russia, iibrated but russia woulde balance china with united states or of china would balance russia with the united states. another thing to say about this technology, we are witnessing more and more chinese technological competition. this is a strategic factor that should be taken into account. because, as russia is having guessing, there are no other moree may have russia-china technological cooperation, so russia would have no other option but to have more technological cooperation with china than europe. i guess russia would rather have it with europe. but it is not the auction. -- it is not the option. foret me commend csis inviting a russian speaker and giving us a chance to listen to the other side of the story. quick question about academics in russia. is russia producing a sufficient amount of chinese and far eastern experts to support what is clearly a burgeoning and important relationship? and closely related to that, do you feel the russian academic community and think tanks are having an effect on russian foreign policy formation, or are the two realms compartmentalized

with russia. completion of this transaction would be devastating. not only does the program in which the west has placed its air capability, but it would potentially rupture turkish interoperability with nato, a key aspect. let's be clear, the s 400 is a russian system designed to shoot down an aircraft. it is inconceivable to imagine russia not taking advantage of that opportunity. russia's largely uncontested intervention in syria has rippling ramifications across the fence relationships and facilitated one of their key goals. undermining nato cohesion. russiaeuropean partners remains an unreliable partner by striving to accommodate the regional disputes russia shows that cannot be trusted when should choices need to be made and friends need to be known. unlike the relationship with united states, it comes with long-term commitments of maintenance and interoperability that the united states routinely provides. russia is a transactional partners seeking its own benefits, it thrives in chaos and t

russia is interested in how to save russia and euro economic relations. and the economic partnership it has with many countries in the european union. could -- the neal arms treaty? as i understand, russia has chinased the topic with the-- how have we not seen -- until the chinese part? talks with china -- step with chinese partners. on.crisis is going russia is going forward to. [indiscernible] i do not see that. russia would criticize china in not joining the treaty although russia would like to update new arms control and regime -- as far as i am concerts. our military experts also to be part of the foreman. so i guess this is the picture that we have now and russia , russiave -- well thinks that it would be better for everyone if we negotiates but ate arms control this stage there is nothing we can really do. action we canar do now basically. and the last thing about the standards in the arctic -- this is an adjusting question because china -- has grown and china would like to step up its presence and even if you look at the maps, you will see this is

oftentimes, when we talk let'sly about russia, start with russia, with russia's approach to its nuclear forces and the concept that they might be willing to escalate to de-escalate, we get pushback. there is no evidence of that. there is no evidence in official documentation. i won't talk about sources, but if you can talk about why your assessment is in fact a fact that they are testing in this manner and we are confident that this is in fact russia's approach to why it is organizing their entire arsenal this way and their strategy that they have lowered the threshold of when they might consider nuclear use in a purely conventional conflict. >> part of their doctrine goes back to the 90's. there is no first use policy asm russia and they see that an ability -- and you hear different ways. some contexts, you'll hear it escalate to de-escalate. it has been written about as de-escalation control, where they think that using a low yield nonstrategic nuclear weapon would bring other powers, it would be inviting conflict to the table, where they can control the escalation and talks that ensu

had developed a partyline that trump had no business with russia and no connections to russia. in addition to denying any connections with russia, the trump campaign reacted to reports of russian election interference in aid of the campaign by seeking to distance himself from the russian contacts. for example, on august 26 in august 2016, foreign policy advisor jade d gordon declined an invitation to russian ambassador mr. kislyak's timing was not optimal. about russian interference. on august 19, 2016 manafort was asked to resign amid media coverage scrutinizing his ties to a russian political party in ukraine and links to russian business. and when the media published stories about pages connections to russia in september 2016, trump campaigned officials terminated pages associated with the campaign and told the press that he had played no role in the campaign. on october 7, 2016, wikileaks released the first set of emails stolen by russian intelligence agencies from clinton campaign chairman john podesta. the same day the federal government announce russian government direct

too much dependence on china economically expensive russia -- at the expense of russia. there is a concept of division of labor. anda can provide economics, russia can provide politics and security. this is seen by many as a flawed concept from the beginning. it is unlikely that china would like to provide only the economic role. years, sooner or later, china would like to andide a future security in centralenefits asia. we can already see it happening in pakistan. how touite an issue actually make this interest meat. there is general understanding and russia that cooperation is the best, at least trying to find how we can cooperate and contribute everyone should be on the agenda, at least at the top political level. again, it is not going to be easy. it is a very difficult task. i think the russian government understands well it is not going to be easy. just still better than .aking some balancing acts actually, a lot of countries, including central asian countries want infrastructure, want major powers to provide more incentives and to cooperate. >> great. let's open i

russia will sanction and as a response to those same russia would try to interfere in the elections. even at that time putin was establishing contact with the head of italy's far right leg a north party my tail so the me now in a high position in the italian government. 5 years later with the european election approaching salvini is promoting closer cooperation between the right wing populist parties including germany's a.f.d. . and remember if we join salvini struck her look penn and others in one big group will have the political clout that a lone warrior doesn't have to form policy and the company took the a.f.d. decided to take a pro russian stance falling in line with all other european right wing populist they rejected western sanctions against russia over its interference in the conflict in eastern ukraine and after 5 years of building alliances with europe's right wing extremists moscow scored a victory among the key operators were various shadowy figures such as manual oxen . in november 2014 he was photographed in eastern ukraine together with a frenchman victoria lanta an

many reformists and many beautiful come from russia to participate because you see it russia's contribution to that festival so you know it is enormous you know not russia is a traditional participant and so could be a pleasure to see you there and again thank you for inviting me here to sochi i was really pleased to see this place this is a new place for me it's been another traditional visit to the capital is something different thank you for the future. of these years from. now we'll have an opportunity to for austrian and russian journalists to ask 2 questions each one starts with our friends from austria. seen through the press agency. yeah. plenty. ask me good afternoon. if you haven't guessed i would live to ask you a question about the meeting with you mr president you said that both sides take interest in restoring their lation between russia and the united states. what kind of environment should be established for that to happen are you already. have a one on one meeting with. traumatic stress what do you think about such a meeting taking place in the end there where the joint gov

. >> i rise today to discuss robert mueller's recent report entitledrf with russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election the mueller investigation with a full and thorough investigation of the russian government's efforts to interfere the 2016 presidential election as well as any length of coronation with that campaign of donald trump the deputy attorney general rosenstein said while appointing the special counsel that public interest requires hoe investigation under the authority of a person who exercises the degree of independence from the normal chain of command for i'm confident special counsel mueller will follow the facts and apply the law to reach a just result. i encourage all americans to read the redacted version and to draw their own conclusions. the report lays out in detail russia's attack on our country before and during the 2016 elections. the special counsel rightly concluded the russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in a sweeping and systematic fashion. january 2018 i issued a report on behalf of the democrats on the senate foreig

and in soviet russia, 1914 to 1917. we have two revolutions in 1917. russia is becoming a failed state, in a sense, by 1917 and 1918. in 1918, the inevitable civil war. the bolsheviks were trying to hold onto power. the reds. and on the periphery, the white armies are trying to dislodge them from power. the lights will inevitably or eventually be unsuccessful. for a time the whites control the grain growing regions of russia and the reds led by lenin and trotsky, control a small piece of territory. people in the cities of soviet russia starved in 1918 and particularly 1920. to add all of these problems the war revolution and civil war, the bolsheviks have an idea when they come in to wipe out the free market. in other words to prevent peasants from trading their surplus grain. the bolsheviks began requisitioning grain. the idea is they are a communist government. trade should be outlawed under a communist regime. so this as well forces peasants to stop planting grain because they know it's going to be confiscated. the h

but russia isn't north korea. mr valinsky, when you go home, you can speak to newspapers, there are certain radio stations that will put you on air. it's not north korea. i can speak to one newspaper into one radio station. i can't make that kind of interview on russian television. it's not possible at all, at all. that's why i was taking part in the so—called presidential elections, to be able to say something to the people. now, secondly, what i want to say, not only problem with opinion polls but also sometimes it happens that, for a long time, you are, looks like a complete failure in politics. mr churchill was in that position some time. so you're are saying to me, your time is yet to come, despite the fact you've been in politics for the last 30 years? what i want to say, my time, i'm not sure, but the time for my ideas will come. let's think about russia's status one more time, let's think about what we see and again, you say surveys aren't important. to me, they sometimes can be telling. 70% of russians

/russia relations. prepared talking points and briefing memos on russia and proposed that candidate trump meet with president vladimir putin in moscow. in communications with the campaign officials, page also repeatedly touted his high level contacts in russia and his ability to forge connections between candidate trump and senior russian government officials. for example, on january 30th, 2016, page sent an email to senior campaign officials stating that he had spent the past week in europe and had been in discussions with some individuals with close ties to the kremlin who recognized that trump could have a game-changing effect in bringing the end the new cold war. the emails stated that through his discussions with these high-level contacts, page believed that a direct meeting in moscow between mr. trump and putin could be arranged. page closed the email by criticizing u.s. actions on russia. grand jury redaction. on march 21st, 2016, candidate putin formally and publicly identified page as a member

state secretary to work through russia. to help ukraine russia and we know how difficult it is to work between our 2 to work out the problems between our 2 countries and we both want to resolve many of the issues that we have. and. that we can continue our conversation and our diplomats will be able to work. in an open manner assured on the basis of the vienna accords and those are slow to and we hope that there will be nobody interfering in the in this conversation in this political conversations. and i'd like. to remind you how 933 president. roosevelt and. russia's ambassador libyan officials exchange notes where the diplomatic notes where they agreed to. the show that exclude any kind of interference. in domestic affairs of each country and this was actually launched and initiated by the us so i hope that we can proceed in this fashion can see we have some disagreements on this issue i promise not to go back to history from the early thirty's. but i made clear to foreign minister lavrov as we've made clear for the past

way, that's one other thing, if you look, this russia, russia, russia. they don't talk about russia anymore because it turned out to be a hoax. it was a hoax. and then they say, gee, he fought back. terrible?t he fought back. of course, they fight back. because it was a false accusation, a totally false accusation, and it's a disgrace, and it's a very sad period for this country, and i think in the end, i will consider what's happening now to be one of my achievements. exposing this corruption. you think they are going to impeach you? how they can because -- although i can't imagine the courts allowing it. gotten into it. i never thought, that would even word.sible to use that to me, it's a dirty word, impeach. disgustingy, filthy, word, and it has nothing to do with me. there think so, because was no crime. it's high crimes and not with orchies, it's high crimes and misdemeanors. there was no high crime and misdemeanor, so how do you impeach me? t came out that there was nothing to do with russia. the whole thing is a scam. giant presidential harassment

and russia. would have to clearly have the upper hand in any deal he would have to look as if he and the united states come out the big. that's a really interesting question because the fact is you're right you're completely wrong to me the only way because of the fact that so many people in america bizarrely think that trump is somehow compromised by russia which in turn has forced him to be far more hardline and russia than his predecessor but i hope obama was which is probably why. the election my main benefit russia overall at the point is that the only way to is going to be able to get it through with russia is if it looks like a complete victory for the united states and also that's probably going to be on except the bill in the in moscow so i mean as i said earlier what they're basically trying to do here in russia as far as i can see as far as the russian russian expert community and you know political class are saying is to try to stop relations getting any worse because as i mentioned l

parliament and takes a clear stance on russia. continuing the policy of sanctions punishes europe and our own farmers as much as russia but suicide. observers say russia seeks to expand its influence in europe by supporting right wing populist leaders as well as their extremist voter base. these sort of the idea is to fan the flames constantly with gasoline and as people who already stood up against each other well it's by remaining propaganda a propaganda aimed at fracturing our society. in france the yellow vests protests against the populists room to maneuver almost every weekend people take to the streets of france to demonstrate. a court proceeding in this southern polish city has thrown unexpected light on russia suppose it methods of peddling its influence to europe's right wing base the defendant is michelle p a right wing radical on trial for terrorism since early 2019. he's accused of having organized an arson attack in neighboring ukraine. specifically in western ukraine home of many ukrainian citizens from the hungary

russia today isa system of mafia state. russia today is a kind of a mafia state. right, but in the mid— 90s 30% of russians lived in poverty, now it's down to 1296 lived in poverty, now it's down to 12% or 13%. russia's people measure the reality of putin pass russia today against what they remember of that chaotic. and frankly they still stick with putin today. yes, this is right, but it doesn't mean that this is their choice forever. it is interesting to compare along the strong propaganda. it is the understandable outcome of that. but you can recall what happens in europe in the 1930s with italy, with mousseline e, for example. i'm not thinking about germany. it's a very special case. but let's speak about italy, let speak about mussolini, everybody was so happy with him, everybody was so happy with him, everybody was so happy with him, everybody was voting for him, everybody was voting for him, everybody was voting for him, everybody was supporting him. western countries were so happy because there was no unemployment, economic growth. but that is the way to

which took us for our position russia's position and answering your question why russia holds this but your specific position on supporting the dialogue and and resulting all the shiz by the historian people themselves. this weapons this position is based on the fact that you cannot impose democracy on somebody by force. the threats are coming. it's coming from the officials the u.s. officials yes but you know where you're coming from mr b. why do this where you constantly reminds us of his right to invite a military intervention from the outside this has nothing to do with democracy we all remember what happened 20 years. 22003 most of. them would you do we've heard in me 22003 how george bush sad that there is no democracy in iraq and we remember how. 2011 it was said that. more. market after he was. basically gone. and now there's democracy in libya and we all know 1st hand what kind of democracy now exists either in iraq and in libya we know that nothing good came out of it all of this after it's. russia 26 general that you can all of us. in the past have one question is to build m

by russia, syria, russia has put weapons in space targeting u.s. space assets, arms control, russia just pulled out of a major missile treaty. what is the common ground that the trump administration thinks is there? >> you know, i feel, jim, number one it's good they're talking because both sides say they want to do it, they really aren't talking for the most part. so this is good news. now, what can they actually agree on? i think they can both agree on the fact that the mueller investigation is over and as the president sees it and also as president putin sees it that's the end of the story. you know, essentially they won, they feel, and so they can go on to try to repair this relationship. when you get into the details of what they will be discussing, you are right, i mean, on almost everything it's a very difficult picture. witness iran, i mean, russia absolutely is saying that the united states created this chaos, created this instability in the middle east with iran. and other issues, you know, don't forget ukraine, that's another issue on wh

effort to speed russia's f.s.b. yes indeed. this is will still be beautiful the border force of russia small aside i was about to say i was in domodedovo airport just last week and you see the guys they look at your passport very nice smiley generally and. they are in fact another face of the f.s.b. slightly less formal than the marching you do mr job number less keeping the borders safe here didn't going to be the same thing will disable innocent people as will the story. do the same job for the country of interesting lee right now marching across the red square. these servicemen over a brigade where i happen to spend a couple of like around a month or so which was part of my military education and it has one of the largest you know drill drill sites in all of russia for example for example the famous tank biathlon. competition takes place on the territory of the brigade the same thing to me was the rest of the world it rushes to the top by often competition oh it's something it's basically it collects a number of

has in venezuela from russia's standpoint the russia's ambassador to the u.s. he said he doesn't understand why these discussions go on going through the correct channels the correct diplomatic channels from the u.s. point of view they've made it absolutely clear that they do not trust the way that russia is doing its nuclear testing and developments and the question is are they going to be able to sort out this latest blast behind closed doors or are we going to continue to see them wash their dirty laundry in public or international affairs commentator jonathan steele believes the u.s. or to provide evidence to support its allegations. but if they said there is strong evidence there's convincing evidence just to say highly likely or probably is true very. it's based on intelligence which is or is liable to the floor to anywhere well this is standard us unilateralism i mean if you come onto the iranian scene it's the same thing is highly damaging and should be done with open or vigilance at a press conference which everybody has a chance to ask questions he ca

you're supposed to be guarding against russia goes out and pays its hours a year to russia. we have not deployed the full set of tools yet that could significantly undermine if not outright stop the project. we emphasize that companies involved in russian energy exports are taking part is something that could prompt a significant risk of sanctions if you come up with the same actions or the car history or german banks or the german chemical industry and so on and so on a store and then you tell them they have to keep their freedom. on this same person that creates your economy our story this can't be honest ironically enough it seems that energy aside trump and co have done everything every possible thing to alienate europe from threats of a trade war to straight up trying to dictate policies to countries like germany so not only is it cheaper for the e.u. to get its gas from russia it naturally doesn't want to keep all of its eggs in one basket. germany is entitled to secure its energy requirements in various ways one of these places russia natural gas i have a big problem

against nato or nor i see a direct threat of nato against russia not at all nato is not against russia you have to see the perception in several nato member states about russia and i'm a bit worried about this that people in the states still fear to some extent. russian neighbor and i think for russians should do more to read use these tensions of ease this feeling i know very is a certain feeling in russia too about inserted and yes i know i'm aware of this it's an old russian feeling it's additional. but on the other hand let's take it let's say for the constructive side what we have not been using in an efficient way and this is true is for so-called nato russian council we should have done very much more in the sense of let's say we come in we'll use well common vital interests on both sides look for example even look at the middle east russia's president in the middle east in syria russia is defending looking after its bases which are for russia independent from turkey. which are for the russian conception important yes i understand it it's a defensive position at the end but ther

trump responded to questions about possible connections to russia by denying any involvement in russia even though the trump organization had pursued a business project in russia as late as june, 2016. trump also expressed skepticism that russia had hacked the emails at the same time he and other campaign advisors privately sought information redaction about any further planned wikileaks after election question persisted about possible links and russian trump campaign. president-elect continued to deny any connections to russian privately expressed concern the reports of russian election interference might lead the public to question his legitimacy of his election. press reports alleged links between trump campaign in russia. june 16, 2015, donald j trump declared his intent to seek nomination as a republican candidate for president. by early 2016, he distinguished himself among republican candidates by speaking of closer ties with russia saying he would get along well with russian president battle mayor pruden questioning whether nato alliance was obsolete and praising putin as a stro

secretary of state saying the reason for telling it russia's ready to fully restored between. talks between the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov which were described as being productive in. the u.s. police raid on his former embassy in washington d.c. a violation of international law and the compound trying to prevent an illegal takeover. the u.s. military school publishes a decade's long history of washington's interventions in other countries. saudi arabian ship is hounded by protests the european ports failing to pick up an arms delivery that activists say could be used to kill civilians in yemen. for joining us to see this is. ready to restore relations russia's president vladimir putin said that moscow is willing to resolve pressing issues that stop productive dialogue with washington his words follow a 3 hour face to face meeting between russia's foreign minister. american counterpart branded frank and detailed by both sides. there is a capability. we also want to restore relations with the u.s. i hope all the conditions for that are now being created this by the e

and if there is regime change that might mean that russia simply doesn't get its money back. let's look forward to what might happen next in venezuela where there was called for another big day of protests he's calling on the military to join him a vast majority of the military let's say what do you think we're going to see happen. well i think we were going to see big demonstrations from both sides this is usually a case of the first of may. i hope that they do not become violent and i'm saying this because this is in part one of the reasons why the opposition has not received this report that it expected many people even those who are against my will they do not want any more violence or military interventions in their country and after two thousand and seventeen failed revolt most people do not want any more trouble on the streets and this is why on on a big level in a big extents. why those attempt has failed so we are going to see them on stray sions hopefully they remain peaceful and calm all right then is when it venezuela analysts if they could be so lucky here with u

russia, russia, russia. russia has disappeared because i had nothing to do with russia helping me get elected. but the president tried to clean up that part about russia helping him get elected. >> russia did not get me elected. i got me elected. russia, if anything, i think, helped the other side. >> reporter: here's the reality. a 2017 u.s. intelligence community report stated, we assessed putin and the russian government had a clear preference for president-elect trump. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. >> reporter: the president appeared sickened by the idea of being impeached. >> it's a dirty word, the word impeach. it's a dirty, filthy, disgusting word and had nothing to do with me. >> reporter: even as democrats are using the "i" word more and more. >> i think we should open up an impeachment inquiry. that's a more direct name to the oversight we were already involved in. >> repor

so pump aoe seems troubled by both china's and to russia's presence in the arctic speaking about russia first how legitimate is it for pump to warn russia considering its entire northern coastline borders the arctic ocean. well it seems like he's warning russia. in the framework of its proposed participation with china there's a un law it's called the convention actually that lists five nations that international law permits to bargain with each other over arctic resources like oil and gas and gold and diamonds and uranium which is extremely important in the world today due to nuclear weapons or nuclear power and the fact that no new raynier ms is able to be made so finding sources of it is a pretty big deal but the convention does not have china on the list of five nations and so russia is causing a potential problem in international law in pompei you are certainly aware of that china has no claim as pompei zero said and i think anybody can justify that russia is a popular. i'm going to use the word punching bag although is overstated diplomatically making russia an adversary and stand

the report is clear that the trump campaign knew it would benefit from russia's illegal activities. several individuals affiliated with the trump campaign lied to the office and to congress about their interaction with russian affiliated individuals. mueller's report states some corroborating electronic comiewkses were deleted. one editorial in "the washington post" asked the question, how could there be obstruction of justice even if there was little evidence to support the underlying suspicion of trump's campaign coordination with russia? first, mr. mueller argued obstruction of justice can be motivated by a desire to protect nine criminal personal interests to protect against investigations or underlying criminal liability falls into a gray area or to avoid personal embarrassment. the injury to the integrity of the justice system is the same regardless of whether a person committed an underlying wrong. more specifically, the president had a motive to put the f.b.i., russia's investigation behind him, mr. mueller wrote. a thorough f.b.i. investigation would uncover facts about the

has loaned billions to the country over the past few years and russia simply concerned that if there is regime change they might not get their billions back so that's a big concern for russia and plus venezuela is an oil producing country it has some of the largest oil reserves in the world and that's an important factor for russia as well because venezuela is part of opec an organization which of oil exporters and russia is not part of that so by keeping with his way look close they can have a kind of almost like a seat at the table and a stake in kind of regulating oil prices on the world market and that's of course very important for russia because it is hugely depends on the price of oil its economy hugely depends on the price of oil so it literally has a lot invested in venezuela and it could lose billions if there is regime change. sure when of course in moscow thanks very much for that i'm away now for a look at some of the other stories making news this hour two members of the russian protest collective pussy riot have reportedly been granted asylum in sweden swedish public t

this is all about russia, russia, russia. they don't talk about russia anymore. it turned out to be a hoax. back, isn'tfought that terrible? of course i fight back. it was a false accusation. a totally false accusation. it is a very sad period for this country. in the end, i will consider what is happening now to be one of my greatest achievements. exposing this corruption. arerter: do you think they going to impeach you? president trump: i don't see how. they are possibly allowed. i can't imagine the courts allowing it. i never thought that would be possible. to me it is a dirty word, the word impeach. it is dirty, filthy, disgusting. it has nothing to do with me. i don't think so. it is high crimes and misdemeanors. there was no high crime and there was no misdemeanor. how do you impeach from that? it came out there was nothing to do with russia. the whole thing is a scam. it is a giant presidential harassment. honestly, i hope it goes down as one of my greatest achievements. corruption that nobody knew existed. reporter: [indiscernible] president trump: i thin

meeting in the former russia iran i said by jan. in the russia. we have in past into parliamentary exchanges connections between the regions of the two countries and and are developing the contacts. between the corresponding ministries including of course the foreign ministries where interested to further promote our relations in all those years and being external political one of the priorities is that fair the combination of efforts on fighting terrorist threat including. law enforcement. and also we call parade. to ensure the interests of the citizens of russia and iran. who are in the territory so each other. we have a good relations of trade investment corporation of course or of course some illegitimate sanctions they hamper it which the united states unilaterally. bypassing the u.n. security council to introduce and say and. we confer here as. to promote our economic cooperation and to look for if in fact he wastes which. would be under the power of this in an acceptable illegitimate american the restrictions. would have good. prospects. co

. >> and phil, he keeps calling it the russia hoax. still, he's talking about the russia hoax. you saw some of his tweets today. >> yeah, i think if you look at this, quickly, you look at the president has asked, or the u.s. government has asked the british to extradite someone who was involved in that election activity. that is julian assange. now we have another country that has a dozen people in its military intelligence service involved in subverting american democracy and the president, who has obviously the department of justice below him can't even say, what about the 12 people we have under indictment. his question for himself is, i wasn't implicated in the report, therefore, it doesn't matter. so putin gets a get out of jail free card, and the gru, the russian intelligence service says, let's bring on the next round, 2020. >> that's the concern, maybe because the president was silent, putin will say, let's do some more. >> every intelligence service has said that the russians are planning to do this again. but this goes back to the president always equating the russia

russia didn't help me at all. russia, if anything, i think, helped the other side. do you think the media helped hillary clinton get elected? she didn't make it, but you take a look at collusion between hillary clinton and the media. barabara plett usher by washington, why now this? and why so aggressive? i think he isjust why now this? and why so aggressive? i think he is just very frustrated that this continues to overshadow his presidency and cannot get rid of this so when there was no delusion with russia and the findings, they did not charge him with obstruction of justice, he did not charge him with obstruction ofjustice, he said ok, fine. but then robert mueller came back and had his public statement and that reignited the whole thing. not to mention most americans and many americans will have seen the public statement by robert mueller in which he essentially says that donald trump had not been exonerated from charges of obstruction and the reason he was not charged was because it was not an option because he was a sitting president, so donald trump came bac

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sanctions on russia but as i said russia is a 2 would stand out if sanctions thanks watching r.t. international we're back in 30 minutes with the latest. we've got an amazing situation developing here in america one of our politicians has an openly admitting congress that the u.s. dollar is that stretch from big time. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to suppressing and i saw one on t.v. think. i'm going to talk about football not the or else you can think i was going to the. by the way ways of the slide here. in 2040 you know bloody revolution to include the demonstrations going to be relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just the lawyer who put him in your list put video through in the new bill is that on the split needle the former ukrainian president recalls the events of $24.00

because russia tends to be a bit of a unifier if things go wrong we can always point to russia and unity against a common other serious i guess the incentive not to talk up. the threat as we have this disunity in the west i think it doesn't work jeff it isn't work i don't see that it works ok i'm just going there. was a moment of unity in europe and that moment was off the collapse of the so you collapse of communism or in the immediate post soviet post cold war era the ninety's when you have to magically translate into hostility towards russia about just point you know you know so you had this expansion of the you had this expansion that efforts to actually unify the count of the continent so that was the moment of unity but of course it was at the expense of russia and what should have happened in the nine hundred ninety s. but didn't we're paying the price now is the show you're russia should have been integrated into that unifying moment you said it was kept a distance not you treated treated very badly it was really it was really interesting doing the there in the cold war they had

with europe without russia and they're creating a ukraine without russia also so yes allied ourself with yes very unsavory people and indeed when you see the house of battalion here with their s.s. spraycan and their helmets this is the same people that the nazis force here with no money in the looters to say much about it does it or is that just a freedom of expression issue but. i mean i believe that makes me furious makes me fear you know i think. on the right you grow your business you know politically. from up on it's not surprising but these one thing buffy there's a lot of discord in western countries about some of the stuff that's actually going on in. i think you know a little should be more than disquiet ok ok let's talk about revisionism because i mean you know there is there is effort to to diminish the soviet war effort i think you know i lived in poland for many years before i lived in russia and the removing war memorials. from those things you know that's kind of moving into this secret area ok. so be it more war memorials like in hungry with six hundred thousand sov

the roots of today's tensions can be found in russia's recent history. presidents gorbachev and reagan start of the process of dismantling the iron curtain. me as office and as you say i don't see any threat for us from the west for the troops withdrew from is to europe peacefully they were dismantling their all in the fire. was the end of the cold war years of isolation and separation from the west were at and then the berlin wall fell to jubilation in the west. boris yeltsin russia's 1st elected leader transformed the country from the one party's system to multi-party democracy. so what went wrong. way the west treated russia would play a powerful role in the course the country would follow my good friend alexander bono expert at the carnegie moscow center has been considering these issues for a long time. or. not the one in on that i can still use the russian. stock income because of walsh that option which. is going out because of dollars at last you see . this one nurse says. anything near city or similar simply things that doesn't your mails that a

/russia relations. during the same period, another business associate introduced to a friend of jared kushner who had not served on the campaign or the transition team. their friend collaborated on a short written reconciliation plan for the united states and russia which implied had been cleared through putin. the friend gave that proposal to cushner and later gave copies to bannon and incoming secretary of state rex tillerson. on december 29, 2016, then president obama imposed sanctions on russia for having interfered in the election. incoming national security adviser michael flynn called russian ambassador and asked that russia not escalate the situation in response to the sanctions. the following day, putin announced that russia would not take retaliatory measures in response to the sanctions at that time. hours later, president-elect trump tweeted great move on delay by putin. the next day on december 31, 2016, called flynn and told him the request had been received at the highest levels and russi