what is russia's role? what role do we want russia to play? and how do we construct a policy that gets us to where we want russia to be? >> very good. paul? >> i'm very concerned about the breakdown in military to military communication, the impact that that can have in a crisis situation. that's where i'd like to start so that if we get into a bad situation, we've got a channel to try to deescalate before it gets worse. >> very interesting. david. >> i would make it clear that pressure on russia will be ramped up if it doesn't get out of the ukraine, and doesn't respect its neighbors' sovereignty and territorial integrity. if it doesn't stop what-the-doing in syria. -- what it's doing in syria. but if russia were to change on these things the united states is prepared to partner with russia on a range of issues. but until putin changes the behavior, and the track record is very long of bad behavior, there are no bright prospect between the u.s. and russia. >> alena, you have the final word. >> just to go back to what i opened with there are m

we have the russia that we have, and we need to deal with the russia that we have. now, the united states and russia have different interests in a number of areas. it is not easy to deal with partners who have different interests. there's an issue of trust, absolutely. but look, we successfully got rid of most of the chemical weapons without trusting each other. i feel that was an accomplishment, and we don't actually need to trust russia in order to be able to accomplish things with russia, and what we need to do is to be able to understand how russia defines its interests and to structure our engagement with russia in a way that creates realistic untensives and penalties that -- realistic incentives and penalties in ways that reflect our own interests. >> and then david and elina back to you for two minutes. >> thank you. just in response, we are not calling for isolationism, and cutoff of the relations. even in the cold war when we face ad bigger adversary of the soviet union, we had after knews -- avenues of cooperation, and we should still be able to find those

i feel that this administration is as close to russia and how russia behaves. i believe that there is not that much difference between the obama administration and the democratic party than what goes on in russia right now. think they are trying to show that the democratic party and the obama administration are a bunch of hypocrites. they are really afraid of what is going to come out. host: thanks, we are going to join on -- move on to michael from south dartmouth, massachusetts. your comment on all of this. caller: good morning, steve. thanks for c-span. could you imagine if during world war ii someone in our government went on tv or the radio or the newspaper and told the germans when we were going to invade on d-day? that person would be tried for treason and probably labeled an enemy of the state. but anyhow, i just wanted the public to think of that. all the democrats are against trump and half the republicans are against trump. you know what that tells me? that he is the man for the job. because they want the status quo. donald trump will shake it all up

isil works in russia. the sites you can find the werescernible]the sites all kind of iso-propaganda --isil propaganda. it was quite in october and september last year. paul: thank you very much. >> i write a foreign affairs columnist for the boston globe and i want to thank you both. it was really fascinating your remarks. i will make my question brief because i have to leave early. maria, to you. you presented that you had a situation where you only had five publications that were willing to accept your writing because it was considered so critical. briefly, i want to ask you about personal repercussions that you have faced. if not, why not? anna, because you work for state media, but obviously are critical -- are a critical thinker, i wonder if you worry about whether you are being manipulated? i am a edition minded journalist. i try to understand what is going on. why i think the reason was immune to any attacks. there is always a bunch of trolls on the internet that follow you and cite your articles th

time was russia's weapon. their industries, so recently built in which, like our own, were designed for the ways of peace or converted for war. instead of steel for plows and tools, steel for shells and guns. they knew their industry could never produce enough to adequately for the titanic struggle but what they could produce, they would. ♪ the same time, the army began to grow. more and more men were call up to be trained. hardened. drilled. prepared to defend their land. ♪ the conquest of the balackans. the russians had built themselves a buffer to take some of the steam out of the nasty punch no matter where it landed. but where would it land? when the blow came, it was from five different directions. and from the north, one extra just for luck. that was the big day. >> more than 2 million men plunged into a front 2,000 miles long reaching from the white sea to the black. their aim, the annihilation of the red army and decisive battle on the frontier. the offensive started along the whole length of the

to exert russia on our politics. that means a recognition that this is happening and that we can't see it separately from russia's military pressure on the transatlantic community and aggression in the ukraine. it means a clear statement that there will be consequences if that behavior continues. and from that recognition, then would flow elements of a transatlantic agenda that includes the european union as well as nato, because dan was absolutely right. there are certain things nato does well and certain things nato does less well. we shouldn't ask it to do the things it is not well set up to do. i think this will involve several things. it will involve cyber security, economic state craft, which includes cooperation and harmonization on things such as economic sanctions. it will involve transparency, media freedom issues and a whole host of steps that will help reinforce integrity of our democracies which are the fundamental thing we are protecting. i'll stop there and hand the microphone over but that's where the

-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 m

russia and the united states has produced for weapons purposes. and some 12 years ago we start to negotiate and agree because of what we produce to for the purposes and would be a eliminated between the scientist and diplomats and discuss how to eliminate that. because it is reversible. and then learn about that and nuclear reactors. there up to my eyes with that kind of functions. so to tell them that we will build a reactor that will be very well designed with that process of elimination. we have to build a facility and so then that the government was insisting we did not want them to do that at that time because it was enormously expensive and at that time we were promised a lot of financial help and it never came. what happened? the u.s. government and the of middle of the process you have decided to move in another direction because it is reversible and we have completed one that is why we have just learned. . . it is crucially changed into the circumstances did change. we have seen a hostile russia and ballistic missile defense being deploye

russia wants to create confusion or divert attention from moscow. peter has documented that the aim of russia's information operations is to use disinformation cascades to advance the notion that the truth doesn't matter. for example, by propagating multiple theories of the mh-17 shoot down, russia plans to leave the public with the truth is unknowable or can be believed because everyone has an agenda. russia has similar goals in other spheres, politics, civil, and cyber. let me mention a few examples, and you have already touched on a few of these. disinformation, of course, in which russia uses disinformation and propaganda, taking full advantage of the internet and new technologies. we know about the troll farms and we have seen other examples of this behavior. political parties, you've mentioned and touched on this. there's growing evidence uncovered by journalists about russian connections with anti-establishment populist political parties in germany, hungry, and austria. we all have read the stories about the national front in france borrowing

she's saying russia, russia, russia. maybe it was. it could be russia but it could also be china and lots of other people and could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, okay? you don't know who broke in to dnc. >> when you're hillary clinton in that moment and he says somebody sitting on their bed who weighs 400 pounds, like, what do you think if you're debating somebody and they bust out the weight of their imaginary hacker that's doing this stuff instead of russia, like the intelligence agency? like, what do you -- turns out we sort of do know as a country who broke in to the dnc and hacked those e-mails. turns out, not only did the u.s. intelligence agencies know it but donald trump apparently knows it, too. nbc news has now reported today, based on an anonymous source, that both candidates, hillary clinton and donald trump, got classified intelligence briefings that specifically included information on russia and russia's attempt to interfere with 2016 elections through hacking. a senior u.s. intelligence offic

did russia tip its hand? >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." ♪ >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> we're following breaking news. dramatic new twists in this unprecedented presidential race. donald trump reacting to a series of new allegations that he forced himself on women. the embattled gop nominee is denying the stories as "fabricated, pure fiction and outright lies." >>> and michelle obama's reaction to the recording of trump bragging about groping women. the first lady smoke emotionally saying trump's words have shaken her. she calls trump "a powerful individual speaking freely and openly about sexually predatory behavior." >>> more breaking news. cnn's jim sciutto is learning new information from his sources about russia allegedly using wikileaks to make public stolen e-mails pertaining to the u.s. election. today, wikileaks published almost 2,000 more e-mails stolen from john podesta. in a possible sign of coll

in putin's russia, the united russia is a part of the government. it merged completely with the governmental institutions and is a governmental institution itself. and the biggest -- a real problem is that this state institution became a social upward mobility -- mechanism for criminals to go move up into the government. and the system is basically finished. it is completed. it is not going to evolve anymore. i don't believe that it's going to last for a long time. when putin is gone for some reason he's gone, the system should evolve. because the person who secures the system and is -- who designed the system and is the main security asset of this system is putting himself -- which was designed to reinforce his personal -- the system can collapse in very different ways. for example, you might know the very good example of how the ruling party in ukraine which was called the party of the regions ended up. it will be not completely appropriate to call -- to draw direct parallels between the ukraine and russia, but the ukraine and ruling party, the pa

-russia agenda. if you go back to some kind of a dialogue between united states and russia on arms control, if g you wanted to move forward, you'd have to reconcile, i think, two very different approaches, what has opinion in the last eight years, american desire to move to further reductions but also bring nonstrategic weapons and the russians desire, conventional strike and there maybe ways to bridge those differences but will take quite a bit of work. >> mayra, university of washington. i was fashion -- fascinated by the way negotiation and enthusiasm and the element affects negotiations. i would like you to reflect a little bit more on the moment oc unilateralism at this period of un time and unilaterally the united states find one thing and russians come and put it in a treaty, treat us as equal element and that somehow there's a change in context in moscow and the national context in moscow and that there is more aggression moving forward. so if you can piece these two episodes together, do you

russia is simply a unique country to which unique standards must apply. >> russia is unbeatable. it will be neither communist nor european. russia has always lived according to its own rules, and has gone its own, special way. >> those who have the money can afford their own, golden russia, and hope that it stays that way. >> babi yar is a ravine on the outskirts of the ukrainian capital kiev. it is where the nazis carried out one of their most notorious massacres during world war ii. in september 1941, over 30,000 jews were murdered here in mass executions. ukrainian rayisa majstrenko is one of the few who survived the atrocity. then, she was only 3-years-old, but now, on the 75th anniversary of the babi yar massacre, she remembers. >> rayisa majstrenko did not walk this road to babi yar for many decades. but after the monument for the murdered children was erected, the dance instructor has come here repeatedly with her pupils. >> my words are always, "this monument could have been for me. but i survived." >> in the early autumn of 1941, nazi germany's army, the wehrmacht, captu

documents are connected to russia, he is the only one standing on the stage to defend russia. well, we don't know that russia was involved. it might be a big guy sitting in his parents' basement. defending russia on this as if russia is involved even though the director of national intelligence and justice department and f.b.i. officials have connected russia to these attacks. why does donald trump keep going out of his way to defend russia on this? he should condemn russia. in fact, it's even been reported that he's received intelligence assessments laying these attacks at russia's feet, but for some defend vladimir putin. i don't get it. he can make hay of whatever he wants to, but i think he ought to, instead of making weird claims that our election is rigged and challenging the integrity of the american electoral process, he should be standing up against people who are trying to destabilize our elections. >> dickerson: but the clinton campaign is saying the trump campaign is doing something wrong by talking about this, and if that's the case, then were you wrong to be talk

despite that, there has been a lot of criticism of russia at the u.n. security council for continued human rights violations. annette: as you just said there, russia is denying any ,nvolvement in the airstrike which killed dozens of schoolchildren in idlib. at this stage, are we likely to find out who was responsible he act go -- who was responsible? thomas: we have to see who controls the territory. it the syrians, for the most part. the russian spokesman for the foreign ministry gave an explosive press conference yesterday. we heard a clip of that before i started speaking. blankrussia said point that the proof against it is being fabricated, and said that the suggestions that the russian or syrian planes that carried out these attacks are complete lies, the spokesperson making a continued -- continued with a and storiesctures of how the west has killed civilians in eastern aleppo, more broadly in syria. thanent report said more 300 civilians have been killed by the u.s.-led coalition since the fighting began. but this pales in significance compared w

must stand up to russia. even when it comes to russia's involvement in bombing aleppo. >> the provocations by russia need to be met with american strength. and if russia chooses to be involved and continue i should say to be involved, and this barbaric attack on civilians in aleppo, the united states of america should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets for the assad regime and to prevent them from the humanitarian crisis taking place in aleppo. >> so when you look at the debate as a whole, i think that when it comes to foreign policy, both of these two vice presidential candidates were laying out reasonable arguments for foreign policy. nothing very radical. both blaming each other about what they would do wrong or what they have done wrong in foreign policy. but i would say far more responsible than what we heard donald trump himself talk about in the last debate. >> richard, just on that last clip when that moment really stuck out to me too, because i wasn't sure exactly what pence

elaine: gentlemen, russia. russian president vladimir putin invaded ukraine and crimea and provided crucial motel or military support to the assad regime. senator kaine? sen. kaine: let's start with not praising vladimir putin as a great leader. donald trump and mike pence has said he is a great leader. he has business dealings with russia that he refuses to disclose. hillary clinton has gone toe to toe with russia. she did so as secretary of state with the new start agreement to reduce russia's nuclear stockpile. she went toe to toe with russia and launched protests when they went into georgia. and we have done the same thing with ukraine, but we put punishing economic sanctions on russia that we need to continue. donald trump on the other hand, did not know russia had invaded crimea. he was on a television show a couple months back and said, "i guarantee you this, russia is not going into the ukraine." he had to be reminded that they had gone into crimea a few years before. hillary clinton has gone toe to toe

-- with russia among strained relations with moscow. russia has dropped their plans to refuel warships in spain. denying it ever asked to do so. canada, europe, three words they do not seem to tie the knot, do they? >> that is right. emergency negotiations are ongoing. the trade pact is meant to be signed on thursday with only a few hours left, there is skepticism can be done. regional belgium wieters say it is impossible. eu officials are holding out hope. -- leaders say it is impossible. eu officials are holding out hope. >> canadian beef that follows a european recipe, a hit in this polish deli in toronto. when it comes to free trade deals, the stakes are higher. still these butchers are rightly proud of their smoked beef sandwiches. here in canada, there has been little look opposition to see death -- ceta. support for the deal is sky high, especially among bankers. in the financial world, its success has been seen as a foregone conclusion. insiders expected to make big gains. >> the second largest trading partner for canada is the

the term "you" here refers to russia. god is prophesying against russia. and he is saying, "i'm against you." and when he uses the word "they" or "them," he's talking about israel. and so, the question we have to ask is, why would russia want to attack israel? i mean, we've already talked about how small israel is, its size is in relationship with the size of the world. but the bible tells us why russia is doing this. there's three reasons. first of all, the russians are going to come and seize israel's land. ezekiel 38:11 and 12 says, "i will go up against a land of unwalled villages, to stretch out your hands against the waste places that are again inhabited." israel's land away from them. secondly, their second purpose is not only to seize her land, but to steal her wealth. verses 12 and 13 of ezekiel 38 read like this. "to take plunder and to take booty, and to carry away silver and gold, and to take away livestock and goods, and to take great plunder?" you may wonder, what kind of wealth does israel have that would cause such an army to come together

for russia. i think that is the second dimension. there are a couple of strng and important points this year. sarah: it has been the role of the syrian president bashir al-assad. how closely is the leadership allied? could they dropped him at some point if it was no longer advantageous? >> i think it's a really important question. if we look at what bashir al-assad is doing, his ideology, there doesn't appear to be all that much similarity between him and moscow. if you look at what the russian press has been saying, there are rumors that moscow was getting ready to drop a sod -- assad when he was no longer listening to moscow and not being all that useful. what we see is that moscow has realized that the sheer al-assad is useful as long as -- it tells us a great deal of about how long russia will continue to support him. and let's not forget, it's the regime that is responsible for around 90% of the deaths in syria. it is estimated 400,000 people have died in this conflict. the regime is respons

of course, russia has flaws, but what country doesn't? >> a shortage of goods is something this country definitely does not have, provided you have enough money to buy them. the produce at this nearby market sells for western prices. even though the average monthly income in russia is the equivalent of just 400 euros. the mutton has been requested by an uzbek family in the kommunalka who are going to make a plov, a dish with rice. back in the kommunalka, the boundaries between public and private realms disappear as evening approaches, especially as the aroma of roasting mutton spreads. the uzbek couple, mirzo and his wife, whose name they won't divulge, would rather not talk about russia, where they are guest workers. >> we just earn our money here and that's more than in uzbekistan. >> uzbekistan is here in the kitchen, with rice and carrots and lots of meat. a piece of the uzbek south here in northern russia. ♪ evgeni and polina offer me chocolate and chips this evening, along with plenty of kommunalka philosophy. >> it's all fine so

russia has legitimate interest. what we used to do during the past cold war, talk about whether our national interests can be coordinated and turned into something that is cooperation. >> david, let me ask you about the specifics on syria. did the united states scuttle the deal and what do you think of russia's culpability here for what is going on in syria? >> i think steve cohen is sensible to say that in any cold war and detante in principle is a good deal. my facts are different than his. the evidence that i'm aware of is that even as the u.s. and russia had agree to a new cease-fire plan on september 12th, the syrian regime was mobilizing for its preferred course. it did not want to see that new cease-fire take place. its preferred course was to finish the battle for aleppo, to take aleppo. key strategic target they have been going after for more than four years. and i'm told that the u.s. intelligence indicates that the russians were aware of syrian planning, syrian mobilization to do the opposite of what the

hillary clinton went toe to toe with russia. she got them engaged in a iran'sful way to cap nuclear weapons program, yet she stood up with them on issues like syria and their invasion of georgia. you have to have the ability to do that, and hillary does. on the other hand, in donald trump you have someone who praises flat amir putin all the time. blatt amir putin all the time. donald trump had a campaign manager with ties to putin. he had to get fired. trump sitshen donald down with putin, will it be america's bottom line or trump's bottom line he will be worried about? this would be solved if trump would release his tax returns. i know he is laughing at this. what does that -- governor pence: what does that have to do with russia? senator kaine: the only way the american public will see if -- governor pence: he never said -- elaine: senator, governor. governor pence: just trying to keep up with the insult-driven campaign on the other side of the table. senator kaine: i am saying facts about your running mate. elaine: senator, g

russia's nuclear stockpile. she has had the experience doing it. she went toe-to-toe with russia and launched protests when they went into georgia and we have done the same thing with ukraine but we put punishing economic sanctions on russia that we need to continue. donald trump on the other hand didn't know that russia had invaded the crimea. he was on a tv show a couple of months back and said i will guarantee you this russia's not going into the ukraine and he had to be reminded that they had gone into crimea two years before. hillary clinton is gone toe-to-toe with russia to work out a deal on new start page you got them engage in a meaningful way to tap iran's nuclear weapons program and yet she stood up to them on issues such as syria and their invasion of georgia. you have got to have the ability to do that in hillary does. on the other hand with donald trump you have somebody who praises vladimir putin of vladimir putin of the time. america should really wonder about a president trump to have a campaign

russia is simply a unique country to which unique standards must apply. >> russia is unbeatable. it will be neither communist nor european. russia has always lived according to its own rules, and has gone its own, special way. >> those who have the money can afford their own, golden russia, and hope that it stays that way. >> babi yar is a ravine on the outskirts of the ukrainian capital kiev. it is where the nazis carried out one of their most notorious massacres during world war ii. in september 1941, over 30,000 jews were murdered here in mass executions. ukrainian rayisa majstrenko is one of the few who survived the atrocity. then, she was only 3-years-old, but now, on the 75th anniversary of the babi yar massacre, she remembers. >> rayisa majstrenko did not walk this road to babi yar for many decades. but after the monumement for the murdered childreren was erected, the dance instructor has come here repeatedly with her pupils. >> my words are always, "this monument could have been for me. but i survived." >> in the early autumn of 1941, nazi germany's army, the wehrmacht, c

i know about russia but i know nothing about russia the inner workings

they asked russia for their approval to dispose of it this way. russia did not approve. that is what is causing the breakdown of the agreement. there is nothing wrong with the u.s. plan. it is a far cheaper and actually safer way to get rid of plutonium. but russia doesn't want anything to do with it. katty: meanwhile, ukraine, syria, all playing into this. thanks very much. intense efforts are already underway in colombia to rescue an historic peace deal after voters narrowly rejected it this weekend. the truce between the colombian government and farc rebels took four years to negotiate and was already signed by both sides last week. the rebels say they will continue to observe the cease-fire despite the results of the referendum. this report now from bogotÁ. reporter: it was all too much for some. after more than 50 years of civil war, this was meant to be the moment of hope, the realization of a dream that finally the bombs and the guns would be put down in exchange for peace. but by less than half of 1%, the people of colombia rejected the deal. president juan manu

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 couple months back and he said i'll guarantee you this, russia is not going into the ukraine. he had to be reminded that they've gone into crimea two years before.before. hillary clinton has gone toe ton toe with russia to work out a deal on new start. she got them engage in a meaningful way to get iran's nuclear weapons program an hered yet she stood up to them on issues such as series of and their invasion of georgia. you've got to have the ability to do that and hillary does. on the other hand, and i'll come get some of your praises vladimir putin all the time. america should really wonder about a president trump who had a campaign manager with ties to putin, program elements in the ukraine who had to be fired for that reason. they should wonder when donald, trump is sitting d

the eu is one of russia''s biggest trading partners. they still see sterling as an attractive reserve currency. back, one of the sanctioned byecb the u.s. and eu over russia''s role the you came -- conflict, this is why it is looking to restructure aside from brexit. is abouthing privatization, if they're at it -- if there any details on that going ahead. something russia is trying to do is plug its deficit through privatization. privatization is difficult the moment because of the sanctions. they need to wait for them to be removed. >> any thoughts of what they make about the deutsche bank scandal? >> yes. it is interesting here we look at russia first and another thing i talked about with the central bank governor yesterday was about the banking supervision. the central bank has shut down she told melenders the central bank plans to take preventative action against what they call week lenders. i wanted to get the take on what he thought about potential weaknesses in the european banking industry, particularly as it relates to deutsche

russia is a great country. i went there when i was 16. it is an extraordinary culture and civilization from which we can learn. we should be friends with the russians. we should be building relations. we should be keeping channels open. we should be constantly talking to them. we must not get into a logic of being, of a new cold war. that would be totally wrong. but i think the route forward and knowledge that russian importance and on the world stage. let's be clear, that recognition is only possible if they will cease from what i'm afraid of barbaric acts in aleppo and in syria and if they would help find a way forward in ukraine. i think you've got a -- we can see what's happened with the former soviet union over the last 25 years. and everybody can see the reasons why the russians might collectively feel that they were -- they had been squeezed. and they lost huge amounts of territory that they once conceived of as belonging to them and they see nato -- and seeing things from a certain -- to a certain extent from the russian point of

the angela merkel has to walk a fine line between inserting pressure on russia, tried to tell russia clearly that she disagrees with what russia is doing in syria, yet the -- at the same time not antagonizing them too much because germany wants to keep all channels of communication open. germany has been interested to try to find a diplomatic solution to this. that is the fine line that angela merkel will have to walk toni that is why i very much doubt she will say, at least publicly, enough is enough. brent: it is a fine line she has to walk. a few years ago no one would have imagined we would be dealing with this next this of the crisis -- this nexus. at the same time, now you have the want for more sanctions because of what is happening in aleppo. what is your assessment? are we going to see progress on either syria or ukraine conflicts? thomas: i could not agree with you more, brent. it is incredible that we are talking here of two very important crises in conflicts. the link is clear, the link is that in both of these, russian presence is very important. if you want to solve the

russia. you both said -- mode med we'll get to russia in just a moment. i want to get to the midst. pence: thank you, senator. kaine: you praised vladmir putin as great leader. moderator: we do have that coming up here, but the meantime the question -- pence: i must have hit a nerve here. at a time of great challenge in the life of this nation, where we have weakened america's place in the world, stifled america's economy. the campaign of hillary clinton and tim kaine has been avalanche of insults. look to get to your question about trustworthiness, donald trump has built a business through hard times and through good times. he brought extraordinary business acumen. he employed tens of thousands people in this country. kaine: paid few taxes and lost a billion dollars a year. moderator: why the disconnect with your running mate? pence: there is reason why people question the trustworthiness of hillary clinton and that is because they're paying attention. i mean the reality is when she was secr

the newly emboldened aggression of 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 -- >> 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 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 f

and russia -- u.s. ending talks with russia, declaring this cease-fire dead because russia in talking about military cooperation all over because russia is only trying to support bashar al assad. nothing about -- >> strongly condemned president obama and hillary clinton for that matter on their stance on syria. listen to this. >> you were in total contact with the white house and, perhaps, sadly obama probably still listened. i don't think i'd be listening very much anymore. obama dross the line in the sand. it was laughed at all over the world what happened. now, she talks tough. she talks really tough against putin. and against assad. she talks in favor of the rebels. she doesn't even know who the rebels are. every time we take rebel, whether it's in iraq and anywhere else, we're arming people, and you know what happens? they end up being worse than the people. >> so, is that statement he made true? >> well, it's half true. certainly, hillary clinton has called for arming some of the rebels. she disag

now, as i say, russia at the 11th hour saying along with the united states, russia, plus iran, turkey, saudi arabia and maybe qatar want to have more talks. >> thank you for sharing your reporting with us. great to talk to you. >>> if you went to sleep early, don't worry, we have late-night laughs for you this morning. prepare to laugh in three, two, one. >> donald trump tweeted earlier today, "it is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and i can now fight for america the way i want to." what shackles are you talking about? the only thing that ever shackled you was the 140 character limit on twitter. >> a new national poll found that republicans said only one man to blame for this. and donald trump said, exactly, billy bush. >> billy bush who was the other half of locker room talk on that "access hollywood" tape is reportedly exiting nbc and "today" show and donald trump will not rest until every bush is destroyed. started with jeb and next billy. >> happy 41st wedding anniversary to bill and hillary clinton. that's right. they celebrated with a quiet dinner. a really, rea

how did you get it -- well they were sent by russia. russia. they are always using russia. i have nothing to do with

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 ukraine. this was about domestic policy. but he returned to a favorite theme of his, which is that russia does not impose its ideas or governments on other countries. let's take a look at that. when we talk about nations having the right to be strong, we're not saying that they should not have great power ambitions. we never impose anything on anybody. i have no intention of doing so. is insideof russia our people. >> what he is saying there is that the west does not -- that the west does impose its governance on other countries, and there is a clear reference in that statement, in that changete, to the regime agenda, as russia sees it. this is really the source of these problems in syria,

russia wants to get rid of isis as much as we do if not more. let russia take care of isis. how many places can we be? wouldn't it be great if we actually got along with russia? wouldn't it be great? so the top of the ticket, wouldn't it be great if we got along with russia. top of the ticket says i wouldn't have fought so much against assad. we have bigger problems than assad. his running mate says russia's terrible run by this tiny terrible little bully also let's bomb assad. >> the united states of america should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the assad regime. >> it's not that weird for running mates to disagree with each other on policy. it is weird for the number two person on the ticket to not abandon his or her previously held position and get in hine with what the presidential candidate is running on. but it is truly weird for the vice presidential candidate to run completely opposite to their presidential candidate's position and then just pretend that the presidential candidate agrees with him. but that's what mike pence did last n

the most gorgeous women are in russia. welcome to russia. nasdarovje. ♪ >> zamir: i'm trying to be kind of sober. united we stand. >> chef: i prepared today special for you: "russian tapas." >> zamir: russian tapas. >> chef: specially for vodka drinking. with the small pancakes, like blinis. >> anthony: nice. >> zamir and anthony: nice. >> chef: and uh, astrakhan caviar. looks like winter. salted cucumber with honey. and this is baltic sprats, smoked one with beet root. and this one is a muksun, this is a white -- whitefish. >> zamir: ooh! white fish from -- >> chef: whitefish frozen with malden salt and a little bit of pepper. and you can eat it raw. >> anthony: thank you, chef. >> chef: yeah. >> anthony: i'm hitting the caviar and the bellini. >> zair: oy, yoy, yoy. >> anthony: mmm. >> zamir: maybe some more vodka. thank you. and your smile makes it like -- feel like it's water. [ anthony burps ] >> zamir: what do you think? what is the perception of mr. putin these days? after 14 years, he's in power, just think about, his personal -- >

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. the same people were lobbying hillary clinton at the same tim

you spent decades reporting on russia for cnn. what's his game. >> well there are a number of games. i think when he says there is no proof, one of the problems here is that if the united states explains how they got this information and why they believe it's the russians, they have to talk about what they say, sources and methods. in other words, the way that the united states would get that intelligence information. and that could be something that the united states wouldn't want to talk about. now, there might be a way of cleaning it up and revealing it. but i think lavrov knows at that point it puts the u.s. over a certain barrel to release that information. but, don, you know, i think there are -- you have got a number of thing. first of all, he's swooek tweaking president obama by saying, hey, we are just a regional power. that's how you described us. and look what a regional power can do. now we're in the spotlight. now we're the center of attention. so there is a bit of you know, his tweaking. but i think there are other r