russia thing. the scheme did voof deutsche bank in moscow, but also in new york. interestingly also in cypress. stick a pin in that far sechlktd because of the new york connection, this giant money laundering scheme ended up in the obama justice department, when the russians looked into it, they fined deutsche $5,000 when loretta lynch looked into it. they fined $630 million. they took it slightly more seriously than the russians did. for the people at the top when these things happen though, it always seems to be sort of a soft landing, doesn't it? the offices involved in this russian scheme were in moscow and new york and cypress. when the last chairman of deutsche bank needed a new job after deutsche bank, where he landed was very softly as the chairman of the bank of cyprus. cyprus is a lovely place and a lovely part of the world. but in global finance, cypress is basically the locking black briefcase sbooch russian 'ol garks stuff their ill gotten gains before they handcuffed that briefcase to a henchman somewhere. this is where russian 'ol garks put their money. the bank chairman

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a philosophical of what is from moscow. it is not so much a territory y'all of ukraine. it is a traction as to what you get out there for the people to believe and at the same time do as much of the unfortunate as possible. it is a matter of principal. it is a matter of the of democratic principals versus a matter of authoritarianism, dictato dictatorship and how you wield power. there was some associated with it. there was traction associated with it. members of congress, presidents of the united states issued their particular statements. frankly speaking it culminated with a statement by george w. bush that said it was a crime against humanity. so the soviets having denied it for so long and only after a lot of the information started trickling out did they even knowledge that ka s what happens. it is the same thing fast forward 85 years from what is happening on eastern ukraine and crimea. nearly three years to the date the russians started invading crimea with quote unquote little green men. obviously no notion it was being done in terms of illegal annexation in ukraine. so

more from fred from moscow. the russian press trump ted trump, if you would like, what are they saying now? >> well, wasn't just the russian press, there were a lot of people here according to public opinion who felt at the time that donald trump would be a good president to -- for u.s. russia relations, at least from the perspective from the russians. it seems many russian politicians have, somewhat, cooled off i wouldn't say they make the president himself responsible for that. it was interesting because last week you had the prime minister of this country come forward and say they don't believe the lifting of sanctions against russia that were levied in the wake of the ukraine crisis with this new administration that the sanctions could disappear any time soon. it doesn't look as though people here believe that there can be a very quick positive diplomatic momentum between the u.s. and russia any more. at the same time you had one of the main pun dents is a good measure on what kremlin is thinking as well. he came forward and said, that he believes that donald trump, president trump

washington with a nuke just as we could destroy moscow with a nuke, just as we had destroyed two japanese cities already. it changed everything. we were not a monopoly power in terms of nuclear weapons from that point forward. russia went nuclear in the fall of 1949 and incidentally, very soon thereafter, by the spring of 1950, one of the scientists who worked on america's manhattan project confessed and was convicted of passing america's nuclear secrets to the soviets. so, yeah, that weapon that the soviets developed four years after us, that weapon that they developed and tested in 1949, it was a great equalizer between russia and the united states and changed everything in terms of the international balance of power. they had help from the united states in getting there. he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for that betrayal, for giving the soviets our nuclear secrets. last year, in february, in moscow, the russian government hosted something that they called info forum 2016. david ignatius, the national security columnist with the park ton post wrote about this earlier this year but

moscow gets its first wrench director in two centuries. more on his russian move on the way. first, our top story live from paris. ♪ >> turkish president erd netherlandsng the once occupied by nazi germany is behaving like fascists. that is after the netherlands barred to turkish ministers from holding rallies there in hopes for loving support for upcoming referendums on turkish residential powers. our correspondent told us more. >> the reports say that the --kish parliament has told that turkey demanded a written apology and a probe into what is described as the disproportionate use of force against the turkish protesters outside the consulate in rotterdam. there have been photographs circulating on the internet. the turkish information ministry is circulating them, dogs -- police dogs biting turkish protesters. >> for more reaction now, live from the netherlands, let's bring in our reporter in amsterdam. what is the likelihood that the netherlands will give the turkish president this apology is asking for? >> it is not likely. of the apology was out question. he thinks turkey should

ever had power. >> david, we did not hear about aleppo. we didn't hear about moscow. why not? >> foreign policy was kind of amazingly absent. we had some warmish words about nato. we had as you say i think the auto tune analogy is pretty good. we had a hint of the sort of nationalist suspicion of international organizations where he talked about sovereign states. he talked about free nations being able to decide their own fate. it was interesting that when i checked the european press today for their reactions one of the big french parties, lamond picked up on that and said that sounded to them like an attack on the your mean union. it is those kind of things that make people very jumpy among america's allies. but i think in terms of russia, it's one of the many areas where it's not just that donald trump has kind of controversy that he wants to wish away. i think one of the fascinating things about this 40 days of rollout is that an open question does donald trump actually enjoy the kind of hard grind of governing, the hard grind of detail, of tackling these complex subjects

the trump campaign and moscow. part of that will be pushing director comey to publicly say, yes, the fbi is investigating this or, no, we are not. i think the chances of him doing that our next to zero, but they will be pushing him for that. host: and a sense, you are looking for some type of smoking gun. hate to use the word, but there it is. guest: exactly it whether or not they get it, i think they're probably realistic about that. they will be making a case to the american people that there is substantial enough evidence here to justify this investigation. host: if you want to ask questions, you can do so. fors& 202-748-8000 democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. independents, it is 202-748-8002 . you can comment on our twitter page, @cspanwj. will the director meet with members of the intelligence committee in private to discuss this information? guest: certainly. i think you'll see a lot of behind the scenes, behind closed doors, classified information between him and the committee appeared the director has briefed the leaders of the khamenei already, and i expect that w

nightsticks. smacking protesters in the heart of moscow. the government calling the rallies illegal. at least 500 arrested, many forced into police vans. this man punched as he's led away. the demonstrations all across russia, accusing putin's government of widespread corruption. the organizers, also hauled into custody. supporters trying to block police, as they take him to jail. tonight, he's behind bars. challenging authority in russia is risky. on thursday, this video capturing the execution-style killing of a putin foe in ukraine. kiev calling it a kremlin hit. moscow calling that absurd. another putin critic, a russian lawyer, critically injured in a suspicious plunge from his moscow apartment. russia hasn't seen protests like today's in years. the police response, swift and heavy-handed. the kremlin, sure to find such public anger unsettling and not easy to ignore. tom? >> jennifer, thanks so much. >>> back here at home, a deadly night club shootout in cincinnati. gunfire erupting inside the club. one person killed, more than a dozen wounded. police are quick to say, there's no i

-government demonstrations. dozens of protests were held across the country including moscow denouncing moscow corruption. president vladimir putin's most prominent critic appeared in court yesterday. he was in court yesterday. >>> the pentagon said it's investigating allegations that a u.s. air strike last week may have killed at least 100 people in mosul, iraq. the battle to retake mosul from isis has been ongoing since february and as jonathan vigliotti reports, the details are difficult to confirm. >> the high rate of civilian deaths briefly put on hold to retake mosul. fighting has resumed but iraqis are saying they're weighing new plans and tactics. the decision came after at least 100 people were killed by a huge explosion in a district with some it. d. witnesses blaming a coalition air strike. most of the victims in the march incident were families seeking shelter from isis and the iraqi-backed government. they did launch an air strike on the same day, but they're still investigating if their air strike was to blame. adding to ongoing mystery, iraqi forces say at least one build

end of another week here, there are certainly more questions being raised about moscow and they are not just about from democrats. from republicans as well. that's what donald trump is facing as he heads off to florida later today. christina and dave? >> all right, jeff zeleny, another busy day and night for jeff. so, with the attorney general recused what happens next? for now the acting attorney general deputy attorney general will over see any investigations or prosecutions related to the trump campaign. but he may choose to appoint a special prosecutor to probe the trump campaign and its ties with russia. for that, three conditions must be met. that a criminal investigation is warranted, that the current probe presents a conflict of interest, and that an outside investigator is in the public interest. who would determine if these conditions have been met? attorney general jeff sessions. >> so, another option is being floated by some democrats reviving the old independent counsel law under which the attorney general asks a three-judge panel to name an independent counsel. that la

in russia? >> same answer. >> were you aware that donald trump ran miss universe 2013 out of moscow? >> same answer. >> are you aware that donald trump jr. said on a number of occasions that russian money is pouring into the trump organization and that there's... -- there is a disproportionate cross-section coming from russian money? >> same answer. >> so hypothetically speaking, would a foreign adversary and its oligarchs having a disproportionate cross section of company's revenue coming from that country, would that be a red flag for a counterintelligence agent? >> i'm trying to be helpful but i'm not going to answer a hypo. >> i understand. thank you, director. director, are you familiar with a 2004 home purchase by president trump in palm beach county for about $40 million? >> not going to comment on that. >> are you familiar with a 2008 sale of that same property for 129% increase at about $98 million? >> same answer. >> are you aware that the buyer in 2008 was a russian businessman? >> same answer. >> and under the earlier hypothetical, would a foreign adversary's oligarch pu

accusations against moscow. listen. >> so we all knew this before the election. we all knew russia was trying to meddle with our election, and we already know right now they're trying to do it with other countries. >> so this as the intel committee tries to break the paralysis of partisan bickers on the house side. devin nunes set to meet with the ranking democrat on that committee, adam shall have, who led the call for nunes to resign from leading that investigation amid bipartisan complaints the chairman is too cozy with the committee he is charged of investigating. what are you hearing at this hour ahead of the senate side of all of this starting to hold their first big public hearing? >> indeed within the next hour the senators will be sitting right behind me, talking asking questioning to these witnesses in which the witnesses are mostly academic types in the first panel. the second panel discussion is going to be most of the people can testify to the extent of the russian hacking. the vulnerability to the cyber security structure in this country as well as the proliferation o

college in california, 1994, he graduated from spy college in moscow. he went to the fsb academy. after that he went to work at the oil company right up to when the government seized that oil company. he didn't have all that much of an impressive resume, but he was really well connected so he went from spy school to yukos to being deputy chairman of the biggest government-run bank in russia. it's a bank i think it's called spur bank. i don't know how else to say it. he was deputy chairman of the largest state run bank in russia from 2008 until last year. if the name of that bank is familiar to you from recent news, if you'll like you've seen that name recently, it's because on friday we learned that sper sbang in trouble in the united states. the federal prosecutor's office in new york that until recently was run by preet bharara. that prosecutor's office brought charges against sper bank, they brought criminal charges against them in conjunction with granite mining firm. you don't need to know all the details, but basically the bank is charged with helping to destroy an industry in rus

members of president trump's campaign and representatives of moscow during sessions' confirmation hearing to become attorney general." here now is that moment from his confirmation hearing on january 10th. >> if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? >> senator franken, i'm not aware of any of those activities. i have been called a surrogate or two in that campaign and i did not have communications with the russians, and i'm unable to comment on it. >> and the d.o.j. released this statement saying, there was absolutely nothing misleading about sessions' answer. last year the senator had over 25 conversations with foreign ambassadors as the senior member of the armed services committee including the canadian, australian, german and russian ambassadors. he was asked about communications between russia and the trump campaign, not about meetings he took as a senator. but reaction was swift against sessions as details unfolded. >> now you have al franken now who was

getting from moscow. that's the question, isn't it? we know -- it reminds me of the boston celtics defense. they are in contact all the time. >> that's the thing. it seems like they are in constant contact and multiple people are in touch with multiple russians not just ambassador kislyak. i'm on the other side of the picture you showed. >> what is his story? he's a busy bee. >> he's doing his job. >> he goes to trump tower, in the back door. what is that about? >> somebody didn't want him to be -- they didn't want the public to know. the trump people or the russians or both didn't want the world to know. >> michael, why do they do dodge ball on the record or under oath discussions. it's a careful, to the best of my recollection. this is pretty traditional ways of telling the truth. i don't remember. then i do remember when you remember first, now i remember. oh, now i remember. >>> sessions said he had trouble remembering the details. then he said i remember telling him about a trip, a school group took, then we talked ukraine. then he remembers all this stuff. >> check the headli

moscow's man in washington will clarify what that was about. first latest from jim acosta. >> reporter: when then candidate donald trump delivered a foreign policy speech in washington last april, russian ambassador to the u.s. sergey kislyak was in the audience listening in as the real estate tycoon calld for better relations with the kremlin. >> i believe an easing of tensions, improved relss with russia from a position of strength only is possible, absolutely possible. >> reporter: three months later -- former campaign adviser j.d. gordon tells cnn he and foreign affairs correspondent, jill dougherty policy adviser carter page discussed u.s. russia relations with the ambassador. jared kush merer in and michael flynn also sat down with the ambassador at a previously undisclosed meeting at trump tower in december. now republicans are saying it's time for bhiswhite house offici to tell all. >> i think everybody ooh who's had any contact with the russians need to be in the practice of oversharing. >> reporter: the president pushed back about his campaign's contacts with the russians. >>

left because of continued prosecution. moscow has him on a list. despite previously voting for the move as an mp, he was a key witness. yet a coalition was a pro-moscow leader, ousted from power in 2014. denis voronenkov's shows signs of involvement from agents. >> there are two possible explanations. an assassination or a murder. moscow denies any involvement in the murder. the so-called killer regime will likely once again do everything possible to prevent anyone from finding out about the details about what happened in the ukrainian capital. a massive fire erupted at a military warehouse in eastern ukraine. the depot was storing supplies meant to be used to fight pro-russian separatists. >> 100 people were killed in a powerful explosion in iraq. the blast is said to have ripped through the area close to western mozilla. the victims included women and children. the explosion was a result of booby-traps set by the islamic state. the iraqi army is engaged in the battle to retake muzzle, the last major i.s. stronghold in iraq. talks aimed at ending the war in syria have resumed in geneva

gave carter page leave to go to moscow last summer. we'll get to everything we know about trump's relationship with russia, next. this is "hardball" where the action is. my hygienist told me . ...a mouthwash. so i tried crest. it does so much more than give me fresh breath. crest pro-health mouthwash provides all... ...of these benefits to help you get better dental check-ups. go pro with crest mouthwash. checkup? nailed it >>> can you say that anyone had contact with the russians. >> nobody that i know of. >> during the course of the election. >> how many times do i have to answer if this question? russia is a ruse. i have nothing to do with russia. to the best of my knowledge, no person that i deal with was. >> welcome to "hardball." last month, president trump denied that anyone in his campaign, as you just saw, had any contacts with russia during the election. but in making that statement, the president directly contradicted the word of russia's deputy foreign minister who said just days after the election that, "there were contacts during the campaign." we now know that three

. europe, marine le pen is in moscow where she had an unprecedented meeting with vladimir putin. putin says he is not trying to influence the election. in asia, china's central bank a string to rein in soaring home prices in beijing. they will have to make a larger down payment -- anyone using aseraged financial products a down payment cannot get a mortgage. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm emma chandra. this is bloomberg. mark: coming up, the central bank of russia cutting rates today. what was the thinking in moscow? this is bloomberg. ♪ julie: you are watching bloomberg. mark: this is your global business report. president trump has vowed to renegotiate nafta. mexico's top diplomat weighed in on his country's expectations for the talks. julie: credit suisse in the second year of a costly turnaround plan. that did not stop this was bank from hangout big bonuses. mark: a closer look at negative interest-rate. bonuses. out big mark: a closer look at negative interest rates. julie: mexico expecting fo

around the world as well as intercepts of communications from moscow to washington, perhaps to the ambassador or the ambassador's report back to moscow after he met with senator sessions. the content of those meetings. we also had the frustration expressed today by adam schiff, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, after a meeting with fbi director comey, who ultimately reports to the -- to attorney general sessions but not from here on out because of this recusal, saying that they've only seen a fraction of what the fbi already knows and that, if it continues that way, if their questions are not answered, the democrats will pursue other options. they could either walk and say this is not a proper investigation, they could demand a special prosecutor. they don't have the votes for the legislation for that. that would have to go to president trump to be signed. there are a lot of issues for the democrats in their frustration. but they've found so far that public pressure, that the politics has worked. it was clear from earlier today when we were interviewing members

expertise and must not. >> i know that you are in moscow. view do you see america's of islam moving, given the presidential election? muslimve witnessed the ban and i thought it was interesting. i think that this is a set of values that is embodied in a constitutional system that seems to be working. >> we are testing it. >> isn't that where we prove that it is existing? we have told the world for a geniushat america is and this demonstrates the practical outcomes of that genius and i think it is important for us to observe. i do not take it personal approach of the seven countries, but it surprised me and a number of others that there was an expectation that we could get v was an easily and that element of surprise. >> where do you see the trump with moscow?n are you puzzled? view is that the relationship has been exaggerated and has become a political football. >> to you mean that the tensions have been exaggerated question mark >> the supposedly relationship between trump and the russians. yes. much inability to see where the administration is going, the russians will probably behave in

, if there was any. yesterday in moscow this man either fell or was thrown out of a fourth of floor window in a moscow apartment building. miraculously, he survived. he has serious head injuries, he's in intensive care in a hospital in moscow. that was yesterday. today he was due to testify in a case about russian money laundering. he's also due to testify in may in new york in a russian money laundering case brought in federal court by preet bharara's office. preet bharara, the u.s. attorney who was controversially fired by the trump administration two weeks ago even though he was previously asked to stay on. both of those cases, both the new york federal court case and the court case in russia, both of those cases in which this man was due to testify are about a very famous quarter billion dollar fraud scheme in russia. it involved a western capital management firm that was operating in moscow and basically what happened is they got squeezed by russian authorities and ultimately it was a tax fraud scheme that resulted in russian government officials apparently using this western c

of power, sent him running to moscow russia was not in a mood to acknowledge defeat. after all, they had stopped ukraine from going forward with that deal with the european union and sure they had lost their man in the presidential palace but they that just meant putin needed another way to show ukraine who's boss and so russia took part of ukraine for itself. ukraine axed the deal with the eu in late november, 2013, the protests went november, december, january, february. by february the protesters had won and changed yanukovych out of office. that same week they chased him back to moscow russia invaded. russia sent its troops to the part of ukraine that's called crimea. by march russia had not just invaded, they had taken over. they just took it. they took part of another country. and here's an interesting totalitarian part of that. russia likes to appear as if it is a constitutional democracy. on paper it is. there's not just authoritarian leader vladimir putin now in the 17th year of his reign. there is technically a russian parliament, the duma. the putin used to behave li

engaged to this man, andre, who is off fighting in the war, and she is visiting her godmother in moscow, and being introduced to moscow society while waiting for her fiance. and while waiting she neets a notorious rogue and hijinks ensue. meanwhile, an old family friend of theirs, pierre? >> pierre's tavern. >> tell me about pierre. what's going who pierre? >> well, there's all this vanity and narcissism happeningarchs he said, in this moscow society, where there's war outside the gates and everybody is just concerned about the high society, the balls and the opera and all that. pierre is searching for neeng his life. he's-- you know, he's i think a little bit of a depressive. he drinks a lotarchs he mentioned many times in the lyrics. and he's searching for some kind of meaning after having been thrust into wealth ♪ oh, god, was it something he's got this unexpected money. he married somebody who he is very attracted to but knows doesn't love him very much. while everybody is at war with either napoleon or society, pierre is at war with himself. so there's this wonderful arc and wond

of moscow. during his january confirmation hearing. >> i have been called a surrogate a time or two during that campaign, and i did not have communications with the russians. >> reporter: in a statement last night the attorney general said i have never met with any russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign. i have no idea what this allegation is about. it is false. democratic house minority leader nancy pelosi is calling for sessions to resign, claiming he lied under oath. >> there may be nothing there, but if there is something there, if the fbi believes it's criminal in nature, then for sure you need a special prosecutor. >> reporter: the story broke on the same day the "new york times" detailed efforts by members of the obama administration to disseminate information about possible contacts between associates of then president-elect trump and russia. >> if there's nothing to further investigate, what are you asking people to investigate? >> reporter: the trump administration tells cbs news that white house counsel asked the president's aides this week to preserve emails

me now from moscow and drama playing out on capitol hill. it seems you struggled to find anyone that hasn't had a meeting with the russian ambassador. how is this playing out as for as the kremlin is concerned? >> i think that's precisely the kremlin's point that the ambassador in washington was doing what he should be doing which was getting out and having meetings particularly in an election year, meeting with people from the campaign's -- with a view to -- for help moscow better understand what may be coming from either campaign and therefore for them to -- you know, for the kremlin to formulate better. they are caught up in an intense internal political fighting within the united states. they deny, of course, any accusation that they were involved in -- in trying to interfere and influence the outcome of the election in hacking the dnc computers. they say that's not what they do. they don't interfere into the affairs of other countries. but where it impacts russia today is that you know, they feel here in russia that they're trying to sort of maintain some patience, the wait for

given two weeks in jail for resisting arrest. in moscow, at least 8,000 showed up. police arrested more than 1,000. most were released. european union called on russia to release the rest. the state department said "detaining peaceful protesters is an affront to democratic values." the crime then calls the protest the provocation. >> translator: the kremlin respects people's stance on the right to voice their position. we can't voice the same respect to those who consciously misled people into that yesterday and provoked legal actions. speak with the last time russia saw street protests was in 2011 and 2012 after voter fraud in parliamentary elections and putin's decision to run again for president. the russian president blamed then secretary of state hillary clinton for encouraging the protests, and many say he never got over his displeasure. those protests were bigger in scope than yesterday's, and it's not clear to what extent sunday's mergers are reflective of the greater russian population. of course, putin's popularity remains very high but yesterday did prove that significan

the magazine, david remnick. we are live in moscow with a closer look at the kgb background of one vladimir putin and we'll have the latest on what is happening on the investigative front in washington but first some breaking news on this front just in from the "new york times" this evening. new reporting tonight about what the obama administration learned in its final days about russian interference in the presidential election and the remarkable steps it took to protect the evidence from the incoming administration. this piece again just out in the last hour, the "new york times" reporting that as the obama administration learned more about these possible contacts between russia and close associates of donald trump during the campaign the white house tried to spread the investigation it was gathering to as many government agencies as possible in part to prevent the incoming trump administration from finding, covering up, or destroying the evidence. joining us now, one of the reporters who broke the story tonight, it's a triple biline piece in the "times," matthew rosenberg is wit

magazine, david remnick. we are live in moscow with a closer look at the kgb background of one vladimir putin and we'll have the latest on what is happening on the investigative front in washington but first some breaking news on this front just in from the "new york times" this evening. new reporting tonight about what the obama administration learned in its final days about russian interference in the presidential election and the remarkable steps it took to protect the evidence from the incoming administration. this piece again just out in the last hour, the "new york times" reporting that as the obama administration learned more about these possible contacts between russia and close associates of donald trump during the campaign the white house tried to spread the investigation it was gathering to as many government agencies as possible in part to prevent the incoming trump administration from finding, covering up, or destroying the evidence. joining us now, one of the reporters who broke the story tonight, it's a triple byline piece in the "times," matthew rosenberg is wit

a total witch hunt. those words echoed in moscow where russian foreign minister sergey lavrov described it the same way. >> translator: it all looks like a witch hunt. >> reporter: russia clearly on the president's mind today sending this tweet, we should start an immediate investigation into senator schumer and his ties to russia and putin, a total hypocrite. senator schumer firing back, happily talk about my contact with mr. putin and his soergtss. took place in 2003. in full view of press and public under oath. would you and your team? in wisconsin, vice president mike pence facing questions about using a personal e-mail account to conduct business as indiana governor. it was hacked in a fishing scam as first reported by "the indianapolis star." >> i'm very confident that our e-mail practices were in full compliance with all of indiana's laws. >> reporter: on the campaign trail, he often criticized 4k's private e-mail server. >> classified information clou allowed to be on her own private server exposed to hacking. to be honest with you, i'm experiencing clinton's scandal f

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year i graduated from college. he graduated from spy college in moscow. he went to the fsb academy. after that he went onto work at the oil company when the russian government came in and took it for themselves. he then landed a really sweet job. it is funny, he was really well connected. he went from spy school to being deputy chairman of the biggest government run bank in russia. on friday we learned that it is in trouble in the united states. the federal prosecutors office that until recently was run before the trump administration suddenly fired him, that prosecutor's office brought charges against him. they brought criminal charges against him in conjunction with a granite mining firm. basically the bank is charged with helping to destroy an industry in russia and helping pick a monopoly winner. that's a very typical story in terms of how it works in terms of putin. he'll destroy what exists and hand it over to one of his partners and one of his friends. it is kind of the dynamic when it comes to putin. this is the largest state run bank in russia. the reason it made american

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respect me. >> i with us in moscow a couple months ago. you know, i own the miss universe pageant. they treated me so great. putin even sent me a president. beautiful present with a beautiful note. >> i got to know him very well. we were on "60 minutes." >> we did "60 minutes" together. by the way, not together, together. meaning he was probably shot in moscow and i was shot in new york. >> i spoke directly and indirectly with president putin who could not have been nicer. >> i don't know putin. i never met putin. this is not my best friend. >> just some of the questions and answers over the last few years. two weeks ago "the new york times" reported there are four people, trump associates who the fbi is closely examined over potential contacts with russian intelligence officials during the campaign season. all four men have strongly denied improper contact with russian officials. although they aren't telling all of them the same story. tonight our own chris hayes introduces us to those four, starting with former trump campaign adviser roger stone. >> i'm wondering how you would charact

outcome for moscow. they may have wanted, if you agree with the special litigations, to interfere with the campaign seeing donald trump as a more favorable alternative. it's not clear what the objective is being but regardless of that, the scrutiny of relationships between russian officials and those around donald trump is so intense now and the domestic criticism of donald trump for that is pretty relentless that it would be hard, perhaps, for the trump white house to come forward with policies that may be more aligned to moscow's objectives, certainly in the middle east too because they'll be accused of that former sense of collusion so in the long-term, moscow not entirely happy but they have certainly thrown the cat among the pigeon in the beltway causing a lot of internal interruptions in the establishment and may well be to their advantage. >> thank you so much for the information, nick paton walsh. now, monday's hearing is led by the house intelligence committee. my next guest served on that committee until earlier this year. former congressman, patrick murphy, a democrat, and j

russia during the 2016 election. cnn's fred pleitgen is in moscow. fred, what is the mooted on the ground there in -- the mood on the ground in in terms of how closely people will be watching? >> reporter: it's interesting because we asked senior russian officials just that -- how concerned were they about things that could be mentioned or said during the congressional hearings. they said in the form of the spokesman for putin that they wouldn't be watching the hearings at all. that they had other things to do and believed nothing new would come out of them. of course, they are going to be watching them very closely. we expect that there will be reactions to some of the things that will be said tomorrow. you can feel the us fromration in moscow among the russian leadership. many of them hoping that the topic about the possible ties between donald trump and the russians would simply go away. here's what we found out when we were on the streets of moscow. does president trump really have any ties to the russian government? did russia really meddle in the u.s. election? questions that

generation, many of the best and the brightest believed. and moscow picked out those that were vulnerable to is he duction. they had talent scouts searching for people who seemed some what alienated and idealistic and yet positioned for big careers. >> rose: what happened. >> absolutely crushed by this man who never told them that he was working for stalin. and in fact tried to lure them in to the craft of espionage. the heroin of the saga whom i just loved writing about, you know, writing a book is like a marriage. you have to like the subject. and noel field is not the most lovable guy. he is complex and interesting but his daughter erica wol ddz ock was just a force of nature, adopted daughter, yes. and her children were very helpful to me. i couldn't have done this, because this is very much a human drama. i couldn't have done it-- . >> rose: an a tragedy. >> yes, of the cost of total belief and of sort of abdicating reason. and you know, i thought that the comparison would be made to isis, the recruitment of vulnerable young people to isis. but then along came all this news of moscow

washington, who is a former cnn moscow bureau chief. jonathan, you first. we keep learning new details about the meetings between russia's ambassador to top aides for president trump. he has denied there was contact between any of these people with the russians. don't people want to know why so many contacts and what were these contacts and meetings about? >> don, weren't you intrigued about who this donald trump guy was? didn't you want to know whether he could win? the russians wanted to know he was just as much a puzzle to them. i can't tell you how many russians up until the election would ask me, is he for real? what is it going to mean? what is he going to do? is this guy crazy? is he a caricature? how do i understand his cartoons? he isn't a normal american politician. then they'd want me to explain to them the same thing in russian just so they could get confirmation. i think some of this was going on. were they getting secret instructions? i doubt it. >> that explains the russian side of it, but it doesn't explain the other side as well. just because they want to learn