series. next, why we fight. a 1943 film on the battle of russia. then also from 1943, know your ally. britain, a film introducing american soldiers to the uk. after that, the 1944 film "the negro soldier" tracing the history of african-american service in the military. and later, also from 1944, the hidden army. a look at the impact of working women in factories on the victory over germany. >>> next american history tv's "real america" features a world war ii team entitled "why we fight: the battle of russia." it was produced by the office of war information and looks at the history of the military in russia leading up to the war against the invadesing german army between 1941 and 1943. the soviet union was allied with the u.s. during world war ii, and this film was intended to show the country in their struggle against the nazis in a positive light for the u.s. audience. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> this is a film about that scale and grandeur. this is a film about that military achievement. this is a film about a people who for all times shattered the legend of nazi invincibility. this is a

, very, very fast. russia now is one of the leader, if we judge by the numbers. russia is the five place in the world by the number of program connection users. and some prefer to focus on this public. at the state media, i can say. medoza is the portal created two or three years ago in latvia. the audience is russia. and in covering all kind of news. first they wanted to phone us on the critics of russia's space policy. but then they understood they could develop just the so-called soft news like discussing the parks in moscow. and they really succeeded. they succeeded because of the very root level of russian language. this russia we have the lack of journalists really able to speak nice russian. actually, to put the confirmation freely and just in a few words. because if you open the newspapers. on my channel we have some situations where i hear the voice of the host and i cannot understand how it is connected to the real life of the people. because it's always some strange russian so people tend to switch off the tv and go back to the internet. but still the structure is segmen

reinforce russia passed offense of the syrian coast. it already has a system in place at an ever based just north. announcement comes a day after the u.s. halted talks with russia. on military cooperation in syria. washington has grown increasingly critical of russia's actions. on monday, secretary of state john kerry blamed moscow for the failure. john kerry: we will continue to pursue a meaningful, sustainable, and forcible cessation of hostilities throughout the country. russia knows exactly what it needs to do in order to get that cessation implemented in a fair and reasonable way. >> russia has been accused of indiscriminately bombing aleppo as it joins an offensive to regain control. and hasladimir addressed parliament just days after the u.s. pulled out of talks with russia on syria. this was his first speech since his party swept the parliamentary election in russia last month. for more on what he had to say, i am joined by armen georgian. what about international issues? what did he have to say about them? : there was nothing explosive on the situation with the west, syria, or ukra

discussion of the russian state and the russian media. hasu.s.-russia relationship obviously did terrier rated sharply over the last two years and particularly over the last several months, with a variety of causes and precipitating events. beenat context, there has increasing attention certainly in the united states and other western countries to the russian media. both in the role of russian in what iide russia think many in the west at this point would call russian propaganda. but also in the role of the russian media inside the country. and its role in shaping public opinion, in mobilizing political support. element ofhat latter this question that i hope we will focus on today. we are very pleased to have two speakers, each of whom is a russian journalist. have maria who is a columnist for the russian newspaper. it is a business oriented mariao is a paper that until relatively recently with theshed jointly financial times, the wall street journal, and some russian participation. russia causedw in the wall street journal and the financial times to sell their stakes. however, t

you by thescussion hosted mccain institute on how the next american president should engage russia and president vladimir putin. live coverage now as the event just gets underway. >> i have the honor of serving as executive director of the mccain institute. we were founded in 2012 to honor the legacy of service to our country of senator mccain and the mccain family going back generations. it is so good to see the navy uniforms here in the audience. we focus on promoting character through leadership, and we fashion ourselves as a do tank more than a think tank. we promote character-thre driven leadership, human rights, international security, the rule of law, and government. but we do like to have a good debate. we have a series of these, i think over 20 now, on key foreign-policy questions that the united states needs to address. two years ago, we did a debate about russia and the question that that time was, is it time for containment? given the discussion that we have had throughout the course of our presidential campaign about russia, it seems like a more pertinent question now

we talk to ukrainian allies about the fate of russia. i think the issue here is what are you trying to achieve and how do you best achieve it. whether we agree with whether russia has legitimate interests or not, russia has told us for the past 25 years ukraine is a red line for them. they would react. they reacted. we weren't prepared to deal with that reaction. that's poor policy making. that's poor state craft. so you need to understand what the other side is doing, how they think about it, how they might react, and that needs to be factored into your policy. if we want to bring ukraine into the west, we don't have to achieve that today or tomorrow, but we need to have a real plan that takes into account russia's attitudes, russia's possible reactions, and put that in place and eventually get there over time. the flaw is that in 2014 there was a set of actions. we were unprepared for russian response. we got a russian response and we were caught flat footed. that's poor policy making. that's what we need. again, we need to engage russia and have a better idea of what they're real

of uranium that nobody knows what it means. i know what it means. to russia. then she talks to me about russia. 20% of the uranium in our country to russia. but you know, the deletion of 33,000 e-mails, that is so out there. after receiving a subpoena from the united states government, she lied to congress, she lied to the fbi, she made 13 phones disappear, some with a hammer. the clinton crew gave more than $675,000 to the wife of the deputy director of the fbi, and the man who was overseeing the investigation into hillary's server. right now, that takes care of itself. i'm very proud that the fbi was willing to do this. [applause] just yesterday, we learned that bill clinton's right-hand man just for clinton foundation donors and other donors to funnel as much a $65 million in personal profit to bill and hillary clinton. this man explained that the cozy relationship between the consulting firm, the foundation in clinton's personal income had helped bill and hillary enrich themselves and obtained in-kind services, including personal travel, hospitality relations, and the like. th

our series, "eastwards: stories about russia," we go to the capital, moscow. there our correspondent rubs shoulders with the city's elite. since the fall of communism and the end of the soviet union in 1991, a new breed of super-rich has created an ever growing class divide in russia. despite a stagnant economy, the privileged few, like artist nikas safronov, still support president putin and say he has, in fact, lead the country into a golden age. >> this is no ordinary studio, and he is no ordinary artist. nikas safronov is making an exception and drawing me today . usually, it's men like billionaire and formr politician alexander lebedev, who pose for safronov. what do the two think of russia, of russia's elite, who they both know well, both professionally and personally? >> politicians are like pigeons. when they're down, they feed from your hand. when they're up, they defecate on your head. >> an immature democracy is much more dangerous than the guided democracy we have now. >> putin does things that no one before him dared to do, other than jesus christ, perhaps. i have great

assad regime. it is called a grim milestone. russia is indicating a major escalation that will impact us all. >> there is a development that is interesting because of the timing. russia started the bombing campaign to bolster the assad regime. president obama famously said this. >> an attempt by russia and iran to prop up assad and try to pacify the population is just going to get them stuck in a quagmire and it will not work. >> now negotiations to restart the ceasefire and coordination for russia and syria came to a complete and total halt. the state department said this. >> it is a grim anniversary, one year since they began supporting the assad regime in earnest with air strikes. it is hard not to assess they have suck soweded in -- succeeded in bolstering the regime. >> peter is an expert on russia and ukraine. i want to focus, peter, on the breaking news. what russia is doing. moving aspect- missile system in syria. it is the first time they have deployed the anti- missile system outside of their own border. why are they doing that? >> this represents a escalation of the fighting i

that he cannot defend the i just think that -- >> moderator: let's talk about russia. i will give you an opportunity to do that.nations gov. pence:er each other] >> moderator: gentlemen, russia.. russian president vladimir putin invaded ukraine and annexed crane and provided crucial military support to the assad regime. what steps if any would your administration take to counter d regi these actions turn one you've got to be tough with russia. let's start with not praising' vladimir putin as a greatt leader. donald trump and mike pence have said he is a great leader.na donald trump has business dealings with russia that he refuses to disclose. with ru hillary clinton has gone to to do with russia. she went on to do with russia secretary of state to do the new s.t.a.r.t. agreement to reduce russia's nuclear start. -- stockbroker she would toe to toe with russia and launched protest when it went to georgia. we put punishing economic sanctions on russia that we need to continue. donald trump come on the other hand, didn't know russia had o invaded the crimea. he was on a tv show a co

, 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 connections. but one of

in her introduction, the kremlin announced that russia was with drawing from this agreement that it had with the united states on the disposal of weapons grade plutonium and the united states was of course blamed for that and putin when he announced this that the reason russia is doing this and i'm quoting now the emergence of a threat to strategic stability and as a result of unfriendly actions by the united states of america against the russian federation and he tied russia rejoining this union to three conditions. one of them is that nato can with draw and sources in russia's neighborhood. and obviously because of what's happened with crew crane. and in the region and then thirdly and has to ago are regate the act and continue lack of understanding about separation of powers in the united states and how that system works. those are three conditions that mean that they won't be met obviously so that rush wra will now have withdrawn from this agreement. so the purpose of our panel today is to ask why has it been so challenging since the soviet collapse to reach and then maintain an

nelson. there are several people in the audience that are scholars of russia and the soviet union who are shaking your heads is your beginning to speak. one of the precipitating events to bring something down was really a decision first of all by a group including -- we mentioned to launch it cool against gorbachev. not because what he did related directly but because he is trying to have a new union treaty which decentralizes soviet union and then a decision by force yeltsin and a number of other republican leaders within the soviet union. mostly boris yeltsin to actually get rid of the soviet union behind the scenes. >> now they made those decisions for different reasons. i like to try to get back. i think it played something of a role because many people in the military and elsewhere were not happy about gorbachev negotiating with united states in such an open way. gorbachev resigned and he signed himself into history. >> thank you for mentioning the coup attempt. >> so very quickly there is a few other important people in the audience so a couple people want to jump in here who i

said, "hey, russia, go see if you can cyber hack and find things that will help me government tries to do this, there has to be a consequence. there will be time for figuring what that consequence is, but you can't let i got unchallenged, because if you do, you could encourage more of it. >> dickerson: do you see any link between the trump campaign and these disclosures that have come out? >> i can't discern any direct link except for donald trump's encouragement. i think it was during the week of the convention in philadelphia, donald trump took a stage and he basically said, hey, i would encourage cyber clinton that will help me win. you know, that was shocking. later when he was challenged about it, he said, well, i was just being sarcastic. i don't think it's funny when you have a nation like russia that has engaged in activity to destabilize elections in countries, ukraine, estonia, they've engaged in that activity, and somebody running to be president of the united states shouldn't be encouraging another nation to cyber hack the u.s. >> dickerson: when you look at these e-mails a

online. again, the question we are asking is the u.s. is considering cyber attacks against russia -- our phone lines are open. democrats, [indiscernible] -- (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. about is also writing this. the kremlin slamming the white house. vice president biden's remarks were denounced. moscow said it would safeguard interests in the face of unpredictability and aggressiveness. john is joining us on the democrat's line. caller: good morning, thanks for accepting my call. i'm a disabled veteran. i think this thing with russia, it is obvious to a blind man that russia is behind this and every time donald trump is presented with this he says, we don't know, it could be some that guy. we need to see his taxes. he has some types of ties to russia. he has too many people in his campaign affiliated with russia. enough is enough. his supporters keep coming up with far-fetched accusations against hillary and bill clinton. this is really getting ridiculous. russia, putin would love donald trump to get in office. he will play him like

. over issues like the war in syria and the ukraine-russia conflict in crimea. he spoke yesterday at the johns hopkins university school of advanced international studies in washington. >> good afternoon. i'm vali nasr, the dean of johns hopkins university school of advanced international studies, and it's my privilege to welcome everyone to a discussion of the current and future state of relations between the united states and russia which is a part of our series on foreign policy and global security. we are honored today to host as our guest speaker ambassador sergey kislyak who currently serves as the ambassador of the russian federation to the united states. we look forward to hearing his perspectives on a vast array of international issues facing the two countries. and given his deep engagement in diplomacy for nearly two decades, i can think of no one better than him to represent and discuss the pressing global issues facing the two countries today. ambassador kislyak previously served as the deputy minister of foreign affairs from 2003-2008. and pride to that he served simultaneou

u.s. russia relations are worse than they have been since anytime since before gorbachev came to power. the personal relations between the two presidents are almost poisonous, but very negative relations. we know that yesterday a few to help mention this briefly in her introduction, the kremlin announced that russia was withdrawing from this agreement that they had with the united states on the disposal of weapons with plutonium. the united united states was blamed for that and putin when he announced the said that the reason rushing was doing it was the emergence of a threat to strategic stability and a result of on friendly actions by the united states of america against the russian federation. he is now tied russia rejoining this to three conditions. one is that nato should withdraw forces which are in russia's neighborhood, what we have been beating up our forces to what's happening in ukraine. secondly we have to end the sanctions that were imposed after they annexed crimea and launched a war and then thirdly, congress has to aggregate the -- and this shows a continuing lack

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segment of our series, "eastwards: stories about russia," we go to the capital, moscow. there our correspondent rubs shoulders with the city's elite. since the fall of communism and the end of the soviet union in 1991, a new breed of super-rich has created an ever growing class divide in russia. despite a stagnant economy, the privileged few, like artist nikas safronov, still support president putin and say he has, in fact, lead the country into a golden age. >> this is no ordinary studio, and he is no ordinary artist. nikas safronov is making an exception and drawing me today . usually, it's men like billionaire and formr politician alexander lebedev, who pose for safronov. what do the two think of russia, of russia's elite, who they both know well, both professionally and personally? >> politicians are like pigeons. when they're down, they feed from your hand. when they're up, they defecate on your head. >> an immature democracy is much more dangerous than the guided democracy we have now. >> putin does things that no one before him dared to do, other than jesus christ, perhaps.

russia. is part of the series on foreign policy and global security. we are honored today with our ambassador sergey kislyak who currently serves as the ambassador to the russian federation to denied the state's. we'll afford to hearing is perspective to the issues facing these two countries and with the engagement and diplomacy i can think of no one better than him to have pressing those issues today. ambassador kislyak previously served as a deputy minister of foreign affairs 2003 through 2008. prior to that simultaneously the russian federation ambassador to belgium and the permanent representative of fresh shot. he graduated from moscow engineering physics institutes as well as the academy of foreign trade. also thanks to our foreign policy is to end our moderator to the global security forum. to conduct the of conversation. solo me to invite both be ambassador kislyak and ambassador to the podium. [applause] >> good afternoon. thanks for joining students and faculty the dean and others with this important subject of russia up. i also have a rather large audience here today tha

russia, whether in -- >> you guys love russia. you both have said vladimir putin is better than the president. >> i do want to get back to -- >> elaine, thank you. >> these guys have praised vladimir putin as a great leader. had you can they defend that? >> we do have that coming up here. >> senator, i must have hit a nerve here, because at a time of great challenge, in the life of this nation, which we've weakened american's place in the world, stifled america's economy, the campaign of hillary clinton and tim kaine has been an avalanche of insults. donald trump has built a business through hard times and through good times. he's brought an extraordinary business acumen. he's employed tens of thousands of people in this country. >> and paid as few taxes and lost a billion dollars a year. >> why this disconnect with your running mate? >> there's a reason why people question the trustworthiness of hillary clinton. and that's because they're paying attention. the reality is when she was secretary of state, senator, come on, she had a clinton foundation accepting contributions from for

they don't know but they always blame russia because they think they're trying to tarnish me with russia. i know nothing about russia -- i know about russia but i don't know about the inner workings of russia.

. >> swe have to knock out isis. -- syria's no longer syria. syria is russia and iran. >> i believe we have to get isis. we have to worry about isis before we can get too much more involved. >> the question i had, and you can check the transcript, so can viewers, was about the humanitarian crisis in aleppo and what we ought to do. donald trump's position, our position, we need to establish safe zones and be willing to use resources and including military power to secure those safe zones to allow those people including 100,000 children to be able to evacuate. last night she conflated that and referred to general provocation and involvement by the russians in the syrian regime, and, you know, donald trump's made it clear. our policy is safe zones for people suffering in syria. >> all right. bring back our panel. carol lee, white house reporter for the "washington journal." ed o'keefe, political reporter for the "washington post" and cnn politics editor juana summers. i wanted, before we get to conversation on this, i want to play a clip. mike pence just a few moments ago speaking about t

progress was good for the broader u.s.-russia relationship. and just a comment on reset, a small and decreasing people but i see this as success in terms of what i understand it's original purpose was, not to get the u.s.-russia relationship to nirvana but to get out of hole with russia in 2008 and get russians to do something that the obama administration defined as u.s. interest. the strategic nuclear arms agreement, more help on ending iranian nuclear weapon and help in afghanistan in terms of getting supplies and forces easier to afghanistan. and on those areas in the first couple of years, the obama administration went back achieved important things. by 2011, maybe may or june, the reset run its course, maybe come up with a new term and that term would have failed, but looking at the new start treaty it was also very clear and the president made this public, he wanted to go beyond new start and not only negotiate further cuts in strategic weapons but also bring in nonstrategic nuclear weapons, and so for the first time the idea that you might have a u.s.-russia negotiation that

administration and create. the newly em boldened russia. >> you guys loved -- >> with the approach. >> >> gentlemen, we're going to get to russia in just a moment but i do want to get back to the question at hand. >> these guys have praised vladimir putin. >> we do have that coming up but in the meantime the question is about your running mate, why the disconnect? >> where we've weakened the place of america in the world, the campaign of hillary clinton and tim kaine has been an avalanche of insults. donald trump has built a business through hard times and good times. he's brought an extraordinary business acumen. >> and paid few taxes and lost a billion dollars a year. >> but why the disconnect with your running mates? >> there's a reason why people question the trustworthiness of hillary clinton and that's because they're paying attention. the reality is when she was secretary of sate, senator, come on, she had a clinton foundation accepting contributions from foreign countries. >> >> isn't -- isn't this a discussion. >> the clinton foundation accepted contributions from foreign

decision to suspend talks in russia. we'll take your calls and you conversation at facebook and twitter. "washington journal" is next. good morning. it's saturday, october 8, and there is plenty of political headlines with just 30 days to go before election day. wikileaks released a new trove of e-mails apparently a hack of rough hillary clinton's campaign aid's e-mail account. some messages contained excerpts of a speech she made before her presidential campaign, a hack a caused aids to express concern that secretary clinton may look out of touch with voters. obtained and ideo posted by the washington post shows donald trump having what is described as a lewd conversation about women on the television show in obtained ad 2005. a revelation that created a and caused restorm some republicans to withdraw support from the g.o.p. nominee few to call for him to step down, which brings us to today's questions for our viewers. will donald trump's comments affect how you vote on election day? donald re supporting trump, call 202-748-8001. those supporting hillary clinton can call 202-74

get your thoughts on russia as well. he's taking part in a three day gathering. summit. there is an annual meeting and he's making comments about the u.s. election and also about syria and i will share a few of them. he said that russia is showing restraint in syria, but that he may lose patience in that. he talked about the u.s. elections and saying that donald trump becomes in an extraordinary way. and just sort of left it at that. it is resonating with the hearts of a lot of mefrn voters. it is a big picture look at putin right now. a good friend of mine asked me why is putin so dangerous? i am curious about your thought and assessment. >> when i look at russia, it is ambitious and assertive and anti- american and revisionist and opportunist and nationalistic. it is a challenge for the u.s. whether russia operates in syria or ukraine or violates the treaties and threatening baltic neighbors and sending a flotilla to syria this is trouble for the united states. we need to take steps for russia to go so more so against our interest. putin's russia has desires to put p russia at the

clinton supporter bernie sanders. >>> and is russia hacking the election? the latest on the security threat >>> from abc news, it's "this week." here now, george stephanopoulos. >>> good morning. is in the october surprise? breaking news from "the new york times." the ban erp headline. trump tax records could have avoided paying taxes for yeerps. the story has trump's tax records from 1995 and they detail a $916 million loss, a loss he could have used to avoid paying federal taxes on income over 18 years. and that puts this exchange from monday's debate in a whole new light. >> maybe he doesn't want the american people, all of you watching tonight, that know that he's paid nothing in federal paying taxes making him smart, what does it make the rest of us. >> all through the campaign, trump has said a business plan pays as little taxes as possible. he could have paid nothing for years and years. the evidence, the 1995 tax records, show he had billion v millions of dollars in losses from an airline and the plaza hotel. the trump campaign with this statement. . a responsibility to his b

administration and create. the newly emboldened, the aggression of russia, whether it was in ukraine or-- >> you guys love russia. >> your heavy handed approach-- >> you have said-- >> gentlemen we're going to get to russia in just a moment. but i do want to get back-- >> thank you, thank you-- >> these guys have praised vladimir putin as a great leader. >> we do have that coming up here. in the meantime, the questions were about your running mate. why the disconnect. >> in a time of great challenge in the life of this nation, where we've weakened america's place in the world, stifled america's economy, the campaign of hillary clinton and tim kaine has been an avalanche of insults. to get to your question of trustworthiness. donald trump has built a business through hard times and good times. he's brought an extraordinary business acumen. he's employeded tens of thousands of people in this country-- >> and paid few taxes and lost $1 billion a year. >> why the disconnect with your running mates? >> there's a reason why people question the trustworthiness of hillary clinton. an

america." reporting from washington, i am katty kay. the u.s. suspends talks with russia over syria saying its patients with moscow has run out after continued attacks on aleppo. colombia rejects the peace deal with farc rebels after more than 50 years of fighting. it is not clear what the vote means for the country. and interactive technology is helping victims of acid attacks and an animated comic book is giving survivors a new voice. katty: welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. russia is expressing disappointment at washington's decision to suspend talks with moscow over the issue of syria. it comes against the backdrop of continuing attacks on aleppo, where more than a quarter million people are trapped. a white house spokesman announced the suspension after weeks of rising tension, saying patience with russia has simply run out. clinton somerville reports. syria's war long ago slipped out of the hands of syrians. rescuepo, it means this, workers rushing to a hospital bombed by the regime. the first victim -- he's dead, they say, and move on. sear

/russia council, keeping open, however, the possibility of political level discussions at the level of ambassadors. and the third area of work, which occurred at wales, but was largely on the margins of the summit but occurred there physically was the creation of the counter isil coalition. it was a very intense 48-hour period of activity at wales where a lot got done. this sets the stage as these decisions were implemented for the warsaw summit. now, in warsaw, again, i would divide the work of the summit into three baskets. the three baskets would be work that was done in the east as we move from reassurance to deter rans. a large part is the enhanced forward presence, the deployment of four battalions and four eastern european countries, the three balts and poland, the u.s., germany, canada and the uk taking the lead for these battalions but a number of other allies also contributing forces. in addition, we had just before the summit, an exercise that certified the very high readiness joint task force as part of nato's rapid reaction capabilities and we also had agreement on a ta

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to make it up? and what was that nonsense about russia anyway? more ahead on all of that. stay with us tonight. >>> yesterday, the birmingham news endorsed hillary clinton for president. yes, birmingham as in birmingham, alabama, endorsing hillary clinton. the columbus dispatch endorsed hillary clinton for president. hillary clinton and donald trump are going to battle this thing down to the wire but when it comes to the nation's newspapers, the only way that donald trump is even in the running at this point is if shooting the moon is an option for getting some points on the board. donald trump remarkably, for the first time in modern political history, he's the first major party presidtial nominee to receive endorsements from precisely zero major newspapers coast to coast across the country. eventually the obscure "new york" paper for which his son-in-law is the publisher, they will endorse his father-in-law at some point. but if and when they do so, they might be the only paper in the country that has endorsed him, which is remarkable and which might be enough and make it too emba

those that were reinforcing. i saw a hand way at the back. >> your version of why russia left the treaty and i just thought that it would be good to remind the audience that timing will sometime in the spring or 2008 before russia was in truth a territory of the country in georgia so i think it is looking at the timeline and what followed after words what one thinks about the motives of why russia did so. >> one treaty that had never been allowed to be amended because the amendment have been thin and force in terms of membership into the other issue they are not necessarily correlated. what happened was a georgian president who is now on the wanted list by the georgian government hiding in ukraine launching an attack about the citizens with multiple launch rockets. look at the history honestly. i think we will take one from the lady and a blue blazer. >> thank you for your presentation and for hosting us and enabling this opportunity. i am an alum and obviously u.s. russia relations are tense. ukraine is an independent country with its own culture, language, history, national identity, w

russia, this is a topic that is -- i will give you an opportunity to -- >> take them one at a time. >> get nuclear weapons. >> he never said that. >> all right. >> he absolutely said it. saudi arabia, south korea, japan. >> gentlemen, russian president invaded ukraine. and has provided crucial military support to the regime. what steps if any would your administration to counter these actions,. >> you got to be tough on russia

subject, russia and want to fake the rather large audience that is here today on this important subject please turn off yourself funds perhaps even need to say to you or specially to you. [laughter] or maybe it is moscow calling. >> but i could give them a vice. [laughter] >> do you want to make a few remarks at the outset with is complicated relationship with? i remember going to the welcoming ceremony when gorbachev came in that was seen the transformation that was different and lasting and since then each one comes in and expecting to be better and in some ways they are but that perspective is crucial point that we can get into those other issues. >> first and foremost, thanks for inviting me to this wonderful opportunity to explain russia is and is not that is important especially nowadays. i was thinking how to start the discussion because i know americans tradition to start with a joke. [laughter] of a trying to find the joke about america russia relations and allow suisse sense of humor. [laughter] the quality of the relations is very unfortunate i a will have a chance to

aggression of russia, whether it was in ukraine or -- >> you guys love russia. you both have said vladimir putin -- >> we'll get to russia in a molt. i want to get back to the senator -- >> they have praised vladimir putin. >> we have that coming up here. >> senator, i must say -- >> why the disconnect? >> at a time of great challenge, in the life of this nation, where we've weakened america's place in the world, stifled america's economy, the campaign of hillary clinton and tim kaine has been an avalanche of insults. look, to get to your question about trustworthiness. donald trump has built a business through hard times and through good times. business acue men. he's employed tens of thousands of people in this country. >> and paid few taxes and lost a billion dollars a year. >> why the disconnect with your running mates? >> there's a reason why people question the trustworthiness of hillary clinton, and that's because they're paying attention. the reality is, when she was secretary of state, senator, come on. she had a clinton foundation accepting contributions from foreign governments.

mitchell or introduced a couple of days ago, parallels were drawn between what russia is doing in aleppo with what the nazis did in gun ca. given the history of what russia has done in ukraine, what it did in georgia, what it did in its own country, isn't it time for us to fundamentally reassess our attitude to russia and link to that given the threats to the baltic states, the positioning of nuclear-tipped missiles in iraq which can potentially hit berlin as well as poland and the revelations about the hacking of the democratic national committee and the attempts to interfere in the american election process? do we not need to have a fundamental reassessment of our attitude to russia? >> well, i heard your powerful speech the other day, too, in the commons about the russian bombing, and i think your feelingsing are shared by -- feelings are shared by millions of people in this country. i think two points. it is very important to stress that we have no quarrel with the russian people, we are not hostile to russia as a country. far from it. and i could go further, i would say that

democracy now! >> what russia really once from the u.n. is credit. congratulations, russia, you stopped for a couple of days from using incendiary weapons. thank you for not using cluster bombs in civilian areas. amy: as u.s. accuses russia of bombarding civilians in syria, we will speak with bassam haddad , director of the middle east and islamic studies program at george mason university. then we take a look at undercover firsthand account of border militias -- loosely organized networks of armed men -- who sometimes collaborate with border patrol agents on their missions to catch undocumented immigrants. >> i was surprised to see how much the border patrol was cooperating. to be inside of that world and see the ways these guys are talking about hunting mexicans. and then to see federal law enforcement, not only tolerate them, but kind of use them in a certain way. amy: mother jones senior reporter shane bauer joins us to tell the story of how he went undercover in california, arizona, colorado, to report on the right-wing militia movement, which surged under president obama. all of that

states formally charged that russia organized the hacking of democratic political sites and state election systems. the department of homeland security and the director of national intelligence said it's an effort to interfere with the election process. we get more now from david sanger of "the new york times." david, thanks for being with us. what's the significance of this and the fact that it comes, what, almost four months after we first heard about these hacks? >> that's right, judy, and we reported in late july that the government and intelligence agencies already had high confidence that it was russia. what was interesting about this statement, sort of three big things. the first is that the white house decided to formally do this. usually, president obama has been very reluctant to name foreign actors who were believed to be behind big hacks. they named north korea in the sony hack two years ago, but declined to name china in the hack of more than 20 million security files from the office of personnel management and didn't name russia when they hacked into the state depart

people. we have committed no crime. the entire world, including russia and america, is crushing us. peter: that is very moving testimony directly from aleppo. i have noticed the last couple of days a lot of people comparing the situation in aleppo with guernica in 1937 in the buildup to the second world war. people have been talking about what happened in dresden in 1945 at the end of the second world war, the tererrible firebombingf that city. how useful are those comparisons? usahma: i think they are useful comparisons to put a context there. i i mean, if you want to look at guernica or dresden, they were destroyed fairly quickly in a matter of several weeks. in aleppo or other places in syria that have been besieged in southern damascus, you have a civilian population of 6000 to 8000 people with 600 fighters that were besieged for three years and only could survive because they have an independent water supply, very deep wells, and they are into urban gardening. in terms of the context of the horror we see now, this is a long, protracted situation. it would be comparable to what

campaign has tried to make the message that this originates rom russia. they are doing the hacking and what do you think about the effectiveness of that argument? >> i think that argument is true, but irrelevant in many ways. it's true it's important that the russians, according to the fbi, apparently are trying to intervene in this election. that's serious. that's important. on the other hand, we've seen a lot of dumps from wikileaks and nobody has challenged the actual accuracy of the documents nor has the campaign said these are not john podesta's e-mails. it was public information, it was sort of a weigh station about when there was going to be -- >> a status conference. wasn't like a ruling or anything. >> open court and they talk about where things are at and when we will produce more documents. our dear friend donna brazille instead of saying look, from time to time i get questions in advance. here's a question you might want to be ready for. it was during the primary seize so it didn't hurt donald trump or the republicans in any way. this was her going at it with bernie sanders

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