he was born into the kgb, brought up in a kgb compound, he ate kgb food. all his friends were in the kgb. he went to a school linked to the kgb and emerged at the top of the class, the cleverest boy in the class, he still had lenin and stalin on it. he graduated number one in his class and became a student at moscow's most prestigious university, often referred to as the harvard of russia. he excelled in languages, he learned fluent german, swedish, danish. it was a university that oleg got the breath of something different from the way he was brought up. one thing he was allowed to do as a young student was read western magazines and newspapers that were brought in heavily rejected but nonetheless enough there that would get a glimpse of a different world. oleg took up long-distance running as a student. the reason i show you this photograph is in many ways, it is a motif. the decisions he would take in the next 20 years or so were taken in isolation. he took them alone. he is not the sort of person who consults with others. he attacks a problem, thinks a

he excelled at school and was brought up in kgb compound, add kgb food, all his friends were in the kgb. he went to school that was linged with the kgb and eemerge ted top of theclass, the cleverest boy in his class. this is his school s. still hall lenin and stalin on it. he graduated number one in his class and then became a student at moscow's most press stick just university, considered the hard vaster of russia. excelled in languages, fluent in german, swedish, danish, and it was while at university that he first got the breath of something slightly different frontal the way he was brought up. he was allowed to read some of the western magazines and newspapers that were brought in heavily redacted and censored but enough there that would get a glimpse of a different world. olegal took um long distance running while he was a student. the reason i show you this photograph is that in many ways, long distance rung is a motif of his life. the decisions he would take over the next 20 years or so were all taken in isolation. he took them alone. he was not and still is not the sort of pers

kgb members what had happened. himid not realize about until 1984. --was arrested in 77 and 1977, and this man was arrested in 1984. that that is how they found out about him. they put cameras in his apartment and they watched him as he pulled the various spy gear out, as well as the camera and all. they broke into his apartment when they saw him getting the spy gear out. they stripped him down and he said i will make it easy for you. he said i will give you a justete written confession get me some paper and a pen, and they handled -- handed him a russian ball pouring -- ballpoint pen. one of the fellows handed him his pen. with his pen he started to write and then he put it up into his mouth and bit down and went unconscious. he died later that night in the hospital. that is the story. i wrote the book to honor both my husband john, who died so young and for the spy who died very young. he was born in 1939. put thend helped me book together. i was self published. and i told him the day i , my worst nightmare would be to be sitting in north carolina

would do to one of their kgb officers the next time they pick them up. now, i must admit i was angry when they grabbed me and i must admit that i and the silly thought that i had just kicked the guy in the shin. but a later video, which i made for another television show, had interviewed some kgb officers who had been there and he said they are in front of me and my family, that i had kicked his colleague and he had been hospitalized and hadn't had sex for six months. you can make of that whatever you want. so, i returned to the embassy at 2:00 in the morning. all of my colleagues were waiting and we did a debrief. i did not go back to the apartment, i got on the plane and flew home. i did not realize at the time but there was a group of kgb officers at the airport in moscow who were there to witness my leaving because they felt such respect for me as an officer. they had been fooled by me for two years. i got back to washington. i met with the director on monday. on tuesday i met with the president to tell him all that had happened. i went on to lead a

whatever the soviet kgb did to one of our officers, the fbi here in the u.s. would do to one of their kgb officers the next time they picked them up. now i must admit. i was angry when they grabbed me and i must admit that i initially thought that i had just kicked the guy in the shin. but a later video, which i made for another, for a television show, had interviewed some kgb officers who had been there, and he said right there in front of me and my family, that i had kicked his colleague, and he had been hospitalized and hadn't had sex for about six months. you can make of that whatever you want. so i returned to the embassy at 2:00 in the morning. all of my colleagues were waiting, and we did the total debrief. the next day i did not go back to my apartment. i just got on a plane and flew home. i did not realize at the time that there was a group of kgb officers at the airport in moscow who were there to witness my leaving because they felt such respect for me as an officer. fools course, they felt because they had been fooled by me for two years. i got bac

kgb stop educating us anyway. now there is a demand in our society to see more social justice and 66% according to polls are nostalgic about this soviet union. so the question is whether it is possible to restore socialism to combat socialism. i think it is hardly possible. i believe that we have seen an overhaul in our society, in-depth changes that have happened and it is impossible to restore socialism. there may be some elements of socialism in the welfare, , in r economy but anyway, you know what, it always results in spending, the budget revenues and would end up in a gridlock at the end of the day. the fair distribution of resources and the fair treatment of all those below poverty line, and structuring the governments policies around trying to reduce to minimum number of people below the poverty line as well as being able to provide the bulk of the people with decent health care and education, that would be affordable and accessible to them, if it means in this sense, this is what we have been doing, getti

i see the sign, kgb and children. today is the 20th of december which is what used to be the kgb day. why this sign? please pass the microphone over there? reporter: as a good acquaintance of mine said that we are all kgb children that we were all brought up in a different manner, all of us. pres. putin: how did the kgb bring you up? it stopped educating us. now, there is a demand in society to see more social justice and 66% according to polls are nostalgic about the ussr. reporter: my question is whether it is possible to restore socialism to this country? i think it is hardly possible. i believe that we have seen an overhaul in our society. in-depth changes have happened and it is impossible to restore socialism. there may be some elements of socialism in the welfare, our economy, but you know what? it always results in spending out riding the revenues, the budget revenues and we end up in a gridlock. at the end of the day. but you know, the tenants of a fair distribution of resources and the fair distribution of t

today's the 20th of december which is the kgb, used to be the kgb day. why this sign, kgb and children? please pass the mic over 1660. >> the clerk will report. to cod so forth. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the bill be read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 587, h.r. 6287. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 587, h.r. 6287, an act to provide competitive grants for the operation, security, and maintenance of certain memorials to victims of the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. mcconnell: i further ask consent that the amendment at the desk be agreed to that the bill, as amended, be considered r

i see the sign, kgb and children. today is the 20th of december which is what used to be the kgb day. why this sign? please pass the microphone over there? reporter: as a good acquaintance of mine said that we are all kgb children that we were all brought up in a different manner, all of us. pres. putin: how did the kgb bring you up? it stopped educating us. in, there is a demand society to see more social justice and 66% according to polls are nostalgic about the ussr. reporter: my question is whether it is possible to restore socialism to this country? i think it is hardly possible. believe that we have seen an overhaul in our society. happenedchanges have and it is impossible to restore socialism. elements of some socialism in the welfare, our economy, but you know what? spending results in out riding the revenues, the budget revenues and we end up in a gridlock. at the end of the day. of aou know, the tenants fair distribution of resources and the fair distribution of those below the poverty line and structuring t

the kgb was everywhere, especially in my world, we were hunted by the kgb, and their goal was to find you, make contact, and flip you, turn you into an asset and have you become a spy to betray your country. so you were always wary of that, and so when i saw the hacking of the dnc, well, that was in fact carried out in operation. someone stole that information. that information had to come and surface itself in the media for a reason, and that reason could only be watergate, right, the exact same activity that was carried out in 1973, only there were no burglars, and you actually could just walk in electronically, steal the information, and then release it to the public, and it could only have one effect, and that was to damage and split the democratic party in two. >> you were at the forefront of ringing the alarm on this. why were we hearing about this from you and not from the intelligence community establishment? >> well, i was in media at that time. so you know, and in fact, i think i was the first person in u.s. media to actually -- went on air at msnbc and surprised everyone on

jack of the three of us you're the only former kgb spy in this conversation. does a number like 14, does that leave coincidence behind and become actual coordination in your mind? who thought we were such an easy mark? >> it's clearly a pattern, but, you know, you can't go to the next step and say they had to have coordination. the trump organization was a very inviting target because of the types of individuals you found in there. as we know now, there's a lot of shady characters that are part of it. donald trump himself has been skirting around the edges of the law throughout his entire career. there's a phenomenal hubris, arrogance and ignorance in this organization, so they made it for a really, really inviting target. clearly the same effort was not visible around clinton because i think the clinton organization was a whole lot more professional about how they behaved themselves. so it was real easy and inviting. >> so malcop, back then it was the trump campaign. now it's the leadership structure in the country you wore the uniform of and fought for overs

jack of the three of us you're the only former kgb spy in this conversation. does a number like 14, does that leave coincidence behind and become actual coordination in your mind? who thought we were such an easy mark? >> it's clearly a pattern, but, you know, you can't go to the next step and say they had to have coordination. the trump organization was a very inviting target because of the types of individuals you found in there. as we know now, there's a lot of shady characters that are part of it. donald trump himself has been skirting around the edges of the law throughout his entire career. there's a phenomenal hubris arrogance and ignorance in this organization, so they made it for a very inviting target. clearly the same effort was not visible around clinton because i think the clinton organization was a whole lot more professional about how they behaved themselves. so it was real easy and inviting >> malcolm, back then it was the trump campaign. now it's the leadership structure in the country you wore the uniform of and fought for overseas. how do yo

jack, you're the only former kgb spy in this conversation. does a number like 14, does that leave coincidence behind and become actual coordination in your mind? and who thought we were such an easy mark? >> it's clearly a pattern, but, you know, you can't go to the next step and say, there has been coordination. the trump organization was a very inviting target because of the types of individuals you found in there. as we know now there's a lot of shady characters that had been part of it or are still part of it. donald trump himself has been skirting around the edges of the law throughout his entire career. and there's a phenomenal hue bris, arrogance and ignorance so they made for an inviting target. clearly, the same effort was not visible around clinton because i think, you know, the clinton organization was a whole lot more professional about how they behavior behaved themselves. so it was easy. it was inviting. >> malcolm, back then it was the trump campaign. now it's the leadership structure in the country you wore the uniform of and

and that russia is led by a man who is a formal kgb colonel is the reality and context. it is the lesson of what we did in syria, killing 200 of their so-called contract killers. and they're trying to re-escalate, get a hold on the region. this is classic soviet kgb tactics and this is not the was theesident -- what past few hours, you cannot trust this man, vladimir putin. paul: let us get a call from raymond in michigan, democratic line. caller: good morning. understand you have a warrant out for your arrest from hungry of a gun violation. what is going on with that that?on debt -- sebastian: you should not believe everything you see on the internet. but thank you for the call. paul: peter from new york on the republican line. caller: good morning. i spoke to you the last time you were on the show. it was a pleasure to talk to you. said, i did what i not believe the president wanted to prosecute anyone at the fbi or the doj. i saw in the new york post they asked the president about releasing the documents, the classified documents and he said he was going to hold onto

and i think bob gates got it right when you look in his eyes, you see kgb, kgb, kgb. he is a thug. he is a bully. he only believes in relative power. how much does he have, how much do you have? he doesn't believe what everybody in this room believes, which is that it's possible to have a negotiation and end up with win/win. he only believes that it's win/lose in a negotiation. he is not the great strategic chess player that he pretends to be. he's actually a great tactician. he's a risk taker. he's an entrepreneur. but he's a particularly dangerous kind of risk taker. when he takes a risk and succeeds, he's often willing to take even a bigger risk. so whenever he does something in his mind is successful, then i worry about what comes next. i couldn't agree more with the secretary on the importance of standing up to him. point number one. point two is again from his perspective, really important to realize that he believes, he fundamentally believes we're trying to undermine him politically. he believes that the cia is working every day to undermine him. he believes that the cia ca

. >> the kgb chief, the military commander, the minister of the interior and the prime minister joined forces to mount the coup. >> nothing threatens mr. gorbachev. he's in a safe place. except he needs some time to feel better. >> shevardnadze warned today that the right wing coup would have tragic consequences. >> it is the beginning of civil war. >> extraordinary drama in moscow tonight. scenes of destruction, of fire, even of blood on the streets. >> four people died, shot or crushed by armored vehicles. >> speculation he's being held in moscow, at least 50,000 people gathered at the russian parliament building. >> gorbachev wasn't that popular at that point, but these people were even less popular than gorbachev. if they mounted a coup in 1989 or early 1990, he might have fallen and the new soviet union would have been quite different. but there were already new legitimate figures that the russian people were supporting and were expecting a lot from. >> around 50,000 supporters of boris yeltsin gathered to chant their support for the man who is now carrying the battered banner of

and when the kgb officer is asked a question by reuters, did you want him to win, and did you instruct members of your government to help him, and he said yes, i do, yes, i did. and the next day we were all gaslighted as a nation because the president ensured that that transcript was redacted of that admission. that's mens rea for me. i don't think that bob has at this point in time shown his full hand on the issue of the conspiracy to fraud. i think that there's a lot more to come and he's been getting out in dribs and drabs, but a lot of it has been redacted. >> and 300 plus pages since he's taken over this investigation. patrick, before i let you go, i want to ask you abiliout the ch of staff position. nick ayers apparently not wanting to take that job, even though he was the front-runner for it. now the name mark meadows, the house freedom caucus chair is being thrown out there. what's your reaction to that idea? >> it's interesting. what trump is going to need are two things. one is a chief of staff who's really going to tell him what he needs to do to be able to compete again in

how was the kgb brought up? and now to see more social justice with that whole analysis and changes and maybe there are some elements and it always results in spending with those revenues to end up in a gridlock at the end of the day. but that distribution of resources and to fracture the government and trying to reduce the number of people as well as those with decent healthcare and education and to be accessible to them and the socialism in the sense. and getting to grips with that and this is why national politics have been enacted. if that's about kgb. >> thank you. my question is not about policy but all of the countries with the treatment as well established and well ingrained culture of segregation. but also all of those containers but you should take them. and some of those have been appearing a very slow number of these but this is the process that they have never done that before. and nobody did any processing to have 70 or 80 million tons of waste. . . . . a brand-new recycling of trade and industry.

the former kgb is the new fbi. i guess that's what we've got. >> you know, sabrina, i want to play this clip by rudy guilliani and i want sabrina to respond. he is insisting that the president didn't do anything wrong, but listen to the defense. >> it is not a crime. it is not a crime, george. paying $130,000 to stormy whatever and paying $100,000 to the other one is not a crime. >> did the president -- did donald trump know that michael cohen was pursuing the trump tower in moscow into the summer of 2016? >> according to the answer that he gave it would have covered all the way up to november -- november 2016. he said he had conversations with them about, the president didn't hide this. >> earlier they said the conversations stopped in january of 2016. >> roger stone gave anybody heads up about wikileaks leaks, it is not a crime. it would be like giving him a heads up "the times" is going to print something. this is why this thing is so weird, strange. the crime is conspiracy to hack. collusion is not a crime. it

. >> the would be assassin claims the order to kill the pope came down from the kgb, a bombshell accusation that italian police are never able to prove. >> whether there were orders from moscow, nobody has ever been able to find them. but the soviets, they understood what a threat he was. i think the most credible explanation is the would-be assassin undertook an opportunistic moment to carry out what the soviets wanted. >> eventually pope john paul ii visits his shooter in prison. >> he decides to meet with the man who tries to kill him. he's offering forgiveness to this person who has done this horrible thing to him. that's a profound moment. >> that's justice for an unjust act. he had the holy father shows him mercy by forgiving him. it says something about leadership. it's about sacrifice on behalf of the people you lead. >> just 22 days after eluding death, the resilient pope returns to the vatican. >> his papacy is not adversely affected in any significant way by the assassination attempt. it's a short interruption, but he continues to travel. >> in late 1981, the kremlin declares mar

and that russia is led by a man who is a formal kgb colonel is the reality and context. it is the lesson of what we did in syria, killing 200 of their so-called contract killers. and they're trying to re-escalate, get a hold on the region. this is classic soviet kgb tactics and this is not the was theesident -- what past few hours, you cannot trust this man, vladimir putin. paul: let us get a call from raymond in michigan, democratic line. caller: good morning. understand you have a warrant out for your arrest from hungry of a gun violation. what is going on with that that?on debt -- sebastian: you should not believe everything you see on the internet. but thank you for the call. paul: peter from new york on the republican line. caller: good morning. i spoke to you the last time you were on the show. it was a pleasure to talk to you. said, i did what i not believe the president wanted to prosecute anyone at the fbi or the doj. i saw in the new york post they asked the president about releasing the documents, the classified documents and he said he was going to hold onto

food never since he was a kgb agent, that comes from the kgb manual. do whatever you can to stir up trouble within the united states. it might simply have been now. >> without a doubt he thrives on chaos and creating not because here we are still talking about high-fiving with mohammed bin salman. one of the most important things we can do is i live in dallas texas now. the sweet spot is $65 to $75 a barrel. how do we keep the consumer costs for energy low and how do we export back to those countries dependent upon this is very key. >> the china issue led to the market going down so much today. let's talk about them militarily. they have a huge army. they equipped the army with technologically sophisticated weapons, a lot of which technology has been stolen from us in the rest of the world, but they've applied that directly to the military in ways that even we haven't. how big of a threat is china and that is the biggest threat even more so than russia right now? >> without a doubt china is her greatest military adversary right now. when you look at th

chaotic as the arbon, because perhaps as fitzwater whispered to reagan, many of the regular russians were kgb operatives. a reporter asked the big question reagan surely knew was coming. >> you still think you were in an evil empire, mr. president? >> no. >> he said that was another time and another era he put his arm around gorbachev. my gosh. as a news man, it doesn't get better than that. >> he wanted to do that to say i no longer believe it's the evil empire. i believe it's good people who want a better life. bret: had reagan's mind really changed? certainly not as much as the soviet leadership had hoped. mikhail gorbachev was going to mikhail gorbachev was going to learn that on theeeeeneed a newy son. stories. stories or quotes? time for a rhyme? or not rhyming's fine. no rhymes. skivvies. gadgets or skivvies? boxed set? perfect! nobody knows young readers like we do... barnes & noble nick, nick, we need a decision. these days we all feel a little anxious sometimes. but if you could see inside my mind; you'll find i go to my happy place. see if we let tensions run the show up here, then

chaotic as the arbon, because perhaps as fitzwater whispered to reagan, many of the regular russians were kgb operatives. a reporter asked the big question reagan surely knew was coming. >> you still think you were in an evil empire, mr. president? >> no. >> he said that was another time and another era he put his arm around gorbachev. my gosh. as a news man, it doesn't get better than that. >> he wanted to do that to say i no longer believe it's the evil empire. i believe it's good people who want a better life. bret: had reagan's mind really changed? certainly not as much as the soviet leadership had hoped. mikhail gorbachev was going to learn that on theeeee if your moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's symptoms are holding you back, and your current treatment hasn't worked well enough it may be time for a change. ask your doctor about entyvio®, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohn's. entyvio® works at the site of inflammation in the gi tract, and is clinically proven to help many patients achieve both symptom relief and remission. infusion and seriou

have seen an indictment about, and the other being the russian state security, the successor to the kgb, that also hacked the dnc, and we have not seen any knowledge of the hack coming out even though we know the dutch intelligence knows exactly who perpetrated that attack. then we get into the question about why bob mueller has not indicted one of the three internet research agency employees that travelled to the united states in the summer of 2016. this is -- he indicted two of the three. he obviously knows who this third person is because he knows who this person filed their expenses to at the internet research agency, but this points to possibly does bob mueller have a cooperator inside the internet research agency, and sort of why is this person's fingerprints on the attack but not in the indictment? then we have a bombshell report that "the guardian" put out last waoe week that paul manafort may have met with julian assange, the founder of wikileaks, over -- perhaps even multiple times during the campaign and before the campaign. then there are all sorts of breadcrumbs and unanswe

the fsb is the successor to the kgb. vladimir putin, the president of russia, is the former head of the fsb. only details are just emerging right now. we are awaiting for any further comment on what the individual was and how they made this arrest, alison. >> in that nathan hodge, thank you. we will come back to you if we hear anything more to report. >> that could be critical at the time of a fraught relationship with u.s. and russia. >>> an intern mauled by a lion at the north carolina zoo. how that happened and what the victim's family is now saying. that's next. y fda-approved alli®. for every 5 lbs you lose, alli® can help you lose two to three more by preventing about 25% of the fat you eat from being absorbed. for the only fda-approved otc weight loss aid, try alli®. i've gwith the capital onehing. venture card you earn unlimited double miles on every purchase, every day. not just airline purchases? everything. hey, how'd you get in here? cross-checking. nice. what's in your wallet... oh, c'mon! has been excell

america's recent diplomatic finger wagging over putin's military moves doesn't work with the former kgb colonel and it is likely u.s. officials felt they had to hit him with language he understands. >> putin only respond when there are consequences to his actions, military consequences, economic consequences, diplomatic consequences. >> reporter: some analysts don't expect the american military moves to stop putin from being aggressive. they say he could respond by taking it out, as he often does, on ukraine, possibly harassing ukrainian commercial shipping. >> i think putin's next move is to take full control of the strait and to exert dominance in the sea. he wants to effectively blockade or economically starve ukraine. >> reporter: one of the dangers ahead in the high-stakes game of military maneuvers, analysts worry about miscommunication between u.s. and russian forces on land, sea or air and a possible miscalculation. ships or planes may come too close to each other, someone firing and then you have a full-scale escalation. that is what everyone is watching tonight. >> that's a go

up a legal structure to bring under control what was the deep state in those communist countries the kgb and associated secret police. and what i used to say was, that in the united states we don't have a system where we can be sure that the intelligence agencies will not violate the law, but we do have a system where it is pretty likely that pretty soon those violations will come to light. . . . question, how do we know that the use of the "deep state" and michael might disagree with me about this but i think in general the use of the deep state terminology is not useful to illuminate what is actually happening, and instead it is used to -- at the moment by the president of the united states to further conspiracy theories. >> michael? >> i don't disagree with kate. thanks to pat and julian for inviting me to be here. i don't disagree with kate, i don't like the term "deep state" i think it's vague and carries with it not only notions of a huge nefarious conspiracy, but as susan pointed out an experience that has occurred in turkey that is totally foreign to the american experience. i've

we worried about all sorts of contingencies where the kgb or some rogue military officer would get their hands on nuclear weapons and there would be a violent clash. it didn't end that way because president bush was able to work with a descending gorbachev, a rising yeltsin. prime minister thatcher was dubious about german unification. it was bush who made the commitment to chancellor. here is where experience matters and where character matters. i think that's why he's one of our greatest presidents on the international stage. >> to that point, we cover, especially in the cable news business, what happens. we sometimes forget what didn't happen. that's the point that nick is making and what vice president joe biden made yesterday. so much could have gone wrong versus what went right because of his leadership. this is how history will rightly remember him. every american, and arguably everybody on earth, owes him a debt of grat titude for being sh an able steward. >> ever since the wall went up in john f. kennedy's administration, i solved it. reagan gave the words "tear down the wall" b

. >> bob gates god it right when you look at his eyes you see kgb. he is a thug. he is a bully he only believes in relative power. he doesn't believe what everybody in this room believes that it's possible to have a negotiation and up with win-win he only believes it is win lose. he is not the great strategic stress player on - - chess player he is a tactician and entrepreneur and risk taker but particularly dangerous type of risk taker burke when he takes a risk to succeed even a bigger risk so whenever he does something and his mind is successful i worry about what comes next. i cannot agree more with the secretary on the importance of sustaining from him but from his perspective it is important to realize that he believes he fundamentally believes we are trying to undermine him politically. the cia works every day to undermine him he believes the cia caused a protest in the streets of kiev in 2014. not true at all because to be in context with what he tried to do to us. that doesn't excuse it but explains it and by doing what he has done he has undermined the s

headlet in the back of the in the kgb prison in moscow. we have been able to get -- we talked about exfiltration, many people out, but some of the most prominent ones were martyrs for the cause. >> a follow-up. on one of the slides, it said that we had oil debriefs with the kernel. how did the cia received those oil debriefs if he was in russia? prof. dujmovic: he got out occasionally and there is a great book on him, "the spy who saved the world." that is because of the information he gave -- let me get rid of this, this is odious -- it is a story about spy,ribing an influential he had some perks, part of the soviet military trade mission to britain, and he would go occasionally to the west. he would get away from his delegation and they met and a safe house by cia and mi6 debriefers. that book which is a great book reveals all of that. that the spyory got to meet with kennedy. that part of the history is not true. he considered himself a soldier for democracy. to the point where he asked, can you dress me up in an american kerne -- ameri

if you know -- you just had on michael and it's hysterical, when michael cohen wanted to reach the kgb or russians he asked maggie haberman for an e-mail address. this is a guy who didn't know how to even get into contact with the russians. with that said, it is highly problematic and mueller, as your previous witnesses are saying, witnesses -- sorry, guests, mueller is going to build a narrative. that's mueller's job. with that said the president has to respond to it. there are two ways to look at these things. i still look at them as a bunch of coincidences. i look at them as if that -- there was never any direct conspiracy because donald trump and vladimir putin never directly coordinated, as i've said before, on strategizing on what to release and when to release it. >> which michael cohen do you believe? the one that told the lies previously, that he got in trouble for telling and admitted that he told? or the michael cohen who is now speaking allegedly the truth in the robert mueller investigation? >> i think michael's truth is something along the lines that could be construed tw

state-run media says the agency that used to be the kgb has detained the american, quote, while carrying out an act of espionage. that is the statement from the fsb. let's go to moscow now. senior and international correspondent matthew chance. matthew, who is the american and what is is he accused of doing? >> reporter: well, we know his name is paul nicholas whealan, because that's the name that's been given to us by the russian authorities. in terms of what exactly he's been doing, we're pretty much in the dark, to be frank with you. we know that the russians say that he was caught spying, there's been a very short statement issued by the russian fsb, which is the main counter-espionage agency in this country. it says that the educative debate of the fsb initiated a criminal case against the u.s. citizen under article 276 of the criminal code. and that's espionage. the investigation is underway, and that's basically all it said. the u.s. state department hasn't been much help, either, frankly, because they've just issued a very short statement as well, saying that they acknowledge bei

blackmail here because as we see it the person who has kompromat on him, has leverage from a former kgb case officer, the person whose job was to exploit this, was the president of the united states. which means we don't know whether the nuclear posture of the united states has been compromised. we clearly see the foreign policy of the united states has been compromised on multiple levels by multiple players. you know, the way that foreign spies get their victims is through an acronym that's used in the intelligence community called mice, m-i-c-e. they get you through money, ideology, coercion or corruption or play to your ego. donald trump is an example how a can turn. >> john, here is how putin handled the public discussion of that potential kompromat. >> do you -- does the russian government have any compromising material on president trump or his family? >> yeah, i did hear these rumors that we allegedly collected compromising material on mr. trump when he visited moskow. that's difficult to imagine. please just disregard those issues and don't think about this anymore again. >> and

actually did every single thing that the russian federation asked to include stating they believed the kgb's word over the cia, no one would have any doubt that there was criminal an activity afoot. >> again, i say, put it that way, this sounds serious. >> we have asked a lot of our front four and we are in their debt. thanks to peter baker, joyce vance, frank figliuzzi and jeremy bash for their superb analysis of what we keep saying is such a consequential friday. >>> another break for us and coming up, the other first in this administration today. >> when the president would say here's what i want to do abhere's how i want to do it, and i would have to say to him, well, mr. president, i understand what you want to do but you can't do it that way. it violates the law, it violates treaty. he got frustrated and i think he grew tired of me being the guy everyday that told him you can't do that. >> nine months after being fired via twitter, former secretary of state rex tillerson is finally breaking his silence about donald trump. in a discussion with journalist and fellow texan bob schieffer l

. >> mark: nothing more a lady likes than being in a hot tub with a kgb torturer. kennedy lost one. still everything to play for. 2-0. >> 1-0. >> mark: 1-0. >> i lost a point. i thought i kept and it kept the other two. >> mark: you lost it. you are in huge trouble now. crisis on the international space station. something mysterious was found by astronauts inside a capsule that recently docked there and russian officials say it's the result of a major breach. what was it they found? a a sharp knife. b a tiny hole or, c, a jar of pickles? and it's the trigger happy kennedy yet again. >> jar of pickles. >> mark: jar of pickles. >> i was going to go with a. >> mark: let's roll that tape. a matter of life and death. a tiny hole discovered in russian capsule that docks at the international space station. at first scientists suspected the hole was caused by a meteorite strike. >> good unon instructed view now of that black spot that's the hole on the external hull. >> a russian cosmonaut who examined the hole believes it was drilled from inside the capsule. [buzzer] >> i'm learning a lot

we're going to have to sit somebody down at the kgb to ask what they want and make this go away. frankly, the guy is a hostage. and it's up to the russians how long they want to hold him and whether it's serving putin's interests. >> putin recently said he would not arrest any, quote, innocent people for any kind of spy swap. now, so far u.s. officials either have very little information on paul whelan or simply don't want to say much. a state department spokesman telling cnn, they are aware of the americans' detention and have requested access. right now, there is no indication of when and whether the kremlin is going to grant that access. brianna? >> brian todd, thank you so much. president trump wasn't the only one tweeting today. there has been a rather strange message sent out by the u.s. strategic command, which controls the launch of u.s. nuclear weapons. let's turn to barbara starr on this. this is something that had us going, is this real? >> that's right, brianna. and it is real. the u.s. military says all they were trying to do is remind everyone in the world that 24/7

. >> i would say this is vladimir putin, kgb operative and the kremlin, trying to drive a wedge between us. remember mohammad bin salman's father visited moscow, the first saudi king to do for. i think vladimir putin sees the opportunity for a photo op. that is been a strategy of his for some time. >> shannon: dan, juan, brian, thank you very much. great to see you tonight. >> thank you. >> shannon: on the sidelines of the g20 summit, a private conversation heard between president emmanuel macron and the saudi prince. macron is lavishly not happy. leland vittert has details for us. >> we have heard recently that the body language in unscripted moments of world leaders at these summit tell us far more. today, you do not need a microphone to tell who was friends. >> crown prince mohammad bin salman received a high five from a grinning russian president vladimir putin. contrast that with the earful the prints received from french president emmanuel macron. lip readers might try to interpret what made putin so happy, and the camera cut away quickly, but macron made no secret of his displeas

the perfect trojans horse, if you like, get her through the gates of republican decision making and kgb has a winner. >> the latest developments in the case in her connections to ericson lead analysts to ask a key question tonight. how many others could be out there? form r cia agent believes there are dozens of them, possibly men and women, and just here in washington to target well-connected political officials. >> could she be part of the spy swap with the russians? >> it does not appear that's likely. we're told if she changes her plea in this case from not guilty to guilty, she probably is going to return to russia, but there are no indications right now that the russian and american governments are about to make a cold war-style spy deal involve iing her. >> lots of intrigue going on right now. brian todd, thank you. and thanks to our viewers for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett starts right now. >> pardon me, the president's adviser roger stone showing there's nothing he won't say to get the president's attention. as mueller is about to drop what cou

we think of tv and espionage directed agents, kgb spies. she was building levers and reaching back for direction. torsion was giving her direction about who she should engage with and they were essentially fellow travelers as they would say in the espionage business. they thought like the kremlin, acted like the kremlin, and were hoping to strengthen their position in russia and the united states. >> and david, talk to me a little bit about the nra and all of this. did they get played essentially? how much of a problem is this for them as an organization? >> well, i think they got played but they also are looking to make connections to russia. they went over there on trips she arranged. they thought it was great she was pro gun rights which there aren't any at all in russia. and the fact that she was young and attractive and she was making connections with older guys worked as well. and her goal was to influence the nra because quite i think sophisticatedly, she saw the nra as having a lot of influence within the gop. i think she had a trem

the kgb and associated secret police. and what i used to say was, that in the united states we don't have a system where we can be sure that the intelligence agencies will not violate the law, but we do have a system where it is pretty likely that pretty soon those violations will come to light. and that's i think different. one of the key differences. and the other thing i would say is that when you ask the question, how do we know that the use of the "deep state" and michael might disagree with me about this but i think in general the use of the deep state terminology is not useful to illuminate what is actually happening, and instead it is used to -- at the moment by the president of the united states to further conspiracy theories. >> michael? >> i don't disagree with kate. thanks to pat and julian for inviting me to be here. i don't disagree with kate, i don't like the term "deep state" i think it's vague and carries with it not only notions of a huge nefarious conspiracy, but as susan pointed out an experience that

he knows that kislyak was not only the ambassador, but was a kgb contact and was being monitored every place you entered every conversation he had in the u.s. just like they do the same to our ambassador in moscow. intelligence and law enforcement and knew what kislyak was saying, and to whom he was speaking. one of those people happened to be mike flynn. >> harris: hold on one second, i want to go back to melissa on this point on turkey. look at all that has transpired with turkey and just the last few months. okay, you've got a u.s.-based "washington post" columnist who was killed on turkish soil, inside of saudi arabia and consulate. not that all things connect back, but as interest income the layering of the most recent history. >> melissa: it also points out why they would be a focus on turkey. when you say that, in some cases, or anyone says they don't necessarily -- like, if you go back afterwards and register they were in agent in the past, that happens a lot. it's not that big of deal. but your point, and it's a very good one, is the reason why it really does matter is because

failure in the kgb, has to resign for mysterious reasons, but mysteriously, he gets to control the russian state, becomes popular, is now inevitable. mr. trump is an example of this. he never succeeded in anything, his dad gives him hundreds of millions of dollars, you know? if i gave each of you $340 million which is not actually a live offer -- [laughter] i'm confident every single one of you would actually do better than mr. trump did, right? he's a loser. if you had that kind of start, you should be able to do something with it besides owing hundreds of millions of dollars to deutsche bank. he's a loser-winner. and on the campaign trail at these rallies, that was part of his appeal. >> yeah. >> he offered himself up as this golden boy who had a kind of secret elixir which would allow all these men to succeed even when they weren't with succeeding. and then the tricky thing here is to decide at what point you're sympathetic and at what point you're not, right? of course maybe men expect things to go too well for them. maybe white men in particular expect that. on the other hand, this is

actually did every single thing that the russian federation asked to include stating they believed the kgb's word over the cia, no one would have doubt there was criminal activity afoot. >> again, i say, put it that way, this sounds serious. >> we have asked a lot of our front four and we are in their debt. thanks to peter baker, joyce vance, frank figliuzzi and jeremy bash for their superb analysis of what we keep saying is such a consequential friday. >>> another break for us and coming up, the other first in this administration today. >> the president would say why did i walk away? well, not because it was easy. i mean, the game is all i know. you think back to your draft. it felt like a fantasy. but the second you know you can't compete anymore, you owe it to yourself, to your team, to find a fresh start. so, yeah, that's why i did it. that's why i walked away... from my fantasy league. (announcer) redeem your season on fanduel. play free until you win. fanduel. more ways to win. every insurance company tells you they can save you money. save up to 10% when you bundle with esurance. incl

because as we see it, the person who has comepromat on him, who has leverage, from a former kgb case officer, okay, a person whose job it was to exploit this, is the president of the united states, which means we don't know whether the nuclear posture of the united states has been compromised. we clearly see the foreign policy of the united states has been compromised on multiple levels by multiple players. you know, the way that foreign spies get their victims is through an acronym that is used in the intelligence community called mice. mice. they get you through money, ideology, co herself or co-option, or they play to your ego. and donald trump is a walking example of how any intelligence officer could touch turn someone against their own nation and as john brennan said most of the time they don't even know they are committing treason. >> john, here is how putin handled the public discussion of that potential compromat. >> sir, do you, does the russian government have any compromising material on president trump or his family? >> translator: i did hear this rumor that we allegedly

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