.orporation talking about u.s.-russia relations. what did the most recent sections that now have been put on russia actually do? guest: it's a variety of things. the most unprecedented element of it is the congressional review. so basically, the number of the sanctions that have already been imposed by executive order, by president obama and could have been repealed by the stroke of a pen by president trump can now only be repeeled with essentially the approval of congress. and that is unprecedented in the history of u.s. sanctions. there are a huge variety of news sanctions imposed for a number of different activities such as the interference in the election, russian activities in syria, this activity in ukraine. there are reports demanded from the executive branch by the russian olgark. -- ol garth. host: what are we talking about? guest: the sanctions come in a number of different forms. there are visa bans and their asset freezes. there are financing restrictions on russian institutions. there are transaction bans. any companies that does business with the u.s. can't do business w

. announcer: now, russia and china experts discuss relations between china, russia, and the relevant how that is in today's world as well as the trump administration's policy china, and north korea. this is about an hour and a half. >> tonight's topic is about the triangular relations between the u.s., china, and russia, the world's great powers. we got it would be appropriate to hear president nixon's voice and views on this matter 45 years ago. the clip you are about to hear is from the next and white house .apes this is president nixon talking to his national security adviser , dr. henry kissinger in january , of 1972 just one month before the historic trip to china that february. nixon: [inaudible] >> before we start the program, i wanted to introduce a special guest in the audience today, president nixon's younger brother ed nixon. , [applause] with that, dr. stoner, the stage is yours. very much.u thank you mr. nixon for having us here. we had a wonderful tour of the library and we all enjoyed it very much. i'm going to start our discussion by picking up on the tape that jonath

with and where they were because of the martin luther king speech and he was watching. rter: russia and china discuss triangulation and its relevance. the trump administration's policy toward those countries and north korea. this is from the nixon library. is about thetopic triangular relations between the u.s., china, and russia. we thought it would be appropriate to hear president 's voice and views on this matter. this is from the nixon white house tapes. this is president nixon talking to his national security advisor. pres. nixon: [inaudible] >> before we start, i want to introduce a special guests in our audience, president nixon's younger brother, ed nixon. [applause] with that, dr. stoner, the stage is yours. dr thank you for having us here. we had a wonderful tour of the mr. putin came into office and proclaim that russia is once again of great power. to be reckoned with. , or fromrussia seized their perspective, took act crimea. back crimea.- took in the intervening periods between 2014 and 2016, china and oil,a signed agreements on perhaps as a counterbalance to american

towards russia, china and north korea. thenixon library hosted discussion which included former u.s. ambassador to afghanistan. this is about one hour and a half. about the's topic is chinese relations between the u.s., china and russia. we thought it would be appropriate to hear president nixon's voice and views on this matter 45 years ago. the clip we were about to hear is from the nixon white house .apes this is president nixon talking to his national security advisor, dr. henry kissinger of january of 1972, and month before the historic trip to china that february. >> [indiscernible] >> before we start the program, i want to introduce a special guest to our audience. president nixon's younger brother, ed nixon. [applause] >> and with that, dr. stoner, the stages years. dr. stoner: thank you very much for having us here. we had a wonderful tour this afternoon of the library. we all enjoyed it very much. i'm going to start our discussion by picking up on the tape that jonathan just played for us which was nixon's idea of formulating friendly relations with china to counterbalance

on q&a. next, conversation on the relationship between the u.s., russia, and china. the library hosted this event which includes authors and former state department officials. >> tonight's topic is about the relations between the u.s., china, and russia, the world's great powers and we thought it would be appropriate to hear voiceent nexen -- nixon's on this matter. the clip you are about years from the nixon white house tapes. this is president nixon talking to dr. henry kissinger in january of 1972 just one month before the historic trip to china that february. xon:ident ni [inaudible] >> it wanted to introduce a special guest in our audience today, president nixon's younger brother, ed nixon. [applause] , the stage isat yours. , thankk you very much you for having us here. we had a wonderful tour this afternoon at the library and we all enjoyed it very much. i'm going to start our on theion by picking up tape that jonathan played for us nixon's idea of former leading relations to counterbalance soviet power. he turned out to be very prescient in terms of not worrying about ch

is being targeted also has russia given up on trump and will anything stop the leaks in washington. cross talking news that you need to know about i'm joined by my guest mark slobodan he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have victor levitt he is a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and we have dmitri bobbitt he's a political analyst with sputnik international or a gentleman as usual crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime soon and i always appreciate i want to talk about something that's really important i don't think anybody else in the media at least on television is talking about we know that trump begrudgingly signed the sanctions against russia north korea and iran which we'll discuss further but also part of it was element called countering america's adversaries through sanctions act what is that mark what does it mean at the table and talk about what this hamilton sixty eight is ok so this countering americans america's adversaries through sanctions act is that the final version of this b

is just one of many striking claims he made in an interview with our colleagues at russia's was theatre twenty four channel who interviewed him after he fled from a us military base. in may of. there's no the. u.s. isn't interested in anything except its own interests such as the ripken refugee camp also has those fighters relatives and outs. and children to study and there is no medical care. and burial types i can tell you they behave like. first of all it should be pointed out that we cannot leave this. because it. is partly. true place along with. describes. how it operates in iraq and the operators and instructors working with the rubbles they have been training them how to deal how to operate with all different kinds of weapons for quite. a positive trip to the population. in an area with the border with iraq the. base was used to fight against islamic states but on several occasions coalition opened fire on the pro-government forces who were approaching the area the military base itself no longer has any direct contact with the actual controlled areas if you want to go. c

i always appreciate it ed let me go to you first you're the greatest booster for u.s. russia relations that i've ever met in my life and you continue to do it now we have sanctions for sanctions we have one spread an interim signs that means when we all assume that he will he is essentially handcuffed himself when it comes to relations with russia under the sanction bill he has to go to congressional committees to move forward his agenda in russia with it which seems extremely unlikely where are we and are we in a cold war two point zero. or are you always trying to find some positive story i know you're really well known for other words we're just in terms of. the bankers so are i get my. so clear prosecutor for signals first of all what you want to avoid of course it's military confrontation p. . syria. positive is stop this crazy cruise maybe the dangers or even criminal support for so-called moderate rebels because we know once your view for reference to moderate some powers is so strong somehow and up and so it's not so moderate i mean cynics would say that was in part o

of leaking to the russia investigation. here is just a sample. >> you will probably find out about it before anybody else. with your leaks, we've got to stop the leaks, the leaks are very dangerous for our country. we are going to make it a lot less messy than it has been, 17 years, our longest war, i read it in one of your columns. frankly, it's going to be a decision that is going to be made very soon. there was no collusion between us and russia, in fact the opposite, number one, i would like to do you nuke the world. i know president obama said global warming is the biggest threat, i totally disagree. >> jon: let's get political reactions, a columnist for the "tampa bay times" and vice chair of the democratic national committee and a member of the new york state assembly. michael, first of all, the president is on vacation, it is a working vacation, he wants to let us know that. he comes out and talks to the media about all of the things his administration is working on while they are frankly redoing the hvac systems at the white house. is he making his point? this is a not a dog

donald trump has accused congress of bringing u.s. russia relations to an all time low in a tweet the us president said that it's thanks to the people on capitol hill who forced him to sign the anti russia sanctions bill he said that he had to abide by that decision made by the lawmakers after their landslide vote last week gave him no other chance one way congress can now check trump steelmaking potential is by stopping him from lifting russia restrictions the new law requires the president to obtain congressional approval for any such move earlier i discussed the growing political crisis in washington with any patrik. i guess no president would like to be donald trump shoes right now times really are getting tough as they can get for the president you know being america's top man in charge but at the same tommy think of it not being able to exercise his power and even worse being cornered into making the decisions he doesn't want to make just to keep order and as we've been hearing from the white house spokesperson who's been explaining that very signature under that sanctions bill

. >> earlier this month, president trump signed a bill imposing new sanctions on russia. former officials from the george w. bush and obama administrations were in discussion about the impact and implications. this is one hour and 35 minutes. >> if i can find it. >> there. >> all right. everyone very much for joining us today. why don't we get started? also wonders, the executive director of the center for national interest. a bigleased to see such group in the middle of august and washington. the traffic led me to think the city was a little bit depopulated but the attendance clearly demonstrates otherwise. we appreciate all of you taking the time to come be with us. i think we will have very interesting conversation today onut the new u.s. sanctions russia. we have a couple of highly experienced speakers who will give us some perspective on that and we are quite grateful to them for taking the time out of their day to be with us. to my right we have dan russell, the president and ceo of the u.s.-russia business council. diplomatformer career who was deputy assistant secretary

investigators explore the potential financial ties of president trump and associates to russia. >> these types of endeavors end up being fishing expeditions. >> the president saying he won new hampshire because it's a drug den. >> these words were disgusting. he should stop insulting people. >> to have people there that are leaking information, if there's even a thought that somebody is involved, get rid of them. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning everyone. welcome to your "new day." chris is off this morning. john berman joins me in studio. >> thank goodness, because you obviously need the help this morning. >> we begin with several developments in the russia investigation. cnn learned special counsel robert mueller is issuing grand jury subpoenas, his target? everyone at that june 2016 meeting at trump tower between donald trump's son, don junior, top campaign aides and a russian lawyer. >> and cnn covering what the president referred to as its red line. they believe the money trail could be a fertile ground for evidence. the president, though, s

colluded with russia during the president's campaign. >> a spokesman for mueller's oefs declined to comment -- office declined to comment on the reports that were first posted by the "wall street journal" and reuters. the white house response coming from special counsel to the president, ty cobb, noting in a statement that grand jury matters are typically secret, but adding the white house favors adding anything that acceleration conclusion of mueller's work "fairly." the president's outside lawyer, jay sekulow, downplaying the importance of the subpoenas. >> this is not a surprise because the impaneling of a grand jury in situations like this when you've got an investigation is typically how they move forward. that's -- it is really very much standard operating procedure when you've got a situation like this. but with respect to the impaneling of the grand jury, we have no reason to believe that the president's under investigation here. >> sekulow also added to fox that the president is not looking into firing mueller at this point. cnn's athena jones on the road with the president

two worlds apart as russia and the united states are turning increasingly confrontational in syria another war torn country may become irony theater for the old rivalry afghanistan has been the geopolitical chess boys for so long is there even a chance for a peaceful resolution to discuss that and now i'm joined by the country's former president hamid karzai mr president it's great to see you in moscow well. now you've long been arguing that the current american approach to afghanistan is not working that it's time for the americans to assess the strategy and perhaps adjust the course and it strikes me as a little bit too naive it's almost like asking the taliban or ourselves for that matter to lay down arms don't you think that you are perhaps in gauging in a wishful thinking i mean what we need to afghanistan we need peace of. and to be need success against terrorism in afghanistan the u.s. goes on in the name of fighting extremism and terrorism fifteen years on do we have also told moral. we have a lot more of it so obviously we have faded there and the casualty is the victim is

the headlines. saying that the significantly flawed. the new sanctions not only u.s. russia relations but also. businesses. deescalation zone is about to come into effect in syria but the moderate rebels committed to it. very well. president has signed a new sanctions bill targeting russia however the american leader branded the restrictions as flawed and signaled that he was reluctant to approve the. i favor tough measures to punish and deter aggression and the stupid lies in behavior by iran north korea and russia this legislation is significant you fool it's haste to post this legislation the congress included a number of clearly m constitutional provisions a number of provisions pull to displace the president's exclusive constitutional authority and those comments live a lot of questions in their wake the present state that even though he stands for legislation as unconstitutional he signed off on it as president trump swore an oath to preserve protect and defend the constitution of the united states but he seems to be openly doing the opposite upon approving the sanctio

revealed. in the week's top stories president trump signs the new russia sanctions bill angering america's allies describes it as declaring a full scale trade war and sanctions tied north korea over its missile tests the u.s. draft resolution is unanimously backed by the u.n. security council plus. a dictator dictator. the venezuelan president is also targeted by u.s. for strict sions over his constitutional reform referendum which is infuriated the opposition and italy and a greek argue over how to conduct migrant rescue operations this suspicion grows that humanitarian boats are colluding with people traffickers. hello there the latest development in a look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to me watching the weekly here in r.t. international. new sanctions on north korea were agreed late on saturday after u.s. drafted resolution was unanimously agreed to by the u.n. security council it bans north korean exports of coal metals and seafood reducing export revenue by about a third which is roughly a billion dollars a year foreign investments also been blocked

new russia sanctions bill intopresident trump signed month.rlier this >> we're pleased to see such a of group in the middle august in washington. thatraffic led me to think the city was a little bit depopulated depopulated. we appreciate all of you taking and be with us. think we'll have very interesting conversations today about the new u.s. sanctions on russia. we have a couple of highly speakers who will give us some perspective on that. we're quite grateful to them too for taking the time out of to be with us. russellght, we have dan who's the president of -- and the u.s.-russia business council. former career diplomat. he was deputy assistant of state responsible muldova, a, ukraine, matters.er beebee who is george is director for intelligence the center for the national interest. was career u.s. intelligence professional who russia analysis unit at agency.ral intelligence we will start with dan. i've asked each of dan and about ten peak for minutes. i'm going to come at this from argely a business community perspective because i think george can speak to the other. but i think

in the major powers of the world who are incidentally all of them our neighbors russia china india iran and also pakistan as a country of our neighbor and for that reason to be an environment of cooperation between them and the united states of ganesan as we had initially when we started this campaign now i would like to discuss the recent strides our efforts in in the region diplomacy but before we go there i want to ask you specifically about the united states because. with the trumpet ministration there there were some hopes initially that it may seek a more pragmatic approach given the events of the last few weeks including the the dropping of a largest non atomic bomb and. do you think those hopes of a new beginning of a more pragmatic policy course are they still justified i'm not yet given up on it . president initially the right overtures towards russia. i understood the complexity of international relations and recognize that that without cooperation with russia there would not be much achieved for the united states specially on a place like syria and on the situation in a

aggression and the stupid lies in behavior by iran north korea and russia this legislation is significant you fool it's haste to post this legislation the congress included a number of clearly i'm constitutional provisions a number of provisions purports to displace the president's exclusive constitutional authority and those comments live a lot of questions and the way the president states that even though he stands the legislation as unconstitutional he signed off on it as president trump swore an oath to preserve protect and defend the constitution of the united states but he seems to be openly doing the opposite upon approving the thanks that this bill of course is it is a terrible bill. it benefits the people of no contrary not the united states not germany not all three or in a way not russia not syria not not any of the people is the constitutional crisis our government is set up to where there are three branches that constantly struggle one against the other. so that in itself is not totally unexpected but i do believe that these side shows are out of heaping with the

to steal the gold at the sochi winter olympics. >> there never was anti-doping in russia. ever. >> and the russian scientist at the center of it all, fleeing, fearing for his life. >> i need to escape. >>> plus -- swift justice? bad blood and a multimillion-dollar lawsuit in a courtroom today. taylor swift coming face to face with the man she says groped her. why her mother was choking back tears on the witness stand. how she says the incident left taylor shaken and humiliated. but first, the "nightline" 5. >>> number 1 in just 60 seconds. >>> good evening and thank you for joining us. i'm rebecca jarvis. tonight the story of an amateur cyclist who set out to learn about performance-enhancing drugs but instead stumbled upon a massive and allegedly state-run russian conspiracy. for decades it seems russian olympic athletes have been secretly doping to gain a competitive edge, and now a scientist from deep within the operation is saying that the government took part in covering it up. here's "nightline" co-anchor dan harris. >> a lot of news on the russian investigation -- >> rep

really wanted to hear from trump was that he's not working with russia to subvert the american election. - i will tell you this. russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. let's see if that happens. that'll be next. - are you [bleep] me? [audience boos] did this-- did this guy, a man running for president, just ask russia to hack america? you know, for a person who's claiming, "bring jobs back to america," he sure started outsourcing them real quick. reporters are, if you can believe this, actually starting to ask questions of trump and his russia-linked campaign manager paul manafort. like, for instance, whether donald trump has any financial ties to the russian government. - trump tweeted yesterday that he has zero investments in russia, but does russia have investments in trump? would mr. trump be willing to release his taxes to provide transparency on this issue? - mr. trump has said that his taxes are under audit and he will not be releasing them. it has nothing to

good evening friends we start tonight with the latest on the sanctions on russia president trump has signed a bill authorizing sanctions against russia and limiting his power to ease them in the future after signing the bill the president released a formal statement of his opposition to the bill in particular he's upset with the fact that the bill say he says is hasty and criticized provisions limiting the power of the executive branch to conduct foreign policy russian prime minister dmitri met medvedev criticized the bill as a full scale trade war against moscow he also criticized president from for cowering to establishment interests in maintaining a new cold war with the russians spokesperson for the state department heather knew or was not so skeptical she expressed the view russia and the united states should cooperate despite the recent sanctions i think many folks around the world agree that the united states and russia should be able to work together in areas of mutual cooperation. if you look at the cease fire in southwest syria that has now taken hold and for the most p

favor of the draft resolution -- >> reporter: winning support with russia and china on board to tighten economic screws on the kim jong-un regime. >> it will give the north korean leadership a taste of the deprivation it has inflicted on the north korean people. >> reporter: the price of provocation for testing of intercontinental ballistic missiles. the sanctions ban a range of exports from coal to seafood valued at $1 billion a year for north korea. and limits the regime's ability to send laborers abroad. >> time is short but today we have taken one step in the right direction. >> considered the toughest sanctions in a decade. >> the president has been clear he's not going to tolerate north korea being able to threaten the united states. >> meanwhile, the white house is a construction zone. long planned renovations and systems upgrades required the oval office and the president and his staff to leave for two weeks. >> reporter: the president's chief of staff john kelly is here along with other senior and national security advisor the 39 is expected to invite lawmakers to come

russia are currently under investigation, both by congress and separately by robert mueller, the special counsel and handsome bird impersonator. ( laughter ) now, just to refresh everyone, the big question in all of this is, "what was the connection between donald trump and the russian government?" and all along, the donald has always answered that question like this: >> i know nothing about russia. i know about russia, but i know nothing about the inner workings of russia. i don't deal there. i have no businesses there. i have no loans from russia. i don't owe money. i don't have deals in russia. i don't know putin. i have nothing to do with russia. haven't made a phone call to russia in years. don't speak to people in russia. not that i wouldn't. i just have nobody to speak to. ( laughter ) >> trevor: yeah, "i don't even know what a russia is. i don't even know. on my map there's china, then there's white china. i don't even know about russia." so from the beginning, trump insisted he had absolutely no connections with russia whatsoever. and then this morning this came out. >>

anti-doping in russia. ever. >> and the russian scientist at the center of it all, fleeing, fearing for his life. >> i need to escape. >>> plus -- swift justice? bad blood and a multimillion-dollar lawsuit in a courtroom today. taylor swift coming face to face with the man she says groped her. why her mother was tears on the witness stand. how she says the incident left taylor shaken and humiliated. but first, the "nightline" 5. >>> number 1 in just 60 seconds. fios is not cable. we're a 100% fiber optic network. and with the new fios gigabit connection... you get our fastest... internet ever. with download speeds up to 940 megs - 20 times faster than most people have. switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for $79.99 a month online for the first year. plus hbo for one year and multi-room dvr service for two years, all with a two-year agreement. and switching has never been easier. get out of your contract with up to a $500 credit to help cover your early terminat