why so much russian? how do you put it together on a chart on a wall, papadopoulos today getting indicted for a couple of months in allenwood maybe to play tennis up there, and the other guy facing 30, 40 years together. how do you put it together in terms of filling out that chart and tracing, if there was, a conspiracy? >> well, you don't. and what you try and do is try and take every piece of information like the piece that we have today and contextualize it and see if there is anything larger there. this is a significant thing. we've had different incremental developments along the way here, some bigger than others. the trump tower meeting being one of them. and that is another one that sort of elevates the story again. it doesn't provide all the answers we want. and we won't have that for some time. but we do today have a better understanding of what the campaign knew and what their efforts were. and that's significant. and that's what's different. that's what's different about this story. >> back to

, but of the russian state and the russian people. (men cheering) (applause) (anthem starts) >> ♪ rossia svyashchennaya >> narrator: soon, putin's russia would have the capacity to strike at the heart of american democracy. >> (speaking russian) (cheers and applause) >> ♪ slavsya, strana ♪ my gordimsya toboi! >> narrator: next time... >> putin. >> narrator: "frontline's" investigation continues. >> if it were possible to create chaos with the political system of a major western democratic country like the u.s., i think that would certainly serve the propaganda goals of vladimir putin's regime. >> narrator: russia and the 2016 election. >> russia, if you're listening... >> we couldn't believe that a presidential candidate was encouraging an adversary to meddle in an election. >> narrator: and the struggle to respond. >> this is a classic case of the obama administration overthinking something while the russians were just kind of punching them in the gut. >> narrator: the inside story of "putin's revenge." >> if the u.s. is dimini

flag i mean we'll know those are russian athletes. well of course we all know that and the whole world knows that the athletes who competed in the recent. world championships were russian champions eleven people were there and they got six medals but it is insulting and humiliating not to be able to compete under your country's slack and i think it wasn't a smart decision on the part of the federation as well. if that made itself look a little silly it adopted a very formal approach and it looks strange and we're doing everything we can to change that unfortunately the i.a.f. didn't even explain why certain athletes were allowed or not allowed to compete i really hope this will some get resolved. is the correct we'll try to settle all of this it's still better for our athletes to win medals instead of waiting until they're allowed to compete in russian colors of course it's very important to athletes it's their whole life to start training when they're six or seven years old to prepare for the olympics and world championships all thei

national and a connection to the russian ministry of foreign affairs. today's other big news, of course, is the case of president trump's former campaign chairman manafort and campaign official rick gates. both surrendered this morning hon charges of conspiracy and money laundering with more than $75 million flowing through hidden offshore account, according to the affidavit, much of which came from the party and government of viktor yanukovych who has been referred to by critics as a ukrainian puppet of vladimir putin. in the last hour, a federal judge ordered house arrest for manafort and gates with bond set at $10 million and $5 million respectively. joining me this hour to discuss this is leon panetta and congressman adam schiff, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee also conducting its own russia investigation and starting right next to me with cnn's pamela brown, one of the team breaking the story of the pending indictment and this story is taking on a whole new focus with george papadopoulos and the guilty plea. >> the white house

why did the russians choose the podesta group? well, because both podestas for close to the clintons. she could get things done to the clients. it was influence peddling, the most obvious kind. for example, our source says that at john podesta's recommendation, his brother tony hired a man named david adams. before joining the podesta grou group, adams worked at the state department as assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs. he was also chief legislative advisor to hillary clinton. as part of his job, he personally briefed hillary clinton every day. he aided in the confirmation of at least 122 political nominees at state. by hiring him in 2013, our source says, at the podesta group got a direct liaison between their offices and by extension their russian clients, and hillary's state department. sometimes, our source said, ties between the podesta group and the clintons were explicit. tony podesta spoke regularly to hillary clinton while she ran the state department. secretary clinton is on the line. at one point in e

pm here in the russian capsule a national with. welcome to the program. is facing unprecedented pressure in the united states with authorities there intimidating not only employees but even those cooperating with the network this was revealed he's editor in chief. speaking at a parliamentary committee meeting. and you don't know ram until recently no active measures except those targeting our reputation has been taken against us in the u.s. pacific lee nowhere else have we ever experienced the kind of pressure that we experience today in the us to the point eventually being forced out of the country ever since the first allegations of fresh interference in the us election emerged last year this channel has found itself under mounting pressure back in january the u.s. intelligence community presented their report into alleged russian meddling the report devoted seven pages to artsy and it's supposed influence on the public discourse that using this shadow of being as a kremlin propaganda to however no concrete evidence was or has been given in september th

us actions against russian diplomats russian diplomatic facilities across the united states was the result of a build up of problems issues between the two states. it's the us who put up with this some precedent in the russian campaign which was not provoked by anything someone lost the elections to mr trump and russia was blamed for this then the unfolded the russian hysteria and now any failure will be connected to us it wasn't all negative however putin did believe that such problems are resolved in the long run and its forums such as the valdai were here today that provided an opportunity to discuss debate and share ideas about how exactly to go forward in constructive dialogue to resolve these issues as opposed to engage in hostile ramping up of rhetoric and threats on both sides we discuss the issue with vice chair of the libertarian national committee. you believe that the campaign against the russian media contradicts the very idea of democracy that the us takes itself to be promoting. so it does seem that the american people are completely unable to think for themselves or

russian relations. joining us to discuss this and more is dominique leven he is a research professor at cambridge university a fellow of the british academy and of trinity college we also have william forth he is the daniel webster professor of government at dartmouth college and dimitri he is the program director of the paul vi discussion group ok gentlemen let's talk about a phobia. if you travel around you know the world give us an example of recent.

know the russians -- i know the russians were not big fans of hillary. they looked at trump as something other than -- of an un known. they were encouraged by some of the things they had to say -- he had to say about wanting a different relationship with russia and rethinking approaches to international democratization. but he was very much an unpredictable element. the russians don't like unpredictability. i think some of the things that have been attributed to putin have been exaggerated. aboutd one thing candidates drop. he said in response to a question at the end of a long press conference. it was not a prepared statement. his comments were mistranslated. --complemented trump;s trump's character, the brilliance of his character. ius.' then turned into 'gen [laughter] vastly overblown. >> you have to look at other elements of the recent campaign. viewed in that context, it is hard to make that conclusion. >> we have entertained so many different hypotheses. i have rarely seen such a confused and chaotic response to what so many people say is an act o

broader aims of the russian governments and how u.s. officials should respond. this is an hour and a half. >> thank you for joining us. why don't we get started. i am the executive director of the center for the national interest. think you all of us -- thank you joining us today for what will hopefully be an interesting conversation about russian information efforts. we have got really terrific speakers. have different but backgrounds, both with extensive experience in the intelligence community. this man is a neuroscientist, but alszo a former chief technology officer. recipient of the national intelligence distinguished service medal, someone with extensive experience at the intersection ,f technology and intelligence both in the private sector and in government. have theht, we director of the intelligence of the national security program here. a a career intelligence been anonal who had advisor to vice president cheney that,sian matters after the director of russian analysis , after his time in government service, there might be som

this was russian. they're calling themselves heart of texas, but they got on facebook and said, pure evil. visual, with this unflattering picture of hillary clinton. the caption you can see at the top in small print, hillary is no doubt pure evil. all the patriots must immediately stand up with arms in hands against washington in the event that clinton, quote, wins, end quote, the election. like and share if you agree with me. anybody who saw that hillary clinton unflattering picture, pure evil of the phrased caption was looking at the work not of some trump supporter or of the trump campaign or even some radical texas secessionist who likes shape of texas. if you saw that -- anybody who saw that online, that was from moscow. or st. petersburg. that was from a russian government info operation targeting you as an american voter. that's what they did. and the only reason we know that is because journalists have been able to sort of reverse engineer this stuff and figure it out and find stuff that hasn't

earlier this week, three russian guys associated with the giant putin linked russian bank called alpha bank, three russians sued fusion gps over the way they were described in the dossier. sort of criminal and political allegations made against them in the document. the three russians out same guys that previously sued buzz feed. buzz feed was the first media organization to publish the dossier in january. they sued buzz feed before and now this week suing fusion gps, the company that paid for the dossier and suing fusion for allegedly not taking sufficient case with that document in the first place which ultimately led to buzz feed publishing. so, you know, it's a high bar to prove liable in this country. and serious litigants don't pursue liable lawsuits in this country all that often, in part, because you're opening yourself up to your liable lawsuit becoming a vehicle to investigate whether or not any of the charges made against you might have a kernel of truth to them. the way that liable is litigated in this country, it can be a dangerous legal status if you have anything. it doe

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

the russians during the campaign, you meant it in the context of russian officials trying to influence the campaign and that's why my answer was no. but he said, obviously he did meet with russians. he met with the russian ambassador once at the republican convention, again, in his senate office with some of his staffers. he said he wasn't trying to mislead the senate but he understood the question to be in a different context, and as you know, some of the democrats have found this unsatisfactory, but he's been pretty consistent there. >> all right. pete williams, thank you for helping us break down a very complicated morning on capitol hill. appreciate it. >> you bet. >> let's bring in matt miller and justice correspondent cliff. thanks to both of you for being here. really appreciate it. matt, let me start with you there. sessions pressed on whether he was interviewed by special counsel robert mueller. you just heard what pete had to say. what do you make of that exchange? >> i think pete is right. whether he was interviewed yet, it sounds like he wasn't interviewed. he may have had

russian government russian people people who speak russian what we don't know and the fracking a black lives matter how is that going to help donald trump oh i know because it causes chaos details don't matter just make sure russia measured our g. and we're off and running president putin and everyone else knows the exact truth the whole truth ok taking you back now to barcelona where the referendum. of voting for the referendum began just nineteen minutes ago and already police are attempting to polling stations to stop this vote of course the referendum has been declared illegal by spain's constitutional court and thousands of extra police have been deployed to the region police have now successfully gained entry into one of the polling stations despite a huge crowds of people outside trying to prevent entry. madrid has pledged to stop the votes of course the referendum organizers had voters to turn up to defend these polling stations they've been hearing of outside since five am local time referendum organizers have called for a peaceful resistance to any police action but police ne

the ambassador from russia is russian. and how your -- how your responses morphed from i did not have communications with the russians to i did not discuss substantive -- i did not discuss any -- the political campaign. and then finally, going to i did not discuss interference in the election. that to me is moving the goalpost every time. and we're starting off with an extra -- and by the end, we're going to a -- you know, a 75-yard field goal. if it has to be us, you know -- saying, i didn't discuss interfering with the election is your last -- is your last statement. that's a very different bar than, i can tell you i did not meet with any russians. >> relatively short answer. >> so he gets to do about ten minutes improperly framing this subject, and i'm given a short chance to respond? >> proceed, please. but then we're going to call on senator -- >> first and foremost, senator franken, you and i have had a good relationship on this committee. i would tell my colleagues, i think most of you know, i've committed myself to

coming up on our team america we have the latest on the federal russian probe and the origins of the so-called dirty dossier on the russians role in the twenty sixteen presidential election then president truman's unwavering stance on the obama era iran deal is resulting in a major shake up in the middle east. plus the employee d.p. issues a travel warning to all african american customers who fly with american airlines will have their concerning message coming up on our team their. clothes though it is wednesday october twenty fifth four pm in washington d.c. i'm on your part phil you're watching our team america we start this afternoon with a revelation about the now famous dossier on donald trump and its true origin the hillary clinton campaign and the d.n.c. helped fund the research on trunk which contained allegations of russian connections to the trunk campaign artie's ed schultz has one story. the dust ca was produced by former british intelligence officer christopher steele he was sub contracted and hired by fusion g.p.s. after fusion g.p.s. was hired by clinton campaign lawy

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the ambassador from russia is russian. and how your justification or how your responses morphed from i did not have communications with the russians to, i did not discuss substantive -- i did not discuss any the political campaign and then finally going to i did not discuss interference in the election, that to me is moving the goal post every time. and we're starting off with an extra -- and by the end, we're going to a you know, a 75-yard field goal. if it has to be us you know, saying i didn't discuss interfering with the election is your last, is your last statement, that's a very different bar than i can tell you i did not meet with any russians. >> relatively short answer. >> so he gets to do about ten minutes improperly framing this subject and i'm given a short chance to respond? >> proceed, please. >> but then we're going to call on senator. >> foremost, senator franken, you and i have had a good relationship on this committee. i would tell my colleagues, i think most of, you know, i've committed myself to high le

they were taken as part of a russian intelligence operation. that news first broke june 14th last year. when that happened, it was not subtle. it was everywhere. this was the initial report. russian government hackers penetrated dnc. that started a litany, a tornlt of reporting about that. the refers confirm, the hack of dnc. russia is behind e-mail release. spy agency grows. security experts say russia probably thakd democrats. fbi indicating possible connection. even if you can't read and all do you is sometimes watch the tv news, no matter what kind of tv news you were watching, you couldn't help but be exposed to this story. even if he the only tv news you watch is on fox. >> from the campaign trail, the "washington post" reporting the russian government sbhookd the computer network of the democratic national committee. >> they were able to access all e-mails going in and out of the dnc since last summer. so these hackers, and apparently the russian government now has inside information into the strategy for 2016. >> we're tracking another

pair a rah phrase -- paraphrase -- that when the russian state marches, the russian people lose. and there's certainly a connection between mr. putin's revisionism and aggression abroad and his repression at home. and our policy's which is designed to there wart that, will -- thwart that, will hasten the day. and this is not talking about regime change. it will hasten the day when we see the right developments domestically in russia. >> yeah. on that, if i may, i think part of our argument also is that if we want to see liberalizing changes within russia, the worst thing we could do would be to try to stimulate a rally around the flag effect within russia. i mean, putin could use american deeper engagement as a way to stimulate his own power and respect. this is a very traditional thing. it's as old as politics. and why hand them, him this opportunity. >> so i can see all -- that you really want to respond, and we can go back and forth. but we are running out of time, and we have enough time for a three minute closing statement, three or four minute closing statement from both si

these seem to be similar to what russians did is there indication the russians are doing that now on these two rations? mr. stretch: we have not seen evidence of that in connection with those two races. i will say that the -- >> you are looking for it? mr. stretch: absolutely. we are focused on addressing this behavior going forward not just in connection with those two races but throughout the country and indeed around the world. each time there's an election we face a challenge and a responsibility to ensure that the platform is not used for abuse and we're investing heavily to make sure we meet that challenge. >> let me ask about that. cebook's fastest growing markets are in the developing world. there, consequences are divisive information can be dire not just election, it's people's lives. for example, facebook is being used today as a breeding ground for hate speech against rohingya refugees in myanmar. these are especially vulnerable people. they are being violently persecuted. the leadership of that country is not doing a darn thing. even though it includes a nobel peace priz

know a lot of russians and poles. write english better than native speakers that we can speak for so i think everyone on facebook this guy over here or over twitter that i know uses absolute perfect grammar of our as dikshit all the iris and ball activists those guys a real grammar nazi look at you know if you are one of the think one of the things that is so nonsensical to me ok mark brought up twitter so you know i want to introduce facebook into it as well is that somehow. maniacal forces related to the russian government or state or individuals who are close to russia you know all these little things that they could actually use black lives matter and racial stripe agree right and then put in a couple hundred thousand dollars and they could actually flip the united states and complete chaos you know. we all unfortunately have to go through this crucifixion of watching the american presidential cycle and we are you can't avoid it in our line of business but to tell me that an outside source of force was was stirrin

they were looking at russian agreement -- russian involvement in the election process. we agree with that. if we use solely the social media advertising that we have seen, there is no way that you can look at that and say that was to help the right side of chart andgical not the left, or vice versa. they were indiscriminate. one of the things most challenging to this investigation is, with the exception of certain pieces that have already been discussed, it seems that the overall theme of the russian involvement in the u.s. election was to create chaos at every level. i would tell you the fact that we are sitting near nine months later in investigating, they have been pretty successful. reporter: how would you rate the response to this. how ready are we for virginia? >> mark and i made the decision to take an initiative in our authorization bill that there be a designated person in every state who has a security clearance to be briefed on election issues, but we cannot say secretary of state because that is not the case in every state. just the fact that someone was not

the investigation rather into alleged russian president. to look closely at america's own media outlets. in spain the rival independent. moves to bring in even more spanish police to the region. and also the south french president.

election results were unaffected by any outside interference following the investigation into alleged russian meddling president trump called on senators to look closely at america's news outlets. spain's constitutional court blocked a catalan parliamentary session where the regional government promised to proclaim independence. and the french president is in the spotlight again this time for insulting the country's working class while visiting a struggling company. it's just turned seven pm here in moscow i'm coming to you live from r t h q thanks for joining me this hour first r.t. is facing unprecedented pressure in the united states with authorities there intimidating not only employees but even those cooperating with the network this was revealed by artie's editor in chief margaret a simone young speaking at a parliamentary committee meeting. dorn you don't know ram until recently new active measures except those targeting our reputation have been taken against us in the us this if it really knew around us have we ever experienced the kind of pressure that we experience today in the us t

russian government russian people people who speak russian what we don't know anti fracking ads black lives matter how is that going to help donald trump oh i know because it causes chaos details don't matter just mentioned russia mentioned r.t. and we're off and running president putin and everyone else knows the exact truth the whole truth about what happened when it will improve relations is to stop it stop whether anyone will admit it or not is not stop stop interfering in the american system stop promoting racism or racial division promoting any political candidate or party in the united states by not doing the things that were on the news now that they are doing one question what is the what is the best evidence you have to take all the time you want the best evidence you have of anything that you have attempted to accuse russia of you know the senate intelligence committee democrats and republicans the f.b.i. every law enforcement agency every cattle intelligence agency in america many many and most republican senators and republican members of congress republican and i'm a lib

rules his russian empire from here he makes executive decisions and directs his staff in fluent russian. you will want to know that she had this. limousines business. it was read i didn't study russian formally i just sat around with other internals and sometimes we had a bottle of vodka a crazy i had and that's how i learned the language but it was a very rural and informal dialect. when i go to moscow and talk to people because they'd be really confused but over time i've learned proper russian. spends a lot of time on the road. it takes at least two hours to drive from the regional capital vote on ish. the road winds past fields and she adds this is a knievel country dewar's company is by far the largest milk producer in the region . the city of voto nash has a population of one million and is the industrial economic and cultural center of southwest russia. has an appointment with the deputy governor viktor logging off to discuss the subsidies for two thousand and seventeen. the two men no one trust each other. how much money can do or expect this year this is almost like a state vis

i know a lot of russians and poles. better the native speakers are going to speak for everyone on facebook and this guy over here or over twitter no. absolute perfect grammar of as dick shit all the iris and bull activists those guys a real grammar nazi look at you know if you are one of the one of the things that is so nonsensical to me ok marc brought up twitter and i want to introduce facebook into it as well is that somehow. maniacal forces related to the russian government or state or individuals who are close to russia or you know all these little things here that they could actually use black lives matter and racial strife agree to frighten and put in a couple hundred thousand dollars and they could actually flip the united states and complete chaos you know. we all unfortunately have to go through this crucifixion of watching the american presidential cycle and we know you can't avoid it in our line of business but to tell me that an outside source of force was was stirring up the pot there it was pretty stirred

, to dig up dirt on the russians. we know this from that donald junior meeting. we know that from this affidavit, this deal. it raises the prospect then, was the trump campaign willing to work with wikileaks, to dump all those e-mails out? the candidate himself, now president, said on television it would be great if russia could find all these missing e-mails. so, at no point did they ever take seriously the idea that russia could actually work to undermine our election, to undermine our democracy. they thought, hey, this is great. we'll take all comers who want to help donald trump become president. now as president, someone responsible for the presidency, he still has shown no interest to do anything about it. so that's what i think is so important in all of this. we're getting insight into a mind-set about working with anybody who would help dig up dirt on his opposition. >> susan, relevance of one of the key disclosures yesterday, paul manafort e-mailing rick gates, who also is obviously a volunteer at the campaig

ambassador from russia is russian. first it was i did not have communications with russians. which was not true. then it was i never met with any russians to discuss any political campaign. which may or may not be true. now it's i did not discuss interference in the campaign. that to me is moving the goal post every time. you don't believe that surrogates from the trump campaign had communications with the russians, is that what you're saying? >> i did not and not aware of anybody else that did. i don't believe it happened. >> and you don't believe it now. that's what i wanted to ask you. down that michael flynn was a surrogate for the campaign? >> could probably have been defined as that. >> paul manafort, surrogate for the campaign? >> for a short time he was chairman of the campaign. >> do you believe that jared kushner was a surrogate for the campaign? >> i really don't know whether his role -- i sort of see -- there's no clear definition i assume, but surrogate is someone normally speaking on behalf of the candidate. >> do you believe donald trump jr. was a surrogate? ?

flag emma will know those are russian athletes. of course we all know that and the whole world knows that the athletes who competed in the recent. world championships were russian champions eleven people were there and they got six medals but it isn't salting and humiliating not to be able to compete under your country's slack and i think it wasn't a smart decision on the part of the federation as well. if the made itself look a little silly it adopted a very formal approach and it looks strange and we're doing everything we can to change that unfortunately the i.a.f. didn't even explain why certain athletes were allowed or not allowed to compete i really hope this will soon get resolved which is. why i will try to settle all of this it's still better for our athletes to win medals instead of waiting until they're allowed to compete in russian colors of course it's very important to athletes it's their whole life to start training when they're six or seven years old and they prepare for the olympics and world championships all thei

preceding information on the hacking by the russian military intelligence service the g.r.u. so we have in fact a kind of situation in which we have an on rolling piece of the russia connection continuing law and we have great uncertainty about where this will go mr muller's running a very tight ship as we have seen we have some indication with. ana forte that he's moving up if you could put it this way the latter toward perhaps higher figures but no certainty with respect to that and i think a lot of attention this morning and yesterday was focused on this particular issue perhaps to the detriment of the legislative process melanie sloan i mean that certainly was a sucker punch wasn't i mean quite a day of drama wasn't it delivering first manifest in gates and then eventually a puppet awfulness of the what do you make of how it was all delivered and what is being set up legally now the next steps well in many ways it's the papadopoulos information that so much more serious for mr trump while president trump has been saying there is no collusion papadopoulos information indic

did work for a russian oligarch. this all comes as investigators are still trying to determine the extent to which donald trump, jr. and others tried to work with these russians as part of any sort of effort to effect or interfere with the election. donald trump, jr. said there was nothing to this meeting. it was simply a meeting. he then did he involved into a discussion of russian adoptions, he said. but that's something that investigators is trying to determine whether there's anything more to that. >> so this committee going through a checklist of who was at that meeting, both americans and russians. any sense who donald trump jr. himself will talk to the committee? >> that is an open question. now, the senate intelligence committee chairman richard burr has said that he wants to sequence this in a way that he can talk to everybody else who was in the room before talking to donald trump, jr. so this is a real sign, john, that the fact that they've interviewed several of these russians suggests they're getting clo

>> the russian flag. >> tucker: the russian flag, says shannon bream. to the tape we go. >> trump is treason. trump is treason! >> tucker: what do i know about the russian flag? the score, just for those of you keeping track, 1 to negative 1. >> i like that. >> i knew that. >> work on the >> tucker: question three. reflexes. new york city mayor bill de blasio angered students when he pushed for changes to the new york city cafeteria menu. some schools would no longer be serving what? [buzzer] brian kilmeade? >> pizza. >> tucker: pizza. to the tape we go. pizza. >> these schools, like ps1, will be offering all-vegetarian lunch and breakfast menus on mondays. even if you had a bacon, egg, and cheese this morning, you still should want to see more and more of our diets go to a plant-based approach. >> tucker: is there anyone dopier than bill de blasio? >> i could have had that answer. the answer is nobody. you know he sleeps until 11:00. he works out and leaves his door open, lays on his couch with the newspaper over his head. watch as people walk by becau

the problem is, as this number gets higher, the russian operation looks more successful, and the russian government looks more powerful. these companies testifying later today they could share information on how the russians enter their systems, which may shed light on vulnerabilities in their systems before they had opportunities to address them. >> what is your take on what to do about it? twitter will have a platform, it's interesting to see what they say. the whole deal is they give you a space to say whatever you want, and we have their own parameters, and roger stone got shut down and it created pushback, and my thread is filled with ugly harassing things and people calling for others to do things that are harassing. how do you balance that? where the government can go it alone, and my second point is we have to take actions to hold the russian government accountable. at this point we have not taken steps to say, hey, guys, there will be costs and this is going to affect trump's trip to asia where he may encounter the russians, and what leverage does he have if he has not come up a

have resisted in doing that well the russians have been divided some russians of the west with great enthusiasm of us have seen that as a betrayal of russian identity so i mean you can't generalise about all russians in that it's self was moved from period to period but i think william's partly right one of the reasons certainly in the united states russophobia is quite simply that ever since the united states became a serious international power certainly a superpower the soviet union was its only rival and the group which is still you know at the top of american revising on foreign policy of people who were brought up in the context of the cold war so i find nothing surprising about that i wouldn't rely on the fact that in twenty years' time there won't be similar feelings about china. it's simply that they haven't yet had time to really bite and china has not been rival explicit rifle in the way that russia has if you don't buy britain then russophobia. goes deeper and has a number of other causes you do have to remember that for most of the nineteenth century the united states an

phony russian-american sources. this line has gone on for over a year. this is a real rush of collusion. the real russia story. robert mueller, wake up tonight. fox news has also confirmed the information is correct. in other words, we've been right for over a year. we want to point out another part of the washington. it was funded by an unknown republican client during the g.o.p. primary. this was before the dnc and hillary clinton's campaign to cover. okay, i want to know, who is that? was it one of the other candidates? senator mccain who reportedly gave it to the fbi? who is behind this? we need answers. it was mccain. he said he passed this dossier around. we want to wonder if this new information is the reason why the group behind the dossier --r bank records? follow the money. all of the mainstream media, they fell hook, line, sinker. her russian disinformation lying campaign to the american people during an election. the democrats, hillary clinton, they all lied to you for over a year. keep in mind, there is

that's likely to continue to be the russian position. they've never admitted or acknowledged any election meddling despite unanimous agreement by the u.s. intelligence agency that is russia did meddle. they say there's never been any collusion. that position not likely to change. we will have a chance later on today to speak with the kremlin spokesperson. it's not likely to change from russia's position. they're not about to say yes, we did it. so they'll continue what has been a repeated denial. they're also likely to point out that george papadoupolos never actually, according to his guilty plea, spoke with russian officials. we'll have a better sent of that after we speak to the kremlin spokesperson. >> so many new details from the investigation. also tech companies will be heading to capitol hill this week to talk about russian ad buys and patrol farm the that work in social media. fascinating picture. get back to us if you get response. thanks. >>> president putin has shown very little indication in the past of wanting to get involv

on may 13th, the russians proposed a high-level meeting of mr. trump with the russian federation. court papers say the trump campaign rebuffed requests, but on july 14th, papadopolous told the russians a meeting has been nproved from our side. that meeting never happened, but others did, including on june 9th in trump tower when donald edump, jr., trump's son-in-law jared kushner, and bul manafort met a russian lawyer and others, believing they had dirt on hillary clinton. papadopolous had been ducking reporters but surfaced on social media three weeks ago asking want a publisher. a st week he wanted recommendations for a speaker's bureau. he won't be sentenced until the mueller investigation is over, f t it seems he's already contemplating a future of books and speeches. anthony? yo mason: jeff pegues. thank you, jeff. the special counsel has been inllowing the money trail, and it led to the criminal indictment today. julianna goldman has that. >> reporter: paul manafort, president trump's former campaign chairman and his former business partner rick gates g eaded not guilty to 1

there's a cost to that kind of cooperation with the russians. we'll give you stuff but we want the relief of sanctions we know mike flynn left because of a a conversation with the russian ambassador potentially about relief of sanctions. so this is intelligence 101. >> papadopoulos is pleading guilty to making a false statement to the fbi. we saw these documents, read them all today. he's cooperating after pleading guilty and he's being described as a proactive cooperator. you're a former u.s. attorney explain what that means, a proactive cooperator. >> the only thing it can mean to me, especially given the timing here, he was arrested in july, but he didn't plead guilty until the beginning of october. it certainly suggests that during those months of july, august, september, in the beginning of october he may have been wearing a wire. he may have been talking to his former colleagues. that is what proactive cooperation means to me. and if he is, or if he did do that, you know, the mind reels at the possibilities. i don't know if he did that and

have resisted in doing that well the russians have been divided some russians of the west with great enthusiasm others have seen that as a betrayal of russian identity so i mean you can't generalise about all russians in that it self was moved from period to period but i think william's partly right one of the reasons certainly in the united states russophobia is quite simply that ever since the united states became a serious international power certainly a superpower the soviet union was its only rival in the group which is still you know at the top of american revising on foreign policy of people who were brought up in the context of the cold war so i find nothing surprising about that i wouldn't rely on the fact that in twenty years time there won't be similar feelings about china. it's simply that they haven't yet had time to really bite and china has not been. rival explicit rifle in the way that russia has if you don't buy britain then russophobia. goes deeper and has a number of other causes you do have to remember that for most of the nineteenth century the united states and

papadopoulos and the russian professor was, it's okay to talk to russians, it's not okay to get help from a foreign government when it comes to your campaign for either side. >> does he have a point? these conversations or meetings in and of themselves are not a problem. it's only if the information was actually exchanged. which we do not in this plea see evidence of yet. >> and that's why we're still a ways from any sort of conclusion, any sort of charges of collusion against others in the campaign. but clearly the evidence in this offer of proof at the time of the plea shows contacts aimed at collusion, and we'll see where the investigation goes. >> i know your committee, and you and i have been talking about this, you have been talking to paul manafort. he stopped returning your committee's calls. i know you're still waiting to talk to him and see those documents, that's changed i'm sure with what's happened today. what do you think he is trying to hide? is there more than we see in these 31 pages, $75 million of income tax avoidance, money laundering? >> he was acting as an unreg

guest: it was not just the russian mafia. that does exist, but what happened in 1991 was more complicated than an effort by the mafia to take control of everything in russia. russia at that time was a totally disoriented, corrupt system. it had to be changed. gorbachev tried to change it. he failed because he would not go all the way. and the people who took over did not have a clear plan for how to move from a collapsed communist system into the beginning of a budding capitalist system. they were all kinds of ideas at that time. a lot of good people were involved but a lot of dreadful people were involved in the project essentially failed when putin came to power. host: robert from tennessee. republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you. kalb, i would like to ask you to explain to the american people all these the partys, explain when theycomes from wrote their communist manifesto over their beliefs back in the 17th century and 18th century. don't you think if people will trump's cabinet of using the amendm

for the russian nuclear in industry. the phrase we know about is uranium one, it's been written about a lot.. and then a commercial agreement. a u.s.-russia civil cooperation agreement. it opened up a lot more dialogue between the united states and russia. the third was approval of a deal. opening the door to do direct business.al big nuclear company. all these things are going on. on the face they may seem fine to people unless you know the company involved in it is engaged in this wrongdoing. that's what's great concern to this congress. nobody knew there was wrongdoin wrongdoing. >> sean: sara, with your reporting, too. what have we learned? this was designed by vladimir putin. he had agents in this country. p using all this illegal activity to get what john is describing. >> yes, he wanted to penetrate the american market. not only was he searching for a global marketplace, heen specifically wanted to penetrate the american market. that's what he did. i think as victoria, through her client, will begin to unravel --

a russian. with links to vladimir putin. we know there were five board members on the bank of cyprus that were russian. from an ethics perspective, when we look at this indictment, how is it that the white house can simply say, though they haven't officially said it yet, maybe these were just, you know, bad guys with bad business in the past? from an ethical perspective, wouldn't the man running for president have to run some sort of background check on someone who is the chairman of his campaign? when you look at the basic numbers, they just don't add up. >> well, the republican party didn't run a good background check on donald trump. that's the problem here. nobody seems to care. but there is an enormous amount of money coming in from the russians for all sorts of people here. and people are lying about it as well as laundering money for the russians. and i think george papadopoulos guilty plea was perhaps the biggest news. he was dealing with russians to get dirt on hillary and lying about i

so one of the contacts with russians known to the u.s. regarded the offer of dirt, damaging information on hillary clinton. the final point i would draw your attention to is the last line that states, that he is now cooperating with authorities and since his arrest on this he has met with the government on numerous occasions as the court documents say to provide information and answer questions. that i think just echo paul callan, should be of concern to the white house going forward. the final point i would make, robert mueller did not have to release the details of this guilty plea today. he did not. this took place on october 3rd a month ago, so on a day when you have crimes alleged against manafort and gates for largely business crimes, is there a message being sent here from the special counsel that this other line of inquiry into cooperation, coordination with russia, is not closed yet. >> well, specifically, on that, what do you make? he pled guilty on october 5th is what this document says. why unseal all of this on the same day?