russia. after that, we will take you on the campaign trail with donald trump in colorado and hillary clinton in ohio. "washington journal" continues. host: with us is matthew rojansky, who is the director of the ken the institute at the wilson center, here to talk with us about the reported hacking of d.n.c. emails by russia and other emails as well that was reported over the last couple of days of other servers. let's talk about the d.n.c. hacking that led into the democratic convention. how do we know it was russia? guest: well, we can't be 100% certain, first of all, that it was russia. the evidence that we have so far points strongly in that direction. the u.s. government, certainly the administration has been careful because they don't want to politicize the domestic side of this to the extent they have avoid it, but hints have been dropped pretty strong that will the evidence persuasive that the hackers who did this, they may have been private actors, but that they were acting at the direction of the russian state. that kind of plugs into a history that we know about of

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were delivered august. tensions between russia and the ukraine have reached their highest level since russia annexed crimea in 2014. with ukraine ordering troops to be on the highest level of readiness. russia accusedr the ukraine of watching military attack in crimea. to find out more on the state of tension, i spoke to the ukraine ambassador to the u.s., and i asked him, how has the conflict .nvolved in the last two years valeriy chaly: we approach it the attempt to maintain the international border. anynt to remind you compromise was with a friendship with russia, and all compromise, would not lead us russia is not the tension. it is the occupation and the territory. the u.n.country's in reject this attempt, and still we are at front for a restoring international law. unfortunately from my point of view, there is compromise -- a compromise, but not enough of a position of international community -- community by means. means leavematic russia open to another attack on the eastern part of ukraine. the main problem -- which means should be used to restore international order, territor

kgb middle manager, desk jockey turned expression of greater russia's hopes and dreams. he lets no opportunity to take his shirt off pass him by. pose with large gun? he's there. and no matter how transparently autocratic, vengeful, oblivious to even a thin veneer of democracy, russians love him. they seem to feel about him like new yorkers used to feel about giuliani. "he may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch!" ♪ >> anthony: it's february 2014, and the sochi olympics are just coming up when i arrive in moscow. it's a different moscow every time i come here. the '80s-style, go-go capitalist conspicuous consumption, see who can spend the most money, disco techno thing i encountered when i first came here back in 2001, it's still going strong. ♪ >> anthony: in fact, these days, moscow has one of the highest concentrations of billionaires in the world. ♪ >> anthony: but as never before, it's imperial russia now, a one man rule. all power emanates, every decision must consider - this guy. ♪ >> anthony: russia is full of characters with murky pasts and shadowy con

alabama attended defense and missil system. a new york times has an article saying russia uses an iran base for its syrian campaign. russia launched a fleet of bombers bound for syria tuesday from an iranian air base. the first foreign military to operate from iran since world war ii and speed the convergence between moscow and tehran. common on thee situation. here is a look at his remarks. use oftart with russia's the iranian air base for syrian missions today. what is your general response to this decision by russia? do you find this concerning? are you worrying about it deepening russia military lines? mr. toner: we are still trying to assess what exactly they are doing, to the extent that they are doing it. fashion use in some iranian airbases. the defense department has spoken to that to some extent. but look. i guess i would say it is unfortunate but not surprising or unexpected. speaks to the continuation of a pattern we have seen of russia continuing to carry out airstrikes. directh iran's assistance. in fact, we have seen this continually, predominantly target moderate s

about russia and ukraine. trump's campaign manager, paul manafort, is in the news because his name came up in connection with a corruption scandal in ukraine. tell us what you know about this. >> real quick backgrounder for those of us who don't follow ukraine politics. paul manafort worked for this party of regions in ukraine for many, many years, don. that party eventually took control of the government under president yanukovych and it fell apart. yanukovych ran basically through russia to escape probably being put in prison back in the ukraine. well, now the current government in ukraine formed this anti-corruption bureau which basically is looking back at the government and uncovering tons and tons of corruption and possible under the table cash payments. in the course of the investigation, paul manafort's name has come up. why? because his name has shown up 22 times on these ledgers. they have 841 pages of handwritten notes that seem to be showing payouts to various members of the party. they are all very detailed. and although we don't see manafort's name on the documents th

satter's look, "the less you know, the better you will sleep" russia's road to terror and dictatorship under yeltsin and putin. then the book politics in mexico. democratic consolidation or to kline. next to former moscow correspondent for the financial times david satter argues that doris nielsen and vladimir putin preside over the criminalization of russia. mr. sattar was the first u.s. journalist to be kicked out of russia since the fall of the soviet union. his look is "the less you know, the better you will sleep" or he spoke at the heritage foundation. >> good morning and welcome to the heritage foundation and our lori berman auditorium. we welcome those who join us on our heritage.orc web site as well as those joining us on c-span booktv in the future. we remind all of our outside yours you are welcome to send questions or comments at any time simply e-mailing speaker@heritage.org and for those in house we would appreciate your checking your mobile devices to see if they have been silenced. we will of course post the program on the heritage homepage following today's presentatio

. >> this week on q&a, will discuss the book -- about the dynasty that ruled russia for 300 years. >> the book is called, the roman office. 1613-1918. i want to read you a headline in the daily mail, the london daily mail, you wrote this back in january, the romance, the marrieds are and the 16-year-old mistress was about love letters of the head of state. >> i did not actually write that, that is the headline written by the daily mail, headline writer. buds, i would say that the correspondent is referring to the most outrageous to most explicit correspondent ever written by the head of state. i've to say the correspondent is outrageous that they edited the daily mail and they said we are a tabloid newspaper in england but we cannot print all of this stuff, we are a family newspaper. >> who was it? who is head of the state? it was the czar emperor, alexander the second, the emperor who liberated first the slaves of russia at exactly the same time as your president lincoln was about to liberate the slaves of america. the two men were correspondent and were assassinated an interesti

lot of time defending russia anymore so they do achieve success when they expose in their view the social problems in the united states as well and they do that and they get an audience for that because that is for those democratic societies for the criticism of the status quo would ever that happens to be the real issues with the u.s. could be doing to have a greater influence on the public that is in a state controlled russian television and with gun-control issues those are peripheral as far as russia is concerned there is talk of gun-control it has very tight control so it doesn't prevent anybody from getting them but the argument to make them more freely available with those legal challenge comes up on the fact russia has an extremely high murder rate to fall people were murdered in russia were tallied it would be the highest in the world it is a culture of which arguments are settled by force, not by agreement but what impressions russians of the united states that does are freely available and so few people are murdered. [laughter] if they were available like that you could

distract the public from her own dealings with russia when she was secretary of state. >>>. >> hillary clinton has done well strategically to draw connection between trump and russia because she has so many connections of her own. now, my analysis of trump and that is that there is no substantial connection. >> our "forbes" gang has been looking into the russian connections to see if he's right or wrong. >>> welcome, everybody, to "forbes on fox." we'll check in with steve forbes, rich carlguard, sabrina schaefer, john tammie, and bruce jackson. who should we be more concerned about? >> hillary clinton. even though donald trump likes putin, donald trump an alpha male. if he feels he's been dissed, he'll turn against putin on a dime. whereas with hillary clinton, as you indicated in your introduction, the russians may have real connections, financial connections to the clinton foundation when she is secretary of state, real outright corruption. that's something he can hold over her for months to come, years to come, if those emails are not revealed before the election. >> bruce, the one

. president john f. kennedy found once global nuclear war between the u.s. and russia wasn't some distant hypothetical insane possibility, president kennedy in 1962 realized even though he was president and had incredible power and responsibility in that situation, logistically, he didn't exactly know how one would go about doing this? how is a president supposed to start a global nuclear war if he decides that's what he wants to do? the overall idea is clear, a war room convened as commander-in-chief and the president ordering them to start dropping nuclear missiles on moscow. but how do you actually do it? what are the granular specifics how you do it? how do you contact the war room? what exactly should the president say to the war room by the phone? who would answer that phone and how do they know it was the presidenon the other end of the line. if t president did decide it was time to launch nuclear weapons at another country, as black and white as that sounds, it's not actually a black and white decision, not just yes or no, nuclear war or no nuclear war, once you decide to

different in the two different parts of the world. in russia is number two on that list. we're not ready to go to war with russia. we're not afraid at vladimir putin launched nuclear weapons at us. charlie: what are we afraid of? mike: we are afraid of him doing in the baltics what he did in the ukraine. in crimea. you know, we were not willing to go to war over crimea and western europe was not either. i think we might be going to go to war over the baltics. charlie: do you think hillary clinton would go to war over the baltics? mike: i do not want to speak for her but president who has set in office i believe would go to war over the baltics because of our nato commitment. charlie: donald trump says it depends on how they have contributed to nato. speaking of trump, i read an article saying that you were doing something you had not done before. you were retreating from a position of being bipartisan to endorse hillary clinton because you thought the stakes were that serious and it was a matter of principle. here's what donald trump said today, because he has just today received the fir

immigrants and cooperating with russia in the fight against isis, is this going to work and will it pass the voters' test? we're going to talk about that in a moment. well, it was nice to see everyone. i just wish it had been for a better reason. me, too, but the eulogy that frank's daughter gave was beautiful. i just feel bad knowing they struggled to pay for the funeral, especially without life insurance. i wish they would've let us help. but, it did make me think, though. about what? well, that i could leave you in the same situation. i don't have life insurance, either. if something were to happen to me tomorrow, how are you pay for my funeral? or my other bills? nothing's gonna happen to you tomorrow. you don't know that. i made a promise to always take care of you kids. without life insurance, i'm not keeping it. besides, i already looked into it and between my budget and health, well ... you should call massmutual. they have a new policy called guaranteed acceptance life insurance. i got covered with one call, and it was an affordable option for reliable coverage. what do you thin

talk about russia. this is a lot of tension there between ukraine, between russia. there are growing concerns about russia's growing coziness with iran. the operations there, as well. and there are questions about mr. trump, paul manafort, a part of the campaign, their relationships with various individuals with russia, as well. what can we expect on that front? do you think there is a plan for dealing with that very tenuous relationship, which is critical to things from syria to iran and beyond? >> yeah. so all this noise about russia and paul manafort and frankly even myself is just nonsense. we did talk about russia today. i won't get into any of the specifics. russia does not have the same perspective and the same belief in the way the world ought to work as we do. everybody needs to understand that. russia, at times, though, russia is deeply involved in the middle east. one of the things we have to recognize is how do we work if a smart way, in an effective way, to be able to operate and to deal with this problem of radical islamism? we have to stop kidding ourselves. most of yo

. >>> russia is promising to appeal a decision banning although leets from competing in the paralympic games in rio. the announcement game on a busy second day at the olympic games. >> michael phelps led team usa to gold in the men's 4 by 100 meter replay winning his 23rd olympic medal. >> in tennis world number one novak djokovic was knocked out in the first round. >> and dutch cyclist is in intensive care right now after she crashed during the women's road race. >> for more let's go to christina mcfarland live in rio. so let's talk about that ban here in a moment. but first starting with the athletes, day two of competition and major wins in the pool for the united states. >> that's right, george. as an american you'll be pleased the usa are topping the medal table after day two of the competition. that is due in part to some of the big performances we saw in the pool tonight. you mentioned michael phelps. it was the first glimpse we had of him and it came in the men's 4 by 100 meter relay. that got underway a couple hours ago and was the men's first gold in the pool for the united s

later in the show. but first we go to ukraine. ever since russia's annexation of the crimean peninsula two years ago and the subsequent military conflict in eastern ukraine, tensions have been extremely high between the two countries. the fragile ceasefire that was in place may now be crumbling amid a recent upsurge in violence. in today's report, we take a look at the situation of refugees from russia, people whose criticism of their government forced them to flee their homes and seek a new life in neighboring ukraine. reporter: little remains of alexei vetrov's former life in nizhny novorod. some pictures of demonstrations, some files on his laptop. alexei tells us that he's the one carrying the poster. >> nostalgia and bitterness. that's what i feel when i look at these pictures. i've had to move on. my old life is over. reporter: alexei fled russia two years ago. eventually he ended up in this hostel in kyiv, ukraine. each of the rooms is shared by 10 people. for his one and a half square meters alexei pays 40 euros a month in rent. in russia, alexei was a successful small business

. super poligrip is part of my life now. charles: russia has made more headlines than you would expect during the course of path election. donald trump talking about vladimir putin and whether he would go into ukraine on his watch. it was -- the point was made that russia is already in crimea. earlier donald trump reacted to criticism he's getting on this issue. >> all the tough guy statements. he talks about donald trump is not strong on russia. i have to say this. wouldn't it be great if we actually got along with russia? am i wrong in saying that? wouldn't it be great? you know, russia like us has nuclear weapons, folks. it would be really nice if we got along with russia. charles: all of a sudden it's all about russia. richard, you and i talk about this all the time. we all have seen interview,b what role do you think we should be playing with respect to russia. bad guy, good guy. where do you think we should be here? >> i dealt with the russians a long time at the u.n. they respond to tough pressure. they respond to leadership, and they respond to money. they can be convinced by h

that's been followed by the state media here in russia as well. a lot of analysts i have spoken to here, trump, because he made pronouncements on foreign policy that are sympathetic to the russian point of view like crimea annex and sanctions and things like that, he is seen as somebody to be positive. not everyone thinks that. a lot of people in russia and some officials as well, that think clinton would be more advantageous for russia because she is more predictable in the anti-russian line. donald trump, he is making positive statements at the moment, but he is regarded as unpredictable. that is not something kremlin and russia wants to see in an american president. >> matthew, you tracked the coverage of donald trump in russian media. he might be getting better coverage in russia than in the united states. >> reporter: i think there's no question about that. yes, he is the favored candidate in the russian state media. he is seen as somebody very positive in pronouncements about russia. and one of the reasons i've heard for this, explained to me by political analysts is, first o

-- secretary clinton has -- a no-fly zone which could lead to military confrontation with russia, who is flying over syria, and michele flournoy an interview made clear that she not only believes in a no-fly zone, but also more active boots on the ground in syria, american boots on the ground. and given the russians are already there, that there is isis there, that there are al qaeda elements, there is still a civil war ongoing, it would be extremely dangerous to involve the u.s. further and military involvement in syria and yet you president obama who himself has been very militaristic -- he has bombed seven predominately muslim countries and the last seven years -- and yet secretary clinton's critique of his foreign-policy is in every case he is not aggressive enough, not militaristic enough, and in syria in particular, they seem to really be itching to involve the u.s. a lot more directly and a lot more aggressively in that conflict. amy: how do you think donald trump's foreign policy would be carried out? >> it is always difficult to say what donald trump's policy would be be

politics. republican nominee donald trump suggested the u.s. should accept russia's annexation of crimea if it would lead with a better -- to a better relationship with moscow. obamauns counter to the administration. it is now believed the russian government was responsible for the theft of e-mails from the dnc, and hacking into other campaign computer systems. while the obama administration has stopped short of formal accusations, they said friday that interference in the election process is a very serious matter. joining me is david sanger, the national security correspondent for the new york times. i am pleased to have him at the table. welcome. david: good to be with you. thelie: in terms of what russians are doing, we will talk about that then we will talk about trumps interview about ukraine. why would they do that? who did it? why did they do it? then, how do we retaliate? all fascinating issues. to some degree, this is the story that i think most of us didn't see coming in this election. strange as this cycle has been, it didn't seem likely that if all thetin would, eviden

like to talk about russia for a moment. there's been back and forth about donald trump's position on russia. give us your take on what the u.s. relationship is with russia right now. i should also mention russia is finger in hacking scandal at the democratic committee, these candidates and that country. i think the obama administration is deeply frustrated. it hoped it would be able to find in russia a partner to sdofrl the nightmare war in syria. that hasn't happened. the u.s. continues in effect to leave the exit ramp open for vladimir putin to adopt more sensible policies. i think there is deep concern about russian hacking process, the kind of intelligence operation that was characteristic of the cold war. it's strange and worrying to people now. generally, i hear from foreign leaders concern that in the u.s. election that the candidate donald trump says differentenings about russia than we've heard for years, and differentenings aboutinatea and nuclear deterrent. they try not to make comments to intervene in our election, i go concern about foreign leaders as they watch what's h

is different in the two different parts of the world. and russia is number two on that lit, right. we're not ready to go to bar with russia. we're not afraid that vladimir putin is going to launch nuclear weapons at us. >> rose: what are we afraid of? >> we're afraid of him doing it in the baltics, what he did in ukraine, right. >> rose: or in crimea. >> in crimea, right. and you know, we were not willing to go to war over crimea , and western europe wasn't either. i think we might be willing to go to war over the baltics. >> rose: you think hillary clinton would go to war over the baltics. >> i don't want to speak for her, right. but i believe most american president, every american president who sat in that office i believe would be willing to go to the war over the baltics because of our nato complitment-- commitment. >> rose: donald trump says it depends on how well they have contributed to nato. speaking of donald trump, you wrote an article saying that, you wrote an editorial in the "ew york times" basically saying that you were doing something you hadn't done before. you we

and expanded to what he says and the recent reports on russia to talk about iraq, iran. we're talking with linda sarsour , matt taibbi, and phyllis bennis. linda is the director of the first muslim online organizing change. mpower matt taibbi is with rolling stone magazine. phyllis bennis is a fellow at the institute for policy studies. back in a moment. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. on monday, republican presidential nominee donald trump invoked the cold war as he pledged to wage war against what he described as the ideology of radical islam. during his speech in youngstown, ohio, he also reversed his speech saying he would work closely with the alliance to defeat isis. trump the we would work closely with nato on this new mission. i had previously said that nato was obsolete because it failed to deal adequately with terrorism. since my comments, they have changed their policy and now have a new division focused on terror threats. very good. very, very good. i also believe that we could find common ground w

with us. wouldn't itothers, be wonderful if we could get along with russia? they talk so big and so brave a nd so tough. they are the tough ones. hillary is real tough, give me a break. wouldn't it be great if we got along with russia, go with others, and knock the hell out

. we'll be talking russia. uk inflation data. let's start with a look at the european market this is morning. it's a bit soggy. the xetra dax off .80%. the ftse 100 down .30%. let me give you a look at individual sectors as well. on the downside you have the likes of the autos, the banks, the oil and gas sector now setting there almost unchanged. we did see oil touch lower earlier on in the session obviously after the 2.8% gains we saw yesterday that helped lift the session. we just tilted now back into positive territory. we'll watch that sector. the big one is the basic resources. i'm going to update you on what we've seen in that sector so far this morning. 2.3% rise in first half profits boosted bid intensifying cost cutting measures. the chill yan. being hit by record $6.4 billion annualloss. wider than experting. blames the 81% broft drop on the commodity slump. a dam disaster in brazil and a losing bid on bp shell. mechanics kensi saying trading conditions were tough, the long-term outlook for commodities were bright. analyst joins us now to dig through the numbers. nick, what

late for my birthday dinner. >> you alluded earlier to russia, over military cooperation in syria against some of the militant forces, presumably in exchange for whatever russian influence could be imposed on the assad regime, for a variety of reasons. i'm sure you are not surprised at some of the military are not supportive of that deal. some european allies think it would be a deal with the devil. what makes you so confident that you can trust the russians and vladimir putin? president obama: i'm not confident, which is why we have to test whether we can get an actual cessation of hostilities. that includes an end to area bombings and civilian death and destruction that we have seen carried out by the assad regime. russia may not be able to get out of there because they don't want to, or don't have sufficient influence over assad. that is all you're going to test. we go into this without any blinders on. we are very clear that russia has been willing to support a murderous regime and an individual who has destroyed his country just to cling to power. what started with peaceful p

attacks and breaching doctor-patient confidentiality. thank you very much for joining us. russia has accused ukraine of carrying out to arm grades on the crimean peninsula. a ukrainian province russia annexed in 2014. russia says the attempted incursions were aimed at hitting key infrastructures and were boarded despite the test of a soldier and russian intelligence officer. the attacks reportedly happened last weekend. russian authorities have not explained why it has taken three days to release the details. ukraine has called the information fake. our correspondent is standing by in moscow. what more do we know about this? guest: what we do know is the russian president reacted almost immediately to the a legend attack. -- a legend attack. he accused the ukrainian government of terrorism and said they valued terror over the. he said we cannot let this go unnoticed. that is a clear threat from putin there. what is interesting is that before he made that announcement, he was speaking at a press conference with the armenian president. before that, the head of the russian tourism a

tokyo. this is nhk "newsline." it is wednesday, august 17. >>> russia says it's used an iranian air base for the first time to carry out a concentrated air strike against the islamic militant group and other groups in syria. the move appears to be a gesture against the u.s. and other countries that are supporting anti-government forces in syria. russia's defense ministry said on tuesday that russian long-range bombers and tactical bombers flew from the air base in western iran. the ministry says the bombers struck targets related to a group that recently changed its name from the nusra front. it said late last month that it was cutting ties with al qaeda. russian media reports say this is the first time the russian military has used an iranian military base to launch air raids in syria. russian officials explained that flying bombers from iran will save fuel. >>> the head of iran's supreme national security council, ali shamkhani told the state-run news agency that iran and russia enjoy strategic cooperation in the fight against terrorism in syria and share their facilities and capa

display in new york, nixon would help open the american version in russia's captial city. "but on this occasion, traditional diplomacy goes by the board and the story of the fair itself is eclipsed by a crackling exchange between nixon and krushchev." soon after setting foot inside the show's model kitchen with television cameras rolling, krushchev both playful and case against america's capitalist lifestyle. "well then, we will say america has existed 150 years and this is her level of achievement. we have existed not quite 42 years and in seven years from now, we will be on the same level of achievement as america. in the following years, we shall continue to surge ahead, and when we shall overtake you at the crossroads, we shall greet you. (applause and laughter). after that, if you wish, we can stop and tell you please follow us." "every aspect of the cold and soviet-american rivalry is argued in blunt and forth right terms." "there are some instances where you may be ahead of us, for example in the development of your ... of the thrust of your rockets for the investigation of oute

. this comes amid a week of rising tensions between russia and ukraine. today russian prime minister dmitry medvedev threatened to break diplomatic ties with kiev. over reported security incidents. russia says it deployed an air defense system to crimea. the territory was annexed from ukraine two years ago. comes after russia accused ukraine of mounting an incursion into crimea. for more on what this escalation could mean, i spoke a brief time ago with a former state department official, now at the mccain institute. why is this flaring up now? >> the russians claim the ukrainians are trying to launch an incursion and stage terrorist acts in crimea. the ukrainians have denied this. let's remember that a little over two years ago russia a nnexed crimea from ukraine. they invaded it rather stealthily, annexed it and moved further into eastern ukraine after the success in crimea. this is recognized by the international community as ukrainian territory. but it is currently occupied by russia. rajini: things are escalating. could this be the brink of war? >> tensions are certainly heighten

clinton campaign video released overnight talking about donald trump and russia. let's watch it. >> that's one more reason why we're not seeing his tax returns, because he is deeply involved in dealing with russia and oligarchs. >> is he getting money from russia? is his business built on russian loans? notice ♪ >> that's a portion of the video that was released. and it ends with, as you saw, we'll let you guess. is this not the same type of innuendo that the clinton campaign complained about from sanders and said that campaign was guilty of in relation to the wall street speeches, just suggesting there's some quid pro quo, some connection, but never actually making one? >> i think that's not the case. i think it is different here. donald trump has introduced russia, his relationship or non-relationship with putin. he's raised it in inviting them to look for 30,000 e-mails. he has indicated that he does business and has investments with russia and then denied it. and this video simply raises the very questions that donald trump has put into play. by the way, these questions ar

shape our dialogue. i think there are obvious concerns given his express affinity for russia, given many advisors making millions of dollars working with russia and ukraine and other places, about how he would use the classified intelligence briefings he just started getting last week. he is getting something that i think helped him understand what is going on in the world. it is on par with what secretary clinton receives as well. i think the biggest concern many people have is that donald trump seems to be operating at such a deficit of knowledge and a base of knowledge about what is happening in particular quarters of the world, he has a lot more homework to do then secretary clinton. i think it is unfortunate that the intelligence community works very hard to get the best information possible to the commander-in-chief, the president of the united states and members of congress, and i think many times be issues get caught up in our politics. it is risky, trying to preserve their neutrality in their independence. it is essential to help our current leaders and possible future lead

middle east and russia? how much bandwidth will the next president have to continue this work? i'm optimistic, actually. >> i will add briefly, i think it will be enduring, although a lot will depend on the new leadership coming in with the new administration, as mike says. i see within or decisions, within the pentagon but within other agencies as well just a real shift in focus on priorities and programs in real frameworks and agreements towards southeast asia in particular compared to previous administrations. to take defense, for example, first of all he do have a very knowledgeable and committed leader in secretary carter. but over the last couple of years it hasn't just been secretary carter's engagement of president obama's engagement on defense and secure the cooperation. it's been the whole of the department, a combination to baltimore to a focus on southeast asia and asean in particular. we develop new frameworks with particular country. we negotiated access to grants with the philippines and with australia. we're doing more than we've ever done before with countries like

one of the things that we have learned from our two are in russia which coincided with president putin's first term in office, this was after 9/11. we ended up in afghanistan and iraq and came back here to the washington george w. bush's second term in office and you know that supply of ground troops, that sense of washington isn't just a capital capital of the united states, it is in many ways the capital of the world. it's a nexus through which things flow and get we are often very insular here. it's kind of the small village at times and we really have to renew your intellectual capital, your ground troops in order to really understand these issues. i'm going to be writing a weekly report column on foreign affairs which will appear in "politico". also i'll be working on longer form magazine pieces probably for "the new york times" as well as "politico." c-span: as you know they're all kinds of folks united states that hate -- and i don't need to say it any stronger than that, they don't like the media and the press. what do you say to them when you find somebody that's hostile

watched american politics and thought, i would be off better with my objectives for russia is donald trump was elected. therefore i will do everything that i can to make him an agent of my wishes. if i support him, he will become an agent of my wishes. mike: i think there are two things. charlie: you are not talking about speculation, you do not know what putin thinks or is trying to do. mike: i do not know. i happen to know something about how you recruit people. i have a lot of experience about that. it is my professional assessment that this is what putin has done. charlie: those are the skills they learned that the cia. mike: yes. i think was thinking two things. one, putin does not like secretary clinton. charlie: i have talked to people that say it's more that. mike: i think it's both. we've had'vmike: conversations about russia and the. you said there is one thing about all the that vladimir putin fears. that is an arab spring green revolution style uprising in the streets of moscow. and that is what happened after the parliamentary elections during barack obama's first term.

news. katty: a conviction that took decades. russia opened a new front today using an air base in iran to launch strikes. the u.s. state department calls the development unfortunate but not surprising and that washington is still assessing the extent of russian-iranian cooperation. for more on the developments, i spoke with former state department official vali nasr, now at the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies. it is unusual for the iranians to allow a foreign country user base and the russians to use another country's base in the middle east. why now? vali: the stakes are very high for both of them in syria. both countries have reputations on the line and they cannot afford to lose. the ramifications elsewhere in the region or globally would be quite high. we have seen that the battle of aleppo has not turned out the way they planned, that the turks and arabs have successfully supplied weapons to the opposition to break the siege of aleppo to a good extent. they need to escalate. they also need to send a signal internationally that they have a stronger relat

them. they say the u.s. is arrogant and does not treat russia as an equal partner. and gays and lesbians under fire in uganda. organizing anything like this is risky in a nation where homosexuality is illegal. police have raided a gay pride event in the capital. my name is christopher springer. thanks for joining us. the opening ceremony of the rio olympics they be just hours away, but the doping scandal is chasing it right up to the starting line. you may remember the international olympic committee failed to impose a blanket than on the russian competitors, despite evidence of state-sponsored doping in the country -- failed to impose a blanket ban. >> too many brazilians, there are more important things to worry about than eight-sponsored russian doping, but to the athletes inside this hotel and the nearby olympic village, it is the issue of greatest concern. it's still not clear how many athletes from the russian team will be allowed to compete and in which sports. >> after the cas decision, there is still room for some change. there's the possibility even more russian athlet