— which he denied. he was paid $45,000 to attend a dinner in moscow, hosted by the tv station russia today, and was seated at the same table as vladimir putin. he also lobbied on behalf of another foreign government, turkey, although that wasn't disclosed at the time. today, donald trump rallied to his side with this tweet: "mike flynn should ask for immunity, in that this is a witchhunt, excuse for big election loss by media and dems of historic proportion." but this is what donald trump and michael flynn said during the campaign, when it emerged that clinton aides had sought immunity over disclosing information about her use of a private e—mail server. if you're not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for? when you're given immunity it means you've probably committed a crime. so is there worry at the white house that his information could implicate the president? no — he believes that mike flynn should go and testify. he should go up there and do what he has to do to get the story out. in the meantime, the russians are again dismissing as fake news suggestions that the

turning the idea of reset with moscow into a mine dream. >> from what happened in crimea to other mucking around inside other people's elections. >> visiting nato for the first time secretary of state rex tillerson tried to reassure nervous u.s. allies that president trump won't seek closer ties with russia. >> we want to have a discussion around nay toe's posture in europe, most particularly eastern europe in response to russia's aggression. >> clint watts told lawmakers that putin might be trying to cover his tracks. >> phenomenon the trail of dead russians. there have been more russians who have had assets and banks all over the world die. >> reporter: dennis varinkov was gunned down. former security minister has shared state secrets about russian actions with investigators. they kael his murd an act of russian state terrorism. he's one of several mysterious deaths since russia became a target of investigation. in december, russia's ambassador to turkey was shot dead at point blank range in an art exhibition. the shooter, a turkish police officer said do not forget syria. the s

thousand paid internet trolls in moscow that create in effect bots that can then flood certain of these search engines like twitter and facebook and others with a lot of false news. real fake news, not the kind that the president sometimes referred to. and there was complete consensus from both the technical experts and the more kind of historical and policy experts, one, that russia was behind this. two, it was based on the assumption that russia was trying to create havoc and chaos and they want to try to split countries apart and try to drive as big a social wedge as possible. and obviously if you look at the 2016 electorate in terms of some of the tools they used, they did that. there was a lot of the websites they pushed and promoted were ones that were viewed as far right, lots of the words and usage of those words reinforce those kind of views. what also i thought was a little surprising to hear some of the witnesses hear is to say that part of the reason they are successful is that then candidate trump used some of this fake news in his normal comments about fake numbers o

to russia. sitting next to vladimir putin at a dinner in moscow in 2015. here they are, shaking hands. after just 24 days as national security adviser, president trump fired flynn for lying to the vice president about conversations he had with the russian ambassador about sanctions. asked directly today if the white house is concerned about what flynn might tell congress, press secretary sean spicer had a simple one-word response. >> nope. >> jon karl with us live from the white house tonight. j jon, we've been reporting here on the head of the house committee, republican devin nunes, investigating russian meddling and any possible russian collusion, and his mystery meeting at the white house. tonight, you have news on the ranking member, the democratic leader on that committee, going to the white house? >> reporter: that's adam schiff, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee. we knew he was coming here to the white house, to the old executive office building to review some intelligence. he did that, but after that, he had a ten-minute meeting in the oval office wit

moscow in 2013. there are more indirect kind of connections. we know among the other business ties, donald j. trump, jr. said, in 2008, that, of their businesses all across the board, that russians were pouring in money. he thought russians were among their most important clients at that time. now russia was emerging as an important economy then. think what you will. 1987, trump viltsed in 1996, and in 2013 looked for potential sites for a trump hotel in moscow that never came to bea bear. last summer, a story people paid attention, to we know there are reports from cnn and others investigators looked into rawngs bank repeatedly trying to contact servers in the trump organization. the trump organization says they did not know anything about that andeth not clear if that was for business reasons or what was going on, but one way connection but many of them from a russian bank to the trump organization. the kushners also have a family business kushner properties. >> woodruff: the son-in-law. and jared kushner in addition to meeting with the russian ambassador also in december met wit

trolls in moscow that create bots that can flood search engines like twitter and facebook and others with false news. real fake news, not the kind of president has sometimes referred to. there was complete consensus from the technical experts and the more historical and policy experts that russia was behind us and it was based on the assumption russia was trying to and want to try to split countries apart and drive as big of social wedges as possible. if you look at the 2016 electorate in terms of some of the tools they used, they did that. a lot of the websites they pushed and promoted would be viewed as far right. the usage of words reinforced those views. what a thought was surprising was to hear some of the witnesses say part of the reason they were successful is then candidate trump used some of this fake news in hiswitnesses n they were normal comments about fake numbers of people voting, about some of the other outlandish claims trump made as a candidate. and that amplified the fake news. the truth is we live in an era now with great benefits from technology. we are now seeing wher

. >> this week's iran's president visited moscow and a sign of warming ties between nations. >> russia and iran coordinate on every step to stabilize the situation in syria. >> the russians are taking a pledge out of iran's playbook supporting the taliban. trying to undermine the united states and afghanistan. >> i think it's fair to assume they may be providing some kind of support to them in terms of weapons or other things that may be there. again, i think that is the possibility. >> >> we have seen russian activity, vis-a-vis the taliban i'm not willing to say if that has manifested into weapons. certainly what they are up to there in light of their other activity gives us concern. >> iran is accused of killing hundreds of american troops in iraq a decade ago. general votel says there are 100,000 iranian backed fighters in iraq raising question what comes next after isis. >> chris: what many people sees a a power grab is prompting violent protests prots in venezuelala. the country's supreme court has stripped the opposition controlled congress of much its power. that has

moscow first or brussels first and exactly what secretary tillerson is planning. my larger point was, in simple terms, trump had said -- again, i outline it very simply -- three things that made sense with regard to russia. right? that the bad relations we have right now thahat we've h had for some years are not solely russia's fault, but u.s. mistakes have played into it as well. that is first. second, he consequently should meet russia halfway. and thirdly, that if we do so, then there is a great possibility of cooperation that will benefit both parties come a that will benefit the entirere world if we can cooperate on issueses such as fighting terrorism, a transition in sysyria, dlatie-esca conflict in ukraine in central europe, possibly even cooperating on the arctic where v very intriguingl, presidentt putin of russia yesterday seem to propose a meeting in helsinki in may with donald trump. kind of a summit centered around the arctic council. my way of thinking, that would be a great venue f for a freshsh start.t. but we're not g going to get the so long as we have -- we continu

conversations with the russian ambassador. as well as that 2015 gala in moscow where general flynn sat with russian president vladimir putin and, of course, there is the question, does general flynn know anything about the russian meddling that we are now learning continued after the election? here's what senator marco rubio said this week. >> within the last 24 hours, at 10:45 a.m. yesterday, a second attempt was made against former members of my presidential campaign team who had access to our internal information again targeted from an i.p. address from an unknown location in russia and that effort was also unsuccessful. >> and could general flynn shed new light on the thinking inside the very secretive kremlin now pushing the line that the hacking never happened? >> all those fake news having nothing beneath and having no evidence were nothing else but slander and that's why we'll continue to suggest to everyone insisting that russia was interferi interfering in the domestic affairs of the united states, we will suggest them to read mr. putin's lips. >> with me now, malcolm nan

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denied to he was paid $45,000 to attend a dinner in moscow posted by the tv station russia today and was seated at the same table and vladimir putin. he also lobbied on behalf of another foreign government, turkey, although that wasn't disclosed at the time. today donald trump rallied to his side with this tweet. "mike flint should ask for immunity in that this is a witchhunt, excuse of the election lost by the media and dems of historic proportion." this is what donald trump and michael flynn said during the campaign when it emerged that clinton aides had sought immunity over information over her use of a private e-mail server. mr. trump: if you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for? lt gen flynn: if you are given immunity, you are probably -- you have probably committed a crime. >> he believes that mike flynn should go testify and do what he has to do to get the story out. jon: in the meantime, the russians are dismissing as fake news suggestions they have been up to no good. >> americans they do think that russian hackers are everywhere, iron,ry fridge, and every an

. when president obama imposed sanctions on moscow, flynn call ed the russian ambassador to offer reassurance, even though neither flynn nor donald trump were in office yet. when it emerged that michael flynn had lied to the vice president about the conversation, he was left with little choice but to resign. even then, trump did not fully condemn his behavior. president trump --\ now he is offering to tesfy in probes, but only if he is given immunity. "general flynn certainly has a story to tell. and he very much wants to tell it, should the circumstances permit," his lawyer said on twitter. "but no reasonable person, who has the benefit of advice from counsel, would submit to questioning in such a highly politicized, witchhunt environment without assurances against unfair prosecution." it is a move that many in washington are interpreting as an admission of guilt. but the trump administration maintains that michael flynn did nothing wrong and the government has nothing to hide regarding russia. >> it is the concern of the whit house that he has damaging information about the pres

ties between the president's associates, and moscow. flynn's lawyer said general flynn certainly has a story to tell and he very much wants to tell it. there must be assurance is a begins unfair prosecution. the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee adam shift released his own statement calling the request for immunity, a grave and momentous step and saying that the matter would be discussed with counterparts in the senate and the justice department. >>> i'm not going to say anything. >> reporter: republican chairman of the house committee would not comment last night and himself is facing questions about possible coordination with the white house. devon nunez admits making a trip to the ground last week to look at classified evidence the new york times identified his sources as nsc staffer ezra cohen-watnick and michael ellis a white house lawyer. >>> if that was designed to hide the origin of the materials, then that raises profound questions. >> reporter: white house argues that the focus should be the leaking of classified information, not this process. >>> and

part in final preparations near moscow. the lift off was initially planned for the end of march, but due to some technical issues, it was reschedule for april 20th. ms spacecraft will carry two people as part of this mission instead of the usual three in and effort to save money. >>> red, cold and dry. these are the facts we know about the plan at the time mars. well now scientists think they know the reasons why. new study finds mars was very similar to earth about 4 billion years ago. but blasts of wind from the sun suck all that warmth and moisture from the red planet and left it the bar i don't know place we know today. earth on the other hand has magnetic field that deflects those solar winds. >>> all right. a warning to parents tonight about what may be on your children's phones. we're talking about ghost apps. children and teenagers often years them to keep information away from mom and dad's prying eyes. >> fox's maury glover shows us how they work and what parents should look out for. >> reporter: most parents check their kids phones to keep track of what they're doing

yesterday after he announced he was going to seek re-election, somebody in moscow, somebody in russia, tried to hack one of our campaign staffers from the presidential campaign staff's e-mails and coincidentally or not, it happened again two days ago, the same staffer was targeted by somebody in russia. these are ongoing. this brings the entire investigation current because it's not just about what happened or did not happen during the election, did the trump campaign collude with the russians or not? all that is interesting and worth looking into. i think just as important, if not more important, is where do we go from here? how do we make sure that foreign governments do not meddle in future elections? how do we make sure the american people have faith in the outcome of the midterms? how do we make sure that future presidential campaigns are not targeted, are not having all their e-mails leaked out in the open as we did in this last election? there are lessons to be learned here i'm afrd so far our political system has not learned. that's most important thing that the senate

moscow. >> russia's violations of international law are now a matter of record from what happened with crimea to other inects of their behavior mucking around in other people's elections. >> francois fillon says if elected, his priority would be to fight islamic extremism following a series of attacks in his country. he is a major contender in the , and proposaltion to put in place a european defense alliance led by france and germany. the un security council is counting -- cutting 500 troops. this is a first after pressure from the trump administration for more cuts and reform. the u.s. ambassor to the u.n. accused the u.n. of aiding conga's corrupt government. focus on to increase aiding civilians and a free and fair residential election. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. scarlet: let's get back to politics with lots to cover, president trump vowing to level the playing field for american workers. he signed two executive orders on trade. we have a national political reporter for bloomberg news. trade is the top

quickest nato meeting ever. and he will be going to moscow. we know he is planning to travel to russia pretty soon so it was really awkward, if he had gone to russia. especially given his own back ground and his own oil executive relationships in russia without having come assured the defense alliance that was created 70 years ago, against the former soviet union. >> where does the u.s. stand on bashar al assad? the leader of syria? it was initially or policy that we wanted him removed. that seems to be. >> that really did change for all intents and purposes, even though we never stated it in the last administration, in fairness, because they kept saying as secretary kerry always did, that they're committed to the geneva peace process to work out an agree. once russia entered the air space a year and a half ago and began to dominate the air space and prop up assad, that along with iran, and no one being willing to take them off. it was clearly not going to be possible to come up easily with a solution to this horrendous civil war. so what rex tillerson said first in turkey yesterday, w

about it in moments. trump has offered praise for vladimir putin. but moscow is not feeling the love. the kremlin's relationship with the united states may be worse now than even during the cold war. let's get to it. first from the fox news desk, general michael flynn says he wants immunity to testify before the congressional and criminal investigations of russian meddling and possible team trump collusions to hurt hillary clinton and help donald trump. that's coral -- according to the retired general's lawyer. they're in talks now to be immune from unfair prosecution. in a statement yesterday, michael flynn's attorney wrote "general flynn has a story to tell and he very much wants to tell it should the circumstances permit." his lawyer wrote "he's the target of unsubstantiated demands from critics that he be criminally investigated. no reasonable person who has the benefit of advice from council -- counsel without assurances of unfair prosecution." president trump echoed his statement. he tweeted -- in other words, the president and flynn's attorneys say the request for immunity is

moscow's ambassador to the u.s. but now his attorney is saying, and i quote here, "general flynn has certainly has a story to tell and very much wants to tell it should the circumstances permit." just a moment ago, we heard from sean spicer, a lot of journalists throwing questions at him about this, specifically from jim acosta asking if the white house is at all concerned about whether general flynn's testimony may implicate someone in the administration, might it be dangerous for the president and in a word, sean spicer said nope. here's more. >> but i think that the interesting thing is, if you actually stop for a second and realize what the president's doing, he's saying do whatever you have to do to go up and make it clear what happened, take whatever precaution you want or however your legal counsel advises you. but again, i've heard in some legal circles that the president could have exerted legal authority with him and sally yates and others. it's quite the opposite. that, compared to the narrative that you've heard from folks in this room a lot of the time, is a little bit o

operation to counter moscow's current aggressive foreign policy. this is a time when nato needs to be particularly strong. richard galpin, bbc news at lancaster house. the headlines on bbc news: the president of the european council, donald tusk, rules out initial discussions on a future trade deal with the uk, until progress has been made on the terms of separation. scotland's first minister nicola sturgeon sends a letter to theresa may formally asking for powers to hold a second independence referendum. president trump's ex—national security adviser, michael flynn, says he wants immunity before he'll testify on alleged russian election meddling. the market numbers for you, close of play in london saw a drop in 0.5%. the dax still up. the dowjones down and the nasdaq up narrowly. in a moment, it's full steam ahead for the flying scotsman at the re—opening of the settle—to—carlisle rail line. teaching assistants are facing fresh challenges as a result of growing financial pressures across the education system. teaching unions say staff shortages and budget cuts mean too many a

. everyone can live in moscow but the jews cannot. every nation can live in place but the jewish nation cannot. [ applause ] they seek to impose boycotts symbolically on israel and in the on any other nation, the bds movement condemns this will and willfully turning to blind eye to violate human rights especially in the middle east. i ask the so called justice crusade crusaders, where are your boycott against iran? a country sponsors terrorism around the globe and execute to centers and hangs them from construction in city squares. heterosexualities are punished and abused. where are your boycott there? [ applause ] >> the state of israel is all too frequently measured by the rest o f the world. make no mistake, these boycott efforts have one goal and only one goal. i pledge to you that i will continue to fight these boycott effor efforts. not only they are unjust. in my home state of new york, the state legislature passed the law saying if you are a business or university, boycott israel, the state of new york will boycott you. i applaud the governor and state legislature for passing t

are doing. that has to be done. >> this week, iran's president visited moscow in the sight of warming ties between nations, the general said that iran's behavior has gotten worse since the nuclear deal was reached. >> ed: thank you. you see sean spicer at the podium, let's go live. >> press secretary spicer: make the briefing last night on the executive orders on the trade executive orders the president is going to be signing this afternoon. their first order directs the department of commerce and office of the u.s. trade representative to examine every form of trade abuse and nonreciprocal practice that are currently contribute into the united states large and persistent trade deficit. which was the largest in the major nation in 2016, that is $500 billion. within 90 days, the department of commerce and the u.s. trade representative will submit a comprehensive report to the president on the causes of our unduly large trade deficit. it is the first time in modern history that an american president has called for such an investigation, and it is our findings will allow us to make smart

lead in a crisis right now for the world? >> and it becomes so hard for those going to moscow next month, and the president is now being invited by putin for a meeting. how does he deal with this after all he said about putin, embracing him before and since the election, as well as this investigation which -- can only get more complicated and is so compromised. >> i have no idea how they can have a successful trip to russia under any circumstance. it is to me a trip that is fraught with peril. he was supposed to be someone that could deal with rogue actors. he, himself, is he ready for this moment? i think that you have to ask yourself is this the right time for the senior most national security officialing to be meeting with the russian president? and the london based economist, the cover of the magazine out today, reflects the image of a president who, a white house that is diminished and a president who is digging himself deem e deeper and deeper into a hole on a golf course, which is appropriate given how many weekends they have been playing golf. the fact is not only did he al

may have compromised the president's plan to establish closer ties between russia and moscow. international law is now a matter of record with what happened with crimea to other aspects of their behavior mucking around inside other people's elections. >> the presidential candidate trump says, if he is elected, he would be to fight islamic extremism. a defense alliance was proposed today between france and germany. the first round of elections is april 23. un security council is counting 500 -- for more cuts and reforms. the u.s. ambassador, nikki haley, accused the u.n. in aiding congo's government. they're going to increase focus fairabling free and presidential elections later this year. i just has approved an agreement for donald trump to pay $25 million to settle lawsuits over university, following seven years of legal battles. settlement,of the trump admits there is no wrongdoing. he says customers will get at least 90% of their money back. -- i'm emmandra chandra. julie? says heresident trump will sign to executive orders in about an hours's time. he made a comment duri

the only way for washington to gain change the moscow, dynamics in the ukraine, and gain congressional support for policy. foreign mr. trump has an example to ollow, even as the cold war raged, president ronald reagan u.s. military presence in europe. reagan spoke from a position of urged soviet he mikale gorbechauv, tear down this wall. what do you think president rump had should learn from reagan? guest: he should learn what i meetings with president putin, mainly that putin only respects power. respects strength, unity. and this is the reason why president trump should negotiate with the russians from a strength. that includes to help ukraine. better the road to a elationship with russia goes through ukraine. the russians must change their ukraine. ith they must withdraw from eastern ukraine as a precondition with relations with russia. host: has his position been of the newsl by all about potential russian meddling n the election and ongoing investigations that are happening here, has that hurt president trump's credibility? guest: yeah, well, i think it possibilities

>>> good morning, america. the russian connection. this morning our exclusive interview from moscow with president putin's right-hand man taking on those accusations about russia interfering with our election to help elect donald trump as the investigation here at home intensifies. >> this is not fake news. this is actually what happened to us. >>> president trump's former national security adviser michael flynn now offers to testify about his contacts with russia in exchange for immunity. >>> massive inferno. a giant wall of flames taking over this atlanta interstate collapsing a bridge during rush hour. smoke seen for miles, all five lanes shut down in both directions. the travel headache that could now last for months and the investigation this morning, what sparked the blaze. >>> missing mom mystery. new questions about that so-called supermom who disappeared then was found on the side of the road with the story about a terrifying abduction. the newly uncovered police reports exposing her past. accusations from family members that she's faked an attack before. what her family is

own deals with moscow's ambassador to the united states. general flynn certainly has a story to tell. he very much wants to tell us should the circumstances permit. and the president weighing in just a short time ago, tweeting mike flynn should ask for immunity in what is a witch hunt excuse for big election loss by media and democrats of historic proportion. also this morning the kremlin is striking a pretty dire tone. listen to this. >> new cold war? well, maybe even worse. maybe even worse, taking into account actions of the present presidential administration. >> worse? >> let's begin this hour with sara murray who joins us at the white house. a lot going on. >> there is a lot going on, beginning with democrats hitting back at the president's tweets. adam schiff tweeted back to the president's comments about michael flynn today, saying the question for you, mr. president, is why you waited so long to ask after you learned flynn through your vp had misled the country. of course as you pointed out, michael flynn was ousted from his job as national security advisor because he m

and moscow to drop dramatically. >>> and a bill to be calls for children receiving needs. and what does that mean? and they say the language is too vague. the senator says the point is not to tell parents how to raise their kids but to build on their kids but to build on existing state >> most families want their kids to reach their optimum potential. >> the senator pan calls the bill a vision for children in the state. >>> there will be a vision of more loveliness today with less wind this afternoon, and a warm weekend. here's live doppler 7. our exploratorium camera, it's breezy out there, and especially in the upper elevations. it's 53 in san jose. pick this camera shot to show how windy it is here, and mount tam, 2600 feet, and this camera situated below that. the winds right now anywhere from 20 to 25 miles per hour from the east bay to the peninsula, so keep that in mind as you are heading out through noontime, upper elevations, winds up to 50 miles per hour and then they relax and we will warm up today. the highs range from the mid-60s, and half moon bay, low 70s, and fremon

flynn was fired after misleading the white house about his own deals with moscow's ambassador to the united states. general flynn certainly has a story to tell. he very much wants to tell us should the circumstances permit. and the president weighing in just a short time

committee held its first public hearing. experts testified there's little doubt that moscow was behind hacking and leaking democratic emails and spreading fake news during the 2016 election. former presidential candidate marco rubio indicated he was targeted. >> it was unsuccessful. >> follow the trail of dead russians. there's been more dead russians in the past three months that are tied to this investigation who have assets in banks all over the world. >> reporter: committee members concede so far there is nothing to stop the russians from interfering in the 2018 midterm elections. >>> groups have filed a federal lawsuit to block the trump administration's approval of the keystone xl pipeline. the suit filed in montana yesterday claims issuing a cross-border permit for the oil pipeline was a major federal action that requires compliance with the national environmental policy act. >>> a burning candle is blamed for starting the fire in west oakland on monday. investigators say that it appears it was an accident. three days before the fire city building inspectors found multiple fire

today. >>> turning now to russian president vladimir putin who is flatly denying that moscow is engaging in information warfare to wield influence over elections in the u.s. and beyond. >> now, putin dismissed the allegations as what he calls endless and groundless, and he described them as part of what he called the u.s. domestic political struggle. putin also said he's ready to meet with president trump at an upcoming arctic summit. >>> president trump is taking aim at some of his fellow republicans. the president went on a twitter rampage against the conservative freedom caucus. that's the group that derailed the gop health care bill and warned they would hurt the entire republican agenda if they don't get on the team and threatened to fight them in 2018. but some caucus members are now firing back. >> is this an actual negotiating tactic by the president though, or do you think this is a constructive way to do it? >> i mean, it's constructive in fifth grade. >> that congressman also tweeted, "it didn't take long for the swamp to drain donald trump." >>> and now to this morni

investigating the coordination between moscow and the campaign. >>> a massive fire caused an interstate bridge to collapse in atlanta. no one was injured but i-85, the main north/south highway through atlanta is shut down. 250,000 cars use the road every day. a state of emergency has been declared and the cause of the fire is under investigation. >>> and one giant leap in rocket technology. spacex launched a recycled rocket that boosted a communications satellite into orbit. the falcon 9 blasted off from the kennedy space center, reusing a first stage booster that has landed on an ocean platform a year ago. it made another successful landing yesterday. spacex hopes to lower space flight costs and speed up flights. >>> meantime nasa is getting ready to launch a giant telescope designed to open new frontiers in space exploration. kenneth craig has more. >> reporter: center stage at nasa's goddard space flight center is a high-tech creation designed to revolutionalize astronomy. the largest and most powerful space telescope ever built. >> the technologies we've developed to get

. joining us from moscow, dmitry peskov, vladimir putin's joining us. we heard -- >> thank you for inviting me. >> we heard president putin said read my lip, there was no interference, russian interference in the u.s. election. as you no doubt no that read my lips promise was later overtaken by events. are you confident that president putin's denials will not be corrected by new evidence? >> we're quite confident. we're confident for 100%. this campaign, we've been saying from the very beginning that it was nothing else but slander and then all those fake news having nothing beneath and having no evidence were nothing else but slander and that's why we'll continue to suggest to everyone insisting that russia was interfering in this or that way in the domestic affairs of the united states. we will suggest them to read mr. putin's lips. >> one of the conclusions is that russia was trying to hurt hillary clinton and help donald trump. you said yourself that it's natural that putin would prefer trump. why? >> it's very simple. listen, for example, we have had a variety of politicians i

from moscow. to them, it's a political battle right now. they feel besieged. they feel under attack and are very, very frustrated. >> peter, this is gene robinson. this is not your first rodeo here. covering this white house to what you've seen previously and i guess my follow-up question is, the sense of personal persecution that they seem to have, does that all flow from the president himself? >> yeah. mike mentioned kindly that i had just gotten back from a very short stint in israel. part of the reason was having covered previous white houses, some people thought that might be a useful thing. having covered previous white houses is not at all helpful to covering this one. have you expectations that are totally inappropriate. everything you as a reporter covering the white house thought you knew does not apply. >> yeah. >> presidents don't do this or they do do this. this is the way the white houseworks. throw it out. the playbook doesn't work. success over time is being unconventional, something that seems different. but it's gotten him in a lot of hot water early on. his polls,

. election. russ russia's president sees things differently. we have a live report from moscow about what he is saying next. in my johnsonville commercial we open up in the forest. hi. i'm jeff. i'm eating my breakfast and all of a sudden a raccoon come up and ask me, "what are you eating?" i told him "johnsonville breakfast sausage, fully cooked." porcupine comes in and he says, "does that come in patties?" i said "yup" wolf comes in and says, "how'd you learn to talk to animals?" and i said "books" and we had a good laugh about that. [laughter] that's a commercial made the johnsonville way. >>> u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson denouncing aggression in ukraine. russian officials responded moments ago. cnn's matthew chance live in moscow. >> reporter: these are rare comments of rex tillerson. he has been seen a friend of the kremlin. he was award the medal of friendship by vladimir putin when he was the ceo of exxon. he said he is attending the nato meeting in brussels today. one thing he wants to talk about is the posture of nato in europe. particularly to russia's aggression i

putin, responded from moscow dismissing the allegations as groundless. >>> president trump meets today with former secretary of state condoleezza rice. this morning's meeting at the white house their second get-together since election day. rice did not support the president during the campaign. the two even traded some verbal barbs. no word on what is on the agenda. >>> in the meantime, the president is predicting "a very difficult meeting with the leader of china." trump will host him for a visit at his florida resort beginning next thursday. among issues to be addressed, trade, north korea, territorial disputes in the south china sea. during the campaign, trump accused china of unfair trade practices. >>> south korea's recently ousted president is an inmate. park guen-hye was arrested. entered detention facility just before dawn. while park is behind bars, prosecutors will charge her in the corruption scandal that led to her impeachment. she can be held up to 20 days. park faces charges of bribery and extortion. >>> a new government list of the saltiest foods might include some thing

hearing on moscow's meddling in the election. they claim staffers who worked on his campaign were also targeted as recently as wednesday. the first hacking attempt he says came after he dropped his presidential bid and announced plans to seek re-election. the senator says none of the attacks were successful. >>> a new report names a third trump administration official in the story of how white house staffers may have fed self-serving intelligence reports to a congressional a ally who presented it as validation of an explosive claim by president trump. it began the day after the directors of the fbi and nsa said they had no information to back up president trump's tweets about being wiretapped by the obama administration. devin nunes made an abrupt trip to the white house grounds to view material in a secured facility and then returned to the white house the following morning to brief the president and tell the press what he found. now "the new york times" cites several current american officials who say nunes received the information from two white house officials. michael ellis, a law

committee held its first public hearing on thursday, expert testified there is little doubt moscow was behind hacking and leaking democratic emails and spreading fake news during the 2016 election. >> former presidential candidate, senator marco rubio, divulge he too was targeted. >> effort was unsuccessful. >> former f.b.i. agent testified the russians may now be trying to cover their tracks. >> follow the trail of dead russians, there has been more dead russians in the past months who have assets and banks all over the worlds. >> committee members concede so far there is nothing to stop the russians from interfering in the 2018 midterm elections. craig boswell, for cbs-3, "eyewitness news." >> a huge fire collapses part of a georgia interstate, still ahead, what may have sparked the flames, and the traffic nightmare caused by the fire. >> terrifying ride for a new jersey family, we will tell you what fell from the sky, and crashed into their windshield. >> and finders keepers. $15,000 found in the middle of the road. who get to keep all of that cash after no one claims it for an enti

impossible without it. in 1941, hitler's armies were stopped just outside the gates of moscow. in 1945, stalin's armies entered berlin. that was russia's greatest generation. generations of russians since then have been taught that their country was at its most secure then because it was protected by a buffer, the warsaw pact and the soviet empire. in 1991 russians lost that buffer. the legacy of their greatest generation. with their country falling apart, russian leaders had no choice but to accept this loss. for as long as russia would remain weak. the 90s were a terrible decade for russia but a great decade for the west. for russian leaders, and many regular russians, the dominance of the west came at the expense of russia's loss in the cold war. russia would not remain weak indefinitely. its economic recovery led to a return doing much more assertive posture, on the world stage. we saw it in the crushing of georgia in 2008. in the annexation of crimea in 2014. and we see it to the present day in the ongoing war in eastern ukraine. for the west, russia's return to the world stage ha

brought him on board in 2015 there was inexplicable but widely publicized appearance in moscow where he sat next to vladimir putin and led the standing ovation for the russian president. by the time mike flynn had come on board the trump campaign investigative reporters were already at the republican national convention asking about that trip to russia, asking whether he had been paid for making that appearance. it has emerged that mike flynn was paid tens of thousands of dollars in addition to free all expense paid trip to moscow in exchange for showing up at that gala and sitting next to putin. in addition to that money from the russian government media outlet he also receives two other five figure payments from two other russian companies after he was fired from the defense intelligence agency. nevertheless the trump campaign brought him on board. by election day it was clear that general flynn was on the payroll of another foreign government. he was on the payroll on the government of turkey while advising the trump campaign. he was not registered as a foreign agent but it was repor

speech. >> to be clear, you told the trump campaign you were going to moscow but you are going as a private citizen. >> yes. >> are you paid for the speech? >> i was paid 0. >> alleges that he met with a businessman. >> i have never met him. >> there was no deal with igor section. through which she would -- paul manafort chose you to be the point of contact with the russians. >> i never had a conversation with paul manafort. totally false. >> congressional investigators are probing the contacts. to >> you are the first person i am saying this directly too. i said hello to him in passing, handed him my business card, and never got a business card from him. as i did for many ambassadors. during the republican national convention. >> did you ever hear from the russian ambassador again? >> never. >> how did you come to work for the trump campaign? sticker i had been the center of so much controversy, i don't like digging into details of the individuals. >> has the fbi contacted you? >> i do not talk about ongoing any investigation. >> he said the allegations leveled against the trump te

election. >> right. he had gone to moscow and been paid by rt in december of 2015. how much of that he disclosed, we still don't know. >> the pentagon says he did not get clearance to do that, possibly in violation of their protocols. >> that's certainly one issue. so just one sort of hesitation about getting too excited about all this is that what he might be worried about are things that are not central to what the committees are looking at. >> no, but in some ways i think that's what makes him such an interesting figure, right? because if he's exposed on other things, that is leverage. i mean i've, you know, covered criminal investigations and fbi investigations, and they don't care how they get you to talk. they just care to get you to talk. >> right. so, look, i mean he could be the john dean of this case. >> right. >> or he could be the brian bag lee aknow. remember that's the guy who got immunity on the clinton server investigation and led to nothing, right? >> i also have to note whatever has happened, we played that "meet the press" clip. i don't know if we have the rnc appear