it paper on russian demography and middle eastern policy. that's not the subject here. the subject here is the question of private military contractors and their role as a supplement, as a complement to russia's war fighting strategy. it couldn't be timelier in terms of a topic. i thought the best thing to do was to lead with the folks who really know the subject inside and out. so what i'm going to do with very, very minor introductions i'm going to turn the floor over first to sergei from the jamestown foundation, and then after him, to my colleague steve blank from the american foreign policy council and then after that ted of gulf state analytics to talk about and unpack for us this enormously timely subject and to add another layer of complexity to what we've heard already today. so with that, for malts, aside, gentlemen, feel free to sit at your seats and speak and-- >> thank you very much, first of all, i'd like to thank the jamestown foundation for bringing me from the other side of the atlantic and to be able to speak about this extremely sensitive topic and the fact that

were a little earlier where i did a paper earlier on russian democracy . that's not the subject here, the subject here is the question of private military contractors and their role as a supplement, as a complement to russia's war fighting strategy. it couldn't be timelier in terms of the topic so i thought that the best thing to do would be to lead with the folks who really know the subject inside and out so what i'm going to do is very minor introductions and i'm going to turn the floor over to sergey sukhankin from the jamestown foundation and after him to my colleague steve from the foreign counsel counsel and then to theodore karasik from state analytics to talk about and unpack the enormously timely subject and to add another layer perhaps what we've heard already today so with that, formalities aside, feel free to city receipts and the and thank you very much. >> i'd like to thank the jamestown foundation from the other side of the atlantic and being able to speak about this topic and the fact that this topic is or was collaborated today with the russian journalists who have b

about russian interference in elections. several senators reference the recent microsoft claim alleging a russian plot targeting conservative think tanks and institutions. the senate foreign relations committee is chaired by senator bob corker. [inaudible conversations] >> the foreign relations committee will come to order. we want to thank our witnesses for being here today for the second in a a series of hearins on russia. .. >> what other promises or assurances were made, we've received no real readout, even in a classified setting of this meeting. we like to understand the administration's assessment of a threat posed by russia to us, our allies and other countries and institutions around the world. finally, we need a better understanding of how russia sanctions this committee wrote last year on the senate passed by a vote of 98 to two despite strong objections from the white house are being implemented. russia has annexed crimea, occupied parts of georgia, interfered with elections including our own, violated the imf treaty, remains in violation, use chemical weapons to po

learns that special counsel robert mueller is pushing to interview a russian oligarch and his pop star son. >>> flat broke. prosecutors reveal former trump campaign chairman paul manafort spent millions of dollars on home electronics and landscaping even as his book keeper reveals his firm had no money to pay bills. >>> and sloppy spy? she was aggressively flirtatious and boasted of ties to russian intelligence when she drank too much. is this russian spy still a valuable asset for moscow? i'm wolf blitzer and you are in the situation room. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> the white house brings out its intel and national security chiefs in a big show it means business. the director of national intelligence says -- i'll speak with congressman of the armed  services committee and our correspondents and specialists are also standing by with full coverage. first, let's go straight to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. given the dismissive rhetoric about russia's election attacks what is behind the latest white house display? >> reporter: the white house tried to show the wo

. misleading. president trump urged to stop tweeting about the trump tower meeting with russians after admitting the purpose to get information on hillary clinton. comes as cnn learns the president concerned his son may face legal exposure. why did the president push an effort to mislead about the original intent of the meeting? >>> meeting mueller. the president's legal team preparing to respond soon to special counsel robert mueller. will they agree to a presidential interview or wage a legal battle all the way to the u.s. supreme court? >>> hope returns. former white house communications director hope hicks spotted on air force one as the president flew to a weekend rally. hicks faced scrutiny over the role of crafting the white house response on the trump tower meeting. and star witness. the prosecution star witness takes the stand in the trial of former campaign chairman paul manafort. will the jury hear what rick gates has already revealed to prosecutors? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> breaking news. the government's key witness is now testifying in the tri

treasury department officials discuss reports of russian interference in american , clarifying details into the july 2018 helsinki meeting between president trump and russian president putin. sen. corker: foreign relations committee will come to order. we want to thank our witnesses for being here today for the second in a series of hearings on russia. this committee is attempting to get a clearer sense of the administration's overall posture on russia. we thank you both for being here. we have outstanding witnesses today. we would like to understand what was agreed to when the leaders of our two countries sat down in helsinki. whether there were discussions about future arms agreements. today, we have received no real readout, even in a classified setting of this meeting. we would like to understand the administration's assessment of the threat posed by russia to us, to our allies and other countries and institutions around the world. finally, we need a better understanding of how russian sanctions, despite strong objections from the white house, are being implemented. russia has annexed c

am here mostly in an officiant role, delighted to be here. my contribution to the russian release program was earlier when i did a paper earlier this year u.s.ssian demography and policy. the subject here is the question of private military contractors and their role as a supplement, as a comp lament to russia's war fighting strategy, it could not be timelier. in terms of the topic. i thought that the best thing to do would be to lead with the folks who really know the subject inside and out. what i will do is with very minor introductions, i will turn to floor over first two -- my colleagues. talk about and unpack worse this enormously timely subject and to add another layer of complexity to what we have heard already today. with that formalities aside, feel free to sit at your seats -- speak and >> thank you. this topic is supersensitive or was collaborated with the assassination with the russian journalist who has been working on the [inaudible] in the central african republic. so the russian journalist keeps getting killed, they were working in the wagner group and this shows

. including its malicious meddling in u.s. elections. and a host of other malign russian activities. the banking committee plays a leading role in developing any legislation that proposes the use of sanctions and financial pressure. more especially those measures involving financial institutions, sovereign debt and other financial instruments to address serious threats to the national security of the united states. just about one year on august 2, the president signed into law the countering america's adversaries through sanctions act of 2017. known as catsa. which is a authority for strengthening sanctions against russia and brand new authorities for secondary sanctions. it was this committee that put together the foundation for those sanctions and financial measures on russia and worked with the committee on foreign relations to expand them as a part of catsa. catsa was truly a four-square effort. it was not only strongly bipartisan. but also bicameral. it passed the house bay vote of 419-3. and two days later, by the senate on a vote of 98-2. it's not often that congress acts together

sensitive topic. and the fact that it super sensitive. of the russian journalist. they had been working on the wagner group. this russian journalist those were working there. i think this pretrade the shows and shows how sensitive and essential this is for the russian authority. in my assignment today is to speak about both theoretical and practical aspects. in the russian pmc operating primarily in the uc. i would be making allusions. and one thing private companies. i will be primarily referring to the walk in our group. this was a well-known company when it was destroyed in syria and 200 people were killed. my information said it was 300 persons. in speaking in retrospect i have to say. employment of private military groups. in groups for achieving it has been one of the part. important with the russian way of foreign policy foreign-policy making a different time. before 1917. and after 1991 even though the names change. on the best of my research. published by the dame -- james found foundation. they go by other means. with the private ministry company in the middle east. and here a

interference in the quarter report. the russians are probably at it again according to an article in the atlantic magazine and probably is good enough especially when the unity of the stars and stripes is apparently under threat by big bad russia the russian government has one overriding objective with regard to the united states to weaken america so that it loses its will and ability to counter russian objectives and to accomplish this goal the article says russia has a devious multi-pronged plan. first is allegedly helping people who undermine the democratic party and inviting them as guests on r t the walkaway campaign reportedly an organic cum pain of lifelong democrats leaving the party has been amplified by russian social media accounts and featured on the russian propaganda outlet r t walk away founder brandon stracke did give an interview for r t in which he expressed his disillusion with the democratic party's identity politics and why his movements getting popularity among americans i myself was a lifelong liberal democratic voter i would say kind of a democrat by default becau

russian hackers attack the presidential election interviewed by castro of texas. a program of guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors of the latest works. >> authors of the new book russian roulette. thank you for being here. let me ask you first how did you come up with this title? >> you are asking the right person on this one. we struggled through a lot of choices we are not going to reveal, but in the middle of the process, my 17-year-old daughter i think who was 16 at the time said dad, russian roulette. today she actually negotiated with me and wanted a subscription to "the new york times" crossword puzzle. we are getting off cheap here if that is what we have to pay. >> everybody that reads this book will have their own answer to the question but it's important to ask the authors, russian roulette is a book about -- >> guest: what happened in the election and how russia intervened in a much more concerted and sophisticated way than anybody realized at the time. also there is a lot of back story. we trace what is the lea led upt point to the rise of the cold war, tension bet

--ld is in a russian jail on terror chargee and despite pressure from the west his release seems far from likely. -- blames tech giants -- moscow's as its hands are clean. hands aresays its clean. >> rockets have been filedd6 c11 toward the presidential palace in kabul s the president was delivering reetings during a holiday. the president interruptpted his message and issued a warniig to the taliban that the rocket fire -pwould not keep afghans d down. the rocket landed near a nato compound. no one was hurt. attacks,esult of the only does go police officers -- officers havee been slightly woundee and all of the terrorists have bben killed. >> for more on the story we go to our corressondent in kabul. what happened today and who was responsible? taliban -- a group oo fighters fired several rockets this morning from around 9:00 totoward the diplomatic quarter and the presesidential palacace while the afafghan presidentnt s ging a a sech. the rockets were heard on live tv as the message was being broadcasted. -- sttrted firing on the attackers on the ground and also attackees had taken

security guidelines. at 12:30 p.m., a: russian of women's rights, workers rights, and civil rights organizations host a rally opposing the nomination of brett kavanaugh. president trump towards the medal of honor to sergeant john chapman who was killed in action in 2002 in afghanistan. 2, the senate continues work on federal spending bills. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and today, we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme seet, and public challah events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >> next a hearing on u.s. relations with russia, state and treasury department officials discuss the -- to reports and sanctions and clarifying details into the july 2018 helsinki meeting between president trump and russian president putin. this is about two hours. sen. corker: foreign relations committee will come to order. we want to thank our witnesses for being here today for the seco

sides because, in fact, there is a lot of money involved and the russians have become rather depend upon that. why don't we start with 202-748-8200 will speak for about ten minutes. thanks. >> thank you very much mark, thank you very much for attending, thank you very much to the jamestown foundation for making this possible. i want to take the next ten minutes to talk about what i i said russia's financial tactics in the region but how is also related to the crisis all in ten minutes. but the main point here that i want main points are that russian tactics at least financial in the region have been ongoing since about 2007, this is been a developing policy by the russian state to get more involved financially within the gulf states and the route the wider middle east region. i call this a north-south corridor door development between moscow and the gulf states. this concept of north-south corridor has been picked up by the gulf states, particularly -- the use it in their policymaking documents and so on in terms of developing this north-south relationship closer. throughout the pas

channel as one of the means of interference from a quarter reports. the russians are probably at it again according to an article in the atlantic magazine and probably is good enough especially when the unity of the stars and stripes is apparently under threat by big bad russia the russian government has one overriding objective with regard to the united states to weaken america so that it loses its will and ability to counter russian objectives and to accomplish this goal the article says russia has a devious multi-pronged plan. first is allegedly helping people who undermine the democratic party and inviting them as guests on r t the walkaway campaign reportedly an organic cum pain of lifelong democrats leaving the party has been amplified by russian social media accounts and featured on the russian propaganda outlet r t walkaway founder brandon stracke did give an interview for r t in which he expressed his disillusion with the democratic party's identity politics and why his movements getting popularity among americans i myself was a lifelong liberal democratic voter i would say

strategy and what impact it may have on the russian government. this hearing as two hours and 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] the hearing will come to order. this morning we will receive testimony from senior administration officials. from the department of treasury on the implementation and effectiveness of the sanction program currently in place against russia. the reason for the sanctions include russia standing military deliveries in ukraine. with the warfare activities in the cyber attacks against the united states critical infrastructure including malicious meddling in a host of other activities. the banking committee has a leading role. were specially those with financial institutions. to address serious threats from the national security of the united states. just about one year ago on august 2. the president signed into law. sanctions act of 2013. it included in it. with this strength and sanctions against russia. and brand-new authorities for several powerful mandatory sanctions. it was this committee that put together the foundation for the sanctions. in the financial me

of suspicious twitter accounts forcing him to dig there he is not a russian vault. reels from the shock suicide of an immigration party politician who claimed she'd been raped by a muslim gang last your. disturbing video from yemen leaves humanitarian group public with this week's saudi coalition air strike on a school bus in yemen the raid claimed the lives of twenty children dozens more seriously injured. just after ten pm this friday night here in moscow welcome to our to international you know me our top story french opposition leader and former presidential candidate mellon chal has really hit back at suggestions that he is part of a russian online dissin from nation campaign hey stupid spook i'm not a russian it's just me who tweets against you although not directly accused of being a russian bought melon scholem has appeared in a list of a concho and increased twitter traffic in the wake of the assault scandal surrounding president former bodyguard the inference being moscow is pulling the strings also in that list as are part of correspondent charlotte she's got more detai

john solomon with a case of real russian collusion connecting the dots between 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 christophe

made his strongest statements yet about trump campaign collusion with the russian government in a new york times op ed piece. he wrote mr. trump's claims of no collusion are in a word hogwash. the only questions is whether they took place, whether obstruction of justice occurred to cover up and how many members of trump incorporated attempted to defraud the government by laundering and concealing the movement of money into their pockets. a jury is about to deliberate bank and tax fraud charges against one of those people, paul manafort, mr. trump's former campaign chairman and the former deputy chairman rick gates has pleaded to financial fraud and lying to investigators. john brennan revealed some of what he as cia director and then james comey discussed about russia's attack on the election during the presidential campaign. in my many conversations with james comey in the summer of 2016 we talked about the potential for american citizens involved in partisan politics or not to be pawns in russian hands. we new that russian intelligence services would do all they could to achieve

having on the russian government and whether they were advancing u.s. foreign policy. this is two hours and 15 minutes. >> the hearing will come to order. good morning. the committee will receive testimony from senior administration officials from departments of treasury and homeland security on the and effectiveness of the sanctions program currently in place against russia. the reasons for the sanctions include russia's standing military incursions in the ukraine, abetting atrocities in syria, conducting cyber warfare activities and attacks against the united states and its infrastructure. including meddling in u.s. elections. and a host of other maligned russian activities. the banking committee plays a role in developing any legislation that proposes the use of sanctions and financial pressure. especially those involving financial institutions and other financial instruments to address serious threats to the national security of the united states. , theabout one year ago president signed into law the countering america's adversaries through sanctions act of 2017. and ituded an

that it is here. let's talk about not just how the russians influence the political landscape but how they are trying to boost the americanness in order to attack the american right. that is something you may not have heard that much about in the mainstream media. russia's efforts to influence the american election has received massive political and media attention. equally important but much less publicized is russia's interference through the sport of left-wing causes and groups opposing president trump. that russia is supposing -- sorry, supporting american left-wing groups and have a hand in sponsoring others. it does not come as a surprise, those of you who can remember the cold war will remember that is exactly what the soviet union also did, underpinning, for instance, the agreement of stabilizing in which -- campaign against -- [inaudible] disarmament in europe. and, of course, the same thing also went for the american peace movement, also sponsored by the soviet union. so there is a continuity of strategy, but the tactics have changed. today's influence operations targete

to say the kremlin has set its sights firmly on the upcoming midterm elections the russian government has one overriding objective with regards to the united states to weaken america so that it loses its will and ability to counter russian objectives the article goes on to explain russia's three step plan to break american democracy first take russian hackers and get them to interfere second by corrupt us politicians and third support those who think favorably of putin the atlantic believes this very channel to help undermine democracy two by inviting on guests who dare to be different they named brandon straka as an example he is the founder of the movement encouraging democrats to walk away from their party but the atlantic does appear to forget the anyone's he talks to. well i i myself was a lifelong liberal democratic voter i would say kind of a democrat by default because i'm a gay man and i think that the expectation for a lot of minority groups is that we are supposed to vote democrat and that we are supposed to be liberal friend strake is spent years as a liberal he now says h

to keep the russians from interfering. >> we acknowledge the threat. it is real. it is continuing. >> our democracy itself is in the cross hairs >> you need to take extremely seriously >> we're not going to accept the meddling >> but the warning was undermined by the president himself hours later >> we're being hindered by the hoax. >> brennan:. last night, the president appeared to be back on message and expand it >> we got to stop meddling from attacking us, russia is there, china is there, we're go doing . >> brennan: talk from white house counselor kellyanne conway. plus the top democrat adam schiff. plus political analyze on all the news coming up on ""face the nation". ♪ . ♪ . . >> brennan: good morning, we begin this morning with counselor to the president, kellyanne conway who joins us from her home in inform. kellyanne, good to have you with us. >> thank you, z3zmargaret. . >> brennan: the president and his national security team made statements that to most people sounded very different in the characterization of what russia did and is doing now and we just played th

russian , despite strong objections from the white house, are being implemented. russia has annexed crimea and occupied parts of georgia, interfered with elections, including our own, violated the ins treaty, used chemical weapons into poison individuals in the united kingdom, and even reportedly hacked u.s. utilities. these offenses are bad enough, believe us wondering what is next? what does the administration believed they will next do? the past teaches us that even worse things may lay just over the horizon if we fail to push back now, and make clear to president putin that our nation is united from the very top to the bottom. standing against his destabilizing behavior both in policy and in public posture. yous my hope that today, will reassure the members of this community that our executive branch is doing all theits power to convince russians not to continue testing our resolve. we thank you both for our forice to our country, being here today and look forward to your testimony. with that, i will turn to bob menendez. >> i join you in your words and concerns. i hope this is

the political process and global economic markets. the first question him about russian affairs in the 2015 election. send to richard burr chairs the senate intelligence committee this is two and a half hours. >> [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> call the hearing to order. i'd like to welcome our witnesses today, dr. todd, senior behavioral scientist at the rand corporation. renÉ, director of research at new knowledge, john kelly, ceo and founder of graphic. lauren rosenberg, director of the allies for securing democracy at the german marshall fund, and doctor howard, director of the oxford internet institute. welcome to all of you. i thank you for being here today and for your willingness to share your expertise and insight with this committee and more important with the american people. we are here to discuss a threat to thehe nation that this committee takes every bit as seriously as terrorism, weapons of mass distraction, espionage and regional instability. today were talking about how social media platforms have enabled foreign influ

sunday comes this attack and we get a sample from the russians and it's taken to serve peter wall who is the director jeff the head of the british military the sample is taken to his people down here they go take at the port down where they conclude we know what the syria has serious been signed in a signatory to the geneva convention and chemical weapons we we know what syria has we know what it looks like and what was used in that place was not the same as in the syrian military this is told obama two times by the chairman of the joint chiefs before the recent. memory the red line when when the attack took place. so when the attack took place it allegedly forty nine there was one tenth as many as matter when the attack took place and people were killed and the world said. my government said that the government knew they knew from this very important intelligence report that cause a huge site about what to do but it would take sixty that side about what to do but it would take sixty thousand troops to get into the war we were thinking of maybe sending troops on the side of a shot

admission of obstruction of jus ts justice or activity involved with past involvement with the russian vax. they' investigation. there's too much liability and risk for the president to do that and, in fact, if his lawyers did allow him to do it, i suspect they'd be guilty of malpractice. i don't think they have any intent of that happening. all of this is playing out as a delay and ofuscation of the fact they don't want to sit down together. >> we shall see. congressman, why is senator rand paul in russia trying to meet with vladimir putin? >> don't have the slightest idea. i find it to quote "through the looking glass," curiouser and curiouser that he would be required to carry a letter of introduction from the president of the united states. i mean, goodness sakes, don. he's been a united states senator for years. he ran for president in the united states, himself, against mr. trump. if you don't think that the russian e ququivalent of the st department and russian agencies don't know everything about rand paul including his social security number, they do. i don't know what happene

follows something like a restriction of the operations of russian banks who use a foreign currency it can be called for what it is a declaration of economically and it will be necessary to respond to this war with economic political if necessary because of the method you. now it's still an open question whether the u.s. the u.k. and the european union will all fall into line against russia when we are as of yet having waiting to see any solid evidence to back up the accusations that are justifying these new sanctions and economic attacks meanwhile the u.s. treasury has frozen millions of dollars worth of russian assets or washington correspondents america has more samir it's getting harder to keep up with the rate of sanctions washington's imposing what do we know about this latest statement from the treasury well the treasury department did explain it all and its statement saying that these efforts have been taken in order to counter russia's efforts to challenge the u.s. and its allies listing a few examples including the occupation of crimea subverting western democracy its neighboring

just how the russians theseeking to influence political landscape, but how attacke trying to boost on the american right. that is something you may not have heard in the mainstream media. russia's efforts to influence the american presidential election as received a lot of political and media attention. equally important but much less is supportive colleges and groups opposing president trump. is supporting american left-wing groups and had a hand in sponsoring others does not come as a surprise. most of you who can remember the cold war will remember that is exactly what the soviet union , underpinning the destabilizing and vitriolic campaign against the anti-ballistic missile deployments in your. of course, the same thing went for the -- deployments in europe. of course, the same thing went for the -- also sponsored by the union. the tactics have changed. today's influence operations targeted at the u.s. right include phony facebook groups, twitter accounts, and other infinite phenomena. russia's operations include support for political and environmental groups. this information

russian relations with persian gulf countries. oil and gas prices in the u.s. and european sanctions against russian oil companies. it is hosted by the jamestown foundation. >> good morning. i am mark katz, professor at cover politics at george mason university in please to be the moderator for this second session. we have two speakers. the first of them is my very old friend, dr. theodore kharrazi, who i recall i first met in 1991 in what was then the american association of slavic studies annual meeting and will never forget that one of the leading soviet of the day told us all in a general session that gorbachev was still in control. he was just about to pull the plug on yeltsin and all of his opponent. haven't heard much from him since then. [laughter] .. . >> worked with the state oil company. currently as a -- he is a senior fellow for energy policy at the very prestigious middle east institute. so today's panel and the crisis, russia, saudi, arabia and united arab emirates. we talked last time about how stephen blank talked about how russia likes to exploit conflicts. and it c

furiously to finding his name on a list of suspicious twitter accounts forcing him to do. a russian ball. also ahead in the program this hour the reels from the shock suicide of an ultima gratian party politician who claimed she had been raped by a muslim last year. on the streaming video from yemen leaves humanitarian groups on the public's with this week's coalition or a strike on a school bus in yemen the raid claimed the lives of twenty nine children dozens more were injured. in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow and to r.t. international my names you know neil welcome to the program their top story french opposition leader former presidential candidate luke mellon shown. at suggestions that he is part of a russian online. campaign hey stupid spook i'm not a russian it's just me who tweets against you although not directly accused of being a russian. appeared in a list of a cow and showing increased twitter traffic in the wake of the assault scandal surrounding president former bodyguard the inference being moscow is pulling the strings also not least is our part

the russian president vladimir putin in their one on one meeting. why is the top u.s. intelligence official being kept in the dark? >>> mueller's key witness. special counsel robert mueller wants to interview a russian pop star. he featured a trump look alike character in one of his videos and helped arrange that meeting between trump campaign officials and a russian lawyer at trump tower. could he have critical information for mueller? >>> and lavish laundering. prosecutors highlight extravagant spending by paul manafort, including a $15,000 ostrich jacket and a $10,000 karaoke machine. why did manafort suddenly, though, go broke? >>> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." ♪ >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news tonight, top national security and intelligence officials are warning of per vavasive and continuing russian interference in the u.s. political system. at odds with president trump's continued questioning of russian attacks on the tr2016 presidentl election. > first, let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. the white house wants t

and behind closed doors in uncovering of exposing russian information warfare. the efforts have increased understanding of what the russians did and how they sought to attack us through the use of social media. thereck was pressure by this committee that led facebook, twitter and youtube to uncover malicious site to be by the russian backed research agency. these revelations eventually resulted individuals and three russian companies by the special counsel's office in february of spthis year. oversight has not typically been a function of any committee. i have no problem acknowledging that the terminology of this world click bait, trolls, does not come naturally to all of us. to understand what happened 2016 and to stop it from happening again, we have been able to accomplish a lot. we've helped reveal the russian playbook. we have raised public awareness regarding the threat and we have succeeded however incrementally in pressuring each of these companies to take steps to address the problems on their platforms. that's the good news. the bad news is we've got a lot more work to

ations that in march the russian federation violated international law on british soil the story has led to sanctions and some of the worst london moscow relations since the end of the churchill stalin roosevelt alliance joining me now is the russian federation's ambassador in london ambassador and xander yak of anchor the master thanks for coming on the show why did russia. now it's a case of killing since the press conferences you gave of the summer why did russia kill you case it is resorting to question is not correct we didn't kill anybody in the territory of the u.k. unfortunately the russian citizens and sergei's groupoid were poisons as it was reported by the british press and since that time we didn't receive any evidence. what happened there but the next day after the incident in seoul very the prime minister to resume immediately blamed russia for doing this five months passed since that time and we don't have any evidence and the british authorities are refusing to talk to us we cannot see. that's why the british are violating the international law the vienna conventi

, russian active measures or disinformation or even, you know, the fake news, you know, memes that are out there unless you see how the opposition, how the russians have always used this. i mean, the type of information systems that we saw applied in 2016 -- not just the computers, not just the social media, but what we would if this were, you know, as an information or, you know, the payloads in the information cruise missiles that russia launched at this country were propaganda products which had their origins in 1917 in the bolshevik revolution. you know, the united states has always been a target for, you know, its entire life. the soviet union, right? 1917 and 1989. and many people think that when russia's, you know, government transitioned away from communism and into what we could arguably say now is sort of a capitalistic autocracy, that all of that disappeared. in fact, i was actually roundly attacked by one person when i kept referencing the kgb in the media and saying these things are the basis of the kgb. and this journalist said, well, the kgb ceased to exist 25 years ago. no,

relationship gulf states.ucing the effect of u.s. and european sanctions on russian oil and gas production area this is an hour. -- gas production. this is in our. >> good morning. moderator forthe this second session. we have two speakers for the first of whom is my very old , who i dr. theodore novemberin 1991 in at the american association of slavic studies annual meeting. i will never forget that one of policies toldviet us -- heiticized told was just about to pull the plug on his opponents. have not heard much from him since then. i have heard from ted. he has had a long, distinguished career, often working in the middle east. he is currently at gulf state analytics in washington. you will see him all over town. ralph.t speaker is he has worked at the oil company. he is a senior fellow for energy policy and a very prestigious middle east institute. today's panel from energy candidates. about howlast time russia likes to exploit. it certainly does. like eveone else come of this conflict between saudi arabia, the uae, bahrain and egypt -- it is a strange one. generally wants

most striking part of the case is this, admits helping a russian and ukrainian making a $50,000 donation to the trump inauguration committee. of course, foreigners aren't allowed to donate money to inaugural committees. there's no sign trump inauguration committee knew about it. with me nbc investigative reporter, evelyn farkas, deputy defense secretary. kim lee, associate counsel during whitewater association and former u.s. attorney guy lewis. great to have you with us this friday. ken, let me start with you. tell us about this guilty plea and what unfolded. >> ayman, this case appears to have come out of the investigation of paul manafort, donald trump's former campaign chairman, running this massive lobbying on behalf of russian oligarch. he comes in after the oligarch had fled in exile to russia and manafort trying to reconstitute political party, known as party of regions, formed something called opposition block. he was lobbying for opposition bloc. inside the united states he was being paid by this foreign political party, that's illegal because he never registered with

putin's inauguration day. [ speaking russian ] >> in may, putin assumed the presidency of russia for the fourth time. he won the way he always does, overwhelmingly. putin's chief opponent was otherwise occupied. opposition leader alexei navaldi was arrested while leading protests against the russian president. most of this was not seen on national television. >> for 94% of russians, the main sorgs of ne source of news is television. if it didn't happen on television, it didn't happen. >> putin controls television. >> there is absolutely no critical words about have lavla p putin on the airwaves. f >> i don't see any checks on his power. [ speaking russian ] >> he is able to make singular rapid decisions, the absolutism there is unlike anything i've seen in russia. all that power has been propped up by an astonishing approval rating. at times it reached over 80%. and that's according to american pollsters. >> donald trump wins the presidency. >> but when the united states elected a new president, it looked like russia had fallen for a new leader. [ speaking russian ] >> there were toasted

unbiased russian agent in the u.s. has been transported to another prison we have from her lawyer about her health what to expect and the cake. is just ten five am in the russian capital you're watching aussie international welcome to the program all top story russian president vladimir putin and german chancellor angela merkel have concluded talks them as a big bet and that was several topics up for discussion including the rebuilding of syria and the iran nuclear agreement reporting from germany has done no holkins. here in schloss smears a burg 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 of 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 having signed the guestbook they did have p

is bank radio and --app. general on russian airpower and the syrian conflict. hopefully you have been able to finish your lunch and you are ready to listen to our keynote speaker. we are delighted today to have before us retired u.s. air force , the general gore retired from the air force after 37 years and four months of service on a sober first, 2016. -- october 1, 2016. the general had a distinguished career in the air force but i think his own personal story about his family with the roots in the balkans and how his family moved to the united in 1964, 1962eve -- that story about how his family came here and grew up in wisconsin. he has a brother that served in the air force, and when the brother that was at the air force academy in colorado springs frank went to visit him, he was inspired him to want to work with the air force. the great story of his family and rising to the ranks is a great story. today one of our analysts was here and was commenting about how much of that inspiration that is to him and others. when i was preparing all my presentation, i was introduced -- when i

be in a position to conceivably testify about what they observed during the russian attack on the 2016 election. including potentially ties to trump campaign officials and reaction to the investigation from inside the trump trancitiotrance iti trancition and the trump white house and the staff itself. after the president yanked the security clearance, the president told "had the wall street journal" bluntly and in an impromptu interview the reason he went after the cia director that way, the reason he revoked the security clearances is specifically because of the russia investigation. the president drew a direct link telling "the journal," quote, i call it the rigged witch-hunt. it is a sham. and these people led it. no president is ever known to have ever personally intervened to revoke the security clearance of any official or former official. yet alone for the reason this president explained in this case. when you're on unchartered territory, you don't always know what will come next for us as a country, but when you're the person in the middle of unchartered attacks like this,

information about your opponent, you would take that meeting. if it happens to be -- >> from the russian government in. >> she didn't represent the russian government. she's a private citizen. i don't know if they knew she was russian at the time. >> i think they knew she was russian but okay. >> they knew when they met with her. you asked me did they sow an intention to do anything with russians. they know a woman with a russian name wanted to meet with them. she didn't know she was a representative of the russian government. she's not a representative of the russian government. if this is their case for collusion, good luck mueller. >> figure that one out. >>> the white house dealing with the fall out over basic c cuizatio -- accusations of omarosa. take a listen to what she said this morning. >> there's really no real commitment to diversity in the white house and he's unapologetic about it. donald trump is disingenious. i believe he wants to start race war in this country. >> wow. >> big words there. let's go to kelly o' donell in new jersey. we had the president tweeting about this

declare he is not a russian. netherlands or reels from the shock suicide of an anti immigration party politician who claimed he was raped by a muslim gang last year also ahead. two palestinians are killed and 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 fence. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm john thomas certainly glad to have you with us now french opposition leader and former presidential candidate. has hit back at suggestions he is part of a russian online dissent from ation campaign hey stupid spook i'm not a russian but it's just me who tweets against you. appeared on a list of accounts showing increased twitter traffic in the wake of the scandal surrounding president micron's former bodyguard r t shall dubinsky 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 as russian boats that's because they were named in a twitter li

for an awful lot of important russians to take gulf interest into account. it strikes me that this is something that gulf diplomacy, economic policy has been very successfully. well, we've reached the time and we do need to keep the skills i would like to close our panel now and thank our speakers very, very much. resume at 1:00. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> okay, everyone. let's go ahead and get seated. hope we've been able to finish your lunch, you have full stomach and you are ready to listen to our keynote speaker. well, we are delighted today to have before us retired u.s. air force general frank gorenc. general gorenc retired from the air force after 37 years and four months of service on october 1, 1 to 16. general gorenc had a very distinguished career in the u.s. air force but i think his own personal story about his family with the ritz in the balkans and our family moved to the united states i believe was in 1964, 62, that story about how his family came here come he grew up in wisconsi

the list of suspicious twitter accounts forcing him to declare he is not a russian box. so at this hour the netherlands reels from the shock suicide of an anti immigration party politician who claimed she had been raped by a muslim gang last year also ahead. the latest palestinian land protesting gal's a near the israeli border a c. two killed and more than two hundred injured israel says its troops were attacked with explosives and protesters infiltrated its territory. from moscow to the world this is r.t. international i'm you know a little welcome to our top story french opposition leader and former presidential candidate john luke mellon shown really hit by rocket suggestions that he is part of a russian online dissent from ation campaign hey stupid spook i'm not a russian but it's just me who tweets against you although not directly accused of being a russian melon shell has appeared in a list of a kind showing increased twitter traffic in the wake of the assault scandal surrounding president former bodyguard the inference being moscow is pulling the strings also not the list

not going away to prevent foreign interference in our elections to prevent russian and other foreign influence and the russians try to hack into and steal information candidates and government officials alike cyber attacks against voting infrastructure along with your puter intrusions malicious cyber actors are getting elected officials it goes beyond the elections it goes to russia's intent to undermine our democratic values we've heard the head of the n.s.a. come out and say that the u.s. government is prepared to engage in special operations to counter russian influence in the upcoming elections now dan coats the director of national intelligence he was pressed to give specifics related to allegations regarding hacking and and other specific allegations about somehow russia possibly influencing the election this is how he responded you give us a very sensitive to specific term usually senators have said that they've been targeted hacking by people person a government. numbers of the senate members of the house is it democratic or republican campaigns but we follow procedure this p