-russia relations. what did the most recent sections that now have been put on russia actually do? guest: it's a variety of things. the most unprecedented element of it is the congressional review. so basically, the number of the sanctions that have already been imposed by executive order, by president obama and could have been repealed by the stroke of a pen by president trump can now only be repeeled with essentially the approval of congress. and that is unprecedented in the history of u.s. sanctions. there are a huge variety of news sanctions imposed for a number of different activities such as the interference in the election, russian activities in syria, this activity in ukraine. there are reports demanded from the executive branch by the russian olgark. -- ol garth. host: what are we talking about? guest: the sanctions come in a number of different forms. there are visa bans and their asset freezes. there are financing restrictions on russian institutions. there are transaction bans. any companies

and russia. and two people are killed in baltimore during the city's seventy two hour cease fire as homicides eclipsed two hundred for the year of those stories and more coming up right.

i own nothing in russia i have no loans in russia. i don't have any deals in russia. >> reporter: now, one year into this complex probe, the fbi has reviewed financial records related to the trump organization. the president himself as well as his family members and campaign associates. cnn has told that they've gone through the list and scrutinized the roster of tenants at trump tower in manhattan reaching back several years. officials familiar with the investigation tell cnn mueller's team has examined the backgrounds of russian business associates connected to trump, dating back to the 2013 miss universe pageant that trump hosted. cnn could not determine whether the review has included trump's tax returns. but even investigative leads that have nothing to do with russia, but involve trump associates are being referred to the special counsel to encourage subjects of the investigation to cooperate. trump's team seeking to limit mueller's investigation. >> the president's point is he doesn't want the special counsel to move beyond the

of mind over us that when we invaded was the president russia imposed sanctions on iran russia went along with sanctions against north korea and there were no russia is important sanctions on north korea so but like i just said victor the important thing is here is how a plan to move forward i mean what i saw from the u.k. from the americans is that something must be done something must be done the usual mantra they don't know what to do that's the problem here the chinese and the russians have proposed to jointly jointly how to move forward on north korea and that is very important because the only two major powers i see pushing diplomacy here because that's what we need we do have voices in the united states talking about preventative. war this is insanity well look at the way the secretary that's going on but now he went to iraq and what happened with the ever increasing sanctions regime against iraq year after year the sanctions would be deepened that increased but why didn't with hundreds of thousands by some estimates of children and those people losing their land and you remember w

russia cannot be russia unless it is a great power. i remember in the 1990's, very often hearing russians say to me russia is condemned to be a great power. the second is the sense of fragility of the social basis of the order that might be threatened by democratic ideas. in china, i do not know. my colleagues have not seen it as a threat that they certainly move against western ideas coming in. we talk about the collapse of the soviet union. we think of the collapse of the soviet union was a total natural process. the way it is regarded in russia or china is to take it very seriously. that has relevance to our regime. what was it that caused the soviet union collapsed -- two collapse?- to to reforms of trying an authoritarian system and power -- in power. it makes it extremely difficult because it seems to raise in norman dangers -- enormous dangers. >> i do not want to tickle your opportunity to comment -- to take away your opportunity to comment. i want to talk about the strategic balance in areas of cooperation among these three re

russia is fine. >> what we're learning about where this investigation is headed. >> this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. >> the new bipartisan push to prevent the president from firing robert mueller. >> any effort to go after mueller could be the beginning of the end of the trump presidency. >> and how the president is responding tonight. >> mr. president, are you considering firing robert mueller? >> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. we now have multiple reports that indicate significant forward movement in special counsel robert mueller's criminal investigation into potential collusion between trump campaign and russia. first to the "wall street journal" which says that he has impaneled a grand jury in washington, d.c. nbc news has not independently confirmed that report. before mueller took over in may, prosecutors had been using a grand in west virginia which lawmakers said was focused on two men. paul manafort, trump's former campaign cheryl, and michael flynn, the president's national security adviser. both of whom are key figures in the invest

which russia shouldn't of be off what is that obviously that is the object of russia should not that not an active middle where meddle in determining the african government of course russia shouldn't do that so should the united states not do that but if the u.s. is in afghanistan to fight extremism that's the name in which they came. to afghanistan and if they have failed and if there is need for help is that is to to competition or a strategic alliance tours a call for an objective of the purpose of the united states is to use of ghana stand as a strategic launching pad of course there will be rivalry to it of course the countries in the region will feel threatened we will feel threatened as well and we will not allow that because that will make as the ground on which we fight takes place and of course the research is a competition with it and we don't want that but if the us is in afghanistan to accomplish the purpose defeat terrorism and big peace to afghanistan which is what they have declared then they must seek help not competition there's like i say let me ask you a question.

government's own assessment treated less than one percent off russia's. media element and i mean they're targeting this television stations you're on right now it's sputnik here essentially saying how good it would be cruel to go back to and what in sixteen are saying i mean this is a century saying that foreign broadcasters do not have first amendment speech rights in this is not been tested legally here it's those are words but if that's right but there is they're targeting certain media outlets and denying them freedom of speech versus a lot of the totalitarian the share of the current american information is here where we see that the american elites are scared they're afraid that the american people are going to have access. points of view so whether it's our t. whether it's put new whether it's cheney's. or any other in your other they're going to hold going to hopefully that's what they want to keep them and i believe that i'm american station i would go back to the cold war years and. actually in the seventy's some californias the shows broadcast

sanctions on russia. the public you know this is not the german government this is the german public this is not the swedish government this is the swedish public so you have people who are opposed to war opposed to militarism opposed to nato expansion of close to us bases in germany expressing their viewpoint and that's you know not typically in news in europe and especially not in the united states. you know you could say that over the last four years trump and obama helped make america great again or at least a great threat. one of the countries that views the u.s. as the major threat is turkey it comes amid a rile between the two nato allies but the pentagon recently slamming ankara's our present decision to buy a russian air defense system rather than opting for nato technology washington says the russian equipment could be incompatible with other systems used by the nato alliance generally speaking it's a good idea for allies to buy into or probably quitman with any ally with any partner with whom w

make a response towards the expansion of sanctions towards russia and do. interview we have expressed all of our views through an interview that mr putin gave to the russia channel. with all the reasoning behind our decisions were explained at length and. in particular we believed that the u.s. would not go towards this path of confrontation with russia but unfortunately the u.s. congress. create a blockage towards that. we have also talked and discussed a number of other issues and we discussed what have been discussed on the meeting in hamburg and we have discussed the issue of cyber security in the fight against cyber crime and preventing cyber crime we have also addressed issues relating to our contacts there's a little on a number of international issues. of. north korea and its nuclear problem was also one of the issues that we have discussed. we believe that the contacts between the state department and our ministry would be very beneficial towards resolving this issue and we are open to such contacts we believe that. this will be this will be met wi

from doing all of this, why did russia invade ukraine, why did russia violate the treaty, why did russia continue to conduct these nuclear war games against united states? all of this on president obama's watch while those 700 supposedly earth shattering diplomatic staff were there. we are in the middle of some really high-stakes stuff right now across the globe and i think president trump handled the situation perfectly, he didn't give vladimir putin the satisfaction, moving on. >> jon: good discussion, thank you both. >> melissa: paul manafort taking action amid growing scrutiny from the russia investigation, why my next guest says the former trump campaign chairman is in serious legal peril. plus, a high school searching for answers after preseason football practice turned deadly. >> a tragedy like that is honestly so horrible for the community. because i don't use my cellphone when i'm driving. even though my family does, and leaves me all alone. here's something else... i don't share it with mom. i don't. right, mom? i have a brand new putter you don't even know about! it's awesome.

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

russia. >> reporter: but the meddling in our election was not the first time russia has tried to exert power through deception. sochi, 2014. a grand spectacle of russian glory at the 22nd winter olympic games. the host country taking home an impressive 13 gold medals. spiking national pride and boosting the stature of president vladimir putin. but behind the pomp and pageantry an explosive secret. >> russia had pulled off the single biggest fraud in the history of sport. >> reporter: a stunning accusation. russia cheated, taking advantage of its home turf. >> dozens of russian athletes, including 15 of the 33 russian medal winners, were part of a state-run doping program. >> reporter: at the center, a russian scientist, dr. grigory rodchenkov. >> big boss vladimir putin saying we have to show the best result in sochi. >> two people connected with the russian doping program are already dead. >> there never was anti-doping in russia. ever. >> reporter: an explosive story now chronicled in the new netflix documentary "icarus." >> be very careful recording. >> would it be safe to say when

it's been at the united nations where russia, the u.s. and china agreed tough new economic sanctions against north korea that will cost them an estimated $1 billion a year. that's about a third of its export ref knew at the meeting of the u.n. security council nikki haley said don't anyone be fooled into thinking this is enough. it's not even close she said. more action is required. but the action won't come here. it will be a lot of talk but north korea will be left in no doubt number one that it's isolated and number two that 26 countries want it to stop being provocative. >> bill neely, thank you so much for that report. >>> a search and rescue mission for three missing u.s. marines has been suspended. it was conducted off the east coast of australia where an osprey aircraft crashed yesterday. it hit the deck of a ship during landing and crashed into the bay. 26 other marines were rescued. >>> coming up why people lined up at an oklahoma health care clinic yesterday. which is such a dad thing to do. after he gave his name the woman fro

and russia. first there is no hope for any improvement of our relations with the new american administration second a total trade war has been declared on russia third the trumpet ministration has demonstrated complete impotence handing over all executive power to congress in the most humiliating way this changes the political balance of power in the us what does that mean for them the american establishment has definitively beaten trump want to discuss why these sanctions are part of a greater headache fortran and he joins me live in the studio hi there they are so well i mean on them with president child well i guess no president would like to be in donald trump's shoes right now or really tough times for mr trump in the white house you know being america's top man in charge but not being able if you think of it to really exercise the powers that he's got right now and even worse as we're seeing being cornered into making the decisions that he doesn't want to make and doing that just to keep or

that is slandering russia that is presenting russia in the worst possible light so when i was asked to comment on this article in the washington post today i was wondering what's new and what am i going to say but i have to admit that reading the article for early and carefully i don't something that your commentator overlooked and that is that basically the journalist responsible for this article was giving his editors the finger because the implication of the of the headline is that russia is justly seen as a center of white supremacy by american neo nazis the in the middle of the article is a paragraph which undermines totally such a fabricated view of russia and of mr putin he the author went out of her way to stress that russia that moscow has the biggest mosque in europe that russia is the second most important country for old migrants have to united states in the world and so forth but in the russia of course is a multinational country with many different. ethnic and religious groups who have been in in peace this was unnecessary to say but it tells you what goes on in journa

, his family and russia, his team and russia. that includes many years of financial transactions whether it's the miss universe pageant or real estate deals in new york. we know that's the case with paul manafort and his real estate deals. at the end of the day, one of the original allegations here is that russia tried to compromise donald trump and members of his team with financial arrangements. now, that's unproven, but that's something that the mueller team has to look into. has to get to the bottom of, nicolle. >> julie pace, let me give you the last word before you dive back into your reporting that i'm sure you're itching to go do. you said my favorite thing about donald trump since this all began, that there is no inner monologue with donald trump, it's all monologue. so i wonder how you think this will weigh on him. if you expect that we'll hear from him in this campaign event tonight. and if you think that privately people are urging him not to give -- not to put more gasoline on the fire that's obviously still burning

the aggressor when it comes to russia they have although all the nato troops on the border of russia they helped overthrow the ukrainian government with the with the help of the ngos they had to keep having missiles in the direction of russia and then of course you have the sanctions which are an act of war that self so how can the media keep or training as russia's aggressor when the evidence suggests the contrary just because russia cares about its border or they want to protect their sovereignty somehow there are literally hitler of the next over the next boogie man that the united states needs to topple so odd the propaganda coming from the coersion news now we're going to just it's both comical and frightening michael if you've worked in government at the high levels here let's talk about the american election being hacked whatever that really really means because i don't know i mean you were sitting with people in power were well aware of how the united states in meddled in elections all around the world and they wouldn't think twice about doing that would they but the even the

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in the week's top stories president trump signs the new russia sanctions bill angering america's allies described as declaring a full scale trade war. while the u.s. sees russia's top diplomats have just met the first time since new anti russian sanctions were levied against moscow and sergey lavrov explained why russia responded with its own countermeasures against washington plus sanctions tightening north korea to over its missile test as a u.s. drafted resolution is unanimously backed by the u.n. security council plus it's really late groups argue over how to conduct my group search and rescue operations as suspicion grows that humanitarian secluding with people traffickers. hello there the latest developments and look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international relations soured further between russia and the united states on wednesday is donald trump put his signature to a new sanctions bill it's a move this angered america's allies in europe who say their economic interests are being ignored even president trump hims

and russia as two u.s. embassy properties are seized and shuttered we'll bring you the details. on the u.s. to lead he is a sanctions against venezuelan president nicolas maduro and there has to opposition figures for president. then extreme weather and middle america could mean your prices go up at the grocery store we'll tell you why. good afternoon it's tuesday august first four pm in washington d.c. i'm on your part until you're watching our team america we begin today as moscow's ordered the u.s. to cut its diplomatic presence and russia by more than seven hundred fifty personnel by september two diplomatic properties have also been seized and only sue has out one of them and has more on the impact of the new measures behind me is the summerhouse that the u.s. diplomatic mission must vacate by today as part of russia's counter sanctions against washington as you can see right here the property has been locked and sealed as of today and this comes just one day after the u.s. diplomatic staff claim that they were denied access to this summer house right here and according to

is doing to russia and to iran answer north korea. there will be countermeasures and then there will be counter countermeasures and i fear that this could escalate in some way into some sort of military conflict between the us and one or more of these other countries i think it's a very dangerous situation that is being set at this moment is there any way back could any of this be reversed that this this point over the past the point of no return now. well obviously there's always a chance to pull things back but again the way these sanctions were sanctions bill was passed it was passed in a way that the president could not on his own a lift the sanctions in the future you would actually have to repeal this law which is a very hard thing to do especially in a congress that has a hard time passing any legislation so i have a very pessimistic view as to whether this can all be walked back at this point down appreciate you coming on giving as you have used on kovalchuk is my guest human rights lawyer. meanwhile the united states has carr

so as we've been hearing relations between russia and the u.s. took another hit on wednesday as donald trump his signature to that new sanctions bill the measures have angered a number of america's allies in europe too who say their economic interests are being ignored president trump himself was reluctant to sign the law saying it limits his power to shape foreign policy. while i favor tough measures to punish and deter aggressive and destabilizing behavior by north korea and russia this legislation is significantly flawed and its haste to pass this legislation the congress included a number of clearly unconstitutional provisions those provisions purport to displace the president's exclusive constitutional authority and those comments live a lot of questions and the way the president states that even though he stands for legislation that's unconstitutional he signed off on it as president trump swore an oath to preserve protect and defend the constitution of the united states but he seems to be openly doing the opposite upon approving the thanks

at the time russia was attacking the u.s. presidential election last year. one of the investigative reporters at the washington post who broke the story open both over the weekend and then today, ka carol is going to join us live in just a moment. we've got a little news to break on the trump-russia dossier prepared by christopher steele last year, the dossier of alleged dirt published by buzzfeed in january, created such an uproar at the time. people who commissioned the dossier described it as a road map into the investigation as to whether or not donald trump colluded with the russian attack. people who commissioned the dossier stand by it saying that the dossier is direct. the dossier is now back at the center of what we know about the trump-russia investigation. we're going to break a little bit of news on that later on the show this evening. but you know, the day that we the public all first learned about the dossier was actually before the election. it was on october 31st, halloween, 2016. david corn at mother jones ma

sanctions russia. we have a couple of highly experienced speakers who will give us some perspective on that and we are quite grateful to them for taking the time out of their day to be with us. to my right we have dan russell, the president and ceo of the u.s.-russia business council. diplomatformer career who was deputy assistant secretary of state responsible for russia, ukraine, moldova, belarus, and other matters. during the previous administration, the obama administration, he was also the deputy chief at the u.s. embassy embassyw and the u.s. in cause extent in addition to a number of other important posts. george, who is senior director for -- director for intelligence programs at the center for the national interest. george was a career u.s. intelligence professional who led the russia analysis unit at the central intelligence agency. he was an advisor on russia to vice president dick cheney during the bush administration. he was also the president of a data analytics firm called behavior matri

congress that's the view of russia's foreign minister who met with his american counterpart on the sidelines of the major forum in asia. and the week's top stories president trump signs a new russia sanctions bill angering several of america's key allies moscow describes it is declaring a full scale trade war plus the pressure to step down from korea to the u.n. security council vote unanimously for tough new sanctions on pyongyang over its missile. to kid dictator. venezuelan president is also targeted by u.s. restrictions over his from ation of a controversial new legislative body that would rewrite the constitution. for the welcome the latest development and look back at what's been happening over the last seven days as well you watch in the weekly here on r.t. international now moscow's top diplomat says it's strong and t. russian sentiment in the u.s. congress that has led to the latest downturn in relations between the two countries made the comment at a meeting with his american counterpart rex tillerson earlier today richie joins us now for more details he's been following events the

it didn't necessarily come straight out of russia. there are other countries which are known to do this, but this is where the russians work. this is other places where some of this information could come from. so, it's not necessarily from russia, but it could be from a different country, you know, folks working for the russian government that are doing this. >> shimon, pamela brown, guys, excellent reporting for us. thanks very much. >>> let's get some more on all of this. jake sullivan is joining us, former senior advisor to hillary clinton's presidential campaign also advisor to the former vice-president joe biden. react to this new information that we're learning. i don't know if you knew about this in advance, that the fbi was actually monitoring this russian fake news, trying to damage hillary clinton on election day. >> well, i have two immediate reactions. the first is this is consistent with what american intelligence agencies told us in a comprehensive report in january. they said the russians mounted a sophisticated multif

home sweet home stranded orphans reunited with their relatives in russia after their parents took them to iraq to join i still call to launch the campaign to help with their safe return. in yemen fourteen civilians including children are reportedly killed in a saudi led coalition air strike in the compass oh. and the libyan imaam in switzerland is accused of spreading hate speech against religious groups and nationalities while receiving over half a million euros in state benefits. hello there it's eight pm here in the russian capital and you're watching r.t. international with me mickey aaron good to have you with us we start with breaking news this hour russian speaking children left stranded at an orphanage in the iraqi capital have returned home it's believed their parents fled to the country taking the youngsters with them to join islamic states. you. know i now he's going to live with me and my children i want him to understand that he's still a child there from now when everything will be calm and peaceful of course he's going to visit his grandma but now right now for now i won

russia relations to an all time low in the tweets the us president said it's thanks to the people on capitol hill who forced him to sign the anti russia sanctions bill he said he had to abide by the decision of the lawmakers after their landslide votes last week gave him no other choice or one way congress can check trump's deal making potential now is by stopping him from lifting and to russia restrictions the new nor requires the president to obtain congressional approval for any such move well earlier i discussed the growing political crisis in washington with r.t.s. trenka. i guess no president would like to be. shoes right now times really are getting tough as they can get for the president you know being america's top man in charge but at the same tommy think of it not being able to exercise his power and even worse being cornered into making the decisions he doesn't want to make just to keep order and as we've been hearing from the white house spokesperson who's been explaining that very signature under that sanctions bill the president signed that countering america's adversa

you, speaking for myself, i own nothing in russia, i have no loans in russia, i don't have any deals in russia. >> reporter: now, one year into this complex probe, the fbi has reviewed financial records related to the trump organization. the president himself as well as his family members and campaign associates. cnn has told investigators have combed through the list of shell companies and buyers of trump-branded real estate properties. they've scrutinized in manhattan reaching back several years. and officials familiar with the investigation tell cnn, special council robert mueller's team has examined the backgrounds of russian business associates connected to trump. dating back to the 2013 miss universe pageant he hosted in moscow. >> thank you to to the focus group for their amazing hospitality. >> reporter: cnn could not determine whether the review has included trump's tax returns, but even investigative leads that have nothing to do with russia, but involve trump associates are being referred to the special counsel to encourage subjects of the investigation to cooperate. >> th

in a facebook ranch, the russia russian p.m. and staunch putin ally says they hope for improving ties between our two nations and will trigger an all trade war. he was on to say at the trump administration has shown total weakness by handing over executive power to congress in the in the most stimulating way. this changes the power balance and u.s. political circles. and that's not all. he added, the u.s. establishment fully outwitted trump. the issue of new sanctions came about primarily as a new way to knock trump down a peg. new steps are to come and they will ultimately aim to remove him from power. steve, what you make of this? >> steve: for trumpet supposedly being in collusion with the russians and supposedly being up puppet of putin or at least a friend, if this is friendship, i can't imagine what acrimony would look like. i think that lie has been revealed as a lie, that there was any kind of cooperation, but the reality unfortunately is, because america hasn't been strong, when the american military isn't strong, the w

russia is part of it, to be sure. part of the administrational explanation for why they just want to chill things out with russia a little bit is importance of working on stuff with north korea. look at china'sthe most important potential partner and a balancing act between trade and the clear signals the u.s. wants to send to china on trade versus the imperative of getting china to work with hem on north korea is something you really see playing out. >> the fact of the matter is, nikki haley and the trump administration were able to get china and russia onboard with this resolution, and people argue whether or not it really, this resolution imposing greater sanctions is really that strong. it does target coal, iron, ore, lead, seafood and other items. and a country where most are starving already, it could. give credit where credit is due. getting those countries onboard with something like this at the u.n. is no small task. >> and china describing, too, significant an shows a shift in approach dealing with that coun

he is now using a grand jury in the russia investigation. what does this tell you about mueller's probe? >> that it's serious and focussed on the question of whether or not there is probable cause to believe that any one subject to the grand jury's jurisdiction has committed a federal crime. the grand jury exists for really one purpose, to indict people or to not indict people. and mueller is proceeding both with the receipt of documentary evidence and oral testimony to determine that singular question, did anybody commit a federal crime and if so for what will they be indicted. >> let me do a follow up here because obviously if mueller -- if he didn't think that anything hit the bar of an indictment, he wouldn't bother going to a grand jury. we knew a grand jury was expected in the sense of if you are going to indict you have to have a grand jury to do so. but does the news he decided he was going to go to a grand jury mean that he himself passed a threshold? he thinks he has something on the president, his campaign or something in this adm

russia meddled in the american election russia the american election there are investigations going on now we have the public hasn't been given any new proof but the u.s. government in congress has already made its drawn its conclusions when we have no conclusions whatsoever i mean that this is the folly of all of this here you again act before you know what the what the facts are on the ground and they're not interested in facts because none of them have really been produced the socks out from under my bed. but the bottom line is all of these accusations there is no evidence presented there can't even be any evidence because neither the f.b.i. the n.s.a. the cia the office the office of the director of national intelligence no one actually looked at the purported scene of the crime that democratic national committee servers where e-mails were supposedly hacked by russia wiki leaks says they got them from a whistleblower and then these e-mails expose. the d.n.c. and the hillary can claim maine colluded to. break their own primary to have hillary clinton elected and that is what this is

and russia analyst martin mccauley says that russia's ambassador to the u.s. will have a tough time. it's timed by the americans to embarrass him. and that he he in fact. is going to have find it very difficult to perform his duties and to establish trust because by his main job as a diplomat is not to trust between the two governments. and say let's talk. let's get together and find what what we can do together and so on you can find it very very difficult because they when it comes. to russia. so the buses are. really learns on the worst possible day and the only thing you can say for is it. is up to him to get better. and as we've already mentioned the display by the u.s. can be traced all the way back to the american presidential elections and alleged russian meddling occasions of russian interference continue to be thrown even during special senate hearings russia's blatant interference in the united states twenty sixteen presidential elections was unprecedented in both scale and scope many have said this is actually the crime of the century. if you think

are all quite the say without russia so we're not going to show . on our channels and that means it doesn't have the broadcasting revenue which is substantial from russia so the longer it continues the longer they war continue to be hit in the pocket and ice great to get your views thanks for joining us on all this cash more pressure sociology at aston university in sports author and lecturer thank you so much. my pleasure. and thursday marked the first working day for the new constituent assembly in venezuela that was elected at the weekend the vote was followed by violent protests the now been unrest in venezuela for some four months with the opposition demanding that president maduro step down monday washington post sanctions against the president's private assets in response madeira claimed he would be intimidated by what he calls the imperialist power he spoke to attorney an investigative journalist eva golinger she told us that the u.s. is openly undermining the power of the venezuelan government. but dora himself he joined a very exclusive cl

guest: yes, the sports ministry in russia. all russian athletes are essentially being paid by the russian government to compete. so everything under russia is under ministry umbrella and gregory is running the anti-doping lab, which is really the anti-anti-doping lab, and the guy that is his boss, his russian ministry, the sports minister russia, his best friend is vladimir putin, who he grew up with, the chain of command was essentially gregory to him to prudent. -- to putin. charlie: what happens to the head of the minister of sorts? sport,the minister of when this entire scandal gets revealed, putin elevates him to the deputy prime minister of russia, essentially the vice president of russia, and has never accepted any responsibility for the state-sponsored doping program. and the guy below him, the deputy vice minister of sport, is forced to resign, and is now under criminal investigation. charlie: what is it that makes this so compelling? out asthis film started one thing. that was interesting after. brian thought the ant

to russia welcome to russia are you scared to come to the world cup. me so for. a month and i each now to open to what you unsavory i've been invited to moscow once look at the time come to some of the film i can now i would love to do the moscow opening volley ball of. the russians on mate and so fast and for that i've stayed in touch with me and i've learnt a lot about him because in the euros are spent at least some free weights if you are them for forthcoming book the photo of india you know a lot of the time hooligans are actually branded fascists criminals by the media you experienced this as well back in day does the media exaggerate the ties between whole again is a man criminality. the major point poem always football who is i'm friends by killing them used to fuel the vonnegut's because the who dunnit relied on the media and i tried so the information i got from the media meant it started and leak of on it's on the football started stadiums and out so at the stadiums. it was sponsible media we posed to fight in international guides a lot of f

russia relations describing them as a low but the u.s. state department pointed the finger at moscow in a lengthy exchange with reporters over the russian prime minister's reaction he announces the end of any hope for improvement is it. is that what the entrance is at the end we are two nuclear superpowers. an economic declaration of war against the russian federation is it is it an economic declaration of war. was it an economic declaration of war i blush and federation if that is what russia is saying you know russia certainly entitled to say that the russians hate these sanctions the president as you first did you know this president agrees with them that it's bad piece of legislation well people argue that also hold on one second the president signed a bill after all this are you saying that russia is to blame for the low in relations right now. russia's been involved in a lot of activities a whole host of things to host of things so why did the president say you can think congress and it would i would have to refer you to the preside

but russia is a ruse. i have nothing to do with russia. haven't made a phone call to russia in years. don't speak to people from russia. not that i wouldn't i just have nobody to speak to. i spoke to putin twice. he called me on the election. i told you this. he called me on the inauguration a few days ago. i have nothing to do with russia. to the best of my knowledge no person that i deal with does. >> kimberly that was february, pretty strenuous, no person i deal with has anything to do with russia. >> yes, he's within denying that neither he nor anyone in his circle have been in contact with russia. but he denied that he had any business dealings with russia at all, and we've learned now that there was at least an attempt to create a deal for a trump tower in moscow. so he is constantly contradicting himself on this. that's probably one reason why that robert mueller is interested in looking at exactly what he said, what role he played. i mean, sometimes as they say it's not the crime it's the cover-up. we don't know if there is either.

i think finland is doing fine with russia. and i hope that the united states will someday be able to have a very good relationship with russia also. i think that's very good for world peace and for other things. thank you. >> as a follow-up, if finland's relationship with russia were to deteriorate, would the u.s. -- what kind of assistance would the u.s. be willing to give to finland bilaterally if we need it? pres. trump: as i said before, our relationship with finland is a very close one. and we're always ready to help finland. one of the things that is happening is you're purchasing large amounts of our great f18 aircraft from boeing. and it's one of the great planes, one of the great fighter jets. and you're purchasing lots of other military equipment. and i think purchasing very wisely. i know all of the military equipment and i actually agree with everything you purchased. we talked about it before. i think finland is really a respected country militarily. it's got large armed forces for its size as a country. really pr

-russia relations? do you think finland could be assistance helping them get etter relations with russia? president trump: i hope we do have good relations with russia. i think it's a good thing if we have great relationships or at least good relationships. that's very important. and i believe some day that will happen. it's a big country. it's a nuclear country. it's a country that we should get along with, and i think we will eventually get along with russia. finland has been respected by russia. finland has been free of russia, one of the few countries that has opinion for 100 years --es that been for 100 years and and russia has a lot of respect for finland, so that's always good. i think finland is doing fine with russia. and i hope that the united states will someday be able to have a very good relationship with russia also. i think that's very good for world peace and for other things. thank you. reporter: as a follow-up, if finland's relationship with russia were to deteriorate, would the u.s. -

, no contract with russia, no contract with russia. and it's been, gosh, only the end of august. it's been eight months of nonstop contact with russia. so of course, there were channels by which russia could pass information or channels where information could be exchanged. the thing is, is we don't know, obvious obviously if we have seen e-mails here, we haven't seen information showing there is hacked e-mails and they are going to come out and this is how it will go. that's really the smoking gun. but what we are seeing here is just another example of another channel of people who have access to or claim to have access to high level russian officiales who can get things done and get information and get close to putin. >> and to that point, and here is the sort of one take away and one question i think for future reporting, you know, we never know -- we don't know, we are seeing a very small sample of the e-mail. we don't know what happened after the infamous don trump e-mail meeting. it to me, and i will ask you to weigh in on this,