but putin believed that. putin believed that. >> narrator: trump rode to victory promising to make america great again, but the story of russian interference would continue. >> the russian cloud was with trump on day one at the inauguration. it's with him months later. and it will probably be with him even until the end of his presidency. >> michael flynn resigning under fire... >> sessions doubles down, categorically denying that... >> ...has recused himself... >> narrator: his presidency was increasingly consumed by questions about possible collusion between his campaign and russia. >> this is a story that won't go away. and it eats away at trump. he watches tv, he sees it in the paper, he hears people talk about it, and it just gnaws at him. >> ... moscow bank that acts as a front for russian espionage. >> president trump has fired james comey as the director of the fbi. >> president trump now facing outrage after firing comey. >> narrator: vladimir putin is now at the center of a major american political

including mr putin? also, i have a very important goal which i have to reach, with navalny or without navalny. i want to build in russia a party after those elections. a strong party, with strong leadership, which for six next years can come to the next presidential elections with a really big result, in order to have evolution and not revolution of the system. it is not accusations harsh on a person. it is accusations with fact, which should be placed. this is what i think is very important. what did you really mean when you said this — "a higher transfer of power, the likes of which mr navalny is advocating, is a dead end"? you say that your ideal transformation would be led by democratic politicians that mr putin can trust, like for example, former deputy pm alexei kudrin. you seem to be saying that actually you prefer putin in power, with some technocrats around him, and more liberal advisers. this is not what i meant. then you would want mr navalny, who you respect so much. ijust said, and i can s

the white house denies russia claims that trump accepted putin's denials. >> of course trump let putin off the hook. he has repeatedly tweeted that russian election meddling is fake news. >> reporter: at that same summit, trumpb initiated an impromptu meeting. the white house didn't initially disclose it and then said it was a brief conversation but sources told cnn the meeting stretched for almost an hour. recently, trump had its cia director, mike pompeo, meet with a conspiracy theorist. analysts say this is part of a larger, unsettling pattern of president trump trying too hard to befriend the man in the kremlin. >> putin really thinks that he wants to be putin, if he could be an american putin, that would be his dream come true. putin is a lot more skeptical about trump. he considers him a fool. he considers him uncontrolled and inconsistent. >> analysts say if trump does not stand up to putin at their next meeting, it might put the u.s. at greater risk from north korea. they say not standing up to the russian president after the attack on the election process may single to the nor

of course the system was built by putin. so you would like to see putin. so you would like to see putin investigated and charged?- what i am saying that i don't like, when people personally insulting, and navalny is also doing this. he was coming in the square and saying, look, he has botox in his face. this i detest. i don't like to speak personally bad about... but you are accusing mr putin of kringle corruption, aren't you? accusing mr putin of kringle corruption, aren't you 7” accusing mr putin of kringle corruption, aren't you? i am not saying the way he looks, or i don't call him with some words. forget about his looks, i am interested in his criminal corruption. do you want to see vladimir putin put on trial? i want to see an independent trial of all the cases of corruption in russia. of course, yes. of all the cases of corruption in russia. of course, yes. including mr putin? . also i have a very important goal which i have to reach, with navalny or without navalny. i want to build in russia party after those elections. a strong party with strong

and one could you know if was killed his son ram son came to the kremlin to see putin. he flew in immediately in a training suit. so of course the circumstances of his personal meeting played an important role. in the business since. the death of his father brought arms on god year of not yet thirty years old to the forefront of chechen politics. but i think that when rob's on coderre and said once that putin had replaced his father he wasn't lying or trying to flatter him. putin needed peace in chechnya and he needed runs on code year off to get it the unrest was threatening to spread to other autonomous republics in two thousand and four chechen terrorists attacked a school in the town of beslan in northeast asia they took more than eleven hundred students and their teachers hostage holding them in the school gym for more than three days without food and water. the attackers demanded their withdrawal of all russian troops from chechnya the release of imprisoned chechen fighters and putin's resignation. of the boss of the house absolutely it was total chaos absolute ch

it can't be on putin's terms. it can't be on where putin issal allowed to run roughshod in the military. it can't be on putin's terms where the russians interfere with the election and say, oh, no, you don't want to admit to it, i guess we're out of options. and can we be honest about syria, the russians are supporting a brutal dictator, committing mass atrocities against its people. and gassing children. hundreds of thousands are murdered. and we say, oh, well, at least we defeated isis. right? >> well, wait, josh, you can't see at least we defeated isis like we still believe there's a junior varsity of terrorism. that's a significant thing that was started by john kerry, by the way. >> yeah, but let's be clear that doesn't solve the problem of syria. and that the war continues after isis. and that the post-isis battlefield is being controlled by syria assad, russia and iran. and the u.s. is asleep at the wheel, right? that's a whole other segment that i'd love to do with you guys because i know you know a lot ab

putin. i talk about the terrorist bombings that happened in russia in september 1999. killing, , in four different apartment buildings, killing almost 300 people. i think, this wasn't what i said that other people and i agree, for russians it was their version of 9/11 because it's just such a terrible shock. and a lot of research after that has shown that the fsb actually was involved in these bombings. it's a pretty complicated story. mr. putin had just been made prime minister by johnson. this was in 1999 -- yeltsin. he had been head of the fsb, and nobody really knew who he was. yeltsin and his supporters, the family around yeltsin, wanted mr. putin to be a successor to yeltsin because he of course at work for the fsb and they were concerned about what would happen to yeltsin and assembly and some of his allies after yeltsin step down. i think most people agree that mr. putin sort of promised that nothing would happen to them. but in order to give him some name recognition, yeltsin nomina

he's supporting him unless he hears from vladimir putin's putin's -- what do you make of the people that stands behind him and what a lot of people see is a valid question. this is a man that's been in the public's eye for years. >> well, if you look and read the story, "the washington post," points out none of these women who came out. the woman went down and found them. the women don't know each other. it was an act of what we call journalists of enterprise where reporters chase down so rumors that was floated around and did the best job they could to try to verify whether or not those claims are true. >> if they are waiting to hear from roy moore's own mouth, they should really try to look closely of what he has said. what he said was that, i did not date a teenager when i was working as district attorney. i never dated anyone under age without their mother's per serious condition. >> that tells a reason personal of what they need to know. >> that's not the same as i never dated a 14-year-old girl. >> correct me if i am wrong, he did not know her and a statement a couple of minutes ag

putin denied it. so what is the president's motivation to keep asking if he himself doesn't believe it? and which audience is he trying to satisfy? >> well, i think he's trying to satisfy an audience and in part american reporters and even his own staff who are pushing him to continue to put this on the agenda with putin because the u.s. audience expects the united states president to kind of get somewhere on this election meddling question. it's an issue that we're going to be litigating for a long time. even john kelly, the former secretary of homeland security, presided over the department of homeland security, which communicated to 21 states, specifically telling them they had been hacked by the russians. so we're hoping at some point to see donald trump recognize that and stand by his own intelligence agencies and what we've found, and then to get vladimir putin to pay some sort of price for that or to commit not to do it again so that we can move beyond the relationship. there's nothing wrong wi

president trump said putin adamantly denied meddling and that he believes what putin said. that conversation taking place during what the white house is describing as a meeting of no more than five minutes or so on the sidelines at the asia summit. >>> meanwhile, a new report on the hill claims cia director mike pompeo is standing by the agency's determination that russia indeed ran an influence campaign to help donald trump win the white house. chris jansing is joining us from hanoi, vietnam, with more details on this. another welcome to you on this late night for you certainly. what more are you learning about this conversation between putin and trump? >> reporter: well, it only lasted less than five minutes, according to sarah sanders, but it's causing a lot of controversy back home. you mentioned that statement from mike pompeo. it's because the president of the united states is siding with vladimir putin, who says that the interference never happened, siding with vladimir putin who he says he's spoken to multiple times about it over his own intelligence agencies, which

standing up with putin, saying he believes putin over the u.s. intel agencies. and -- >> he didn't say that. >> and third, criticizing james clapper, three-star general, on veterans day. honestly, no wonder he quickly, in the same news cycle -- did a backspin on it, because he knew how horrible that looks for himself, his administration and for the country. no wonder john mccain said, this is not america first. really, this is putting russia first. >> what do you think? >> look, i think -- he's -- putin is a kgb guy. so you should view him with a jaundiced eye. i do think it's a slight manipulation of his statement that he said he agreed with him. he said he believed that he believed what he was saying. but this is sort of trump's thing. he dances around things and says 14 different things when he should just say, i agree with -- wait for it, he doesn't even have to agree with clapper, he can agree with mike pompeo, his own guy, and say i agree with the assessment that russia was involved. i'm actually with trump on some of the idea that i'm worried about overpl

vladimir putin and trump shared passing moments in vietnam. asked putin about election metaling. what did the election leader say. live report next. >> do you remember dating girls that young at that time? >> not generally, no. if i did, you know, that would be one thing, but i don't remember anything like that. what has happened to them since. all is quiet in north korea, it's been nearly two months since the last missile test from kim jong-un. despite president trump's presence in the region. reaction next on msnbc live. >> we begin with trump's arrival to hanoi. much of the focus is on the earn counter with vladimir putin on the sidelines of the asia summit that just wrapped up. telling reporters he raised the issue of election metaling with putin and he's convinced putin did not metal. nbc is in hanoi vietnam with us. goorngs good morning. what are you learning about this discussion between president trump and putin. is it being viewed as a formal meeting. >> good morning. good to see you. no, not a formal meeting. in fact that had been the subject of quite a bit of back and

he said that he believes that putin means it, right? >> yeah. there is a different here and the language is what is important. we're pulling this bus, by the way, up to the royal palace in downtown hanoi, where the president and the president of vietnam will hold bilateral meetings. the president did make a lot of news on air force one when he said that he talked to president putin about whether or not russia meddled in the election. he got a denial from putin. talking to reporters on the way back. and this is where the nuance is important. it's been widely reported that the president said that he believed putin when he said he did not meddle. but the way it read and the audio transcript was, "every time he sees me, he says, i didn't do that. and i really believe when he tells me that he means it. he says, i didn't do that. i think he's insulted by it, if you want to know the truth." to be sure we're accurate here in characterizing the president's comments, we don't know what he meant or what he was thinking, but he said, "i believe putin means

putin, i was listening to your program and you had a congressman on whabs putin is a master manipulator. i respectfully disagree. he's a phenomenal liar and if you believe neigh comes out his mouth withoverifying it, you ar damn fool. i'm sorry to say that. >> he says when putin says the russians did meddle, he means it. president trump says he can't argue with him every time he brings it up. do you think that's an effective posture in dealing with vladimir putin? >> i don't even know. i would say just ignore it. but the problem that i see, which is really important that our president is going against his entire intelligence apparatus. which you know, people, there are some people who are ardent trump supporters and they say our president is masterful at playing games. i don't know what game he's playing. who is is he playing against? if you, if you think you know better than your intelligence apparatus, you might at well not have it. this is so wrong on so many levels. it's fundamentally bizarre. >> let me get your take on something else that happened this week. cnn is report iing that

putin denied the allegations and the president believes him. our cnn senior correspondent, ivan watson, is in hanoi. what have you learn? >> reporter: that's right, we are getting this from the conversation that president trump had with journalestist jo board of his plane as he's coming into hanoi here. he said he had two shourt conversations with vladimir putin here. he was pressed by journalists and the press about the allegations of russian meddling in the u.s. election and he repeated that he says putin deniedden denied it. "every time he sees me, he said he did not do that. i really believes what he tells me and he means it." he said, "i did not do that." president trump hearing denial from president trump. his siding with the kremlin when it comes to the charges that russia meddle in the u.s. election. when former intelligence chief got on the record when there was meddling in the u.s. election, president trump and his latest interaction with journalists, he called those people a political hack. he can work with russia on a number of area

he did say putin believes it. he did give a lot of people the impression that he was sympathetic to putin. >> he did. and, you know, this quest for legitimacy on trump's part isn't just about this issue. it seems to be a lot of his life has been in quest to be legitimate, to be accepted in new york. never accepted there by the high-class people there. at a certain point it's painful to watch somebody who can't get his mouth around what everybody else is saying. can you say -- when you're president, can you say this thing russia did is wrong, i'm going to stop you if you do it. at the same time, we have other issues we have to work together on that. that's what a leader does. he can't get his mouth around the first part of that sentence because it undermines his sense of accomplishment and this big, big thing he got. it's putting the country at risk. >> ironically it would undermine less if he would just say it. >> i want to turn to the other huge story in politics, roy moore, the alabama senate candidate. let me s

vladimir putin brought up the election med lidling and trump later told reporters that he accepted putin's words on that matter. i want to read what president trump said. he said every time he referring to vladimir putin sees me, i did not do that. i believe and i really believe that when he tells me that, he means it. now, of course, it is no surprise that president trump is questioning the intelligent assessment, he's done that many times. what's striking is he's taking putin's word over his own intelligence agency. president trump in reaction, he also said that the former heads of the intelligence agencies are political hacks and putin was offended of the fact of the 2016 election kept oncoming up. there are two problems for the president on the story line. it is not just former official were questioning, he's also questioning his own intelligence agency. as you mention the cia came out after trump's remarks, they say they standby their assessment of the intelligence committee. additionally, white house officials were worried going into the strip of any interactions of vladimir putin pu

president says he believes that amir putin's denials but also except cia confirmation of meddling is he trying to influence the criminal investigations that could lead to impeachment and paying lip service to moscow this is inside story. hello there and welcome to the program i'm laura carlisle whether at home or abroad donald trump can't seem to shake off discussion about whether or not russia interfered in his election last year and this time the debate on russian meddling and manipulation is the president's own doing trump made contradictory statements whilst meeting world leaders at the asia pacific economic cooperation in vietnam that amir putin and appeared to accept the russian presence denial of involvement then trump told reporters he had full confidence in u.s. intelligence agencies of the cia said russia did meddle in the race for the white house i believe very much in our intelligence agencies now at the same time. i want to be able because i think it's very important to get along with russia to get along with china to get along with vietnam to get along with lots of coun

vladimir putin is a former kgb agent. around the world he is regarded as a strong man, long accused of squashing opponents. should the american people take vladimir putin at his word the way president trump seems to be doing? >> i think that is a huge stretch. we have seen the president having been on one side of the issue flip right before our eyes to the other side of the issue and said he is sort of aligning himself with the american intelligence community because it was rather implausible the other way aroundism i think that the notion that a significant intelligence agency that deals in plausible denieblt that if you can get by with it it is okay should in one way or another be the soul of honesty and truth and that somehow the president can see into this man's mind and heart to say he really believed what he was saying to me is a stretch beyond a stretch. i don't see how in any way at all this is taking this anywhere. i agree with john brennan it is extremely important that we find a way to deal with some of the pro

this is why he is not going after putin because putin hasn't insulted him. and that's good enough for this man. >> that's not good enough for the responsibilities of the presidency. no, no, no, but wait. >> xi never assaulted the president. nato, soerbg uth koreans, they t insult him. >> not when he went there. >> but before. after they met in mere law going. once you're nice to him, everything goes your way. >> before then, my point is that's what makes this so interesting. it's not just about him being insulted. he takes a different tact towards russia than any other nation. >> because they play to his disadvantage. >> there he seems susceptible to getting played by putin. >> it suits his interest. >> if there was ever a russia investigation, he was unwilling to call out putin for being the thug that he is. >> true. >> let's take a look at the kim tweet again. this is important. one of the things that has been accomplished was he seems to have done a good job forming a broader coalition. high stakes extremely important to diplomacy. blows it up with a mean

while bella roofs was stagnating mere putin was becoming increasingly popular. his pithy words and robust crackdown in the second chechen war met with the approval of an anxious russian population after far as you know it seems resignation he was sworn in as president of the russian federation. and i see you. don't. let him or proteins aim was a strong russia and the revival of the empire. he ensured stability for the country and for a new elite because the secret service the f.s.b. came to power within. a single system. russia has no system for a normal change of the elites every new president only surrounds himself with people he knows that's what gorbachev did yeltsin did it too and so does putin since he knew the f.s.b. well from st petersburg he took almost the entire apparatus with them to moscow and gave them all important positions over. what i see as created by the russian democracy as an imposed democracy political police the army the law enforcement authorities going even the judicial system have remained virtually unchanged. the name tags have been a

putin was asked, what was that they discussed during that meeting. he said they spoke about security issues and syria and

two, is he in business with putin? or three, did the keith schiller testimony the other day revealing that in fact trump had been offered five women back in 2003 in russia, do they have him blackmailed. all of these are valid questions at this point for investigators. >> daniel, what's the end game here for putin and what he's managed to carry out in all of this? is this about undermining u.s. democracy or is it about putin's own election in 2018? >> i think those two things are interconnected. first of all, i think this whole debate, this public debate and the acrimony between officials no longer serving in the government and the president, it certainly serves the kremlin's interests as well as other enemies. i'm sure in the kremlin they're very much enjoying all of this public debate and acrimony between the two sides. but for sure vladimir putin wants to degrade our democratic process. i think that's why he focused on our social networking and media sites which really in my view at least, the critical backbone infra

vladimir putin denied it. president trump in talking with reporters said he believed that putin believed that he meant the denial. he was asked to clarify and he sided with his intelligence chiefs notably the current makeup of intel chiefs. throwing a little bit of shade on the past officials under the obama administration. but remember, all the officials came up with the same intelligence assessment, that russia did interfere with the election, that it was russia's fault. i want to play you a little bit of what the president had to say about that. >> i believe in our intel agencies, our intelligence agencies. i've worked with them very strongly. there weren't 17 as was previously. there were actually four. but they were saying there was 17. there was actually four. but as currently led by fine people, i believe very much in our intelligence agencies. >> president there in hanoi talking about the situation with russia. the other big topic that will come up when he's in the philippines when we're talking about

ambassador, this balance of power with putin in the lead, it's obviously putin's opinion, if you ask him to sum up the relationship with the american president. but do you think it's patently obvious to other nations? >> yes. i think that withdrawal of american leadership around the world is palpable everywhere. i was just in beijing a few days ago. we're pulling back and others are filling the void, president ki in asia, putin in the middle east. that's for sure. there's some open hesitation to say whether or not trump's strategy is succeeding or not. it's very clear what his strategy is regarding great power relations. he's going to say nis things about putin, and president xi in hopes that will bring them along to achieve our objectives. if it works, i'll be the first to applaud him. if they get together and help us stop the nuclear weapons program in north korea, i'll be the first to applaud. so far i don't see any evidence that this is achieving american national security objectives. >> peter baker by all evidence we are under a rolling and constant electronic attack by the russ

ambassador, this balance of power with putin in the lead, it's obviously putin's opinion, if you ask him to sum up the relationship with the american president. but do you think it's patently obvious to other nations? >> yes. i think that withdrawal of american leadership around the world is palpable everywhere. i was just in beijing a few days ago. we're pulling back and others are filling the void, president xi in asia, putin in the middle east. that's for sure. there's some open hesitation to say whether or not trump's strategy is succeeding or not. it's very clear what his strategy is regarding great power relations. he's going to say nice things about putin, going to say nice things about president xi in hopes that will bring them along to achieve our objectives. if it works, i'll be the first to applaud him. if they get together and help us stop the nuclear weapons program in north korea, i'll be the first to applaud. so far i don't see any evidence that this is achieving american national security objectives. >> peter baker, by all evidence we are under a rolling and constant

putin. he was shot to death in april 2003. there were numerous other examples of journalists and politicians who were viewed has a threat by the kremlin and who died tragic deaths. now, one of them you probably heard of them is [inaudible], she was a brilliant crusading journalist and she made 50 trips to chechnya during the second church in an war and she was very courageous and she worked for a journalist, an independent newspaper and she was extremely outspoken and critical of mr. putin. she knew that she was courting danger. several people really advised her to leave the country. she kept saying i am not leaving and i am staying here and her granddaughter, daughter was about to give birth and to her granddaughter and well, she was shot down in the stairwell of her apartment building and 2006. in october 2006. they have never, even though they rounded up, the people who actually shot her they never found the person who organized the murder. this is another case of an enemy of letter to wh

>>> putin sit down. after praising on the chinese leader, president trump is heading to vietnam with a possible one-on-one meeting with vladimir putin. will they talk about russian's meddling in u.s. politics? >>> and just as the house approves for huge tax cuts, senate republicans unveil their own plan and it's significantly different. will the conflict ruin the republicans' chances for a much needed victory on capitol hill? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we're following multiple breaking stories, including revelations about a possible salacious offer president trump's long-time security chief says he received back in 2013. keith shiller says he rejected a russian offer to send five women to trump's hotel room when they were in moscow for the miss universe pageant. sh keith shiller thought the offer was a joke and brushed it off and trump laughed wh-- and a member of the white house senior policy adviser stephen

let him or putin's aim was a strong russia and the revival of the empire. he ensured stability for the country and for a new elite because the secret service the f.s.b. came to power within. a single system. russia has no system for a normal change of the elites every new president only surrounds himself with people he knows that's what gorbachev did yeltsin did it too and so does putin since he knew the f.s.b. well from st petersburg he took almost the entire apparatus with them to moscow and gave them all important positions. that i see is created by the russian democracy as an imposed democracy political police the army the law enforcement authorities even the judicial system have remained virtually unchanged. the name tags have been altered but by and large the structures are not subject to control by society or. these structures were basic. the same as in soviet times shortly after coming to power putin found out what state they were in their once glorious armed forces one of the pillars of the old soviet union were a basket case. where you know if you

he didn't say i disagree with president putin. he told me he denied involvement, but the foreign leader is going to deny that his involvement. can you imagine putin saying to the president oh, yes, we did intervene in your election? president trump is either naive which i don't think he is, or he decided that for the sake of his own domestic standing, he will side with a foreign leader because if he didn't it would imply a tarnishing of his election in 2016 and that is tragic for the nation. >> robert, john brennan saw it as intimidation that trump is intimidated by putin and we heard trump say on this world stage in this asia trip he wants a good relationship with putin. can you have it both ways? >> i think it's worth noting that in fact president trump has not said i take the issue of russian hacki ining seriously. he stands with the intelligence gathering that russia in fact deliberately orchestrated a plan. >> that precipitated the comments from trump that it was the director's statement and you heard this correction coming f

that putin denied it and that he, trump, believes putin means it when he issues these denials. >> abc's chief white house correspondent jon karl is in da nang, vietnam, covering it all. jon, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, sara, and welcome back. the president says he has -- he had, in fact, two or three very short conversations with putin with whom he says he has a very good relationship. shortly before arriving in hanoi, vietnam, president trump told reporters aboard air force one that he, again, pressed vladimir putin about russian interference in the election that he won. he said he didn't meddle, trump said. i asked him again. you can only ask him so many times. every time he sees me he says i didn't do that and i really believe that when he tells me that, he means it. i think he's very insulted by it, which is not a good thing for our country. the latest trump/putin encounter took place right after a lunch with the leaders of 21 countries in the asia-pacific. just days ago, the president said he wanted to talk about getting putin's help dealing with north korea. but a sen

presidents like them if putin and donald trump have just held a telephone conversation the topics discussed included syria iran and north korea. openly to deal rank make making it harder for them to reach wide audiences despite the fact the tech giant itself previously admitted it found no violations when it investigated all t's popularity on you tube. and palestine freezes ties with the u.s. after the palestine liberation organization the office in washington loses its license. you want you all to international line from our studio with me an idiot you'd welcome to the program the russian president vladimir putin has spoken over the phone with trump the conversation lasted almost an hour. reports on what was discussed. after quite a few reports some of them came from d.c. from across the atlantic some of them were from tsotsi we finally got the confirmation from kremlin which makes it official president putin and president trump have been on the phone the kremlin says that the two leaders were quite happy about how it went although we don't find out that much from the statement on mr putin

eric: despite own intelligence agency's conclusion, vladimir putin putin again told me, not me about moscow's interference in our presidential election. so what putin's continued denials mean and what the president says about them, we will analyze all of them coming you mean. the biggest name caught up in the scandals allegations of misconduct results in the shocking admission by louis ck, what the median is now saying about those disturbing sex allegations consistent -- against him? >> the louis ck situation was so swift, i mean, the harvey weinstein fallout took a couple of weeks, kevin spacey's down fall happened over about a week and the louis ck situation, i mean, everything came tumbling down within a day, which was stunning. maria is an incredible mom. when it comes to helping her daughter, shopping for groceries, unclogging the sink, setting updentist appointments and planning birthday parties, nobody does it better. she's also in a rock band. look at her shred. but when it comes to mortgages, she's less confident. fortunately for maria, there's rocket mortgage by quicken loa

were you surprised that formally with putin, at least so far, as so widely expected? >> no, i'm not really surprised. remember, wolf, these big public meetings are done for public consumption, right? if we have something that is real, that is problematic, that needs to be negotiated, these don't happen at big formal presentation-oriented meetings with the press there. that happens that you want to send the signal that a negotiation has succeeded. that there is progress being made. i'm not sure that at this moment in time coming on the heels of the manafort indictment and the guilty plea by george papadopoulos, i'm not sure that it serves the president politically, particularly well to be photographed sitting next to vladimir putin or to be, you know, to have to listen to the shouted questions from the press that undoubtedly would accompany that meeting. so no, i'm not surprised that this is not going to happen. >> but there are some major issues on the national security front, the u.s. is interested in getting russia up and dealing with north korea, in syria, in ukrai

today in putin's view the big three are trump, xi and putin. putin didn't want to appear to be slighted after the xi meeting in beijing. he wanted his sit-down with trump. it appears that trump's senior staff members realize the optics of a closed door meeting with vladimir putin right now would be very bad for president trump and so at most will get -- the two of them in a corner with translators talking for a little while. smart for president trump. hurts putin. putin is an auto ca*t, he wants to be seen as the big guy at home. presidential elections coming up in march in russia and they're important. he will win, but he wants a legitimate win. >> sandra: you heard the white house say it is possible that meeting will take place and likely. so we'll see where that goes. in the meantime what exactly would be discussed. lindsey graham weighed in and says this is what he would not ask vladimir putin, watch. >> russia's interjected itself into the north korean debate trying to have some leverage. if i were trump i wouldn't ask for putin's help on

trump says putin denied the allegations and the president says he believes him. the two leaders chatted informally so far. >> gel zeleny and matthew chang is live with us in nanang. tell us what the president said regarding his discussion with president trump. >> reporter: good morning, the president says he's done talking about the russian meddling in the election. he was trying to move forward to other issues. he briefed with reporters here in nanang to hanoi here. he talked about the briefing here in nanang. he says that look, he believes he's taking vladimir putin at his words that the russians did not meddle in the election. >> now t president said this n an off camera briefing arrest force one to reporters, lets look, every time he sees me, he says "i did do that". i really believe him. the president is sticking to the fact that vladimir putin that he did not meddle in the election. there is still this discretion cloud that hangs in the administration which makes it an issue here. president trump once again as he did earlier this summer when these two leade

putin isn't very bothered about human rights. it's not the decisive issue guiding his policies rights are violated everywhere in russia. in ukraine the next round of the battle between pro russian and pro western factions erupted in two thousand and ten ukrainian election viktor unocal veitch as president looking for financial assistance he turned to moscow. following the tried and tested president putin offered to cut gas prices and pay several billion dollars for ukrainian government bonds in return. was to tear up ukraine's agreement of association with the e.u. . ukrainians took to the streets in protest as many as a million people joined the euro mind on demonstrations prominent european politicians poured fuel on the revolutionary fire. their appearances were seen as a sign of solidarity against an ever more brutal state apparatus. that's i have been on the my done since the twenty fourth of november it was a demonstration for our integration into europe nobody had expected something like this to happen in the twenty first

putin and gee somethixi jinping. all these guys are considered authoritarian leaders to some degree. when you were there face-to-face, it's tough to duke it out, but come on, like, think about who these guys are and the president over and over seems to be cozying up to them. >> that's right. and it's entirely consistent with how he's behaved with other world leaders whose regimes have a history of egregious human rights abuses from china to saudi arabia to russia. and this is entirely consistent with donald trump's world view. which is that the united states is not a global plitmoliceman. it's not going to get involved in other country's business and how they treat their own citizens. that's very different from how previously they've treated the united states and the global community. donald trump and many of his advisers don't really believe there is such a thing as a global community. i don't think we should be surprised at all that this is how he's treating this issue of human rights abuses. >> that is fair, we sh

>> putin can provide substantial help just as he did in our iran deal. both china and russia were partners in that iran deal. both china and russia need to be partners if there are any different outcomes in north korea. they border north korea. a lot of north korean engineers were trained inside russia. and russia has, you know, border influence and neighborly influence, which is pretty profound. so they can do it. the problem is, as you said, alignment of interests. it's just not there yet. in fact the russian news has come out and very specifically said in a way that russia is not yet cooperating with the united states and north korea to really hold that out. and i think what will need to bring them to the table may be things the united states won't accept. which is, you know, a withdrawal, or a -- you know, a decline in sanctions that the united states has imposed against russia. a recognition of some of what russia has done with ukraine. they have fought the united states on its recent efforts to hold the assad government accountable for chemical wea

to putin it was clear who was behind the wave of terror fighters from chechnya. since the dissolution of the soviet union the autonomous republic in the caucasus had been fighting for independence the region was a permanent source of crisis one of many that were destabilizing russia. in what was friday were in no position to control the armed military groups that existed back then in chechnya. wanted to stop the spread of terror and the growing radicalization in the caucasus on october the first nine hundred ninety nine he gave the order for what he called anti terrorist actions the second chechen war began. after russia's disastrous defeat in the first chechen war this time the republic was quickly brought to its knees. fully you can talk about an absolute russian victory i was a separatist because the former rebels and now the government in chechnya. akhmad kadyrov played a crucial role in russia's victory during the first chechen war he fought against russia as the country's highest islamic jurist he called for jihad a holy war. that. replaces him live. at the

putin saw the revival of his country as his life's work. here you see what i see yeah that's what i thought you love me do you. why do you. put in spreading roofs and colleague alexander lukashenko has been in office since one thousand nine hundred ninety four in many quarters his authoritarian style has earned him the name europe's last dictator. the most nobody has talked about free elections and belarus since one nine hundred ninety six elections and belarus are controlled by the government. and their results are pre-determined by the power apparatus. so bella roost does hold elections but the police and the intelligence services do everything possible to stifle any opposition. so say a ship and that is our group which was made up mainly of young people and went to the city center to hear the results in front of the election committee building was . suddenly a police car blocking the street in front of us. they didn't care that i was a presidential candidate and had absolute immunity. and when i tried to get around the car and continue o

owned by members of vladimir putin's inner circle. they include this man, husband of putin's daughter. >> she became one of the biggest coowners of one of the companies. he was given loans by the state controlled banks. >> vladimir milof was once deputy minister, he believes he was part of putin's business empire. >> you can speak of the company as one of the assets owned and controlled by putin himself. >> of course, putin's name does not appear on any paperwork, but two other major shareholders are both billionaires, both close enough to be-to-putin to be targets of u.s. sanctions. >> it strikes me somewhere between odd and inconceivable why anybody would have a connection such as you describe. >> daniel freed was the sanctions coordinator at the state department. he said while it may not be a direct sanctions violation, it is still problematic. >> i would like to think any official at the united states government, much less a senior person, would regard a crony or sanctioned individual as radio active and stay away. >> we're not ta

every meeting between putin and trump works in putin's favor. we remember the meeting at the g-20 in hamberg, called by putin and atrump and i hope that trump had little to say about u.s. relations with russia because 98% of the house and senate supported the sanctions and it seems now it's a law whether trump likes it or not and it will be further strangulation of russian business interest abroad. >> vladimir putin, obviously doesn't like those sanctions, wants to try to influence donald trump. how does he do so? >> i'm sure he will be talking about what -- what trump just said, russia will help us in north korea and syria and ukraine. the way russia has been helping u.s. in syria, we can see during obama years and this is classic kgb combination, they create a problem -- >> we'll help you solve it. >> absolutely. that's a bargaining chip. same with north korea. how can you believe this wreched country can come up from nuclear waste to a sophisticated nuclear technology -- >> you think russia helped? >> who else? china has no interest of inflat

putin saw the revival of his country as his life's work. and here you see what i see yeah that's what i feel like we do you. know why do you. put in spreading roots in colleague alexander lukashenko has been in office since one thousand nine hundred ninety four in many quarters his authoritarian style has earned him the name europe's last dictator. nobody has talked about free elections and bill rose since one nine hundred ninety six elections and belarus are controlled by the government. and their results are pre-determined by the power apparatus. so bella roost does hold elections but the police and the intelligence services do everything possible to stifle any opposition. so say a ship that is our group which was made up mainly of young people and went to the city center to hear the results in front of the election committee building was. suddenly a police car blocking the street in front of us. they didn't care that i was a presidential candidate and had absolute immunity. and when i tried to get around the car and continue on the grena

putin says relations with the u.s. remain in a, qyote, state of crisis. >>> also right now, iphone x coldgate. after shelling out close to a thousand dollars, iphone x users are now saying that the new device doesn't work in the cold weather. users complaining that the screen stops being responsive, apple saying it's working on an update to fix the problem. >>> and the world's biggest shopping day breaking its own record. chinese e-commerce giant alibaba reporting $18 billion in sales in just 13 hours of what is known as singles' day, the day dedicated to shopping bringing in more sales than black friday and cyber monday combined. now, i had to look at a day called singles' day. it's what it sounds like celebrating being single. >> it's like the anti-valentine's day. >> why would you shop because you're single? >> i thought it was like at christmas some people buy presents for themselves, you know, buy your presents for yourself and then buy for others. >> it's celebrating your best self. >> it beat black friday? >> an

president says he believes that amir putin's denials but also except cia confirmation of meddling is he trying to influence the criminal investigations that could lead to impeachment and paying lip service to moscow this is inside story. hello there and welcome to the program i'm laura. well the at home or abroad donald trump can't seem to shake off discussion about whether or not russia interfered in his election last year and this time the debate on russian meddling and manipulation is the president's own doing trump made contradictory statements whilst meeting world leaders at the asia pacific economic cooperation in vietnam that amir putin and appeared to accept the russian presence denial of involvement then trump told reporters he had full confidence in u.s. intelligence agencies of the cia said russia did meddle in the race for the white house i believe very much in our intelligence agencies now at the same time. i want to be able because i think it's very important to get along with russia to get along with china to get along with vietnam to get along with lots of countries b

president says he believes vladimir putin's denials but also except cia confirmation of meddling is he trying to influence the criminal investigations that could lead to impeachment and paying lip service to moscow this is inside story. hello there and welcome to the program i'm laura carlisle whether at home or abroad donald trump can't seem to shake off discussion about whether or not russia interfered in his election last year and this time the debate on russian meddling and manipulation is the president's own doing trump made contradictory statements whilst meeting world leaders at the asia pacific economic cooperation in vietnam trump that amir putin and appeared to accept the russian presence denial of involvement then trump told reporters he had full confidence in u.s. intelligence agencies of the cia said russia did meddle in the race for the white house i believe very much in our intelligence agencies now at the same time. i want to be able because i think it's very important to get along with russia to get along with china to get along with vietnam to get along with lots of c