the russian approach to war. it is adapted from russian military years. they operate under a completely different paradigm. let me be the first to apologize because i have to drive to a close here. i know there's a lot of other questions. i hope you can reserve your questions for them there. please join me and thinking the painless. this is been a remarkably informative session. today philadelphia mayor takes part in a discussion on education and community development at the center for american progress. that is live at 10:00 a.m. eastern. they talk about the rulings in philosophy. we are live on c-span starting at noon eastern. we will hear from jeff -- judge cavanaugh himself. judge cavanaugh himself. his confirmation hearing before the scented judiciary committee. we will have it live on c-span three. starting september 4. you can also watch online or listen on the c-span radio app. tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. at 1968. america and turmoil. we look at the cold war and will discuss vietnam the presidential campaign and the apollo eight mission. it sent

by the russian federation. continuing occupation of crimea, current military operations in ukraine, malicious cyber attacks, illicit regiment of restricted u.s. technologies, violation of crucial arms treaties, support to the assad regime's barbarism, the impossible use of the nerve agent in the u.k., and ongoing efforts to interfere in our election process are some of the unacceptable behaviors of the putin regime. countering russian aggression is the top priority for the treasury department. the net effect of our actions is an unprecedented level. of financial pressure mounted against the kremlin, oligarch proxies, and key sectors of the russian economy. to date, this administration has applied sanctions on 223 russia related entities and individuals ranging from social media troll farms to cyber actors to russia's state owned conglomerate which has been supplying billions of dollars worth of weaponry to the assad regime. additionally, treasury has issued findings pursuant to the patriot act against a major l

saudi russian relations? as steve was talking last time, iran which doesn't have much choice. russia, saudi arabia does and it strikes me that if, in fact, we do see an arms relationship develop between russia and qatar, that the saudis and the uae object to come and, in fact, this is going to push them more toward the united states. but i like to hear what you think about this. >> thank you, mark, very much for your question. later this afternoon w we're gog to have another panel. there's still room here, that will talk more specifically about the s-400 issue. however, you brought up some very interesting points within the question, which is really about the qatar crisis and whether it presents an opportunity or a problem for russia. i think steve said earlier today that the qatar crisis provides an opportunity for russia because of the way moscow conflict multiple sides on the issue. and i have seen this crisis, if you will, from that particular perspective. when you start looking at how qatar has behaved w

as an arm of russian state policy. it has been going on for we're also seeing it for example in serbia. serbia, you know, they claim we this orthodox brotherhood and so forth. so when the russians and the serbs want to be friendly thord o other, you have all the orthodox brotherhood. when they're not so friendly, foot. e's on the other just wherm at this timeo and stalin. i mean, they were attempting to use people's religious convictions adds an arm of olitical wafer -- warfare. >> i was wondering -- i think it was mr. silverman who mentioned the anti-fracking movement. how and why are they doing it? >> there's a recent government eport that i would point you to more more details. threat. emergency is one of their main exports. -- energy is one of their main exports. they see there's an actual left movement for environmental go against it so they are pumping money into those campaigns, because at the end of the day it helps their own economic interests. go agait >> balancing free speech and state interests, with what c

and for what those russians supposedly have. actually there is quite a bit to make with that string when finances. but most people will wonder how you get all of these quotes with strong russian connections coming into the trump campaign? and then to learn his way. and then once they become members of and they try to entice them into better relations. not just better relations with russia but what george papadopoulos cause that communication channel. and then eventually manafort says that continuing with that context to create the back door shin. that this 29-year-old guy. so when they begin the investigation in july and up 2016 with that counterintelligence investigation. they have seen all this. so what are they up to? and then they seem to be cultivating those relationships. and what a foreign government is insinuating. and with those political campaigns and then after the democratic convention and with that realization that basically put together a swat team trying to figure out what's going on. and then the counterintellige

to know that those are perhaps russians spies and russian vacation homes. much money did the u.s. government get from those two services. >> i'm not aware of assets that were blocked. >> is that because russian intelligence services do not keep money in the u.s. banking system? >> again that's not something i would discuss but we have had far and wide ranging impacts in a variety of ways. >> to say nothing of nonfiction activities, for instance like encouraging, spending more money on the defenses, the congress is also learning that there was a serious interagency discussion about imposing tougher sanctions on russia. in fact the treasury department worked up a whole host of sanctions and specific sanctions against russian companies like persky labs. yet those are strongly opposed by jack lew, susan rice and april haynes. can you explain why the secretary opposed taking action after the election? >> senator, i wasn't in the administration. >> there you are representative. >> what i can tell you is that as of already made clear today, we have gone after very

so how does the russian government, and you used to work in this area, how does the russian government use people like veselnitskaya, often referred to as cutouts? >> the use of cutouts is typical russian trade. veselnitskaya would have been an intermediary between agents and operatives involved in espionage, someone that gathered information, carried information between individuals involved in espionage. she would have been someone that would have taken orders between the two. one of the interesting things about someone like veselnitskaya is they're not typically read in on the full scope of whatever the espionage effort is, but i think the point about her being close to vladimir putin is really interesting because as we learn more about the relationship between veselnitskaya and vladimir putin and how close they were, we learn more about who she was taking orders from, and then look at the fact that she was able to get this meeting in trump tower. we get much closer to a direct link between vladimir putin and his orders and the president of the united states. and that's something tha

citizens, who the russians were targeting? i am well aware. intensive effort, as i said in my op-ed. myself, jim comey, and we talk about the importance of making sure that our collection radar was up, so we had early indications to be able to uncover any effort on the part of the russians to work with american citizens, who are reaching out to russians to see what they could get. to get dirt on hillary clinton. my radar was going, the knew the russians were engaged in this effort. i was aware of contacts with american citizens that may have been totally innocent on the american citizens part. >> was it clear to you that is part of the wayerishia was trying to accomplish objectives? >> i was concerned and aware that russians were trying to leverage u.s. citizens in order to achieve their objectives in the presidential election. >> while you were in office before you left on inauguration day, did you conclude that u.s. persons were successfully leveraged in that effort? >> no. that is why i said in open testimony, i was concerned about the cont

wall in russia in december twenty fifth thing she attended a russian propaganda t.v. i'm sad to say be with mike flynn and putin keep in mind there was absolutely no reason for her to be there except to become a russian pole they're not the only ones who've been accused of colluding or working with russia anyone who doesn't toe the bipartisan anti russia line is obviously on the kremlin's payroll now senator rand paul one of the strongest libertarian voices of the republican party is also under suspicion let's be honest minor parties are a nuisance to the two establishment parties that make up the two wobbly the fewer parties the better right no one old dialup votes but here's the question without minor parties who. i've been scapegoated maybe i should just be one party faithfully protected from russian involvement but there's only one surefire way and that's to have no elections at all samir khan r t washington d.c. . you're tuned into our two international is the atlantic ocean widening in terms of relations between washington and london in the age of trouble cross-

not just part of russian strategy and syria or you train but as a global and of russian power. in russian strategy in syria or ukraine but as a global arm of russian power. >> i want to talk about emcs in how thate region and is connected to russia's pmc push today. there are three different models you find in the middle east and the gulf. this has occurred over time. with then to start transfer of equipment and other materials from the iraq the a church or the afghan theater -- you rock theater to the -- iraq theater to the afghan theater. vehicles renting out to move equipment via the you a to afghanistan. includingan companies an airline was hired id os -- -- dos. tos there are dozens of kinds of these companies. example of how these types of companies got started in the region. findond type of pmc you are those that were involved in campaign to counter the off the coast of somalia. thesed hundreds of pms coming in. businessmen who heads they interest behind them. they wanted to get a piece of that pmc high. -- pmc pie. thend around the port -- horn of africa. lanesw those m

twelve russian spies chargedp 13 russian nationals charged. rick gates convicted. a couple of other small fries for lying to the fbi. and again, i think bill is right. at the peak of that attack on the justice department, had mueller started tripping and falling, and frankly had they lost the manafort case, we'd be in a different position. but so far they are batting 1,000 and that's pretty good. >> so to that effect, francesca, what are you hearing in terms of the white house's sentiments with the president's approach, trump's approach. is this attack -- we've heard this from rudy giuliani, he's wanted to make this a public argument against the credibility of the mueller investigation. you can't look at it and think it's working when you have 3% of americans m's on this pole support the mueller probe. >> the white house has been letting him do the talking. we didn't have a white house broefg although the president has addressed reporters and taken questions in different settings. the white house distancing themselves from the mueller probe and from these cases inv

if you look at russian reaction on the decimation of the linergroup, many russians are saying they had coming . then you were in syria and they have mercenaries. mister bradshaw said during the first grozny when he said about russian soldiers, those are mercenaries. we don't know them. and secondly, the never ending pool of redgroup , troy young between the quality, quantity and the prize. is here, is there. wives of russian mercenaries are cheaper than those from other countries. the quality is quite high. and the quantity. there is a lot of mutilated men in russia with enough military background or able and most importantly willing to die for the russian interests. or for their particular interestand there is a never-ending pool of resources . and finally, final point, the duality of function. you will see that the russian military theory envisioned something not quite more sophisticated or something more far-reaching. the russian military received by private military companies in two main fronts. one in a form of irregular forces , something in the form of territorial defense unit t

take any action against russian social media is critical to identify russian -- accounts. require continued analytic advancements so computers can distinguish against authentic social media chatter and information. it is important to highlight propaganda. the approach by international organizations involved for comely websites are email alerts the only fellow activists are members of a policy committee. instead, they argue that is important to highlight russian propaganda much faster and target at risk audiences. one example is google ads could contentand target embedded in google search results. educating people who search for russian board fake news. expand and improve access to local and original content. is challenge in the baltics that moscow controlled media, especially tv, is a dominant source of information. counter butd not displays it was more entertaining accurate content area the team argues for training journalist, increasing access to television programming, and highly in the authentic -- of influencers. nato and e.u. must do better job of telling a story. it

leader has found his name on a list of suspicious twitter accounts and mocked the suggestion that he's a russian bot. the netherlands reels from the stock suicide of an anti immigration party politician who claimed she'd been raped by a muslim gain last year. and disturbing video from yemen leaves humanitarian groups and the public stunned with the appalling saudi coalition air strike on a school bus in yemen the rape claimed the lives of twenty nine children with thirty more injured. this is our team from national coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned six pm welcome to the program. we start with these live pictures we're getting from the gaza strip where there are protests over the recent spike in violence between israel and palestine people have come out despite israel and hamas militants reaching a ceasefire agreement following two days of trading heavy fire you can see people at the border throwing objects and also burning tires they've done that in the past to obscure the vision of the i.d.f. soldiers who have often used live fire against the protesters. french

mafia russians but not the russian got to worry about the screwballs well yeah i mean that was the understanding and there's also been some reporting in europe of it that it's been pretty much wiped widespread there was a story but the same after the same thing that they were actually were doing work for the marriage for the british intelligence committee modoc to vs i mean there is a big russian mafia let's face it and but that is in the russian government all i would say is i think i mean tell me what i was told but i haven't done any reporting on it so i don't know firsthand i know secondhand i've been told by people in america because you ask about it is that is that most likely the most likely they they were known to have been talking to the six and five relevant six or five people that i am i five or six people about what they knew about russian corruption in and you're not in russia again you know the activities and so the only you from there you can draw your own conclusions of all who wanted to first of . all that's it for one of your favorite shows from this season will continue to sho

any direct attack on russian forces or russian weapons being used on american soil or american citizens or a commercial vessel might constitute one of them. certainly russian, use the word collusion, in an attack against israel would certainly be a redline. an incident involving turkey, as a member of nato, could precipitate article for our article five action i nato -- by nato would be equally as bad by russia's point of view. any iranian military offensive against the saudi's or one of the other emirates where it runs fingerprints are all too visible would also probably galvanize american reaction in a forceful way. the same might be true for egypt, but i do not think egypt is in danger from those kinds of things. i think those are red lines. moscow has a thriving relationship, apart from all of we have discussed this morning, has commerce and trade. there are four flights going between tel aviv and moscow. at one point they were buying israeli weapons. years ago, things were unheard of, and i don't think they want to jeopardize that. i think those are what they understand red lines t

a russian spy that infiltrated the nra, which may seem you have t -- off topic, but it's about russians manipulating the republicans. are the russians being embold emboldened or are we getting better at catching them? >> russian intelligence spans the spectrum from very sophisticated, exquisite operations that are really difficult to detect and uncover, to maybe some of the more entrepreneurial efforts on the part of those who may be working directly or indirectly with one of the russian intelligence services, whose profile is maybe a little bit more prominent than a traditional russian intelligence officer would like. and so therefore, people like her who have come across the radar, to me it doesn't smack of very sophisticated russian intelligence trade craft. it is very aggressive and asserti assertive, and she had a profile that i think was inconsistent with what a russian intelligence officer would want of his or her asset or person working on their behalf in the united states. >> i read "red spareio." i think i know what you're saying. you talked about whiting and unwhiting accompl

sitting down with those russians. he's saying it's perfectly routine, but wolf, he does distance himself from it at the end saying that he had no knowledge of that meeting beforehand. >> kaitlan, thank you very much. kaitlan collins reporting from new jersey for us. this trump tower meeting story has evolved significantly over time. let's take a look back. july 8th, 2017, "the new york times" first reports on the meeting and donald junior responds with a statement saying it was, quote, about russian adoptions. "the new york times" reports the president's son was promised dirt on hillary clinton at that meeting. then donald junior issues a second statement saying clinton was mentioned, but the meeting was mainly focused on adoptions. two days later, donald junior releases his e-mail exchanges with the publicist discussing the possibility of dirt on hillary clinton before the meeting. also, president trump denies knowing about the meeting beforehand. turn to july 12th. multiple reports indicate that while on air force o

who has hit back at suggestions he is part of a russian online dissin for mission campaign. hey stupid spook i'm not a russian but it's just me who tweets against you well appeared on a list of accounts showing increased in twitter traffic in the wake of the assault scandal surrounding president micron's former bodyguard archie show dubinsky explains why some people drew the link to russia. well a huge outcry here in france so many people on twitter thought that they had been labeled as russian that's because they were named in a twitter list which looked at the number of people who had tweeted about the banality skate scandal here in france some of them even decided to use it as a badge of honor and actually added they. bought their russian numbers to their twitter accounts now this came out after the banana scandal which was a former security aide to president mike brown who was filmed actually assaulting protesters doing may day now because of that many people were treating about it and an engineer based in belgium e.u. this information lab actually decided to analyze the

the article says moscow is ready to give its money to russian friendly americans russian businessmen will likely attempt to fund think tanks working on u.s. russia relations to push a narrative favoring cooperation with russia and opposition to sanctions cooperation with russia oh the horror regardless the article doesn't actually provide any evidence as to who or when some russian businessman will begin giving away free money but it's ok for western businessmen and nato to throw money at anti russian think tanks the articles author evelyn farkas is a senior fellow at one called the atlanta council and it's received millions of dollars from a long list of corporations and governments internationally who are apparently also very concerned about potential russian election hacking. while there is no way that it is that russia has done so to date at minimum it will likely use its ability to access voter registration databases and election related sites to undermine america's confidence in its own electoral integrity so no evidence the kremlin has done it as the article says but the atlan

problem is we also saw russian intelligence, specifically russian intelligence operating the internet research agency, do what we call a marionatg. prow pretend the russian watch standers would pretend to be real american citizens and would actually try to create rallies, protests and riots by saying, i'm going to be at such and such a shopping mall at 6:00 p.m. to protest hillary clinton. or fried chicken, whatever. you should join me. 20 or 30 people show up. that no leadership so they do a self-protest and i had a situation like that occur last year as well. another targeted one. and this is when i realized, the russians are actually dedicating human resources to watching me. i had a bot that we called a threat bot. this threat bot for 90 days was -- didn't realize it because it was just 0 there -- putting out a wanted poster with a cross-hair up which i was very offend because the cross-hair was the wrong -- anybody who shoot knows you won't hit me and it came from a rocky and bull winking poster of boris baddenoff and this watch sex had this picture up and i had friends who said

eight a war planes to fight russian submarine activity. how do how do you view these remarks then which get wide currency here in the british political establishment that well i'll tell you it's just. it's it's certain military strategy as i said if the six billion dollars will be spent and we see the british airplanes you know in the black sea which is quite far from britain and from my point to you is the wrong policy or wrong military doctrine instead of developing relations britain is going to spend more and more money on so-called deterrence of russia so this is the wrong way of doing things were you surprised by . the attempt unsuccessful attempt by the british government to get a un resolution about the fact that the o.p.c. w. should now find who committed chemical warfare. convention contraventions well first of all i want to see the opposing posted because we believe that it doesn't reflect the substance of the convention and it's not only russia it's almost half of the countries of the. signatories of the convention is it not fai

we always differentiate between the russian people and the russian state and oligarchy. i think the russian people have suffered enormously. we look for every way possible to engage the russian people, that's often difficult. i recently attended the commemoration in front of the russian embassy. i think is incredibly important keep up that engagement. i think your broader question is, there's a certain calculus on vladimir putin's part that he and those around him can weather to some extent, sanctions, because of the regime. we've gone more deeply into the territory of going after those individuals than previous administration. we've gone after his son-in-law, my own view of this is when you see his popularity ratings falling by 15, 20% since he was elected, that of the main change comes immediately, but i think it does understand score that the pain is starting to have an effect i think this ministration has been clear that we are prepared to take additional steps. there is an escort tori ladder and will aware of what those additional steps would be needed to make an ev

anything like that must be a russian agent you must be a russian but if you don't you go into. the elections and the senate rather is that the american elections. and it's much like other countries in the world. where people are sick that's why it's not because of the russians it's not because of you know donald trump. i mean it's because of all these. people are sick of it and they see through it and we're seeing. as it relates to russia. monday greece finally exits the financial bailout program a sustained it through an almost decade long debt crisis over the course of the bailout put together by the e.u. an international monetary fund greece received over three hundred billion euros but it's affected the country's economy dramatically over four hundred thousand people have simply left the country pensions have been drastically cut taxes have been raised athens is expected to be repaying those bailout loans until twenty sixty the crisis has provoked serious tensions between greece and the e.u. along the way it reached its peak in twenty fifteen when brussels demanded a stereo

most of the russian agent you must be a russian but if you don't you go into. the elections and the fact rather is that the american are actually. much like other countries in the world. where people are sick of that's why. it's not because the russians it's not because you know donald trump. because of all the you or your. as it relates to russia. however somewhat while the returns to showcase alleged russian influence may cost dearly a democratic staff is now in hot water for helping to smuggle a controversial piece of art into the colorado state capital. couples being refused swiss citizenship after they refused to shake hands with members of the opposite sex they did not shake hands with people of the opposite sex religious practice does not fall outside the law the constitution in equality between men and women prevails over bigotry the couple is said to have shown a lack of respect towards gender equality laws and failed to provide their readiness to integrate into society therefore however they do of thirty days to appeal the decision made time a similar

bruce ohr and a russian oligarch. jeff sessions pay attention. cnn lanee davis was feeding the a bag of lice. -- lies. i have a message for fake news cnn. they watch this show because it's more interesting. maybe they need to watch their own network. a strong new economic indicator. more evidence that the economy is blowing it through the roof. plus tracking primary races. moments ago fox news projects that trump ally ron desantis will win the republican primary for florida governor and fox news is projecting that governor rick scott will win the gop senate primary and will be going up against bill nels. the results as we have them. sit tight and buckle up.on. the results as we have them. sit tight and buckle up. our opening monologue. bruce ohr and fisa abuse. i have been on the sources all day and all night people in the room during ohr's testimony. ohr said he understood the steele dossier would have never been accepted in a court of law. 65 pages of notes and texts and meetings between him and christopher steele.

ambassador to the russian imperial court. he sent word back to washington as these protests were gaining strength, assuring the people in washington that nothing was going to come of it. no need to be alarmed, no need to be concerned, it was all going to die down. the authorities were going to be able to handle it. on march 8, the international women's day in 1917, a group of in petrograd to complain about the food shortages and then they started complaining as well about the war that was continuing. that banner says glory to women. who are fighting for freedom. and hundreds at first gathered and there were speeches and then more joined them and more joined them and a streetcar came around the bend and protesters blocked the streetcar and took out the handle that enabled it to run in that blocks more streetcars and it was a festive, giddy moment in russian history. spread in theto northern part of the city. that night, the bolsheviks, the extreme read marxist joined them as her francis in their estimation of what was going to

apparently russian lawmakers asking him whether or not he could ask for maria butina, the russian gun lobbyist accused of being a spy in the u.s. for the russia and released and sent back and help with that. it's unclear if any sort of arrangements are being made there. senator paul's visit continues tomorrow, as well. he says so far it's going fairly successfully, wolf. >> there were two u.s. senators that voted against legislation to increase sanctions against russia. i think the vote 96-2 or 97-2. and rand paul one of the two. bernie sanders voted against increasing sanctions against russia. thank you very much. >>> coming up, with r the deaths of three journalists the result of a fight with robbers? there's hints of a link of a close ally of vladimir putin. c. - learning from him is great... when i can keep up! - anncr: thankfully, prevagen helps your brain and improves memory. - dad's got all the answers. - anncr: prevagen is now the number-one-selling brain health supplement in drug stores nationwide. - she outsmarts me every single time. - checkmate! you wanna play again? - ann

you won't find any of that russian mean an athlete. affiliation or it may mean a national affiliation so most of the different nationalities who will love to have in this city would also identify as russian i wonder if you given that so much maybe multiculturalism is not such a bad thing after all no because i don't buy you a definite.

in our previous hearings on russian disinformation, we outlined the russian playbook in the 2016 elections. we discussed how russian operatives set of thousands of fake and automated accounts on facebook, instagram, twitter, youtube and others, in order to build networks of hundreds of thousands of real americans. these networks pushed an array of misinformation including stolen emails, stately propaganda, fake news and divisive content. on to the newsfeeds of as many potentially receptive americans as they could. you will no doubt hear from our experts that they were extremely successful in that effort. these active measures have two things in common, first, they are effective and second, they are cheap. for just pennies on the dollar, they can wreak havoc in our society and in our elections. i am concerned that even after 18 months of study, we are still only scratching the surface when it comes to russia's information warfare. much of the initial focus was on paid advertisements. it quickly became clear that these ads represent a tiny percentage of the ira activity. compared to the hund

for working for the russians. this is a major concern that has been ongoing for the fbi for quite sometime. certainly people inside the fbi feel given what happened in 2016 there is certain escalation that is almost touching or perhaps touching every fbi office in this country. the fbi director explaining how each of these offices is handling these investigations. >> you know there is a whole school of thought that says the only thing the russians will understand if they are doing this to the united states the united states has to do something to russia. a lot of e-mails, russian e-mails involving putin's money, that is something they might understand. >> of course. you talk to people, there is concern they are in our grid systems and some people say we are in their systems. we heard the presidents hint that we do this to other people, as well. that is an action that the intelligence community for all we know may have taken. it is not something that they will ever talk about publically. i think the concern by the

now the russian embassy in the u.s. has accused the local authorities of subjecting jailed russian gun activists marie abuse in a cruel and inhumane treatment including strip searches is in or is under arrest on charges of being a russian agent which was quickly interpreted by much of the western media as her being a spy russia's compared the situation to the witch trials in the seventeenth century well after russian diplomats visited maria in prison on thursday they discovered her health had deteriorated there demanding the u.s. state department stop psychologically pressuring and humiliating her and she still a suspect and not a convict miraca is more. maria was taken into custody about a month ago accused of acting as a russian agent and quote developing relationships with u.s. persons and infiltrating organizations having influence in american politics now if she's convicted she could face up to fifteen years in prison and now the russian embassy has issued a statement comparing it to the salem witch trials and accu

even if it is the russians. what becomes the crime is where they solicit or conspire to violate a federal election laws and/or did you ask the russians if they would go ahead and release stolen information? that is a violation, a felony, of the computer fraud and abuse act and where they could be going. i think the president got exercised about this for the fact that he has now cohen raising his hand saying i know something about the meeting. gates cooperating with the mueller investigation saying i know something about the meeting. they're zeroing in on roger stone and met with another russian through the campaign about information that might be -- that's where i think they're starting to get nervous. really wasn't a legal problem. >> take a listen to president trump's lawyer jay sekulow talking to abc news over the weekend. he had originally said that president trump had nothing to do with that misleading statement that donald trump jr. gave in which they claimed that the meeting was about adoptions but about

meanwhile the russian embassy in the u.s. has accused the local authorities of subjecting jailed russian gun activist to cruel and inhumane treatment including strip searches is under arrest on charges of being a russian agent which was quickly interpreted by much of the western media as being a spy russia's compared the situation to the witch trials of the seventeenth century well after russian diplomats visited maria in prison on the day they did discover her health deteriorated they are demanding the u.s. state department stop psychologically pressuring and humiliating her and she's still a suspect not a convict so let's get more details now from samir who's in washington for a samir just tell us a bit more then in terms of what other information that's come out over this case. oh well for some background maria buthe now was taken into custody about a month ago cues to acting as a russian agent and quote developing relations with u.s. persons and infiltrating organizations having influence in american politics now if she's

he was investigating the russian mafia there. when she was thrown off the mueller probe, i saw that in a very different way that, i mean, it raised a lot of questions. were they going to pursue trump's ties to the russian mafia or not. >> and when the special prosecutor is looking at paul manafort and presumably if he gets a guilty in one of these trials basically offering paul manafort some opportunity to testify to get a lower prison sentence, is there something you believe paul manafort would be able to reveal about donald trump's relationship to russians? >> absolutely. manafort is an absolutely key figure in all of this. if you look at what he was doing in ukraine, it was a dry run for the 2016 operation in our election. and he was hired by the -- he was representing president -- a putin puppet. he has been declared a traitor to ukraine and fled to moscow. and manafort put him in power, essentially to sustain relationships that allowed the russian mafia to skim lots of money from the ukraine energy trade. >> thank you very m

operations to counter disinformation warfare from the russians. they're not giving too many specifics. but cyber security experts tell us they're trying their hardest to expose the most active russian trolls who are working against the u.s. and trying to shut them down. lot of that work going unnoticed, but they believe the u.s. intelligence is very active in this. >> the bots are out there. i see them myself. >>> coming up apprentice star omarosa reveals she secretly recorded her white house firing as well as a phone call from the president himself. does she have more secret recordings? >>> and the president gloats over the firing of fbi agent peter struck. the president using the firing to once again attack the entire russia investigation as a hoax. so, how's it going? well... we had a vacation early in our marriage that kinda put us in a hole. go someplace exotic? yeah, bermuda. a hospital in bermuda. a hospital in bermuda. what? what happened? i got a little over-confident on a moped. even with insurance, we had to dip into our 401(k) so it se

the witch trials of the seventeenth century on thursday the russian embassy in the u.s. accused the local authorities of subjecting buton there to cruel and inhumane treatment including strip searches as after russian diplomats visited her in prison and found her health had deteriorated there demanding the u.s. state department stops psychologically pressuring and humiliating maria and stressed she's still a suspect not a convict so america takes up the story. maria was taken into custody about a month ago accused of acting as a russian agent and quote developing relationships with u.s. persons and infiltrating organizations having influence in american politics now if she's convicted she could face up to fifteen years in prison and now the russian embassy has issued a statement comparing it to the salem witch trials and accusing us of dorothy's of subjecting her to cruel and inhumane treatment including night checks every fifteen minutes something that's only done to prisoners who have a history of suicide strip searches after visits she's being denied medical care she

and summary abuse and they going to activist who's been charged with acting as an unregistered russian agent tim u.s. has been transferred to another prison we hear from her lawyer about her health and what to expect in the case. you're watching r t international good to have you with us russian president vladimir putin and german chancellor angela merkel have concluded talks that means a big palace near beilin there was several topics up for discussion including the rebuilding of syria and the iran nuclear agreement reporting from germany has stunned you holkins. here in schloss maze a burger about two hours' drive from talks have been ongoing between shots of marco and president putin in the government residence just behind me here now from the outset the german chancellor was realistic about what could be expected as an outcome from these talks saying it's working visit and nothing to spectacular should be expected nevertheless she did emphasize the importance of having a relationship a functional dialogue and communication with russia as the two leaders came out of the building hav

the article says moscow is ready to give its money to russian friendly americans russian businessmen will likely attempt to fund think tanks working on u.s. russia relations to push a narrative favoring cooperation with russia and opposition to sanctions cooperation with russia oh the horror regardless the article doesn't actually provide any evidence as to who or when some russian businessmen will begin giving away free money but it's ok for western businessmen and nato to throw money at anti russian think tanks the articles author evelyn farkas is a senior fellow at one called the atlantic council and it's received millions of dollars from a long list of corporations and governments internationally who are apparently also very concerned about potential russian election hacking. while there is no way that it is that russia has done so to date at a minimum it will likely use its ability to access voter registration databases and election related sites to undermine america's confidence in its own electoral integrity so no evidence the kremlin has done it as the article says but the at

why would some russian citizen do that? the pop star who is the person that engineered the infamous tower meeting. he spends a lot of time in the united states and grew up in new jersey. he's english. he will not get within a mile of this. his father, who financed the miss universe in moscow in 2013, he will stay farther away. i'm not surprised the mueller team is trying to get to them but i wouldn't hold their breath. >> as we mentioned, president trump is on the campaign trail again, on the rally with a crowd where people who believe in conspiracy theories, call themselves q anon. we'll hear what they have to say. what does help for heart ♪ the beat goes on. it looks like emily cooking dinner for ten. ♪ the beat goes on. it looks like jonathan on a date with his wife. ♪ la-di-la-di. entresto is a heart failure medicine that helps your heart... so you can keep on doing what you love. in the largest heart failure study ever, entresto was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. it helps im

to finding his name on a list of suspicious twitter accounts forcing him to think there are certain russian. feels from the show. the immigration party politician claimed she was raped by a muslim gang. also coming up on the program. but. two palestinians are killed more than two hundred injured in the latest flare up on the israel gaza border soldiers opened fire after rioters hurled explosives and broke through the fences. are international news center this is art scene my names you know good to have your company our top story french opposition leader and former presidential candidate. has hit back at suggestions he's part of a russian online disinform ation campaign hey stupid spook i'm not a russian but it's just me who tweets against you well known shown appeared on this a list of a kind showing increased twitter traffic in the wake of the assault scandal surrounding president mccollum's former bodyguard. explains why some people drew the link to russia. well a huge outcry here in france so many people on twitter who thought that they had been labeled russian boats that's because they

-russian policy. while the committee deals with foreign policy, this committee jurisdiction over economic tools to promote our foreign policy is included for so i today soon. let me just ask you all, clearly that notwithstanding what the congress has passed into law, what the administration has forced through your own testimony, elements of that law, that it's fair to say, isn't it, that russia has not deterred, it's been deterred in its actions and maligned activities? is that a fair statement? >> i think, senator, we're seeing a number of consequences as a result of an impasse as a result of the actions that we've taken. there's no question we continue to see russian maligned activity and -- >> microsoft announced there are attacks on the united states senate, and from conservative institutions. that's a continuing action. as far as i know russian is still annexing crimea and engage with regular forces in eastern ukraine. as far as i know russia is propping up the side in syria and i could go down t

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they are the ones who went back to the russian government and said, we would like to send a russian delegation to trump tower to talk about how we're supporting the campaign in june 2016. they're integral to the ties between the trump family, the trump organization, and the russian government. they were the go-between. just because you are a cheesy pop star doesn't mean that you're also not a cutout for russian intelligence. >> matt apuzzo, this trump tower meeting has long been a flash point in questions about obstruction, because of what both your papers reported about the cover story about what that meeting was about. it now seems to be a flashpoint about conspiracy to collude or coordinate with an american adversaries. >> that's where the two stories come together. as jeremy said, this is part of the russian government's effort to help donald trump get elected, and the trump campaign response was, "i love it." there's that. and when reporters started to ask questions about this, were you straight with them and were you trying to conceal the truth from the american public. and in tamping do

task force you know to fight against russian disinformation r.t. for example yet there's been such a backlash against this why do you think the research got people so wind up so angry if the experts underlined their aim was not to root out so-called russian bots. well this little n.-g. o. is very interesting and i suppose journalist real journalists will look into its links with the european commission the european union and especially a s for the people it's maybe not not clear for people what it is but it is the diplomatic service of europe in two thousand and eleven the european to decided to create s. high commissioner for the moment it's missis for that he cannot get any in within diplomatic department which is very serious and respectable that is there are people or unit called e.u. forces this in full i'm sure these people have links with the end shield there they have links also with george soros they have links with all their finances to support them in their fight in that challenge of the russian disinformation and it's you could call it

russian disinformation, russian elements were involved in putting that together. of course, that would involve the hillary campaign who helped fund the trump dossier more than it would republicans. >> well, i think that -- this is one of the things that has americans divided and upset. they see a full, all-out investigation of everybody who was even close to trump, they see a trial of somebody that probably there would have been an audit here, maybe a criminal referral, but the entire weight of the u.s. government wouldn't be on paul manafort had he not served for two months, you know, in the trump campaign. they see associates being targeted in a way that is really not the typical way that we expect -- david: well, mark, in just a couple of moments i'm going to have on a fellow be democrat colleague of yours, representative eric swalwell, who when the president suggested -- well, he didn't actually say, but when the president, some of his associates suggested that maybe it's time for mueller to if not wrap, be fired, he says -- and i'm quoting eric swalwell -- fi