. who would think it's in their d.n.a. . or are in the soviet era or know. me a bit early here in the studio to explain whether there was actually a smoking gun revealed in this. but so much anticipation over this latest special report from c.n.n. it was billed as the first comprehensive telling of on television of russia's attack on the two thousand and sixteen presidential race and also with jarring lessons for the american leaders and the public about more attacks still to come now who wouldn't want to watch this it seems like stephen was going to lift the lid on all of t

posture toward russia f.-f. relations with the us to discuss this i was joined by danielle corvallis a professor of international human rights at the university of pittsburgh school of law and author of the plot to scapegoat russia how the cia and the deep state have conspired to vilify putin. well i think you're going to see that the holes so-called russia gate scandal is going to disappear because i think there is. scant evidence as you say that anything of substance actually happened. in terms of alleged russian hacking or meddling with the election so i think what you're going to see is a move instead towards investigation into whether trump obstructed justice by trying to somehow interfere with the investigation of the russia gate scandal if you can follow me on that you know so. and we only know that hillary clinton who as you know a lot that election she stated strongly that he thought rest and played a part in the election and trey gowdy this morning actually had a very interesting points and he said

i'm talking about ru russia and putin. he won't say they hacked us. >> in 2016, the russian government at the direction of vladmir putin himself orchestrated cyber attacks on our nation for the purpose of influencing our election. that's a fact plain and simple. >> are we prepared to say how many states are targeted? >> as of right now we have evidence of 21 states election related systems in 21 states that were targeted. >> the only person who does not think russia was behind the election hacks is president trump. senator warner with a blistering criticism today. >> it continues to stun me that we have consensus across our intelligence community, we have consensus from democrats and republicans that the russians interfered. the run individual in america that seems to not accept this basic fact is the president of the united states. >> so will we get any response from the white house? will president trump finally admit putin did it. so far, it does not look like it. >> very plainly, a yes or no answer. does president trump

russia's foreign minister demands on says from the u.s. as to why it is not targeting the terror group in syria. last is a u.s. fighter jet she was down and trying belonging to probe syrian government forces. signed in the last fortnight and also the video images online appearing to show firefighters in disbelief at the scale of the deadly fire in london gauge reaction to the government's response this is how much is going to leave the survivors of radical it. is actually shocking when you see like they can spend three hundred seventy only been in politics.

could do that, that russia had that capacity. they could have absolutely blown up our election if they had wanted to. and if they had that capacity last year, presumably that mean they still have it for whatever they want to use it. so there's a lot that "the washington post" has just broken here. it's like i said, they took ten one-page scoops and put them all in one big story with that fascinating framing of how the obama administration started. we're going to be speaking with the reporter about that in just a moment. before we get to her, though, i do want to do something else. i want to share with you something that is a little bit of a scoop that we just got tonight. at the start of this week, you might remember "the new york times" ran a story about the cism a director, mike pompeo, he's a trump appointee, former republican congressman. not every cia director is involved directly in things like the president's daily brief. not every cia director is at the white house every single day. in this administration, though, mike po

russia is not excluded. today i read an article in the latest issue of the economist, which stated the end of neoliberalism consensus. so, you know, that is true to say that russia is developing, the world is developing. and the challenges should occur for sure, but those challenges should not impose from the outside. are you saying you believe in the future russia will not look more like the west but maybe the west will look more like russia? congregation, correct. it is not my term to be invented, that is the long—standing theory of congregation between different systems. interesting idea, interesting words. vladimir yakunin, thank you so much for being on our show. thank you very much. thank you for you patience. thank you. hello. monday brought the highest temperature recorded in the british isles so far this year and here's one for your diary, if we manage to get as far ahead as wednesday and we're still producing temperatures in excess of 30 degrees, that will be the longestjune hot spell in over 20

the russia probe grows by the day. this is a president whose approval ratings are at historic lows for this point in the term. this is a president who is open to attacks from democrats saying hey, you're favoring the rich. you're favoring the wealthy, instead of the working and middle class voters who helped get you into office. >> kelsey, i know you're a journalist and not in the prediction business, but try some odds. what is the chance we get a health care bill underneath the president's pen by the time congress leaves washington on the july fourth break? >> i would give it a 60% chance at this point, so just a little better than 50/50. i think it's really important to remember that as much as republicans are going to own this, many of the most difficult things that will happen in the bill, the cuts to medicaid, the changes that they have coming down the line, the subsidies, they don't happen right away. many of these things happen after the next senate election, in fact, after the next presidential election. so the

putin and russia because congress has said you must accomplish certain objectives like getting russia's aggression to end in ukraine or to get russia to stop supporting war crimes in seer and stop -- syria and stop interfering with our democratic election systems. that's what we say and we're clear about that. then we take the third step, which i think is very important, and that is provide the wherewithal that u.s. leadership, working with our european allies to protect our democratic institutions. all of that is included in the bill that we'll have a chance to vote on in a few minutes. i want to thank all involved. i know, mr. chairman, i'm going to include in the list of our staff people who worked so hard on this because they were here 24/7 putting this bill together. i'm going to include that in the record. i know damion murphy on my office, margaret taylor and jessica lewis. i'll have us list the members of the staff because they were extraordinary in making us reaching this day. mr. corker: no question. i thank you for those comments. there are staffs that have been remarkable. t

she's saying russia, russia, russia, maybe it was. it could be russia. it could be china. could be all kinds of people, could be somebody sitting on their bed who weighs 400 pounds, okay. >> candidate trump loved to sew the seeds of doubt whether russia was really behind the hacks into the 2016 election or were they perhaps blameless. president trump has, too, as recently as three weeks ago. >> if russia hacked, if russia did anything having to do with our election, i want to know about it. >> there is already intelligence from virtually every intelligence agency that yes, that happened. >> i tell you this, if russia or anybody else is trying to interfere with our elections, i think it's a horrible thing, and i want to get to the bottom of it. and i want to make sure it will never ever happen. >> now, today, vladimir putin weighed in on that after repeated denials that russia hacked our election. today in st. petersburg he told reporters, perhaps patriotic hackers could be behind the hacks on the world's largest democracies. he added, quote, they might have read a certain

russia did interfere in the election. we've heard it time and time again in those hearings on capitol hill. we didn't hear it today in the white house briefing room. let's watch. >> i have not sat down and talked to him about that specific thing. obviously we've been dealing with a lot of other issues. i'd be glad to touch base. >> generally speaking, this conversation about russian interference in our elections, there's 16 intelligence agencies that say that they did. the former fbi director said without a doubt -- >> i understand. i've seen the reports. >> does the president share those views? >> i've not sat down and asked him about his specific reaction to them so i'd be glad to touch base and get back to you. >> reporter: so it's this reluctance over and over some seven months after the election that has confounded republicans, sort of given ammunition to democrats and really kept this investigation alive in a sense that the president is one of the few people, wolf, here in washington who has not often agreed to the

on russia. almost immediately, after trump took office, was this possibility ever discussed between the trump team and your representatives prior to president trump being inaugurated? >> translator: no, i saw what was happening to be frank, it was a great surprise. it's just absurd what they're saying. i don't know where these people have come from that distribute this kind of information. it's a catastrophe. our ambassador has met someone, and what is an ambassador supposed to do? that's what he gets money for. he has to hold meetings, have discussions about the current state of affairs, to seek agreement. what do you expect him to do, to think he has to enjoy himself and go to those institutions for visiting which he is going to be expelled from job? no. this is his job. he is accused of meeting someone. that's absurd to accuse him of that. that's diplomatic service. it's astounding. president trump's aide was dismissed, he was accused of agreeing with someone on something. well, those people

western propaganda effort against russia has been largely successful. you know the most interesting. about is a lot of interviews about are still going his promoting the show time. and just about everyone that was interviewing him began the interview with one sentence i haven't seen all the interviews out but stephen all gone but you're very nice to put it of. him it's a very very friendly approach so all the right away you have these these these people that are interviewing oliver stone saying i haven't seen it i don't know what it's about but i don't like the tone you're taking to humanize this man and this president of great power the only interview that was very fair was talking process or interview where he actually just sat back and listened to what oliver stone had to say that's what gave you an appendicitis. it's amazing how the american media for gordon they were all warts i mean when they when they now see when they write all all of a story about torture and that it's cold want to kind of humanize in a dictator they forget that for decades the

and related activities in the issues regarding russia. also, at the wilkinson center he serves as their deputy director and our first call comes from david. david is in los angeles. independent line you are up first. good morning. >> caller: yes, what's really fascinating about this russiais issue here is how propaganda, that is primarily used by otto kratz and dictatorial regimes that completely co-opted and corrupted the american political sphere. you have it where you have the purpcrat and republican issues being manipulated for the purposes of defeat. as we deal with this issue it's like people come on and they are like really does file in their offense and they are repugnant to the american people and this is something that's normal. we are living in times right now to which that which is absurd has been normalized. i think that is trump is a cheerleader in this. instead of them trying to get at what has actually occurred, what we are dealing with is the side issues that distract us and cause division. >> host: color, thanks. >> gues

russia, we know their activities. we know their cyber activities against our democratic institutions. as we said frequently, collecting cyber information, all countries do that, but the use of that cyber information to attack our democratic institutions is an attack on our country. that cannot go unchallenged. we are have to protect ourselves and take action when we have been attacked. this bill does that. russia has been very aggressive in interfering in the sovereignty of other countries, today in moldova and in other countries, we have seen russia's aggression and in ukraine with the annexation, russia has -- russia has violated every single commitment of the osce, helsinki accords, and violated the sovereignty of other countries. we know about russia's activities in support of the assad regime and has assisted in -- in horrible human rights violations. just terrible. we've seen some of the videos of the tragedies of innocent children as a result mr. putin's support of the assad regime. in january of this year, sen

the white house no longer taking questions about russia, referring everything, everything about russia now referred to the president's lawyer. >> sources say former fbi director james comey plans to testify the president did, indeed, try to pressure him on the bureau's russia probe, and the house intelligence committee issuing its first subpoenas. the batch includes some signed by chairman devin nunes, who promised to step aside from the russia investigation. >> first on attorney general sessions. capitol hill and intelligence sources telling cnn investigators are focusing on a trump campaign event at washington's mayflower hotel last april. a trump campaign event at the mayflower last april. then senator sessions and the russian ambassador, sergey kislyak, attended a small vip reception. among other things, the fbi wants to know if there was an additional private meeting between sessions and the ambassador. >> sources say if there was such a meeting, it may have been just incidental. sessions has previously failed to disclose meetings with russian officials. he testified to congress h

intelligence chief says meddling is in russia's d.n.a. and that therefore is proof enough he says that moscow continues to infiltrate american politics the comment came in a new c.n.n. documentary again will try and unravel the details plus criticisms leveled at the u.s. administration for failing to give solid proof to back its claim that the syrian government is preparing a chemical weapons attack. hello good afternoon one pm here in moscow this wednesday the twenty eighth of june my name is kevin owen you're watching r.t. international it's good to have your company football's first world cup bidding team's been implicated in a corruption scandal over its failed push to host a twenty eight hundred tournament a fee for poured out now made public also names former u.k. prime minister david cameron and prince william who are apparently at a meeting where vote swapping was being discussed has funded a bit more go to london nice to see a church. bit more cross this report's along old report four hundred pages to start with some of us were m

western propaganda effort against russia has been largely successful. you know the most interesting part about it is i saw a lot of interviews about are still on his promoting the show time piece and just about everyone that was interviewing him began the interview with one sentence i haven't seen all the interviews out but stephen all to go but to go here very nice to put it of. him it's a very very friendly approach so all right away you have these these these people that are interviewing oliver stone saying i haven't seen it i don't know what it's about but i don't like the tone you're taking to humanize this and this president of great power the only interview that was very fair was talking process or interview where he actually just sat back and listen to what oliver stone had to say that's what gave you an appendicitis. it's amazing to call the american media for gordon their own warts i mean when they when they now see when they write all all of a story about putting that it's wholly want to kind of humanize in a dictator they forget that for dec

-russia relationship. it feels, guys, and everybody jump in, that you're now going to have congress ready to codify these sations and it may force the government's hands. >> they're going to need some help, the one thing we have not seen move very far is republican leadership, paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. they've been reluctant. sometimes they've made comments that could be interpreted one way or the other. but they have not so far sided with the hawks in congress and said we're going to put legislation like the on the floor of the congress. that is potentially the prediction trump faces. if he does something like try to invoke executive privilege and really stick his thumb in congress's eye. >> in the very big picture, the net effect of the last year has been to make both the public and the democratic party more anti-russia and less inclined to have some kind of alliance or moves toward friendship. in that send, they've overplayed their hand. they have strengthened the anti-russian sentiment. >> i think

going to do russia's work for them. in terms of eroding confidence in our democracy. >> hold on. we should have been worried. now it's after the fact. the toothpaste is out of the tube so we're going to do an autopsy after when couldn't we have done something more preventative and public at the time? >> stephanie, we didn't do a whole lot publicly again because we wanted to make sure we were instilling confidence in people that we could conduct a free and fair election, and that is exactly what happened. and that happened because of the important work that was taking place behind the scenes. to work with elections administrators in states and local jurisdictions all across the country. that's what jeh johnson was responsible for, what he was testifying about yesterday, and we succeeded in that. some of that is also because president obama himself confronted president putin directly back in september when we were in asia at the g-20 meeting in china where president obama confront eed president pun and made clear the unit

russia is not excluded. today i've read an article in the latest issue of the economist, which stated, the end of neoliberalism consensus. so, you know, that is true, to say that russia is developing, the world is developing. and the challenges should occur for sure, but those challenges should not impose from the outside. are you saying you believe in the future russia will not look more like the west but maybe the west will look more like russia? congregation, correct. it is not my turn to be invented, that is the long—standing theory of congregation between different systems. interesting idea, interesting words. vladimir yakunin, thank you so much for being on our show. thank you very much. hello. monday brought the highest temperature recorded in the british isles so far this year and here's one for your diary, if we manage to get as far ahead as wednesday and we're still producing temperatures in excess of 30 degrees, that will be the longestjune hot spell in over 20 years given that by that stage we'

>> i know you like to say russia, russia, russia. he's the president of the united states. >> and what's he doing? >> he has said very clearly that he wants the voter integrity and the ballot integrity to be protected. and any type of interference. at this very second? >> yes. >> because we have nothing to say about russian collusion or effecting the electoral outcome. those rabbit holes did not bear fruit. >> if you're following that, she can't or won't name one thing that president is doing to prevent future russia hacking in elections. we would show you the video but again no cameras were allowed. so we sent a sketch artist to the white house to draw some pictures. >> is he concerned about that? >> of course. he's concerned about any country or actor that wants to interfere. >> so sean spicer again not able or willing to single out russia. and kellyanne conway changes the name of collusion and the it president's victory is of course one. and in july when russian hacking information became available. >> russia f you're listening, i

or russia c.n.n. is being struggling to get a grip on its russia coverage of late with staff quick to publish without solid evidence earlier in the week three journalists quit after c.n.n. retracted the story of on the lead senate investigation into links between a russian investment fund and a confidant of donald trump and in january c.n.n. broke a story claiming russia compromising personal information about president trump based on a dossier written by a former british spy it was later admitted that the report was flawed filled with on verified allegations the group behind the latest undercover video say c.n.n. is not the only outlet landing itself in hot water not just c.n.n. i want to make it clear you are going to make in america you know you are telling a lie you are defaming people you are keeping stories you're keeping them in public for not going through you're on our list and we may be right now we are watching you and if you're one of those organizations probably we sleep well at night bec

russia russia do we need all five hundred thirty members of the congress to deal with russia we're not focusing on the economic messages people in ohio dan aren't really talking about russia or michael flynn or putin or anything else. they say what the heck do the democrats stand for ryan has a point here we better stand for something and it can't be baby steps i think it is interesting that that the polling now says that americans no longer view this as something that's important in the life of their government or the lives of their nation there's a harvard study out a few weeks ago that talked about the level of hysteria in the mainstream media about the trumpet ministration found out that it was the most negative coverage ever in covering a new administration journalistic ethics have collapsed in the year of trump because they're so desperate to harm him so that explained for a long time why the private why the public was concerned and why the polling numbers were so low and now the polling numbers are recovering it's not because the press has been less hysterical it's because the p

and russia. we have one trend, you mentioned the guest also mentioned ia, ands russophob sanctions against russia, but at the same time, we see a global demand not only for normal as it -- for normalizing relations between the two states, but for a major enhancement overall of those relations. senate saidn in the that since he was appointed to that high position, each meeting with foreign colleagues save him, listening to him, they asked him to enhance relations -- the middle east, southeast asia, all say the same thing. relations should be improved. he was referring to discussing the budget from the state department. there will be a meeting of the g 20 to meet with president trump. thewe say that you, in talks, you will put an end to the negative trend, laying the foundation for some positive developments? maybe for some major overhaul of our relations which would take place in the future? tive andblems is produc mutually beneficial to cooperate with the united states? and i think that these mat

is they want to hear about trump allegedly working with russia. not me not a my friend i think they would that something. if if there is something secret about something people want to know even more so if you just bring it out in the open if there is something you'll come out if it's not then it's just go away and you feel like the media should be reporting on this more or less less and like to hear where these sources are coming from or who's saying it spares i know it could next door neighbor they don't have proof they need to drop it now the c.n.n. producer allegedly said that they keep pushing the story because of the ratings however a lot of the americans we spoke to said they'd rather watch something else cable mopp and aren't seeing washington d.c. . back to the c.n.n. video released by project for its house the network issued a statement saying they stand by their producer on welcome diversity of opinion a white house spokesperson was asked about it on a news conference and it could further undermine trust in the media i think if it is ac

do you believe donald trump colluded with russia? >> that's a question i don't think i should answer in an open setting. as i said, when i left, we did not have an investigation focused on president trump. but that's a question that will be answered by the investigation, i think. >> let me turn to a couple of statements by one of my colleagues senator feinstein, she was the ranking member on this committee till january which meant she had access to information. on may 3, on cnn's wolf blitzer show, she was asked do you have evidence that there was collusion between the trump campaign and russia, she said not at this time. next interview she was asked again, and you said not at this time. has anything changed since we last spoke? senator feinstein said, well, no, no, it hasn't. do you have any reason to doubt those statements? >> i don't doubt senator feinstein was saying what she understood. i don't want to go down that path first of all because i'm not in the government anymore and answering in the negative i worry leads me deeper a

to l off the mike flynn part of the trump/russia investigation. again, notnly ying that the president had told him that, but saying crucially that contemporaneously at the time he had made a written note of it and told other people that the president made this wildly inappropriate request to him. we knew that about james comey. now yet another senior official in the trump administration apparently went through the same thing and told people contemporaneously that the president had directed him to try to stop the fbi investigation. just a remarkable advance in the news. we started this week waiting for the comey testimony. waiting for james comey to testify on thursday before the senate intelligence committee. everybody parked at the edge of their seats waiting to hear what the former fbi director will say these reported claims that president trump asked comey to call off the investigation into flynn. friends and colleagues of comey say he described contemporaneously to them requests to stop the trump/russia investigation. on thursday morning, jame

she is saying russia russia russia, but maybe it was. it could be russia, but it could be china and lots of other people and could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, okay? >> as "the washington post" is reporting how global russian interference in elections is reaching its way across europe, president trump is finally leaving the 400 pound man out of the room and acknowledging russian election interference here in america. trump tweeted the real story is that president obama did nothing after being informed in august about russian meddling. with four months of looking under russia under a magnifying glass they had no evidence of collusion. i should be given an apology. sean spicer president's recent are a shift in ideology. he said no. >> over the weekend in an interview on fox, president trump seemed to acknowledge that he does believe that russia interfered in the u.s. election. is that how that statement should be interpreted. does he believe that russia interfered in the election? >> the statement is consistent

is they want to hear about trump allegedly working with russia. not me not any my friend i think they would but that's something you know if there is something secret about something people want to know even more so if you just bring it out in the open if there is something you'll come out if it's not then it's just go away and you feel like the media should be reporting on this more or less us i'd like to hear where these sources are coming from or who's saying it spares i know it could be my next door neighbor they don't have proof they need to drop it now the c.n.n. producer allegedly said that they keep pushing the story because of the ratings however a lot of the americans we spoke to said they'd rather watch something else. r.t. washington d.c. ok let's go back to the c.n.n. video released them by project their attacks the network has issued a statement saying it does stand by its producer and welcomes a diversity of opinion a white house spokesperson was asked about this is a news conference and said it could further undermine trust in the

international news happening right now but russia's foreign ministry. of a potential syrian chemical attack. a moscow the foreign ministry spokesman speaking live. in the next thirty minutes of this news program also coming up to. another scandal hit c.n.n. political commentator this time was caught on camera apparently ridiculing the channel's russia coverage. but. really. to syria in the north of syria developments there this morning to america's allies in the region a fight to get. u.s. support for both the kurds. in the region the stories ahead. i think late thursday morning in moscow just ten eleven in the morning those thursday ok will begin with the breaking news russia's foreign ministry spokesperson speaking as i speak she's just slammed washington's claims that the syrian government is planning a chemical attack she says it's a provocation against both syria and russia. it is evening and we knew about statements from washington we all sing you there u.s. officials refused to confound the claims with any facts so we don't know what these conclu

are they saying russia didn't have an effect? maybe wasn't russia? it was russia and now there is a health zone. did russia have an effect? obama said they couldn't so i guess athletic didn't. they're trying to play, they're playing different, all these different sides. >> it is like they want to talk about russia. everybody says why don't you talk about your domestic agenda? what is your domestic agenda? this health care bill where 22 million people lose insurance? the wall? they don't have a great domestic agenda to talk about. i'm not necessarily surprised when they seem to keep bringing russia up themselves without even the news media bringing it up first. >> the round table is sticking with us. just like the people who own them, every business is different. but every one of those businesses will need legal help as they age and grow. whether it be help starting your business, vendor contracts or employment agreements. legalzoom's network of attorneys can help you every step of the way so you can focus on what you do. we'll handle the legal stuff

holcomb is there meantime russia's foreign minister has hit out at u.s. allegations that the syrian government is planning a chemical attack. such claims could encourage terrorists to use chemical weapons to conduct a false flag attack that would then be blamed on president does the. united states worldwide energy market share will be on president trumps mind at a speech later thursday but with global oil markets already swamped with supplies and rock bottom prices that could be dangerous to america's increasingly aggressive export tactics america has stalled on a bigger piece of the global energy. push the president ministration is cooling energy dominant. present america to achieve energy dominance by utilizing our abundant resources. good both here and abroad but there's a catch the increase in global energy consumption stands at one percent current. lower than the ten year average the us is looking to enter a highly competitive. market washington will need to shake up the existing energy superpower quite an ambitious plan and geographically speaking t

>> matthew, you spent a lot of time in russia. any thoughts on how this is received in russia? i mean, i'm sure they're watching very closely all this drama that we've had. >> yeah. the russians are pretty much thrilled. you know, so let's assume for the sake of argument that they did something, that it was probably kremlin directed. whether the goal was to change the outcome of the election or just to sort of seed chaos, damage the narrative and credibility of american democracy, the amazing thing is, up to the election, during the transition, and now post-inauguration, they're still winning. because washington is completely obsessed with this story, and there are a whole list of other things that we're not doing, including, by the way, developing an effective russia policy, and a deterrent to russian meddling in american politics or in european politics or deploying weapons, troops and capabilities that can threaten our interests around the world, including as we see in syria, the baltic region, et cetera. i think the russians are thrilled with the chaos around the story. i d

how do you know russia? russia is different now. i know. luckily, putin had nothing to do with the soviet union, and, let the record show, not with the kgb either(!) one of the wonderful things about discussions like this is how familiar it is to living in the soviet union for three years, because... i willjust ask a respectful question. do you think one reason for the size, you say these are very small demonstrations, might be because there is a proven record, and forget this particular demonstration, that if you show public opposition to vladimir putin, you are almost certain to get arrested, you‘re likely to suffer economically, you may even lose your life? that‘s probably a disincentive to public opposition, one would have thought. that is a cliche that you, as a former correspondent in the soviet union, would say on and on and on. times have changed completely in russia. there is an opposition in the newspapers, there are oligarchs are being sent to prison. you show me a banker in america who went to prison? why is the russian pape