welcome to moscow! >> it's an amazing location. moscow. all of russia is going wild over it money the miss universe pageant is setting records. >> trump seemed to have the time of his life. >> wow. that's really -- >> you're looking very -- >> that is really nice. now i belong. >> the big man on campus. >> donald trump. >> this is the unlikely place where an unusual cast of characters first emerged. men who would end up in the middle of an investigation that has plagued a presidency. donald trump was paid between 12 and $20 million to bring miss unerse t russia. >> russia wanted it, moscow wanted it, everybody wanted the miss universe. we had 18 countries that wanted it. they fought really hard to get it. >> the money came from this man. a billionaire developer, friend of vladimir putin, sometimes called the trump of russia. >> then they were whisked away to the magnificent aguilara estate. >> miss universe was a family affair. son emin sang at the pageant. and his mom got a job, too. >> fashion and beauty expert, irina agalarova! >> trump

trump tower moscow is next. four years would pass, but the players at miss universe would return to take center stage in the trump-russia drama. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> the most explosive evidence yet in the russia investigation. >> it was in july just six months ago -- >> breaking and stunning news, the release of an e-mail chain from last june. >> -- that the world first learned about the trump tower meeting. >> e-mails revealed that donald trump jr. went into a meeting with a russian lawyer. >> say hello to don jr. >> the president's son had a secret meeting with russians. >> clearly told she was working for the kremlin and that she had damaging information on hillary clinton. >> and it wasn't just don jr. paul manafort and jared kushner were there, too. >> the subject line of the e-mail chain, russia-clinton, private and confidential. >> i thought it might have been fake. >> it looks like a farcical episode. >> russia-clinton private and confidential? >> who follows them down that rat hol

but a former cia station chief in moscow says russia almost certainly has a file on the president. so you believe that the russians have kompromat on donald trump? >> it would surprise me gravely if they did not. it's what they do, what the internal intelligence service does, they've done it for decades and decades. >> most important, investigators say, is this. the dossier is just one piece of information in their wide-ranging inquiry. >> i've spoken to a number of people who have been briefed on the classified intelligence, and at one point they will make to me very clear, listen, there is a lot more out there than just this. the dossier is one small piece of a much larger picture. >> as we've tried to bring that picture into focus, we have made several attempts to speak to one of the president's lawyers on camera. we were unable to obtain an interview. donald trump maintains in statements and on twitter that there was no collusion. but multiple investigations by the special counsel and in congress continue. as a result, we will also continue to report the story, effect cussing o

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let's go live to moscow and bring in frederik pleitgen. fred, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dave. naming names is really the operative thing that could happen today. certainly a lot of oligarchs set to publish a list of names of russian oligarchs who have relationships with vladimir putin. it could be the basis for sanctions and that is one of the things that puts pressure on the trump administration. is president trump willing to ramp up the sanctions against russia and the powerful oligarchs against putin or will he take the heat for that? the other interesting thing is how much of it will be published? it is not just the names, but financial information and about their families and spouses and children which could be published as well unless the treasury department decides to make some of the report confidencon f confidential and hides that information. a lot of people will wait and see how much will be published. this comes on the weekend after the trump administration limited sanctions against russia over the crimea

presumably the one here in moscow. so certainly is going to be interesting to see if he's going to actually make it to the protests, if he might be detained before making it. certainly when that raid happened earlier this morning there were navalny staffers who were designed in that, george. >> okay so this youtube feed you talk about, certainly important to navalny, and his supporters. because again, it's about getting the word out to these protesters. the question to you, fred, how large are the protests expected to be? how widespread across the country is turnout? >> yeah, it's a very good question, and it certainly is a pivotal question, as well. navalny in many respects needs a large turnout to stay relevant in the discussion here in russia. as we've noted he's been barred from running in the upcoming election. so really protests like this, and everything outside of the troll pr electoral process, that's the way he gets his message out and keeps the pressure on authorities. some protests have already taken place i

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the biggest protests usually are in moscow and st. petersburg. and that's really where we're also going to look and see how the turnout is going to be this time. you know, is navalny's movement losing steam? is it maintaining it. one of the things that we always need to mention, though, george, with a turnout today and why it's so interesting, is that of course navalny's message does resonate with a certain part of the russian population. but even among the opposition in this country, there are people who criticize navalny, who say look you shouldn't be calling for a boycott to the election. people should still go to the election but obviously some of the other opposition candidates that are running believe that that is quite unfair. so it's going to be very, very interesting from many perspectives to see what the turnout is going to be today. >> all right our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen following the story live in moscow, thank you. we know you and your teams will be out to see how big these protests will be. thank you so mu

let's go live to moscow and bring in fred pleitgen. there's new reaction from moscow this morning? tell us. >> reporter: yeah, certainly is. a reaction from the spokesman for vladimir putin, dmitry peskov. we asked if there was a thaw between the u.s. and russia, he said unequivocally that is not the case. he said the word thaw or perspective of a thaw doesn't current bilateral relations between u.s. and the u.s. the russians still angry about the list published yesterday with the name of joligarchs. there were members of the russian administration that said yes, it was better that russia was not mentioned more often than it was. of course all of the issues around the alleged election meddling still going on. we've found out that apparently last week there was a high-level delegation from the russian intelligence community actually in the united states meeting with the cia. and of course that has a lot of people in washington asking questions about who exactly went to the meetings and what exactly was said. especially in light of the fact that one of the members of the russian dele

. >>> a high profile arrest in the middle of a moscow street. well will go live to moscow for more details about the man behind the latest protest across russia. >>> plus, the grammy awards featured politics, surprises, and a lot of music on sunday night. who went home with the most trophies? we'll tell you as "cnn newsroom" continues live in the u.s. and around the world. >>> welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching "cnn newsroom." i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm george howell. the headlines this hour. u.s. president donald trump is a day away from a pivotal moment in his first year in office. his first state of the union address set to happen tuesday night. a white house official says that a big focus will be the administration's immigration plan. >>> at least 11 afghan soldiers have been killed by an attack on a base near kabul. an official says four attackers are dead, and the assault is over. isis is claiming it's responsible for an take on the afghan military. all this comes after a b

let's go to senior correspondent matthew chance joining us live from moscow. lavr lavrov is critical with u.s. normally, but this is a bit more harsh, is that right? >> i think that's right because he spent the last two and a half hours here in moscow which is an annual event that he hosts, basically using it as an opportunity to publicly berate the united states for its actions overseas, he said he's destabilizing the global order, he criticized the u.s. for the threats the u.s. had made against north korea and iran. lavrov accused the united states of provoking tensions on the korean peninsula, and as you mentioned, he warned of what he called the catastrophic consequences of such recklessness on iran. sergei lavrov, the russian foreign minister, warned the united states not to go back on the controversial nuclear deal. because he said that that would be negative for future agreements with other countries, particularly north korea where such agreements are entered into. so yes, it was a marked change in tone from the foreign minister compared to what we saw

and it says so moscow and beijing, look, united states is crazy. so we should be helping north korea. and that is really going to be the test, that we're not going to get moscow and beijing. hard to do in any case, but much harder now after this tweet. >> it does z seem from the president's tweets that a lot of it is not thought out and general, it's more reactional and general. but for supporters who say there's the crazy man theory, the idea that he's unpredictable is a good thing and maybe this adds to it. >> the crazy man theory works if you're a country like north korea. it doesn't work if you're the united states because the rest of the world looks to you for security. the rest of the world looks to you to enforce the international order. you can't be the crazy one. and so that's really where this breaks down. so if you're north korea, yeah, look a little crazy, it helps. but not if you're the u.s. >> james, you worked in the white house, what do you make of this? >> i think he's speaking to the american people and trying to project strength.

also the go-between for trump's most recent and perhaps most procedural attempt at building troump moscow. >> according to "the new york times" sater suggested he could help trump win the presidency. >> e-mails have now come out in which you see sater saying that, we could use this business opportunity to get donald trump elected. >> president trump would be so much better for u.s./russian relations. >> there is no question, during the campaign, that trump was trying to get closer to russia. and repair relations with russia. >> there's nothing i can think of that i'd rather do than have russian friendly. >> in one question for the mueller investigation is whether the reason trump was reaching out to russia was because he was making money, or expecting to make money, from relationships with putin's people. of being ths winning shot. that was it for me. that's why i'm quitting with nicorette. only nicorette mini has a patented fast dissolving formula. it starts to relieve sudden cravings fast. every great why needs a great how. every great why introducing lumi glotion. glow. l'oreal's first

cnn's paula newton is live in moscow. it sounds like the president is listening to the briefings now. >> reporter: good morning, christine. this is different from what we expected from 2017. 2018 is opening differently with him calling out russia and criticizing them. russia reacting, christine, they deny this. saying the accusations made by the united states are unfounded. russia is fulfilling the on obligations under the u.n. security council in full. you have to say, christine, this is sounding familiar. especially to me. i first did this story in april with the fact the u.n. pointed out how russia was violating the sanctions. christine, this could happen in a major way in the months to come. donald trump convinced china to stymy the fuel. this will be a difficult one. you know, with china, donald trump does have some leverage. right now, u.s. and russia relations are at an all-time low. what do you hit russia with? they are talking about more sanctions here at the end of the month. it will be a tough one if russia dec

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papadopoulos has been told moscow had thousands of e-mails that would embarrass mrs. clinton that were apparently stolen. president trump tweeted this signaling where he thinks the focus should be, quote, crooked hillary clinton's top aide, abedin put classified pass words into the hands of foreign agents. sailors pictures on submarine? jail. also on comey and others. someone who was at the sister, former director of national intelligence george clapper. >> you were the director when the fbi launched its investigation. was george papadopoulos a major factor in the launch of the investigation? >> well, not to my knowledge contempt radiancely. george papadopoulos was a name that was not on my radar scope at the time. and the first i knew about him and his role was when the plea bargain was announced. the short answer to your question is no, i was not a name known to me at the time. >> there's a lot you can't say, but there were other factors that launched the investigation, not just george papadopoulos? >> exactly. i think there were a number of factors that i think pro

but there is deutsche bank in moscow laundering money for shadowy vip clients. do these two tracks converge in some way? >> are getting a hold of them the only way lawmakers and mueller's team can get a hold of those. is it the only way they will truly be able to follow the full money path here? >> no. there is a track record of 30 years of russian money going to trump property, into trump organization. he said he has no deals with russia but so much money has gone in the other direction. it will take a lot of time and effort. >> we appreciate it. it is a fascinating read. still on the "times" best seller list. congratulations. thank you for being here. and thank you to all of our international viewers. for you cnn talk is next. for our viewers in the u.s., stay right here. "new day" continues right now. >> we're going to get there. and if we don't tonight, i'm really worried. >> u.s. government shutdown now for a third day. >> the shutdown was a political miscalculation. gargantuan proportions. >> it all stems from the president and his in ability to clinch a d

we're live in washington, moscow, kabul, and seoul. >>> good morning, everyone, thanks for getting an early start with us. i'm dave briggs. >> i'm christine romans. wednesday, january 31st. 4:00 a.m. in the east. the president walked a fine line in his first state of the union, holding fast to the tough-talking populism he embodied in year one, while making some effort to reach across the aisle. the hour and 20-minute speech is the third longest state of the union ever. the president touted the economy, defending his america-first approach, even taking a jab at nfl players for not standing during the national anthem. >> on immigration the president pushed for his bipartisan deal that includes a border wall and a path to citizenship for nearly two million dreamers. >> as president of the united states, my highest loyalty, my greatest compassion, my constant concern is for america's children, america's struggling workers, and america's forgotten communities. so tonight i am extending an open hand to work with members of both parties, democrats and republicans, to protect our citizens of

you were at the peak physical shape in '80 for the moscow games. president carter announced the u.s. would boycott the games. you, obviously, do not participate. help us understand what a boycott this time around would mean for those members of the u.s. olympic team. >> well, it's a tragic situation because you train for an extended period of time. people say four years but in reality you're training for 10, 12, 14, 16 years sometimes. the reality is that when you have this one moment to, you know, especially in a lot of sports, fencing or in a lot of sports generally speaking, even, say, high profile sports like skiing or, you know, even other sports, even ice skating, the olympics are the pinnacle of basically what happens and you are taking away this opportunity when people sacrifice their lives, bypass opportunities for work, for schooling, different things, it's really very tragic, especially when -- in certain places like in russia where they are basically government employees. in the united states, a complete separation between the governmen

also saying there would be no reaction from moscow, no tit for tat retaliation. i will tell you nonetheless from having monitored on the ground for the last couple days, there are a lot of rich russians quite concerned about this list. >> frederick pleitgen from your new post, thank you. >>> the impact reached all the way to the white house. a police officer who gave a child and her mother a second chance. >> is there a message you'd want people to take away from your story? >> everybody is redeemable. ...it starts a chain reaction... ...that's heard throughout the connected business world. at&t network security helps protect business, from the largest financial markets to the smallest transactions, by sensing cyber-attacks in near real time and automatically deploying countermeasures. keeping the world of business connected and protected. that's the power of and. what's critical thinking like? a basketball costs $14. what's team spirit worth? (cheers) what's it worth to talk to your mom? what's the value of a walk in the woods? the value of capital is to create,

on july 7th, carter page goes to moscow to give a speech at a university. on july 19th, this is 2016, steele submits a salacious dossier to the fbi about some sort of quid pro quo being discussed between page and russian ole garkigarchs. submits that to the fbi on july 19th. about a month later we have the fbi going to the foreign intelligence surveillance court to get a wiretap, essentially,s to get surveillance of carter page. and this is all based on a dossier which, by the way -- >> no, it's not. >> you don't have proof of that, professor. >> you don't fknow that. >> that's what jim comey has suggested. that's what cnn -- >> he never said that. >> that's what cnn reported in april of 2016. excuse me, 2017. and that's also what "the new york times" previously reported in april of 2017. so all of a sudden now they're trying to walk back that genesis of this investigation and switch it to papadopoulos. if they'd really believed that national security was at risk or there was some collusion -- >> i'll double check this, professor, but i don't believe that w

cnn senior reporter matthew chance is live in moscow. what's the response to these developments from putin himself? >> reporter: there may be some democr democratic anger over the president not imposing more sanctions but some anger over here as well. president putin saying it certainly was not a friendly act and exacerbates the u.s./russian relationship that is already at the low point, that kremlin list of oligarches and political figures close to the kremlin, containing 210 names, much more generallyized, the kind of list that was anticipated, that was meant to target those directly in the close circle of vladimir putin. the other thing the kem lynn says -- i think they're breathing a sigh of relief, that sanctions have not been ratcheted up on this occasion. look, this is just a list. we're not going to respond unless there is any kind of enforcement of the list, whether sanctions are actually imposed on any of these individuals and, for the moment it seems, the trump administration is not going to do that. so, as i say, some relief

. >>> russia's foreign minister is in moscow right now holding a news conference addressing world issues. no word yet if sergei lavrov has mentioned the war in syria that goes on. he has said that russia would work to preserve the iran nuclear deal despite washington's misgivings about the agreement. he also said russia is ready to support direct talks between all parties in the north korean missile crisis. this is his annual news conference on russian diplomacy. again, live video there of him still giving that news conference that paula newton has been monitoring it from moscow. she joins us now with more on what he has had to say. paula? >> yeah, hey, natalie. before we get to the north korean issue, and we'll talk what sergei lavrov was saying there, i do want to address ara's latest piece and the fact that he did talk than. such a heartbreaking piece from arwa. we've seen her go into syria again and again to tell the stories of people escaping. something dee in her package is the people in idlib were supposed to be in de-escalation zones. those are zones that sergei lavrov and the ru

i didn't need to talk to anybody in moscow. i was talking to north carolina and michigan. there's no reason to have gone anywhere outside of hillary clinton and how unattractive her policies were, how lacking in vision and connective tissue, we beat her fairly and squarely. so many people can't get over the election results. >> says my friend who can't keep hillary clinton's name out of her mouth. >> excuse me. i'll make you a deal. i won't mention her again, but you can't mention the 2016 election. >> russian interference matters and it doesn't delegitimize the president's victory. that's why you bring up hillary clinton. >> that's not true. we don't care about her. nobody here talks about her. hey, chris, nobody talks about her. >> you just brought her up. hold on a second. no shouting contest here. we're friends. >> you're talking about the 2016 elections. we won the election and we're going to win the next one. >> you just said we didn't have to look past hillary clinton to win. is that inclusive of don junior? >> what came of that meeting. >> the point is why you went

moscow police tell in any they don't have any information off the raids. navalny said he called for the boycott not only because of was barred from running but what he calls is rampant corruption in the putin regime. he has been detained there once again. >>> the government in afghanistan has declared sunday a national day of mourning after the horrific bombing in kabul. the attack happened a little more than 24 hours ago. authorities say a driver was able to get through a checkpoint and detonate explosives packed into an ambulance. at least 103 people were killed and 235 others were wounded. a spokesman for the taliban claims responsibility for that. u.s. president donald trump calls the bombing despicable. he also says it has renewed the resolve of the u.s. and its afghan partners. >>> one more about the crackdown in saudi arabia. a saudi prince was released from detention where he has been since he was arrested in early november. the prince is a billionaire. he and 16 others saudi royals and top officials were arrested as part of a new tougher anti-corr

we'll take a closer look at moscow's newest threat to america's democracy. >>> and last chance. the president gives u.s. allies and ultimatum to fix the iran nuclear deal or he'll scrap it after many months of threatening to withdraw from the agreement, why is he still honoring it tonight? >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're "in the situation room." >>> breaking news this hour, we're standing by for a statement from president trump's doctor on his medical exam just a little while ago. we're also following the wide sprean spread outrage against the slur against many immigrant nations. dick durbin is publicly confirming that he heard the president use the s-hole word during a bipartisan meeting. durbin flatly contradicting mr. trump's denial that he used that kind of language. we're also told that other participants told colleagues about the very vulgar remark, including republican senator lindsey graham. tonight, graham is all but confirming that, issuing a statement that he directly challenged mr. trump's remarks

in 2012, i participated in the moscow elections. everyone was showing me polls when i had 2%. i got almost 30%. same thing goes for the presidential elections. putin doesn't have an 80% rating, he has an 80% rating compared to other candidates he has let run. >> as we approach election season, we are already in the election season, as we approach the election, what are you going to do? what is your plan to get on the ballot, promote your cause, or have you abandoned all hope of standing in the election? >> translator: we urge all russians to join a voter's strike, not just refusing to vote, but campaigning to others don't vote as well. we are actively organizing this boycott. this is the reason we are being raided every day and our staff are being attacked. >> as the leading opposition figure in russia, you have been harassed, you get regular visits from the authorities, the police, other inspectors, you have been insulted, widely, and, of course, you have been attacked. how concerned are you, in a country like this, where opposition figures have been killed in the past, how c

in washington and 9:00 in moscow. wherever you are watching for around the world, thanks for joining us. we start with confusion and contradictions at the white house centering on president donald trump. a morning tweet throwing a key house vote into question for a while, but now the president's attorneys are also trying to clarify a statement he made about the possibility of talking with the special prosecutor, robert mueller. listen to this. >> i will see what happens, but when they have no collusion and nobody's found any collusion at any level, it seems unlikely you would even have an interview. >> let's bring in the senior white house correspondent jim acosta. the president saying he sees no reason to have to talk to robert mueller. very different from what he said earlier last summer. >> that's right. last summer he said he was 100% willing to talk about the russia investigation. that has changed. the president yesterday saying that well, he is not sure whether or not he wants to talk to robert mueller. i did ta

huh another campaign adviser along with george, a guy named carter page who did a trip to moscow that attracted the attention of the fbi. we know that in 2016 as far as we know, as far as "the washington post" knew and reported and as far as cnn reported that the only fisa, this is a special court order that was issued associated with a trump associate during 2016 was carter page, not george papadopoulos. that raises the question, why didn't the fbi go up in the term? why didn't they listen it george? that doesn't mean they doesn't decide later to pay more close attention to george. >> doing excellent reporting for us. thanks very much. good luck with the new magazine assignment. great magazine. the president's son in law in charge of peace talks and a new move by israel with any two-state solution apparently more difficult. what was jared kushner's role here. not one person was killed in 2017 on the jet flights making it one of the safest years ever. does president trump deserve credit? we will check his claims. >> president trump taking credit for a banner year in commercial aviatio

more of what he said about russian election meddling and areas where washington can work closer with moscow. >> well, it has been a difficult year with russia. we clearly -- and i've said clearly, the president stated clearly, our two nations should have a more productive relationship. today, it's very strained for all the reasons that i think the american people will understand. having said that, we have maintained a constant engagement with russia, very active engagement. we have to be very open and candid and frank with one another about what both of us -- and i think foreign minister lavrov is as committed to trying to improve this relationship as i am. these are difficult issues. we have made it clear that the keystone is really ukraine. having said that, we have found operations in syria that led to the near defight of isis in syria. >> president trump said this whole russia investigation has been a kind of drag on your foreign policy, that it hurts had you with allies, that there's a lot of confusion. how has that impacted your dealingsing with world leaders in terms of this cloud, i

we know from the letter of intent from trump tower moscow, which went no where and it was a failure, but they were still work on the possibility of doing some more business in russia. so i think that this would be something that would be likely for the special counsel to look at. >> all right. everybody stand by. we are also awaiting the starting of the press briefing over at the white house about to hear from sarah sanders the white house press secretary. she will be answering questions. a lot of questions, no doubt about the new bomb shell book that's taking readers behind the scenes of the trump presidency. stand by with us. cannot live without it. so if you can't live without it... why aren't you using this guy? it makes your wifi awesomely fast. no... still nope. now we're talking! it gets you wifi here, here, and here. it even lets you take a time out. no! no! yes! yes, indeed. amazing speed, coverage and control. all with an xfi gateway. find your awesome, and change the way you wifi. >>> over 12 million people here in the united states dunn der a blizzard warning as what's ca

in washington and 9:00 in moscow. wherever you are watching for around the world, thanks for joining us. we start with confusion and contradictions at the white house centering on president donald trump. a morning tweet throwing a key house vote into question for a while, but now the president's attorneys are also trying to clarify a statement he made about the possibility of talking with the special prosecutor, robert mueller. listen to this. >> i will see what happens, but when they have no collusion and nobody's found any

. >>> moscow is at least outwardly furious that the treasury department posted a long list of russian elites who could face new penalties. but the administration chose not to impose further sanctions, angering even republicans arguing that current measures are enough for now. mike pompeo says the threat of more election meddling is still very real. >> do you have concerns that they might try to interfere in the u.s. midterms which are coming up? >> of course. i have every expectation that they will continue to try and do that, but i'm confident that america will be able to have a free and fair election that will push back in a way that is sufficiently robust, that the impact they have on our election won't be great. >> and now more on the big news that broke right here on this show 24 hours ago. the fbi director, the deputy fbi director, i should say, andrew mccabe, he's gone earlier than expected. speculation immediately turned to the white house and whether the man in the oval office helped hasten mccabe's exit. sources inside the justice department say the new fbi director, christo

and the answer was, well, we know carter page went to moscow. well, everyone knew that. he was public about that. he spoke at the same place president obama spoke about. tell me something else in the dossier that's true. well, i don't know how to answer that question, was their response again and again and again. i don't know how to answer that question. mr. simpson can say what he wants. he can make accusations. my heavens, that is not something we have seen before the committee. and i don't think it is fair to any of these individuals to say something that just simply isn't supported by any of the evidence. >> jackie speier says there is open source documentation that shows concerns about the money that came in and out of trump transactions in previous years. >> i would invite her to bring that to committee and let us examine it. one other thing i would mention is the focus of our committee hasn't been on those types of issues. >> that is not really your purview. mr. mueller could be looking at those potential crimes. it seems suggestive he may be. that's what he is lo

the classic chinese cocktail, the moscow mule. okay, maybe not chinese. these are good. >> thomas: yeah. this is the reason i love this place. >> anthony: are you married? >> thomas: no, no. >> anthony: no, not yet? >> thomas: i'm not -- i'm not a big fan of marriage. >> anthony: you've been to weddings, yes? >> thomas: yes. >> anthony: have you ever crashed a wedding before? >> thomas: no. >> anthony: it's gonna be a little weird. i mean, we don't know anybody there. how do you do? >> mei ning: thank you. thank you. >> anthony: well, i hope the food's good at this thing. we'll probably have a lot of drinks. >> thomas: it could be, uh, really crazy. >> anthony: oh really? >> thomas: yeah, yeah. >> anthony: uh-oh. >> thomas: they drink a lot. >> anthony: really? so, ready to crash a wedding? >> thomas: yeah, let's do it. >> anthony: all right. >> thomas: cheers! we're going to go across the road here. >> anthony: yeah. a chinese wedding is not cheap. you need a banquet room. in this case, the family's rented out this place, the historic park hotel shanghai

donald trump is to influenced by moscow and putin and kind of more in mentally aligned with russian thinking than traditional american love of the first amendment. >> well, we know as a result of some of the words apparently used by the president recently, we know house democrats, went to censure the president, a public admonishment but very public slap on the wrist. has this happened to presidents past? >> president jackson was censured in 1834 and there were discussions of censuring other presidents, including bill clinton as an alternative to impeachment. it would still be a very notable moment if congress went ahead with doing this but as you said, this is the weakest of all kinds of punishment. if they are willing to go along with the censure, in some ways it's a mechanism to give cover. this is an embarrassment to the president, for a president not really embarrassed but we're not going to go any further. >> i also want to ask two of you, here we are a holiday, mlk day and it's a federal holiday, we know that the president and every other president designated this day as a day of servi

the way decisions are made in pyongyang than we did in the cold war in terms of what was going on in moscow. >> you look at the president's twitter feeds since the new year began, he has threatened nuclear war. he has blamed president obama on the iran front, vowed to cut funding to pakistan and the palestinians, attacked the justice department and urged it to go after his political opponents, went after the media and democrats, and took credit for zero commercial aviation deaths in 2017. is there something prompting this? what is going on here? >> that was before lunchtime today, more than 15 tweets today. i think we're seeing a couple of things. i was talking to officials at the white house and these are taking some of them by surprise. he's been pent-up, in the words of one official, he's been at his retreat in florida for a couple of days now. there's the possibility something else is going on here. he knows more about the russian investigation through his attorneys and other things about what may be coming. so is there a mood swing coming here? we're not sure. it's so interesting, i wa

let's go live to moscow and bring in fred, good morning, fred. >> hi, christine, and yeah, we are skimming through russian media and comments that are coming in in the early morning hours, obviously after the speech took place. and i think the general idea is that the state of the union, at least from the russian perspective, could have been worse than it was. there's headlines outlining what we just had in the soundbite from president trump of him calling russia one of the rivals along with china. on the whole, the russians are relieved that election meddling is not one of the things mentioned in the state of the union and some are saying that maybe he did it on purpose to distract from the whole complex that caused so much trouble between russia and the united states over the past couple of months. all of it comes as new questions arise about a possible visit of the heads of the russian intelligence services to the cia, just last week. now, the cia has not denied and the russians say that even the head of the russian intelligence service svr, was part of that delegation that visited d.c.

complementary of china for having helped, he feels the little bit of help china is providing is being offset by moscow. >> whether or not in terms of north korea the u.s. should engage in talks, here is what he told you, i'm not sure talks will lead for anything meaningful. they've talked 25 years and taken advantage of our presidents, of our previous presidents. he also then, in terms of north korea, did go on to blame the three immediate predecessors, clinton, bush and barack obama. a day after his doctor gave him a perfect score of a cognitive test suggested he had the mental acuity to solve it. i guess they all realized they're going to have to leave it to a president who scored the highest on the test. he joked. he's the only one asked to take that test. the others didn't. >> that's a dig at his predecessors. not uncommon for him to dig at his predecessors especially on north korea. anything else he feels he unfairly inherited in the policy world, he'll strike out ot bill clinton, barack obama, george w. bush for not having handled it. it wasn't unusual for him to go in that direction. it was cer

vast experience in russia and relationships with people there, that things would be better between moscow and washington, why hasn't that happened? >> reporter: there was a lot of warm rhetoric by the president and secretary tillerson had this good relationship working at exxon mobile, but it's actions that have caused the u.s. to continue to take a tough line particularly on ukraine, the u.s. has added -- the state department added a number of russian individuals and businesses and companies that are doing businesses with russia to its list of sanctions on ukraine. and president trump approved the sale of arms to the ukrainian military. i think at the same time secretary tillerson said they want a better relationship with russia on areas they can work together, such as syria or north korea, but there is a lot of concern about continued action. but secretary tillerson said the main issue they need to solve is ukraine while they continue to work on the other areas. and, of course, election meddling in not just the united states, but in europe and the democratic process there is a concern.

in moscow. 3:00 a.m. thursday in seoul, south korea. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks for joining us their fates hang in the balance. for dreamers a confusing message from president trump. politics at play? the trump administration only letting red state florida off the hook over plans to expand offshore drilling. now, other states are crying foul. >>> and south korea, throwing credit to president trump for its talks with north korea and now the president making an important promise involving possible military action. all that coming up. but first, president trump calls for overhauling the nation's libel loss. this is what he said in remarks over at the white house moments ago. >> we are going to take a strong look at our country's libel laws. so that when somebody says something that is false and defamtory about someone, that person will have meaningful recourse in our courts if somebody says something that's knowingly false, that the person that has been abused, defamed, libeled, will have meaningful recourse. ou

investigation and the surprise release about a controversial dossier, about the trump team's alleged ties to moscow. jim, what are we learning from these 300 plus pages of this testimony? >> well, wolf, big testimony here it provides a stark counter narrative to the gop narrative, that the steele dossier was clearly a political document. the former british agent behind it was acting out of concern there was a genuine risk to u.s. national security. former british spy christopher steele was so concerned tha then candidate trump was being blackmailed by russia that he went personally to the fbi. this according to the founder glen simpson, whose firm paid for the so-called steele dossier. he said he thought we were obligated to tell someone in government, in our government about this information. simpson told a senate judiciary committee in closed door testimony, he thought from his perspective there was a security issue about whether a presidential candidate was being blackmailed. simpson testified that steele contacted the fbi in july 2016 and then met with the fbi attache in rome in september. stee

i didn't need to talk to anybody in moscow. i was talking to people in north carolina and michigan. there's no reason to have gone anywhere outside of hillary clinton and how unattractive her policies were, how lacking in vision and connective tissue with the forgotten. we beat her fairly and squarely in this country through this democratic elective process. so many people still can't get over the election results. >> says my friend who can't keep hillary clinton's name out of her mouth. >> hold on. excuse me. i'll make you a deal, chris. i'll never talk about her again but then you can't talk about the 2016 election -- >> i'm not. >> she lost that election. >> i haven't mentioned the election once. >> the reason she's talking about it -- >> i haven't mentioned it once. you bring up hillary clinton. >> we don't care about her. nobody here talks about her. >> i agree with me. and then kellyanne tweeted this this morning just to put a finer point on it. hey, when we are forced to think or talk about hrc it's because you and your colleagues can't let go of an election she/you lost. sad